Leading Roles: 50 Questions Every Arts Board Should Ask

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Not-for-profit arts organizations struggled to survive the recent economic recession. In this increasingly hardscrabble environment, it is absolutely imperative that the boards of these organizations function as energetically, creatively, and efficiently as possible. Michael M. Kaiser's personal history with boards of arts organizations began when he served on the board of the Washington Opera (now the Washington National Opera) in 1983. Today, in his capacity as p... More >>

Leading Roles: 50 Questions Every Arts Board Should Ask

AP Art History

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A NEWER EDITION OF THIS TITLE IS AVAILABLE.  SEE ISBN:  978-0-7386-0479-4  REA … Real review, Real practice, Real results. Get the college credits you deserve. AP ART HISTORY – New Title!
Includes Over 400 Full-Color Art Masterpieces on CDCompletely aligned with today’s AP exam Are you prepared to excel on the AP exam?  * Set up a study schedule by following our results-driv... More >>

AP Art History

The Bible of Illuminated Letters: A Treasury of Decorative Calligraphy

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The ancient art of illuminating manuscripts is currently attracting many new enthusiasts among artists, art students, and lovers of calligraphy. The Bible of Illuminated Letters is a volume they'll all want to add to their collections. It presents step-by-step instructions for recreating twelve illuminated alphabets. Among them are Celtic, Saxon, Gothic, Romanesque, Modern Revival, and seven more, including several modern scripts. Detailed diagrams instruct on creat... More >>

The Bible of Illuminated Letters: A Treasury of Decorative Calligraphy

Optical Illusions: The Science of Visual Perception

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This intriguing collection contains more than 275 optical illusions that appear to change before your eyes. Al Seckel carefully selected both well-known images, such as Shepard's tabletop, Wade's spiral, Ames room and Rubin's face/vase, and many lesser-known, but no less effective, illusions. Every type of optical illusion is here, along with notes about the science of each visual perception and how the illusions work. Among the baffling images and shapes are: ... More >>

Optical Illusions: The Science of Visual Perception

DK Art School: An Introduction to Art Techniques

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A comprehensive guide for the enthusiastic beginner and the experienced artist alike, An Introduction to Art Techniques embraces seven basic elements of art technique in one comprehensive volume. The subjects included are Drawing, Perspective, Watercolor, Pastels, Oil Painting, Acrylics, and Mixed Media. Easy--to--follow projects ---- from drawing natural forms to creating a photo collage ---- teach you all the essentials of each subject and inspire you to go on to ... More >>

DK Art School: An Introduction to Art Techniques

Gardner's Art Through The Ages, Volume I

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In the mid 1920's a teacher at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago had a vision to provide students and instructors with a textbook that would introduce them to the artistic legacy of not only Europe, but of the entire globe. In 1926, Harcourt Brace and Company published that vision - ART THROUGH THE AGES. Since that time, Helen Gardner's vision has been the leader in educating students about the artistic legacy of the world. For the past 75 years, ART THROUG... More >>

Gardner's Art Through The Ages, Volume I

Legal Guide for the Visual Artist, Fifth Edition

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This classic guide for artists is completely revised and updated to provide an in-depth view of the legal issues facing the visual artist today and provides practical legal guidance for any visual artist involved with creative work. Among the many new topics covered in this comprehensive guide are: detailed coverage of the myriad developments in copyright (including online copyright registration procedures and use of art on the Internet); changes in laws protecting ... More >>

Legal Guide for the Visual Artist, Fifth Edition

500 Tattoo Designs

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Tattoos are no longer unusual or uncommon; they are now an undeniable element of mainstream style and fashion. But tattoos are expensive and, more importantly, permanent; so choosing an image is a very big decision. Here to help is 500 Tattoo Designs, a vast reference library of popular tattoos. Neatly organized by theme, the clearly executed line drawings cover every conceivable subject area — historical and traditional to modern, from tribal imagery of native Am... More >>

500 Tattoo Designs

Masters: Art Quilts: Major Works by Leading Artists

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These art quilts showcase such versatility, innovation, and beauty that readers can’t help but be truly inspired. The gifted artists come from across the globe—including Africa, Asia, Europe, and North America—and their work displays their varying sensibilities, backgrounds, and talents.
Abstract appliquéd shapes cascade across the surface of Ita Ziv’s brilliantly colored quilts, creating vibrant celebrations of life. Noriko Endo captures her deep feeling... More >>

Masters: Art Quilts: Major Works by Leading Artists

Fearless Creating: A Step-by-Step Guide To Starting and Completing Your Work of Art

