Category: Art History/Theory

Abstract Expressionism For Beginners

By: Klin, Richard

Price: $15.95

Publisher: For Beginners : August 2016

Seller ID: 402440

ISBN-13: 9781939994622

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

Abstract Expressionism was the defining movement in American art during the years following World War II, making New York City the center of the international art scene. But what the heck did it mean The drips, the spills, the splashes, the blotches of color, the wild spontaneous energy--signifying what?Abstract Expressionism For Beginners will not only help you understand, but also appreciate the art of some of the most iconic figures in modern art--Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Mark Rothko, Helen Frankenthaler, and others. Explore their lives and artistic roots, the heady world of Gre...
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After the End of Art

By: Danto, Arthur C.

Price: $9.98

Publisher: Princeton University Press : November 1998

Seller ID: 384285

ISBN-13: 9780691002996

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Over a decade ago, Arthur Danto announced that art ended in the sixties. Ever since this declaration, he has been at the forefront of a radical critique of the nature of art in our time. After the End of Art presents Danto's first full-scale reformulation of his original insight, showing how, with the eclipse of abstract expressionism, art has deviated irrevocably from the narrative course that Vasari helped define for it in the Renaissance. Moreover, he leads the way to a new type of criticism that can help us understand art in a posthistorical age where, for example, an artist can produce a ...
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Art and China's Revolution a Guide to the Exhibition

By: Chu, Melissa and Zheng Shengtian

Price: $15.98

Publisher: Asia Society Museum : January 2008

Seller ID: 475689

ISBN-13: 9780878481095

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Art and Life in Africa: Selections from the Stanley Collection: The University of Iowa Museum of Art, April 5-August 11, 1985

By: Roy, Christopher D.

Price: $29.99

Publisher: University of Iowa Museum of Art : January 1985

Seller ID: 455028

ISBN: B00071KQ3S

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Art As Revelation

By: Wilson, Frank Avray

Price: $7.99

Publisher: Universe Pub : January 1982

Seller ID: 440295

ISBN-13: 9780876633595

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Discoloration to page edges - inside the pages are unmarked, DJ intact.
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Art History's History

By: Vernon hyde, Minor

Price: $7.98

Publisher: Harry N. Abrams : April 1994

Seller ID: 437631

ISBN-13: 9780810919440

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

An explanation of what art history is, where it came from, what ideas, institutions and practice form its background and how it achieved its present shape and what critical methods it uses today.
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Artists on Art: From the 14th to the 20th Centuries

By: Goldwater, Robert and Marco Treves

Price: $7.98

Publisher: John Murray : January 1985

Seller ID: 443646

ISBN-13: 9780719533129

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Botticelli's Secret: The Lost Drawings and the Rediscovery of the Renaissance

By: Luzzi, Joseph

Price: $28.95

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company : October 2022

Seller ID: 472493

ISBN-13: 9781324004011

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

Brooklyn Museum of Art

By: Museum, Brooklyn

Price: $9.99

Publisher: Brooklyn Museum Bookshop

Seller ID: 476576

ISBN-13: 9780872731363

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Pages unmarked, light reading wear to the edges.
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Brooklyn Vision Presents: Artists' Visions, Artists' Voices Nine Interviews Chronicling the Nature of Art and Creativity

By: Wait, Nancy

Price: $5.50

Publisher: Luna Publishing : 1996

Seller ID: 16863

ISBN-13: 9789110005754

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Caught by History: Holocaust Effects in Contemporary Art, Literature, and Theory

By: Alphen, Ernst Van

Price: $12.98

Publisher: Stanford University Press : January 1998

Seller ID: 445908

ISBN-13: 9780804729161

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

In the face of strong moral and aesthetic pressure to deal with the Holocaust in strictly historical and documentary modes, this book discusses why and how reenactment of the Holocaust in art and imaginative literature can be successful in simultaneously presenting, analyzing, and working through this apocalyptic moment in human history.In pursuing his argument, the author explores such diverse materials and themes as the testimonies of Holocaust survivors; the works of such artists and writers as Charlotte Salomon, Christian Boltanski, and Armando; and the question of what it means to live in...
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Caveat Emptor

By: Perenyi, Ken

Price: $7.99

Publisher: Pegasus Books : November 2013

Seller ID: 428907

ISBN-13: 9781605985022

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

For years, Ken Perenyi raked in riches forging masterpieces, convincing even the most discerning experts that his works were the real deal. His works are so flawless that they are still appearing as originals in auction house catalogs, fine art, design and architecture magazines, unexposed as the forgeries they really are. Growing up as a working class kid in Fort Lee, New Jersey, Perenyi never dreamed of becoming an art forger. However, when he stumbled upon The Castle, a large crumbling estate in his neighborhood, he found himself in the middle of the New York avant-garde art scene. Under th...
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Christie's Review Of The Season 1979

