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101 Things to Learn in Art School

By: Kit White

Price: $14.95

Publisher: The MIT Press: September 2011

Seller ID: 22871

ISBN: 0262016214

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New - New

What is the first thing to learn in art school? "Art can be anything." The second thing? "Learn to draw." With 101 Things to Learn in Art School, artist and teacher Kit White delivers and develops such lessons, striking an instructive balance between technical advice and sage concepts. These 101 maxims, meditations, and demonstrations offer both a toolkit of ideas for the art student and a set of guiding principles for the artist. Complementing each of the 101 succinct texts is an equally expressive drawing by the artist, often based on a historical or contemporary work of art, offering a v...
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A History of European Art

By: Professor William Kloss

Price: $39.95

Publisher: The Teaching Company: January 2005

Seller ID: 156339

ISBN: 1598030906

Binding: New Trade

Condition: Used - VeryGood

A Short Guide to Writing About Art

By: Sylvan Barnet

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Longman Publishing Group: August 1999

Seller ID: 168942

ISBN: 0321046056

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Providing detailed coverage of the writing process as well as various critical approaches, this book offers invaluable advice. Several sample essays are accompanied by analyses that show readers the particular strengths of effective writing.
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Abstract Expressionism For Beginners

By: Richard Klin

Price: $15.95

Publisher: For Beginners: August 2016

Seller ID: 235475

ISBN: 1939994624

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

All of a Sudden: Things that Matter in Contemporary Art

By: Jorg Heiser

Price: $18.00

Publisher: Sternberg Press: June 2008

Seller ID: 106166

ISBN: 1933128399

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Clean copy, spine strong, light shelf wear.
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All of a Sudden: Things that Matter in Contemporary Art

By: Jorg Heiser

Price: $16.95

Publisher: Sternberg Press: June 2008

Seller ID: 220789

ISBN: 1933128399

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Pages unmarked, reading wear to edges.
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An Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Traditional Symbols

By: J. C. Cooper

Price: $9.98

Publisher: Thames & Hudson: April 1987

Seller ID: 254899

ISBN: 0500271259

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

With over 200 illustrations and lively, informative and often ironic texts, she discusses and explains an enormous variety of symbols extending from the Arctic to Dahomey, from the Iroquois to Oceana, and coming from systems as diverse as Tao, Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism, Islam, Tantra, the cult of Cybele and the Great Goddess, the Pre-Columbian religions of the Western Hemisphere and the Voodoo cults of Brazil and West Africa.
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Art and Physics: Parallel Visions in Space, Time, and Light

By: Leonard Shlain

Price: $7.98

Publisher: William Morrow: December 1992

Seller ID: 259225

ISBN: 0688123058

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Art interprets the visible world, physics charts its unseen workings--making the two realms seem completely opposed. But in "Art & Physics, "Leonard Shlain tracks their breakthroughs side by side throughout history to reveal an astonishing correlation of visions.From teh classical Greek sculptors to Andy Warhol and Jasper Johns, and from Aristotle to Einstein, aritsts have foreshadowed the discoveries of scientists, such as when Money and Cezanne intuited the coming upheaval in physics that Einstein would initiate. In this lively and colorful narrative, Leonard Shlain explores how artistic ...
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Art and Revolution: Ernst Neizvestny, Endurance, and the Role of the Artist

By: John Berger

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Vintage: March 1998

Seller ID: 261153

ISBN: 0679737278

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

Art and Revolution: Ernst Neizvestny, Endurance, and the Role of the Artist

By: John Berger

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Vintage: March 1998

Seller ID: 261285

ISBN: 0679737278

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Art and Spiritual Transformation: The Seven Stages of Death and Rebirth

By: Finley Eversole Ph.D.

