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  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • The Electric State

    *Soon to be a Netflix film starring Millie Bobby Brown and Chris Pratt*A teen girl and her robot embark on a cross-country mission in this illustrated science fiction story, perfect for fans of Stranger Things and Black Mirror.In late 1997, a runaway teenager and her small yellow toy robot travel west through a strange American landscape where the ruins of gigantic battle drones litter the ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • The Story of Contemporary Art

    by Tony Godfrey ...
    A lively introduction to the rich and diverse history of contemporary art over the past 60 years—from Modernism and minimalism to artists like Andy Warhol and Marina Abramović.Accessible and with lavish illustrations, this is the perfect gift for art history fans and anyone looking for a new, more inclusive perspective on ‘the old boys’ club.’Encountering a work of contemporary art, a viewer might ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • The Where, The Why, and The How

    75 Artists Illustrate Wondrous Mysteries of Science

    In this New York Times bestseller, “you’ll see star births described in pen and ink, antimatter realized in collage, and a hand-painted black hole” (Discover Magazine).A science book like no other, The Where, the Why, and the How turns loose seventy-five of today’s hottest artists onto life’s vast questions, from how we got here to where we are going. Inside these pages some of the biggest (and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Occult Fiction Collection

    The Occult Fiction Collection assembles 29 of the greatest occult & supernatural stories ever written.Featuring:THE ABBOT’S GHOST, OR MAURICE TREBERNE’S TEMPTATION, by Louisa May AlcottTHE GHOST, by Arnold BennettTHE HAUNTED MAN AND THE GHOST’S BARGAIN, by Charles DickensTHE HAUNTED HOUSE, by Charles DickensTHE LOST STRADIVARIUS, by John Meade FalknerCURIOUS, IF TRUE: STRANGE TALES, by Elizabeth ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Art of Looking

    How to Read Modern and Contemporary Art

    by Lance Esplund ...
    A veteran art critic helps us make sense of modern and contemporary artThe landscape of contemporary art has changed dramatically during the last hundred years: from Malevich's 1915 painting of a single black square and Duchamp's 1917 signed porcelain urinal to Jackson Pollock's midcentury "drip" paintings; Chris Burden's "Shoot" (1971), in which the artist was voluntarily shot in the arm with a ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Tales From the Loop

    Now an Amazon Prime Original Series!**Perfect for fans of E.T. and Stranger Things—the first narrative artbook from acclaimed author and artist Simon Stålenhag about a fictionalized suburban town in the 1980s inhabited by fantastic machines and strange, imaginative beasts.In 1954, the Swedish government ordered the construction of the world’s largest particle accelerator. The facility was complete ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • I Cry

    Guidance, Meditation, Healing for Mastectomy

    by Judy- Lee ...
    Breast Cancer Awareness is known. Breast Cancer education is overlooked. Breast cancer is about a pink ribbon celebration annually with walks and donations and corny reposted messages. What the book I Cry is about is the one, on-the-court experience, the as lived experience of the journey, the pain, the questions that come with the initial diagnosis of breast cancer by the author. It is an attempt ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • Contemporary Drawing

    Key Concepts and Techniques

    Drawing is experiencing an unparalleled surge in the art world. Passé notions that once defined drawing as being a preparatory stage for painting or sculpture have long since been cast aside. Drawing is now fully recognized as its own art form—in the biennials, art fairs, museum exhibitions, and beyond. Drawing has come of age.Contemporary artists are increasingly discovering that drawing is ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Speed Destruction Noise War

    Futurist Manifestos 1909-15

    Founded in 1909 by the Italian writer Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Futurism was a radical art and social movement that glorified modernistic concepts of speed, destruction, noise, machines, cities and war. Marinetti's obsession with the future even extended to the abolition of libraries and museums, which he demanded be burned to the ground in a vortex of incendiary violence. Over 100 years later, ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • There is no soundtrack

    Rethinking art, media, and the audio-visual contract

    Series series Rethinking Art's Histories
    There is no soundtrack is a study of how sound and image produce meaning in contemporary experimental media art by artists ranging from Chantal Akerman to Nam June Paik to Tanya Tagaq. It contextualises these works and artists through key ideas in sound studies: voice, noise, listening, the soundscape and more. The book argues that experimental media art produces radical and new audio-visual ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • The Shape of Ideas

