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by Cosey Fanni Tutti (Author)ROUGH TRADE AND PITCHFORK MUSIC BOOK OF THE YEAR Musician and artist Cosey Fanni Tutti has continually challenged boundaries and conventions for four decades. As a founding member of the hugely influential avant-garde band Throbbing Gristle, as one half of electronic pioneers Chris and Cosey, and as an artist channelling her experience in pornographic modelling and striptease, her work on the margins has come to reshape the mainstream. Shocking, wise and life-affi...

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The Pixels of Paul Cezanne: And Reflections on Other Artists - Paperback

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by Wim Wenders (Author)A celebration of the artists that have inspired the work of Wim Wenders The Pixels of Paul Cezanne is a collection of essays by Wim Wenders which he presents his observations and reflections on the fellow artists who have influenced, shaped and inspired him. How are they doing it? is the key questions Wenders asks as he looks at the dance work of Pina Bausch, the paintings of Cezanne, Edward Hopper of Andrew Wyeth, or the films of Ingmar Bergman, Michelanelo Antonioni, ...

Pencil Drawings - A look into the art of David J. Vanderpool - Paperback

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by David Vanderpool (Author)Starting off with the artist's top winning pencil drawings from 2010 through 2012, this autobiography style book allows the reader an opportunity to not only learn the process it took to complete most of his drawings (created between 2008-2013) which are shown within these pages, but offers a personal look into who the artist is as a man. From portraits to figure drawings, David J. Vanderpool shares how simple pencil lines can be used to create masterfully crafted ...

The Art of Collage - Selected Works on Paper by Cecil Touchon - Paperback

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by Cecil Touchon (Author)This nearly 200 page book is lavishly illustrated with more than one hundred and fifty full color collages by Cecil Touchon created between 2004-2009. Touchon is widely recognized as a master of the art of collage. Touchon's work is found in prestigious museum and corporate collections around the world. Touchon is also the founding director of the International Museum of Collage, Assemblage and Construction a wing of the Ontological Museum - his over-arching 'Total Ar...

Thin Places and Five Clues in Their Architecture - Paperback

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by Page Highfill (Author)Ever felt a "been-there-before" presence at a place you visited... for the first time? If so, you may have stumbled upon a Thin Place, described in Celtic history as places where the veil between this world and another becomes very thin; places where different eras often seem to merge; and places where people feel connected to a stirring presence. In this book you will discover how to identify five ways Thin Places engage with us; how to utilize the low-cost benefits ...

Follow the Sun: Robert Lougheed - Hardcover

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by Don Hedgpeth (Author)He was the man behind Mobil Oil Company's legendary flying Pegasus and the creator of numerous magazine covers familiar to a generation of readers. Yet even when fully engaged in commissioned work, Robert Lougheed never ceased to paint for himself, as well, and never drew a divide between the two. Both were about expressing the essence and particularity of life. Lougheed was a true "painter's painter."Follow the Sun is the first book to showcase the full breadth of Lou...

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by Marie Wilson &. Nanos Valaoritis (Author)Black & White Edition. This is the first English translation of Marie Wilson & Nanos Valaoritis' "Terre de diamant", which first appeared in French in 1958. Marie Wilson, an American surrealist, was an active participant in the Paris surrealist group in the 1950s. This book, the only book Marie herself has published, is a supreme document of poetic evidence, infused by her collaboration with the Greek poet Nanos Valaoritis. Marie was ins...

Robert Vickrey: Master of Magic Realism - Paperback

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by H. Alexander Rich (Author)Catalogue for the exhibition, "Robert Vickrey: Master of Magic Realism," held at the Melvin & Burks Galleries at Florida Southern College, September 4 - November 4, 2015. Including critical essays and a full color catalogue of the 52 works in show. Number of Pages: 74 Dimensions: 0.19 x 8.5 x 8.5 IN Publication Date: August 25, 2015

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by Clark Richert (Artist), Zoe Larkins (Editor), Eva Diaz (Text by (Art/Photo Books))Published on the occasion of a major retrospective exhibition at MCA Denver, Clark Richert in Hyperspace celebrates the singular work of Denver-based abstract painter Clark Richert (born 1941). The book, like the exhibition, chronicles the distinct phases of Richert's nearly 50-year career, tracing out the metaphysical thread that connects them and continues to drive Richert's practice. That thread--the explo...

