Arts & Photography Books


The Arts and Crafts Metalwork of Janet Payne BowlesThe Arts and Crafts Metalwork of Janet Payne Bowles
Best Price: $28.00
"... the metalcraft and jewelry of this overlooked and idiosyncratic artist-metalsmith......
The Islamic Manuscript Tradition: Ten Centuries of Book Arts in Indiana University CollectionsThe Islamic Manuscript Tradition: Ten Centuries of Book Arts in Indiana University Collections
Best Price: $20.00
Over the course of ten centuries, Islam developed a rich written heritage that is visible in...
Antoni Tàpies, Complete Writings, Volume II: Collected EssaysAntoni Tąpies, Complete Writings, Volume II: Collected Essays
Best Price: $18.00
In this insightful collection, one of Spain's most influential artists, Antoni Tàpies,...
Indiana BarnsIndiana Barns
Best Price: $17.89
Oftentimes when I drive along Indiana's rural roads I pass by a particularly memorable or...
Hands-On Cadkey: A Guide To Versions 5, 6 And 7Hands-On Cadkey: A Guide To Versions 5, 6 And 7
Hands-On CADKEY is a tutorial-based textbook that teaches students how to use the basic and...


Despite Straight LinesDespite Straight LinesDeath's Showcase: The Power of Image in Contemporary DemocracyDeath's Showcase: The Power of Image in Contemporary Democracy
Best Price: $17.91
This is a book about the public display of death in contemporary culture. It...
On the Art of Building in Ten BooksOn the Art of Building in Ten Books
This book is half a millennium old and I think it's easier and more pleasurable to read than...
Institutional Critique: An Anthology of Artists' WritingsInstitutional Critique: An Anthology of Artists' Writings
Best Price: $58.45
An anthology of writings and projects by artists who developed and extended the...
The Hot House: Italian New Wave DesignThe Hot House: Italian New Wave Design
Best Price: $55.00
The Hot House is in part a manifesto and in part a noncanonical history of the most progressive...


True to Life: Why Truth Matters (Bradford Books)True to Life: Why Truth Matters (Bradford Books)
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One wants to resist the need to criticize a basically good book, for serious logical,...
Chronophobia: On Time in the Art of the 1960sChronophobia: On Time in the Art of the 1960s
Best Price: $16.60
In the 1960s art fell out of time; both artists and critics lost their temporal...
Manhole CoversManhole Covers
Best Price: $172.54
Mimi and Robert Melnick are my aunt and uncle. Uncle Bob is my father's brother. A lifelong...
Discrepant Abstraction (Annotating Art's Histories: Cross-Cultural Perspectives in the Visual Arts)Discrepant Abstraction (Annotating Art's Histories: Cross-Cultural Perspectives in the Visual Arts)
Best Price: $19.41
Kobena Mercer has long been an important figure in the world of cultural theory and identity...
Over Here: International Perspectives on Art and Culture (Documentary Sources in Contemporary Art)Over Here: International Perspectives on Art and Culture (Documentary Sources in Contemporary Art)
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The new realities of economic globalization have created new conditions for cultural practice....

Utopias (Whitechapel: Documents of Contemporary Art)Utopias (Whitechapel: Documents of Contemporary Art)
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Utopian strategies in contemporary art seen in the context of the histories of...
Out of Order, Out of Sight: 2-volume setOut of Order, Out of Sight: 2-volume set
Best Price: $225.62
Adrian Piper joins the ranks of writer-artists who have provided much of the basic and most...
Structure in Nature is a Strategy for DesignStructure in Nature is a Strategy for Design
Best Price: $28.00
This work provides a beautiful illustration of the structure underlying the forms manifested in...
A Scientific AutobiographyA Scientific Autobiography
Best Price: $157.02
Postscript by Vincent Scully Based on notebooks composed since 1971, Aldo Rossi's...
Parisian ViewsParisian Views
Shelley Rice's superb PARISIAN VIEWS is a stimulating collection of essays on aspects of...

October: The Second Decade, 1986-1996 (October Books)October: The Second Decade, 1986-1996 (October Books)
a good collection, but October has sure pulled back from any connection to actual contemporary...
Uncommon Ground: Architecture, Technology, and TopographyUncommon Ground: Architecture, Technology, and Topography
Best Price: $54.24
Although both are central to architecture, siting and construction are often...
Wild South AfricaWild South Africa
Best Price: $420.74
with photographs by Lex Hes South Africa is a land of hauntingly beautiful and diverse...
La Jetee: Cine-Roman (French Edition)La Jetee: Cine-Roman (French Edition)
Best Price: $29.57
Secure the Shadow: Death and Photography in AmericaSecure the Shadow: Death and Photography in America
If you saw the wonderful film "The Others" you were doubtlessly exposed to one of...

