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Andrew Wyeth: Autobiographyby Andrew WyethISBN 0821225693 (0-8212-2569-3)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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Art School: A Complete Painters Courseby Patricia Monahan, Patricia Seligman, Wendy ClouseISBN 1571450343 (1-57145-034-3)
Hardcover, Advantage Pub Group
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The Artist's Handbookby Ray SmithISBN 0756626218 (0-7566-2621-8)
Softcover, Dk Pub
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Artist's Manual : A Complete Guide to Painting and Drawing Materials and Techniquesby Angela GairISBN 0811813770 (0-8118-1377-0)
Softcover, Chronicle Books LLC
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Artist's Manual : A Complete Guide to Painting and Drawing Materials and Techniques'Book summary:A veritable bible for beginners as well as an invaluable reference for accomplished artists, The Artist's Manual is a hands-on guide to hundreds of techniques for painting and drawing. For anyone who has ever had the urge to create art, this easy-to-use manual clearly explains the artist's essential tools and materials -- how to choose them, how to use them, and how to care for them. Packed with information on myriad techniques, from color use and composition to subject choice, and including tips from the professionals, here's everything painters and illustrators need to begin, develop, and perfect their craft. Over 500 color photographs, 200 original works of art, and an extensive list of suppliers complete the most comprehensive, inspirational, and affordable artists' instruction book available today. [via]
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Blue and Yellow Don't Make Greenby Michael WilcoxISBN 0891346228 (0-89134-622-8)
Hardcover, F & W Pubns Inc
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Blue and Yellow Don't Make Green : How to Mix the Color You Really Want - Every Timeby Michael WilcoxISBN 0967962870 (0-9679628-7-0)
Softcover, School of Color Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Blue and Yellow Don't Make Green : How to Mix the Color You Really Want - Every Time'Book summary:Michael Wilcox is the specialist publishers of books, courses, workbooks, videos and CDs covering all aspects of colour mixing and use, artist's paints, pigments and painting techniques.With sales of more than 400,000 copies, this has become the standard reference book in its field.The only book ever published which explains what happens when colours are combined and how to mix them quickly, accurately and without waste.For more than 200 years the world has accepted that red, yellow and blue - the artists' primaries - give new colours when mixed. And for more than 200 years artists have been struggling to mix colours on this basis..This book has changed the way that artists and all who use colour think about colour mixing. By unravelling the many ambiguities and myths inherent in the established way of working, Michael Wilcox has transformed colour mixing from a haphazard affair into a thinking process. [via]
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Color: A Natural History of the Paletteby Victoria FinlayISBN 0812971426 (0-8129-7142-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Color: A Natural History of the Palette'Book summary:In this vivid and captivating journey through the colors of an artists palette, Victoria Finlay takes us on an enthralling adventure around the world and through the ages, illuminating how the colors we choose to value have determined the history of culture itself.
How did the most precious color blue travel all the way from remote lapis mines in Afghanistan to Michelangelos brush? What is the connection between brown paint and ancient Egyptian mummies? Why did Robin Hood wear Lincoln green? In Color, Finlay explores the physical materials that color our world, such as precious minerals and insect blood, as well as the social and political meanings that color has carried through time.
Roman emperors used to wear togas dyed with a purple color that was made from an odorous Lebanese shellfishwhich probably meant their scent preceded them. In the eighteenth century, black dye was called logwood and grew along the Spanish Main. Some of the first indigo plantations were started in America, amazingly enough, by a seventeen-year-old girl named Eliza. And the popular van Gogh painting White Roses at Washingtons National Gallery had to be renamed after a researcher discovered that the flowers were originally done in a pink paint that had faded nearly a century ago. Color is full of extraordinary people, events, and anecdotespainted all the more dazzling by Finlays engaging style.