By: Herbert, John Editor

Price: $12.95

Publisher: Rizzoli : January 1980

Seller ID: 238040

ISBN-13: 9780847802791

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Classical Greek Art: From the Age of Phidias to the Age of Praxiteles

By: Siegel, Charles

Price: $6.99

Publisher: Omo Press : November 2020

Seller ID: 473943

ISBN-13: 9781941667309

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

This book is the clearest and most concise introduction to Greek art of the classical age, which has influenced Western art for millennia. Most surveys of classical art include artists whose works do not survive and whom we only know through descriptions in ancient writers-which is of historical interest but is not useful to most readers, since we cannot appreciate artists without seeing their art.This book includes all the classical artists whose work survives, with summaries of what we know about their lives and with illustrations of their works, making it very easy to compare the artists an...
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De Stijl (World of Art)

By: Overy, Paul

Price: $24.98

Publisher: Thames & Hudson : September 1991

Seller ID: 460384

ISBN-13: 9780500202401

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

The ideas that later had such a marked influence on the architecture of Walter Gropius and others of the Bauhaus movement, and subsequently on commercial art and graphic design, were first advocated by the Dutch magazine De Stijl.
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Discovered Lands, Invented Pasts: Transforming Visions of the American West

By: Prown, Professor Jules David,Anderson, Nancy k,Cronon, William,Dippie, Professor Brian W.,Sandweiss, Martha A.,Schoelwer, Ms. Susan Prendergast,Lamar, Professor Howard R.

Price: $9.98

Publisher: Yale University Press : October 1994

Seller ID: 465204

ISBN-13: 9780300057317

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

A common theme of western American art is the transformation of the land through European-American exploration and resettlement. In this book, the authors look at western American art of the past three centuries, re-evaluating it from the perspectives of history, art history and American studies.
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Divided Portraits: Identity and Disability

By: Cooper, Hilary, Arts, VSA

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Umbrage Editions : April 2007

Seller ID: 54496

ISBN-13: 9781884167645

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

"She brings a keen painter's eye to bear. . . . The result is often striking: how the subject exists as well as looks."--James Salter"Whether focused on a landscape or the human features, the result is an enchantment."--George PlimptonBeautiful and inspiring portraits create a new image and identity for disability, showing grace, beauty, strength, and resolve. In portraiture, as in most human interactions, the head--indeed the eyes--are the first thing noticed. But confronted by a person in a wheelchair, the viewer's focus shifts to the chair. This work challenges any assumption of difference,...
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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: Meyers, Amy R. W.

Price: $11.98

Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press : March 1999

Seller ID: 445906

ISBN-13: 9780807847626

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very 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 the Roy...
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Flesh and the Ideal: Winckelmann and the Origins of Art History

By: Potts, Alex

Price: $13.98

Publisher: Yale University Press : October 2000

Seller ID: 465250

ISBN-13: 9780300087369

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Johann Joachim Winckelmann (1717-1768), one of the most important figures ever to have written about art, is considered by many to be the father of modern art history. This book is an intellectual biography of Winckelmann that discusses his magnum opus, History of the Art of Antiquity, in the context of his life and work in Germany and in Rome in the eighteenth century. Alex Potts analyzes Winckelmann's eloquent account of the aesthetic and imaginative Greek ideal in art, an account that focuses on the political and homoerotic sexual content that gave the antique ideal male nude its larger res...
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Form and Meaning: Writings on the Renaissance and Modern Art

By: Klein, Robert

Price: $8.98

Publisher: Princeton University Press : July 1981

Seller ID: 452850

ISBN-13: 9780691003283

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

The description for this book, Form and Meaning: Writings on the Renaissance and Modern Art, will be forthcoming.

