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  • Vanderbilt

    The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty

    New York Times bestselling author and journalist Anderson Cooper teams with New York Times bestselling historian and novelist Katherine Howe to chronicle the rise and fall of a legendary American dynasty—his mother’s family, the Vanderbilts.One of the Washington Post's Notable Works of Nonfiction of 2021When eleven-year-old Cornelius Vanderbilt began to work on his father’s small boat ferrying ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Whole Picture

    The colonial story of the art in our museums & why we need to talk about it

    by Alice Procter ...
    "Probing, jargon-free and written with the pace of a detective story... [Procter] dissects western museum culture with such forensic fury that it might be difficult for the reader ever to view those institutions in the same way again. " Financial Times'A smart, accessible and brilliantly structured work that encourages readers to go beyond the grand architecture of cultural institutions and see ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Art That Changed the World

    Transformative Art Movements and the Paintings That Inspired Them

    by DK ...
    Series series DK Timelines
    This is your A to Z guide to art!From cave paintings to pop art and modern masterpieces, this absorbing and beautiful art encyclopedia explores the development of art in spectacular detail.Here’s what you’ll find inside the pages of this visually stunning art book:• Covers every major movement in art from prehistory to the present day• Each movement is tracked in a visual timeline that showcases ... Read more

    $14.99 USD $1.99 USD

  • 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

  • Mike Kelley

    Educational Complex

    by John Miller ...
    Series series Afterall Books / One Work
    An illustrated examination of a 1995 work by Mike Kelley that marked a significant change in his work.One of the most influential artists of our time, Mike Kelley (1954–2012) produced a body of innovative work mining American popular culture as well as modernist and postmodernist art—relentless examinations of subjectivity and of society that are both sinister and ecstatic. With a wide range of ... Read more

    $21.99 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

  • Theory for Art History

    Adapted from Theory for Religious Studies, by William E. Deal and Timothy K. Beal

    by Jae Emerling ...
    Series series theory4
    Theory for Art History provides a concise and clear introduction to key contemporary theorists, including their lives, major works, and transformative ideas.Written to reveal the vital connections between art history, aesthetics, and contemporary philosophy, this expanded second edition presents new ways for rethinking the methodologies and theories of art and art history. The book comprises a ... Read more

    $39.99 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

  • Provenance

    How a Con Man and a Forger Rewrote the History of Modern Art

    A tautly paced investigation of one the 20th century's most audacious art frauds, which generated hundreds of forgeries-many of them still hanging in prominent museums and private collections todayProvenance is the extraordinary narrative of one of the most far-reaching and elaborate deceptions in art history. Investigative reporters Laney Salisbury and Aly Sujo brilliantly recount the tale of a ... Read more

    $15.99 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

  • The Way Of Divine Love

    “It is My intention also, to show souls that I never refuse grace, even to those who are guilty of grave sin; nor do I separate them from the good souls whom I love with predilection. I keep them all in My Heart, that all may receive the help needed for their state of soul.” -Jesus to Sr. Josefa Menendez. - Sister Josefa Menendez and Jesus’ Message of mercy for sinners-Her daily life within the ... Read more

    $6.99 USD $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

  • The Grand Affair

    John Singer Sargent in His World

    by Paul Fisher ...
    A Wall Street Journal and Times Literary Supplement B**ook of the Year | Long-listed for the Plutarch Award**A bold new biography of the legendary painter John Singer Sargent, stressing the unruly emotions and furtive desires that drove his innovative work and defined the transatlantic, fin de siècle culture he inhabited.A great American artist, John Singer Sargent is also an abiding enigm... ... Read more

    $19.99 USD $12.99 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

    $2.99 USD

  • Women’s Patronage and Gendered Cultural Networks in Early Modern Europe

    Vittoria della Rovere, Grand Duchess of Tuscany

    This book examines the sociocultural networks between the courts of early modern Italy and Europe, focusing on the Florentine Medici court, and the cultural patronage and international gendered networks developed by the Grand Duchess of Tuscany, Vittoria della Rovere.Adelina Modesti uses Grand Duchess Vittoria as an exemplar of pan-European 'matronage' and proposes a new matrilineal model of ... Read more

    $52.99 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

  • Cezanne

    A Life

    by Alex Danchev ...
    With 32-pages of full-color inserts, and black-and-white illustrations throughout.Alex Danchev gives us the first comprehensive assessment of the revolutionary work and restless life of Paul Cézanne to be published in decades. One of the most influential painters of his time and beyond, Cézanne was the exemplary artist-creator of the modern age who changed the way we see the world.With brisk ... Read more

    $10.99 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

  • All the Time in the World

    A Book of Hours

    Entertaining, unexpected, and full of charm, the follow-up to Jessica Kerwin Jenkins’s Encyclopedia of the Exquisite presents a miscellany of engaging stories, detailing the intriguing customs, traditions, and guilty pleasures pursued throughout the ages.All the Time in the World takes its cue from an iconic component of medieval life, the book of hours, which prescribed certain readings and ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • 50 Art Ideas You Really Need to Know

    by Susie Hodge ...
    Series series 50 Ideas You Really Need to Know series
    A visit to an art gallery can be a baffling experience - a bewildering parade of paintings, sculptures, artists and movements with little perspective on how they all fit together. 50 Art Ideas you Really Need to Know is here to help. For all those who don't know their Degas from Dali or their Monet from their Mondrian, this informative and insightful guide discusses 50 of the most important and ... Read more

    $4.99 USD