Friday, July 20, 2007

Tiffany



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This volume presents Tiffany's magical lamps and stained glass. This lavish volume provides an overview of the fifty-year career and the highly innovative and creative work of Louis Comfort Tiffany (1848-1933). The inventor of Favril Glass, an opalescent glass with deep, glowing color that far surpassed, in quality and beauty, all existing techniques, Tiffany was one of the most original and influential designers and America's leading exponent of Art Nouveau.Tiffany... More >>

Tiffany

Monday, July 16, 2007

The Worldly Art: The Dutch Republic 1585-1718



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Newly independent in 1585, the increasingly prosperous and politically powerful Dutch Republic experienced a tremendous rise in the production of artwork that was unparalleled in quantity, variety, and beauty. Now back in print, this classic book (originally published in 1996) examines the country’s rich artistic culture in the seventeenth century, providing a full account of Dutch artists and patrons; artistic themes and techniques; and the political and social w... More >>

The Worldly Art: The Dutch Republic 1585-1718

Saturday, July 14, 2007

Richard Diebenkorn: Revised and Expanded


  • ISBN13: 9780847823482
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Richard Diebenkorn, who died in 1993, is generally acknowledged as one of the most influential American artists of the twentieth century. The luminous abstractions of his later career and the innovative figurative works of his middle years firmly established him as a master in the high tradition of modernism.

This revised and expanded edition of the first comprehensive monograph on the artist presents a rich selection of the artist's oeuvre. Until the mid-195... More >>

Richard Diebenkorn: Revised and Expanded

Thursday, July 12, 2007

Frida Kahlo 1907-1954: Pain and Passion


  • ISBN13: 9783822859834
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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 cr... More >>

Frida Kahlo 1907-1954: Pain and Passion

Sunday, July 8, 2007

The Andy Warhol Diaries



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Now in trade paperback, the sensational national bestseller that turns the spotlight on one of the most influential and controversial figures of our time. These pages are filled with previously undisclosed facts about the lives and loves of the irch and famous--from royalty to movie and music stars to renowned artists.... More >>

The Andy Warhol Diaries

Friday, July 6, 2007

Jenny Saville


  • ISBN13: 9780847827572
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At thirty-two, Jenny Saville has had a career most artists twice her age would envy. In 1992, the year she completed her studies at Glasgow School of Art, her graduation exhibition sold out. Most notably, one painting was bought by Charles Saatchi and, since then, her international reputation has grown at a rapid and steady pace.Jenny Saville is described as a "New Old Master" for the technical proficiency of her oversize nudes that have earned her comparisons to Ru... More >>

Jenny Saville

Wednesday, June 27, 2007

Etruscan Art


  • ISBN13: 9780500203040
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Recent discoveries and new scholarship bring the Etruscan world vividly to life.The Etruscans were the most powerful force in central Italy until Roman unification of the peninsula. Vestiges of their art, architecture, and unique language have long intrigued scholars, and the search for this mysterious civilization continues to fire the imagination. Despite a history of pillage, rich archaeological evidence survives: thousands of tombs, many of them... More >>

Etruscan Art

Tuesday, June 26, 2007

Posters for the People: The Art of the WPA



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Arriving just in time for the 75th anniversary of the New Deal, Posters for the People features nearly 500 of the best posters produced by the Works Progress Administration (WPA) during the 1930s and 1940s. As you'll recall from high school history class, the WPA employed hundreds of out-of-work artists to raise awareness about public issues and civic life. Today their posters are celebrated as iconic works of graphic design; they also provide timeless messages abou... More >>

Posters for the People: The Art of the WPA

Saturday, June 23, 2007

Art Power


  • ISBN13: 9780262072922
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Winner of the 2009 Frank Jewett Mather Award given by the College Art Association (CAA).

