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 True to Life: Why Truth Matters (Bradford Books)Best Price: $11.98 One wants to resist the need to criticize a basically good book, for serious logical,... |  Chronophobia: On Time in the Art of the 1960sBest Price: $16.60 In the 1960s art fell out of time; both artists and critics lost their temporal... |  Manhole CoversBest 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)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)Best Price: $85.49 The new realities of economic globalization have created new conditions for cultural practice.... |
 Utopias (Whitechapel: Documents of Contemporary Art)Best Price: $15.15 Utopian strategies in contemporary art seen in the context of the histories of... |  Out of Order, Out of Sight: 2-volume setBest 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 DesignBest Price: $28.00 This work provides a beautiful illustration of the structure underlying the forms manifested in... |  A Scientific AutobiographyBest Price: $157.02 Postscript by Vincent Scully Based on notebooks composed since 1971, Aldo Rossi's... |  Parisian ViewsShelley Rice's superb PARISIAN VIEWS is a stimulating collection of essays on aspects of... |
 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 TopographyBest Price: $54.24 Although both are central to architecture, siting and construction are often... |  Wild South AfricaBest Price: $420.74 with photographs by Lex Hes South Africa is a land of hauntingly beautiful and diverse... |  La Jetee: Cine-Roman (French Edition)Best Price: $29.57 |  Secure the Shadow: Death and Photography in AmericaIf you saw the wonderful film "The Others" you were doubtlessly exposed to one of... |
 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 SchoolBest 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 ArtArt historians, traditionally, have implicitly accepted the autonomy of the artwork and ignored... |  Trisha Brown: Dance and Art in Dialogue, 1961-2001In 1962, at the age of twenty-six, Trisha Brown became one of the original members of the... |  Bauhaus: Weimar, Dessau, Berlin, ChicagoBest Price: $100.00 Bauhaus has established itself with designers and architects as a standard work... |
 Digital Photography (In Simple Steps)Best Price: $12.63 |  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 SoulBest 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 SolutionsBest Price: $4.99 Book Review: Gordon&Gordon, Literacy in America, Westport/London: Praeger, 2003 ... |  Screens Fade to Black: Contemporary African American CinemaBest Price: $16.49 The triple crown of Oscars awarded to Denzel Washington, Halle Berry, and Sidney Poitier on a... |
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 Painting as ModelBest Price: $28.99 Informed by both structuralism and poststructuralism, these essays by art ... |  Dutch Graphic Design: A CenturyBest 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 PresentBest Price: $22.68 with essays by Joseph Backstein, Iara Boubnova, Jurij Krpan, Ileana Pintilie,... |  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 NadarBest 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 FormBest Price: $14.00 I admire and respect Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown for their great career and... |  Bauhaus: Weimar, Dessau, Berlin, ChicagoBest Price: $42.00 A great deal of information, focused on individuals and their contributions to the Bauhaus. ALL... |  Discovering Natural Design |  Sacred Passion: The Art of William Schickel, Second EditionBest 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)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"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)Best Price: $13.00 |  Artists All: Creativity, the University, and the WorldBest Price: $11.92 Basic human drives---curiosity, passion, the need to provide shape and structure, the excitement... |  Michelangelo's Nose: A Myth and Its MakerBest Price: $49.00 This work is a portrait of Michelangelo. |  Filippo Brunelleschi: The BuildingsBest Price: $429.88 Filippo Brunelleschi's few but seminal buildings have stood as touchstones of a 'return... |
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 Institutions of Art: Reconsiderations of George Dickie's PhilosophyBest 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 CardinalsThis 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 CultureThis 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 ThoughtBest Price: $30.95 The book moves in a nonreductive way between literary and theological criticism to show how... |  Looking into Walt Whitman: American Art, 1850-1920Best 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 DanteBest 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 ArtBest Price: $90.00 Becoming Modern, Becoming Tradition examines the relationship between women, nationalism, racial... |  Opening Doors: The Early Netherlandish Triptych ReinterpretedOpening Doors is the first book of its kind: a comprehensive study of the emergence and... |  What Is an Image? (Stone Art Theory Institutes)Best Price: $71.99 |  A Potter's Guide to Raw Glazing and Oil Firing |
 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)Best Price: $12.32 In this thoughtful collection of essays on the relationship of architecture and... |  The Sound Pattern of EnglishBest Price: $25.00 I'm going to disagree with the other two reviewers. It did not kick-start linguistics or... |  Dwelling House ConstructionBest Price: $2.10 |  AnybodyBest Price: $95.00 The Vitruvian Man, the Golden Section, and the Modular Man were once seen as idealized, iconic... |
 Perspecta 29: The Yale Architectural JournalBest Price: $19.97 "Into the Fire" Founded in the early 1950s, Perspecta is the oldest and ... |  The Aesthetics of the Japanese LunchboxBest Price: $14.07 The Makunouchi Bento, or traditional Japanese lunchbox, is a highly lacquered... |  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 CultureBest Price: $10.01 see, a quarterly journal published by The Friends of Photography, presents striking photography... |  Dialogues in Public ArtBest Price: $23.08 By the 1990s, public art had evolved far beyond the lonely monument on an open... |
 De Stijl: The Formative Years, 1917-1922Best Price: $55.00 These nine essays provide a biographically vivid and pluralist view of the periodical De Stijl... |  Czech Photographic Avant-Garde, 1918-1948Best Price: $36.95 This landmark survey of Czech avant-garde photography is the first time we have seen how Central... |  Trees: National ChampionsBest 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, 19101930Best Price: $32.85 The avant-garde movements of Central Europe were an integral part of ... |  FashionEast: The Spectre that Haunted SocialismBest Price: $20.25 If this kind of stuff interests you, you should definitely check out Fashioning Socialism:... |
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