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Nueva York

By: N/A

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Scala Publishers: November 2010

Seller ID: 25278

ISBN: 1857596390

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New - New

Presents a uniquely interdisciplinary examination of this little researched yet universal subject, including art historical, anthropological, musical and cultural perspectives Features a groundbreaking essay by Mike Wallace, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the best-selling book Gotham Accompanies a major exhibition at El Museo del Barrio, 17th September 2010 to 15th February 2011 The population of New York City is approaching the milestone of being one-third Hispanic, a demographic transformation that will have a huge impact on the city's culture, daily life and its very future. Thi...
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Object Stares Back : On the Nature of Seeing

By: JAMES ELKINS

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Harcourt: August 1997

Seller ID: 111231

ISBN: 0156004976

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Handful of pages have light notes , light crease along spine,
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Occupation Culture: Art & Squatting in the City from Below

By: Alan Moore

Price: $19.95

Publisher: Minor Compositions: November 2015

Seller ID: 233650

ISBN: 1570273030

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - LikeNew

Occupation Culture: Art & Squatting in the City from Below

By: Alan Moore

Price: $19.95

Publisher: Minor Compositions: November 2015

Seller ID: 243172

ISBN: 1570273030

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

Off the Wall: A Portrait of Robert Rauschenberg

By: Calvin Tomkins

Price: $8.95

Publisher: Picador: November 2005

Seller ID: 200742

ISBN: 0312425856

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Calvin Tomkins first discovered the work of Robert Rauschenberg in the late 1950s, when he began to look seriously at contemporary art. While gazing at Rauschenberg's painting "Double Feature, " Tomkins felt compelled to make some kind of literal connection to the work, and it is in that sprit that "for the last forty years it's been his] ambition to write about contemporary art not as a critic or a judge, but as a participant." Tomkins has spent many of those years writing about Robert Rauschenberg, whom he rapidly came to see as "one of the most inventive and influential artists of his gene...
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Rendez-vous with Art

By: Philippe de Montebello, Martin Gayford

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Thames & Hudson: September 2014

Seller ID: 56513

ISBN: 050023924X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New - New

Springs of Creativity

By: H. Westman

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Chiron Pubns: April 1986

Seller ID: 16725

ISBN: 0933029055

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

Stories of Art

By: James Elkins

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Routledge: September 2002

Seller ID: 257922

ISBN: 0415939437

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Stories of Art is James Elkins's intimate history of art. Concise and original, this engaging book is an antidote to the behemoth art history textbooks from which we were all taught. As he demonstrates so persuasively, there can never be one story of art. Cultures have their own stories - about themselves, about other cultures - and to hear them all is one way to hear the multiple stories that art tells. But each of us also has our own story of art, a kind of private art history made up of the pieces we have seen, and loved or hated, the effects they had on us, and the connections that migh...
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Tales of Stone and More

By: Guido Quarzo, Giovanni Anselmo, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Luciano Fabro, Pino Pascali, Alighiero e Boetti, Jannis Kounellis, Mario Merz, Marisa Merz, Giuseppe Penone, Gilberto Zorio

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Hopefulmonster: August 2001

Seller ID: 19166

ISBN: 8877571322

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New - New

This remarkably clever, endearingly sweet book for children brings to life the art of Arte Povera, telling the "Tales of Stone and More" in short passages that describe the work of artists like Giovanni Anselmo, Alighiero Boetti, Jannis Kounellis, Mario Merz, and others who use stone, glass, wood, and fabric to create their works of art. It teaches that stones can think, that clothes thrown in a room become a rainbow, and that trees are infinitely more glorious than skyscrapers. The text and pictures will fire the imagination of readers young and old, inspiring them to think of how they can ma...
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The Creative Path: A View from the Studio on the Making of Art

By: Carolyn Schlam

Price: $14.99

Publisher: Allworth: May 2018

Seller ID: 233262

ISBN: 1621536661

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - LikeNew

The Crown of Life

By: Hugo Munsterberg

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Harcourt: June 1983

Seller ID: 263214

ISBN: 0156232022

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The Edwardians and After : The Royal Academy 1900-1950

By: MaryAnne Stevens

Price: $9.98

Publisher: Royal Academy of Arts: January 1988

Seller ID: 220972

ISBN: B000ORJX5C

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

The Gardner Heist: The True Story of the World's Largest Unsolved Art Theft

By: Ulrich Boser

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Harper Paperbacks: March 2010

Seller ID: 162077

ISBN: 0061451843

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Shortly after midnight on March 18, 1990, two men broke into the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston and committed the largest art heist in history. They stole a dozen masterpieces, including one Vermeer, three Rembrandts, and five Degas. But after thousands of leads--and a $5 million reward--none of the paintings have been recovered. Worth as much as $500 million, the missing masterpieces have become one of the nation's most extraordinary unsolved mysteries.After the death of famed art detective Harold Smith, reporter Ulrich Boser decided to take up the case. Exploring Smith's unf...
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The International Handbook of Creativity

By: N/A

Price: $95.00

Publisher: Cambridge University Press: April 2006

Seller ID: 47392

ISBN: 0521838428

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New - New

What constitutes a creative person? Different cultures have different perspectives on what it means to be creative, yet it is nearly always the American or Western perspective that is represented in the psychological literature. The goal of this handbook is to present a truly international and diverse set of perspectives on the psychology of human creativity. Distinguished international scholars have contributed to this book's chapters on the history and current state of creativity research and theory in their respective parts of the world. Much of the work discussed has never before been avai...
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The Invisible Dragon: Essays on Beauty, Revised and Expanded

