Category: Art

This stimulating and fascinating introduction to art contains a series of thematic chapters covering a range of topics that will provide readers with a basis for approaching art and enjoying it. It also serves to dispel some preconceptions about the visual arts--assumptions made about a work based on an individual's own experience. Chapter topics include the appeal and aims of art, style and formal elements, artists at work, art themes, art in and out of context, approaches to art, and arguing about art. For museum goers and anyone who wants a better understandin...
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Tijuana Bibles

By: Adelman, Bob

Price: $10.00

Publisher: October 2015

Seller ID: 419049

ISBN: 0684834618

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Hidden in a corner among the great sacred texts of the world lies a series of exuberantly ribald underground comics known as the Tijuana Bibles. Iconoclastic, hilarious, and sexy, these anonymous little books, written from the 1930s through the 1950s, are revered among scholars and aficionados of American folk art, and devotees of comics as well as collectors of erotica. The primitive energy of their vigorous, often crude line, combined with their gonzo sensibilities, has given the Bibles a tremendous if largely unacknowledged influence on such talents as Art Spiegelman, Robert Crumb, and Lenn...
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Graphic Art of the 18th Century

By: Adhemar, Jean

Price: $5.00

Seller ID: 403730

ISBN: 6576448

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

On Painting

By: Alberti, Leon Battista

Price: $5.00

Publisher: July 2013

Seller ID: 244883

ISBN: 0140433317

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Artist, architect, poet and philosopher, Leon Battista Alberti revolutionized the history of art with his theories of perspective in On Painting (1435). Inspired by the order and beauty inherent in nature, his groundbreaking work sets out the principles of distance, dimension and proportion; instructs the painter on how to use the rules of composition, representation, light and colour to create work that is graceful and pleasing to the eye; and stipulates the moral and artistic pre-requisites of the successful painter. On Painting had an immediate and profound influence on Italia...
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Written on the City Graffiti Messages Worldwide

By: Albin, Axel

Price: $6.00

Seller ID: 404914

ISBN: 1440308284

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Someone Is Trying to Tell You Something

This book is a glimpse into a vast conversation happening illegally and in public.

All over the world, people are writing messages on the walls and sidewalks of the cities in which we live. They are staying up late, breaking the law, and taking risks to say something to you.

Some of it is funny. Some of it is beautiful. Lots of it is upsetting, crazy, and brilliant at the same time. And all of it is important.

This book continues that conversation through the eyes of photographers who recognized the importance of those words on the...
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Frescoes of Conrad Albrizio: Public Murals in the Midcentury South

By: Albrizo, Conrad

Price: $20.00

Seller ID: 388000

ISBN: 0807171026

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

The artist Conrad Albrizio (1894-1973), a New York City native who studied internationally, made his home in New Orleans for more than a half century. To the people of Louisiana and Alabama, he bestowed the lasting gift of large-scale public frescoes, a form he championed long after the general popularity of communal art waned. From regional realism in his New Deal-commissioned works of the 1930s to his abstract-influenced, socially conscious interpretations of the 1950s, Albrizio's creations exemplify the midcentury period while showcasing the ancient technique of fresco. In this lavishly ...
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Triumph of the Spirit: Carlos Alfonzo, a Survey, 1975-1991 (English and Spanish Edition)

By: Alfonzo/Miami Art Museum

Price: $12.00

Seller ID: 384750

ISBN: 0295976810

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

A catalogue of an exhibition assessing this Latino artist's career and reevaluating his place in late 20th-century American painting, particularly within the context of Neo-Expressive modes of painting. Seven essays and interviews are presented in both English and Spanish. Includes color and b&w ill
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Sky Below (Art Profile Series, 2)

By: Amenoff, Gregory

Price: $10.00

Seller ID: 361323

ISBN: 1889097063

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Magnetic North: The Landscapes of Tom Uttech

