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


  • ISBN13: 9783822856420
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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


  • ISBN13: 9780500204009
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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
  • Condition: USED - Very Good
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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