Category: Art

A fascinating look at the work of contemporary Japanese artists challenging the country's mainstream aesthetic In recent decades Japanese art has achieved immense popularity in the West while being little understood. Critics have focused on the superficiality and infantilism they find prevalent in much of the work, while many Westerners are familiar with the country's artistic side solely through manga and anime. Bye Bye Kitty offers a more incisive and wide-ranging view of the contemporary Japanese art scene, depicted through the works of fifteen artists, ranging in age from twenty-seven ...
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Calling on Picasso

By: Rosengart, Angela

Price: $19.95

Publisher: DACO-Verlag : January 2002

Seller ID: 293871

ISBN-13: 9783871350504

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Carolee Schneemann: Early work 1960/1970

By: Schneemann, Carolee

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Documentext : January 1982

Seller ID: 451015

ISBN-13: 9780914232544

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Carolee Schneemann: Within and Beyond the Premises (Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art)

By: Schneemann, Carolee,Art, Samuel Dorsky Museum of

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art : April 2010

Seller ID: 449046

ISBN-13: 9780615348230

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Like New

Over forty works spanning the career of pioneering painter, filmmaker, writer, and performance/installation artist Carolee Schneemann are featured in this edition of the Dorsky Museum's Hudson Valley Masters exhibition series. Schneemann's multidisciplinary, deeply personal investigations explore the incomprehensibly complex dynamics between mind and body. As Brian Wallace states in his introduction, "What distinguishes Schneemann's investigations--and what characterizes the varied and interconnected works that constitute them--is their insistent challenge to powerful cultural mechanisms that ...
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Carroll Dunham: Monotypes 2005-2015

By: Thorkildsen, Asmund

Price: $28.98

Publisher: Prestel : May 2016

Seller ID: 403545

ISBN-13: 9783791355788

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

This book is a comprehensive examination of celebrated artist Carroll Dunham's ten years of work in the monotype medium. One of the most important and influential painters of his generation, Carroll Dunham is renowned for his boundary- crossing explorations of gender, sex, and sexuality. This lushly illustrated book focuses on Dunham's monotype prints, which largely revolve around the theme of the female bather. The nearly one hundred large-format works that make up this body of work were produced in the last decade and reveal a sophisticated understanding of the medium. Gorgeously reproduced,...
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Cary Leibowitz: Museum Show

By: Bessa, Antonio Sergio,James, Anastasia,Als, Hilton,Helfand, Glen,Leibowitz, Cary,Lince, Simon,Lieberman, Rhonda

Price: $98.99

Publisher: Contemporary Jewish Museum : January 2017

Seller ID: 468649

ISBN-13: 9780991641147

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Personalized.
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Celebrity Skin: Tattoos, Brands, and Body Adornments of the Stars

By: Gerard, Jim

Price: $7.98

Publisher: Running Press : October 2001

Seller ID: 240864

ISBN-13: 9781560253235

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

Céleste Boursier-Mougenot - États seconds (French Edition)

By: collectif,

Price: $16.99

Publisher: ANALOGUES : April 2008

Seller ID: 342275

ISBN-13: 9782915772074

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Pages unmarked, light wear.
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Chagall. La bibbia. Mostra di 105 incisioni 1931 - 39

By: martino, enzo di

Price: $19.98

Publisher: museo dioesano, venice : January 2000

Seller ID: 279638

ISBN: B002EEWC1U

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Challenging Art: Artforum 1962-1974

By: Newman, Amy

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Soho Press : December 2003

Seller ID: 363170

ISBN-13: 9781569473528

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

"Artforum radically transformed the rules of the game. . . . This lively book, in which gossip becomes oral history, records how and why. . . . Newman should be commended."--Artforum "Newman's book makes] the activities of a handful of magazine editors and art critics seem totally fascinating . . . It] provides an incredible amount of information about the evolution of American art, perhaps even more than can be found in the pages of Artforum itself."--Art in America " I]ncisive and absorbing . . . An absolutely indispensable resource for anyone studying the field."--Irving Sandler, American...
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Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Architect and Artist

