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Borderless: Poems, Essay & Drawings for a New Mind - Paperback

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by Vijali Hamilton (Author)POET, ARTIST AND LOVER OF MOTHER EARTH, VIJALI HAMILTON shares heartfeltofferings of poems, drawings and personal essays reflecting peace and health for ourselves andour world. They convey moments of the soul's longing for union with the essence of life. Theyspeak to the joys and sorrows encountered in life's quest for the jewel residing within each ofus-always present-but waiting to be unveiled. Number of Pages: 144 Dimensions: 0.31 x 9.69 x 7.44 IN Publication Dat...

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Museum of Islamic Art: The Guide - Paperback

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by Julia Gonnella (Editor)The Museum of Islamic Art in Doha takes you on an unforgettable journey through the art and history of the Islamic world. This compact volume captures the experience in 15 chapters, 170 images, and a story spanning 1,400 years and three continents, from the Middle East to Spain, India, China, and Southeast Asia. Featuring the most remarkable works on display, including manuscripts, metalwork, glassware, ceramics, and textiles, The Guide showcases masterpieces of the ...

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Chang Dai-Chien: Painting from Heart to Hand - Paperback

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by Mark Dean Johnson (Author), Fan Jeremy Zhang (Author)Chang Dai-chien (1899-1983), one of the most celebrated Chinese painters of the twentieth century, is renowned for his stylistic variety and unparalleled productivity. This book explores three key artistic dimensions--Chang's early ink paintings emulating ancient Chinese styles, his lively portrayals of nature made while residing in Brazil and California, and the transcendent splashed-ink art of his later years. Stunning reproductions of...

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Sister Wendy's 100 Best-Loved Paintings - Hardcover

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by Wendy Beckett (Author)'Sister Wendy's deep and insightful commentaries are utterly unique. You will want this splendid book for yourself but also to give to others.' Delia Smith Hailed by The New York Times in 1997 as 'the most unlikely and famous art critic in the history of television', Sister Wendy Beckett went on to present numerous TV documentaries and published over thirty popular books on art history and appreciation. Shortly before she died in December 2018, and nearly thirty year...

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Origami Odyssey: A Journey to the Edge of Paperfolding: Includes Origami Book with 21 Original Projects & Instructional DVD - Hardcover

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by Peter Engel (Author), Nondita Correa-Mehrotra (Foreword by)Renowned origami artist Peter Engel first astounded origami enthusiasts and the lay person alike with his popular Origami from Angelfish to Zen. Since that book, published in 1989, Engel has gone through a personal change in his philosophy of origami design, honed through decades of elevating what is often viewed as simple paper folding into a fine art. In Origami Odyssey, Engel takes paper crafters on a journey to the edge of pape...

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Emancipation: The Unfinished Project of Liberation - Hardcover

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by Maggie Adler (Author), Maurita Poole (Author)This stunning exhibition catalog visualizes what freedom looks like for Black Americans today and the legacy of the Civil War in 2023 and beyond. Emancipation: The Unfinished Project of Liberation sits at the intersection of history and contemporary life. Building upon in-depth conversations about representations of enslavement and emancipation at the close of the Civil War, this project originates from an analysis of sculptor John Quincy Adams ...

Chinese Dress: From the Qing Dynasty to the Present Day - Paperback

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by Valery Garrett (Author)Featuring over 450 archival photographs and line drawings, Chinese Dress traces the evolution of Chinese clothing from court and formal costumes to the everyday fashions of twenty-first century China. Author Valery Garrett skillfully weaves the story of Chinese dress in all its variations--elaborately embroidered robes, military uniforms, children's dress, wedding and funeral attire, working clothes, Mao-inspired fashion--against a backdrop of historical, cultural an...

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by Riccardo Guasco (Author)In this wordless picture book, the Western world's greatest art is closer than you expect. A boy's daily routines bring him face-to-face with Escher's winding stairs, Banksy's balloon girl, Picasso's dancing fauns, and many more familiar sights. Maybe the boy's bedroom looks a little like Van Gogh's. Maybe that apple looks a bit like Magritte's. And maybe another masterpiece is on its way... A celebration of creativity across the centuries, What a Masterpiece will ...

