Alec Soth's America: From Here to There

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From Here to There: Alec Soth's America is the first exhibition catalogue to feature the full spectrum of the work of Alec Soth, one of the most interesting voices in contemporary photography, whose compelling images of everyday America form powerful narrative vignettes. Featuring more than 100 of the artist's photographs made over the past 15 years, the book includes new critical essays by exhibition curator Siri Engberg, curator and art historian Britt Salvesen an... More >>

Alec Soth's America: From Here to There

Keith Haring

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Closely based on Haring’s own concept for the monograph he wanted to publish before his untimely death, this volume represents more than a decade of research and contains a wealth of unpublished photographic and written material including drawings, studio photographs, and journal entries. From chalk drawings deep in the New York City subways to murals in Pisa and Berlin; collaborations with William Burroughs and the famous body painting of Grace Jones, this book f... More >>

Keith Haring

Classical Art: From Greece to Rome

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The stunning masterpieces of Ancient Greece and Rome are fundamental to the story of art in Western culture and to the origins of art history. The expanding Greek world of Alexander the Great had an enormous impact on the Mediterranean superpower of Rome. Generals, rulers, and artists seized, imitated, and re-thought the stunning legacy of Greek painting and sculpture, culminating in the greatest art-collector the world had ever seen: the Roman emperor Hadrian.
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Classical Art: From Greece to Rome

Gnomes

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A re-launch of the illustrated observations of gnome habits, anatomy and lifestyle designed for all age groups.... More >>

Gnomes

Art Since 1940

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This comprehensive and authoritative book illustrates art from the 1940's and stresses the individuality of the artists in relation to their political, social, and cultural contexts. The book focuses on the meaning of the major works and innovations. It features nearly 600 illustrations (approximately half in color) representing art since 1940, both in Europe and America. It explores the full range of periods, artists, and movements: New York in the Fortie... More >>

Art Since 1940

The 20th Century Art Book

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"The 20th Century Art Book" was hailed upon its release as an exciting celebration of the myriad forms assumed by art over the last century. Complementing the phenomenally successful "Art Book", and most recently "The American Art Book", it presents a new and original way of bringing art alive. Covering the truly international nature of the modern art scene, it encompasses established, iconic works of art and the classics of the future. 500 artists are showcased in ... More >>

The 20th Century Art Book

Van Eyck to Dürer: The Influence of Early Netherlandish Painting on European Art, 1430-1530

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Brings together work by two great masters, Van Eyck and Dürer, along with work by their contemporaries to illustrate the interaction between Flemish and Central European artists in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.Jan van Eyck and Albrecht Dürer were two titans in a pivotal century in the history of western art. For several generations, the Flemish Primitives inspired artists from the Holy Roman Empire and influenced the course of artis... More >>

Van Eyck to Dürer: The Influence of Early Netherlandish Painting on European Art, 1430-1530

Alchemy and Mysticism

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A fantastic journey through the history of esoteric lore: the great work of the alchemists (TASCHEN's 25th anniversary - Special edition) The Hermetic Museum takes its readers on a magical mystery tour spanning an arc from the mediaeval cosmogram and images of Christian mysticism, through the fascinating world of alchemy to the art of the Romantic era. The enigmatic hieroglyphs of cabbalists, Rosicrucians and freemasons are shown to be closely linked with the early ... More >>

Alchemy and Mysticism

Mehndi Designs: Traditional Henna Body Art

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Scores of  lovely designs, adapted from authentic images used in the ancient art of henna body painting, incorporate scores of lovely patterns. Used to cover hands, forearms, and feet during celebrations, these 166 black-and-white designs include fine line, lacy, and paisley motifs, as well as assorted floral borders, heart-shaped insets, and repeat patterns.... More >>

Mehndi Designs: Traditional Henna Body Art

One Place after Another: Site-Specific Art and Locational Identity

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Site-specific art emerged in the late 1960s in reaction to the growing commodification of art and the prevailing ideals of art's autonomy and universality. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, as site-specific art intersected with land art, process art, performance art, conceptual art, installation art, institutional critique, community-based art, and public art, its creators insisted on the inseparability of the work and its context. In recent years, however, the presum... More >>

One Place after Another: Site-Specific Art and Locational Identity

The Agricola and The Germania

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"The Agricola and The Germania" are two important historical works by Cornelius Tacitus, an ancient Roman Senator and historian. The Agricola is a biography of the Roman general Gnaeus Julius Agricola as well as a geographic and ethnographic history of Ancient Britain. "The Germania" is an ethnographic study of the people believed by Tacitus to be part of the ancient Germanic tribes. While not as famous as Tacitus's "Annals" or "Histories", "The Agricola and The Ger... More >>

