Sunday, July 22, 2007

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

Friday, July 20, 2007

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

Saturday, July 14, 2007

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

Tuesday, July 10, 2007

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

Sunday, July 8, 2007

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

Wednesday, July 4, 2007

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

Monday, July 2, 2007

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

Saturday, June 30, 2007

Zen Brushwork: Focusing the Mind with Calligraphy and Painting


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With its bold strokes and mystic aura, Zen calligraphy has fascinated Westerners for decades, yet it remains an abstract, rarely practiced form of expression outside of Asia. Now, master calligrapher Tanchu Terayama explains the techniques behind this subtle art and offers step-by-step instructions for practicing it on a professional level.

After introducing the basics, Terayama presents a unique meditative warm-up to establish the proper mental attitude need... More >>

Zen Brushwork: Focusing the Mind with Calligraphy and Painting

Thursday, June 28, 2007

AirCraft: The Jet as Art


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Often it takes an artist to show us that the familiar is in fact truly remarkable. Jeffrey Milstein’s elegant photographs of commercial airliners have quickly become contemporary icons, published in 2005 in photomagazin, Graphis Photo Annual, and American Photography 21, and winning first place in the PDN Digital Photography Contest. Milstein’s meticulously composed large-format photos of airliners in flight reveal the beauty and power of these sleek, complex ma... More >>

AirCraft: The Jet as Art

Tuesday, June 26, 2007

The Nude Female Figure: A Visual Reference for the Artist


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Standing. Seated. Reclining. Kneeling. Bending. Crouching. Running. World-renowned photographer Mark Edward Smith has captured women of every age and form in every type of movement, then gathered his striking, unusual images into The Nude Female Figure. An indispensable reference for artists who have limited access to live figure models, this remarkable book features striking images of shapely young women as well as elegiac photos of more mature women. The models in... More >>

The Nude Female Figure: A Visual Reference for the Artist

Sunday, June 24, 2007

The Metropolitan Museum of Art Guide Revised Edition


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This is a revised edition of the guide to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. The guide describes the museum's vast collections and its buildings, including the Cloisters, and includes nearly 900 works of art from the museum's 18 curatorial departments, selected by the director of the museum, Philippe de Montebello. The works of art illustrated in the book range from the art of the ancient world to that of the present day. The concise format of the guide, its ... More >>

The Metropolitan Museum of Art Guide Revised Edition

Thursday, June 21, 2007

The Encyclopedia of Monograms



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An unrivaled alphabetical treasury of monogram designs for inspiration and practical use. Monograms, once indicators of social or commercial exclusiveness, are now symbols of creativity, testaments to the idea that everyone deserves to individualize his or her own things. The remarkable Encyclopedia of Monograms—filled with over 11,000 handsomely engraved initials, ciphers, crests, insignias, emblems, badges, and shields—is a resource o... More >>

The Encyclopedia of Monograms

Monday, June 18, 2007

Scott 2009 Standard Postage Stamp Catalogue, Vol. 6: Countries of the World, So-Z



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The 36,172 changes made in the 2009 edition of Volume 6, which includes countries of the world So-Z, brings the total this year to 274,129. "The exchange rate continues to be the catalyst for many of these changes. The market for stamps denominated in euros, British pounds, Canadian dollars and other various foreign currencies are largely made in the home countries, and anyone who wants to compete for those stamps must compete with those home-country buyers who are ... More >>

Scott 2009 Standard Postage Stamp Catalogue, Vol. 6: Countries of the World, So-Z

Tuesday, June 12, 2007

To Make a World: George Ault and 1940s America



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An American painter usually associated with the Precisionist movement, George Copeland Ault (1891-1948) created works that provide a unique window onto the uncertainty and despair of the Second World War. Despite early commercial success in the 1920s, Ault eventually withdrew from both artistic and political worlds in 1937 and set up his studio in a tiny house in Woodstock, New York, where he produced evocative scenes of barns, telephone wires, and streetlights that... More >>

To Make a World: George Ault and 1940s America

Tuesday, June 5, 2007

LA Maison Martin Margiela



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Graduating from Antwerp’s Royal Academy of Fine Arts in the 1980s, Martin Margiela (and his contemporaries in the Antwerp Six) transformed global fashion with his aggressive restatement of traditional fashion design and a polemical approach to luxury trends. Working first with the house of Gaultier, Margiela absorbed the radical design of Japanese deconstruction, making it wholly his own with the founding of his own label in 1988. Margiela propounds a singular, e... More >>