Art has its own power in the world, and is as much a force in the power play of global politics today as it once was in the arena of cold war politics. Art, argues distinguished theoretician Boris Groys, is hardly a powerless commodity subject to the art market's fiats of inclusion and exclusion. In Art Power, Groys examines modern and contemporary art acco... More >>

Art Power

Tuesday, June 19, 2007

Italy in the Age of the Renaissance: 1300-1550



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The twelve essays in this volume, each written by a leading specialist, present an accessible and comprehensive introduction to Italian Renaissance society, intellectual history, and politics, with each contribution reflecting the most recent innovations in the way that historians view and study the period.... More >>

Italy in the Age of the Renaissance: 1300-1550

Saturday, June 16, 2007

Rex Ray: Art + Design


  • ISBN13: 9780811859752
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Rex Ray's highly collectible artwork is coveted in design as well as art circles. His color-bursting, curvaceous art graces the walls of high-design hotels, world-class museums, and hip restaurants, yet remains, as acclaimed author Douglas Coupland puts it in his foreword, "unslick, but superslick at the same time." Abstract and handcrafted, with a retro-futuristic mid-century feel, Rex Ray's meditations on fluid forms are a rare combination of sophistication and de... More >>

Rex Ray: Art + Design

Sunday, June 10, 2007

Make It Bigger



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An outspoken voice in the world of graphic design for more than twenty years, Paula Scher has developed a worldwide reputation for her bold, modern graphics and her incisive, sometimes stinging, critiques of the design profession. In Make in Bigger, Scher candidly reveals her thoughts on design practice, drawing on her own experiences as one of the leading designers in the United States, and possibly the most famous female graphic designer in the world. Pointed and ... More >>

Make It Bigger

Monday, June 4, 2007

Graffiti New York



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Decades after the movement globalized, New York is still the mecca of graffiti culture. Painting there is a badge of honor, with graffiti artists from around the globe making pilgrimages to New York for that purpose. This is the city where it all began, yet few know the back story.
Graffiti New York fills that gap, detailing the concepts, aesthetics, ideals, and social structures that have served as a cultural blueprint for graffiti movements across the world. Th... More >>

Graffiti New York

Tuesday, May 29, 2007

Chuck Close: Work



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Now available in a revised and expanded
edition, this book offers the first comprehensive
critical examination of one of America's most
celebrated living artists. Chuck Close reinvented portraiture almost four decades ago
with a series of nine-foot-tall, black-and-white likenesses of
himself and fellow artists, which astonished an art world
dominated by minimalism and conceptualism. Close has since
explored the possibilities implicit in his orig... More >>

Chuck Close: Work

Monday, May 28, 2007

Cartoon Modern: Style and Design in 1950s Animation


  • ISBN13: 9780811847315
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Between the classic films of Walt Disney in the 1940s and the televised cartoon revolution of the 1960s was a critical period in the history of animation. Amid Amidi, of the influential Animation Blast magazine and CartoonBrew blog, charts the evolution of the modern style in animation, which largely discarded the "lifelike" aesthetic for a more graphic and often abstract approach. Abundantly found in commercials, industrial and educational films, fair and expo info... More >>

Cartoon Modern: Style and Design in 1950s Animation

Paul Cezanne, 1839-1906: Pioneer of Modernism


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He was the founding father of modern art, the grand master who pointed painting forward on its way from Impressionism to the 20th century: Paul Cezanne (1839-1906). In Paris, but above all in Provence, he quested tirelessly for "a harmony parallel to nature" - discovering it in still lifes of apples, in bathers, or in the renowned landscapes of his beloved Montagne Sainte-Victoire. This book discusses this extraordinary artist's major works and his theories of paint... More >>

Paul Cezanne, 1839-1906: Pioneer of Modernism

Sunday, May 27, 2007

Pop Surrealism: The Rise Of Underground Art


  • ISBN13: 9780867196184
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First comprehensive survey of the Pop Surrealism/Lowbrow art movement. With its origins in 1960's hot rod culture and underground comics, Pop Surrealism has evolved into a vilified, vital, and exciting art movement. Includes: * informative essays by art luminaries Robert Williams, Carlo McCormick, and Larry Reid * a forward by Kirsten Anderson * images from twenty-three of the movment's top artists including: Anthony Ausgang, Glenn Barr, Tim Biskup, Kalynn Campbe... More >>

