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  • Anne Neilson's Christmas Angels

    Devotions and Art of Hope and Joy for the Christmas Season

    by Anne Neilson ...
    Are you looking to focus your heart amid the bustle and preparation leading up to Christmas? Are you seeking the peace, hope, love, and joy at the heart of the holiday? Anne Neilson's Christmas Angels invites you to quiet your spirit as you focus on the wonder of the Savior's birth and the messengers who heralded the good news to the shepherds that first Christmas.Fine artist and bestselling ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • What Art Can Tell Us About Love

    by Nick Trend ...
    Learn how to appreciate some of the world's most iconic artworks from a unique angle and discover how the universal theme of love influenced our greatest artists.Whether in the throes of passion, enduring the pain of an unrequited love or basking in the joy of a wonderfully supportive friendship, this guide uses love as a way to explore famous artworks and how they were created.Beautifully ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • Set Me Free

    The Good News of God’s Relentless Pursuit (Poetry and Essays)

    by Lecrae Moore ...
    Do you feel like you live life looking in from the outside? From the way you speak, to the color of your skin, to the way you vote, or the way you pray, you don't fit the mold. And yet you find yourself still trying to prove yourself to others. In Set Me Free, New York Times bestselling author Lecrae invites you on a poetic and artistic exploration of how you can persevere against the lies of ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • The Little Book of Art

    Brushstrokes of Wisdom

    by Orange Hippo! ...
    "Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable..." - Cesar A. CruzAcross the centuries, art has held up a mirror to humanity's evolving culture and creativity. Ancient civilizations left us mysterious sculptures while Renaissance artists produced iconic masterpieces. The Impressionists captured fleeting moments of beauty, while the Surrealists explored dreams and the subconscious. ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

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  • Was ist Kunst?

    Positionen der Ästhetik von Platon bis Danto

    Series Book 1254 - Beck Paperback
    Ist die Aufgabe der Kunst das Wahre, Gute und Schöne oder doch eher die Darstellung ihrer eigenen Künstlichkeit? Michael Hauskeller stellt in diesem Buch sechzehn Theorien über Kunst vor. Die brillanten Kurzessays ergeben zusammen eine kleine Geschichte der Ästhetik von der Antike bis in die Gegenwart – knapp, pointiert und allgemein verständlich. ... Read more

    $10.28 USD

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  • Das Bauhaus

    Werkstatt der Moderne

    Series Book 2883 - Beck'sche Reihe
    Das Bauhaus – heute ein Synonym für Architektur und Design der klassischen Moderne – wurde 1919 von Walter Gropius als Reformschule in Weimar gegründet. Zu den Mitgliedern zählten so berühmte Namen wie Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Marianne Brandt und Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. Sie alle wirkten mit, ein ganzheitliches Konzept zu entwickeln, um Kunst und Design, Handwerk und Technik miteinander zu ... Read more

    $9.74 USD

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  • Die Kunst des Mittelalters Band 1: 800 bis 1200

    Series Book 2554 - Beck'sche Reihe
    Dieser Band führt sachkundig und lebendig in die Gattungen und Formen der Kunst zwischen 800 und 1200, der Zeit der Vorromanik und Romanik, ein. Die europäische Kunst diente in dieser Epoche vorrangig der christlichen Religion und der Repräsentation von Herrschaft. Bruno Reudenbach stellt die Künstler und Auftraggeber vor, erklärt, wie Kunst damals entstanden ist und wie sie gewirkt hat, und macht ... Read more

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  • Die Kunst des Mittelalters Band 2: 1200 bis 1500

    by Klaus Niehr ...
    Series Book 2555 - Beck'sche Reihe
    Zwischen 1200 und 1500 entfaltete die Gotik ihren Glanz in der Architektur, der Skulptur wie der Malerei und breitete sich in ganz Europa aus. Klaus Niehr stellt in seinem anschaulichen Überblick die Entwicklung des Kirchenbaus dar und erklärt, welche Funktionen die Bilder in dieser Zeit erfüllten, was sie darstellten und wie sie an den Betrachter appellierten. Darüber hinaus beschreibt der Band ... Read more

    $9.84 USD

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  • Ungläubiges Staunen

    Über das Christentum

    by Navid Kermani ...
    Series Book 6410 - Beck Paperback
    Was geschieht, wenn einer der bedeutendsten deutschen Schriftsteller, der selbst ein Muslim ist, sich in die christliche Bildwelt versenkt? Navid Kermani sieht staunend eine Religion voller Opfer und Klage, Liebe und Wunder, unvernünftig und abgründig, zutiefst menschlich und göttlich – ein Christentum, von dem Christen in dieser Ernsthaftigkeit, Kühnheit und auch Begeisterung nur noch selten ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Botticelli

    Artist and Designer

    Series series Renaissance Lives
    A revealing look at the commercial strategy and diverse output of this canonical Renaissance artist.In this vivid account, Ana Debenedetti reexamines the life and work of Renaissance artist Sandro Botticelli through a novel lens: his business acumen. Focusing on the organization of Botticelli’s workshop and the commercial strategies he devised to make his way in Florence’s very competitive art ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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  • Seven Sins and Seven Virtues

    A Visual History

    by Edward Simon ...
    A captivating artistic and philosophic exploration of humankind’s complex moral codesA companion piece to Pandemonium: A Visual History of Demonology and Elysium: A Visual History of Angelology, Seven Sins and Seven Virtues will complete this moral trilogy and finally consider God’s most enigmatic of creations: None of the conundrums of metaphysics are as baroque as the motivations of the human ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

