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The Trees of North America: Michaux and Redouté's American Masterpiece - Hardcover

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by Gregory Long (Foreword by), Marta McDowell (Introduction by), Susan M. Fraser (Preface by)François-André Michaux (1770-1855) was a French botanist whose work on the trees of North America gave the world's first illustrated account of American trees east of the Mississippi. From 1841 to 1849 Thomas Nuttall (1786-1859), an English botanist and one of the greatest plant explorers of North America, prepared supplementary volumes to Michaux's landmark work, The North American Sylva.Full-color r...

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The Grand Medieval Bestiary (Dragonet Edition): Animals in Illuminated Manuscripts - Hardcover

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by Christian Heck (Author), Rémy Cordonnier (Author)As the 587 colorful images in this magnificent volume reveal, animals were a constant--and delightful--presence in illuminated manuscripts throughout the Middle Ages. They were illustrated not only in bestiaries--the compendiums of animal fact and fable that were exceedingly popular in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries--but in every sort of manuscript, sacred and profane, from the Gospels to the Romance of the Rose. This book is arranged...

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My Adventures as an Illustrator: The Definitive Edition - Hardcover

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by Norman Rockwell (Author), Tom Rockwell (Author), Abigail Rockwell (Author)The wit, humanity, and many-sided talent of Norman Rockwell (1894-1978) are on full display in his classic autobiography. Rockwell's New York City boyhood, his apprentice days at the Art Students League, his first fateful visit to the Saturday Evening Post, his adventures abroad, his move to rural Vermont--all are recounted with a mix of sharp observation and self-deprecating humor. Throughout Rockwell invites the re...

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Patterns in Art: A Closer Look at the Old Masters - Hardcover

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by Francesca Leoneschi (Author), Giovanna Ferraris (Illustrator), Silvia Lazzaris (Text by (Art/Photo Books))Richly embroidered robes. Intricate lace collars. Elaborately laid floor tiles. Delicately carved and modeled cornices and capitals. These are among the details of decorative art that the Old Masters lovingly rendered in their paintings, to establish a setting, convey a portrait subject's social status, or sometimes just enliven a scene. Together these details--so easy to overlook in t...

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by Michael Fried (Introduction by), Barbara Rose (Text by (Art/Photo Books)), Karen Wilkin (Text by (Art/Photo Books))Larry Poons (b. 1937) shot to fame while still in his twenties, on the strength of his "dot paintings," in which dots or ellipses were meticulously arranged on brightly colored fields, creating a rhythmic, pulsating effect. But within a few years, Poons first loosened the hard-edged precision of the dot paintings and then abandoned them entirely for an organic mode of abstract...

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Wristwatch Annual 2020: The Catalog of Producers, Prices, Models, and Specifications - Paperback

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by Peter Braun (Editor), Marton Radkai (With)With Wristwatch Annual, collectors have at hand a wealth of information on the latest offerings from today's most important watch producers, from Swiss mainstays like Rolex and Patek Philippe to the maverick independent brands springing up across Europe and the U.S. The book is arranged alphabetically by producer, and the movement, functions, case, band, price, and variations of each pictured watch are fully described. This year's edition, like it...

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Women of the 1920s: Style, Glamour, and the Avant-Garde - Hardcover

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by Thomas Bleitner (Author)It was a time of unimagined new freedoms. From the cafés of Paris to Hollywood's silver screen, women were exploring new modes of expression and new lifestyles. In countless aspects of life, they dared to challenge accepted notions of a "fairer sex," and opened new doors for the generations to come. What's more, they did it with joy, humor, and unapologetic charm. Exploring the lives of seventeen artists, writers, designers, dancers, adventurers, and athletes, this...

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Zen in Japanese Culture: A Visual Journey Through Art, Design, and Life - Hardcover

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by Gavin Blair (Author)Formed by a convergence of the Buddha's teachings with Taoism and local tradition, Zen has had a profound impact on the art and culture of Japan. As a philosophy, Zen promotes a recognition of emptiness and impermanence. As an aesthetic, it is marked by striking simplicity and a reverence for space. It operates on the principle of wabi-sabi, the harmony found in all things transient and imperfect. Countless Japanese artists, artisans, and designers have engaged with the...

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Vintage Tattoos: The Book of Old-School Skin Art - Paperback

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by Carol Clerk (Author)Tattoos have gone from badges of rebellion to fashion statements fully absorbed into mainstream culture. They are enjoying a renaissance, with graphic designers and artists creating specialty tattoos for a growing audience, unleashing a revival of interest in the bawdy vintage tattoo. Old school tattoos are being rediscovered (sometimes ironically, sometimes not) by a new generation. Originally embraced by rebels, sailors, and gangsters, these tattoos--broken hearts, na...

