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Making Believe: Questions about Mennonites and Art - Paperback

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by Magdalene Redekop (Author)Making Believe responds to a remarkable flowering of art by Mennonites in Canada. After the publication of his first novel in 1962, Rudy Wiebe was the only identifiable Mennonite literary writer in the country. Beginning in the 1970s, the numbers grew rapidly and now include writers Patrick Friesen, Sandra Birdsell, Di Brandt, Sarah Klassen, Armin Wiebe, David Bergen, Miriam Toews, Carrie Snyder, Casey Plett, and many more. A similar renaissance is evident in the ...

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by Mary Meigs (Author)Taking as her alter-ego Lily Briscoe-the painter in Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse-Mary Meigs paints a portrait of herself, her family and her friends in Lily Briscoe: A Self-Portrait, a book that is both autobiography and memoir. In it, she describes the three major decisions of her life: "not to marry, to be an artist" and to listen to her "own voices." She speaks of her parents who belonged to "a generation before their own" and how they instilled in her a sense o...

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Richard Diebenkorn in New Mexico - Hardcover

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by Gerald Nordland (Contribution by), Lavatelli Mark (Contribution by), Mark Lavatelli (Contribution by)Internationally acclaimed artist Richard Diebenkorn lived in Albuquerque from 1950 to 1952, where he executed an impressive body of more than a hundred paintings, drawings, and welded-metal sculpture. Until recently much of Diebenkorn's New Mexico work remained forgotten. With his coming to New Mexico, Diebenkorn moved toward a kind of painting that, although rigorous and considered, emits ...

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Of God and Mortal Men: T.C. Cannon - Hardcover

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by Ann E. Marshall (Editor), Pardue Diana F. (Editor), Diana F. Pardue (Editor)Of God and Mortal Men conveys the artistic genius of T.C. Cannon (1946-1978) through his best and most iconic paintings and essays that offer a fresh and inclusive look at Cannon's work extending beyond the confines of American Indian art. This group of paintings--nine major canvases from the Nancy and Richard Bloch Collection--represent the finest of Cannon's artwork anywhere, from Cannon's "mature" Santa Fe perio...

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Monument Maker: Daniel Chester French and the Lincoln Memorial - Hardcover

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by Linda Booth Sweeney (Author), Shawn Fields (Illustrator)This is the story of how a farmboy became America's foremost sculptor. After failing at academics, Dan was working the family farm when he idly carved a turnip into a frog and discovered what he was meant to do. Sweeney's swift prose and Fields's evocative illustrations capture the single-minded determination with which Dan taught himself to sculpt and launched his career with the famous Minuteman Statue in his hometown of Concord, Ma...

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by Amy Newbold (Author), Greg Newbold (Illustrator)Edward Hopper's monster lurks outside the nighthawks' diner. James Whistler's monster rocks in her chair. Monsters invade masterpieces by Dorthea Tanning, Paul Cezanne, M.C. Escher, Jean Michel Basquiat, Giuseppe Archimboldo, Rene Magritte, Henri Rousseau, Franz Kline, Frida Kahlo, Bob Thompson, Henri Toulouse-Lautrec, Thomas Hart Benton, and Helen Frankenthaler. The monster emerging from Claude Monet's waterlilies is unforgettable. Our guide...

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Immigrant Architect: Rafael Guastavino and the American Dream - Hardcover

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by Berta de Miguel (Author), Kent Diebolt (Author), Virginia Lorente (Illustrator)Rafael Guastavino Sr. was 39 when he left a successful career as an architect in Barcelona. American cities--densely packed and built largely of wood--were experiencing horrific fires, and Guastavino had the solution: The soaring interior spaces created by his tiled vaults and domes made buildings sturdier, fireproof, and beautiful. What he didn't have was fluent English. Unable to win design commissions, he tra...