By: MacLeod,

Price: $7.98

Publisher: Plume : September 1983

Seller ID: 223052

ISBN-13: 9780525480563

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

China Onward The Estella Collection: Chinese Contemporary Art, 1966-2006

By: Erickson, Britta

Price: $65.00

Publisher: Louisiana Museum of Modern Art : July 2007

Seller ID: 392336

ISBN-13: 9788791607387

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

This monumental volume highlights the esteemed Estella Collection of contemporary Chinese art, with works spanning from 1966-2006. At more than 450 pages, and standing more than 13 inches tall by 10 inches wide, it features an abundant supply of lavish full-spread images and remarkable details of work by virtually every major contemporary Chinese artist to have contributed to the pivotal, revolutionary moment that has lasted from the 1970s until today. Some of the contributing artists include Wang Keping, Huang Rui, Ai Weiwei, Cai Guo-Qiang, Cai Jin, Feng Zhengjie, Wenda Gu, Huang Yong Ping, R...
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Chinese ceramics from Japanese collections: T'ang through Ming Dynasties

By: Hayashiya, Seizo

Price: $12.50

Publisher: Asia Society : January 1977

Seller ID: 431805

ISBN-13: 9780878480494

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

very clean copy
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Chinese Designs CD-ROM and Book (Dover Electronic Clip Art)

By: Inc, Dover Publications

Price: $4.98

Publisher: Dover Publications : March 2002

Seller ID: 365335

ISBN-13: 9780486995083

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Over 350 exquisite, black-and-white Chinese motifs include mythic figures, intricate floral sprays, pandas resting among bamboo leaves, a tiger stalking its prey, dragons, butterflies, and other flora and fauna -- plus stylized renderings of clouds and waves, a portion of the Great Wall, borders of floral, abstract, and repeat patterns, and a host of other motifs.
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Christian Petersen Remembered

By: Bliss, Patricia Lounsbury

Price: $9.98

Publisher: Iowa State Pr : November 1986

Seller ID: 268988

ISBN-13: 9780813813462

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Christian Petersen, Sculptor

By: DeLong, Lea Rosson

Price: $18.50

Publisher: Iowa State University Press : July 2000

Seller ID: 268990

ISBN-13: 9780813829463

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Records more than 1,000 of Petersen's works of art, highlighting those exhibited at Iowa State University's Brunnier Art Museum and confirming his significance in American art history. Approximately 150 illustrations capture the beauty of Petersen's artistic gift while the text unfolds his personal story and places the sculptor within the context of 20th century American art.
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Christian Petersen: Urban Artist, 1900 1934

By: DeLong, Lea Rosson

Price: $14.00

Publisher: University Museums at Iowa State University : January 2007

Seller ID: 268987

ISBN-13: 9780977749416

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

City of Ambition: Artists and New York, 1900-1960

By: Sussman, Elisabeth

Price: $19.98

Publisher: Whitney Museum of American Art : June 1996

Seller ID: 150653

ISBN-13: 9780874271089

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

Claudette Schreuders

By: Hirsch, Faye,Bester, Rory,Krog, Antje

Price: $39.99

Publisher: Prestel : May 2011

Seller ID: 477386

ISBN-13: 9783791351100

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Like New

This major monograph on the South African artist's work of the last fifteen years highlights the powerful themes of isolation, alienation, and dislocation that characterize her sculptures. Claudette Schreuders creates carved and painted wooden figures that reflect the ambiguities of the search for a post-apartheid African identity. Her work is influenced by the traditional Blolo and Colon figures of West Africa, as well as other stylistic input from medieval church sculpture, Spanish portraiture, and Egyptian woodcarving. Schreuders' personal history as a white descendent of colonial settlers ...
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Collecting the Imagination: The First Fifty Years of the Ransom Center (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center Imprint Series)

By: Barnard, Megan

Price: $22.00

Publisher: University of Texas Press : April 2007

Seller ID: 291356

ISBN-13: 9780292714892

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

The Ransom Centre has been supporting research in the humanities for half a century. This volume explores the impact of this important institution.
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Color - Messages & Meanings: A PANTONE Color Resource

By: Eiseman, Leatrice

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Hand Books Press : November 2006

Seller ID: 324270

ISBN-13: 9780971401068

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Acceptable

The binding is vulnerable. A segment has been taped in. pages unmarked.
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Coming of Age: American Art, 1850's to 1950's

By: Agee, William C.,Faxon, Susan C.

Price: $14.00

Publisher: Amer Federation of Arts : October 2006

Seller ID: 284314

ISBN-13: 9781885444332

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

Common Ground: Discovering Community in 150 Years of Art

By: Foresta, Merry,Norrell, Julia J.,Roth, Paul,Serwer, Jacquelyn Days

Price: $8.98

Publisher: Merrell Publishers : October 2004

Seller ID: 329808

ISBN-13: 9781858942650

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Explores the universal human experiences of struggle, transcendence and salvation through painting, sculpture, folk art, photography and assemblage from nineteenth and twentieth century
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Consilioque manuque. Surgery in the manuscripts of the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana. Catalogue of the exhibition (Florence, 3 October-10 January 2012)

By: Lippi, D.