Embark upon a thrilling adventure with this intrepid journalist as she travels on a donkey along ancient silk trade routes; with the Phoenicians sailing the Mediterranean in search of a special purple shell that garners wealth, sustenance, and prestige; with modern Chilean farmers breeding and bleeding insects for their viscous red blood. The colors that craft our world have never looked so bright. [via]More editions of Color: A Natural History of the Palette:
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Concerning the Spiritual in Artby Wassily KandinskyISBN 0486234118 (0-486-23411-8)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Concerning the Spiritual in Art'Book summary:Wassily Kandinsky was one of the most influential painters of the twentieth century, and this text, in which he laid out the tenets of painting as he saw them and made the case for nonobjective artistic forms, is universally recognized as an essential document of Modernist art theory. A brilliant philosophical treatise and an emphatic avant-garde tract, it provides the theoretical underpinnings for Kandinsky's own work and that of his associates in the Blaue Reiter movement. While Michael Sadler's masterful translation has been available and authoritative since its original publication in 1914, what hasn't been published until now is the significant correspondence between the translator and the artist, who followed the progress of his book's transformation closely, and who offered numerous insights into and explanations of its meanings. These letters, from the archives of Tate Britain, have here been appended to Kandinsky's text to provide the first comprehensively annotated edition of this seminal work. This volume, which supersedes any previous edition, includes the letters, Kandinsky's prefaces and prose poems relating to the period in which the book was written and Sadler's selected writings on art. It is more than an expanded edition--it is a major event, the first full account of a remarkable literary collaboration. [via]
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Concerning the Spiritual in Art and Painting in Particularby Wassily KandinskyISBN 0815000324 (0-8150-0032-4)
Softcover, Wittenborn Art Books
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A Concise History of Modern Paintingby Caroline Tisdall, William Feaver, Herbert Edward ReadISBN 0195199405 (0-19-519940-5)
Softcover, Thames and Hudson
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Concise History of Modern Paintingby Herbert E. Read, Benedict ReadISBN 0500201412 (0-500-20141-2)
Softcover, Thames & Hudson
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Craftsman's Handbookby C.D. CenniniISBN 048620054X (0-486-20054-X)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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Daliby Robert DescharnesISBN 0810908301 (0-8109-0830-1)
Hardcover, Abrams , Incorporated, Harry N.
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dali'Book summary:(50 SECRETS OF MAGIC CRAFTSMANSHIP) BY Dali, Salvador(Author)Paperback Jun-1992 [via]
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Dalí : The Paintingsby Gilles Néret, Robert DescharnesISBN 3822812099 (3-8228-1209-9)
Softcover, Taschen America, LLC
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This publication presents the entire painted oeuvre of Salvador Dalí (1904-1989). After many years of research, Robert Descharnes and Gilles Néret finally located all the paintings of this highly prolific artist. Many of the works had been inaccessible for years - in fact so many that almost half the illustrations in this book have rarely been seen. [via]
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Dali: The Paintingsby Robert Descharnes, Gilles NeretISBN 3822893161 (3-8228-9316-1)
Hardcover, Taschen America Llc
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de Kooning: An American Masterby Mark Stevens, Annalyn SwanISBN 1400041759 (1-4000-4175-9)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'de Kooning: An American Master'Book summary:Willem de Kooning is one of the most important artists of the twentieth century, a true painters painter whose protean work continues to inspire many artists. In the thirties and forties, along with Arshile Gorky and Jackson Pollock, he became a key figure in the revolutionary American movement of abstract expressionism. Of all the painters in that group, he worked the longest and was the most prolific, creating powerful, startling images well into the 1980s.
The first major biography of de Kooning captures both the life and work of this complex, romantic figure in American culture. Ten years in the making, and based on previously unseen letters and documents as well as on hundreds of interviews, this is a fresh, richly detailed, and masterful portrait. The young de Kooning overcame an unstable, impoverished, and often violent early family life to enter the Academie in Rotterdam, where he learned both classic art and guild techniques. Arriving in New York as a stowaway from Holland in 1926, he underwent a long struggle to become a painter and an American, developing a passionate friendship with his fellow immigrant Arshile Gorky, who was both a mentor and an inspiration. During the Depression, de Kooning emerged as a central figure in the bohemian world of downtown New York, surviving by doing commercial work and painting murals for the WPA. His first show at the Egan Gallery in 1948 was a revelation. Soon, the critics Harold Rosenberg and Thomas Hess were championing his work, and de Kooning took his place as the charismatic leader of the New York schooljust as American art began to dominate the international scene.
Dashingly handsome and treated like a movie star on the streets of downtown New York, de Kooning had a tumultuous marriage to Elaine de Kooning, herself a fascinating character of the period. At the height of his fame, he spent his days painting powerful abstractions and intense, disturbing pictures of the female figureand his nights living on the edge, drinking, womanizing, and talking at the Cedar bar with such friends as Franz Kline and Frank OHara. By the 1960s, exhausted by the feverish art world, he retreated to the Springs on Long Island, where he painted an extraordinary series of lush pastorals. In the 1980s, as he slowly declined into what was almost certainly Alzheimers, he created a vast body of haunting and ethereal late work.
