Collection:
Art & Art Instruction
Sold Out
Regular price
$21.60
Sale price
$21.60
Regular price
Unit price
per
by Jeanne Dunning (Artist), Russell Ferguson (Editor), Heidi Zuckerman Jacobson (Text by (Art/Photo Books))Jeanne Dunning's unwavering focus over the past two decades has been the terrain of the human body, in particular the ways in which we perceive and conceive norms of gender, sexuality, and reality itself. Her images--including recent widely circulated work that showed subjects sitting in a pink, pudding-like substance that evoked liquid flesh or liquid body fat--interrogate the boundarie...
Sold Out
Regular price
$25.00
Sale price
$25.00
Regular price
Unit price
per
by Julia Andrews (Editor), Kuiyi Shen (Editor), James Quandt (Contribution by)Published on the occasion of the North American premiere of Mahjong, a landmark exhibition of contemporary Chinese art from the world-renowned collection of the Swiss businessman and diplomat Uli Sigg, this catalogue accesses recent Chinese history through the lens of its art and the keen eye of an observant collector. More than 90 artists are featured in this fully illustrated publication, including Ai Weiwei, Huan...
Sold Out
Regular price
$25.00
Sale price
$25.00
Regular price
Unit price
per
by Lucinda Barnes (Text by (Art/Photo Books)), Jacquelynn Baas (Text by (Art/Photo Books)), Karen Bennett (Text by (Art/Photo Books))In this study of American art, time and motion are fragmented, mechanized, slowed down and sped up so that the last century flies by. Works range from Joseph Stella's Battle of Lights, Coney Island (1915-18) to Shirley Shor's real-time projection Landslide (2004).
Number of Pages: 176
Dimensions: 0.51 x 10.31 x 8.43 IN
Illustrated: Yes
Publication Date: July 01,...
Sold Out
Regular price
$9.95
Sale price
$9.95
Regular price
Unit price
per
by Deborah Koff-Chapin (Author), Bill Ruth (Photographer)Deborah Koff-Chapin, the creator of SoulCards, shares the simple but profound drawing process through which she developed her soul-stirring imagery. This beautiful little book gives all the information needed to begin explorations with Touch Drawing. Numerous drawings by Deborah and her students illustrate both the primal power and childlike playfulness that can be experienced through Touch Drawing.
In Touch Drawing, the fingers tak...
Sold Out
Regular price
$19.95
Sale price
$19.95
Regular price
Unit price
per
by Schwertberger (Author)This is a retrospective large-format volume delineating the surreal art of De Es Schwertberger. It presents colour reproductions of his work, and describes the influences upon him of Goya, Dali and the literature of Franz Kafka.
Number of Pages: 80
Dimensions: 0.3 x 11.99 x 10.03 IN
Publication Date: December 14, 1993
Regular price
$20.47
Sale price
$20.47
Regular price
Unit price
per
by Jean A. Lukesh (Author)A quick-reading biography (for ages 10 to 110) that explores the history and mystery of, Who Was Eagle of Delight (Hayne Hudjihini), and why is her portrait in the White House? In 1821, a teenage Otoe Indian girl with "the Mark of Honor" journeyed east with her husband and other Plains Indian chiefs. There, she became "the Darling of Washington D.C. Society." Then tragedy struck, and she and her story were nearly forgotten for 140 years--until a series of events brou...
Sold Out
Regular price
$20.00
Sale price
$20.00
Regular price
Unit price
per
by Kurt Kauper (Artist), Michael Duncan (Text by (Art/Photo Books))Kurt Kauper's Diva Fictions are paintings of imaginary opera singers, invented characters of glamorous condescension and fashionable dazzle, excessive theatricality and overt emotionalism, transmitting a wide range of contemporary cultural realities.
Number of Pages: 37
Dimensions: 0.36 x 8.88 x 5.78 IN
Illustrated: Yes
Publication Date: March 02, 2002
Sold Out
Regular price
$85.00
Sale price
$85.00
Regular price
Unit price
per
by Dakis Joannou (Editor), Jeffrey Deitch (Editor)Greek collector Dakis Joannou is one of the preeminent collectors of contemporary art in the world, with a collection that stands as a virtual who's who of artists from the 1980s through today. 85 of those artists are represented in Monument to Now--the most utterly relevant to today, of course. Leading curators from New York, Milan and Paris have contributed essays and helped to select the included artists. Designed by acclaimed graphic artis...