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A Legacy of Armenian Treasures: Testimony to a People-The Alex and Marie Manoogian Museum - Hardcover

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by Edmond Y. Azadian (Author), Sylvie L. Merian (Author), Lucy Ardash (Author)The Alex and Marie Manoogian Museum in Michigan holds the largest and most representative gathering of Armenian art and artifacts outside Armenia, including illuminated manuscripts, early printed books, rugs and carpets, sacred vessels and vestments, textiles and embroidery, ceramics, metalwork, paintings, coins, and objects from the ancient kingdom of Urartu. A Legacy of Armenian Treasures features more than 160 of...

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Faces of Power: Alexander's Image and Hellenistic Politics Volume 11 - Hardcover

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by Andrew Stewart (Author)Alexander the Great changed the face of the ancient world. During his life and after his death, his image in works of art exerted an unprecedented influence-on marbles, bronzes, ivories, frescoes, mosaics, coins, medals, even painted pottery and reliefware. Alexander's physiognomy became the most famous in history. But can we really know what meaning lies behind these images?Andrew Stewart demonstrates that these portraits--wildly divergent in character, quality, typ...

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Portrayed on the Heart: Narrative Effect in Pictorial Lives of Saints from the Tenth Through the Thirteenth Century - Hardcover

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by Cynthia Hahn (Author)Hagiography, or writing about and illustrating the lives of saints, was one of the most creative areas for artistic inspiration in the literature and arts of the Middle Ages. This book explores the sumptuously illustrated saints' lives that were made in medieval Europe. Cynthia Hahn discusses a broad range of manuscripts and other artifacts, many of which are reproduced here, and provides an analysis of their pictorial and narrative structure. Hahn's book is a virtual ...

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The Geometries of Afro Asia: Art Beyond Solidarity - Hardcover

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by Joan Kee (Author)A groundbreaking method for writing art history, using the language of geometry. How do we embark on a history of art from the assumption of a global majority, outside of essentializing categories like race or hollow proclamations of solidarity? With this book, Joan Kee presents a framework for understanding the rich and surprisingly understudied relationship between Black and Asian artists and the worlds they initiate through their work. The Geometries of Afro Asia break...

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Radical Art: Printmaking and the Left in 1930s New York - Hardcover

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by Helen Langa (Author)During the 1930s, the era of the Depression and the New Deal, American artists transformed printmaking into one of the decade's most exciting forms of art. As a cheap, vital, and egalitarian means of artistic expression, prints came close to realizing the ideal of creating "art for the millions." In this dynamic book, Helen Langa shows how innovative printmakers developed "social viewpoint" works that focused on contemporary issues of labor justice, antiracism, and anti...

Transmedia Frictions: The Digital, the Arts, and the Humanities - Hardcover

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by Marsha Kinder (Editor), Tara McPherson (Editor), N. Katherine Hayles (Contribution by)Editors Marsha Kinder and Tara McPherson present an authoritative collection of essays on the continuing debates over medium specificity and the politics of the digital arts. Comparing the term "transmedia" with "transnational," they show that the movement beyond specific media or nations does not invalidate those entities but makes us look more closely at the cultural specificity of each combination. In ...

Ian Hamilton Finlay: Selections Volume 8 - Paperback

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by Ian Hamilton Finlay (Author), Alec Finlay (Editor)This volume surveys the life and work of the Scottish poet Ian Hamilton Finlay, who is best known for his extraordinary garden, Little Sparta, a unique "poem of place" in which poetry, sculpture, and horticulture intersect. This book directs sustained attention to Finlay the verbal artist, revealing the full breadth and richness of his poetics. It illuminates the evolution from his early years of composing plays, stories, and lyrical poems ...