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The blank page, empty canvas, or uncarved stone will often fill artists with dread. But so may the thought of finishing, showing or even selling their work. Maisel guides the reader, whether an experienced artist or someone just starting out, past the pitfalls that appear in each stage of creation.Amazon.com Review
Besides being a writer himself, Eric Maisel is a therapist with a practice centered around artists, writers and performers and has seen many ... More >>

Fearless Creating: A Step-by-Step Guide To Starting and Completing Your Work of Art

Painting With Light

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Few cinematographers have had as decisive an impact on the cinematic medium as John Alton. Best known for his highly stylized film noir classics T-Men, He Walked by Night, and The Big Combo, Alton earned a reputation during the 1940s and 1950s as one of Hollywood's consummate craftsmen through his visual signature of crisp shadows and sculpted beams of light. No less renowned for his virtuoso color cinematography and deft appropriation of widesc... More >>

Painting With Light

Collecting Contemporary Art

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Words from the wise: insiders' tips on how to navigate the art market like a pro

"Art is about life, the art market is about money." —Damien Hirst

Whether you're an art fan, aficionado, or collector, this completely unique book should be on your required reading list. Like a textbook for a class given by all of the world's leading experts, Collecting Contemporary is the one and only book to teach you everything you ever wante... More >>

Collecting Contemporary Art

Lost Chicago

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These dazzling, poignant pages recreate the magical built environment that thrilled generations of Chicago residents and visitors alike before falling victim to the wrecking ball of "progress." Here are the grand residences and hotels, opulent theaters, legendary trains, and state-of-the-art office buildings and department stores-including the world's first skyscraper. Here too are the famous convention halls, parks, and racetracks of a great American city whose ar... More >>

Lost Chicago

Global Art: Activities, Projects, and Inventions from Around the World

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Did you know Korea is a mountainous peninsula about the size of Utah? This country’s project is a jeweled crown. The Gryphon House book . . . let my daughter and me learn about crafts from parts of the world where we have relatives and friends. We can make a fiesta dancing hat like those worn to celebrate the planting season of Ecuador (where my friend Lora served in the Peace Corps.) and paint our faces like the Kathakali performers in India (where my brother-in-... More >>

Global Art: Activities, Projects, and Inventions from Around the World

Houdini: Art and Magic

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Born Ehrich Weiss in Budapest, Hungary, Harry Houdini (1874–1926) was a rabbi’s son who became one of the 20th century’s most famous performers. His gripping theatrical presentations and heart-stopping outdoor spectacles attracted unprecedented crowds, and his talent for self-promotion and provocation captured headlines on both sides of the Atlantic.

Though Houdini’s work has earned him a place in the cultural pantheon, the details of his personal life... More >>

Houdini: Art and Magic

Dynamic Wrinkles and Drapery: Solutions for Drawing the Clothed Figure

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Understanding how the body moves is the key to rendering clothing, as world-renowned artist Hogarth demonstrates in this unique book.... More >>

Dynamic Wrinkles and Drapery: Solutions for Drawing the Clothed Figure

The New Munsell Student Color Set

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Albert Munsell s system of color notation has been taught for nearly a century, but
the applications and uses of the system are constantly changing. Long and Luke s text
teaches the importance of a standardized language to communicate color and the
factors affecting how we perceive it. The three dimensions of color hue, value, and
chroma are also described. There is a brief contextual description of other color systems.
This text bridges the gap betwe... More >>

The New Munsell Student Color Set

A Survival Guide for Art History Students

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Designed to guide learners through the often disorienting experience of taking a first art history class, this book addresses all aspectsof that total experience. KEY TOPICS Specific chapter topics cover note-taking during lecture, studying for and taking slide exams, writing response papers, methodology, how to critique secondary scholarship, and what to do with an art history degree. For individuals with little or no experience in art histor... More >>

A Survival Guide for Art History Students

Wisconsin Death Trip

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First published in 1973, this remarkable book about life in a small turn-of-the-century Wisconsin town has become a cult classic. Lesy has collected and arranged photographs taken between 1890 and 1910 by a Black River Falls photographer, Charles Van Schaik.... More >>

Wisconsin Death Trip

Richard Serra Drawing: A Retrospective

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As the focal point of numerous high-profile exhibitions, the sculpture of Richard Serra (b. 1939) has drawn international acclaim. Yet even those who have marveled at Serra's intellectually rigorous and large works of sculpture may not be familiar with his equally intriguing drawings. This handsome book brings together for the first time Serra's drawn work, considering the artist's investigation of medium as an activity both independent from and linked to his pionee... More >>

