American Quilts: The Democratic Art, 1780-2007

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Sumptuous, informative, and engaging, this is the ultimate book on American quilts as art. Written by one of the leading scholars in the field, it’s a fascinating chronicle of the growth and evolution of an art form with a rich heritage. Not only does author Robert Shaw provide an insightful look at quilting aesthetics, he places the craft in its historical, cultural, and socioeconomic context, providing a visually lush journey through American history.This opulen... More >>

American Quilts: The Democratic Art, 1780-2007

The Humanistic Tradition Book 3: The European Renaissance, The Reformation, and Global Encounter

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Interdisciplinary in approach and topical in focus, the sixth edition of The Humanistic Tradition continues to bring to life humankind's creative legacy. With more than 800 illustrations and some 150 literary sources in accessible translations, this widely acclaimed humanities survey takes a global perspective that is at once selective and engaging, and helps students better understand the relationship between world cultures. Available in multiple formats, The Hum... More >>

The Humanistic Tradition Book 3: The European Renaissance, The Reformation, and Global Encounter

Mies Van Der Rohe: 1886-1969

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Less is more: finding perfection in purity Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886?1969) was one of the founding fathers of modern architecture. The creator of the Barcelona Pavilion (1929), the Farnsworth House in Plano, Illinois (1945?1951) and the Seagram Building in New York (1954?1958), Mies was one of the founders of a new architectural style. Well known for his motto ?less is more, ? he sought a kind of refined purity in architectural expression that was not seen in t... More >>

Mies Van Der Rohe: 1886-1969

Thomas Lawrence: Regency Power & Brilliance

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Sir Thomas Lawrence (1769–1830) was the pre-eminent portraitist of the Regency period, depicting monarchs, political leaders, aristocratic families, society beauties, and actresses with bravura flair. This important book explores Lawrence’s political friendships and allegiances along with his exceptional role as witness to significant historical events, and contrasts these with his remarkable ability to depict the charm and innocence of childhood. Elected Pres... More >>

Thomas Lawrence: Regency Power & Brilliance

Francis Bacon: The Logic of Sensation

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Translated and with an Introduction by Daniel W. Smith
 Afterword by Tom Conley 

Gilles Deleuze had several paintings by Francis Bacon hanging in his Paris apartment, and the painter’s method and style as well as his motifs of seriality, difference, and repetition influenced Deleuze’s work. This first English translation shows us one of the most original and important French philosophers of the twentieth century in intimate confrontation with one of ... More >>

Francis Bacon: The Logic of Sensation

The Contingent Object of Contemporary Art

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In this book, Martha Buskirk addresses the interesting fact that since the early 1960s, almost anything can and has been called art. Among other practices, contemporary artists have employed mass-produced elements, impermanent materials, and appropriated imagery, have incorporated performance and video, and have created works through instructions carried out by others. Furthermore, works of art that lack traditional signs of authenticity or permanence have been embr... More >>

The Contingent Object of Contemporary Art

What Style Is It?: A Guide to American Architecture

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Designed for easy identification of buildings, this picture and prose handbook offers a unique overview of U.S. architectural styles. Individual chapters on 22 of the most important styles including Gothic Revival, Art Deco, Richardsonian Romanesque and Prairie School provide a concise look at the history and appearance of each.... More >>

What Style Is It?: A Guide to American Architecture

Reality Through the Arts

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Reality Through the Arts provides a comprehensive introduction that covers both arts history and aesthetic perception in western and non-western cultures by covering all the artistic disciplines: drawing, painting, printmaking, photography, sculpture, architecture, theatre, music, dance, cinema, and literature.   Reality Through the Arts is a brief text ideal for the one-semester introduction to humanities course.  This is a successful text because of its uni... More >>

Reality Through the Arts

Everybody Was So Young: Gerald and Sara Murphy - A Lost Generation Love Story

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The real-life models for F. Scott Fitzgerald's characters Nicole and Dick Diver in Tender is the Night, Gerald and Sara Murphy were at the center of social and artistic life for the likes of Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Dorothy Parker, and other famous names during the 1920s. Everybody Was so Young is both a portrait of two extraordinary people and a biography of a glamorous era that can never be recaptured. Amazon.com Review
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Everybody Was So Young: Gerald and Sara Murphy - A Lost Generation Love Story

The French Impressionists

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Illustrated with many unique illustrations of Impressionist paintings.