Decoys and Disruptions: Selected Writings, 1975--2001 (October Books)Decoys and Disruptions: Selected Writings, 1975--2001 (October Books)
Best Price: $36.91
Decoys and Disruptions is the first comprehensive collection of writings by...
Surrealism in Exile and the Beginning of the New York SchoolSurrealism in Exile and the Beginning of the New York School
Best Price: $243.00
When the 20th Century began, proto-Cubists like Cezanne and the last remnants of the...
The Power of Display: A History of Exhibition Installations at the Museum of Modern ArtThe Power of Display: A History of Exhibition Installations at the Museum of Modern Art
Art historians, traditionally, have implicitly accepted the autonomy of the artwork and ignored...
Trisha Brown: Dance and Art in Dialogue, 1961-2001Trisha Brown: Dance and Art in Dialogue, 1961-2001
In 1962, at the age of twenty-six, Trisha Brown became one of the original members of the...
Bauhaus: Weimar, Dessau, Berlin, ChicagoBauhaus: Weimar, Dessau, Berlin, Chicago
Best Price: $100.00
Bauhaus has established itself with designers and architects as a standard work...

Digital Photography (In Simple Steps)Digital Photography (In Simple Steps)
Best Price: $12.63
Richard Wagner and Festival Theatre (Lives of Theatre)Richard Wagner and Festival Theatre (Lives of Theatre)
Best Price: $27.95
In contrast to most books on Richard Wagner, this biography focuses primarily on Wagner as an...
The Native American Oral Tradition: Voices of the Spirit and SoulThe Native American Oral Tradition: Voices of the Spirit and Soul
Best Price: $83.00
Any project Tamarack is involved in is high quality. And this one is. Simply exquisite. ...
Literacy in America: Historic Journey and Contemporary SolutionsLiteracy in America: Historic Journey and Contemporary Solutions
Best Price: $4.99
Book Review: Gordon&Gordon, Literacy in America, Westport/London: Praeger, 2003 ...
Screens Fade to Black: Contemporary African American CinemaScreens Fade to Black: Contemporary African American Cinema
Best Price: $16.49
The triple crown of Oscars awarded to Denzel Washington, Halle Berry, and Sidney Poitier on a...

Oceans, a Visual Guide (Visual Guides)Oceans, a Visual Guide (Visual Guides)
The Oceans have been a source of mystery and a challenge to mankind since the dawn of time....
Rocks and Fossils, a Visual Guide (Visual Guides)Rocks and Fossils, a Visual Guide (Visual Guides)
Best Price: $106.23
"Rocks & Fossils: A Visual Guide" reveals how the study of rocks and minerals...
Queen Mary's photograph albumsQueen Mary's photograph albums
Best Price: $123.78
This collection of photographs from Queen Mary's private albums is edited by the author,...
Nackte MannNackte MannLeprechaun's KingdomLeprechaun's Kingdom

Information Arts: Intersections of Art, Science, and TechnologyInformation Arts: Intersections of Art, Science, and Technology
Best Price: $17.99
I really liked this book. I'm interested in computer art but Information Arts shows that is...
The Grid BookThe Grid Book
Best Price: $17.99
You see grids all the time. Where I am typing right now, for instance, there is a gridwork of...
Situation (Whitechapel: Documents of Contemporary Art)Situation (Whitechapel: Documents of Contemporary Art)
Best Price: $15.10
Key texts on the notion of "situation" in art and theory that ...
Being Watched: Yvonne Rainer and the 1960s (October Books)Being Watched: Yvonne Rainer and the 1960s (October Books)
Best Price: $13.41
How Yvonne Rainer's art shaped new ways of watching as well as performing;...
Ruins (Whitechapel: Documents of Contemporary Art)Ruins (Whitechapel: Documents of Contemporary Art)
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The "ruins" of the modern era are the landmarks of recent art's ...

Painting as ModelPainting as Model
Best Price: $28.99
Informed by both structuralism and poststructuralism, these essays by art ...
Dutch Graphic Design: A CenturyDutch Graphic Design: A Century
Best Price: $28.55
Well written book, nice collection of works. It's a good source of inspiration. Worth the money.
Body and the East: From the 1960s to the PresentBody and the East: From the 1960s to the Present
Best Price: $22.68
with essays by Joseph Backstein, Iara Boubnova, Jurij Krpan, Ileana Pintilie,...
Caravaggio's Secrets (October Books)Caravaggio's Secrets (October Books)
Best Price: $467.07
Well, at least this book, which really has fallen out of circulation and is not often-read even...
The World of Proust, as seen by Paul NadarThe World of Proust, as seen by Paul Nadar
Best Price: $45.39
Marcel Proust (1871-1922) was one of the great geniuses of modern literature. Born in Auteil to...