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The Vatican: All the Paintings: The Complete Collection of Old Masters, Plus More Than 300 Sculptures, Maps, Tapestries, and Other Artifacts - Paperback

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by Anja Grebe (Author), Ross King (Introduction by)Discover the artistic wonders of the Vatican, from the Sistine Chapel to Raphael's frescoes, with the New York Times bestselling book The Vatican: All the Paintings; now in a practical and elegant paperback format. The Vatican is home to dozens of museums and palaces which house one the finest art collections in the world. Every painting and fresco on display in the Vatican museums by the Old Masters--pre-19th century European painting--plus...

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The Louvre: All the Paintings - Paperback

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by Anja Grebe (Author), Erich Lessing (Photographer), Vincent Pomarède (Author)Immerse yourself in the wonder and dazzling display of the 3,000 paintings in the permanent collection of the Louvre in this this elegant paperback edition of the New York Times bestselling book The Louvre: All the Paintings. The Louvre is the most famous museum in the world. With 8.5 million visitors every year, the Louvre houses and displays many of the most celebrated and important paintings of all time. Every ...

All Along Bob Dylan: America and the World - Paperback

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by Tymon Adamczewski (Editor)Adding European and non-English speaking contexts to the vibrant field of Dylan studies, this volume covers a wide range of topics and methodologies while dealing with the inherently complex and varied material produced or associated with the iconic artist. Author BiographyTymon Adamczewski, Ph.D., is assistant professor at the Department of Anglophone Literatures of Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz, Poland, where he teaches literary and cultural studies. ...

Contemporary Curating, Artistic Reference and Public Reception: Reconsidering Inclusion, Transparency and Mediation in Exhibition Making Practice - Paperback

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by Stéphanie Bertrand (Author)Contemporary Curating, Artistic Reference and Public Reception undertakes a unique critical survey and analysis of prevailing group exhibition-making practices in Europe, the UK and North America. Author BiographyStéphanie Bertrand is a Canadian curator and researcher based in Greece. She holds a PhD in Museology from the School of Architecture at Aristotle University, Thessaloniki and an MFA Curating from Goldsmiths College, London. She is the recipient of the ...

Curating Lively Objects: Exhibitions Beyond Disciplines - Paperback

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by Lizzie Muller (Editor), Caroline Seck Langill (Editor)Curating Lively Objects explores the role of things as catalysts in imagining futures beyond disciplines for museums and exhibitions. Authors describe how their curatorial collaborations with diverse objects, from rocks to robots, generate new ways of organising and sharing knowledge.Bringing together leading artists and curators from Australia and Canada, this volume addresses object liveliness from a range of entwined perspectives, in...

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Leopoldo Méndez: Revolutionary Art and the Mexican Print - Hardcover

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by Deborah Caplow (Author)The first major overview of the works and career of Leopoldo Méndez--one of the most distinguished printmakers of the twentieth century and a contemporary and countryman of Diego Rivera, José Clemente Orozco, and José Guadalupe Posada--contains over 150 illustrations Winner, A Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic BookLeopoldo Méndez (1902-1969) was one of the most distinguished printmakers of the twentieth century, as well as one of Mexico's most accomplished artist...

Before Writing, Vol. II: A Catalog of Near Eastern Tokens - Paperback

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by Denise Schmandt-Besserat (Author)Before Writing gives a new perspective on the evolution of communication. It points out that when writing began in Mesopotamia it was not, as previously thought, a sudden and spontaneous invention. Instead, it was the outgrowth of many thousands of years' worth of experience at manipulating symbols. In Volume I: From Counting to Cuneiform, Denise Schmandt-Besserat describes how in about 8000 B.C., coinciding with the rise of agriculture, a system of counter...

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Early Rock Art of the American West: The Geometric Enigma - Paperback

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by Ekkehart Malotki (Author), Ellen Dissanayake (Author)A CHOICE OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC TITLEThe earliest rock art - in the Americas as elsewhere - is geometric or abstract. Until Early Rock Art in the American West, however, no book-length study has been devoted to the deep antiquity and amazing range of geometrics and the fascinating questions that arise from their ubiquity and variety. Why did they precede representational marks? What is known about their origins and functions? Why and how d...