I. THE PRECURSORS OF IMPRESSIONISM--THE
BEGINNING OF THIS MOVEMENT, THE
ORIGIN OF ITS NAME

II. THE THEORY OF THE IMPRESSIONISTS--THE
DIVISION OF TONES, COMPLEMENTARY COLOURS,
THE STUDY OF ATMOSPHERE--THE IDEAS OF THE
IMPRESSIONISTS ON SUBJECT-PICTURES, ON
THE BEAUTY OF CHARACTER, ON MODERNITY,
AND ON STYLE

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The French Impressionists

The Beautiful Fall: Fashion, Genius, and Glorious Excess in 1970s Paris

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"Deliciously dramatic... The Beautiful Fall crackles with excitement."-New York Times Book Review

In the 1970s, Paris fashion exploded like a champagne bottle left out in the sun. Amid sequins and longing, celebrities and aspirants flocked to the heart of chic, and Paris became a hothouse of revelry, intrigue, and searing ambition. At the center of it all were fashion's most beloved luminaries - Yves Saint Laurent, the reclusive enfant terrible, and Karl Lage... More >>

The Beautiful Fall: Fashion, Genius, and Glorious Excess in 1970s Paris

Art of Renaissance Florence, 1400-1600

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In this absorbing illustrated history, Loren Partridge takes the reader on an insightful tour of Renaissance Florence and sheds new light on its celebrated art and culture by examining the city's great architectural and artistic achievements in their political, intellectual, and religious contexts. This essential and accessible text, the only up-to-date volume on Renaissance Florence currently available, incorporates insights from recent scholarship, including gende... More >>

Art of Renaissance Florence, 1400-1600

The Fantastic Art of Beksinski

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This art book captures 30 years in the career of Polish artist Zdzislaw Beksinski. The subject matter ranges from apocalyptic landscapes with towering edifices and zombie-like figures, to scenes of ghostly calm. His haunting, surreal works convey a sense of mystery and are often disturbingly dark.... More >>

The Fantastic Art of Beksinski

Northern Renaissance Art

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The only comprehensive volume available for the study of Northern Renaissance Art, this paperback presents stylistic and iconographical themes, art historical scholarship, and valuable analyses for today's learners. Its coverage and color capture the authors' lasting excitement for the period and its artists. A three-part organization covers international currents in the Fourteen Century, Fifteenth-Century Innovations, and Renaissance and Reformation... More >>

Northern Renaissance Art

The Humanistic Tradition, Book 4: Faith, Reason, and Power in the Early Modern World

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Interdisciplinary in approach and topical in focus, the sixth edition of The Humanistic Tradition continues to bring to life humankind's creative legacy. With more than 800 illustrations and some 150 literary sources in accessible translations, this widely acclaimed humanities survey takes a global perspective that is at once selective and engaging, and helps students better understand the relationship between world cultures. Available in multiple formats, The Hum... More >>

The Humanistic Tradition, Book 4: Faith, Reason, and Power in the Early Modern World

Loot: The Battle over the Stolen Treasures of the Ancient World

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“Fast-paced and compelling . . . Waxman has an array of wondrous tales to tell . . . Considerable, admirable, and totally absorbing.”—The Boston GlobeFor the past two centuries, the West has plundered the treasures of the ancient world to fill its great museums, but in recent years the countries where ancient civilizations originated have begun to push back, taking museums to court, prosecuting curators, and threatening to force the return of these pric... More >>

Loot: The Battle over the Stolen Treasures of the Ancient World

Seaside Style: Living on the Beach: Interiors, Details

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Readers are taken on a tour of coastal dwellings around the globe that are sure to inspire their lives and dreams.... More >>

Seaside Style: Living on the Beach: Interiors, Details

Color Your Own Book of Kells

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These captivating reproductions from one of the most beautiful books of the early Middle Ages offer hours of coloring pleasure. Twenty-eight full-page reproductions of artwork depict eye-catching borders filled with Celtic spirals and interlacings, celestial figures, saints, members of the Holy Family, Celtic crosses, and other finely detailed elements. Captions.... More >>

Color Your Own Book of Kells

Art Since 1900: Modernism, Antimodernism, Postmodernism, Vol. 1: 1900-1944

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A landmark in art history and the most anticipated art publishing event of the new millennium.
In this groundbreaking and original work of scholarship, four of the most influential and provocative art historians of our time have come together to provide a comprehensive history of art in the twentieth century, an age when artists in the United States, Europe, and elsewhere sought to overturn the traditions of the past and expectations of the p... More >>