The Agricola and The Germania

Dali

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Picasso called Dali "an outboard motor that's always running." Dali thought himself a genius with a right to indulge in whatever lunacy popped into his head. Painter, sculptor, writer, and filmmaker, Salvador Dali (1904-1989) was one of the century's greatest exhibitionists and eccentrics - and was rewarded with fierce controversy wherever he went. He was one of the first to apply the insights of Sigmund Freud and psychoanalysis to the art of painting, approaching t... More >>

Dali

Mistresses of Henry VIII

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Seventeen-year-old Henry VIII was 'a youngling, he cares for nothing but girls and hunting.' Henry was considered a demi-god by his subjects, so each woman he chose was someone who had managed to stand out in a crowd of stunning ladies. This book offers an insight into the love life of Henry, and the twelve women who knew the man behind the mask.... More >>

Mistresses of Henry VIII

Recodings: Art, Spectacle, Cultural Politics

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For the past few decades Hal Foster's critical gaze has encompassed the increasingly complex machinery of the culture industry. His observations push the boundaries of cultural criticism to establish a vantage point from which the seemingly disparate agendas of artists, patrons, and critics have a telling coherence. Recodings has become the classic "primer in poststructuralist debate" (Village Voice). The essays present a constellation of concerns about the limits a... More >>

Recodings: Art, Spectacle, Cultural Politics

THE SCARLET ZOMBIE "CABIN FEVER"

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VOODOO, MURDER AND SMOKIN` HOT BABES!
THIS IS THE WORLD OF ABE KANE A.K.A. THE "SCARLET ZOMBIE". ABE IS AN EX MARINE FINALLY HOME FROM THE KOREAN WAR. CAUGHT IN THE CHANGING TIDES OF 1950`S AMERICA. HE HEADS OUT ACROSS THE COUNTRY LOOKING FOR A NEW LIFE ONLY TO FIND HIS PAST STARING HIM STRAIGHT IN THE FACE. FRAMED FOR A MURDER HE DIDN`T COMMIT AND LEFT FOR DEAD, HE RISES FROM THE GRAVE TO AVENGE THE DEATH OF THE WOMEN WHO SAVED HIM. HARD HITTING SEX AND ACTIO... More >>

THE SCARLET ZOMBIE "CABIN FEVER"

The Codex Borgia: A Full-Color Restoration of the Ancient Mexican Manuscript

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First publication of remarkable repainting of outstanding Mexican codex — priceless original is in Vatican Library — thought to have originated in the Cholula area, ca. AD 1400. 76 large full-color plates show an astounding array of gods, kings, warriors, mythical creatures, and abstract designs. A work of rare power and beauty. Introduction.
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The Codex Borgia: A Full-Color Restoration of the Ancient Mexican Manuscript

The Marriage of Heaven and Hell: A Facsimile in Full Color

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Inspired satire on religion and morality, including 70 aphorisms of "Proverbs of Hell." 27 full-color plates, full text.
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The Marriage of Heaven and Hell: A Facsimile in Full Color

Golden: Dutch and Flemish Masterworks from the Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo Collection

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Golden accompanies the first major exhibition in the United States of one of the finest private collections of 17th-century Dutch and Flemish paintings in the world, assembled over the past two decades by Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo. In this beautifully illustrated book, works by Rembrandt, Jacob van Ruisdael, Frans Hals, and Jan Brueghel the Elder, among others, represent a wide range of subjects such as land and water, cityscapes and landmarks, still lifes, f... More >>

Golden: Dutch and Flemish Masterworks from the Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo Collection

A Primer on Postmodernism

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Grenz examines the topography of postmodernism, a phenomenon everyone acknowledges, but has difficulty describing with precision. Of particular significance is his discussion of the challenges this cultural shift presents to the church.... More >>

A Primer on Postmodernism

The Cartoon History of the Modern World Part 1: From Columbus to the U.S. Constitution

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The Cartoon History of the Modern World is a wickedly funny take on modern history. It is essentially a complete and up–to–date course in college level Modern World History, but presented as a graphic novel. In an engaging and humorous graphic style, Larry Gonick covers the history, personalities and big topics that have shaped our universe over the past five centuries, including the Industrial Revolution, the American Revolution, the Russian Revolution, the evo... More >>

The Cartoon History of the Modern World Part 1: From Columbus to the U.S. Constitution

Good Mail Day: A Primer for Making Eye-Popping Postal Art

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“What is a good mail day?” A good mail day is a day when, instead of just bills, catalogs, and advertisements, your postal carrier delivers artful, beautiful, personal mail from friends and acquaintances all over the world. Mail art is a collaborative art form with a long and fascinating history populated by famous artists as well as everyday practitioners. The term “mail art” refers to pieces of art sent through the mail rather than displayed or sold in tr... More >>