This is an authoritative and brilliant exploration of the art, life, and world of an American master. [via]More editions of de Kooning: An American Master:
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Drawing on the Right Side of the Brainby Betty EdwardsISBN 0874770874 (0-87477-087-4)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain: A Course in Enhancing Creativity and Artistic Confidenceby Betty EdwardsISBN 0874770882 (0-87477-088-2)
Softcover, J P Tarcher
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Exploring Colorby Nita LelandISBN 0891348468 (0-89134-846-8)
Softcover, F & W Pubns Inc
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Frida Kahlo: 1907-1954by Andrea KettenmannISBN 9707180935 (970-718-093-5)
Hardcover, Numen
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Frida Kahlo : 1907-1954: Pain and Passionby Andrea KettenmannISBN 3822859834 (3-8228-5983-4)
Hardcover, Taschen America, LLC
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Frida Kahlo : 1907-1954: Pain and Passion'Book summary:The Mexican artist Frida Kahlo (1907-1954) is one of the most important 20th century painters, and one of the few Latin American artists to have achieved a global reputation. In 1983 her work was declared the property of the Mexican state. Kahlo was one of the daughters of an immigrant German photographer and a Mexican woman of Indian origin. Her life and work were more inextricably interwoven than in almost any other artist's case. Two events in her life were of crucial importance. When she was 18, a bus accident put her in hospital for a year with a smashed spinal column and fractured pelvis. It was from her sick bed that she first started to paint. Then, aged 21, she married the world-famous Mexican mural artist Diego Rivera. She was to suffer the effects of the accident her whole life long, and was particularly pained by her inability to have children. Her arresting pictures, most of them small format self-portraits, express the burdens that weighed upon her soul: her unbearable physical pain, the grief that Rivera's occasional affairs prompted, the sorrow about her childlessness caused her, her homesickness when living abroad and her longing to feel that she had put down roots, profound loneliness. However, they also declare her passionate love for her husband, her pronounced sensuousness, and her unwavering survival instinct. [via]
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Frida Kahlo 1907-1954: Pain and Passionby Frida Kahlo, Andrea KettenmannISBN 3822896365 (3-8228-9636-5)
Softcover, Taschen America Llc
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Georgia O'Keeffeby Elizabeth Hutton TurnerISBN 0943044243 (0-943044-24-3)
Softcover, Phillips Collections
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Georgia O'Keeffe'Book summary:Georgia O'Keeffe's extraordinary still-life paintings - of apples, leaves, flowers, shells, trees, rocks, crosses, bones, and doors - reinvented the genre through a new language of color and form that synthesized Eastern thought and a Western style of painting. This book is the first in-depth exploration of O'Keeffe's unique contribution to still-life painting. [via]
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Georgia O'Keeffe 1887-1986: Flowers in the Desertby Georgia O'Keeffe, Britta BenkeISBN 3822888869 (3-8228-8886-9)
Softcover, Taschen America Llc
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Giorgio Morandiby Karen Wilkin, Giorgio MorandiISBN 0847819477 (0-8478-1947-7)
Hardcover, Rizzoli Intl Pubns
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Gothicby Rolf TomanISBN 3895083135 (3-89508-313-5)
Hardcover, Konemann
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Gothic : Architecture, Sculpture and Paintingby Rolf TomanISBN 3829017413 (3-8290-1741-3)
Hardcover, Konemann
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Henri Matisse: A Retrospectiveby Henri Matisse, John Elderfield, Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)ISBN 087070432X (0-87070-432-X)
Hardcover, Museum of Modern Art
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Henri Matisse: A Retrospectiveby John ElderfieldISBN 0810961164 (0-8109-6116-4)
Hardcover, Distributed Art Pub Inc
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History of Artby Anthony F. Janson, H. W. JansonISBN 0810934019 (0-8109-3401-9)
Hardcover, Abrams
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› Find signed collectible books: 'History of Art'Book summary:For thousands of art lovers both amateur and professional, aesthetic life began with Janson, as H.W. Janson's History of Art is often called. In the first edition, published in 1962, Janson spoke to that perennial reader he gently called "the troubled layman." His opening paragraph revealed his sympathy: "Why is this supposed to be art?" he quoted rhetorically. "How often have we heard this question asked--or asked it ourselves, perhaps--in front of one of the strange, disquieting works that we are likely to find nowadays in the museum or art exhibition." Keeping that curious, questioning perspective in mind, he wrote a history of art from cave painting to Picasso that was singularly welcoming, illuminating, and exciting.
After H.W. Janson died, in 1982, his son, Anthony F. Janson, took over the daunting task of revising his father's book. Janson the elder would be thrilled with the beauty of this fifth edition, which tips the scales at more than seven pounds. Thanks to advances in printing, it teems with reproductions--736 in color and 500 black-and-white--that would have been far too costly 35 years ago. At an even 1,000 pages, it is an inch thicker than its 572-page progenitor.