Image for From Nineveh to New York: The Strange Story of the Assyrian Reliefs in the Metropolitan Museum & the Hidden Masterpiece at Canford School

From Nineveh to New York: The Strange Story of the Assyrian Reliefs in the Metropolitan Museum & the Hidden Masterpiece at Canford School

By: Russell, John Malcolm

Price: $9.99

Publisher: Yale University Press : May 1997

Seller ID: 468047

ISBN-13: 9780300064599

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Pages unmarked, DJ intact - light wear to edges.
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Futurist Manifestos

By: Apollonio, Umbro

Price: $14.00

Publisher: MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston : October 2001

Seller ID: 452060

ISBN-13: 9780878466276

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

On February 20th, 1909, a belligerent manifesto announcing the birth of the Futurist movement appeared on the front page of the Paris newspaper Le Figaro and sent immediate shockwaves throughout Europe. The author, a young Italian poet named F.T. Marinetti, demanded that writers and artists reject the classic art of the past and celebrate the dynamic technology of modern city life. Joined by a group of like-minded artists, over the following years Marinetti pioneered an art that would eulogise speed and industry, in a reaction against the stasis of the classics, and even against contemporary m...
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Hidden Harmony: The Connected Worlds of Physics and Art

By: Leibowitz, J. R.

Price: $19.98

Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press : June 2008

Seller ID: 164234

ISBN-13: 9780801888663

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: 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 and art share guiding aesthetics and compositional demands and to show how each speaks meaningfully to the other. Hidden Harmony is the first serious look at what art and physics, as creative processes...
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History of American Painting, Volume II: The Light of Distant Skies (Fine Art Series)

By: Flexner, James T.

Price: $5.99

Publisher: Dover Publications : August 1988

Seller ID: 460272

ISBN-13: 9780486257082

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Looks at the work of Benjamin West, Charles Willson Peale, Samuel Morse, Audubon, Gilbert Stuart, John Singleton Copley, and John Trumbull.
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History of Lace (Dover Knitting, Crochet, Tatting, Lace)

By: Palliser, Mrs. Bury

Price: $10.98

Publisher: Dover Publications : March 2012

Seller ID: 450571

ISBN-13: 9780486247427

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Lace as we know it today developed prior to the sixteenth century from the drawn work, cutwork, and lacis (darning on squares of net) that evolved out of centuries of embroidery and needlework. Traces of elaborate netting have been found in the tombs of ancient Egypt; the Bible mentions "fine twisted linen wrought with needlework"; and centuries-old Scandinavian burial chambers have yielded fragments of gold lace.This definitive history of lace-making is a landmark of nineteenth-century erudition and scholarship that has never been surpassed for its wide learning and comprehensive treatment of...
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Hope Among Us Yet: Social Criticism and Social Solace in Depression America

By: Peeler, David P.

Price: $4.98

Publisher: Univ of Georgia Pr : June 1987

Seller ID: 333560

ISBN-13: 9780820309026

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Image and Insight

By: Spitz, Ellen Handler

Price: $14.95

Publisher: Columbia University Press : October 1991

Seller ID: 198687

ISBN-13: 9780231072960

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Imagery and Creativity: Ethnoaesthetics and Art Worlds in the Americas

By: Whitten

Price: $9.98

Publisher: University of Arizona Press : February 1993

Seller ID: 221754

ISBN-13: 9780816512478

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

From pottery to story to carnivals, various forms of artistic expression from the Americas can be shown to reflect universal human imagery and creativity. In this collection, contributors from a variety of disciplines utilize an ethnoaesthetic perspective to place art forms within their cultural and social milieus, and address the problem of understanding culturally patterned, creative expressions caught up in organized art worlds.The book presents an array of contemporary and ancient arts of North, Central, and South America and the Caribbean, ranging from the cultural heritage of the Centra...
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In Montparnasse: The Emergence of Surrealism in Paris, from Duchamp to Dalí

By: Roe, Sue

Price: $18.98

Publisher: Penguin Press : August 2019

Seller ID: 427977

ISBN-13: 9781101981177

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

Describes with plenty of colour how surrealism, from Rene Magritte's bowler hats to Salvador Dali's watches, was born and developed. - The Times (UK) As she did for the Modernists In Montmartre, noted art historian and biographer Sue Roe now tells the story of the Surrealists in Montparnasse. In Montparnasse begins on the eve of the First World War and ends with the 1936 unveiling of Dal 's Lobster Telephone. As those extraordinary years unfolded, the Surrealists found ever more innovative ways of exploring the interior life, and asking new questions about how to define art. In Montparnasse r...
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Italian Renaissance Sculpture (World of Art)

By: Olson, Roberta J. M.