Learning from Las Vegas - Revised Edition: The Forgotten Symbolism of Architectural FormLearning from Las Vegas - Revised Edition: The Forgotten Symbolism of Architectural Form
Best Price: $14.00
I admire and respect Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown for their great career and...
Bauhaus: Weimar, Dessau, Berlin, ChicagoBauhaus: Weimar, Dessau, Berlin, Chicago
Best Price: $42.00
A great deal of information, focused on individuals and their contributions to the Bauhaus. ALL...
Discovering Natural DesignDiscovering Natural DesignSacred Passion: The Art of William Schickel, Second EditionSacred Passion: The Art of William Schickel, Second Edition
Best Price: $52.00
In the second edition of Sacred Passion , biographer Gregory Wolfe chronicles the artistic...
The Romanesque Wooden Doors of Auvergne (College Art Association Monograph)The Romanesque Wooden Doors of Auvergne (College Art Association Monograph)
Best Price: $49.95
This volume of the College Art Association Monograph series examines the Romanesque wood doors...

The Art of American Car Design: The Profession and Personalities : "Not Simple Like Simon"The Art of American Car Design: The Profession and Personalities : "Not Simple Like Simon"
This book rewards repeated reading. The interviews with GM designers such as Bill Mitchell and...
Cosa IV: The Houses (Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome)Cosa IV: The Houses (Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome)
Best Price: $13.00
Artists All: Creativity, the University, and the WorldArtists All: Creativity, the University, and the World
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Basic human drives---curiosity, passion, the need to provide shape and structure, the excitement...
Michelangelo's Nose: A Myth and Its MakerMichelangelo's Nose: A Myth and Its Maker
Best Price: $49.00
This work is a portrait of Michelangelo.
Filippo Brunelleschi: The BuildingsFilippo Brunelleschi: The Buildings
Best Price: $429.88
Filippo Brunelleschi's few but seminal buildings have stood as touchstones of a 'return...

Digital Photography (In Simple Steps)Digital Photography (In Simple Steps)
Best Price: $12.63
Richard Wagner and Festival Theatre (Lives of Theatre)Richard Wagner and Festival Theatre (Lives of Theatre)
Best Price: $27.95
In contrast to most books on Richard Wagner, this biography focuses primarily on Wagner as an...
The Native American Oral Tradition: Voices of the Spirit and SoulThe Native American Oral Tradition: Voices of the Spirit and Soul
Best Price: $83.00
Any project Tamarack is involved in is high quality. And this one is. Simply exquisite. ...
Literacy in America: Historic Journey and Contemporary SolutionsLiteracy in America: Historic Journey and Contemporary Solutions
Best Price: $4.99
Book Review: Gordon&Gordon, Literacy in America, Westport/London: Praeger, 2003 ...
Screens Fade to Black: Contemporary African American CinemaScreens Fade to Black: Contemporary African American Cinema
Best Price: $16.49
The triple crown of Oscars awarded to Denzel Washington, Halle Berry, and Sidney Poitier on a...

Oceans, a Visual Guide (Visual Guides)Oceans, a Visual Guide (Visual Guides)
The Oceans have been a source of mystery and a challenge to mankind since the dawn of time....
Rocks and Fossils, a Visual Guide (Visual Guides)Rocks and Fossils, a Visual Guide (Visual Guides)
Best Price: $106.23
"Rocks & Fossils: A Visual Guide" reveals how the study of rocks and minerals...
Queen Mary's photograph albumsQueen Mary's photograph albums
Best Price: $123.78
This collection of photographs from Queen Mary's private albums is edited by the author,...
Nackte MannNackte MannLeprechaun's KingdomLeprechaun's Kingdom

Institutions of Art: Reconsiderations of George Dickie's PhilosophyInstitutions of Art: Reconsiderations of George Dickie's Philosophy
Best Price: $489.36
I read this book for a graduate seminar on the philosophy of art. In George Dickie's book...
Caravaggio and His Two CardinalsCaravaggio and His Two Cardinals
This study focuses on three paintings done by Caravaggio for the two Mattei brothers - a...
Painting in Bruges at the Close of the Middle Ages: Studies in Society and Visual CulturePainting in Bruges at the Close of the Middle Ages: Studies in Society and Visual Culture
This book is the first to explore the origins and nature of the demand for painting in Bruges...
Tragic Method and Tragic Theology: Evil in Contemporary Drama and Religious ThoughtTragic Method and Tragic Theology: Evil in Contemporary Drama and Religious Thought
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The book moves in a nonreductive way between literary and theological criticism to show how...
Looking into Walt Whitman: American Art, 1850-1920Looking into Walt Whitman: American Art, 1850-1920
Best Price: $53.00
Why is Walt Whitman's face as familiar as his poetry? In answering this question, Ruth Bohan...