Richard Serra Drawing: A Retrospective

1000 Chairs

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This work covers 200 years of chair design, represented by 1000 chairs by some 400 designers. It spans design styles from Art Nouveau to the International Style, from Pop Art to Postmodernism, looking at designers from Hoffman to Ron Arad.Amazon.com Review
Sleek, stuffed, buttoned, or bent, in the den or the dining room, the chair is an indicator of its owner's identity. Chairs make up much of the interior landscape of our homes and workplaces, and a comfo... More >>

1000 Chairs

Sensorium: Embodied Experience, Technology, and Contemporary Art

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The relationship between the body and electronic technology, extensively theorized through the 1980s and 1990s, has reached a new technosensual comfort zone in the early twenty-first century. In Sensorium, contemporary artists and writers explore the implications of the techno-human interface. Ten artists, chosen by an international team of curators, offer their own edgy investigations of embodied technology and the technologized body. These range from Matthieu Bria... More >>

Sensorium: Embodied Experience, Technology, and Contemporary Art

The Field of Cultural Production

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Replete with madwomen, murderers, musicians, and mystics, Lonely Woman dramatically interweaves the lives of five women. It remains Takako Takahashi's most sustained and multifaceted fictional realization of her concept of "loneliness."... More >>

The Field of Cultural Production

An Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Traditional Symbols

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In nearly 1500 entries, many of them strikingly and often surprisingly illustrated, J. C. Cooper has documented the history and evolution of symbols from prehistory to our own day.With over 200 illustrations and lively, informative and often ironic texts, she discusses and explains an enormous variety of symbols extending from the Arctic to Dahomey, from the Iroquois to Oceana, and coming from systems as diverse as Tao, Christianity, Judaism, ... More >>

An Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Traditional Symbols

The Philosophy of Teaching the Teacher, the Pupil, the School

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The book has no illustrations or index. Purchasers are entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Subjects: Education / Teaching Methods... More >>

The Philosophy of Teaching the Teacher, the Pupil, the School

Complete Color Harmony Workbook

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A must-have reference for anyone working with color The Complete Color Harmony Workbook takes the essential elements of Rockport's Complete Color Harmony and turns them into a hands-on workbook for anyone working with color. This book not only provides the tear-out color swatches and hands-on color advice available in Complete Color Harmony, but also offers new metallic and fluorescent color inspiration as well as two new palette chapters: "Graphic" and "Pure." Like... More >>

Complete Color Harmony Workbook

The Artist-Gallery Partnership, Third Edition: A Practical Guide to Consigning Art

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"Handles a complex subject in an easy-to-read style." --Arts Management * Authoritative text, fully updated with statutes in all 32 states with consignment laws * Includes a ready-to-use model consignment form * Author Tad Crawford is a renowned expert on arts law The definitive guide for those who create and those who sell art is back, now in a newly revised and updated third edition. Artists, dealers, and gallery owners will welcome this clear explanation of the c... More >>

The Artist-Gallery Partnership, Third Edition: A Practical Guide to Consigning Art

Living the Creative Life: Ideas and Inspiration from Working Artists

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How DO they do it? If you could ask your favorite artist or crafter only one question, chances are you'd ask about creativity: Where do your ideas come from? How did you get started? What are your tricks for overcoming blocks? In Living the Creative Life, author Rice Freeman-Zachery has compiled answers to these questions and more from 15 successful artists in a variety of mediums--from assemblage to fiber arts, beading to mixed-media collage. Creativi... More >>

Living the Creative Life: Ideas and Inspiration from Working Artists

Mutter Museum Historic Medical Photographs

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The first book on the Mütter Museum contain artful images of the museum's fascinating exhibits shot by contemporary fine art photographers. Here, the focus is on the museum’s archive of rare historic photographs, most of which have never been seen by the public. Featured are poignant, aesthetically accomplished works ranging from Civil War photographs showing injury and recovery, to the ravages of diseases not yet conquered in the 19th century, to pathological an... More >>

Mutter Museum Historic Medical Photographs

A Passion for Sea Glass

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Some people's passion for sea glass goes beyond collecting--they use it to create something of beauty. Carole Lambert, author of Sea Glass Chronicles, gives us entree into the studios of those who do everything from gathering and amassing sea glass mulch for landscaping to designing stained-sea-glass windows. This volume will arouse a renewed sense of wonder in those who already possess a passion for sea glass and win legions of new sea-glass devotees.... More >>

A Passion for Sea Glass

Anatomy Lessons from the Great Masters

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This classic book, whose foremost author was one of the great artistic anatomy teachers of the twentieth century, is an invaluable instructor and reference guide for any professional, amateur, or student artist who depicts the human form.

