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This Book Presents One Of The Most Outstanding Private Collections Of 20th-century American Art In The World And Tells The Story Of How The Collection Evolv...

H.w. Janson. Includes Bibliographical References And Indexes.Categories: Arts & Photography History & CriticismHistory

Are You High Style Or Boho, Or Maybe Happy Modern Or Trad With A Twist? The Legendary Fabrics And Wallpapers House Of Schumacher Shows How You Can Use Their...

Nineteen centuries of European fashions appear in a remarkable coloring book that doubles as a comprehensive fashion retrospective. From modest peasant garb...

This beautifully presented text tells the story of western art in its historical and cultural context. A History of Western Art introduces your students to ...

A groundbreaking, in-depth exploration of the movement and flexibility of the human body, featuring 1,000 stunning black-and-white photographs that showcas...

From Men In Bowler Hats, Floating In The Sky, To A Painting Of A Pipe Above The Caption This Is Not A Pipe, Rene Magritte Created An Echo-chamber Of Object ...

A fly-on-the-wall account of the smart and strange subcultures that make, trade, curate, collect, and hype contemporary art. The Barnes & Noble Review ...

The Art And Architecture Of Greece And Rome Lie At The Heart Of The Classical Tradition Of The Western World And Their Legacy Is So Familiar As To Have Beco...

Frank Whitford. 159 Illustrations, 29 In Color. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 207) And Index.Categories: Arts & Photography History & Crit...

In sumptuous and illuminating detail, Simon Winchester, the bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman ("Elegant and scrupulous"—New York Times B...

The Fifth Book In The Bestselling Series Is Another Provocative Collection Of Never-before Seen, Artistically Created Postcards From Around The World Reveal...

In 2003, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Mounted A Major Retrospective Of James Rosenquist's Works, Which Traveled To The Menil Collection, Museum Of Fine ...

Review\'Here's what I love about Russ Ramsey's latest project--it understands down deep that Truth is exclusive to no party or sect; that Goodness arrives i...

Seb Hunter wasn't just a heavy metal fan. He was a blind devotee who threw away his education and future prospects to become a rock star. In Hell Bent for ...

Pictorial archive of precisely detailed engravings of architectural elements — doors, windows, moldings, statuary, decorative stonework, columns, pedestal...

What is emo? For starters it's a form of melodic, confessional, or EMOtional punk rock. But emo is more than a genre of music–it's the defining countercu...

Snyder Transports Us To The Streets, Inns, And Guildhalls Of Seventeenth-century Holland, Where Artists And Scientists Gathered, And To Their Studios And La...

Lee Krasner, Best Known As Jackson Pollock's Wife, Reveals A Woman Who Was A Firebrand And Trailblazer For Women's Rights, Who Also Led A Fascinating Life, ...

Foreword by Roxane Gay "Debbie Millman brings her Design Matters podcast, 'about how the most creative people in the world create their lives,' to the pa...

An Oprah.com "Must-Read" BookAfter having shot a man in a Santa Fe bar, the famous artist Jim Stegner served his time and has since struggled to manage the ...

A New York Times bestseller Jonathan and Drew Scott have taken HGTV by storm with their four hit shows, Property Brothers, Property Brothers at Home, Buyin...

The Definitive Story Of The International Modeling Business--and Its Evil Twin, Legalized Flesh Peddling--model Is A Tale Of Beautiful Women Empowered And S...

Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award The cast of characters includes Hitler and Goering, Gertrude Stein and Marc Chagall—not to mention work...

Everyone knows what modern architecture looks like, but few understand how this revolutionary new form of building emerged little more than a century ago o...

Dante's Divine Comedy captivated medieval readers, and each successive era remains spellbound by its sublime portraits of Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven. In th...

The amazing New York Times bestselling adult coloring book featuring super-detailed animal images from artist Kerby Rosanes. The perfect stocking stuffer g...

Fabulosity (n): 1: a state of everything that is fabulous 2: a quality ascribed to that which expresses glamour, style, charisma, power, and heart Kimora...

In This Follow-up To Love Is A Mix Tape, A Writer For Rolling Stone, After His Wife's Death, Finds Solace In Music, Which Leads Him To The Strangest Places ...

Nicholas Fox Weber, for thirty-three years head of the Albers Foundation, spent many years with Anni and Josef Albers, the only husband-and-wife artistic ...

Elegant representations of nature and the four seasons populate a wide range of Japanese genres and media―from poetry and screen painting to tea ceremonie...

Sakahàn: To Light A Fire / Albert Dumont -- Introduction : At The Crossroads Of Indigeneity, Globalization And Contemporary Art / Christine Lalonde -- On O...

It Is A Sunny Summer Sunday In A Remote Swiss Village, And A Christening Is Being Celebrated At A Lovely Old Farmhouse. One Of The Guests Notes An Anomaly I...

"What is it I hope for from this book? To inspire a quiet revolution in the whole way we look at health and care for the dying, and the whole way we look a...

With 32-pages of full-color inserts, and black-and-white illustrations throughout. Alex Danchev gives us the first comprehensive assessment of the revoluti...

An American Journalist Living In Beijing Offers An Odyssey Through Twenty-first-century China As Seen Through The Eyes Of A Handful Of Ordinary People. I: A...

With 294 illustrations, including 96 plates in full color. Bound in the publisher's original red cloth with the front cover and spine stamped in gilt. Dust ...

"Drag embodies the queer possibility that exists within each of us--the infinite ways in which gender, good taste, and art can be lived." -Sasha Velour Th...

A Key To The Interpretation Of Rock Art Of The American Southwest, Providing Descriptions And Illustrations Of Rock Art Symbols, Along With Their Ascribed M...

The legendary icon tells his story—a tale of art, passion, commitment, addiction, as intense and hypnotic as the man himself. In a career spanning five d...

Twelve essays written between 1928 and 1945 that demonstrate key points in the development of Eisenstein’s film theory and in particular his analysis of ...

An authoritative, balanced, and enlightened account of the history of art, ranging from the primitive art of hunters 30,000 years ago to examples of the mos...

The Death Of Madonna -- A Magical Place -- The Arrogance And The Nerve! -- Jam Hot -- Sick And Peverted -- How I Stopped Worrying And Learned To Love Madonn...

A fascinating life of Sergei Shchukin, the great collector who changed the face of Russia’s art world Sergei Shchukin was a highly successful textiles me...

A century ago, outsiders saw China as a place where nothing ever changes. Today the country has become one of the most dynamic regions on earth. In Oracle ...

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The Relationship Between Artists And Their Patrons Has Always Been A Complex And Fascinating One. In The Case Of The Habsburg Rules Of The Sixteenth And Sev...

The best-selling autobiography of America’s most controversial celebrity icon, Marilyn Manson (with a bonus chapter not in the hardcover). In his twenty...