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Devil on the Stairs: Looking Back on the Eighties - Paperback

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by Institute of Contemporary Art (Editor) Number of Pages: 96 Dimensions: 0.4 x 11 x 9.01 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: October 02, 1991

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by Jo Baer (Artist), Gareth James (Artist), Mike Kelley (Artist)Conceptions of "nothing" are one of the driving themes of twentieth-century art. One thinks of Piet Mondrian's reductivist approach to abstraction, Marcel Duchamp's contention that art resides in ideas, not objects, Mark Rothko's painterly reach for the sublime, Andy Warhol's affirmations of the vacuity of Pop culture. The Big Nothing will focus on themes of nothing, nothingness and negation in contemporary art and culture, surve...

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Charles Ledray: Sculpture 1989-2002 - Hardcover

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by Charles Ledray (Artist), Ralph Rugoff (Author), Claudia Gould (Text by (Art/Photo Books))Documenting this American artist's first solo museum exhibition, Charles LeDray will focus on his obsessively crafted miniature sculptures in a variety of media, including textiles, ceramics, seashells, and bone, that reflect on childhood, gender, sexuality, and autobiography. Number of Pages: 80 Dimensions: 0.7 x 10.34 x 8.34 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: June 02, 2002

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by Ingrid Schaffner (Editor), Carin Kuoni (Editor), Allen Weiss (Contribution by)At first glance, The Puppet Show seems a flip title. Organized by Philadelphia ICA Senior Curator Ingrid Schaffner and Carin Kuoni, this exhibition catalogue focuses--with both humor and gravity--on the surprisingly prodigious amount of puppet imagery in contemporary art. It takes as its historic point of departure one of the first episodes of avant-garde art history: Alfred Jarry's 1896 puppet play Ubu Roi, whic...

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The Quiet Eye: A Way of Looking at Pictures - Hardcover

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by Sylvia Judson (Author)The Quiet Eye is a book of great charm, imbued with a love and understanding of art that speaks directly to the heart. The thirty-three pictures selected by the American sculptress Sylvia Shaw Judson cover a wide spectrum of subjects and styles, from the seventh century to the modern day. They include works by artists ranging from Durer and Brueghel to Rousseau and Klee, pottery and sculpture from ancient Greece, Oriental scrolls and wall paintings, and are accompanie...

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by Lee Hammond (Author)Having trouble drawing a nose that looks like a nose? In this step-by-step guide, Lee Hammond will teach you how to draw realistic-looking portraits of your favorite people--more easily than you ever thought possible. Really The secret is in the blending: With pencil and paper, Lee shows you how to create gradual, smooth shadings of light and dark to replicate the subtle contours of skin...and how to use these simple shading techniques to make any shape look three-dime...

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by Kevin Kerr (Author), Jonathon Young (Author), Kim Collier (With)In this psychological thriller set in a fictionalized 1930s Vancouver, Alex Braithewaite, a troubled but passionate theatre critic, believes he has found the legendary Stanley Lee, director of the infamous avant-garde theatre The Empty Space. Alex becomes convinced that this man's radically subversive ideas are what the city's arts community needs to shatter audience complacency. In his pursuit of the truth behind Stanley Lee'...

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by Robert Rauschenberg (Artist), Susan Davidson (Editor), Trisha Brown (Text by (Art/Photo Books))In the mid-1980s, Robert Rauschenberg's creative attentions turned toward the visual and plastic properties of junk metal when he began to assemble found metal objects and screenprint his photographic images onto aluminum, bronze, brass and copper. His first body of work in this vein was Gluts, a series begun in 1986 and continued intermittently until 1995, in which ornate metalwork seemingly der...

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An Architectural Appreciation - Hardcover

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by Stephen Hoban (Foreword by)In 1943, Frank Lloyd Wright received a letter from Hilla Rebay, the art advisor to Solomon R. Guggenheim, asking the architect to design a new building to house Guggenheim's four-year-old Museum of Non-Objective Painting. The project evolved into a complex struggle pitting the architect against his clients, city officials, the art world and public opinion, but the resultant achievement testifies to both Wright's architectural genius and the adventurous spirit of ...