Revealing the drawing principles behind one hundred inspiring masterpieces, the book presents work by Leonardo, Michelangelo, Rubens, Raphael, Titian, Rembrandt, and other greats. These superb portrayers of figures knew tha... More >>

Anatomy Lessons from the Great Masters

Art in the Streets

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The first large-scale American museum exhibition to survey the colorful history of graffiti and street art movements internationally. Highlighting the connection between graffiti and street art and other vibrant subcultures, such as those that developed around Hip Hop in the Bronx and skateboarding in Southern California, Art in the Streets explores parallel movements in dance and music. The exhibition is curated by MoCA Director Jeffrey Deitch, working with a curat... More >>

Art in the Streets

The Art Detective: Fakes, Frauds, and Finds and the Search for Lost Treasures

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The art world has never seemed quite so treacherous, so beguiling- and so much fun

What separates a masterpiece from a piece of junk? Thanks to the BBC's Antiques Roadshow and its American spin-off, everyone is searching garage sales and hunting online for hidden gems, wondering whether their attics contain trash or treasures. In The Art Detective, Philip Mould, one of the world's foremost authorities on British portraiture and an irreverent and del... More >>

The Art Detective: Fakes, Frauds, and Finds and the Search for Lost Treasures

Perspective Drawing Handbook

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Concise, thoughtfully written text on drawing and sketching, accompanied by more than 150 simply drawn illustrations, provides important information on such subjects as diminution, foreshortening, convergence, shade and shadow, and other visual principles of perspective. Illustrations depict a sense of space and depth, demonstrate vanishing points and eye level.
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Perspective Drawing Handbook

Gerhard Richter: Forty Years Of Painting

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Ranging from photo-based pictures to gestural abstraction, Gerhard Richter's diverse body of work calls into question many widely held attitudes about the inherent importance of stylistic consistency, the inaturali evolution of individual artistic sensibility, the spontaneous component of creativity, and the relationship of technological means and mass media imagery to traditional studio methods and formats. Unlike many of his peers, he has explored these issues thr... More >>

Gerhard Richter: Forty Years Of Painting

Becca335 Pose

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Becca335 is an Artistic Nude Figure Pose photographed in color (a color display is highly recommended). One photo was taken every 15 degrees as we rotated the model through a full 360-degree surround view. The pose is intended for artists, illustrators, animators or anyone who needs a high quality figure reference. With it, you can practice drawing or painting and improve your skills. Or, you can create finished works of art that you can sell. All poses are photogra... More >>

Becca335 Pose

A Typographic Workbook: A Primer to History, Techniques, and Artistry

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Quickly master the concepts and skills you need to successfully design with type

a typographic WORKBOOK

To help you gain a deeper understanding of the effects produced by various fonts and typographic techniques, designer Kate Clair takes you on a fascinating tour of the innovative potential of type. Extensive visual examples illustrate the use of type as an expressive communication tool. From selecting the right font, to spacing it, to... More >>

A Typographic Workbook: A Primer to History, Techniques, and Artistry

Sketching and Drawing for Children

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Young artists can now learn all the fundamentals of art, including basic shapes, proportion, perspective, shading and movement in drawings with this easy-to-read instructional. With over 350 illustrations, Sketching and Drawing for Children starts out with simple objects, then moves on to progressively more difficult and complex pictures and scenes.... More >>

Sketching and Drawing for Children

Creating Meaning through Literature and the Arts: Arts Integration for Classroom Teachers

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The new edition of this best-selling text on arts-based teaching redefines literacy in light of the 21st century need for multiple literacies. Creating Meaning through Literature and the Arts: An Integration Handbook for Teachers, 4th Edition provides teachers with an Arts Integration Blueprint, comprised of 10 building blocks for arts-based instruction that includes collaborative unit planning, best arts-based teaching practices, and assessment for learning. The Fi... More >>

Creating Meaning through Literature and the Arts: Arts Integration for Classroom Teachers

Critical Terms for Art History

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The nature of the visual has, over the past decade, moved to the center of debates in the humanities. No longer simply the study of timeless masterpieces, art history as a discipline is now addressing some of the most basic questions about cultural production, questions such as how images function and how expectations and social factors mediate what we see. The new scope of art history has required a major expansion and reassessment of methods and terminology.
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Critical Terms for Art History

What Do Pictures Want?: The Lives and Loves of Images

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Why do we have such extraordinarily powerful responses toward the images and pictures we see in everyday life? Why do we behave as if pictures were alive, possessing the power to influence us, to demand things from us, to persuade us, seduce us, or even lead us astray?