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Michelangelo: The Complete Sculpture, Painting, Architecture - Hardcover

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by William E. Wallace (Author)With an engaging text by renowned Michelangelo scholar William E. Wallace, Michelangelo: The Complete Sculpture, Painting, Architecture brings together in one exquisite volume the powerful sculptures, the awe-inspiring paintings, and the classical architectural works of one of the greatest artists of all time. Including everything from his sculptures Piet s and David to his beautiful paintings of the Sistine Chapel and the Doni Tondo, the book provides an opportu...

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How to Read Art: A Crash Course in Understanding and Interpreting Paintings - Paperback

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by Liz Rideal (Author)This charmingly illustrated, highly informative field guide to understanding art history is small enough to fit in a pocket yet serious enough to provide real answers. This seventh entry in the hugely popular How to Read series is a one-stop guide to understanding the world's great artworks. The book explains the aesthetics of schools of painting from the Renaissance masters and Impressionists to the Cubists and Modernists. It enables readers to develop swiftly an unders...

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by Eliot Deutsch (Author)Presents a theory of art which is at once universal in its general conception and historically-grounded in its attention to aesthetic practices in diverse cultures. Argues that art, especially today, enjoys a special kind of autonomy but that it has, nevertheless, important social and political responsibilities.Back JacketIn this newest book, the author presents a theory of art which is at once universal in its general conception and historically-grounded in its atten...

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by Editors of Studio Fun International (Author)There's so much to see, color, and paint in this book packed with images of Blippi and his favorite things...with paints and crayons included In the spirit of YouTube sensation Blippi's joyous videos, this 128-page coloring and painting book presents an amazing array of animals, a variety of vrooming vehicles, and some basic early learning concepts, too There are nearly 100 images for kids to color or paint using the crayons and paints provided...

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Signs of Grace: Religion and American Art in the Gilded Age - Hardcover

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by Kristin Schwain (Author)Religious imagery was ubiquitous in late-nineteenth-century American life: department stores, schoolbooks, postcards, and popular magazines all featured elements of Christian visual culture. Such imagery was not limited to commercial and religious artifacts, however, for it also found its way into contemporary fine art. In Signs of Grace, Kristin Schwain looks anew at the explicitly religious work of four prominent artists in this period--Thomas Eakins, F. Holland D...

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by Susan Woodford (Author)The legendary characters of the Trojan War, Susan Woodford reminds us, captured the imaginations not only of Homer, the Attic tragedians, Aeschylus, Virgil, Ovid, and many other writers, but of countless Greek and Roman visual artists as well.A vibrant retelling of the Trojan myths, this handsomely illustrated book brings to life for today's readers both visual and literary traditions. Woodford is an engaging guide, as concerned with nuances of human experience as sh...

Passion and Order: Restraint of Grief in the Medieval Italian Communes - Hardcover

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by Carol Lansing (Author)The way in which a society expresses grief can reveal how it views both intense emotions and public order. In thirteenth-century Italian communes, a conscious effort to change appropriate public reaction to death threw into sharp relief connections among urban politics, gender expectations, and understandings of emotionality. In Passion and Order, Carol Lansing explores a dramatic change in thinking and practice about emotional restraint. This shift was driven by poli...

Agitate! Educate! Organize!: American Labor Posters - Paperback

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by Lincoln Cushing (Author), Timothy W. Drescher (Author)"We seek to inform as well as to celebrate. The best posters about American workers and the jobs at which they labor make up a visually fascinating body of work that rewards our attention. The posters were produced with a dual purpose: to entertain and to inform. They were also vehicles for working people to present themselves visually, which is rarely as straightforward as it might seem because the labor force itself is not monolithic....

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by Berel Lang (Editor)A ground-breaking attempt at a prolegomenon to the study of style, this collection brings together eleven essays by distinguished philosophers, literary theorists, art historians, and musicologists, all addressing the role played by style in the arts and literature. Number of Pages: 320 Dimensions: 0.8 x 8.9 x 6 IN Publication Date: February 15, 1987

An Introduction to Greek Art: Workplace Reform in Australia - Paperback

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by Susan Woodford (Author) Number of Pages: 212 Dimensions: 0.56 x 9.73 x 7.32 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: January 28, 1988

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by Andy Warhol (Author)One of the major literary works by Andy Warhol, the subject of the new Netflix documentary The Andy Warhol Diaries, executive produced by Ryan MurphyAndy Warhol carried a camera with him everywhere he went and America, a mélange of text and image whose photographs were selected by Warhol from ten years of extraordinary shots, echoes the strange beauty and staggering contradictions of the country itself. Exploring Warhol's greatest obsessions--including image and celebri...

Art, Perception, and Reality - Paperback

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by E. H. Gombrich (Author), Julian Hochberg (Author), Max Black (Author)In Art, Perception, and Reality three eminent scholars explore questions relating to the nature of representation in art. Art historian E. H. Gombrich asks how we recognize likeness--in portraits or caricatures for instance--and concludes that we do so by empathy. Psychologist Julian Hochberg rejects Gombrich's argument, suggesting instead that the expectations aroused in the scanning processes of visual perception accoun...

