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The Uncomfortable Zones of Fun: The Temescal Period 2009-2013 - Hardcover

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by Frank Moore (Author)If you wandered the streets of Oakland or Berkeley, California from the mid-1970s through 2013, you likely saw one of Frank Moore's performance flyers on a telephone pole. The Temescal period is so named because of the ongoing performance series Moore did at the Temescal Art Center in Oakland, California from 2009 until his death in October 2013. At Temescal Art Center, he found a long-term home for his performance work. He called these performances "experiments in expe...

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Adam Silverman: Common Ground: With Sogetsu Ikebana Los Angeles - Paperback

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by Adam Silverman (Artist), Ravi Gunewardena (Text by (Art/Photo Books)), Tony Marsh (Text by (Art/Photo Books))A celebration of multicultural collaboration through contemporary ceramics and exquisite ikebana arrangementsAdam Silverman creates ambitious ceramic work with site-specific materials that engage their places of origin. Similar to a chef cooking with local ingredients, his works are infused with the history, culture, issues and spirit of a place. In the fall of 2019, before the coro...

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Helen Cammock: I Will Keep My Soul - Hardcover

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by Helen Cammock (Artist), Jordan Amirkhani (Text by (Art/Photo Books)), Andrea Andersson (Text by (Art/Photo Books))A gorgeous book object engaging New Orleans' multilayered histories of race, art and politics, from the acclaimed Turner Prize winnerConvening polyphonous voices from past and present, I Will Keep My Soul is an orchestral layering of photography, historical documents, poetry and interviews, rooted in the history, geography and community of New Orleans. In this tactile artist's ...

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by Pacita Abad (Artist), Victoria Sung (Editor), Pio Abad (Text by (Art/Photo Books))A comprehensive survey of Abad's visually dazzling and politically prescient works blending fabric and paintingThis volume surveys three decades of Pacita Abad's multifaceted practice. Published on the occasion of her first-ever retrospective, it includes new research and writing by Julia Bryan-Wilson, Ruba Katrib, Nancy Lim, Matthew Villar Miranda, Victoria Sung and Xiaoyu Weng, an edited oral history about ...

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Native American Art from the Thomas W. Weisel Family Collection - Hardcover

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by Bruce Bernstein (Editor), Jill D'Alessandro (Editor), Deana Dartt (Editor)A massive panorama of Native American art from Navajo weaving to Apache basketrySpanning nearly 1,000 years of artistic creativity, this wide-ranging volume brings together 206 artworks that exemplify both exquisite aesthetics and rich cultural histories. The majority of the collection is from the American Southwest--19th-century Navajo weavings, ancestral and historical Pueblo pottery, Hopi and Zuni carved figures, ...

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Keith Haring: Art Is for Everybody - Hardcover

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by Keith Haring (Artist), Sarah Loyer (Editor), Joanne Heyler (Foreword by)Haring as activist and egalitarian: a fresh, accessible and dynamic look at one of New York's most exhilarating artistsLavishly illustrated with essays and reflections by cultural leaders, Keith Haring: Art Is for Everybody surveys Haring's dynamic art practice from 1978 to 1990, shining a bright light on the iconic and beloved artist known for his fluid, uniform lines, intricate compositions and repeating imagery such...

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Chosen Memories: Contemporary Latin American Art from the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Gift and Beyond - Hardcover

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by Ines Katzenstein (Editor)A cross-generational look at the unique convergence of art and politics in Latin America, from Leandro Katz to Mauro RestiffeChosen Memories presents artworks that find their poetic and political vitality by mobilizing histories of Latin America. Published in conjunction with an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the publication presents artworks by contemporary Latin American artists who, over the last four decades, have looked to history as the sou...

How to Draw Dinosaurs Ages 4-8: This how-to-draw guide is perfect for Dinosaur enthusiasts of all ages! Budding paleontologists will love this instruc - Paperback

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by Bulent Kusev (Author)This how-to-draw guide is perfect for Dinosaur enthusiasts of all ages! Budding paleontologists will love this instructional guide that takes them step by step through the process of drawing prehistoric creatures. Number of Pages: 58 Dimensions: 0.12 x 11 x 8.5 IN Publication Date: November 13, 2022

The Works of William Hogarth: In a Series of Engravings; Volume 1 - Paperback

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by John Trusler (Author), William Hogarth (Author)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enou...

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by Siu Kam Wen (Author)Modern aesthetics is in as much a quagmire as modern art is. Since the nineteenth century, there has been no serious attempt at defining beauty, while the great many of theorists focus their attention on a concocted concept that is foreign and unnatural to say the least: the aesthetic. Art theory, on the other hand, failed utterly in its fundamental task when it handed the artist and the so-called artworld a carte blanche-in the form of the institutional theory of art-t...

The Art of the Pitti Palace: With a Short History of the Building of the Palace, and Its Owners, and an Appreciation of Its Treasures, Issue 2560 - Hardcover

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by Julia Wolf Gibbs De Addison (Author)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be pr...