Price: $15.98

Publisher: Inner Traditions: May 2009

Seller ID: 229002

ISBN: 1594772819

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

The primal role of art in awakening and liberating the soul of humanity - Presents a seven-stage journey of transformation moving from the darkened soul to the light of spiritual illumination - Provides a meditation practice to experience the spiritual energy embedded within art - Includes artists Alex Grey, Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Walter Gaudnek, and others "Art and Spiritual Transformation" presents a seven-stage journey from the darkened soul to the light of spiritual illumination that is possible through the world of art. Finley Eversole introduces a meditation practi...
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Art as Existence: The Artist's Monograph and Its Project

By: Gabriele Guercio

Price: $27.95

Publisher: The MIT Press: September 2009

Seller ID: 14361

ISBN: 026251320X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

The narrative of the artist's life and work is one of the oldest models in the Western literature of the visual arts. In Art as Existence, Gabriele Guercio investigates the metamorphosis of the artist's monograph, tracing its formal and conceptual trajectories from Vasari's sixteenth-century Lives of the Painters, Sculptors, and Architects (which provided the model and source for the genre) through its apogee in the nineteenth century and decline in the twentieth. He looks at the legacy of the life-and-work model and considers its prospects in an intellectual universe of deconstructionism, ...
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Art As Politics: Re-crafting Identities, Tourism, And Power in Tana Toraja, Indonesia (Southeast Asia--Politics, Meaning and Memory)

By: Kathleen M. Adams

Price: $12.95

Publisher: University of Hawaii Press: September 2006

Seller ID: 122656

ISBN: 0824830725

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

Art for Eternity: Masterworks from Ancient Egypt

By: Richard A Fazzini

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Brooklyn Museum of Art in association with Scala Publishers: January 1999

Seller ID: 243403

ISBN: 0872731391

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Art in Paris, 1845-1862: Salons and Other Exhibitions (Landmarks in art history)

By: Charles Baudelaire

Price: $7.98

Publisher: Cornell University Press: January 1981

Seller ID: 255072

ISBN: 0801492270

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Aspects of Primitive Art. (New York. Museum of Primitive Art. Lecture Series. No. 1.)

By: Gordon F Melville J. & Ekholm Robert; HerskovitsRedfield

Price: $12.00

Publisher: New York (Museum of Primitive Art), 1959.: January 1959

Seller ID: 194292

ISBN: B002ADQIKQ

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Previous onwer's name written on page before title page otherwise pages unmarked, DJ intact, light reading wear.
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Born Under Saturn: The Character and Conduct of Artists (New York Review Books Classics)

By: Rudolf Wittkower, Margot Wittkower

Price: $18.95

Publisher: NYRB Classics: November 2006

Seller ID: 12107

ISBN: 1590172132

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

"A rare art history classic that The New York Times calls a "delightful, scholarly and gossipy romp through the character and conduct of artists from antiquity to the French Revolution."" "Born Under Saturn" is a classic work of scholarship written with a light and winning touch. Margot and Rudolf Wittkower explore the history of the familiar idea that artistic inspiration is a form of madness, a madness directly expressed in artists' unhappy and eccentric lives. This idea of the alienated artist, the Wittkowers demonstrate, comes into its own in the Renaissance, as part of the new bid by ...
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Brooklyn Vision Presents: Artists' Visions, Artists' Voices Nine Interviews Chronicling the Nature of Art and Creativity

By: Nancy Wait

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Luna Publishing: 1996

Seller ID: 16863

ISBN: 9110005757

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

Caravaggio and the antique

By: Avigdor W. G PoseÌ€q

Price: $9.98

Publisher: Avon Books: January 1998

Seller ID: 257686

ISBN: 1860339727

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Christie's Review Of The Season 1979

By: John Editor Herbert

Price: $12.95

Publisher: Rizzoli: January 1980

Seller ID: 238040

ISBN: 0847802795

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Continuity and Change in Art: The Development of Modes of Representation

By: Sidney J. Blatt, Ethel S. Blatt

Price: $90.00

Publisher: Routledge: July 1984

Seller ID: 16871

ISBN: 0898593425

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New - New

The representation of the form of objects and of space in painting, from paleolithic through contemporary time, has become increasingly integrated, complex, and abstract. Based on a synthesis of concepts drawn from the theories of Piaget and Freud, this book demonstrates that modes of representation in art evolve in a natural developmental order and are expressions of the predominant mode of thought in their particular cultural epoch. They reflect important features of the social order and are expressed in other intellectual endeavors as well, especially in concepts of science. A fascinating e...
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Cubism and Its Histories (Critical Perspectives in Art History)