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David Lynch: The Unified Field - Hardcover

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by Robert Cozzolino (Author)David Lynch is internationally renowned as a filmmaker, but it is less known that he began his creative life as a visual artist and has maintained a devoted studio practice, developing an extensive body of painting, prints, photography, and drawing. Featuring work from all periods of Lynch's career, this book documents Lynch's first major museum exhibition in the United States, bringing together works held in American and European collections and from the artist's ...

The Black Hole of the Camera: The Films of Andy Warhol - Paperback

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by J. J. Murphy (Author)Andy Warhol, one of the twentieth century's major visual artists, was a prolific filmmaker who made hundreds of films, many of them--Sleep, Empire, Blow Job, The Chelsea Girls, and Blue Movie--seminal but misunderstood contributions to the history of American cinema. In the first comprehensive study of Warhol's films, J.J. Murphy provides a detailed survey and analysis. He discusses Warhol's early films, sound portraits, involvement with multimedia (including The Velve...

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Rembrandt: The Painter at Work - Paperback

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by Ernst Van de Wetering (Author), Paulien Retèl (Other)Rembrandt's intriguing painting technique stirred the imaginations of art lovers during his lifetime and has done so ever since. In this book, now revised, updated, and with a new foreword by the author, Rembrandt's pictorial intentions and the variety of materials and techniques he applied to create his fascinating effects are unraveled in depth. At the same time, this "archaeology" of Rembrandt's paintings yields information on many ot...

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500 Capp Street: David Ireland's House - Hardcover

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by Constance M. Lewallen (Author), Carlie Wilmans (Foreword by), Jock Reynolds (Introduction by)500 Capp Street tells the story of David Ireland's house, a rundown Victorian in the Mission District of San Francisco that the artist transformed into an environmental artwork, taking the detritus of his restoration labors as well as objects left behind by previous owners and refashioning them into sculptures. Constance M. Lewallen begins by recounting the history of the house from 1886, when it w...

So Far from Heaven: David Alfaro Siqueiros' the March of Humanity and Mexican Revolutionary Politics - Paperback

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by Leonard Folgarait (Author)Between 1964 and 1971, the Mexican mural painter David Alfaro Siqueiros produced The March of Humanity on Earth and Toward the Cosmos in Mexico City, his last major project and the largest mural in the world. This illustrated book mounts a careful study of the painting, which it sees as marking the end of the Mexican mural movement. The main purpose of the book is to place the mural into the social-historical context of the period of its production. Due to this ap...

Visualizing Boccaccio: Studies on Illustrations of the Decameron, from Giotto to Pasolini - Paperback

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by Jill M. Ricketts (Author)Visualizing Boccaccio represents a new approach to the interpretation of Boccaccio's classic book of erotic tales, The Decameron. In a comparison of selected tales from The Decameron with works by Cimabue and Giotto, fifteenth-century manuscript illumination, a series of paintings by Botticelli, and Pier Paolo Pasolini's cinematic interpretation of the tales, Ricketts demonstrates how the juxtaposition of verbal and visual renditions permits new interpretations of ...

Art, Theory, and Culture in Sixteenth-Century Italy - Hardcover

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by Robert Williams (Author)Art, Theory and Culture in Sixteenth-Century Italy offers a critical overview of the literature on the visual arts produced during the High and Late Renaissance. Analyzing and interpreting texts by such writers as Vasari, Lomazzo, Zuccaro, and Tasso, Robert Williams demonstrates how these works offer insight into the experience of contemporary viewers, thus permitting a clearer view of the relationship between abstract thought and lived experience. By focusing on a ...

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Classical Greece and the Birth of Western Art - Paperback

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by Andrew Stewart (Author)What was the "Classical Revolution" in Greek art? What were its contexts, aims, achievements, and impact? This book introduces students to these questions and offers some answers to them. Andrew Stewart examines Greek architecture, painting, and sculpture of the fifth and fourth centuries BC in relation to the great political, social, cultural, and intellectual issues of the period. Intended for use in courses in classical civilization as well as Greek art and archae...

