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2) On weaving
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Anni Albers (1899–1994) was one of the foremost textile artists of the twentieth century; her works are in major museum collections around the world. Nicholas Fox Weber is executive director of The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation and the author of The Bauhaus Group: Six Masters of Modernism. Manuel Cirauqui is curator at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao in Spain. T'ai Smith is associate professor of art history at the University of British Columbia...
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Dale Chihuly, the hugely popular artist who works in glass, celebrates his 70th birthday in 2011. Tacoma Art Museum, in his hometown, owns more than 150 examples of his work and is mounting an exhibition in his honor. Both this book and the exhibition showcase Chihuly's enduring interest in the arts and natural beauty of the Pacific Northwest, which are a major influence on his work. This book focuses on the importance of these influences. From Native...
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"Explore the past, present, and future of rail travel through 30 years of one artist's work. Once a common part of the American landscape, trains are increasingly fading from public view. Though photographs can accurately convey the details of "what, where, and when," sometimes paintings can better convey the deeper truths of an era. Collecting more than thirty years of paintings and renderings, Railroads, Art, and American Life tells the story of...
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Maxfield Parrish enjoyed tremendous popularity throughout the early decades of the twentieth century. Bruce Watson, writing in Smithsonian magazine, deemed Parrish the "comman man's Rembrandt." It's said that during the Depression, a Parrish illustration was displayed on the walls of one out of every four American homes. The artist's romantic, richly colored images of winsome maidens and faraway places continue to appeal to modern audiences. Selected...
6) Claude Monet
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Claude Monet was a French impressionist painter.
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"Everyone knows a Feiffer illustration when they see one: His characters leap across the page, each line belying humor and psychological insight. Over Feiffer's prolific 70-year career, his nimble and singular imagination has given us new perspectives as well as biting satires on politics, love, marriage, and religion--alternating with stories imbued with the playful anarchy of a child. Feiffer's varied output includes children's books (The Phantom...
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Lee Krasner may be best known as Jackson Pollock's wife, but Levin's biography reveals a woman who was a firebrand and trailblazer for women's rights and led a fascinating life, and who is finally now being recognized as one of the 20th century's modernist masters.
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Magnificent compilation of all 100 original plates from Michaud's classic History of the Crusades. Includes The War Cry of the Crusaders, The Massacre of Antioch, The Road to Jerusalem, The Baptism of Infidels, The Battle of Lepanto, and many more. Powerful, striking royalty-free illustrations. Captions.
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En este polémico y desafiante conjunto de ensayos, el joven fundador y ex director del Palais de Tokyo parisino, Nicolas Bourriaud -autor del libro recientemente reeditado por Adriana Hidalgo, 'Postproducción'- precisa el sistema de ideas y el funcionamiento de un nuevo paradigma artístico destinado a interactuar en la esfera de las relaciones sociales.
Las teorizaciones que recorren 'Estética relacional' surgen precisamente a partir del conocimiento...
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Guerrilla Girls: The Art of Behaving Badly is the first book to catalog the entire career of the Guerrilla Girls from 1985 to present.
The Guerrilla girls are a collective of political feminist artists who expose discrimination and corruption in art, film, politics, and pop culture all around the world.
This book explores all their provocative street campaigns, unforgettable media appearances, and large-scale exhibitions.
• Captions by the Guerrilla...
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One of the most celebrated painters of his day, John Singer Sargent defines for many the style, optimism and opulence of turn-of-the-century America. Among his renowned portraits, "The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit" stands alongside "Madame X" and "Lady Agnew of Lochnaw" as one of Sargent's immortal images. This painting depicts four young sisters in the spacious foyer of the family's Paris apartment, strangely dispersed across the murky tones and...
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In The Philosophy of Andy Warhol, the enigmatic, legendary Warhol makes the reader his confidant on love, sex, food, beauty, fame, work, money, success, and much more.
Andy Warhol claimed that he loved being outside a party-so that he could get in. But more often than not, the party was at his own studio, The Factory, where celebrities-from Edie Sedgwick and Allen Ginsberg to the Rolling Stones and the Velvet Underground-gathered in an ongoing...
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This Is Not a Photo Opportunity is a street-level, full-color showcase of some of Banksy's most innovative pieces ever.
Banksy, Britain's now-legendary "guerilla" street artist, has painted the walls, streets, and bridges of towns and cities throughout the world. Once viewed as vandalism, Banksy's work is now venerated, collected, and preserved.
Over the course of a decade, Martin Bull has documented dozens of the most important and impressive works...
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Moorcock's own literary accomplishments include his classic Mother London, a romp through urban history conducted by psychic outsiders; his comic Pyat quartet, in which a Jewish anti-Semite examines the roots of the Nazi Holocaust; Behold The Man, the tale of a time tourist who fills in for Christ on the cross; and of course the eternal hero Elric, swordswinger, hellbringer and bestseller.
And now, Moorcock's most audacious creation, Jerry Cornelius-assassin,...
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The most celebrated work of a 16th-century woodcut master, these 41 illustrations are a stark reminder of a dramatic motif: "Remember, you will die." A meticulous reprint of the unabridged 1538 edition, this book includes a prefatory letter by Jean de Vauzèle plus various quotations, depictions, and meditations on death.
20) Realm of light
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Nicholas Roerich (1874-1947) is, known first-and-foremost, as a painter. His paintings, of which there are thousands around the world, explore the mythic origins, the natural beauty, and the spiritual strivings of humanity and of the world. But, Nicholas Roerich was as prolific a writer as he was a painter. He wrote books, poetry, and almost-daily essays on life and events (called Diary Leaves).
Many of these writings have been unavailable for decades....
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