By: Andera, Margaret

Price: $65.00

Publisher: Milwaukee Art Museum: July 2004

Seller ID: 451581

ISBN: 0944110665

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

One of the most widely admired landscape painters in America, Tom Uttech merges nineteenth-century n
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American Sculpture in Process, 1930-1970

By: Andersen, Wayne

Price: $6.00

Seller ID: 359378

ISBN: 036811

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Laurie Anderson

By: Anderson, Laurie

Price: $7.50

Publisher: January 2016

Seller ID: 458533

ISBN: 0810935821

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Laurie Anderson is one of the most acclaimed and innovative performance artists working today. This book, written by a leading authority on performance art, delivers a comprehensive look at Anderson's multifaceted career, from her performance pieces of the early 1970s to her 1999 electronic opera, Songs and Stories from Moby Dick.

Filled with photographs of Anderson's performances, sculptures, books, installations, instruments, and inventions, stills from her films and videos, reproductions of her drawings and sketches, and including song lyrics and excerpts from many of her stories, the boo...
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Hearing Voices: Collected Stories & Drawings

By: Andreas, Brian

Price: $5.00

Publisher: July 2010

Seller ID: 101576

ISBN: 0964266059

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Art of Florence Vol. I and II

By: Andres, Hunisak, & Turner

Price: $75.00

Publisher: June 2012

Seller ID: 478240

ISBN: 0896601110

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Since the radiant years of the Renaissance, the city of Florence has come for many to represent the greatest triumph of the Western cultural tradition. This is the city where humanism was born, where Plato was discussed passionately in the narrow streets, and where men and women first found themselves to be the measure of all things. For more than three centuries Florence nurtured a creative community of astounding, even revolutionary genius. Here, starting in the late 1200s, Giotto painted the grave and powerful frescoes that drew Florence and the world toward a radical new vision of realism,...
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Kathryn Andrews: Run for President

By: Andrews, Kathryn

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago: December 2015

Seller ID: 452562

ISBN: 0996211616

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Occasioned by the artist's first US solo museum exhibition, Run for President examines the sculptures that have made Kathryn Andrews (born 1973) one of the crucial voices of her artistic generation. Through her shiny, colorful sculptures, which literally reflect the viewer and the exhibition environs, Andrews examines how image producers--artists, corporations, Hollywood studios and politicians--employ visual cues and material packaging to elicit desire. In Run for President, Andrews situates her sculptures against a conceptual backdrop of a fictitious presidential election. The ...
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Abstract Expressionism

By: Anfam, David

Price: $5.00

Publisher: September 2013

Seller ID: 475571

ISBN: 0500202435

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Traces the history of Abstract Expressionism, and examines its political implications and the cultural context in which it developed.
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Luis Cruz Azaceta (Volume 10) (A Ver)

By: Anreus, Alejandro

Price: $7.50

Publisher: Chicano Studies Research Center: September 2014

Seller ID: 453018

ISBN: 0895511525

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Cuban American artist Luis Cruz Azaceta addresses what author Alejandro Anreus calls the "wounds and screams" of the human condition. Although Cruz Azaceta's work is extensively exhibited and widely collected, this is the first book on the artist's life and creations.

Anreus traces Cruz Azaceta's career and explores the themes that are the focus of his singular art. Anreus discusses how the Cuban diaspora, above all, has shaped the artist and how the experience of exile has found expression through starkly forceful self-portraiture in many of his works. Anreus also examines the artist...
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Apollinaire on art

By: Apollinair, Guillaume

Price: $7.50

Seller ID: 406822

ISBN: 670019194

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Art Since 1960

By: Archer, Michael

Price: $5.50

Publisher: April 2014

Seller ID: 270361

ISBN: 0500203512

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Art today may seem perplexing at first with its divergent styles, forms, practices, media, and agendas. Michael Archer's intelligently argued survey is unique in revealing and making coherent sense of art practice from the past forty years--Pop, Minimal, Conceptual, Land, Performance, Body, and Installation--and myriad developments in the work of Warhol, Beuys, Bourgeois, and the many other artists whose works are discussed and illustrated here.
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Category: Art