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Buddhism Illuminated: Manuscript Art from South-East Asia - Hardcover

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by San San May (Author), Jana Igunma (Author)Buddhist temples in Southeast Asia are centers for the preservation of local artistic traditions. Chief among these are manuscripts, a vital source for our understanding of Buddhist ideas and practices in the region. They are also a beautiful art form, too little understood in the West.The British Library has one of the richest collections of Southeast Asian manuscripts, principally from Thailand and Burma, anywhere in the world. It includes finely...

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Becoming Mary Sully: Toward an American Indian Abstract - Paperback

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by Philip J. Deloria (Author)Dakota Sioux artist Mary Sully was the great-granddaughter of respected nineteenth-century portraitist Thomas Sully, who captured the personalities of America's first generation of celebrities (including the figure of Andrew Jackson immortalized on the twenty-dollar bill). Born on the Standing Rock reservation in South Dakota in 1896, she was largely self-taught. Steeped in the visual traditions of beadwork, quilling, and hide painting, she also engaged with the e...

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Jacob Lawrence: The American Struggle - Hardcover

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by Elizabeth Hutton Turner (Editor), Austen Barron Bailly (Editor)This publication sets the precedent for the next generation of Lawrence scholars and studies in modern and contemporary discourse. The American Struggle explores Jacob Lawrence's radical way of transforming history into art by looking at his thirty panel series of paintings, Struggle . . . from the History of the American People (1954-56). Essays by Steven Locke, Elizabeth Hutton Turner, Austen Barron Bailly, and Lydia Gordon m...

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Looking at Indian Art of the Northwest Coast - Paperback

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by Hilary Stewart (Author)Bold, inventive and highly graphic, the indigenous art of the Northwest Coast is distinguished by its sophistication and complexity. It is also composed of basically simple elements, which, guided by a rich mythology, create images of striking power. This indispensable and beautifully illustrated book is the first to introduce everyone, from the casual observer to the serious collector of Northwest Coast prints, to the forms, cultural background and structures of thi...

Literary and Artistic Patronage in Ancient Rome - Paperback

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by Barbara K. Gold (Editor)Virgil, Horace, Catullus, Propertius-these are just a few of the poets whose work we would be without today were it not for the wealthy and powerful patrons upon whose support the Roman cultural establishment so greatly depended. Who were these patrons? What benefits did they give, to whom, and why? What effect did the support of such men as Maecenas and Pompey have on the lives and work of those who looked to them for aid? These questions and others are addressed i...

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Cedar: Tree of Life to the Northwest Coast Indians - Paperback

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by Hilary Stewart (Author)From the giant cedar of the rainforest came a wealth of raw materials vital to the way of life, art and culture of the early First Nations people of the Northwest Coast.All parts of the cedar tree had many uses. From the wood, skilled men made ocean-going canoes, massive post-and- beam houses, monumental carved poles that declared history, rights and lineage, and powerful dance masks. Women dextrously wove the inner bark into mats and baskets, plied it into ocordage ...

The Poetics of Appearance in the Attic Korai - Paperback

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by Mary Stieber (Author)Some of the loveliest works of Archaic art were the Athenian korai-sculptures of beautiful young women presenting offerings to the goddess Athena that stood on the Acropolis. Sculpted in the sixth and early fifth centuries B.C., they served as votives until Persians sacked the citadel in 480/79 B.C. Subsequently, they were buried as a group and forgotten for nearly twenty-four centuries, until archaeologists excavated them in the 1880s. Today, they are among the treasu...

Mexican Art and the Academy of San Carlos, 1785-1915 - Paperback

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by Jean Charlot (Author)Was the Royal Academy of San Carlos, founded in 1785 by the King of Spain, beneficial or detrimental to the development of a valid, living art in Mexico? The answer lies in the archives of the school, but nobody thought about constructing an aesthetic history from them until Jean Charlot accidentally discovered their extent and interest while searching for other material. In this straightforward, documented account he presents not merely opinions and criticism but evid...

