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  • Two Hundred Sketches

    by Gustave Dore ...
    Black and white illustrations (engravings) with very little text. According to Wikipedia: ""Paul" Gustave Doré (January 6, 1832 – January 23, 1883) was a French artist, printmaker, illustrator and sculptor. Doré worked primarily with wood engraving… At the age of fifteen Doré began his career working as a caricaturist for the French paper Le Journal pour rire, and subsequently went on to win ... Read more

    $1.16 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Dore Bible Gallery (Illustrated)

    by Gustave Dore ...
    100 black and white illustrations (engravings) wth brief explanatory text. According to Wikipedia: ""Paul" Gustave Doré (January 6, 1832 January 23, 1883) was a French artist, printmaker, illustrator and sculptor. Doré worked primarily with wood engraving… At the age of fifteen Doré began his career working as a caricaturist for the French paper Le Journal pour rire, and subsequently went on to ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Viking Art (Second) (World of Art)

    Series Book 0 - World of Art
    Updated to reflect recent archaeological discoveries and overflowing with color illustrations, this book is the definitive introduction to the art of the Viking Age.The Viking Age in Europe lasted from the time of the first major Viking expeditions in 800 CE to the widespread adoption of Christianity in Scandinavia some 300 years later. During that time, Viking art and culture spread across ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Concerning the Spiritual in Art

    Translated by Michael T. H. Sadler ...
    Concerning the Spiritual in Art - Originally published in 1911, Kandinsky compares the spiritual life of humanity to a large triangle similar to a pyramid; the artist has the task and the mission of leading others to the top by the exercise of his talent. The point of the triangle is constituted only by some individuals who bring the sublime bread to other people. It is a spiritual triangle which ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • AFRICOBRA

    Experimental Art toward a School of Thought

    Series series Art History Publication Initiative
    Formed on the South Side of Chicago in 1968 at the height of the civil rights, Black power, and Black arts movements, the AFRICOBRA collective created a new artistic visual language rooted in the culture of Chicago's Black neighborhoods. The collective's aesthetics, especially the use of vibrant color, capture the rhythmic dynamism of Black culture and social life. In AFRICOBRA, painter, ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • The British Surrealists

    The lives, loves, and works of key British Surrealists revealed by one of the last surviving members of this movement, best-selling author and artist Desmond Morris.Honored for their idiosyncratic and imaginative works, the surrealists marked a pivotal moment in the history of modern art in Britain— pioneering the Surrealist movement between World War I and II. Many artists banded together to form ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Jo van Gogh-Bonger

    The Woman Who Made Vincent Famous

    by Hans Luijten ...
    Translated by Lynne Richards ...
    It is so good, after so many years of public indifference, even hostility towards Vincent and his work, to feel towards the end of my life that the battle is won.'JO VAN GOGH-BONGER TO GUSTAVE COQUIOT, 1922'It is a sacrifice for the sake of Vincent's glory.'JO VAN GOGH-BONGER ON THE SALE OF 'THE SUNFLOWERS' TO THE NATIONAL GALLERY, UK, 1924Little known but no less influential, Jo van Gogh-Bonger ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Craft

    An American History

    New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceA groundbreaking and endlessly surprising history of how artisans created America, from the nation's origins to the present day.At the center of the United States' economic and social development, according to conventional wisdom, are industry and technology-while craftspeople and handmade objects are relegated to a bygone past. Renowned historian Glenn ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Anime’s Media Mix

    Franchising Toys and Characters in Japan

    In Anime’s Media Mix, Marc Steinberg convincingly shows that anime is far more than a style of Japanese animation. Beyond its immediate form of cartooning, anime is also a unique mode of cultural production and consumption that led to the phenomenon that is today called “media mix” in Japan and “convergence” in the West.According to Steinberg, both anime and the media mix were ignited on January 1 ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Graffiti:Art of Tags

    New Graffiti Photo Trips, #4

    by B. Brown ...
    Series Book 4 - New Graffiti Photo Trips
    80+ Graffiti TagsCollection of Letter Styles, Tags, Signs.Brilliant ideas, interesting designs, true Street art passion. ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Graffiti: Spray over Matter

    New Graffiti Photo Trips, #5

    by B. Brown ...
    Series Book 5 - New Graffiti Photo Trips
    GRAFFITI:Spayed Murals, Stunning 3D Compositions, Skripts, Cool Faces.Comics. Bubles.Lot of projects. ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Graffiti: Letter Styles

    New Graffiti Photo Trips, #3

    by B. Brown ...
    Series Book 3 - New Graffiti Photo Trips
    New GRAFFITI Letter Styles. Photo Book.75+ creative ways of letter writing, tons of paint, shades, bubbles, glimpses of wisdom, true craftsmanship. ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Broad Strokes

