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by Takashi Murakami (Artist), Anne Nishimura Morse (Editor)The lineage of the "superflat" Murakami's vision of the Japanese aestheticTakashi Murakami's irreverent, pop culture-infused art has made him one of the most recognized Japanese artists today. His bright, contemporary boisterousness, however, belies his deep scholarship and engagement with traditional Japanese art. Takashi Murakami: Lineage of Eccentrics presents key examples of Murakami's work alongside a rich selection of Japanese m...
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by Denise Doxey (Text by (Art/Photo Books))Ancient Nubia was home to a series of civilizations between the sixth millennium BCE and 350 CE that produced towering monuments, including more pyramids than in neighboring Egypt, and artifacts of enduring beauty and significance. Nubia's trade network reached across the Mediterranean and far into Africa. At the time that Nubian kings conquered Egypt, in the middle of the eighth century BCE, they controlled one of the largest empires of the ancient ...
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by Christopher Ely (Author)Boundless Russia, humble yet full of hidden grandeur--such visions of "the motherland" became crucial markers of Russian national identity. This Meager Nature is the first full-length study to trace the cultural construction of Russia's landscape during the nineteenth century, showing how artistic and literary representations of nature reflected and shaped Russians' ideas about themselves and their nation.In the early 1800s, Russians commonly accepted the European j...
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by Lawrence Berman (Text by (Art/Photo Books))Digging for a lost civilization in the Nile ValleySpecially trained Egyptian photographers were an integral part of the pioneering Harvard-MFA expedition during the first half of the 20th century. Over the course of some 40 years, their photographs documented the excavations with thousands of images as the riches of a great ancient civilization in northern Sudan were uncovered. George A. Reisner, the leader of the expedition, was keenly aware of t...
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by Erica Hirshler (Author), John Sargent (Artist)"Sargent makes you feel simultaneously drawn into and excluded from the sisters' world, a phenomenon that Erica E. -Hirshler explores in intriguing detail in Sargent's Daughters." -Megan Marshall, The New York Times Sunday Book ReviewHenry James credited John Singer Sargent with a knock-down insolence of talent. Among the painter's many renowned works, few deserve the phrase as much as The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit (1882), one of Sargent'...
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by Hokusai (Artist), Sarah Thompson (Author)The first book to focus exclusively on Hokusai's landscapes, by one of the world's leading ukiyo-e specialistsThe best known of all Japanese artists, Katsushika Hokusai was active as a painter, book illustrator and print designer throughout his 90-year lifespan. Yet his most famous works--the color woodblock landscape prints issued in series--were produced within a relatively short time, in an amazing burst of creative energy that lasted from about ...
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by Kathryn Gunsch (Text by (Art/Photo Books))The African art collection at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, offers a portal into the life and politics of a large and complex continent with a wealth of history and culture. The highlighted works in this volume have been selected to illuminate different societies and periods, and to offer an introduction to traditions within the wider field of African art. They are presented through the framework of their original contexts: refined bronze sculpt...
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by Mona Brookes (Author)The definitive guide to encouraging drawing and creativity, for parents and teachers alike Mona Brookes's clear and practical approach to drawing has yielded astounding results with children of all ages and beginning adults. Her unique drawing program has created a revolution in the field of education and a sense of delight and pride among the thousands of students who have learned to draw through her "Monart Method." This revised and expanded edition includes: - I...
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by Julia Cameron (Author)Julia Cameron keeps row after row of journals on the wooden bookcase in her writing room, all containing Morning Pages from more than twelve years of her life. The journals, she says, listen to her. They have been company on travels, and she is indebted to them for consolation, advice, humor, sanity. Now the bestselling author of The Artist's Way offers readers the same companion, in which we may discover ourselves, our fears and aspirations, and our life's daily flow...
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by Robin Dodd (Author)This lively account of the printed word draws together the histories of typography and printing into one robustly illustrated volume, and describes how dramatic changes in technology have affected type design. Historical paintings, engravings, and photographs give a visual context to the different eras of type design and print, and key typefaces from each historical era are discussed and compared to others of the era. The original use of each typeface is pictured alongsi...
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by Nicole Dial-Kay (Editor), Emily Santhanam (Editor)The Harwood Museum of Art in Taos houses among the finest collections of New Mexican and Southwest art. In celebration of the hundredth anniversary of the museum, this publication highlights one hundred works drawn from more than 6,500 objects collected since its establishment. The book encompasses the museum's rich history and highlights works ranging from twentieth and twenty-first century paintings, photography, Spanish colonial style re...