Sold Out
Regular price
$10.00
Sale price
$10.00
Regular price
Unit price
per
by Laylah Ali (Artist)Known for her cartoon-like characters engaged in ambiguous activities, Laylah Ali's paintings and drawings imply narratives that address a wide variety of political, cultural, and social concerns. Her carefully-created images are deceptive with their buoyant color, yet at the same time delve into some of the more disturbing impulses revealed in the workings of individuals and groups. Often creating characters that represent the many facets of social and racial identity, ...
Sold Out
Regular price
$43.15
Sale price
$43.15
Regular price
Unit price
per
by Ursula Kolbe (Author)Rapunzel's Supermarket[All about Young Children and Their Art] [RAPUNZELS SUPERMARKET 2/E] [Paperback]
Number of Pages: 135
Dimensions: 0.41 x 10.58 x 8.7 IN
Illustrated: Yes
Publication Date: January 01, 2007
Regular price
$48.53
Sale price
$48.53
Regular price
Unit price
per
by Upton Sinclair (Author)Sinclair wrote: "All art is propaganda"... "Who owns the artists?" Thus begins Sinclair's history of art, concluding that "the bulk of the successful artists of any time are men in harmony with the spirit of the time, and identified with the powers prevailing."
Number of Pages: 400
Dimensions: 0.95 x 8.82 x 5.48 IN
Publication Date: May 19, 2003
Regular price
$34.11
Sale price
$34.11
Regular price
Unit price
per
by Jonni Good (Author)This book teaches new techniques that anyone can use to create fabulous masks easily and quickly. Make one of the 12 popular mask styles in the book with detailed instructions and over 300 step-by-step photos - or use these easy new methods to create your own unique designs. Jonni shows you exactly how to sculpt the features of your masks so they truly represent the character and expression you're looking for. Then capture that look permanently with just two layers of su...
Sold Out
Regular price
$25.00
Sale price
$25.00
Regular price
Unit price
per
by Todd Reas James (Artist), Rachel Greene (Text by (Art/Photo Books))Todd James belongs to a small, influential group of artists who acquired the earliest elements of their visual languages painting New York City subway cars, and in doing so altered an entire generation's perception of urban letter forms. Filled with over 150 raucous paintings, drawings and signage, Todd James is a solid catalogue of work from the internationally known artist and designer. This small treasury is an irresisti...
Sold Out
Regular price
$25.00
Sale price
$25.00
Regular price
Unit price
per
by David Villorente (Editor), Dana James (Text by (Art/Photo Books))S is for Subway, and Spraycans to use. T is for Transit, the Ones and the Twos.Filled with 26 colorful marker drawings contributed by some of graffiti art's ultimate style masters, The ABCs of Style is part children's book, part adult art primer, tracking the evolution of graffiti letterforms. Each letter of the alphabet has been rendered by a different artist, with work from renowned writers Blade, Lee, Daze, Fuzz One, Haze,...
Sold Out
Regular price
$25.00
Sale price
$25.00
Regular price
Unit price
per
by Jason Fulford (Artist), Leanne Shapton (Editor), Paul Maliszewski (Editor)Paper Placemats is a book of 40 paper placemats, printed with work by 30 artists and ten writers. Each placemat can be ripped out and used. Contributors were asked to submit work having to do with "Place." Conceived as a public art project, the placemats were donated to restaurants across the U.S. in 2004/5 with the help of volunteers in each state. Additional copies are sold to cover the costs of production.Contribu...
Sold Out
Regular price
$54.00
Sale price
$54.00
Regular price
Unit price
per
by Miranda Belarde-Lewis (Author), John Drury (Author)The story Raven and the Box of Daylight, which tells how Raven transformed the world and brought light to the people by releasing the stars, moon, and sun, holds great significance to the Tlingit people of the Pacific Northwest Coast. A new body of work by artist Preston Singletary (American, born 1963) will immerse readers in Tlingit traditions by telling this story through his monumental glass works and installations.Primarily known for ...
