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

• ISBN13: 9780876591901
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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

• ISBN13: 9780300146844
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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

• ISBN13: 9780131401976
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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

• ISBN13: 9780826321930
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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

• ISBN13: 9780262101172
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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

• ISBN13: 9781581156454
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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

• ISBN13: 9780823002818
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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

• ISBN13: 9780670021857
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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

• ISBN13: 9780486432083
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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