Irving Penn: Small Trades

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Photographer Irving Penn (b. 1917) is renowned for his innovative contributions to portrait, still life, and fashion photography, and a career that has spanned more than six decades at Vogue magazine.  In 1950, Vogue assigned Penn to photograph workers in Paris, and thus his monumental work The Small Trades began.  Created in 1950 and 1951 in Paris, London, and New York, The Small Trades consists of portraits of skilled tradespeople dressed in their work clothes ... More >>

Irving Penn: Small Trades

The Creative Impulse: An Introduction to the Arts

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For any introductory course in Humanities or Interdisciplinary Arts Appreciation. This text presents an overview of the arts in the Western tradition; in the contexts of the philosophy, religion, aesthetic theory, economics, and politics surrounding them. It is an historical introduction to the humanities yielding a basic familiarity with major styles and their implications as well as a sense of the historical development of individual arts media.... More >>

The Creative Impulse: An Introduction to the Arts

The Interior Designers Guide to Pricing Estimating and Budgeting

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Provided here are practical guidelines on how to value the cost of designing commercial or residential interiors. From the designer's creative input to the pricing of decorating products and procedures, this guide allows interior designers to establish prices and budgets that satisfy their clients and make their business profitable. Interviews with experienced interior designers, case studies, and sidebars of projects highlight professional pitfalls and how to maste... More >>

The Interior Designers Guide to Pricing Estimating and Budgeting

The Infinity of Lists: An Illustrated Essay

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Best-selling author and philosopher Umberto Eco is currently resident at the Louvre, and his chosen theme of study is "the vertigo of lists." Reflecting on this enormous trove of human achievements, in his lyrical intellectual style he has embarked on an investigation of the phenomenon of cataloging and collecting. This book, featuring lavish reproductions of artworks from the Louvre and other world-famous collections, is a philosophical and artistic sequel t... More >>

The Infinity of Lists: An Illustrated Essay

On Line: Drawing Through the Twentieth Century

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On Line: Drawing Through the Twentieth Century explores the radical evolution of drawing that took place during the last century and through to the present day, as numerous artists subjected the traditional concepts of the medium to a critical examination. In a revolutionary departure from the institutional definition of drawing, and from reliance on paper as the fundamental support material, artists instead pushed the line across the plane and into real space, expa... More >>

On Line: Drawing Through the Twentieth Century

Modern Life: Edward Hopper and His Time - Second Edition

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One of the foremost chroniclers of pre–World War II American urbanism, painter and printmaker Edward Hopper depicted hauntingly isolated figures in diners, railroad cars, and rented rooms at the beginning of the twentieth century. A lifelong New Yorker, Hopper took the loneliness of big city life as one of his most persistent themes, and his often dark and remarkably realistic works have come to symbolize the melancholy of modern life.   This new and sumptuo... More >>

Modern Life: Edward Hopper and His Time - Second Edition

Guide to Getting Arts Grants

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Get that arts grant and be more independent! In this book, artists and arts groups will find all they need to know to support themselves through grants and special projects. This expert guide, written by an insider who has been on both the grant-making and the grant-writing side of the arts, shows readers how to assess their personal strengths and set goals to pursue their dreams. Hands-on examples and how-to exercises are provided for every situation: from creating... More >>

Guide to Getting Arts Grants

Monet : 1840-1926

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The Monet exhibition taking place in fall 2010 at the Grand Palais in Paris has caused an international sensation. In a rapturous review on the front page of The New York Times, Michael Kimmelman says that it gives us a sublime painter whose achievement places him in the company of artists who reveal the world with new vision. This catalogue offers a permanent record of this magnificent art exhibition. 

Claude Monet is one of the most beloved painters ... More >>

Monet : 1840-1926

Roberto Capucci: Art into Fashion

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Italian couturier Roberto Capucci (born 1930) is revered by contemporary fashion designers for his innovative silhouettes and masterful use of colour and materials. Capucci refers to his creations as 'studies in form', and draws inspiration from a multitude of sources, including art, architecture and nature. This beautifully illustrated book, the companion to the first exhibition of Capucci's work in the United States, examines his career from the 1950s to the prese... More >>

Roberto Capucci: Art into Fashion

Art with Anything: 52 Weeks of Fun Using Everyday Stuff

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With fifty-two weeks of fantastic art projects using ordinary materials,Art with Anythingprovides a year of creativity, imagination, and fun! This new book uses best-selling author MaryAnn F. Kohl’s mantra “It’s the process, not the product” to explore making art every day from everyday materials.Organized alphabetically by material, each of the fifty-two weeks features five days of activities, increasing in complexity with each day: Day 1 is basic, Days 2 a... More >>

Art with Anything: 52 Weeks of Fun Using Everyday Stuff

Understanding Color: An Introduction for Designers

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Understanding Color is a comprehensive, and user-friendly text on color for design students and professionals. The material is sequenced to provide an understanding of how color is seen before introducing a color vocabulary, which is followed by theory and exercises in color effects, control and harmony.... More >>

Understanding Color: An Introduction for Designers

Inside the Business of Illustration

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This guide to the ins and outs of today's dynamic illustration business tells budding illustrators everything that their teacher didn't know or their art director didn't tell them. Using an entertaining, running narrative format to look at key concerns every illustrator must face today, this book covers finding one's unique style and establishing a balance between art and commerce; tackling issues of authorship and promotion; and more. In-depth perspectives are offe... More >>

Inside the Business of Illustration

Art Direction Explained, At Last!