Sold Out
Regular price
$15.95
Sale price
$15.95
Regular price
Unit price
per
by Maxine Anderson (Author)Amazing Leonardo da Vinci Inventions You Can Build Yourself introduces readers to the life, world, and incredible mind of Leonardo da Vinci through hands-on building projects that explore his invention ideas. Most of Leonardo's inventions were never made in his lifetime--they remained sketches in his famous notebooks. Amazing Leonardo da Vinci Inventions You Can Build Yourself shows you how to bring these ideas to life using common household supplies. Detailed step-...
Sold Out
Regular price
$25.00
Sale price
$25.00
Regular price
Unit price
per
by Lawrence Rinder (Author), Bill Arning (Text by (Art/Photo Books))Entertaining, lyrical and informative, Art Life is a selection of essays by well-known contemporary art curator Lawrence Rinder, all written since 1991. Rinder's work is distinguished by a concern for art's role in reflecting and shaping daily life. Informed by history, philosophy and popular culture, these essays provide keys to understanding a broad range of contemporary practices--from painting and drawing to net art and v...
Sold Out
Regular price
$35.00
Sale price
$35.00
Regular price
Unit price
per
by Dana Hoey (Photographer), Gretchen Rubin (Text by (Art/Photo Books))Jewels buried in a grave, cigarettes smoked in $100 bills, champagne poured into a bathtub--these perverse, irrational acts are also somehow thrilling. Profane Waste explores the workings of an unacknowledged taboo: the taboo against willful dissipation. Dana Hoey, an acclaimed photographer appearing here in her first book, presents a series of 30 haunting images that are at once ultra-real and uncanny. Bestselling biograp...
Sold Out
Regular price
$14.95
Sale price
$14.95
Regular price
Unit price
per
by Paper Rad (Artist), Donald Baechler (Foreword by)Comic strips, psychedelic imagery and lo-fi digital wizardry from the Paper Rad collectiveThis follow-up to the Paper Rad collective's recent hit, Paper Rad, B.J. and da Dogs, is both a return to form and a move forward. Comic strips, psychedelic imagery and the group's trademark lo-fi digital wizardry lend Pig Tales Digest the feeling of an old-school variety show. Bounding from stories, to suites of gag cartoons, to drawings of Alf, Miss P...
Sold Out
Regular price
$60.00
Sale price
$60.00
Regular price
Unit price
per
by Gustave Verbeek (Author), Peter Maresca (Editor), Martin Gardiner (Foreword by)Get lost in the work of one of the most innovative and unique comic strip artists of the early 20th century. One of the eight wonders of the comics world: The Upside Downs of Little Lady Lovekins and Old Man Muffaroo. The one Sunday page came in two parts: the first is read like a regular comic, then you turn the page upside down and the images transform to illustrate the story that continues with the panels in ...
Sold Out
Regular price
$30.00
Sale price
$30.00
Regular price
Unit price
per
by Jeffrey Deitch (Editor), Kathy Grayson (Editor), Lawrence Rinder (Text by (Art/Photo Books))Live Through This brings together more than 30 of the most exciting art, music and fashion personalities who are changing art making in New York. New art practice is now intimately tied to the lived experience of the artists themselves, and this book, through more than three hundred color photographs of artists, artworks, studios, off-duty behaviors, zines, concerts, openings and parties, illustrate...
Sold Out
Regular price
$21.60
Sale price
$21.60
Regular price
Unit price
per
by Matt Greene (Artist), Benjamin Weissman (Text by (Art/Photo Books)), Trinie Dalton (Text by (Art/Photo Books))The Los Angeles-based artist Matt Greene is becoming known for his ethereal landscapes of fleshy fungi and bushy bombshells, paintings that explore his favorite shelves in the library: vintage pornography, fairy tales, horticulture, horror films, nineteenth-century Symbolist art, and, of course, the history of Modernism. Greene's canvases unite those disparate and sometimes deliber...
Sold Out
Regular price
$25.00
Sale price
$25.00
Regular price
Unit price
per
by Katie Holten (Artist), Paul Ha (Foreword by), Elizabeth Kolbert (Contribution by)In her first museum exhibition in the United States, Irish artist Katie Holten joins the Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis, as an artist-in-residence to create her largest and most ambitious work to date. The exhibition presents a new site-specific indoor installation comprised of sculpture, drawings and paintings and an outdoor performance that collectively explore global ecology and social gestures within m...