Sojourning through this book, a reader is offered every amenity for a comfortable trip. Because Janson never assumes knowledge on the part of the reader, a recent immigrant from Mars could comprehend Western art from this text. The only assumption the Jansons have made is that with a little guidance everyone can come to understand the artifacts that centuries of architecture, sculpture, design, and painting have deposited in our paths. Countless readers have proven the Jansons right--and found their lives enriched in the process. [via]
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History of Artby H. W. JansonISBN 0810929864 (0-8109-2986-4)
Softcover, Harry N Abrams Inc
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History of Art: A Survey of the Major Visual Arts from the Dawn of History to the Present Dayby H. W. Janson, Dora Jane JansonISBN 0810910527 (0-8109-1052-7)
Hardcover, H. N. Abrams
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History of Art: Slipcasedby Anthony F. Janson, H. W. JansonISBN 0810934450 (0-8109-3445-0)
Hardcover, Harry N Abrams Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'History of Art: Slipcased'Book summary:For thousands of art lovers both amateur and professional, aesthetic life began with Janson, as H.W. Janson's History of Art is often called. In the first edition, published in 1962, Janson spoke to that perennial reader he gently called "the troubled layman." His opening paragraph revealed his sympathy: "Why is this supposed to be art?" he quoted rhetorically. "How often have we heard this question asked--or asked it ourselves, perhaps--in front of one of the strange, disquieting works that we are likely to find nowadays in the museum or art exhibition." Keeping that curious, questioning perspective in mind, he wrote a history of art from cave painting to Picasso that was singularly welcoming, illuminating, and exciting.
After H.W. Janson died, in 1982, his son, Anthony F. Janson, took over the daunting task of revising his father's book. Janson the elder would be thrilled with the beauty of this fifth edition, which tips the scales at more than seven pounds. Thanks to advances in printing, it teems with reproductions--736 in color and 500 black-and-white--that would have been far too costly 35 years ago. At an even 1,000 pages, it is an inch thicker than its 572-page progenitor.
Sojourning through this book, a reader is offered every amenity for a comfortable trip. Because Janson never assumes knowledge on the part of the reader, a recent immigrant from Mars could comprehend Western art from this text. The only assumption the Jansons have made is that with a little guidance everyone can come to understand the artifacts that centuries of architecture, sculpture, design, and painting have deposited in our paths. Countless readers have proven the Jansons right--and found their lives enriched in the process. [via]
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Impressionists in Winter : Effets de Neigeby Charles S. Moffett, Eliza E. Rathbone, Katherine Rothkopf, Joel IsaacsonISBN 0856674958 (0-85667-495-8)
Hardcover, Wilson Publishers, Limited, Philip
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Impressionists in Winter: Effets De Neigeby Phillips Collection, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Center for the Arts at Yerba Buena Gardens, Charles S. MoffettISBN 1568523068 (1-56852-306-8)
Hardcover, Konecky & Konecky
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Indian Painting: A Catalogue of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Collectionby Pratapaditya PalISBN 0810934655 (0-8109-3465-5)
Hardcover, Harry N Abrams Inc
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Living Colorby Natalie GoldbergISBN 0553354892 (0-553-35489-2)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Living Color'Book summary:In this series of autobiographical essays accompanied by paintings (or autobiographical paintings accompanied by essays), Natalie Goldberg examines the relationship between her writing, her art, and her life. Known for her books about writing (Writing Down the Bones in particular), Goldberg once used painting as others do a walk in the woods or a martini before dinner--as a way to unwind after a day of work. Fearing dilettantism, she quit painting altogether, only to find that when she stopped painting, "I gave up a deep source of my writing, that place in me where I can let my work flow." Once again she embraced visual expression, which she realized she had used "as a metaphor or mirror to break out of something I didn't understand in writing." The paintings have a colorful, folksy feel; the book is an interesting exploration of the influences that the various aspects of our lives have on our work and vice versa. [via]
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The Lost Paintingby Jonathan HarrISBN 0375759867 (0-375-75986-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The Lost Painting : The Quest for a Caravaggio Masterpieceby Jonathan HarrISBN 0375431535 (0-375-43153-5)
Hardcover, Random House Large Print
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Lost Painting : The Quest for a Caravaggio Masterpiece'Book summary:In 1992 a young art student uncovered a clue in an obscure Italian archive that led to the discovery of Caravaggio's original The Taking of the Christ, a painting that had been presumed lost for over 200 years. How this clue--a single entry in an old listing of family possessions--led to a residence in Ireland and the subsequent restoration of this Italian Baroque masterpiece is the subject of this brisk and enthralling detective story. The Lost Painting reads more like a historical novel than art history, as Harr smoothly weaves several narratives together to bring the story alive. Though he does not provide an in-depth examination of the painting itself--the book is not aimed specifically at art experts--Harr does include many details for lay readers about restoration, the various methods used to track artwork through history, how originals are distinguished from copies, and an inside view of the art world, past and present. He also discusses various forensic approaches, including X ray, infrared reflectography, chemical analysis of the paints and canvas, and other modern techniques. But most of the book is focused on more primitive methods, including dogged research through dusty archives and meticulous attention to detail.
