The Power of the Center : A Study of Composition in the Visual Arts : The New Version

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Using a wealth of examples, Arnheim considers the factors that determine the overall organization of visual form in works of painting, sculpture, and architecture.... More >>

The Power of the Center : A Study of Composition in the Visual Arts : The New Version

Barbara Kruger

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A seminal volume celebrating the career of influential American artist Barbara Kruger, made in collaboration with the artist.

Bold, philosophical, radical, subversive: the art of Barbara Kruger focuses on decoding the social-psychological messages embedded in popular culture. Marrying pictures to words in a variety of media and sites, Kruger raises issues of power politics, sexuality, and representation. Borrowing slogans and phrases from the lexicon of thou... More >>

Barbara Kruger

Chasing Aphrodite: The Hunt for Looted Antiquities at the World's Richest Museum

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In recent years, several of America’s leading art museums have voluntarily given up their finest pieces of classical art to the governments of Italy and Greece. The monetary value is estimated at over half a billion dollars. Why would they be moved to such unheard-of generosity? 

The answer lies at the Getty, one of the world’s richest and most troubled museums, and scandalous revelations that it had been buying looted antiquities for decades. Drawing on... More >>

Chasing Aphrodite: The Hunt for Looted Antiquities at the World's Richest Museum

Chip Kidd: Book One: Work: 1986-2006

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Described as "the closest thing to a rock star" in graphic design today (USA Today), Chip Kidd is universally recognized as an American master of contemporary book design. At the forefront of a revolution in publishing, Kidd's iconic covers, with their inventive marriage of type and found images, have influenced an entire generation of design practitioners in many fields.Chip Kidd: Book One collects all of his book covers and designs for the first time, as well as h... More >>

Chip Kidd: Book One: Work: 1986-2006

Engaging Learners Through Artmaking: Choice-Based Art Education in the Classroom

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This dynamic resource details the philosophy, rationale, and implementation of choice-based authentic art education in elementary and middle schools. To do the work of artists, children need opportunities to behave, think, and perform as artists. The heart of this curriculum is to facilitate independent learning in studio centers designed to support student choices in subject matter and media. The authors address theory, instruction, assessment, and advocacy in a us... More >>

Engaging Learners Through Artmaking: Choice-Based Art Education in the Classroom

The Lost Museum: The Nazi Conspiracy To Steal The World's Greatest Works Of Art

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During the occupation of Paris, the Nazis confiscated nearly 100,000 artworks frommore than 200 collectors, transporting most of the spoils to Germany, where Hitlerand Goering enjoyed first pick. The Lost Museum dramatizes the pillage of the mostextensive and valuable of these collections, which belonged to five renownedJewish families: Rosenberg, Rothschild, Schloss, David-Weill and Bernheim-Jeune.After the war, many works that were found were returned to their own... More >>

The Lost Museum: The Nazi Conspiracy To Steal The World's Greatest Works Of Art

Marlene Dumas: Measuring Your Own Grave

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In her expressionistic drawings and paintings of the last three decades, acclaimed South African artist Marlene Dumas has focused on the human figure, probing themes of love, desire, despair and confusion in order to slyly critique social and political attitudes toward women, children, people of color and others who have historically been victimized. From her evocative portraits, based on photographs of friends and family as well as figures culled from printed porno... More >>

Marlene Dumas: Measuring Your Own Grave