By: David Cottington

Price: $14.98

Publisher: Manchester University Press: December 2004

Seller ID: 85252

ISBN: 0719050049

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

Cubism was the most influential artistic movement that emerged in the twentieth century. Yet just what cubism was, or stood for, at the time of its emergence is still in dispute, while the explanations offered for its importance for twentieth century art, and its legacy for the present, are bewildering in their variety.This fascinating book offers a way beyond this confusion: a narrative of its beginnings, consolidation and dissemination that takes into account not only what the style and the movement signified at the time of its emergence but also the principal writings through which cubism's...
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Desperate Necessity: Writing on Art and Psychoanalysis

By: Eugene Glynn

Price: $19.98

Publisher: Periscope: October 2008

Seller ID: 139442

ISBN: 1934772887

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New - New

Few experts on psychoanalysis know as much art history as did the late Eugene Glynn. Few, if any, can write with the panache and the insight he possessed. Brought together in this anthology, his book reviews provide a penetrating account of the pitfalls and occasional successes in efforts to marshal psychoanalytic theory in the interpretation of works of art and their makers. Developed through years of close study in galleries and museums, Glynn's sensitivity to visual form enables him to transcend professional protocols to frame large questions about the origins of the creative act. Jonathan ...
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Image for Empire's Nature: Mark Catesby's New World Vision (Published for the Omohudro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia)

Empire's Nature: Mark Catesby's New World Vision (Published for the Omohudro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia)

By: Amy R. W. Meyers

Price: $19.98

Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press: March 1999

Seller ID: 79987

ISBN: 0807847623

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Completed in 1747, Mark Catesby's "Natural History of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands" was the first major illustrated publication on the flora and fauna of Britain's American colonies. Together with his "Hortus Britanno-Americanus" (1763), which detailed plant species that might be transplanted successfully to British soil, Catesby's "Natural History" exerted an important, though often overlooked, influence on the development of art, natural history, and scientific observation in the eighteenth century.Inspired by a major traveling exhibition of Catesby's watercolor drawings from...
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Essays on art, 1915-1933 (The Documents of modern art)

By: Kazimir Severinovich Malevich

Price: $95.00

Publisher: G. Wittenborn: January 1971

Seller ID: 243069

ISBN: 0815004192

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Good paperback, fom the collection of American artist Jake Berthot with his signature
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Essays on the Blurring of Art and Life (Lannan Series)

By: Allan Kaprow

Price: $8.95

Publisher: University of California Press: March 1996

Seller ID: 207298

ISBN: 0520205626

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Pages unmarked, crease on front cover corner.
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Faces in the Crowd: The Modern Figure and Avant-Garde Realism

By: Iwona Blazwick, Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev

Price: $14.99

Publisher: Skira: May 2005

Seller ID: 63023

ISBN: 8876240691

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

Guide to Aesthetics

By: Benedetto Croce

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.: March 1995

Seller ID: 262923

ISBN: 0872203050

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Clean copy, no DJ.
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Hans Ulrich Obrist & Gilbert & George: The Conversation Series

By: Hans Ulrich Obrist, Gilbert & George

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Walther Konig, Koln: March 2008

Seller ID: 13442

ISBN: 3865602177

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

Series editor Hans Ulrich Obrist here collects seven years worth of interviews with the hugely influential British artistic collaborators Gilbert & George, providing an intimate vision of what they consider the most important landmarks in their four-decade-long career together. Many of the conversations are delightfully performative.
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Has Modernism Failed?