Pop Surrealism: The Rise Of Underground Art

Saturday, May 26, 2007

In Praise of Folly- Illustrated-



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From Wikipedia:
Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus (sometimes known as Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam) (October 27, 1466/1469, Rotterdam – July 12, 1536, Basel) was a Dutch Renaissance humanist and a Catholic theologian. His scholarly name Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus comprises the following three elements: the Latin noun desiderium ("longing" or "desire"; the name being a genuine Late Latin name); the Greek adjective ἐράσμιος (erásmios) meaning "desi... More >>

In Praise of Folly- Illustrated-

Friday, May 25, 2007

Leonardo


  • ISBN13: 9783836513555
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One of the most accomplished human beings who ever lived, Leonardo remains the quintessential Renaissance genius. Creator of the world's most famous painting, this scientist, artist, philosopher, inventor, builder, and mechanic epitomized the great flowering of human consciousness that marks his era. And yet, so wide-ranging and prolific were his interests that he brought hardly any major undertaking to a final end.
Leonardo also advance... More >>

Leonardo

Tuesday, May 22, 2007

The Art of Walt Disney: From Mickey Mouse to the Magic Kingdoms



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The Art of Walt Disney is one of Abrams' enduring classics. Thirty years and well over half a million copies after its first publication in 1973, it is still considered the definitive study of The Walt Disney Company's vast artistic achievements through the decades. The book tells the remarkable story of Walt Disney and the company he built, from Mickey Mouse to animated feature films to theme parks. Based on hundreds of interviews with Disney staff members past and... More >>

The Art of Walt Disney: From Mickey Mouse to the Magic Kingdoms

Saturday, May 19, 2007

Abstract Art


  • ISBN13: 9783822856208
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With roots in early Cubism and Futurism and reaching maturity in Op art and Minimalism, "Abstract Art" encompasses all forms of non-figurative expression. This book explores the diverse ways artists from the early 20th century, beginning with Kandinsky, through the 1960s used abstraction to express artistic ideas, such as the paint splatters of Jackson Pollock, the geometric shapes of Piet Mondrian, the non-objective squares of Malevich, and the complex compositions... More >>

Abstract Art

Friday, May 18, 2007

Art on the Edge and Over: Searching for Art's Meaning in Contemporary Society, 1970s-1990s


  • ISBN13: 9780965198813
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In this highly accessible introduction to American art since the 1970's, Linda Weintraub offers a musem goers a readable exploration of some of the most important artists and movements of the past decades.... More >>

Art on the Edge and Over: Searching for Art's Meaning in Contemporary Society, 1970s-1990s

Thursday, May 17, 2007

The Northern Renaissance A&I


  • ISBN13: 9780714838670
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An exploration of a highly innovative and exciting period of art following the careers of artists such as Van Eyck, Durer and Holbein. Jeffrey Chipps Smith analyses the context of the time, such as the Protestant Reformation and the discovery of the Americas. He offers the reader an insight into domestic, civic and court life illustrated by some of the most exquisite artworks ever created. In the years from 1380 to 1580 northern Europe witnessed a period of artistic... More >>

The Northern Renaissance A&I

Wednesday, May 16, 2007

Miro


  • ISBN13: 9783822837504
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Fellow painter Erban spent countless hours conversing with his colleague, Joan Mir (1893-1983), at his house in Mallorca for this book--a retrospective which explores through texts and images the work of one of the 20th century's most influential painters.... More >>

Miro

Monday, May 14, 2007

The Modern Architecture Pop-Up Book


  • ISBN13: 9780789318022
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The Modern Architecture Pop-Up Book showcases three-dimensional replications of some of the most innovative modern and contemporary architecture from around the world. Accompanied by illustrations, photographs, and elaborate pop-ups, the talent and imagination of architects and builders of the modern era is brought to life. Ranging from the nineteenth century to the present day, the pages follow the development of modern architecture: the creation of new buildings a... More >>

The Modern Architecture Pop-Up Book

Sunday, May 13, 2007

Love and Death in Renaissance Italy



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Gratuitous sex. Graphic violence. Lies, revenge, and murder. Before there was digital cable or reality television, there was Renaissance Italy and the courts in which Italian magistrates meted justice to the vicious and the villainous, the scabrous and the scandalous. Love and Death in Renaissance Italy retells six piquant episodes from the Italian court just after 1550, as the Renaissance gave way to an era of Catholic reformation.