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Zero: Countdown to Tomorrow, 1950s-60s - Hardcover

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by Valerie Hillings (Text by (Art/Photo Books)), Daniel Birnbaum (Text by (Art/Photo Books)), Edouard Derom (Text by (Art/Photo Books))With their battle cry "Zero is the beginning. Zero is round. Zero is Zero," the ZERO artists anticipated Land art, Minimalism and Conceptual artZERO: Countdown to Tomorrow, 1950s-60s is the first large-scale historical survey in the United States dedicated to the German artist group Zero (1957-66). The group was founded by Heinz Mack and Otto Piene, who were j...

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by Hou Hanru (Contribution by), Xiaoyu Weng (Contribution by)A heterogeneous view of contemporary Chinese art between individual narrative and the constructions of historyTales of Our Time presents works by seven artists based in mainland China, Hong Kong or Taiwan: Sun Xun, Zhou Tao, Chi-En Jao, Kan Xuan, the Yangjiang Group, Sun Yuan & Peng Yu and Tsang Kin-Wah. Working in video, sculpture, installation, mixed media on paper and participatory intervention, these artists poetically balan...

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by Maurizio Cattelan (Artist), Nancy Spector (Author)An updated edition of the definitive monograph on Maurizio Cattelan--provocateur, prankster and tragic poet of our timesThe Guggenheim Museum's sold-out publication Maurizio Cattelan: All is returning to print. Hailed as a provocateur, prankster and tragic poet of our times, Maurizio Cattelan (born 1960) has created some of the most unforgettable images in contemporary art--most notoriously "The Ninth Hour" (1999), a sculpture of Pope John ...

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by Josef Albers (Artist), Lauren Hinkson (Author), Joaquin Barríendos (Text by (Art/Photo Books))Albers in the promised land of abstract art" the little-known influence of Mexico"Mexico is truly the promised land of abstract art," Josef Albers wrote to his former Bauhaus colleague Vasily Kandinsky in 1936. Josef Albers in Mexico reveals the profound link between the art and architecture of ancient Mesoamerica and Albers' abstract works on canvas and paper. With his wife, the artist Anni Alber...

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by Alberto Giacometti (Artist), Karole Vail (Editor), Megan Fontanella (Editor)A fresh appraisal of Giacometti's output, from painting to sculptureThis comprehensive survey of the work of the Swiss-born modern master Alberto Giacometti offers a fresh and incisive account of his creative output. Published on the occasion of Giacometti's first major museum presentation in the US in over a decade, the volume brings together nearly 200 sculptures, paintings and drawings to trace the artist's wide...

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French Modernism at the Guggenheim: Thannhauser Collection - Hardcover

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by Megan Fontanella (Editor), Megan Fontanella (Text by (Art/Photo Books)), Julie Barten (Text by (Art/Photo Books))From C zanne to Braque, the Thannhauser Collection forms the core of the Guggenheim's early modernist holdings When Justin K. Thannhauser (1892-1976) brought his collection of modern art to the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in 1965, it was his crowning achievement after more than a half-century as one of Europe's most influential and distinguished collectors and dealers. The coll...

Basquiat's Defacement: The Untold Story - Paperback

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by Jean-Michel Basquiat (Artist), Chaédria Labouvier (Text by (Art/Photo Books)), Nancy Spector (Text by (Art/Photo Books))Police brutality, racism, graffiti and the art world of the early-1980s Lower East Side converge in one painting by Jean-Michel BasquiatJean-Michel Basquiat painted Defacement (The Death of Michael Stewart) on the wall of Keith Haring's studio in 1983 to commemorate the death of a young black artist who died from injuries sustained while in police custody after being arre...

Hilma AF Klint: Paintings for the Future - Hardcover

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by Hilma Af Klint (Artist), Tracey Bashkoff (Editor), Tracey Bashkoff (Text by (Art/Photo Books))Hilma af Klint's daring abstractions exert a mystical magnetismWhen Swedish artist Hilma af Klint died in 1944 at the age of 81, she left behind more than 1,000 paintings and works on paper that she had kept largely private during her lifetime. Believing the world was not yet ready for her art, she stipulated that it should remain unseen for another 20 years. But only in recent decades has the pub...

