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The lives of the artists
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Giorgio Vasari
Giorgio Vasari's "The Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors and Architects" was first published in Florence in 1550. Vasari, a painter and architect, had traveled throughout Italy sketching the buildings and art works he encountered when he contemplated compiling a record of great Italian artists and their work. The "Lives" was revised ...
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The Lost Painting: The Quest for a Caravaggio Masterpiece
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Jonathan Harr
Prizewinning author Harr embarks on a spellbinding journey to discover the long-lost painting known as "The Taking of Christ." The fascinating details of the artist Caravaggio's strange, turbulent career and the astonishing beauty of his work come to life in these pages.
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The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again
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Andy Warhol
In this uplifting book, artist Andy Warhol shares his off-the-wall viewpoints of numerous topics, including love, beauty, fame, creating art, and employment.
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Art of Mesoamerica: From Olmec to Aztec
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Mary Ellen Miller
This up-to-date account of the art and architecture of ancient Mesoamerica evocatively summarizes the artistic achievements of the high pre-Columbian civilizations--Olmec, Maya, Teotihuacan, Toltec, and Aztec--as well as of their less-famous contemporaries.
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Things I Have Learned in My Life So Far
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Stefan Sagmeister, Daniel Nettle, Ph.D. (Contributions by), Steven Heller (Contributions by)
The projects in this book began as a list Stefan Sagmeister found in his diary under the title 'Things I have learned in my life so far'. Given an incredible amount of freedom by some of his clients, he began transforming these 21 aphorisms into typographic works; they have since appeared as French and Portuguese billboards, a Japanese annual ...
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Sacred Mirrors: The Visionary Art of Alex Grey
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Alex Grey, Carlo McCormick (Editor), Ken Wilber (Editor)
Grey's art takes us through the physical, metaphysical, and spiritual anatomy of the self, revealing the core of human existence as he brings us face to face with ourselves.
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The R. Crumb Coffee Table Art Book
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Robert Crumb
Here are Crumb's famously wacky characters--Fritz the Cat, Mr. Natural, Snoid, Devil Girl, and all the rest--in a lavish volume suitable for the coffee table, including unpublished rarities, pages from Crumb's sketchbook, juvenilia, and photos. Crumb introduces each section of comic strips with a short, thoughtful essay exploring various aspects ...
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The gashlycrumb tinies, or, After the outing
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Edward Gorey
An alphabetical phantasmagoria in which a succession of infants meet dreadful ends.
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Amphigorey Also
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Edward Gorey
Edward Gorey's unique and whimsical drawings accompany verses such as "The Glorious Nosebleed", "The Utter Zoo", "The Epileptic Bicycle", and fourteen other selections.
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Gil Elvgren: All His Glamorous American Pin-Ups
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Dr. Charles G Martignette, Louis K Meisel
The perfect moral-boosting eye-candy for every homesick private Post-depression USA was in desperate need of a defining iconography that would lift it out of the black and white doldrums, and it came in the form of Gil Elvgren's technicolor fantasies of the American dream. From the Forties to the Sixties his painted adverts and posters for, among ...
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Une Semaine de Bonte, a Surrealistic Novel in Collage
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Max Ernst
Masterpiece created out of periodical illustrations explores worlds of terror and surprise. Some consider this Ernst's greatest work.
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Gonzo, the art
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Ralph Steadman
Ralph Steadman is a "social" artist and creator of the art style known as Gonzo. This book follows his highly individual style from the late-1960s to the present day, illustrating both published and unpublished work. Steadman's accompanying text places his art in its context and time.
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The Art of Looking Sideways
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Alan Fletcher
Describing himself as a "visual jackdaw", master designer Alan Fletcher has spent a lifetime collecting images, useless information, quotations and scraps that take his fancy. This work distils this collection into a quirky and entertaining feast for the eyes and the mind. Loosely arranged in 72 "chapters", the book explores the workings of the ...
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The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, Vol. 1
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Leonardo da Vinci, Leonardo Da Vinci, Leonardo De Vinci
Volume 1 of 2-volume set. Total of 1,566 extracts includes writings on painting, sculpture, architecture, anatomy, mining, inventions, music. Dual Italian-English texts, with 186 plates plus over 500 additional drawings.
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Mexican Muralists: Orozco, Rivera, Siqueiros
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Desmond Rochfort
A beautiful catalog dedicated to important figures of the Mexican mural movement, including Jose Clemente Orozco, Diego Rivera, and David Alfaro Siqueiros. The movement, which began in the 1920s and continued for over 50 years, has been called the most significant public art project of the 20th century. These murals hang in public buildings and ...
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Jenny Saville
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Rizzoli Publications (Creator)
At thirty-two, Jenny Saville has had a career most artists twice her age would envy. In 1992, the year she completed her studies at Glasgow School of Art, her graduation exhibition sold out. Most notably, one painting was bought by Charles Saatchi and, since then, her international reputation has grown at a rapid and steady pace.Jenny Saville is ...
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Mrs. Jack: A Biography of Isabella Stewart Gardner
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Louise Hall Tharp
A biography of Isabella Stewart Gardner of Boston in the 19th century. An American charmer and art collector, Isabella Stewart Gardner and her husband Jack kept company with the leading men of the day including Henry James, Henry Adams, John Singer Sargent and Whistler. The Stewart Gardners' Boston home, which was modelled after a Venetian
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Kathe Kollwitz: Woman and Artist
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Martha Kearns
A generation after her death, Kathe Kollwitz is recognised as one of the great graphic artists of the 20th century. Kearns establishes Kollwitz's contributions with many striking, seldom-seen reproductions from private collections, assembled in one volume for the first time.
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The Watercolors of John Singer Sargent
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Carl Little
This text places the accomplishments of artist John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) in the context of his life and time and discusses his extraordinary watercolour technique.
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Norman Rockwell: 332 Magazine Covers
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Charles S Finch
The miniature version of this volume captures the warm, decent, hardworking, citizens whom Rockwell painted in every corner of our country. 332 full-color illustrations.
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Picasso
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Gertrude Stein
Intimate, revealing memoir of Picasso as man and artist by influential literary figure. Highly readable amalgam of biographical fact, artistic and aesthetic comments. One of Stein's most accessible works. 61 black-and-white illustrations. Index.
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Monet
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Karin Sagner-Duechting
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Sargent Portrait Drawings: 42 Works
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John S Sargent
A gallery of superb portraits in pencil, pastels, and charcoal. Virtuoso display of technical skill and intuitive eye of noted American portrait painter.
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Bitter with Baggage Seeks Same: The Life and Times of Some Chickens
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Sloane Tanen, Stefan Hagen (Photographer)
Chickens show off their human side in Tanen's irresistible dioramas. With more personality than most people have to spare, the New York artist's tiny yellow chickens negotiate the tricky modern world, filled with three-headed blind dates, menacing KFCs, playground popularity battles, and annoyingly crowded yoga classes.
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Traveling the Rainbow: The Life and Art of Joseph E. Yoakum
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Derrel B De Passe, Gerard C Wertkin (Foreword by)
The first full-length celebration of an African American and Native American self-taught master's landscapes and travels In "The New York Times," Wendy Steiner named Joseph E. Yoakum (1890-1972) one of the six masters among American outsider artists. John Perreault wrote in "The Village Voice," "The discovery of an authentic 'naive' artist such ...
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