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 Jean Fouquet and the Invention of France: Art and Nation after the Hundred Years WarBest Price: $53.57 Jean Fouquet was France's most important 15th-century artist, painting for the courts of... |  James Swan, Cha-Tic of the Northwest Coast: Drawings and Watercolors from the Franz and Kathryn Stenzel Collection Of Western American ArtBest Price: $24.00 |  Giovanni Boldini in Impressionist Paris (Sterling & Francine Clark Art Institute)Best Price: $162.42 "Giovanni Boldini in Impressionist Paris" is currently on exhibit at the Sterling and... |  Madame Gres: Sphinx of FashionBest Price: $33.04 Years ago someone gave me a sample of Cabochard perfume and I fell in love. Its designer was... |  Red Hot: Asian Art Today from the Chaney Family Collection (Museum of Fine Arts, Houston)Best Price: $27.76 The art world has recently witnessed an international phenomenon, literally 'red hot' in... |
 Lee Bontecou: A RetrospectiveBest Price: $30.59 This is a terrific 2003 exhibition catalogue of the seminal work of sculptor Lee Bontecou. If... |  Miniature Size, Magical Quality: Nasca Art from the Glassell Collection (Museum of Fine Arts, Houston)Best Price: $31.20 An extraordinary group of Nasca miniature objects?exquisite works produced in ancient Central... |  John Singer Sargent: Venetian Figures and Landscapes 1898-1913: Complete Paintings: Volume VIBest Price: $47.14 Delightful from cover to cover, this is one book not to miss, especially if you love... |  Sargent and the SeaBest Price: $31.97 Why should anyone buy this book? I have taken the chance on it and for the price, I feel like I... |  The Radical Camera: New York's Photo League, 1936-1951 (Jewish Museum)Best Price: $31.50 Artists in the Photo League, active from 1936 to 1951, were known for capturing sharply... |
 Augustus Saint-Gaudens in The Metropolitan Museum of ArtBest Price: $17.54 I recently saw a documentary on Saint-Gaudens and became interested in the man and his work.... |  Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective (Philadelphia Museum of Art)Best Price: $64.99 . The book is beautifully bound & handsomely designed. The many color repros are super.... |  Joaquin Torres-Garcia: Constructing Abstraction with WoodBest Price: $125.00 Joaquín Torres-García (1874–1949) is one of the most influential artists to have... |  Titian and the Golden Age of Venetian Painting: Masterpieces from the National Galleries of Scotland (Museum of Fine Arts, Houston)Best Price: $19.38 For the past 65 years, the National Galleries of Scotland has displayed the acclaimed... |  Petah Coyne: Everything That Rises Must Converge (Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art)Best Price: $15.49 Unlike many contemporary artists who focus on social or media-related issues, Petah Coyne (born... |
 My Faraway One: Selected Letters of Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz: Volume One, 1915-1933 (Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library)Best Price: $25.38 And every one of them words rang true And glowed like burnin' coal Pourin' off of... |  Maine Moderns: Art in Seguinland, 1900-1940 (Portland Museum of Art)Best Price: $32.02 Between 1900 and 1940, a group of modernist artists gathered regularly on the coast of Maine in... |  Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty (Metropolitan Museum of Art)Best Price: $31.46 Arguably the most influential, imaginative, and provocative designer of his generation,... |  Rebecca Salter: Into the Light of Things (Yale Center for British Art)Best Price: $30.00 Rebecca Salter (b. 1955) is a British abstract artist who lives and works in London. After... |  El Anatsui at the Clark (Clark Art Institute)Best Price: $7.00 The Ghanaian-born sculptor El Anatsui (b. 1944) is one of the most significant artistic... |
 The Judith Neisser Collection: Minimal and Postminimal Innovation (Contemporary Collecting)Best Price: $26.18 This book is the catalog for the current exhibition at the Art Institute in Chicago of a local... |  Washington Crossing the Delaware: Restoring an American Masterpiece, Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin (Fall, 2011)Best Price: $11.83 Emanuel Leutze's life-size Washington Crossing the Delaware commemorates the critical... |  A Time and a Place: "Near Sydenham Hill" by Camille Pissarro (Kimbell Masterpiece Series)Best Price: $12.92 Camille Pissarro (1830-1903) is best known as one of the founders of the Impressionist movement.... |  Dubuffet as Architect (Editions Hazan)Best Price: $23.30 As the champion of "Art Brut," the artist Jean Dubuffet (1901-1985) is remembered... |  Getting Jobs in Graphic Design (Cassell's Job Guides) |