Art Since 1900: Modernism, Antimodernism, Postmodernism, Vol. 1: 1900-1944

Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres

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This evocative work uses the architecture, sculpture and stained glass of Mont Saint Michel and Chartres as a take-off point for an exploration of the medieval imagination. By considering all aspects of medieval society, it portrays a world united by a common faith based around the cathedral.... More >>

Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres

Early Medieval Architecture

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The early middle ages were an exciting period in the history of European architecture, culminating in the development of the Romanesque style. Major architectural innovations were made during this time including the medieval castle, the church spire, and the monastic cloister. By avoiding the traditional emphasis on chronological development, Roger Stalley provides a radically new approach to the subject, exploring issues and themes rather than sequences and dates.... More >>

Early Medieval Architecture

Art Nouveau Windows Stained Glass Coloring Book

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Sixteen boldly outlined stained glass window designs, derived from motifs originally created by master artisans of the Art Nouveau tradition: florals, vines and leaves, birds, mythical creatures, and more... More >>

Art Nouveau Windows Stained Glass Coloring Book

Chance

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The chance situation or random event—whether as a strategy or as a subject of investigation—has been central to many artists' practices across a multiplicity of forms, including expressionism, automatism, the readymade, collage, surrealist and conceptual photography, fluxus event scores, film, audio and video, performance, and participatory artworks. But why—a century after Dada and Surrealism's first systematic enquiries—does chance remain a key strategy in... More >>

Chance

Weirdo Noir: Gothic and Dark Lowbrow Art

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Like a corpse in a zombie movie, the Goth movement has been resuscitated stronger, more powerful, and more contagious than ever before. From fashion to music, Goth influences have crept into every area of pop culture, and nowhere is that influence creepier, more fascinating, and more playful than in the art world. Weirdo Noir is the follow-up volume to Weirdo Deluxe, the book that brought the once underground Low Brow art scene to prominence in the public eye. In th... More >>

Weirdo Noir: Gothic and Dark Lowbrow Art

Vincent Van Gogh: 1853-1890

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This is an illustrated study of Vincent Van Gogh, one of the great forerunners of 20th century painting.... More >>

Vincent Van Gogh: 1853-1890

The Dore Bible Illustrations

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Detailed plates from the Bible: the Creation scenes, Adam and Eve, horrifying visions of the Flood, the battle sequences with their monumental crowds, depictions of the life of Jesus and visions of the new Jerusalem. Each of the 241 plates is accompanied by the appropriate verses from the King James version of the Bible.
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The Dore Bible Illustrations

Mucha

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Generally agreed to be one of the most important contributors to Art Nouveau, the Czech artist Alphonse Mucha was trained, celebrated and lived most of his life in Paris. His unforgettably iconic images of Sarah Bernhardt and others embody the spirit of the fin de siècle. But underneath his successful career as an artist and poster designer lay a passionate Slav nationalist whose most important and long neglected works are still being painstakingly restored and exh... More >>

Mucha

The Seekers

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In his previous bestsellers, The Discoverers and The Creators, Daniel Boorstin first told brilliantly how we discovered the reality of our world, and then he celebrated man's achievements in the arts. He now turns to the great figures in history who sought meaning and purpose in our existence. Boorstin claims our Western culture has seen three epics of Seeking. First we had the heroic way of the prophets and philosophers - men like Moses and Job, Socrates, Plato and... More >>

The Seekers

Utopias

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Throughout its diverse manifestations, the utopian entails two related but contradictory elements: the aspiration to a better world, and the acknowledgment that its form may only ever live in our imaginations. Furthermore, we are as haunted by the failures of utopian enterprise as we are inspired by the desire to repair the failed and build the new. Contemporary art reflects this general ambivalence. The utopian impulse informs politically activist and relational ar... More >>

Utopias

Stencil Nation: Graffiti, Community, and Art

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“More street artists are turning to stencil art’s speed, efficiency, and neatness as a means of expression. All it takes is a piece of cardboard, an X-Acto knife, and a can of spray paint to pose an idea or tell a story with the potential to change the gait of pedestrians and make them stop and think.”—San Francisco WeeklyWithout a doubt, stencils are the fastest, easiest, and cheapest method for painting an image on a wall, a sidewalk, or practically anywhe... More >>

Stencil Nation: Graffiti, Community, and Art

Picasso & Lump: A Dachshund's Odyssey

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The little-known story of Pablo Picasso and his lovable dog Lump, who is immortalized in many of Picasso's acclaimed works of art.... More >>