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This book is a highly informative, highly entertaining introduction to what art direction is and what art directors do. Written by two of the world's leading experts on the subject, it covers the role of art director in numerous environments, including magazines and newspapers, advertising, corporate identity, museums, and publishing. It also provides an insight into what makes a successful art director, what an art director actually does all day, what makes things ... More >>

Art Direction Explained, At Last!

The Venus Fixers: The Remarkable Story of the Allied Soldiers Who Saved Italy's Art During World War II

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In 1943, with the world convulsed by war and a Fascist defeat in Europe far from certain, a few visionaries—civilians and soldiers alike—saw past questions of life and death to realize that victory wasn’t the only thing at stake. So was the priceless cultural heritage of thousands of years.

In the midst of the conflict, the Allied Forces appointed the monuments officers—a motley group of art historians, curators, architects, and artists—to ensure th... More >>

The Venus Fixers: The Remarkable Story of the Allied Soldiers Who Saved Italy's Art During World War II

Talking Prices: Symbolic Meanings of Prices on the Market for Contemporary Art

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How do dealers price contemporary art in a world where objective criteria seem absent? Talking Prices is the first book to examine this question from a sociological perspective. On the basis of a wide range of qualitative and quantitative data, including interviews with art dealers in New York and Amsterdam, Olav Velthuis shows how contemporary art galleries juggle the contradictory logics of art and economics. In doing so, they rely on a highly ritualized business ... More >>

Talking Prices: Symbolic Meanings of Prices on the Market for Contemporary Art

Art History's History

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Written in jargon-free, reader-friendly language, this is one of the first volumes to make art historical theory accessible to those at the introductory level. A review of contemporary theory of art history provides readers with lucid prose and concrete examples. Discussion of eighteenth- and nineteenth- century theories that are important to art history offers readers a review of historically important issues in philosophy. Illustrations of ... More >>

Art History's History

Gee's Bend: The Architecture of the Quilt

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In 2002, Gee’s Bend burst into international prominence through the success of Tinwood’s Quilts of Gee’s Bend exhibition and book, which revealed an important and previously invisible art tradition from the African American South. Critics and popular audiences alike marveled at these quilts that combined the best of contemporary design with a deeply rooted ethnic heritage and compelling human stories about the women. Gee's Bend: The Architecture of the Quilt i... More >>

Gee's Bend: The Architecture of the Quilt

From Ordinary To Extraordinary: Art & Design Problem Solving

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These dynamic teaching ideas and projects will stimulate interest in a range of media—and motivate students to find highly individual solutions to visual problems. Place everyday objects in new, eye-opening contexts; increase skills; challenge young artists to reflect on their place in the world; and encourage teamwork.
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From Ordinary To Extraordinary: Art & Design Problem Solving

Theory of Colours

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In this classic of speculative science, the author of Faust provides a unique perspective on the nature of color. Although not scientifically accurate in light of current knowledge, it offers an invaluable exploration of color, art, aesthetics, and philosophy, marked by inimitable prose and stimulating ideas.
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Theory of Colours

The Artist's Guide to Public Art: How to Find and Win Commissions

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Public art commissions--how to find them, how to get them * First-hand advice from experienced public artists * Written by an artist for artists * Includes expert information on public art law Public-art commissions are challenging and rewarding and this timely guide shows beginning and working visual artists exactly how to start and build a career in the world of public art. Learn how to find, apply for, compete for, and win a public art commission. First-hand inte... More >>

The Artist's Guide to Public Art: How to Find and Win Commissions

Making the Mummies Dance : Inside the Metropolitan Museum of Art

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A former Director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art reveals his bold and brash life at its pinnacle: the clandestine deals which secured blockbuster exhibitions for the museum and made him a legend. Photos.... More >>

Making the Mummies Dance : Inside the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Werner Herzog - Of Walking in Ice: Munich - Paris 23 November - 14 December 1974

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In the winter of 1974, filmmaker Werner Herzog made a three week solo journey from Munich to Paris on foot. He believed it was the only way his close friend, film historian Lotte Eisner, would survive a horrible sickness that had overtaken her. During this monumental odyssey through a seemingly endless blizzard, Herzog documented everything he saw and felt with intense sincerity. This diary is dotted with a pastiche of rants about the extreme cold and utter loneline... More >>

Werner Herzog - Of Walking in Ice: Munich - Paris 23 November - 14 December 1974

Exhibit Labels: An Interpretive Approach

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Provides exhibit designers and label writers with a step-by-step guidebook for planning, writing and producing exhibit labels.... More >>

Exhibit Labels: An Interpretive Approach