This entertaining book boasts an engaging cast of characters, all of whom are inflicted with the "Caravaggio disease," including some of the foremost Caravaggio scholars in the world, persistent students, obsessive restorers, and most of all, the artist himself. Mercurial, supremely gifted, and prone to violence, Caravaggio lived like an outlaw and a pauper most of his troubled life. Yet even when he attained wealth and fame--and briefly, respectability--he was still hounded by the law (for murder) and numerous vengeful enemies. Harr does an admirable job of bringing the man alive in these pages while keeping his long-lost painting at the center of the action. --Shawn Carkonen [via]
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Manet by Himself: Correspondence and Conversation Paintings, Pastels, Prints and Drawingsby Juliet Wilson-BareauISBN 0821218425 (0-8212-1842-5)
Hardcover, Bulfinch Pr
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Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceilingby Ross KingISBN 0142003697 (0-14-200369-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling'Book summary:[via]In 1508, despite strong advice to the contrary, the powerful Pope Julius II commissioned Michelangelo Buonarroti to paint the ceiling of the newly restored Sistine Chapel in Rome. Four years earlier, at the age of twenty-nine, Michelangelo had unveiled his masterful statue of David in Florence; however, he had little experience as a painter, even less working in the delicate medium of fresco, and none with the curved surface of vaults, which dominated the chapels ceiling. The temperamental Michelangelo was himself reluctant, and he stormed away from Rome, risking Juliuss wrath, only to be persuaded to eventually begin.
Michelangelo would spend the next four years laboring over the vast ceiling. He executed hundreds of drawings, many of which are masterpieces in their own right. Contrary to legend, he and his assistants worked standing rather than on their backs, and after his years on the scaffold, Michelangelo suffered a bizarre form of eyestrain that made it impossible for him to read letters unless he held them at arms length. Nonetheless, he produced one of the greatest masterpieces of all time, about which Giorgio Vasari, in his Lives of the Artists, wrote, There is no other work to compare with this for excellence, nor could there be.
Ross Kings fascinating new book tells the story of those four extraordinary years. Battling against ill health, financial difficulties, domestic problems, inadequate knowledge of the art of fresco, and the popes impatience, Michelangelo created figuresdepicting the Creation, the Fall, and the Floodso beautiful that, when they were unveiled in 1512, they stunned his onlookers. Modern anatomy has yet to find names for some of the muscles on his nudes, they are painted in such detail. While he worked, Rome teemed around him, its politics and rivalries with other city-states and with France at fever pitch, often intruding on his work. From Michelangelos experiments with the composition of pigment and plaster to his bitter competition with the famed painter Raphael, who was working on the neighboring Papal Apartments, Ross King presents a magnificent tapestry of day-to-day life on the ingenious Sistine scaffolding and outside in the upheaval of early-sixteenth-century Rome.More editions of Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling:
Moon and Sixpenceby W. Somerset MaughamISBN 1570020167 (1-57002-016-7)
Softcover, Univ Pub House
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Moon and Sixpence'Book summary:I confess that when first I made acquaintance with Charles Strickland I never for a moment discerned that there was in him anything out of the ordinary. Yet now few will be found to deny his greatness. I do not speak of that greatness which is achieved by the fortunate politician or the successful soldier; that is a quality which belongs to the place he occupies rather than to the man; and a change of circumstances reduces it to very discreet proportions. The Prime Minister out of office is seen, too often, to have been but a pompous rhetorician, and the General without an army is but the tame hero of a market town. The greatness of Charles Strickland was authentic. It may be that you do not like his art, but at all events you can hardly refuse it the tribute of your interest. He disturbs and arrests. The time has passed when he was an object of ridicule, and it is no longer a mark of eccentricity to defend or of perversity to extol him. His faults are accepted as the necessary complement to his merits. It is still possible to discuss his place in art, and the adulation of his admirers is perhaps no less capricious than the disparagement of his detractors; but one thing can never be doubtful, and that is that he had genius. . . . [via]
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My Name Is Asher Levby Chaim PotokISBN 1400031044 (1-4000-3104-4)