Picasso & Lump: A Dachshund's Odyssey

Art and Architecture in Italy 1600-1750, Vol. 2: High Baroque

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This classic survey of Italian Baroque art and architecture focuses on the arts in every center between Venice and Sicily in the early, high, and late Baroque periods. The heart of the study, however, lies in the architecture and sculpture of the exhilarating years of Roman High Baroque, when Bernini, Borromini, and Cortona were all at work under a series of enlightened popes. Wittkower`s text is now accompanied by a critical introduction and substantial new bibliog... More >>

Art and Architecture in Italy 1600-1750, Vol. 2: High Baroque

Georgia O'Keeffe, 1887-1986: Flowers in the Desert

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This volume traces the career of American painter, Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986). The illustrations document the most important periods in her life.... More >>

Georgia O'Keeffe, 1887-1986: Flowers in the Desert

Art Deco Complete: The Definitive Guide to the Decorative Arts of the 1920s and 1930s

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Art Deco Complete is the last word in Art Deco, the most glamorous decorative arts style, and the one that shaped popular ideas of modern luxury. It covers furniture and interior decoration, sculpture, paintings, graphics, posters and bookbinding, glass, ceramics, lighting, textiles, metal work, and jewelry. It includes the work of all of the important Art Deco designers, from high-style French furniture makers to the creators of the popular “Streamline Moderne”... More >>

Art Deco Complete: The Definitive Guide to the Decorative Arts of the 1920s and 1930s

Paper Illusions: The Art of Isabelle de Borchgrave

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Belgian artist, designer, and interior decorator Isabelle de Borchgrave has created exquisite paper dresses evoking high fashions from the courts of the Medici in the Renaissance to the legendary Fortuny silks of the early 20th century. Their historical authenticity, combined with their startling realism, caused an overnight sensation when they were first shown in France in 1998 as “papiers à la mode.” Since then, the dynamic, light-hearted collection has trave... More >>

Paper Illusions: The Art of Isabelle de Borchgrave

Tony's Artworks from Shining World

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Featuring the stunning designs of renowned Japanese pinup artist Tony Taka, Tony's Artwork From Shining World collects the beautiful artwork behind SEGA's Shining Tears and Shining Wind games. The book features over 200 pages of gorgeous, full-page pin-ups and character designs from the Shining series, plus multiple interviews with the master himself, Tony Taka.... More >>

Tony's Artworks from Shining World

Contemporary African Art Since 1980

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Contemporary African Art Since 1980 is the first major survey of the work of contemporary African artists from diverse situations, locations, and generations who work either in or outside of Africa, but whose practices engage and occupy the social and cultural complexities of the continent since the past 30 years. Its frame of analysis is absorbed with historical transitions: from the end of the postcolonial utopias of the sixties during the 1980s to the geopolitic... More >>

Contemporary African Art Since 1980

Richard Diebenkorn in New Mexico

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Internationally acclaimed artist Richard Diebenkorn lived in Albuquerque from 1950-1952, where he executed an impressive body of more than a hundred paintings, drawings, and welded-metal sculpture. Until recently much of Diebenkorn's New Mexico work remained forgotten. With his coming to New Mexico, Diebenkorn moved toward a kind of painting that, although rigorous and considered, emits energies of freedom, freshness, and spontaneity and has inferences of landscape.... More >>

Richard Diebenkorn in New Mexico

Danish Modern

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For serious furniture collectors, Danish is more than a pastry-it's an art form. Twentieth century Danish furniture design is simple and clean., mixes well with other design styles, and has an inherent value and history beyond its beauty. In Modern Danish, Andrew Hollingsworth explores the history of Danish design, from the earliest cabinetmakers' guilds in the 1770s through the impact of two world wars, and its evolution into the twentieth century. The book include... More >>

Danish Modern

Marion Peck: Animal Love Summer

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Animal Love Summer is the first full monograph for painter Marion Peck. One of the leading ladies of pop surrealism, Peck populates her dreamlike paintings with strange, cute creatures. As her magical and bucolic landscapes unfold, an uneasy melancholy fills the air -- the birds are chirping, but the sounds are not quite right. The viewer pauses and questions the reality Peck has created, as well as one's own. Themes of hope, despair, mystery, nostalgia, love and de... More >>

Marion Peck: Animal Love Summer

Stepping-Stones: A Journey through the Ice Age Caves of the Dordogne

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The cave art of France’s Dordogne region is world-famous for the mythology and beauty of its remarkable drawings and paintings. These ancient images of lively bison, horses, and mammoths, as well as symbols of all kinds, are fascinating touchstones in the development of human culture, demonstrating how far humankind has come and reminding us of the ties that bind us across the ages.
Over more than twenty-five years of teaching and research, Christine Desdema... More >>