Price: $6.98

Publisher: Thames & Hudson : March 1992

Seller ID: 460386

ISBN-13: 9780500202531

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

From the WORLD OF ART series, a survey of the artistic achievements of the Renaissance sculptors from Nicola Pisano through Brunelleschi and Donatello to Michelangelo and Cellini.
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Jean-Jacques Lebel: Barricades (The Future of the Past)

Price: $34.98

Publisher: Walther König, Köln : June 2015

Seller ID: 477848

ISBN-13: 9783863356606

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Without the work of French artist, poet, publisher, activist and translator Jean-Jacques Lebel (born 1936), the emergence of happenings in 1960s Europe would be hard to imagine. From the very outset of the decade, Lebel was instigating happenings--often politically themed-- in Venice, Milan, London, Paris and New York, as the leading exponent for this new form of performance and a close associate of the Living Theater. In 1979 he founded the Polyphonix Festival, devoted to sound poetry and performance art. This hefty volume provides the most comprehensive overview of the life and oeuvre of thi...
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Keeping a Rendezvous

By: Berger, John

Price: $9.98

Publisher: Vintage : October 1992

Seller ID: 452855

ISBN-13: 9780679737148

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

When he stands before Giorgione's La Tempesta, Booker Prize-winning author John Berger sees not only the painting but our whole notion of time, sweeping us away from a lost Eden. A photograph of a gravely joyful crowd gathered on a Prague street in November 1989 provokes reflection on the meaning of democracy and the reunion of a people with long-banished hopes and dreams. With the luminous essays in Keeping a Rendezvous, we are given to see the world as Berger sees it -- to explore themes suggested by the work of Jackson Pollock or J. M. W. Turner, to contemplate the wonder of Paris. Rendezvo...
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Leonardo's Nephew: Essays on Art and Artists

By: Fenton, James

Price: $8.95

Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux : December 1998

Seller ID: 371892

ISBN-13: 9780374185053

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Pages unmarked, DJ intact, light shelf wear.
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Light and Color in the Italian Renaissance Theory of Art

By: Barasch, Moshe

Price: $19.98

Publisher: New York University Press : September 1978

Seller ID: 454758

ISBN-13: 9780814709955

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Looking at Art from the Inside Out: The Psychoiconographic Approach to Modern Art (Contemporary Artists and their Critics)

By: Gedo, Mary Mathews

Price: $19.98

Publisher: Cambridge University Press : April 1994

Seller ID: 454151

ISBN-13: 9780521435673

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Like New

Looking at Art from the Inside Out highlights the role played by the psychological world of the artist in shaping the subject-matter and form of art works. Analysing masterpieces by Manet, Gauguin, Magritte and Picasso, Mary Mathews Gedo, who is trained in both art history and clinical psychology, details how the creative process can transform the artist's inner world into public statements meaningful for a broad audience. Demonstrating how biological predisposition, familial relationships and childhood experiences of future artists play a pivotal role in shaping their careers, she merges form...
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Malmaison (Alpina guide books)

By: Billiet, Joseph

Price: $5.99

Publisher: Editions Alpina : January 1956

Seller ID: 464304

ISBN: B0007J1GIO

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Minimal Art

By: Battcock, Gregory

Price: $4.98

Publisher: E. P. Dutton : April 1968

Seller ID: 444244

ISBN-13: 9780525472117

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Minimal Art: The Critical Perspective

By: Colpitt, Frances

Price: $9.98

Publisher: University of Washington Press : January 1993

Seller ID: 412924

ISBN-13: 9780295972367

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

In this important work, Frances Colpitt chronicles the Minimal art movement of the 1960s. Maintaining the original spirit of the period--enthusiasm for innovation and a passionate commitment to intellectual inquiry--Colpitt provides an excellent documentary history that is both thorough and nonpartisan.Using a metacritical approach that embraces critical writings of the artists themselves, interviews by herself and the others, and a generous sampling of illustrations, Colpitt sets foth the issues and arguments and identifies key concepts that are crucial to an understanding of Minimal art. The...
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Move Closer: An Intimate Philosophy of Art

By: Armstrong, John

Price: $9.98

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux : September 2001

Seller ID: 452858

ISBN-13: 9780374527822

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Like New

How many of us have stood before famous paintings only to realize, with quiet panic, that we can't work out what the fuss is all about? What do we do-beyond just staring-to get the most out of art? How do we come to develop an attachment to individual works and find them fascinating? How do they come to matter to us? While many teachers and critics have diligently directed attention to questions in art history, theory, or criticism, John Armstrong, in a powerful and original shift of focus, considers the roots of our personal attachment to art. Perhaps this most neglected aspect of thinking ab...
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National Museum of American Art

By: Kloss, William (Introduction by) and Broun Elizabeth (Foreword by)

Price: $9.99

Publisher: National Museum of American Art; Smithsonian Institution Press : January 1995

Seller ID: 472727

ISBN-13: 9780937311202

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good