Regular price
$50.33
Sale price
$50.33
Regular price
Unit price
per
by Georgiana Goddard King (Author), Kathy Gower (Introduction by)Georgiana Goddard King's seminal study, The Way of Saint James, is finally reissued. Completed in 1917, this three-volume masterpiece is a wide-ranging exploration of the history, literature, legends, and architecture of the Camino de Santiago. It is based on Professor King's "three years wanderings" on foot and by cart, mule, and other conveyance on the Spanish pilgrimage road, and on extensive academic research with particular...
Sold Out
Regular price
$54.00
Sale price
$54.00
Regular price
Unit price
per
by Jennifer Complo McNutt (Editor), Ashley Holland (Editor), John Vanausdall (Foreword by)Red: Eiteljorg Contemporary Art Fellowship 2013, the eighth iteration of the Eiteljorg Museum's acclaimed biennial art series, documents the strength, drama, determination, and humor of contemporary Native art and the artists who create it. Celebrating the work of Invited Artist Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun (Coast Salish/Okanagan) and Eiteljorg Fellows Julie Buffalohead (Ponca Tribe of Oklahoma), Nicholas G...
Sold Out
Regular price
$135.00
Sale price
$135.00
Regular price
Unit price
per
by James H. Nottage (Author)Lavishly illustrated, Generations celebrates the nearly 800 works of Native American art in The Helen Cox Kersting Collection, including pottery, jewelry, baskets, weavings, katsinas, and paintings. Representing the work of Native artists from the late 1800s to the present, the collection demonstrates the survival and flowering of work by Navajo, Pueblo, and other American Indian artists across the generations.Helen Cox Kersting grew up in Illinois, but gained fame...
Regular price
$51.21
Sale price
$51.21
Regular price
Unit price
per
by Douglas Stuart London (Author), Tax'a Leon London (Author)My name is Tax'a Leon and this book is about my family and my people, the K'iche' Maya. My father was murdered three years ago. I still have my mother and 12 brothers and sisters. Nothing was done to solve the murder of my father or the people that turn up every day in the cornfields machetied to death. After all the things that have happened to our family there are times when I feel fear and sadness and despair in humanity. I wrote...
Sold Out
Regular price
$60.00
Sale price
$60.00
Regular price
Unit price
per
by Ron Nagle (Artist), Dave Hickey (Foreword by), David Pagel (Text by (Art/Photo Books))The definitive monograph on the wide-ranging career of a pioneering sculptor and musicianYears in the making, this definitive monograph presents nearly six decades of work by the pioneering San Francisco-based ceramic sculptor Ron Nagle (born 1939). The plates section features 51 sculptures made since 1958, all reproduced in full color. Critical essays by Joel Selvin and David Pagel and a foreword by Dave...
Sold Out
Regular price
$18.00
Sale price
$18.00
Regular price
Unit price
per
by Leonard Koren (Author)Artists do a number of things that are very useful. In this deceptively modest book, some of these things are described. Seminal works by artists Marcel Duchamp, John Cage, Richard Serra, Christo & Jean-Claude, Donald Judd, and On Kawara are used to illustrate (in words only) these points. This book is highly recommended for parents of children thinking of embarking on a career in the arts, for policymakers confused about the function of art in society, and for ar...
Sold Out
Regular price
$35.00
Sale price
$35.00
Regular price
Unit price
per
by Mark Sanders (Text by (Art/Photo Books))Meet the Artists presents an extraordinary collaborative project between Jake and Dinos Chapman, George Condo and Paul McCarthy. It came about when the four artists were invited by the London arts agency, RS&A, to collaborate on the creation of eight paintings and a set of etchings over a period of one year. The project was commenced in March 2006, when one large canvas, one small canvas and one etching plate were delivered to each artist's studi...
Sold Out
Regular price
$40.00
Sale price
$40.00
Regular price
Unit price
per
by Kurt Kauper (Artist), Wayne Koestenbaum (Text by (Art/Photo Books)), Pepe Karmel (Text by (Art/Photo Books))According to The New York Times, "It would be easy to read Kurt Kauper's nude portraits of the former hockey players Bobby Orr and Derek Sanderson as a rote comment on the fragile state of American (or Canadian) masculinity. They work better as an erotic and personal tribute, one that draws on the artist's childhood in a Bruins-worshiping Boston suburb; the neo-Classical figuration o...