Softcover, Anchor Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'My Name Is Asher Lev'Book summary:"Memorable...A book profound in its vision of humanity, of religion, and of art." THE WALL STREET JOURNAL Here is the original, deeply moving story of Asher Lev, the religious boy with an overwhelming need to draw, to paint, to render the world he knows and the pain he feels, on canvas for everyone to see. A loner, Asher has an extroardinary God-given gift that possesses a spirit all its own. It is this force that must learn to master without shaming his people or relinquishing any part of his deeply felt Judaism. It will not be easy for him, but he knows, too, that even if it is impossible, it must be done.... "A novel of finely articulated tragic power...Little short of a work of genius." THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW [via]
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New Artist's Handbookby Ray SmithISBN 0394746996 (0-394-74699-6)
Softcover, Knopf
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The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brainby Betty Edwards, Jeremy P. TarcherISBN 0874774241 (0-87477-424-1)
Softcover, J P Tarcher
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain'Book summary:[via]When Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain was first published in 1979, it hit the New York Times bestseller list within two weeks and stayed there for more than a year. In 1989, when Dr. Betty Edwards revised the book, it went straight to the Times list again. Now Dr. Edwards celebrates the twentieth anniversary of her classic book with a second revised edition.
Over the last decade, Dr. Edwards has refined her material through teaching hundreds of workshops and seminars. Truly The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain, this edition includes:
- the very latest developments in brain research
- new material on using drawing techniques in the corporate world and in education
- instruction on self-expression through drawing
- an updated section on using color
- detailed information on using the five basic skills of drawing for problem solving
Translated into thirteen languages, Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain is the world's most widely used drawing-instruction guide. People from just about every walk of lifeartists, students, corporate executives, architects, real estate agents, designers, engineershave applied its revolutionary approach to problem solving. The Los Angeles Times said it best: Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain is "not only a book about drawing, it is a book about living. This brilliant approach to the teaching of drawing . . . should not be dismissed as a mere text. It emancipates."More editions of The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain:
The Oil Painting Book: Materials and Techniques for Today's Artistby Bill CreevyISBN 0823032744 (0-8230-3274-4)
Softcover, Watson-Guptill Pubns
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On Divers Arts: The Foremost Medieval Treatise on Painting, Glassmaking, and Metalworkby Called Also Rugerus TheophilusISBN 0486237842 (0-486-23784-2)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'On Divers Arts: The Foremost Medieval Treatise on Painting, Glassmaking, and Metalwork'Book summary:[via]First printed in the 12th century, here is the earliest treatise on the arts written by a practicing artist. Offering an essential understanding of pre-Renaissance art and technology, the Benedictine author details pigments, glass blowing, stained glass, gold and silver work, and more information of great importance to craftsmen and historians of art and science. Includes 34 illustrations.More editions of On Divers Arts: The Foremost Medieval Treatise on Painting, Glassmaking, and Metalwork:
On Paintingby Leon Battista Alberti, Cecil GraysonISBN 0140433317 (0-14-043331-7)
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Pablo Picasso: 1881-1973by Pablo Picasso, Ingo F. Walther, Carsten-Peter Warncke, Michael HulseISBN 3822872210 (3-8228-7221-0)
Hardcover, Taschen America Llc
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Painting and Experience in Fifteenth Century Italy: A Primer in the Social History of Pictorial Styleby Michael BaxandallISBN 019282144X (0-19-282144-X)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Painting and Experience in Fifteenth Century Italy: A Primer in the Social History of Pictorial Style'Book summary:Serving as both an introduction to fifteenth-century Italian painting and as a text on how to interpret social history from the style of pictures in a given historical period, this new edition to Baxandall's pre-eminent scholarly volume examines early Renaissance painting, and explains how the style of painting in any society reflects the visual skills and habits that evolve out of daily life. Renaissance painting, for example, mirrors the experience of such activities as preaching, dancing, and gauging barrels. The volume includes discussions of a wide variety of painters, including Filippo Lippi, Fra Angelico, Stefano di Giovanni, Sandro Botticelli, Masaccio, Luca Signorelli, Boccaccio, and countless others. Baxandall also defines and illustrates sixteen concepts used by a contemporary critic of painting, thereby assembling the basic equipment needed to explore fifteenth-century art.