 The Nineteen Twenties Style |  Sue Dolman's Book of Animal Toys: Creative Your Own Superb Collection of Country CharactersEach project in this collection includes actual size trace-off patterns, instructions and... |  Scandinavian Cross Stitch DesignsBest Price: $29.99 Add a touch of simple Scandinavian charm to your home with these dozens of elegant cross-stitch... |  Capital London: Focus from the Flying EyeBest Price: $39.90 Presents aerial photographs of London, taken from the viewpoint of Hazel Murray in the Capital... |  Decorative Designs |
 The Heqanakht Papyri: Publications of the Metropolitan Museum of Art Egyptian Expedition, 27 (Metropolitan Museum of Art Series) (No. 27)This book presents a new study of the important Middle Kingdom papyri of Heqanakht. Featured... |  Islamic Art and Geometric Design: Activities for Learning (Metropolitan Museum of Art Series)This resource offers an introduction to the principles of Islamic art and the geometric designs... |  The Art of ParmigianinoBest Price: $43.32 Girolamo Mazzola (AKA Parmigianino) was born in Parma in 1503 to a family of painters. One of... |  The Great Parade: Portrait of the Artist as ClownBest Price: $18.00 The circus is a dazzling world filled with acrobats and harlequins, tumblers and riders,... |  Picasso: Architecture and VertigoBest Price: $19.99 The starting point of this exciting new exploration of Picasso is not his life but his work,... |
 Reading Abstract Expressionism: Context and CritiqueBest Price: $31.03 Abstract Expressionism is arguably the most important art movement in postwar America. Many of... |  Raphael and the Beautiful Banker: The Story of the Bindo Altoviti PortraitBest Price: $12.18 David Allen Brown and Jane van Nimmen have produced a remarkable and scholarly study focusing on... |  Many Are CalledBest Price: $324.71 "Stare. It is the way to educate your eye, and more. Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die... |  Constructed Abstract Art in England: A Neglected Avant-Garde (Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art)Best Price: $50.64 Much admired as a realist painter, English artist Victor Pasmore surprised the art world in 1948... |  3x An Abstraction: New Methods of Drawing by Hilma af Klint, Emma Kunz, and Agnes MartinWith a few notable exceptions including M.C. Escher, Dali, and a few others, I'd never... |
 The Creative Monochrome Image: How to Excel at Black & White PhotographyBest Price: $3.38 This is probably the best book I've ever read on creative B&W photography. It... |  The Art Forger's Handbook |  Pre-Raphaelite Women (Mini Albums) |  Fashion Designers' Gardens |  Cassell's Dictionary of Catchphrases (Cassell Reference)Best Price: $57.06 Recent years have seen a resurgence in the popularity of the catchphrase with TV shows like The... |
 Liminal Acts: A Critical Overview of Contemporary Performance and TheoryBest Price: $37.46 The term liminal refers to a marginalized space of fertile chaos and creative potential where... |  Catalogue of Rembrandt's Etchings/2 Volumes in 1 |  Ceramic Collectors Glossary (Architecture and Decorative Art Series) |  Illustrations to the "Divine Comedy" of Dante |  The New York City Ballet: The First Twenty Years (Da Capo series in dance) |
 Letters in Gold Ottoman Calligraphy from the Sakip Sabanci Collection, IstanbulBest Price: $289.92 Letters of Gold is one of the most beautiful and informative books on Arabic calligraphy (khatt)... |  Royal Art of Benin The Perls CollectionThis book attempts to explain the form and symbolic content of Benin art in terms of the larger... |  Pierre-Paul Prud'honIf you're a Prud'hon fan, this is a wonderful book that you should add to your... |  The Royal Women of Amarna Images of Beauty in Ancient EgyptSurveying the depiction of the female form during Egypt's Amarna period (circa 1353-1336... |  Native Paths American Indian Art from the Collection of Charles and Valerie DikerThis catalogue includes 139 Native North American works of art that represent many peoples and a... |
 Perfect Documents Walker Evans and African Art, 1935Best Price: $6.00 Photographs taken of African sculptures by Walker Evans for a 1935 Metropolitan Museum exhibit. |  Netherlandish Art 1400-1600 (Netherlandish Art in the Rijksmuseum Series)Best Price: $52.29 An overview of Netherlandish art in the years 1400 to 1600. It selects 100 works of art in... |  Sisters of SalomeBest Price: $5.99 Oscar Wilde is responsible for striptease. Well, not directly, perhaps, but there is a... |  Harlequin Unmasked: The Commedia Dell'Arte and Porcelain SculptureBest Price: $240.00 This book, received as a gift, is one of the finest and most enjoyable art books I've read... |  Patronage, Culture and Power: The Early CecilsBest Price: $44.95 The Cecils were the dominant noble family in Elizabethan and Jacobean England. William, Lord... |