According to W. J. T. Mitchell, we need to reckon with images not just as inert objects that convey meaning but as animated beings with desires, needs, appetites, demands, and drives of their ... More >>

What Do Pictures Want?: The Lives and Loves of Images

The Encyclopedia of Pastel Techniques: A Unique A-Z Directory of Pastel-Painting Techniques Plus Guidance on How Best to Use Them

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Pastel artists of all skill levels will find invaluable information in this comprehensive resource that shows how to work with pastels and how to choose them. Divided into two parts, the first section contains an A-to-Z encyclopedia covering the full pastel range, including soft pastels, hard pastels, pastel pencils, oil pastels, and water-soluble pastels. The exact characteristics of each medium are explained as are specific pastel brands. The second section cont... More >>

The Encyclopedia of Pastel Techniques: A Unique A-Z Directory of Pastel-Painting Techniques Plus Guidance on How Best to Use Them

Perspective! For Comic Book Artists: How to Achieve a Professional Look in Your Artwork

• ISBN13: 9780823005673
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This clever book teaches artists the unique skill of drawing perspective for spectacular landscapes, fantastic interiors, and other wildly animated backgrounds to fit comic-strip panels.... More >>

Perspective! For Comic Book Artists: How to Achieve a Professional Look in Your Artwork

The Power of Limits: Proportional Harmonies in Nature, Art, and Architecture

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One of the delights of life is the discovery and rediscovery of patterns of order and beauty in nature—designs revealed by slicing through a head of cabbage or an orange, the forms of shells and butterfly wings. These images are awesome not just for their beauty alone, but because they suggest an order underlying their growth, a harmony existing in nature. What does it mean that such an order exists; how far does it extend?

The Power of Limits was inspi... More >>

The Power of Limits: Proportional Harmonies in Nature, Art, and Architecture

Animal Anatomy for Artists: The Elements of Form

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From the author of the classic Human Anatomy for Artists comes this user-friendly reference guide featuring over five hundred original drawings and over seventy photographs.
Designed for painters, sculptors, and illustrators who use animal imagery in their work, Animal Anatomy for Artists offers thorough, in-depth information about the most commonly depicted animals, presented in a logical and easily understood format for artists--whether beginner or accompl... More >>

Animal Anatomy for Artists: The Elements of Form

The Private World of Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Berge

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The star pieces from fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent's art collection including works by Cezanne, Picasso, Mondrian and Matisse have been unveiled in the Grand Palais, Paris, ahead of what auctioneers have dubbed the art sale of the century. Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Berge amassed the collection together before the designers death in June 2008. The works, which had adorned the pairs Paris flats, the Chateau Gabriel in Normandy and their home in Morocco, incl... More >>

The Private World of Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Berge

Gauguin: Maker of Myth

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This major reevaluation of Paul Gauguin presents the artist and his work in an entirely new light. The vivid, unnaturalistic colors and bold outlines of Gauguin's paintings and the strong, semiabstract quality of his woodcuts had a profound effect on the development of twentieth-century art. Here readers will discover why Gauguin was one of the most important artists behind European modernism--yet one who also challenged its very tenets. Because while modern art lar... More >>

Gauguin: Maker of Myth

Art for the Very Young: Ages 3-6

• ISBN13: 9781568226682
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Young children have the ability to create, view, interpret, and appreciate art. Art for the Very Young offers over 50 art activities for children to create art and learn about basic art concepts and techniques, such as line, shape, color, space,texture, form, and value. Watch how your young learners acquire an appreciation and understanding of the featured artists and techniques they use!... More >>

Art for the Very Young: Ages 3-6

A World of Art/Artnotes: A Study Guide and Lecture Companion

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For one semester courses in Art Appreciation.   A World of Art teaches students how artists create by helping them understand that creativity starts with critical thinking. By guiding students through a rich array of aesthetic elements and artistic media, along with an overview of art history, this text encourages students to develop an appreciation for a diverse range of art. Author Henry M. Sayre demystifies the creative process by showing how artists use critic... More >>

A World of Art/Artnotes: A Study Guide and Lecture Companion

Immediate Family

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"These are photographs of my children....Many of these pictures are intimate, some are fictions and some are fantastic, but most are of ordinary things every mother has seen. I take pictures when they are bloodied or sick or naked or angry. They dress up, they pout and posture, they paint their bodies, they dive like otters in the dark river."--Sally Mann, from the Introduction

Taken against the Arcadian backdrop of her woodland home in Virginia, Sally Mann's... More >>

Immediate Family