This new second edition includes an appendix that lists the original Latin and Italian texts referred to throughout the book, providing the reader with all the relevant, authentic sources. It also contains an updated bibliography and a new reproduction of a recently restored painting which replaces the original. [via]More editions of Painting and Experience in Fifteenth Century Italy: A Primer in the Social History of Pictorial Style:
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Paul Klee 1879-1940by Paul Klee, Susanna PartschISBN 3822802999 (3-8228-0299-9)
Softcover, Taschen America Llc
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Paul Klee: 1879-1940by Susanna PartschISBN 3822859818 (3-8228-5981-8)
Softcover, Taschen America Llc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Paul Klee: 1879-1940'Book summary:Designated as "degenerate" by the Nazis, Paul Klee (1879-1940) is today considered one of the most important artists of the 20th century. His works stand out for the variety in their forms of artistic expression. His Tunisian water-colours depicting landscape, architecture and, above all, the North African light of this Mediterranean land constitute the true beginning of Klee's painting career. Although these paintings still fall under the heading of "objective", they already exhibit indications of his tendency toward abstraction and a language of forms. Geometrical figures and hieroglyphic elements characterize the majority of these works, which for this reason seem reminiscent of "naive" and playful children's painting. In reality, however, his paintings have their roots in theoretical considerations, their recurrent symbols conveying personal and at times political content. [via]
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Picassoby Carsten-Peter Warncke, Ingo F. WaltherISBN 3822812579 (3-8228-1257-9)
Softcover, Taschen America Llc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Picasso'Book summary:Pablo Picasso once said, "If there's something to be stolen, I steal it." Few artists have helped themselves as liberally from the treasures of bygone art. His own legacy is scarcely paralleled in its scope and diversity. Our study of Picasso, the most exhaustive record of his work to date, contains almost 1500 illustrations - from his earliest drawings to the master's very last painting. [via]
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Picture of Dorian Grayby College Entrance Examination BoardISBN 0140006168 (0-14-000616-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Picture of Dorian Gray'Book summary:A lush, cautionary tale of a life of vileness and deception or a loving portrait of the aesthetic impulse run rampant? Why not both? After Basil Hallward paints a beautiful, young man's portrait, his subject's frivolous wish that the picture change and he remain the same comes true. Dorian Gray's picture grows aged and corrupt while he continues to appear fresh and innocent. After he kills a young woman, "as surely as if I had cut her little throat with a knife," Dorian Gray is surprised to find no difference in his vision or surroundings. "The roses are not less lovely for all that. The birds sing just as happily in my garden."
As Hallward tries to make sense of his creation, his epigram-happy friend Lord Henry Wotton encourages Dorian in his sensual quest with any number of Wildean paradoxes, including the delightful "When we are happy we are always good, but when we are good we are not always happy." But despite its many languorous pleasures, The Picture of Dorian Gray is an imperfect work. Compared to the two (voyeuristic) older men, Dorian is a bore, and his search for ever new sensations far less fun than the novel's drawing-room discussions. Even more oddly, the moral message of the novel contradicts many of Wilde's supposed aims, not least "no artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style." Nonetheless, the glamour boy gets his just deserts. And Wilde, defending Dorian Gray, had it both ways: "All excess, as well as all renunciation, brings its own punishment." [via]
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The Picture of Dorian Grayby Oscar Wilde, Peter AckroydISBN 014043187X (0-14-043187-X)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Picture of Dorian Gray'Book summary:A lush, cautionary tale of a life of vileness and deception or a loving portrait of the aesthetic impulse run rampant? Why not both? After Basil Hallward paints a beautiful, young man's portrait, his subject's frivolous wish that the picture change and he remain the same comes true. Dorian Gray's picture grows aged and corrupt while he continues to appear fresh and innocent. After he kills a young woman, "as surely as if I had cut her little throat with a knife," Dorian Gray is surprised to find no difference in his vision or surroundings. "The roses are not less lovely for all that. The birds sing just as happily in my garden."
As Hallward tries to make sense of his creation, his epigram-happy friend Lord Henry Wotton encourages Dorian in his sensual quest with any number of Wildean paradoxes, including the delightful "When we are happy we are always good, but when we are good we are not always happy." But despite its many languorous pleasures, The Picture of Dorian Gray is an imperfect work. Compared to the two (voyeuristic) older men, Dorian is a bore, and his search for ever new sensations far less fun than the novel's drawing-room discussions. Even more oddly, the moral message of the novel contradicts many of Wilde's supposed aims, not least "no artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style." Nonetheless, the glamour boy gets his just deserts. And Wilde, defending Dorian Gray, had it both ways: "All excess, as well as all renunciation, brings its own punishment." [via]
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Renoir, My Fatherby Jean Renoir, Robert L. Herbert, Randolph Weaver, Dorothy WeaverISBN 0940322773 (0-940322-77-3)
Softcover, New York Review of Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Renoir, My Father'Book summary:In this delightful memoir, Jean Renoir, the director of such masterpieces of the cinema as Grand Illusion and The Rules of the Game, tells the life story of his father, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, the great Impressionist painter. Recounting Pierre-Auguste's extraordinary career, beginning as a painter of fans and porcelain, recording the rules of thumb by which he worked, and capturing his unpretentious and wonderfully engaging talk and personality, Jean Renoir's book is both a wonderful double portrait of father and son and, in the words of the distinguished art historian John Golding, it "remains the best account of Renoir, and, furthermore, among the most beautiful and moving biographies we have."