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Guggenheim Museum Collection: A to Z: Fourth Edition - Paperback

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by Nancy Spector (Author), Vivien Greene (Text by (Art/Photo Books)), Jennifer Blessing (Text by (Art/Photo Books))The definitive guide to the Guggenheim's tremendous collection, now revised and expandedRevised, updated and completely redesigned, the fourth edition of the Guggenheim Museum's popular guide to its New York collection is a beautifully produced volume, not only a handy overview of the museum's holdings but also a concise, engaging primer on the art of the late 19th through the ea...

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Sacred Mirrors: The Visionary Art of Alex Grey - Hardcover

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by Alex Grey (Author), Ken Wilber (With), Carlo McCormick (With)This unique series of paintings takes the viewer on a graphic, visionary journey through the physical, metaphysical, and spiritual anatomy of the self. From anatomically correct rendering of the body systems, Grey moves to the spiritual/energetic systems with such images as "Universal Mind Lattice," envisioning the sacred and esoteric symbolism of the body and the forces that define its living field of energy. Includes essays on ...

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Sacred Mirrors: The Visionary Art of Alex Grey - Paperback

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Surrealism and the Occult: Shamanism, Magic, Alchemy, and the Birth of an Artistic Movement - Paperback

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by Nadia Choucha (Author)An art historian shows how many surrealists and their predecessors were steeped in magical ideas that were expressed in their art: the sorcery of Dali, the alchemy of Picasso, the Theosophy of Kandinsky, and the shamanism of Ernst and Carrington.Author BiographyA writer and frequent lecturer on art and magic, Nadia Choucha holds a master's degree in art history from Edinburgh University and is currently researching the surrealists for her Ph.D. at Essex University. Nu...

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Espejos Sagrados: El Arte Visionario de Alex Grey - Paperback

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by Alex Grey (Author), Ken Wilber (With), Carlo McCormick (With)Esta serie única de pinturas lleva al espectador a un viaje gráfico y vionario a través de la anatomía física y metafísica del ser. En su exploración dentro de la naturaleza del hombre/mujer, Alex Grey retrata el sistema nervioso, el vascular, el esqueleto y demás sistemas corporales con un realismo desmenuzador y anatómicamente exacto. Después pasa a los sistemas espirituales/energéticos con imágenes como el Entramado de la Ment...

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Icons and Saints of the Eastern Orthodox Church - Paperback

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by Alfredo Tradigo (Author)An icon (from the Greek word "eikon," "image") is a wooden panel painting of a holy person or scene from Orthodox Christianity, the religion of the Byzantine Empire that is practiced today mainly in Greece and Russia. It was believed that these works acted as intermediaries between worshipers and the holy personages they depicted. Their pictorial language is stylized and primarily symbolic, rather than literal and narrative. Indeed, every attitude, pose, and color d...

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Insects and Flowers: The Art of Maria Sibylla Merian - Paperback

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by David Brafman (Author), Stephanie Schrader (Author)The artist and scientist Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717) was born in Frankfurt, Germany, into a middle-class family of publishers and artists. With her meticulous depictions of insect metamorphosis, she raised the standards of natural history illustration and helped give birth to the field of entomology. At the age of fifty-two, Merian traveled with her younger daughter to Suriname, a Dutch territory in South America, to paint its exotic ...

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Why Cats Paint: A Theory of Feline Aesthetics - Paperback

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by Heather Busch (Author), Burton Silver (Author)An unprecedented photographic record of cat creativity that will intrigue cat lovers and art lovers alike.Author BiographyBURTON SILVER is a cartoonist, inventor, and author of more than a dozen books, including the best-selling WHY CATS PAINT. Silver studied psychology and sociology at Victoria University. He lives in Wellington, New Zealand.HEATHER BUSCH has been a visual artist for nearly 30 years and is drawn to perceptions and paradigms th...