Each of the chapters in th... More >>

Love and Death in Renaissance Italy

A Humument



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In 1966, the British artist Tom Phillips purchased an obscure Victorian novel entitled A Human Document from a secondhand bookshop. He then proceeded to "treat" it: he colored and blacked out many of the lines and even pages so that certain key words and phrases formed new images and sequences; he cut up and rearranged other pages to form new narrative passages. Miraculously, the rather staid original novel was turned into an entirely new work, full of stories, erot... More >>

A Humument

Friday, May 11, 2007

The Body in Contemporary Art


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A new volume in the acclaimed World of Art series: featuring work across a range of media that represents the human body. This international survey presents art made over the last two decades in which the human form is central. From painting and sculpture to installation, video art, and performance, it examines the roles played by the body in art, from being the subject of portraiture to becoming an active presence in participatory events.
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The Body in Contemporary Art

Wednesday, May 9, 2007

Thrilling Quilling


  • Dimensions: 10.95 in. h x 8.25 in. w x 0.15 in. d
  • Weight: 1.28 ounces
  • Made in CN

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This essential sourcebook modernizes the historic papercraft of quilling with fun and funky designs, all broken down into bite-sized steps for quick and easy crafting. Packed with fresh ideas, techniques and tips, Thrilling Quilling will inspire both beginners and more experienced crafters looking for new creative venues. The author offers clear instruction on creating a diverse gallery of quilled items and explores papers and equipment and teaches techniques such a... More >>

Thrilling Quilling

Tuesday, May 8, 2007

Chaos and Classicism: Art in France PBK



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Now available in paperback, Chaos and Classicism explores the classicizing aesthetic that followed the immense destruction of World War I. Accompanying the Guggenheim's widely lauded 2010 exhibition of the same name, it examines the interwar period in its key artistic manifestations and their interpretations of classical values and aesthetics: the poetic dream of antiquity in the Parisian avant garde of Fernand Léger and Pablo Picasso; the politicized revival of th... More >>

Chaos and Classicism: Art in France PBK

Monday, May 7, 2007

Seurat and La Grande Jatte: Connecting the Dots



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Published in association with The Art Institute of Chicago The story behind one of the best- known paintings of all time A Sunday on la Grande Jatte-1884 continues to fascinate art lovers over a century since Georges Seurat painted and first displayed it-so much so that it alone will form the basis of an entire exhibit at the world-famous Art Institute of Chicago. Award-winning author Robert Burleigh uses this extraordinary painting to give young children a comp... More >>

Seurat and La Grande Jatte: Connecting the Dots

Sunday, May 6, 2007

Imperishable Beauty


  • ISBN13: 9780878467341
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"A new, imperishable beauty," was how the artist and architect Henry van de Velde described it. European Art Nouveau jewelry of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries embraced a new aesthetic characterized by sensuous forms, dramatic imagery and vivid symbolism. Many of the designers associated with the movement sought their inspiration not in traditional jewelry, but in the work of the pre-Raphaelites and Impressionists and in the arts of Japan. Rejectin... More >>

Imperishable Beauty

Saturday, May 5, 2007

Wednesday, May 2, 2007

Theoretical Anxiety and Design Strategies in the Work of Eight Contemporary Architects