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  • A Short History of British Architecture

    From Stonehenge to the Shard

    by Simon Jenkins ...
    Architecture wields great power – a beautiful building inspires awe, an ugly building can oppress – and is an art form unique in being all around us, all the time. But despite its importance and its ubiquity, architecture is a mystery to all but the elite few. In this spectacular history, Simon Jenkins reveals why Britain looks the way it does.Starting with the earliest neolithic structures that ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

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  • Mondrian

    His Life, His Art, and the Quest of the Absolute

    The extraordinary and surprising life of Piet Mondrian, whose unprecedented geometric art revolutionized modern painting, architecture, graphic art, fashion design, and more—from acclaimed cultural historian Nicholas Fox WeberIn the early 1920s, surrounded by the roaring streets of avant-garde Paris, Piet Mondrian began creating what would become some of the most recognizable abstract paintings of ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • In a World of Gods and Goddesses

    The Mystic Art of Indra Sharma

    by James H. Bae ...
    Expressing his spirituality through art, Sharma’s unique masterpieces are meant to inspire peace and reflection in the viewer. With sections on major Hindu deities and classic Vedic texts that include both art and accompanying descriptions, In a World of Gods and Goddesses is the definitive collection of Indra Sharma’s lifework. By combining contemporary and traditional artistic styles, Sharma ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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  • A Book about Ray

    by Ellen Levy ...
    The first full-career survey of the idiosyncratic life and work of Ray Johnson, a collagist, performance artist, and pioneer of mail art.Ray Johnson (1927-1995), a.k.a. “New York’s most famous unknown artist,” was notorious for the elaborate games he played with the institutions of the art world, soliciting their attention even as he rejected their invitations. In A Book about Ray, Ellen Levy ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

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  • Paris in Ruins: Love, War, and the Birth of Impressionism

    The Pulitzer Prize–winning art critic’s gripping account of the “Terrible Year” in Paris and its enormous impact on the rise of Impressionism.From the summer of 1870 to the spring of 1871, Paris and its people were forced into surrender by Germans and imperiled as radical republicans established a breakaway Commune, ultimately crushed by the French army after the burning of central Paris. As ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

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  • Through the Eyes of Children

    Quotes from Childhood Interrupted by War in Ukraine, Illustrated by Artists

    A heartrending and beautiful trilingual book that gives voice to the children of war-torn Ukraine, interspersed with moving works of art.What is it like to be a child living in a country under siege—or living in a foreign city or land far from everything you have known and loved? In this moving and unforgettable book, Ukraine’s children speak out about growing up in amid the violence, terror, and ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • Monet

    The Restless Vision

    **A groundbreaking look at the life and art of one of the most influential, modern painters of the late nineteenth century and founder of the Impressionist movement“Wullschläger emerges with a strikingly different picture of the artist. Passionate, prickly, edgy and unstable, her Monet, the unrecognizable Monet, is a powerful new character in art.” —The Sunday Times (London)**Drawing on thousands ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • The 1619 Project: A Visual Experience

    An illustrated edition of The 1619 Project, with newly commissioned artwork and archival images, The New York Times Magazine's award-winning reframing of the American founding and its contemporary echoes, placing slavery and resistance at the center of the American story.Here, in these pages, Black art provides refuge. The marriage of beautiful, haunting and profound words and imagery creates an ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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  • Black, Queer, and Untold

    A New Archive of Designers, Artists, and Trailblazers

    by Jon Key ...
    Growing up in Seale, Alabama as a Black Queer kid, then attending the Rhode Island School of Design as an undergraduate, Jon Key hungered to see himself in the fields of Art and Design. But in lectures, critiques, and in the books he read, he struggled to see and learn about people who intersected with his identity or who GOT him. So he started asking himself questions:What did it mean to be a ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • Ruling Devotion

    The Hindu Temple in the Imperial Imagination

    Series series SUNY series, Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century
    From 1800 onwards, the Hindu temple occupied a fragile and uneasy proximity to Imperial governance in India. The colonial state sought to regulate and extract the wealth of large temples. Imperial scholars classified the extraordinary diversity of architectural forms from across India, and selected temples were defined as monuments and brought into the custody of Imperial archaeology. Over time, ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

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  • Liberation Literature

    Collected Writings of Virginia Hamilton

    A monumental collection by one of America's greatest authors of children's literature — and the launch of a new imprint, ReLIT, that republishes lost classics for a modern readership!Virginia Hamilton (1936-2002) was not only one of the most magnificent writers who ever lived — winning honors such as the Newbery Medal, Newbery Honor, National Book Award, and the Coretta Scott King Award for ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

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  • Indigenous War Painting of the Plains

    An Illustrated History

    Series Book 283 - The Civilization of the American Indian Series
    In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the Indigenous peoples of the Great Plains practiced an archival art—narrating war exploits in large-scale paintings executed on animal hide robes, shirts, tipi covers, and tipi liners. Essentially autobiographical, the paintings were worn and lived in by the men whose war exploits they portrayed, and were made to be “read” by the public at large. ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

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  • Adrian Piper

    Funk Lessons

    Series series Afterall Books / One Work
    On Adrian Piper's radical pedagogy of transgression and the importance of soul and funk music in the African American struggle for emancipation.From 1982 to 1984, Adrian Piper staged a number of audience-interactive performances in universities or museum settings, under the title Funk Lessons. Using the didactic format of a "lesson" (including characteristic paraphernalia such as blackboards), ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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