Stepping-Stones: A Journey through the Ice Age Caves of the Dordogne

Why Is That Art?: Aesthetics and Criticism of Contemporary Art

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Why Is That Art? addresses common questions that viewers raise about contemporary art: Why is that art? Why is it in an art museum? Who says it's art? If I did this, would it be art? Why is it good? Covering a broad, diverse, and engaging sampling of works--abstract and representational painting, monumental sculpture, performance art, video installations, films, and photographs--author Terry Barrett responds to these questions using three sources: the artists who cr... More >>

Why Is That Art?: Aesthetics and Criticism of Contemporary Art

Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini

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The period covered by the autobiography is from Cellini's birth in 1500
to 1562; the scene is mainly in Italy and France. Of the great events of
the time, the time of the Reformation and the Counter-Reformation, of
the strife of Pope and Emperor and King, we get only glimpses. The
leaders in these events appear in the foreground of the picture only
when they come into personal relations with the hero; and then not
mainly as statesmen or warriors, b... More >>

Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini

A Life of Picasso: The Triumphant Years, 1917-1932

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As he magnificently combines meticulous scholarship with irresistible narrative appeal, Richardson draws on his close friendship with Picasso, his own diaries, the collaboration of Picasso's widow Jacqueline, and unprecedented access to Picasso's studio and papers to arrive at a profound understanding of the artist and his work. 800 photos.


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A Life of Picasso: The Triumphant Years, 1917-1932

April Blood: Florence and the Plot against the Medici

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One of the world's leading historians of Renaissance Italy brings to life here the vibrant--and violent--society of fifteenth-century Florence. His disturbing narrative opens up an entire culture, revealing the dark side of Renaissance man and politician Lorenzo de' Medici.
On a Sunday in April 1478, assassins attacked Lorenzo and his brother as they attended Mass in the cathedral of Florence. Lorenzo scrambled to safety as Giuliano bled to death on the cat... More >>

April Blood: Florence and the Plot against the Medici

Sacred Mirrors: The Visionary Art of Alex Grey

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This unique series of paintings takes the viewer on a graphic, visionary journey through the physical, metaphysical, and spiritual anatomy of the self. From anatomically correct rendering of the body systems, Grey moves to the spiritual/energetic systems with such images as "Universal Mind Lattice," envisioning the sacred and esoteric symbolism of the body and the forces that define its living field of energy.  Includes essays on the significance of Grey's work by ... More >>

Sacred Mirrors: The Visionary Art of Alex Grey

George Condo: Mental States

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Painter and sculptor George Condo (born 1957) has inhabited a broad swath of cultural contexts over his three-decade career, from the early-1980s East Village scene to a collaboration with William Burroughs to making album cover art for Phish and, most recently, Kanye West. Early in his career, Condo was friendly with Jean-Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring and briefly worked at Andy Warhol's Factory. Having been included in the Whitney Biennial in 1987, by 2010 he wa... More >>

George Condo: Mental States

Contemporary Graphic Design

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Packing a powerful visual punch Contemporary avant-garde graphic design This compendium showcases the extraordinary cutting-edge work of 100 of the world's most progressive graphic designers, from the hard-hitting political messages of Jonathan Barnbrook to the lyrical digital compositions of Peter Saville to the iconoclastic imagery of Stefan Sagmeister. Alongside the array of visually stunning and thought-provoking advertisements, CD covers, posters, packaging, we... More >>

Contemporary Graphic Design

Readings in Latin American Modern Art

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This important and welcome volume is the first English-language anthology of writings on Latin American modern art of the twentieth century. The book includes some fifty seminal essays and documents-including statements, interviews, and manifestoes by artists-that encompass the broad diversity of this emerging field. Many of these materials are difficult to access and some are translated here for the first time. Together the selections explore the breadth and depth ... More >>

Readings in Latin American Modern Art

The Renaissance: A Short History

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The Renaissance holds an undying place in our imagination, its great heroes still our own, from Michelangelo and Leonardo to Dante and Chaucer. This period of profound evolution in European thought is credited with transforming the West from medieval to modern and producing the most astonishing outpouring of artistic creation the world has ever known. But what was it? In this masterly work, the incomparable Paul Johnson tells us. He explains the economic, technologi... More >>

The Renaissance: A Short History