The Gay Metropolis: The Landmark History of Gay Life in America - Paperback

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by Charles Kaiser (Author)Now featuring an updated introduction commemorating the 50th Anniversary of Stonewall "The landmark portrait of 20th-century New York viewed through the eyes of gay New Yorkers." -New York Observer A New York Times Notable Book of the Year and winner of a Lambda Literary Award, The Gay Metropolis is a landmark saga of struggle and triumph that was instantly recognized as the most authoritative and substantial work of its kind. Now, for the fiftieth anniversary of the...

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The Judgment of Paris: The Revolutionary Decade That Gave the World Impressionism - Paperback

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by Ross King (Author)With a novelist's skill and the insight of an historian, bestselling author Ross King recalls a seminal period when Paris was the artistic center of the world, and the rivalry between Meissonier and Manet. While the Civil War raged in America, another revolution took shape across the Atlantic, in the studios of Paris: The artists who would make Impressionism the most popular art form in history were showing their first paintings amidst scorn and derision from the French a...

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by Eric Velasquez (Author), Eric Velasquez (Illustrator)This prequel to Eric Velasquez's biographical picture book Grandma's Records is the story of a Christmas holiday that young Eric spends with his grandmother. After they prepare their traditional Puerto Rican Christmas celebration, Eric and Grandma visit the Metropolitan Museum of Art for a school project, where he sees a painting by Diego Velasquez and realizes for the first time that he could be an artist when he grows up. Grandma witne...

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The Mystical Language of Icons - Paperback

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by Solrunn Nes (Author)This lavishly illustrated guide to iconography explains through words and pictures the history, meaning, and purpose of Christian icons as well as the traditional methods that religious painters use to create these luminous, spiritually enlivened works of art. Solrunn Nes, one of Europe's most admired iconographers, illuminates the world of Christian icons, explaining the motifs, gestures, and colors common to these profound symbols of faith. Nes explores in depth a nu...

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Pioneer Cemeteries: Sculpture Gardens of the Old West - Hardcover

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by Annette Stott (Author)As pioneers attempted to settle and civilize the "Wild West," cemeteries became important cultural centers. Filled with carved wooden headboards, inscribed local stones, and Italian marble statues, cemeteries functioned as symbols of stability and progress toward a European-inspired vision of Manifest Destiny. As repositories of art and history, these pioneer cemeteries tell the story of communities and visual culture emerging together within the developing landscape ...

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by Berenice Capatti (Author), Octavia Monaco (Illustrator)Follow me into Gustav's studio -- it is alive with color Look at the paintbrushes, the reds and blues and colorful hues that spill onto the table. Smell the scent of paint, of oil, of canvas. . .Katze, the loyal cat of Gustav Klimt, takes readers on an exciting journey into the world of the famous Viennese painter. From distracting Gustav's models to tagging along with Gustav on vacations, Katze always provides keen insight about the ...

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by Bimba Landmann (Author)I painted my world, my life, all the things I loved, all the things I dreamed of, all the things I could not say in words. I painted my beloved Russia, my hometown Vitebsk, the Jewish neighborhood where I grew up, the way I saw everything as a child.During prayers he would daydream; in school he was distracted; and at home he worried about what profession he should choose. But when the young Marc Chagall realized he had artistic talent, he translated his unusual way ...

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The Fantastic Jungles of Henri Rousseau - Hardcover

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by Michelle Markel (Author), Amanda Hall (Illustrator)Henri Rousseau wanted to be an artist. But he had no formal training. Instead, he taught himself to paint. He painted until the jungles and animals and distant lands in his head came alive on the space of his canvases. Henri Rousseau endured the harsh critics of his day and created the brilliant paintings that now hang in museums around the world. Michelle Markel's vivid text, complemented by the vibrant illustrations of Amanda Hall, artf...

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by Jen Bryant (Author)Growing up on a Wisconsin farm, Georgia O'Keeffe began gathering all sorts of objects -- sticks and stones, flowers and bones. Although she was teased for her interest in unique shapes and sizes, young Georgia declared: "Someday, I'm going to be an artist" -- and that is exactly what she became. Jen Bryant's story of Georgia O'Keeffe celebrates the famous artist's fascination with natural shapes, "common objects," and her unusual way of looking at the world. Bethanne An...

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The Fantastic Jungles of Henri Rousseau - Paperback

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Beyond Madness: The Art of Ralph Blakelock, 1847-1919 - Hardcover

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by Norman A. Geske (Author), Peter H. Hassrick (Foreword by)This book, featuring the life and works of Ralph Blakelock, situates him in the context of American art. Representing over twenty years of study and the examination of several thousand works attributed to him, Beyond Madness reveals the unusual nature of Blakelock's life story as it offers clear parallels to his painting. Largely self-taught and supported by few patrons, Blakelock regularly struggled with the financial pressures of s...