Good Mail Day: A Primer for Making Eye-Popping Postal Art

Chagall

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Containing 250 of the most beautiful and significant of Marc Chagall's works, this volume provides a detailed overview of Chagall's oeuvre of seven decades. The book focuses upon often hitherto neglected aspects of the artist's work.Amazon.com Review
Henry Miller once described Marc Chagall as a "poet with the wings of a painter." The pages of Chagall are filled with images that prove the writer's words true. Though Chagall is remembered primarily as a ... More >>

Chagall

Lives of the Artists

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Whether writing about Jasper Johns or Jeff Koons, Cindy Sherman or Richard Serra, Calvin Tomkins shows why it is both easier and more difficult to make art today. If art can be anything, where do you begin?For more than three decades Calvin Tomkins’s incisive profiles in The New Yorker have given readers the most satisfying reports on contemporary art and artists available in any language. In Lives of the Artists ten major artists are captured in Tomkins’... More >>

Lives of the Artists

The 3D Art Book

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This book presents work by a group of the world s most esteemed young contemporary artists and designers in a medium they ve previously not explored - retro 3D. Since he was a kid, artist, designer, and vinyl toy impresario Tristan Eaton has been obsessed with the nostalgic look of 3D imagery. In The 3D Art Book, he parlays this fascination into a carefully curated selection of over 100 works by established and up-and-coming contemporary artists, expertly rendered a... More >>

The 3D Art Book

Gustav Klimt: Art Nouveau Visionary

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Gustav Klimt’s decorative, seductive style, jewel-like colors, use of gold and pattern, and sensuous line, continue to captivate art lovers today. One of the masters of modern European painting, he helped found the popular Viennese Secession, or Art Nouveau, movement. This lushly illustrated volume explores his fascinating artistic career, covering Vienna at the time of Klimt’s creative peak. With more than 300 beautifully reproduced pictures, paintings, and pho... More >>

Gustav Klimt: Art Nouveau Visionary

The Future of the Image

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A leading philosopher presents a radical manifesto for the future of art and film. In The Future of the Image, Jacques Rancière develops a fascinating new concept of the image in contemporary art, showing how art and politics have always been intrinsically intertwined. Covering a range of art movements, filmmakers such as Godard and Bresson, and thinkers such as Foucault, Deleuze, Adorno, Barthes, Lyotard and Greenberg, Rancière shows that c... More >>

The Future of the Image

A History of American Tonalism,1880-1920

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--The first definitive overview of the Tonalist movement-the crucial but long-misunderstood missing link in the evolution of American art --An indispensable reference for museums, artists, and academics, covering some 50 artists, with many never-before-published works This groundbreaking book details the development and importance of Tonalism, starting with La Farge, Whistler, and Inness in the late 1800s, through its influence on the development of modernism in the... More >>

A History of American Tonalism,1880-1920

How to See, How to Draw: Keys to Realistic Drawing

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“Observation is fundamental to the creation of accurate drawings—and learning better ways to observe is what this book is all about.”—Claudia NiceImagine having the ability to draw any subject with precision, detail and expression. With Claudia’s help, you can do it! In How to See, How to Draw, you will discover how to tap into your powers of observation, strengthen your hand-eye connection, and draw the world around you with new skill and accuracy.Just ta... More >>

How to See, How to Draw: Keys to Realistic Drawing

Pop Art

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TASCHEN's 25th anniversary ? Special edition! Large-format hardcover edition at a special bestseller price ?Everything is beautiful, ? raved Andy Warhol, in raptures at the glamour of modern life, consumer society, and the world of the media and its stars; his proclamation can be considered the maxim of the pop generation, which included artists Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein, Claes Oldenberg, Robert Rauschenberg, James Rosenquist, Tom Wesselmann, and Richard Hamilt... More >>

Pop Art

The Rescue Artist: A True Story of Art, Thieves, and the Hunt for a Missing Masterpiece

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In the predawn hours of a gloomy February day in 1994, two thieves entered the National Gallery in Oslo and made off with one of the world's most famous paintings, Edvard Munch's Scream. It was a brazen crime committed while the whole world was watching the opening ceremonies of the Winter Olympics in Lillehammer. Baffled and humiliated, the Norwegian police turned to the one man they believed could help: a half English, half American undercover cop named Charley H... More >>

The Rescue Artist: A True Story of Art, Thieves, and the Hunt for a Missing Masterpiece

Theories and Documents of Contemporary Art: A Sourcebook of Artists' Writings

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First published in 1996, this irreplaceable resource has now been updated, revised, and expanded by Kristine Stiles to represent thirty countries and more than one hundred new artists. Stiles has added forty images and a diverse roster of artists, including many who have emerged since the 1980s, such as Julie Mehretu, Carrie Mae Weems, Damien Hirst, Shirin Neshat, Cai Guo-Qian, Olafur Eliasson, Matthew Barney, and Takashi Murakami. The writings, which as before take... More >>

Theories and Documents of Contemporary Art: A Sourcebook of Artists' Writings