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by Jim Sanborn (Artist), Milena Kalinovska (Contribution by), Jonathan Binstock (Editor)In Atomic Time, sculptor, photographer and conceptual artist Jim Sanborn has combined his longstanding interests in invisible natural forces and secrecy, pairing together two separate but related projects: a series of photographs called Atomic Time and images of his latest work, the room-sized installation Critical Assembly. Inspired by the Manhattan Project, the first nuclear weapons program at the Los Al...
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by Rudolf Steiner (Author), Rory Bradley (Translator), Stephen Keith Sagarin (Introduction by)13 slide presentations, Dornach, Oct. 8, 1916 - Oct. 29, 1917 (CW 292)"I am going to show you a series of reproductions, of slides, from a period in art history to which the human mind will probably always return to contemplate and consider; for, if we consider history as a reflection of inner spiritual impulses, it is precisely in this evolutionary moment that we see certain human circumstances, one...
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by Klaus Ottmann (Editor)Seven papers originally delivered at the annual Eranos conference in Ascona, Switzerland, August 1972. This revised and expanded edition includes, for the first time in English translation, Gershom Scholem's paper on "Colors and their Symbolism in Jewish Tradition and Mysticism" and Henry Corbin's paper on "The Realism and Symbolism of Colors in Shiite Cosmology."Author BiographyKlaus Ottmann is a philosopher, writer, and curator based in New York. He has written nume...
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by Pierre Restany (Author)Restany's groundbreaking, exegetic study show show the myth of fire was the culmination of the artist's quest for the immaterial. The visionary French conceptual artist and "painter of the Void" Yves Klein (1928-1962) was an artist with a keen philosophical mind, yet deeply spiritual.
Number of Pages: 132
Dimensions: 0.5 x 8.9 x 5.9 IN
Illustrated: Yes
Publication Date: August 10, 2005
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by Yves Klein (Author), Klaus Ottmann (Editor)The first complete collection of the writings of the visionary French conceptual artist Yves Klein (1928-1962) published in English translation.Author BiographyYves Klein (1928 1962) was the most important French artist of the second half of the 20th century. Born in Nice, he spent his formative years studying Judo in Japan for a time, before settling in Paris and beginning to exhibit his work there. Many of these early paintings were monochrome a...
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by Agnes Denes (Author), Klaus Ottmann (Editor)The American conceptual artist Agnes Denes investigates science, philosophy, linguistics, psychology, art history, poetry, and music. A pioneer of ecological art, Denes's work involves ecological, cultural, and social issues.Author BiographyAgnes Denes has had over 300 solo and group exhibitions on four continents, including documenta 6 (1977) and three Venice Biennales (1978, 1980, and 2001) and "Master of Drawing" Invitational at the Kunsthalle...
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by Per Kirkeby (Author), Asger Schnack (Editor), Martin Aitken (Translator)The first comprehensive English-language collection of the writings of the highly original Danish artist Per Kirkeby. Born in 1938, Kirkeby is one of the most internationally acclaimed artists today; apart from being Scandinavia's foremost living painter and sculptor, he also is a geologist, filmmaker, architect, writer, and poet.Author BiographyA highly original artist, Per Kirkeby first established international prom...
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by Shannon Ebner (Artist), Alex Klein (Text by (Art/Photo Books)), Tina Kukielski (Text by (Art/Photo Books))Using photography as a language, Shannon Ebner (born 1971) examines the signs, symbols, letters, words and graphical icons we encounter in the world. Auto Body Collision documents Ebner's most recent ongoing project, a multipart series of photographs that began on a trip to Italy in 2014. Ebner has been collecting language taken from signs, seeking out repetitions of terms such as "Aut...
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by Andrey Avinoff (Artist), Louise Lippincott (Text by (Art/Photo Books))From Russian court to the mountains of Tibet, and from the laboratories of Pittsburgh to the salons of Park Avenue, the extraordinary career of the artist and entomologist Andrey Avinoff (1884-1949) has never been surveyed in its entirety. Avinoff created a rich body of effusive, fantastical, Symbolist watercolor paintings that express yearnings both mystical and homoerotic, exploding beyond the strictures of his equally...
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by Ingrid Schaffner (Editor), Ingrid Schaffner (Introduction by), Koyo Kouoh (Text by (Art/Photo Books))The Dispatch is the second of two publications accompanying the 2018 Carnegie International, 57th Edition. Intended as a missive that sends the exhibition out into the world, this slim scholarly volume stands as a document of the show, through photographs and a checklist of the exhibition and its programs. In addition, it reflects forward, by presenting a series of studies on the relevance ...