  • ISBN13: 9780262134439
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The internationally acclaimed architect Rafael Moneo is known to be a courageous architect. His major works include the Houston Museum of Fine Art, Davis Art Museum at Wellesley College, the Stockholm Museum of Modern Art and Architecture, and the Potzdammer Platz Hotel in Berlin. Now Moneo will be known as a daring critic as well. In this book, he looks at eight of his contemporaries—all architects of international stature—and discusses the theoretical position... More >>

Theoretical Anxiety and Design Strategies in the Work of Eight Contemporary Architects

Art and Myth in Ancient Greece


  • ISBN13: 9780500202364
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The Greek Myths are so much of our visual and literary culture that we tend to forget how they entered it in the first place. Here is the first scholarly, comprehensive and succinct survey of the treatment of myth by the artists of ancient Greece. With its copious illustrations, it forms an indispensable and unrivaled reference work for everybody interested in art, drama, poetry, anthropology or religion.

There is no surviving accoun... More >>

Art and Myth in Ancient Greece

Tuesday, May 1, 2007

WWW HR Giger Com


  • ISBN13: 9783822833162
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HR Giger first received acclaim in the 1960s with his airbrushed fantasy landscapes. However, he scored his breakthrough in applied art, and particularly in his high-profile movie work on Ridley Scott's Alien. In 1980, he received an Oscar for "Best Achievement for Visual Effects" for his designs of the film's title creature and its otherworldly environment. His other celebrated film projects include Poltergeist II, Alien 3 and Species, for which he designed a deadl... More >>

WWW HR Giger Com

Sunday, April 29, 2007

EXOTIQUE 6: The World's Most Beautiful CG Characters



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The sixth book in the EXOTIQUE series showcases the world's most beautiful CG characters created for film, television, games, and personal endeavor. Ballistic Publishing books are renowned worldwide for their outstanding quality, and every image in EXOTIQUE 6 is individually color-corrected to ensure that the transfer from the computer monitor to print is the best possible. With inspirational artwork covering the genres of fantasy, sci-fi, anime, and photorealism, E... More >>

EXOTIQUE 6: The World's Most Beautiful CG Characters

Saturday, April 28, 2007

Impressionism: 50 Paintings You Should Know


  • ISBN13: 9783791338439
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Perfect for enjoying or studying, this array of masterpieces by the luminaries of the Impressionist movement is the next best thing to viewing them in person. No artistic education is complete without a healthy dose of the Impressionists. Here fifty of the most important works from the early nineteenth through the early twentieth centuries are gorgeously reproduced, including the best of Monet, Degas, van Gogh, Renoir, Cézanne, Cassatt, Manet, Seurat, and Pisarro... More >>

Impressionism: 50 Paintings You Should Know

Friday, April 27, 2007

Michelangelo: The Artist, the Man and his Times


  • ISBN13: 9780521111997
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Michelangelo is universally recognized to be one of the greatest artists of all time. In this vividly written biography, William E. Wallace offers a substantially new view of the artist. Not only a supremely gifted sculptor, painter, architect, and poet, Michelangelo was also an aristocrat who firmly believed in the ancient and noble origins of his family. The belief in his patrician status fueled his lifelong ambition to improve his family's financial situation and... More >>

Michelangelo: The Artist, the Man and his Times

Thursday, April 26, 2007

L.A. Modern



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The birthplace of American modernism, Los Angeles is the epicenter for a new way of living for the last one hundred years, as manifested in its cutting-edge architecture and design. With roots in the innovative houses by Frank Lloyd Wright, Greene & Greene, and Rudolph Schindler in the early twentieth century, this constantly evolving city became a crucible of modern living. Inspired by the International Style, architects and designers in Los Angeles developed their... More >>

L.A. Modern

Wednesday, April 25, 2007

Miniature Rooms: The Thorne Rooms at the Art Institute of Chicago



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The Thorne Rooms, sixty-eight miniature models of European interiors from the sixteenth century on and American furnishings from the seventeenth century on, have entranced generations of visitors to the Art Institute of Chicago. This charming book showcases these rooms, featuring full-color views of each one as well as eight two-page spreads of some of the most spectacular interiors.The introductory essay by Bruce Hatton Boyer chronicles how Chicago socialite Mrs. J... More >>