LA Maison Martin Margiela

Friday, June 1, 2007

Portrait of Dr. Gachet: The Story of a Van Gogh Masterpiece, Money, Politics, Collectors, Greed, and Loss



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Remarkable and riveting, this fascinating and scholarly "biography" of a van Gogh masterpiece illuminates the dynamics of the art market and of culture in our time. 8-page photo insert.Amazon.com Review
Only a few weeks before his 1890 suicide, Vincent van Gogh painted a portrait of Paul-Ferdinand Gachet, a local physician the painter had been fruitlessly consulting about his depression. Upon his death, the painting, like much of van Gogh's work, went t... More >>

Portrait of Dr. Gachet: The Story of a Van Gogh Masterpiece, Money, Politics, Collectors, Greed, and Loss

Wednesday, May 30, 2007

Theatre de la Mode: Fashion Dolls: The Survival of Haute Couture


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Harnessing the romance of the world of fashion and high art, this fascinating story of a collection of miniature mannequins describes the birth of Theatre de la Mode, the Theater of Fashion. Full of stars such as Robert Ricci (Nina Ricci's son), filmmaker Jean Cocteau, and other members of the 1944 haute couture industry, the story follows 237 miniature fashion dolls through their epic tour of Europe and North America, bringing fashion, elegance, and beauty into a w... More >>

Theatre de la Mode: Fashion Dolls: The Survival of Haute Couture

Tuesday, May 29, 2007

Cartooning for the Beginner


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Aspiring cartoonists of all ages can begin drawing a repertoire of characters from the moment they follow the wide-ranging yet simplified lessons that fill these instructive pages, written and illustrated by an all-time best-selling artist/teacher.

This complete course, covering both comic strip and animation techniques, begins with lessons on basic cartoon body shapes and facial features. Included are helpful comparisons between the real versus the cartoon h... More >>

Cartooning for the Beginner

Sunday, May 27, 2007

Spectrum 9: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art


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Drawn from work created for books, comics, magazines, art galleries, advertisements, and the portfolios of some of the finest contemporary artists in the field, Spectrum 9 has a wider reach than any previous volume, with work from the U.S., Germany, England, the Netherlands, Spain, Japan, Canada, and France. Divided into seven categories, including one devoted to comics, the book includes James Gurney (Dinotopia), Brom (designer of the films Sleepy Hollow and Scooby... More >>

Spectrum 9: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art

Saturday, May 26, 2007

Andre Kertesz



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Andre Kertesz (1894-1985), was a highly original artist. Eschewing the dogma of schools and movements, he was guided only by his intuition, drawing on his private life for inspiration. His quest for authenticity led to the invention of an innovative visual language. Other artists in this series include: Eugene Atget, Mathew Brady, Wynn Bullock, Julia Margaret Cameron, Joan Fontcuberta, David Goldblatt, Nan Goldin, Graciela Iturbide, Dorothea Lange, Mary Ellen M... More >>

Andre Kertesz

Friday, May 25, 2007

The Art of Rock: Posters from Presley to Punk



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A visual history of Rock and Roll, which centres on the posters that were created to advertise musicians and concerts. The book also contains photographs of the poster artists, and the venues that displayed their work.... More >>

The Art of Rock: Posters from Presley to Punk

Three Hundred Lessons in Art


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Supplement your art class with this teacher sourcebook of 300 inexpensive, short-term projects! Provides lessons in drawing, painting, 3-dimensional media, and art appreciation. Includes lesson plans, objectives, materials list, evaluation guides, and more. Author: Robert HenkesPublisher: Walch PublishingGrade Level: 7th - 12th Format: 146 pages, softcover ISBN: 0-8521-0000-3... More >>

Three Hundred Lessons in Art

Wednesday, May 23, 2007

Why Art Cannot Be Taught: A Handbook for Art Students



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In this smart survival guide for students and teachers - the only book of its kind - James Elkins examines the "curious endeavor to teach the unteachable" that is generally known as college-level art instruction. This singular project is organized around a series of conflicting claims about art: Art can be taught, but nobody knows quite how; Art can be taught, but it seems as if it can't be since so few students become outstanding artists; Art cannot be taught, but ... More >>