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by Jon Huer (Author)The Great Art Hoax exposes the real fakery and hypocrisy of the art world: how art is manufactured and marketed; how the pathology of private possession drives up the price; and how false art is hyped as true art to the tune of millions of dollars. Jon Huer demonstrates convincingly that what the art market deals as art need not be "art" at all.
Number of Pages: 182
Dimensions: 0.42 x 9 x 6 IN
Publication Date: September 10, 2010
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by Ingrid Schaffner (Editor), Ingrid Schaffner (Text by (Art/Photo Books)), Emmanuel Iduma (Text by (Art/Photo Books))Carnegie Museum of Art has presented its International since 1896--just a year after the first Venice Biennale. Inaugurated by museum founder, Andrew Carnegie, to inspire local audiences and artists, the exhibition was intended to position Pittsburgh as a center of not only industry but modern culture. The 57th iteration of the exhibition is organized by Ingrid Schaffner, a cu...
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by Titus Burckhardt (Author), William Stoddart (Other)Titus Burckhardt was Swiss and an eminent member of the traditionalist school. He is perhaps best known to the English-speaking public as the author of the following books: Sacred Art in East and West; Siena, City of the Virgin; Moorish Culture in Spain; and Alchemy: Science of the Cosmos, Science of the Soul. A generation ago, he won much acclaim for producing and publishing the first successful, full-scale facsimiles of the Book of Kells...
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by Russ Davidson (Editor), Leslie Blaugrund Kim (Editor), Andrew Connors (Introduction by)The rise and imposition of military dictatorships in South America in the late twentieth century holds particular relevance today as the world has experienced a broad resurgence of authoritarianism. Chile's reign of terror under military dictatorship reflected through the continent's "southern cone" countries, which included Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay, and Uruguay as democracy fell to mi...
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by John G. Cawelti (Author)The Six-Gun Mystique Sequel is a revised and considerably expanded edition of The Six-Gun Mystique, a pioneering study of the Western as a popular genre that has been widely influential since its original publication in 1970. In this expanded version, Cawelti revises his analysis of the structural characteristics of the Western novel and film, synthesizing much of the rich discussion of the Western genre that has appeared since The Six-Gun Mystique's original public...
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by Julia Perkins (Author), Michael Flug (Editor), David Lusenhop (Editor)The Art and Activism of Marion Perkins: "To see reality in a new light" edited by Julia Perkins, Michael Flug and David Lusenhof preserves the art of Marion Perkins (1908-1961), a self-taught sculpture who became one of the most important visual artists in the Chicago Renaissance. Now fifty years after his death, Perkins work has inspired a new audience of artists, art enthusiast and art historians to study the rich cult...
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by Ange Zhang (Author)The amazing, dramatic, and painful autobiographical story of Ange Zhang as he came of age during the Cultural Revolution in China. When Mao's Cultural Revolution took hold in China in June 1966, Ange Zhang was thirteen years old. His father was a famous writer. Shortly after the revolution began, many of Ange's classmates joined the Red Guard, Mao's youth movement, and they drove their teachers out of the classrooms. But in the weeks that followed, Ange discovered that h...
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by Brian R. Doak (Author)The Hebrew Bible contains a prohibition against divine images (Exod 20:2-5a). Explanations for this command are legion, usually focusing on the unique status of Israel's deity within the context of the broader Near Eastern and Mediterranean worlds. Doak explores whether or not Israel was truly alone in its severe stance against idols. This book focuses on one particular aspect of this iconographic context in Israel's Iron Age world-that of the Phoenicians. The questio...
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by Brian R. Doak (Author)The Hebrew Bible contains a prohibition against divine images (Exod 20:2-5a). Explanations for this command are legion, usually focusing on the unique status of Israel's deity within the context of the broader Near Eastern and Mediterranean worlds. Doak explores whether or not Israel was truly alone in its severe stance against idols. This book focuses on one particular aspect of this iconographic context in Israel's Iron Age world-that of the Phoenicians. The questio...
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by Benjamin Peret (Author), Donald LaCoss (Afterword by), Franklin Rosemont (Introduction by)This collection is based on the pioneering anthology of Peretas writings that first appeared in August 1970 in the SDS journal "Radical America," introduced by Franklin Rosemont. This new, expanded and illustrated edition includes a selection of Peretas incomparable poetry and stories, a wide range of crtiical essays of the practice of poetry, the struggle against capitalism, slave revolts in Brazil, ...