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Salvador Daliby Salvador Dali, Robert Descharnes, Eleanor R. MorseISBN 0810991330 (0-8109-9133-0)
Softcover, Harry N Abrams Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Salvador Dali'Book summary:Written by the foremost scholars for a general audience, Abrams' Masters of Art series has proved its popularity over the years, becoming the industry's best-selling art history monograph series. In each book, forty full-page colorplates are accompanied by commentaries discussing each individual work. Other illustrations show the artist at varied points in his career, his contemporaries, and comparative works. The series is now being reissued in paperback, and will be redesigned to bring a contemporary feel to these classic Abrams titles. The individual artists selected for this first round of revisions - Van Gogh, Monet, Dali, Renoir, Bosch, and Leonardo da Vinci - were chosen because of their enduring popularity and their continued influence on the art of today. [via]
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Salvador Dali: 1904-1989by Salvador Dali, Robert Descharnes, Gilles Neret, Michael HulseISBN 3822872059 (3-8228-7205-9)
Hardcover, Taschen America Llc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Salvador Dali: 1904-1989'Book summary:[via]Superb reproductions of paintings by one of the 20th century's most famous artists: The Visage of War, The Enigma of Desire, the well-known Persistence of Memory, 13 others.More editions of Salvador Dali: 1904-1989:
Vitamin P: New Perspectives In Paintingby Barry SchwabskyISBN 0714844462 (0-7148-4446-2)
Softcover, Phaidon Inc Ltd
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Watercolorby Euane R. LightISBN 092926102X (0-929261-02-X)
Softcover, Walter Foster Pub
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The Watercolorist's Essential Notebook: Landscapesby Gordon MacKenzieISBN 1581806604 (1-58180-660-4)
Hardcover, F & W Pubns Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Watercolorist's Essential Notebook: Landscapes'Book summary:Painting with watercolors gives you endless opportunities to create the world you want. You choose whether to let the sun blaze or the rain pour, to move a maple tree here or make the trail wind over there, to subdue a hillside with quiet greens or make a forest glow with dazzling golds and reds. It's not only a matter of what to paint, but how to go about painting it.
This book examines, one at a time, the three major elements of landscape painting: water, sky and land. You will be encouraged to try numerous ways of painting each one. Then you can choose the methods that best express how the outdoors speaks to you.
Let this reliable collection of tips, techniques, ideas and lessons be your companion on a sure path to creative fulfillment and better watercolor landscapes. [via]
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The Watercolorists Essential Notebookby Gordon MacKenzieISBN 0891349464 (0-89134-946-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Watercolorists Essential Notebook'Book summary:Painting with watercolors gives you endless opportunities to create the world you want. You choose whether to let the sun blaze or the rain pour, to move a maple tree here or make the trail wind over there, to subdue a hillside with quiet greens or make a forest glow with dazzling golds and reds. It's not only a matter of what to paint, but how to go about painting it.
This book examines, one at a time, the three major elements of landscape painting: water, sky and land. You will be encouraged to try numerous ways of painting each one. Then you can choose the methods that best express how the outdoors speaks to you.
Let this reliable collection of tips, techniques, ideas and lessons be your companion on a sure path to creative fulfillment and better watercolor landscapes.
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Why Cats Paint: A Theory of Feline Aestheticsby Burton Silver, Heather BuschISBN 1580087930 (1-58008-793-0)
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Why Cats Paint: A Theory of Feline Aestheticsby Heather Busch, Silver BurtonISBN 0898156122 (0-89815-612-2)
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Georgia O'Keeffe : 1887-1986: Flowers in the Desertby Britta BenkeISBN 3822858617 (3-8228-5861-7)
Hardcover, Taschen America, LLC
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Frida Kahlo: 1907-1954 Dolor Y Pasionby Andrea KettenmannISBN 3822865486 (3-8228-6548-6)
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