Miniature Rooms: The Thorne Rooms at the Art Institute of Chicago

Contemporary Art in Asia: A Critical Reader



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This foundational anthology maps the emergence of a dynamic new global phenomenon: contemporary Asian art.... More >>

Contemporary Art in Asia: A Critical Reader

Monday, April 23, 2007

On Painting


  • ISBN13: 9780140433319
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Artist, architect, poet and philosopher, Leon Battista Alberti revolutionized the history of art with his theories of perspective in On Painting (1435). Inspired by the order and beauty inherent in nature, his groundbreaking work sets out the principles of distance, dimension and proportion; instructs the painter on how to use the rules of composition, representation, light and colour to create work that is graceful and pleasing to the eye; and stipulates the moral ... More >>

On Painting

Sunday, April 22, 2007

The Humanistic Tradition Volume II: The Early Modern World to the Present



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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 Volume II: The Early Modern World to the Present

Friday, April 20, 2007

My Life



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Marc Chagall--one of the greatest of all twentieth-century painters--died in 1985, during a major exhibition of his work, mounted jointly by the Royal Academy of Arts in London and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. This exhibition had as one of its main features quotations taken from Chagall's autobiography, My Life.
Originally published in English in 1965, Chagall's My Life offers a lyrical and evocative account of the author's early life and tremendous ins... More >>

My Life

Wednesday, April 18, 2007

Art in Theory: 1815-1900 An Anthology of Changing Ideas



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Art in Theory 1815-1900 provides the most wide-ranging and comprehensive collection of documents ever assembled on nineteenth-century theories of art.Amazon.com Review
The ideas of some of the most influential artists, writers and thinkers of our times about 19th century art are collected in this vast collection of essays. Collectively they tackle difficult issues like the definition of Modern art and tracing the history of aesthetics. Schopenhauer add... More >>

Art in Theory: 1815-1900 An Anthology of Changing Ideas

David Choe



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This dynamic monograph captures the frenetic raw energy and gorgeous, intense work of gallery and street artist David Choe. From dropping out of art school to a stint in Japanese prison to representation by the Lazarides Gallery alongside Banksy, Choe's wild ride through the art world is represented by a major selection of images, and narrated throughout by Choe himself. Graffiti, murals, paintings, sketchbook pages, photographs, toys, t-shirts, collages, artwork cr... More >>

David Choe

The Magic Mirror of M.C. Escher



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"A woman once rang me up and said, 'Mr. Escher, I am absolutely crazy about your work. In your print Reptiles you have given such a striking illustration of reincarnation.' I replied, 'Madame, if that's the way you see it, so be it, '" An engagingly sly comment by the renowned Dutch graphic artist Maurits Cornelis Escher (1898-1972)--the complex ambiguities of whose work leave hasty or single-minded interpretations far behind. Long before the first computer-generate... More >>

The Magic Mirror of M.C. Escher

Tuesday, April 17, 2007

Dada and Surrealism: A Very Short Introduction


  • ISBN13: 9780192802545
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The avant-garde movements of Dada and Surrealism continue to have a huge influence on cultural practice, especially in contemporary art, with its obsession with sexuality, fetishism, and shock tactics. In this new treatment of the subject, Hopkins focuses on the many debates surrounding these movements: the Marquis de Sade's Surrealist deification, issues of quality (How good is Dali?), the idea of the 'readymade', attitudes towards the city, the impact of Freud, at... More >>

Dada and Surrealism: A Very Short Introduction

Saturday, April 14, 2007

Munch



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Paintings by one of Expressionism's pioneers

For Edvard Munch (1863-1944), painting was an act of self-liberation. His treatments of fear, desperation, and death still exert a powerful visual and psychological effect on modern viewers. Of all Munch's paintings, "The Scream" (1893), representing a figure tortured by horror, is the most well-known-and certainly one of the most expressive.

The artist reflected his innermost feelings in hi... More >>

Munch