Why Art Cannot Be Taught: A Handbook for Art Students

The Tattoo Encyclopedia: A Guide to Choosing Your Tattoo



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A unique illustrated reference on the origins and meanings of nearly one thousand tattoo symbols that serves as a guide for choosing a personal image and provides a fascinating look at the tattoo as a work of art.
Tattoos continue to move into the mainstream and grow in popularity with each passing day. For people contemplating getting a tattoo, however, the choice of images can be overwhelming. A comprehensive, informative exploration of the colorful world of... More >>

The Tattoo Encyclopedia: A Guide to Choosing Your Tattoo

Monday, May 21, 2007

The Collins Big Book of Art: From Cave Art to Pop Art



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The one book your family needs to understand the world of art. A beautiful, unusual and engaging compendium of art history, providing an accessible entree into the world of art for everyone, regardless of their experience. From cave paintings to the Renaissance, Impressionism to Pop Art, The Collins Big Book of Art takes you on a journey through the history of art in a delightful and informative way. With more than 1200 works of art represented, this is both a coff... More >>

The Collins Big Book of Art: From Cave Art to Pop Art

Sunday, May 20, 2007

Royal Doulton Figurines, 11th Edition - A Charlton Standard Catalogue



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The early Lambeth figures of John Broad, Leslie Harradine, Mark Marshall and George Tinworth continue to make gains in the market place. It is almost impossible to find a Tinworth figure for less than $2,000, while his classic pieces are in the five figure category. Noke¡¯s Vellum figures, produced at Burslem, have increased in value over 10th edition prices. The early figures in the HN Series, from HN1 to approximately HN2000, have basically increased in value... More >>

Royal Doulton Figurines, 11th Edition - A Charlton Standard Catalogue

Saturday, May 19, 2007

Vermeer: The Complete Works


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This study presents the complete works of the great Dutch painter, Johannes Vermeer. The text includes a short essay and commentaries on each of the paintings, and incorporates new research on Vermeer's life and extraordinary artistic achievements.... More >>

Vermeer: The Complete Works

Saturday, May 12, 2007

The Uffizi: The Official Guide All of the Works



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These official guidebooks to Florence's finest museums and art collections are sumptuously illustrated and filled with fascinating detail. This lavishly illustrated series provides readers with the official guides to some of the world's finest galleries and art collections. Packed with fascinating detail, historical insight, and fully up-to-date information, these guides are a must-have for planning their visit to Florence.... More >>

The Uffizi: The Official Guide All of the Works

Friday, May 11, 2007

Garden Eden



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The long tradition of botanical illustration has its tribute in this new book, whose publication coincides with the occasion of an exhibition of botanical illustration at the National Library of Vienna. TASCHEN has chosen over 500 works from the library's extensive archives to be reproduced in A Garden Eden: Masterpieces of Botanical Book Illustration. Beginning with 6th century Byzantine manuscripts, A Garden Eden traces the tradition right up through recent public... More >>

Garden Eden

Thursday, May 10, 2007

Exhibiting the New Art



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Afterall Books' new Exhibition Histories series responds to an increased interest in exhibition history with its inaugural volume on two of the most famous exhibitions of the 1960s: Wim Beeren's Op Losse Schroeven (Stedelijk Museum, 1969) and Harald Szeemann's When Attitudes Become Form (Kunsthalle Berne, also 1969). Installation photographs allow the reader to envision the exhibitions, and chronologies detail the negotiations that steered them. Also provided are re... More >>

Exhibiting the New Art

Wednesday, May 9, 2007

Shipwrecked: Tang Treasures and Monsoon Winds



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Part adventure story, part maritime archaeological expedition, part historical look into ninth-century Chinese economy, culture, and trade, Shipwrecked is a fascinating journey back in time.