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by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York (Created by)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important en...

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by Sermon on the Mount English (Created by)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to b...

Epitaphs of the Catacombs; Or, Christian Inscriptions in Rome During the First Four Centuries - Paperback

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by James Spencer Northcote (Author)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preser...

The Children of the Mist: Or, the Scottish Clansmen in Peace and War - Hardcover

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by Archibald Campbell (Author)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, ...

A Dictionary of the Booksellers and Printers Who Were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland From 1641 to 1667 - Paperback

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by Henry Robert Plomer (Author)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved,...

Historical Memorials of Westminster Abbey; Volume II - Paperback

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by Arthur Penrhyn Stanley (Author)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserv...

A Dictionary of the Booksellers and Printers Who Were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland From 1641 to 1667 - Hardcover

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by G. C. Hermann Halleur (Author)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserve...

The Principles of Colouring in Painting - Hardcover

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by Thomas Delf (Author), M. E. 1786-1889 Chevreul (Author)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is import...

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by James McNeill Whistler (Author)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserv...

Historical Memorials of Westminster Abbey - Hardcover

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A Sketch of the Life and Work of the Painter Domenico Morelli - Hardcover

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by Ashton Rollins Willard (Author)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserv...

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by Ely Culbertson (Author)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, repr...

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Dressing Barbie: A Celebration of the Clothes That Made America's Favorite Doll and the Incredible Woman Behind Them - Paperback

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by Carol Spencer (Author) Number of Pages: 160 Dimensions: 0.6 x 12.97 x 8.04 IN Publication Date: June 06, 2023

The Interpretation Of Art Essays On The Art Criticism Of John Ruskin Walter Pater Clive Bell Roger Fry And Herbert Read - Paperback

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by Solomon Fishman (Author)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, rep...

Marion Kavanaugh Wachtel: Paintings - Paperback

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by Gary Lee Kvamme (Author)Marion Kavanaugh Wachtel was a plein air painter in watercolors and oils who lived and worked with her artist husband Elmer Wachtel in the Arroyo Seco near Pasadena, California, in the early 20th century. She painted primarily landscapes of the dramatic Californian and Southwestern terrain. Her work was valued in her own day, and her works were exhibited across the United States.The present work showcases a fine array of new photographic images of paintings by Wacht...

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Pablo Picasso (Spanish Edition) - Paperback

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by Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara (Author), Teresa Bellon (Illustrator)This beautiful Spanish-language book, translated from the hugely popular Little People, BIG DREAMS series, can be enjoyed by fluent Spanish speakers and those learning the language, whether at home or in the classroom. En este libro de la serie Little People, BIG DREAMS, aclamada por la crítica y superventas con millones de ejemplares, descubra la vida de Pablo Picasso, uno de los artistas más grandes del mundo en el siglo 20...

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Objects and Organisms: Vivification - Reification - Transformation - Hardcover

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by Ella Beaucamp (Editor), Romana Kaske (Editor), Thomas Moser (Editor)Author BiographyElla Beaucamp, Romana Kaske, University of Munich; Thomas Moser, TU Vienn Number of Pages: 256 Dimensions: 0.8 x 9.6 x 7 IN Publication Date: April 30, 2023

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Painter Le Corbusier: Eileen Gray's Villa E 1027 and Le Cabanon - Hardcover

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by Tim Benton (Author)In 1929, Eileen Graydesigned Villa E 1027 for herselfand her youthful partner Jean Badovici, but only lived therefor three years. Today, the elegant house in Roquebrune-Cap-Mar- tin insouthern France is an icon of modernism. In 1937, Le Corbusier discovered theplace and the "Maison en Bord de Mer". Inspired by the genius of the placeand the light on the Côte d'Azur, hecreated a total of eight large-format wall paintings there in 1938 and 1939onwards, some of which comple...

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Hans Hofmann: Chimbote - Farben Für Die Neue Stadt - Hardcover

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by Museum Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern (Editor), Britta E. Buhlmann (Author)As an exponent of Abstract Expressionism, the dominant tendency in American painting in the 1950s, Hans Hofmann (b. Wei enburg, Germany, 1880; d. New York, USA, 1966) ranks among the preeminent artists of the twentieth century. As a teacher at his Hans Hofmann School of Fine Arts, which he founded in 1933 after emigrating to the United States, he exerted a formative influence over a generation of young painters. With ...

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by Olaf Breuning (Other), Gianni Jetzer (Editor), Katharina Beisiegel (Author)The multimedia artist Olaf Breuning (b. Schaffhausen, Switzerland, 1970; lives and works in Upstate New York) has built a multifaceted oeuvre in installation art, photography, video, sculpture, drawing, and performance that questions contemporary reality. In a recent series of paintings, he playfully grapples with pressing concerns such as global warming. Like his earlier work, the new ensemble manifests his unortho...