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by Adriana Williams (Author)At the center of an artistic milieu as vital and exciting as the Left Bank of Paris or Greenwich Village, Rosa and Miguel Covarrubias knew almost everyone in the limelight of the 1930s and 1940s-Langston Hughes, Carl Van Vechten, John Huston, Diego Rivera, and Frida Kahlo, to name just a few. As fascinating themselves as any of their friends, the couple together fostered a renaissance of interest in the history and traditional arts of Mexico's indigenous peoples, w...

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by Don Bachardy (Author)Stars in My Eyes is a revealing and entertaining collection of celebrity portraits, rendered both in acute drawings and in finely observed prose. In the 1970s and 1980s, internationally known artist Don Bachardy made portraits from life, depicting the actors, writers, artists, composers, directors, and Hollywood elite that he and his partner Christopher Isherwood knew. He then made detailed notes about these portrait sittings in the journal he has kept for more than fo...

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As Above, So Below: Art of the American Fraternal Society, 1850-1930 - Hardcover

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by Lynne Adele (Author), Bruce Lee Webb (Author), David Byrne (Introduction by)"There's an inspiring and wacky solemnity in these organizations--high values reinforced through pageantry and performance in an ecumenical social setting--which deep down must also have been a whole lot of fun. Now it's as if that foundational Other America, that underpinning of the America we know, has gradually eroded, and here we remain, living in a world that is a mere shell, a movie set, of the world that mad...

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S'Abadeb / The Gifts: Pacific Coast Salish Art and Artists - Paperback

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by Barbara Brotherton (Author)S'abadeb, The Gifts captures the essence of Coast Salish culture through its artistry, oral traditions, and history. Developed in conjunction with the first extensive exhibition of the art and culture of the Coast Salish peoples of Washington State and British Columbia, the book traces the development of Salish art from prehistory to the present. Sculpture in wood, stone, and bone--including monumental house posts--as well as expertly crafted basketry, woven rega...

The Artist in New York: Letters to Jean Charlot and Unpublished Writings, 1925-1929. - Paperback

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by Jos Clemente Orozco (Author), Jose Clemente Orozco (Author), Ruth L. C. Simms (Translator) In his Foreword to this edition, Jean Charlot says: "An unusual feature of Orozco's letters is the great deal that he has to say about art. That one artist writing to another would emphasize art as his subject seems normal enough to the American reader. Yet, within the context of the Mexico of those days, the fact remains exceptional. The patria Orozco was leaving behind had, even from the point of v...

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The Private Journals of Edvard Munch: We Are Flames Which Pour Out of the Earth - Paperback

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by Edvard Munch (Author), J. Gill Holland (Editor), Frank Høifødt (Foreword by)Scandinavia's most famous painter, the Norwegian Edvard Munch (1863-1944), is probably best known for his painting The Scream, a universally recognized icon of terror and despair. (A version was stolen from the Munch Museum in Oslo, Norway, in August 2004, and has not yet been recovered.) But Munch considered himself a writer as well as a painter. Munch began painting as a teenager and, in his young adulthood, stud...

The Paradise Garden Murals of Malinalco: Utopia and Empire in Sixteenth-Century Mexico - Paperback

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by Jeanette Favrot Peterson (Author)Winner, Charles Rufus Morey Award, 1993 The valley of Malinalco, Mexico, long renowned for its monolithic Aztec temples, is a microcosm of the historical changes that occurred in the centuries preceding and following the Spanish conquest in the sixteenth century. In particular, the garden frescoes uncovered in 1974 at the Augustinian monastery of Malinalco document the collision of the European search for Utopia with the reality of colonial life. In this st...

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The Pulse of Modernism: Physiological Aesthetics in Fin-de-Siècle Europe - Paperback

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by Robert Michael Brain (Author)Robert Brain traces the origins of artistic modernism to specific technologies of perception developed in late-nineteenth-century laboratories. Brain argues that the thriving fin-de-si cle field of "physiological aesthetics," which sought physiological explanations for the capacity to appreciate beauty and art, changed the way poets, artists, and musicians worked and brought a dramatic transformation to the idea of art itself.Author BiographyRobert Michael Brai...