Twelve centuries ago, a merchant ship—an Arab dhow—foundered on a reef just off the coast of Belitung, a small island in the Java Sea. The cargo was a remarkable assemblage of lead ingots, bronze mirrors, spice-filled jars, intricately worked vessels of silver and gol... More >>

Shipwrecked: Tang Treasures and Monsoon Winds

Tuesday, May 8, 2007

Nineteenth Century European Art



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This refreshingly direct study addresses 19th-century European art along with the forces that informed it. After introducing historical events and cultural and artistic trends from about 1760 that would exert their influence well into the new century, author Petra ten-Doesschate Chu discusses the advent of Modernism and its many interpretations. She considers the changing relationship between artist and audience; evolving attitudes toward the depiction of nature; an... More >>

Nineteenth Century European Art

Monday, May 7, 2007

Lee Krasner



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This work chronicles the life and work of Lee Krasner, one of the most inventive Abstract Expressionist painters. Lee Kranser occupies a special place in Abstract Expressionism as a major female painter in a group of artists known for their macho individuality. Aproaching art-making as a forum for communicating her discoveries about the self, nature and modern life, she turn the process of her painting into a debate with herself and other artists, ranging from Picas... More >>

Lee Krasner

Sunday, May 6, 2007

Drawing From Life: The Journal as Art


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Who hasn't, at one time or other, kept a journal? The impulse to record our daily lives on paper is nothing if not universal. Still, only a few of us have the discipline to make it past the first few entries, and fewer still manage to create diaries whose insight and visual beauty can inspire anyone but their authors. Drawing from Life: The Journal as Art is an exploration of these exceptions books of obsessive wonder filled to their borders with drawings, sketches,... More >>

Drawing From Life: The Journal as Art

Saturday, May 5, 2007

Impressionism



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A guide to Impressionism which also examines painting in Europe and North America that was inspired by French Impressionism.... More >>

Impressionism

Friday, May 4, 2007

The Curtain Sketchbook



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This volume is designed to facilitate the selection of curtains. In an easy-to-use format that opens flat for duplication, it contains sketches of curtain headings, valances, tie backs, swags and tails, Roman blinds, roller blinds, dormer windows, and many more.... More >>

The Curtain Sketchbook

Wednesday, May 2, 2007

Process Color Manual: 24,000 CMYK combinations for design, prepress, and printing



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Today graphic design is done almost exclusively on screen, where colors look different than when they are printed. To help designers and the people who work with them address this critical disparity, authors Michael and Pat Rogondino have completely revised and expanded their standard manual, Computer Color (0-87701-739-5). A boon for all designers, production people, artists, and printers, Process Color Manual provides an astounding 24,000 colors that match from co... More >>

Process Color Manual: 24,000 CMYK combinations for design, prepress, and printing

Tuesday, May 1, 2007

The Grammar of Ornament



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Architect and decorator Owen Jones supervised the works at the Great Exhibition in London in 1851, and his decoration of the Crystal Palace was hailed as one of the great achievements of the exhibition. In 1856, Jones published his indispensable reference work, The Grammar of Ornament. Organized into twenty chapters with introductory text, its encyclopedic approach offers a unique vision of decorative styles throughout time. The richly detailed and varied illustrati... More >>

The Grammar of Ornament

Sunday, April 29, 2007

Picasso in The Metropolitan Museum of Art



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This landmark publication presents for the first time a comprehensive catalogue of the works by Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) in the Metropolitan Museum. Comprising thirty-four paintings, fifty-eightdrawings, a dozen sculptures and ceramics, and more than four hundred prints, the collection reflects the full breadth of the artist’s multisided genius as it asserted itself over the course of his long and influential career. Notable for its remarkable constellation of e... More >>

Picasso in The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Tuesday, April 24, 2007

A Baby Book for You


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This handsome keepsake volume not only provides ample space to record baby's progress from birth to age three, it also showcases marvelous color artworks by Ralph Caldecott, Kate Greenaway, Walter Crane, and others from the "golden age of children's book illustration". Itallows plenty of room for snapshots and locks of hair--and the wonderful illustrations and nursery rhymes throughout are a continuing source of delight. Concealed wire-o binding.... More >>

A Baby Book for You

Unusual Ways to Market Your Greeting Cards and 22 Places to Get Your Designs Featured



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A 20 page booklet on how to get your cards noticed in non-traditional ways. Everything from why you should send cards to your dentist, to how to get special features in national publications. Great tips for designers who are starting out and want to get their cards into the hands of people beyond friends and family. Special Section: Submissions guidelines and contacts for 22 Gift Industry publications and professional gift industry blogs that seek out new greeting... More >>

Unusual Ways to Market Your Greeting Cards and 22 Places to Get Your Designs Featured