    15 Women Who Made Art and Made History (in That Order)

    by Bridget Quinn ...
    Historically, major women artists have been excluded from the mainstream art canon. Aligned with the resurgence of feminism in pop culture, Broad Strokes offers an entertaining corrective to that omission. Art historian Bridget Quinn delves into the lives and careers of 15 female artists from around the globe in text that's smart, feisty, educational, and an enjoyable read. Replete with beautiful ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Everything She Touched

    Life of Ruth Asawa

    by Marilyn Chase ...
    Everything She Touched recounts the incredible life of the American sculptor Ruth Asawa.This is the story of a woman who wielded imagination and hope in the face of intolerance and who transformed everything she touched into art. In this compelling biography, author Marilyn Chase brings Asawa's story to vivid life. She draws on Asawa's extensive archives and weaves together many voices—family, ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Mechademia 9

    Origins

    Edited by Frenchy Lunning ...
    Series Book 9 - Mechademia
    If the source of manga and anime is physically located in Japan, the temptation for many critics and scholars is to ask what aspects of Japanese culture and history gave rise to these media. This ninth volume of Mechademia—an annual collection of critical work on anime and manga—challenges the tendency to answer the question of origins by reductively generalizing and essentializing “Japaneseness. ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Romare Bearden in the Homeland of His Imagination

    An Artist's Reckoning with the South

    Series series A Ferris and Ferris Book
    Romare Bearden (1911–1988), one of the most prolific, original, and acclaimed American artists of the twentieth century, richly depicted scenes and figures rooted in the American South and the Black experience. Bearden hailed from North Carolina but was forced to relocate to the North when a white mob harassed his family in the 1910s. His family story is a compelling, complicated saga of Black ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Making Disability Modern

    Design Histories

    Making Disability Modern: Design Histories brings together leading scholars from a range of disciplinary and national perspectives to examine how designed objects and spaces contributes to the meanings of ability and disability from the late 18th century to the present day, and in homes, offices, and schools to realms of national and international politics. The contributors reveal the social role ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • John Singer Sargent and His Muse

    Painting Love and Loss

    This sensitive and compelling biography sheds new light on John Singer Sargent’s art through an intimate history of his family. Karen Corsano and Daniel Williman focus especially on his niece and muse, Rose-Marie Ormond, telling her story for the first time. In a score of paintings created between 1906 and 1912, John Singer Sargent documented the idyllic teenage summers of Rose-Marie and his own ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Bruegel the Elder: 91 Paintings

    by Narim Bender ...
    Pieter Bruegel the Elder was a Dutch Renaissance painter and printmaker from Brabant, known for his landscapes and peasant scenes (so called genre painting). He received the nickname "Peasant Bruegel" or "Bruegel the Peasant" for his practice of dressing up like a peasant in order to socialize at weddings and other celebrations, thereby gaining inspiration and authentic details for his genre ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • Indian Rock Art of the Columbia Plateau

    Series series Samuel and Althea Stroum Books
    From the river valleys of interior British Columbia south to the hills of northern Oregon and east to the continental divide in western Montana, hundreds of cliffs and boulders display carved and painted designs created by ancient artists who inhabited this area, the Columbia Plateau, as long as seven thousand years ago.Expressing a vital social and spiritual dimension in the lives of these hunter ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • The Hidden Renoir

    Imagine one of history's master artists placing hidden images in his paintings and never telling anyone he did so. Then imagine that no one noticed these hidden images for nearly a century after hes death. Now imagine that a best-selling author has written a truly groundbreaking and endlessly fascinating book documtning those hidden images. The artist is Pierre-August Renoir. The author is Donald ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Doing Research in Design

    Doing Research in Design presents new ways of thinking about the relationship between design and research by positioning design as a social as well as a material practice. This approach emphasises the social consequences of design decisions as well as the importance of the efficient functioning of a design.Doing Research in Design argues that design promotes social change and that, in order to ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Virgin of Guadalupe, The

    by John Annerino ...
    The Virgin of Guadalupe is a brilliant art book that celebrates a popular cultural icon, a venerable symbol of compassion, hope, and humility—and one of the most popular pieces of ancient art ever created. Featuring color photographs, bilingual English and Spanish captions, and an evocative essay, the book includes lyrical quotes from Aztec legends, miraculous apparitions, storied histories, and ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Conceptual Revolutions in Twentieth-Century Art

    From Picasso's Cubism and Duchamp's readymades to Warhol's silkscreens and Smithson's earthworks, the art of the twentieth century broke completely with earlier artistic traditions. A basic change in the market for advanced art produced a heightened demand for innovation, and young conceptual innovators – from Picasso and Duchamp to Rauschenberg and Warhol to Cindy Sherman and Damien Hirst – ... Read more

    $31.99 USD