The Commonwealth of Nature: Art and Poetic Community in the Age of DanteThe Commonwealth of Nature: Art and Poetic Community in the Age of Dante
Best Price: $65.00
The Commonwealth of Nature explores the role of Tuscan visual culture in the poetic...
Becoming Modern, Becoming Tradition: Women, Gender, and Representation in Mexican ArtBecoming Modern, Becoming Tradition: Women, Gender, and Representation in Mexican Art
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Becoming Modern, Becoming Tradition examines the relationship between women, nationalism, racial...
Opening Doors: The Early Netherlandish Triptych ReinterpretedOpening Doors: The Early Netherlandish Triptych Reinterpreted
Opening Doors is the first book of its kind: a comprehensive study of the emergence and...
What Is an Image? (Stone Art Theory Institutes)What Is an Image? (Stone Art Theory Institutes)
Best Price: $71.99
A Potter's Guide to Raw Glazing and Oil FiringA Potter's Guide to Raw Glazing and Oil Firing

Cindy Sherman (October Files)Cindy Sherman (October Files)
Best Price: $10.96
This is an excellent selection of Sherman images of her fantasies and demons. As a newcomer to...
Public Intimacy: Architecture and the Visual Arts (Writing Architecture)Public Intimacy: Architecture and the Visual Arts (Writing Architecture)
Best Price: $12.32
In this thoughtful collection of essays on the relationship of architecture and...
The Sound Pattern of EnglishThe Sound Pattern of English
Best Price: $25.00
I'm going to disagree with the other two reviewers. It did not kick-start linguistics or...
Dwelling House ConstructionDwelling House Construction
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AnybodyAnybody
Best Price: $95.00
The Vitruvian Man, the Golden Section, and the Modular Man were once seen as idealized, iconic...

Perspecta 29: The Yale Architectural JournalPerspecta 29: The Yale Architectural Journal
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"Into the Fire" Founded in the early 1950s, Perspecta is the oldest and ...
The Aesthetics of the Japanese LunchboxThe Aesthetics of the Japanese Lunchbox
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The Makunouchi Bento, or traditional Japanese lunchbox, is a highly lacquered...
Discourses: Conversations about Postmodern Culture (Documentary Sources in Contemporary Art)Discourses: Conversations about Postmodern Culture (Documentary Sources in Contemporary Art)
Best Price: $58.26
Photographic Sketchbook by John Baldessari This anthology of interviews and discussions...
See 1:4: A Journal of Visual CultureSee 1:4: A Journal of Visual Culture
Best Price: $10.01
see, a quarterly journal published by The Friends of Photography, presents striking photography...
Dialogues in Public ArtDialogues in Public Art
Best Price: $23.08
By the 1990s, public art had evolved far beyond the lonely monument on an open...

De Stijl: The Formative Years, 1917-1922De Stijl: The Formative Years, 1917-1922
Best Price: $55.00
These nine essays provide a biographically vivid and pluralist view of the periodical De Stijl...
Czech Photographic Avant-Garde, 1918-1948Czech Photographic Avant-Garde, 1918-1948
Best Price: $36.95
This landmark survey of Czech avant-garde photography is the first time we have seen how Central...
Trees: National ChampionsTrees: National Champions
Best Price: $12.74
I just received this book in the mail. I was so looking forward to taking in the images - but...
Between Worlds: A Sourcebook of Central European Avant-Gardes, 19101930Between Worlds: A Sourcebook of Central European Avant-Gardes, 19101930
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The avant-garde movements of Central Europe were an integral part of ...
FashionEast: The Spectre that Haunted SocialismFashionEast: The Spectre that Haunted Socialism
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If this kind of stuff interests you, you should definitely check out Fashioning Socialism:...

Ars Electronica: Facing the Future: A Survey of Two Decades (Electronic Culture: History, Theory, and Practice)Ars Electronica: Facing the Future: A Survey of Two Decades (Electronic Culture: History, Theory, and Practice)
Best Price: $28.99
For the past two decades the Austrian-based Ars Electronica, Festival for Art, Technology, and...
The Visual Mind II (Leonardo Books)The Visual Mind II (Leonardo Books)
Best Price: $24.95
This splendid book is a feast for the eye, mind, and spirit. It is a sequel to the 1993 book,...
Envisioning Science: The Design and Craft of the Science ImageEnvisioning Science: The Design and Craft of the Science Image
Best Price: $18.01
This is at least two different books. The first is simply in the pictures themselves....
A Forest Of Signs: Art in the Crisis of RepresentationA Forest Of Signs: Art in the Crisis of Representation
Best Price: $100.00
A Forest of Signs documents a major exhibition of critical art in the last decade, one that...
Animals in Art and Thought to the End of the Middle AgesAnimals in Art and Thought to the End of the Middle Ages
Best Price: $181.38
At all periods animals have been used by man in art and literature to symbolize his religious,...
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