Sunday, April 22, 2007

Louvre: 400 Masterpieces


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Since first opening its doors in 1793, the Louvre has become one of the largest and most famous museums in the world and, with 8.3 million visitors per year, it is also the most visited. Louvre: 400 Masterpieces showcases a selection of works from this great institution, from the most famous—the Venus de Milo and Mona Lisa—to lesser-known gems.  With a foreword by the institution’s director, Henri Loyrette, the book is organized according to the museum’s eigh... More >>

Louvre: 400 Masterpieces

Thursday, April 19, 2007

Confessions Of an Art Addict



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A patron of art since the 1930s, Peggy Guggenheim, in a candid self-portrait, provides an insider's view of the early days of modern art, with revealing accounts of her eccentric wealthy family, her personal and professional relationships, and often surprising portrayals of the artists themselves. Here is a book that captures a valuable chapter in the history of modern art, as well as the spirit of one of its greatest advocates. 13 photos.... More >>

Confessions Of an Art Addict

Wednesday, April 18, 2007

Selling Art Without Galleries: Toward Making a Living from Your Art


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The first guide to selling art independently



This comprehensive resource shows artists how to make a living from their art—without relying on galleries. Through interviews with a range of successful artists, readers will learn how to write about their own work, how to arrange and curate exhibits, how to work in nonprofit arts spaces, how to determine when and if to advertised artwork for sale, and how to exhibit in non-art spaces. Artists will also ... More >>

Selling Art Without Galleries: Toward Making a Living from Your Art

Introduction to Music and Art in the Western World



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An Introduction to Music and Art in the Western World, 10th edition, is a clear and attractive guide to the great artists and composers of the West and the societies in which they lived and worked.... More >>

Introduction to Music and Art in the Western World

Tuesday, April 17, 2007

Pinocchio



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This award-winning graphic novel re-imagines the story Pinocchio as a noir fairy tale both comic and tragic. In this dark rendition, a greedy Geppetto builds Pinocchio as a metallic weapon of war, while Jiminy Cockroach is a homeless squatter living the good life in Pinocchio's skull. Critically acclaimed, Pinocchio won the Grand Prize at France's Angoulême comics festival in 2009. Exquisite drawings by celebrated cartoonist Winshluss bring to life a rich tal... More >>

Pinocchio

The World's Greatest Erotic Art of Today


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The "World's Greatest Erotic Art of Today Vol 3" showcases an unsurpassable collection of contemporary erotic artworks. Stylishly produced, this lavish and desirable art book promises a plethora of graphically induced sensual delights. This book makes a great companion to curl up in bed with, or a wonderful addition on any coffee table for everyone to enjoy. Works were selected in an international juried art competition that brought together the mediums of hand-draw... More >>

The World's Greatest Erotic Art of Today

Sunday, April 15, 2007

Art of the Samurai: Japanese Arms and Armor, 1156-1868



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Samurai arms and equipment are widely recognized as masterpieces in steel, silk, and lacquer. This extensively illustrated volume is published in conjunction with the first comprehensive exhibition devoted to the arts of the samurai. It includes the finest examples of swords—the spirit of the samurai—as well as sword mountings and fittings, armor and helmets, saddles, banners, and paintings. The objects in the catalogue, drawn entirely from public and private co... More >>

Art of the Samurai: Japanese Arms and Armor, 1156-1868

Saturday, April 14, 2007

Rooms with a View: The Open Window in the 19th Century



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During the first half of the 19th century, the open window emerged as a consistent motif in German, Danish, French, and Russian painting and drawing. Rooms with a View is the first book to explore this intriguing theme in European art, with its Romantic intimations of unfulfilled longing and its associated qualities of poetry, luminosity, and interiority.
Artists depicted this intangible mood with images of contemplative figures in hushed, sparsely furnished roo... More >>

Rooms with a View: The Open Window in the 19th Century

100 Artists of New England



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One hundred artists have come together to share the distinctiveness of New England. Oil paintings, glass and metal sculptures, and works in wood offer a fresh look at this region's long, rolling hills and famous autumn colors. Learn histories of the art colonies, including Rockport-Gloucester and Provincetown, Massachusetts; Monhegan Island and Ogunquit, Maine; Old Lyme and Cos Cob, Connecticut; and North Conway, Cornish Colony, and MacDowell Colony, New Hampshire. ... More >>

100 Artists of New England