    An Illustrated Exploration of Creativity

    by Grant Snider ...
    “[Snider has] created something unique: a synthesis of comics, philosophy, and poetry: a thoughtful new way of packaging eternal ideas in cartoon boxes.” —The Los Angeles Review of BooksWhat does an idea look like? And where do they come from? Grant Snider’s illustrations will motivate you to explore these questions, inspire you to come up with your own answers and, like all Gordian knots, prompt ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Artificial Hells

    Participatory Art and the Politics of Spectatorship

    by Claire Bishop ...
    This searing critique of participatory art—from its development to its political ambitions—is “an essential title for contemporary art history scholars and students as well as anyone who has . . . thought, ‘Now that’s art!’ or ‘That’s art?’” (Library Journal)Since the 1990s, critics and curators have broadly accepted the notion that participatory art is the ultimate political art: that by ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • What Is Art?

    by Leo Tolstoy ...
    Series series Ideas for Life
    In "What Is Art?", Leo Tolstoy delves into the philosophy of art, challenging the conventions of his day. Through incisive argumentation, Tolstoy proposes that true art transcends mere aesthetic pleasure, serving instead as a medium for communicating the deepest human emotions and experiences universally. He criticizes art that caters only to society's elite, advocating for art that is accessible, ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Things From the Flood

    The basis for the new Amazon Prime Original Series!From the author of the imaginative and “awe-inspiring” (New York Journal of Books) narrative art book The Electric State comes the haunting sequel to his remarkable Tales from the Loop.Welcome back to the Loop.In 1954, the Swedish government ordered the construction of the world’s largest particle accelerator in the pastoral countryside of ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Neuroartes, un laboratorio de ideas

    by Luc Delannoy ...
    Este libro ofrece una introducción a Neuroartes; son notas (filosóficas, neurocientíficas, sociológicas, artísticas) presentadas como ensayos que pueden parecer, a veces, audaces, comprometedores e incluso subversivos. No obstante, simplemente se quiere atravesar las fronteras de las diferentes disciplinas –filosofía, psicología, neurociencia, neuromusicología, neuroestética, ya que la ciencia sin ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Art and Science of Arrival

    Official retrospective companion book to the Paramount film Arrival starring Amy Adams, Jereny Renner and Forest Whitaker, featuring concept art, sketches, behind-the-scenes photography and interviews with key creative and scientific team members.Since its release in 2016, Denis Villeneuve’s Arrival, based on the Hugo-nominated short story Story of Your Life by Ted Chiang, has embedded itself ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • New Retro Illustration ニューレトロイラストレーション

    Retro Reimagined by a New Generation (Japanese edition)

    〝ニューレトロ〟な感性と輝きを放つ作家陣40名の憧憬的作品集ニューレトロとは、新しさの〝new〟と回顧の〝retrospective〟からなる、ノスタルジックな要素を現代の感覚で再構築し楽しむという意味の造語です。本書では、懐かしくもありながら新しい感性を盛り込んだ作品を手がける作家40名を紹介します。レトロカルチャーやモチーフも楽しめる心ときめく1冊です。Retro but modern. This is the new trend, the new way, the new form of illustration created by the new generation.“New retro”, a combination of the word “New” and “Retrospective, ” is a newly coined phrase meaning ... Read more

    $29.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Van Gogh on Demand

    China and the Readymade

    by Winnie Wong ...
    “Unsettles contemporary art’s unspoken hierarchies and topples modernist and postmodernist assumptions about originality, authenticity, and authorship.” —caa ReviewsIn a metropolis in south China lies Dafen, an urban village that houses thousands of workers who paint van Goghs, Da Vincis, Warhols, and other Western masterpieces for the world market, producing an astonishing five million paintings ... Read more

    $29.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Painting China Now

    Artists' Book: Painting China Now (MAM - Museum of Modern Art – Rio de Janeiro – Brasil) by Brody & Paetau

    This is an “artists’ eBook” made in parallel to the exhibition of Ondrej Brody & Kristofer Paetau at the MAM – Museum of Modern Art – Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. This eBook is not an exhibition catalogue – it is an independent work: a collaboration between the artists and the curator of the exhibition, Luiz Camillo Osorio who wrote the text of this book to accompany details of the 30 paintings ... Read more

    Free

  • Psychogeography

    Series series Pocket Essential series
    The term "psychogeography" is used to illustrate a bewildering array of ideas, from ley lines and the occult to urban walking and political radicalism—where does it come from and what exactly does it mean? Psychogeography is the point where psychology and geography meet in assessing the emotional and behavioral impact of urban space. The relationship between a city and its inhabitants is measured ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus