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

A Baby Book for You

• ISBN13: 9780821222829
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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

Louvre: 400 Masterpieces

• ISBN13: 9780810971165
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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

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

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

• ISBN13: 9781581154603
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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

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

• ISBN13: 9780979596469
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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

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

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

Mastering Layout: On the Art of Eye Appeal

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This best-selling book by sign industry legend, Mike Stevens, covers the fundamental principles of layout for signs. It teaches how to see, organize and manipulate graphic elements for unified, legible and visually appealing results. More than 80 illustrations demonstrate before-and-after results of applying the principles. Includes a troubleshooting checklist for isolating, analyzing and correcting layout weaknesses in your own designs.... More >>

Mastering Layout: On the Art of Eye Appeal

Letters to a Young Artist

• ISBN13: 9780977368006
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"This pocket-sized book contains a collection of two dozen letters all commissioned from established artists to a fictitious ""young artist,"" a recent art-school graduate who is struggling with the moral and practical implications of being an artist in New York. The ""young artist"" asked a selection of his heroes, ""Is it possible to maintain one's integrity and freedom of thought and still participate in the art world?"" Responding artists--including Gregory Amen... More >>

Letters to a Young Artist

Interpreting Our Heritage

• ISBN13: 9780807858677
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Every year millions of Americans visit national parks and monuments, state and municipal parks, battlefields, historic houses, and museums. By means of guided walks and talks, tours, exhibits, and signs, visitors experience these areas through a very special kind of communication technique known as "interpretation." For fifty years, Freeman Tilden's Interpreting Our Heritage has been an indispensable sourcebook for those who are responsible for developing and delive... More >>

Interpreting Our Heritage

Rajasthan

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This stunningly lavish volume is based on Pauline van Lynden's notebooks, photographs and other material gathered over fifteen years of wanderings in Rajasthan, India. The book begins with Pauline's first overwhelming impressions of color, people and places. In search of material, making friends on her way, she discovers the Rajasthani cities, is invited to a royal wedding and finds artisans devoted to their centuries-old crafts. After some time, a longing for quiet... More >>

Rajasthan

Smithsonian Q & A: American Art and Artists: The Ultimate Question & Answer Book

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Covering topics from the natural to the historical and beyond, the Smithsonian Q & A books are essential for any family reference shelf. Questions and answers are authoritative and accessible. Full–color illustrations and the Q & A format enable users to learn all about their favorite creatures and subjects. SMITHSONIAN Q & A: AMERICAN ART will cover the history of American art and artists from the eighteenth century to the present. The book will encompass the vi... More >>

Smithsonian Q & A: American Art and Artists: The Ultimate Question & Answer Book

Art of the Avant-Gardes

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Art of the Avant-Gardes is the second of four books that make up the Open University's Art of the Twentieth Century series. It discusses the development of modern art in the first third of the century. The book opens with an essay that introduces the main themes of art in the period and summarises the political context in which it developed: the First World War, the Russian Revolution and the subsequent consolidation of the European dictatorships. The book consists ... More >>

Art of the Avant-Gardes

Monotype: Mediums and Methods for Painterly Printmaking

• ISBN13: 9780823031283
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Now in paperback! The art of monotype has experienced a surge of popularity in recent years, and artists working in other mediums will enjoy exploring the creative potential this process offers them. A brief history of monotype is followed by a comprehensive chapter on materials. The step-by-step instructions are accompanied by some of the finest examples of monotype being done today.... More >>

Monotype: Mediums and Methods for Painterly Printmaking

Diaghilev and the Golden Age of the Ballets Russes 1909-1929

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While the early 20th century was rich with creative energy, no one brought theater and dance to the forefront of culture quite like Sergei Diaghilev did with his extraordinary Ballets Russes. From 1909 to 1929, the Ballets Russes attracted the involvement of major artists, composers, and designers. Now,  this major book, published to accompany a retrospective exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, examines the origins, development, and long-term in... More >>

Diaghilev and the Golden Age of the Ballets Russes 1909-1929