By: Dave Hickey

Price: $15.00

Publisher: University Of Chicago Press: March 2012

Seller ID: 94579

ISBN: 0226333191

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

"The Invisible Dragon" made a lot of noise for a little book When it was originally published in 1993 it was championed by artists for its forceful call for a reconsideration of beauty--and savaged by more theoretically oriented critics who dismissed the very concept of beauty as naive, igniting a debate that has shown no sign of flagging.With this revised and expanded edition, Hickey is back to fan the flames. More manifesto than polite discussion, more call to action than criticism, "The Invisible Dragon" aims squarely at the hyper-institutionalism that, in Hickey's view, denies the re...
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The Judgment of Paris: The Revolutionary Decade That Gave the World Impressionism

By: Ross King

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Walker Books: January 2006

Seller ID: 213194

ISBN: 0802714668

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Pages unmarked, DJ intact , like wear.
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The Lost Painting

By: Jonathan Harr

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks: November 2006

Seller ID: 205256

ISBN: 0375759867

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

An Italian village on a hilltop near the Adriatic coast, a decaying palazzo facing the sea, and in the basement, cobwebbed and dusty, lit by a single bulb, an archive unknown to scholars. Here, a young graduate student from Rome, Francesca Cappelletti, makes a discovery that inspires a search for a work of art of incalculable value, a painting lost for almost two centuries. The artist was Caravaggio, a master of the Italian Baroque. He was a genius, a revolutionary painter, and a man beset by personal demons. Four hundred years ago, he drank and brawled in the taverns and streets of Rome, ...
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The Lost Painting: The Quest for a Caravaggio Masterpiece

By: Jonathan Harr

Price: $7.98

Publisher: Random House: October 2005

Seller ID: 216814

ISBN: 0375508015

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - VeryGood

The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Director's Tour: A Walking Guide

By: Thomas P. Campbell

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Scala Arts Publishers Inc.: March 2014

Seller ID: 239999

ISBN: 1857598288

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - LikeNew

The Rape of Europa: The Fate of Europe's Treasures in the Third Reich and the Second World War

By: Lynn H. Nicholas

Price: $6.98

Publisher: Vintage: April 1995

Seller ID: 225584

ISBN: 0679756868

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award The cast of characters includes Hitler and Goering, Gertrude Stein and Marc Chagall--not to mention works by artists from Leonardo da Vinci to Pablo Picasso. And the story told in this superbly researched and suspenseful book is that of the Third Reich's war on European culture and the Allies' desperate effort to preserve it. From the Nazi purges of "Degenerate Art" and Goering's shopping sprees in occupied Paris to the perilous journey of the "Mona Lisa" from Paris and the painstaking reclamation of the priceless treasures of liberated ...
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The Rudiments of Paradise

By: Michael Ayrton

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Weybright & Talley: January 1971

Seller ID: 225820

ISBN: B0028NZ7IM

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Pages unmarked, DJ intact, light wear.
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The Story of Art

By: E.H. GOMBRICH

Price: $8.98

Publisher: PHAIDON PRESS LTD: January 1989

Seller ID: 256980

ISBN: 0714825840

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Trauma and Mastery in Life and Art

By: Gilbert J. Rose

Price: $17.00

Publisher: Yale University Press: September 1987

Seller ID: 19795

ISBN: 0300038429

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New - New

Van Gogh: His Life And His Art

By: Sweetman, David

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Crown: July 1990

Seller ID: 271734

ISBN: 0517574063

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Vermeer's Hat: The Seventeenth Century and the Dawn of the Global World

By: Timothy Brook

Price: $7.98

Publisher: Bloomsbury Press: December 2008

Seller ID: 231219

ISBN: 1596915994

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

"Elegant and quietly important...Brook does more than merely sketch the beginnings of globalization and highlight the forces that brought our modern world into being; rather, he offers a timely reminder of humanity's interdependence."--"Seattle Times "A painting shows a military officer in a Dutch sitting room, talking to a laughing girl. I n another, a woman at a window weighs pieces of silver. Vermeer's images captivate us with their beauty and mystery: What stories lie behind these stunningly rendered moments? As T imothy Brook shows us, these pictures, which seem so intimate, actually o...
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Voicetracks: Attuning to Voice in Media and the Arts (Leonardo)

By: Norie Neumark

Price: $19.95

Publisher: The MIT Press: May 2017

Seller ID: 209070

ISBN: 0262036134

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Pages unmarked, DJ intact, light wear.
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What Is a Masterpiece?

By: Kenneth Clark

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Thames and Hudson: January 1979

Seller ID: 199043

ISBN: B001OOXNVY

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

With Bold Strokes: Boyer Gonzales, 1864-1934

By: Edward Simmen

Price: $18.95

Publisher: TAMU Press: May 1997

Seller ID: 15684

ISBN: 0890967393

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New - New

The earth, sea, and clouds graced this watercolorist's canvas, and with each bold stroke Boyer Gonzales captured his subjects in his own distinctive style. An innovative painter specializing in land- and seascapes, Gonzales was heavily influenced by the work and friendship of Winslow Homer. From this relationship, Gonzales forged new pathways in art by using color to create rather than to imitate. Throughout his life, Gonzales drew and painted scenes around him--from the South Texas coastline to Mexico. In 1895 he pioneered the route of American painters in Mexico, where he found scene...
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Women, Art, and Society (World of Art)

By: Whitney Chadwick

Price: $8.95

Publisher: Thames & Hudson: April 2002

Seller ID: 26448

ISBN: 0500203547

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - LikeNew