By: Suzi Gablik

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Thames & Hudson: August 1985

Seller ID: 211251

ISBN: 0500273855

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Hidden Harmony: The Connected Worlds of Physics and Art

By: J. R. Leibowitz

Price: $19.98

Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press: June 2008

Seller ID: 164234

ISBN: 0801888662

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New - New

Most "art and science" books focus on the science of perspective or the psychology of perception. Hidden Harmony does not. Instead, the book addresses the surprising common ground between physics and art from a novel and personal perspective. Viewing the two disciplines as creative processes, J.R.Leibowitz supplements existing and original research with illustrations to demonstrate that physics an d art share guiding aesthetics and compositional demands and to show how eachspeaks meaningfully to the other. Hidden Harmony is the first serious look at what art and physics, as creative proc...
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Hidden Harmony: The Connected Worlds of Physics and Art

By: J. R. Leibowitz

Price: $19.98

Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press: June 2008

Seller ID: 197499

ISBN: 0801888662

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New - New

History of Art: The Western Tradition, Vol. 2

By: H. W. Janson

Price: $12.95

Publisher: Prentice Hall: January 1991

Seller ID: 236233

ISBN: 0133884554

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Pages unmarked, light reading wear.
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Hope Among Us Yet: Social Criticism and Social Solace in Depression America

By: David P. Peeler

Price: $2.25

Publisher: Univ of Georgia Pr: June 1987

Seller ID: 50620

ISBN: 0820309028

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Image and Insight: Essays in Psychoanalysis and the Arts (Psychoanalysis & Culture S)

By: Ellen Handler Spitz

Price: $7.98

Publisher: Columbia University Press: September 1993

Seller ID: 100292

ISBN: 023107297X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

Miserable Miracle (New York Review Books Classics)

By: Henri Michaux

Price: $12.95

Publisher: NYRB Classics: April 2002

Seller ID: 184974

ISBN: 1590170016

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Pages unmarked, spine strong, light wear to edges.
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Modernism's Masculine Subjects: Matisse, the New York School, and Post-Painterly Abstraction

By: Marcia Brennan

Price: $16.98

Publisher: The MIT Press: December 2004

Seller ID: 63695

ISBN: 026202571X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New - New

In the era of The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit -- when social pressures on men to conform threatened cherished notions of masculine vitality, freedom, and authenticity -- modernist paintings came to be seen as metaphorical embodiments of both idealized and highly conflicted conceptions of masculine selfhood. In Modernism's Masculine Subjects, Marcia Brennan traces the formalist critical discourses in which work by such artists as Henri Matisse, Willem de Kooning, and Jackson Pollock could stand as symbolic representations that at once challenged and reproduced such prevailing cultural conce...
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New York, New York: The City in Art and Literature

By: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Price: $9.98

Publisher: Universe Publishing: February 2001

Seller ID: 246959

ISBN: 0789305216

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New - New

Writers have described New York City since the harbor was discovered in 1524. Artists have captured its every sparkle and shadow. In "New York, New York," paintings, prints, photographs, postcards, and other works of art from the Museum's encyclopedic collections have been sensitively paired with writing that celebrates the city, including poems, letters, fiction, and memoirs. Here, a Charles Dickens report on the bustle of Broadway matches nineteenth-century bird's-eye lithographs. Edith Wharton's "Age of Innocence" illuminates an early photogravure by Alfred Stieglitz; and Toni Morrison'...
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Nexus New York: Latin/American Artists in the Modern Metropolis

By: N/A

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Yale University Press: October 2009

Seller ID: 14048

ISBN: 0300158963

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

Between 1900 and 1942, New York City was the site of extraordinary creative exchange where artists could share ideas in a global context. The swiftly changing urban landscape before and between the World Wars inspired the erosion of artistic boundaries and fostered a new climate of modernist experimentation. "Nexus New York"""focuses on key artists from the Caribbean and Latin America who entered into dynamic cultural and social dialogues with the American-based avant-garde and participated in the development of a new modern discourse. Featuring both celebrated and little-known figures of this...
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No More Secondhand Art : Awakening the Artist Within

By: PETER LONDON

Price: $9.97

Publisher: Random House Inc: November 1989

Seller ID: 262188

ISBN: 0877734828

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

This book is about using art as an instrument of personal transformation, enabling us to move from an inherited to a chosen state of being. Peter London offers inspiration and fresh ideas to artists, art students, and art teachers--as well as to people who think they can't draw a straight line but want to explore the joys of creative expression. Inside every person, he believes, there is an original, creative self that has been covered over by secondhand ideas, borrowed beliefs, and conditioned behavior. By freeing the capacity for visual expression--a natural human language possessed by every...
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