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Mandragora

Seller ID: 440067

ISBN-13: 9788874611720

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Like New

Constable's England

By: Reynolds, Graham

Price: $12.98

Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art : January 1983

Seller ID: 427627

ISBN-13: 9780870993367

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Contemporary Art: MFA Highlights

By: Miner, Al,Munsell, Liz,Saywell, Edward,Zilber, Emily

Price: $8.98

Publisher: MFA Publications : January 2016

Seller ID: 324983

ISBN-13: 9780878468164

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

Contemporary art is a vast and complex field representing artists, ideas and trends from every imaginable cultural and geographical background. This book introduces the art of our times by taking the reader through a tour of some 70 examples from the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Thematic chapters present artistic categories, concepts and propositions that offer a path toward understanding the different subjects, forms, styles, purposes and techniques of contemporary art. Some, such as portraiture, are long-standing notions in the history of art; others, such as site appropri...
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Contemporary Public Sculpture: Tradition, Transformation, and Controversy

By: Senie, Harriet

Price: $8.99

Publisher: Oxford University Press : November 1992

Seller ID: 423070

ISBN-13: 9780195073188

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Pages unmarked, DJ intact, light wear to edges.
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Conversations with Turner: The Watercolors

By: Nicholas R. Bell, Editor

Price: $49.99

Publisher: Skira and Mystic Seaport Museum : January 2019

Seller ID: 452827

ISBN-13: 9780939511457

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Like New

Court and Samurai in an Age of Transition: Medieval Paintings and Blades from the Gotoh Museum,Tok Yo

By: Richard, Naomi Noble (ed)

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Japan Society Gallery : January 1990

Seller ID: 440081

ISBN-13: 9780913304297

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

This is the first exhibition in America drawn exclusively from the outstanding collection of the Gotoh Museum in Tokyo. It comprises 19 paintings and calligraphies, 23 sword blades from the Kamakura period.
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Currier & Ives (Abbeville library of art)

By: Ives, Currier &

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Abbeville Press : January 1980

Seller ID: 247809

ISBN-13: 9780896590922

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Currier & Ives chronicles of America: Color plates reproduced from the original hand colored stone prints by N. Currier and Currier & Ives

By: Pratt, John Lowell

Price: $9.99

Publisher: Promontory Press : January 1974

Seller ID: 455030

ISBN-13: 9780883940310

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

D&AD 2011

By: D&AD

Price: $59.99

Publisher: Taschen : November 2011

Seller ID: 116887

ISBN-13: 9783836528849

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

The prestigious annual for creative professionals Here comes the 2011 edition of the exclusive and highly-coveted annual from D&AD featuring the year's best creative work. The D&AD awards panel judges over 20,000 works from design studios, advertising agencies, branding consultancies, film production and photographic agencies, digital media pioneers, and other creative firms from all over the globe. Winners receive the legendary D&AD Yellow Pencil Award--or in the case of exceptional and outstanding work, the rare Black Pencil Award. This review of the winners serves as a one-stop-shop for ev...
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D&AD Student Awards 2004. The Annual

Price: $26.98

Seller ID: 445913

ISBN: B001PGYSF6

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Danh Vo: Wad al-hayara

By: Arriola, Magalí,Piñera, Virgilio,Godfrey, Mark,Falguières, Patricia,Pellizzi, Francesco,McDonough, Tom,Vo, Danh

Price: $29.98

Publisher: Walther König, Köln : May 2017

Seller ID: 360652

ISBN: 6078335146

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

David Hockney Portraits Npg Only

By: Howgate, Sarah,Shapiro, Barbara Stern

Price: $14.98

Publisher: National Portrait Gallery : January 2006

Seller ID: 477865

ISBN-13: 9781855143623

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

David Smith Invents (Phillips Collection)

By: Frank, Susan Behrends

Price: $19.99

Publisher: Yale University Press : February 2011

Seller ID: 472488

ISBN-13: 9780300169652

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Like New

A fascinating look at renowned sculptor David Smith's late works and the methods and materials behind them Abstract Expressionist artist David Smith (1906-1965) was one of the most important American sculptors of the 20th century, yet few publications dedicated to his creative output currently exist. A painter-sculptor in the tradition of Matisse and Picasso, he focused on welded steel sculptures while simultaneously working inventively in two dimensions, in paint, ink, or tempera. David Smith Invents is the first book to focus on the output in all media of the artist's last fifteen years, a ...
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