The Cambridge Companion to Titian - Paperback

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by Patricia Meilman (Editor)Renowned throughout Italy, as well as Europe, at his death in 1576, Titian was the pre-eminent artist of Venice during the sixteenth century. His importance has never been questioned and his works have been admired from his own day to the present. This Companion serves as an introduction to the prolific artist. Covering all aspects of his life and career, the anthology examines Titian's secular and religious painting, prints and pictures related to poetry, as well ...

The Cambridge Companion to Giotto - Paperback

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by Anne Derbes (Editor), Mark Sandona (Editor)The Cambridge Companion to Giotto serves as an introduction to one of the most important masters of early Italian art. Providing an overview of his life and career, this volume offers essays by leading authorities on the critical reception of the artist, an analysis of workshop practices of the period, the complexities of religious and secular patronage, Giotto's innovations in painting and architecture, and close readings of his most celebrated w...

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Geomorphia: An Extreme Coloring and Search Challenge - Paperback

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by Kerby Rosanes (Author)A fantastic, single-sided adult coloring book from the bestselling artist behind Fantomorphia, Mythomorphia, Imagimorphia and Animorphia. The perfect stocking stuffer gift for anyone who loves a coloring book challenge A coloring book like you've never seen before--perfect for colored pencils, crayons, or markers An amazing adult coloring book challenge, featuring the strange and superdetailed images of artist Kerby Rosanes. Kerby works in intricately detailed blac...

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by Akwaeke Emezi (Author)NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST - STONEWALL BOOK AWARD WINNER - ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE'S 100 BEST YA BOOKS OF ALL TIME NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR by The New York Times - Time - Buzzfeed - NPR - New York Public Library - Publishers Weekly - School Library Journal A genre-defying novel from the award-winning author NPR describes as "like [Madeline] L'Engle...glorious." A singular book that explores themes of identity and justice. Pet is here to hunt a monster. A...

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The Big Activity Book for Anxious People - Paperback

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by Jordan Reid (Author), Erin Williams (Author)Reid & Williams are "funny as hell."--Amy Morrison, founder of Pregnant ChickenFeeling anxious? Who isn't! Your most irrational (and sometimes rational) fears are hilarious fodder for this sharp and relatable activity book. These days, anxiety is simply part of the human experience. Part journal, part coloring book, part weird coping mechanisms, and part compendium of soothing facts, The Big Activity Book for Anxious People will be an outlet ...

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The Middle Passage: White Ships / Black Cargo - Hardcover

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by Tom Feelings (Author), Kadir Nelson (Introduction by), Sylviane A. Diouf (Introduction by)Alex Haley's Roots awakened many Americans to the cruelty of slavery. The Middle Passage focuses attention on the torturous journey which brought slaves from Africa to the Americas, allowing readers to bear witness to the sufferings of an entire people.Author BiographyWhen I am asked what kind of work I do, my answer is that I am astoryteller in picture form, who tries to reflect and interpret thelive...

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The Lives of Lucian Freud: The Restless Years: 1922-1968 - Hardcover

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by William Feaver (Author)The first biography of the epic life of one of the most important, enigmatic and private artists of the 20th century. Drawn from almost 40 years of conversations with the artist, letters and papers, it is a major work written by a well-known British art critic. Lucian Freud (1922-2011) is one of the most influential figurative painters of the 20th century. His paintings are in every major museum and many private collections here and abroad. William Feaver's daily ca...

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by Brad Meltzer (Author), Christopher Eliopoulos (Illustrator)The famous Renaissance artist and inventor Leonardo da Vinci is the twentieth hero in the New York Times bestselling picture book biography series. (Cover may vary) This friendly, fun biography series focuses on the traits that made our heroes great--the traits that kids can aspire to in order to live heroically themselves. Each book tells the story of an icon in a lively, conversational way that works well for the youngest nonfic...