| The Creative Monochrome Image: How to Excel at Black & White Photography Best Price: $3.38 This is probably the best book I've ever read on creative B&W photography. It... | The Art Forger's Handbook | Pre-Raphaelite Women (Mini Albums) | Fashion Designers' Gardens | Cassell's Dictionary of Catchphrases (Cassell Reference) Best Price: $57.06 Recent years have seen a resurgence in the popularity of the catchphrase with TV shows like The... |
| Liminal Acts: A Critical Overview of Contemporary Performance and Theory Best Price: $37.46 The term liminal refers to a marginalized space of fertile chaos and creative potential where... | Catalogue of Rembrandt's Etchings/2 Volumes in 1 | Ceramic Collectors Glossary (Architecture and Decorative Art Series) | Illustrations to the "Divine Comedy" of Dante | The New York City Ballet: The First Twenty Years (Da Capo series in dance) |
 Menzel's Realism: Art and Embodiment in Nineteenth-Century BerlinBest Price: $24.00 it is a good book, there is enough information, it also shows the drawings of this painter who... |  Le Corbusier Before le Corbusier: Architectural Studies, Interiors, Painting and Photography, 1907-1922Best Price: $49.95 This mammoth book will be read as long as people are interested in art of LE CORBUSIER, which is... |  Anne Vallayer Coster: Painter to the Court of Marie AntoinetteBest Price: $12.50 One of the best books on an under-appreciated 18th century still life artist. The article by... |  Architecture in the United States, 1800-1850Best Price: $19.99 Emphasizing intellectual and cultural ties to British style and taste, W. Barksdale Maynard... |  The Arts of China 900-1620 (The Yale University Press Pelican Histor)Best Price: $51.48 An examination of the most prolific and broad-ranging period of Chinese art history, from the... |
 Edgar Degas: Defining the Modernist Edge (Yale Art Gallery)Best Price: $7.30 Through his representation of modern subjects such as ballet dancers and race horses, his... |  Giorgio Morandi: The Art of SilenceBest Price: $48.50 I found the book to be very revealing about the misconceptions of the artist Morandi. It gives... |  Tilman Riemenschneider, c. 1460-1531Best Price: $50.64 One of the greatest sculptors of the later Middle Ages, Tilman Riemenschneider (c. 1460-1531)... |  Pevsner Architectural Guides Pembrokeshire: The Buildings of WalesBest Price: $59.30 This authoritative guide to the southwest corner of Wales by three local experts encompasses a... |  Asian Art at the Norton Simon Museum Volume 3: Art from Sri Lanka and Southeast AsiaBest Price: $58.28 This illustrated book completes a three-volume series cataloguing the Asian art collection at... |
 Gilbert Rohde: Modern Design for Modern LivingBest Price: $40.82 I've been a collector of Gilbert Rohde's designs for Herman Miller, mostly the Paldao... |  Perpetual Glory: Medieval Islamic Ceramics from the Harvey B. Plotnick Collection (Art Institute of Chicago)Best Price: $34.50 Here's the book that won't let the recipients forget who gave it. It provides an... |  Jose Guadalupe Posada and the Mexican Broadside (Art Institute of Chicago)Best Price: $48.00 I love Jose Guadalupe Posada's work, but this book just scratched the surface of it. ... |  Essays in Context: Unfolding the Netherlandish Diptych (Harvard University Art Museums)Best Price: $1,232.22 With contributions by Marina Belozerskaya, Till-Holger Borchert, Lorne Campbell, Reindert... |  Romare Bearden, American Modernist (Studies in the History of Art Series)Best Price: $53.88 Romare Bearden (1911-1988) was a modernist artist renowned for his experimental and socially... |
 Ruskin on Venice: "The Paradise of Cities" (Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art)Best Price: $60.64 Venice represented John Ruskin?s ideal of civic society??The Paradise of Cities,? where culture,... |  Viewing Renaissance Art (Renaissance Art Reconsidered)Best Price: $15.94 This book focuses on the values, priorities, and motives of patrons and the purposes and... |  Euan Uglow: The Complete PaintingsBest Price: $90.03 Euan Uglow was somewhat of an hermetic character with his art. Not inclined toward exhibitions... |  John Alexander: A Retrospective (Houston Museum of Fine Arts)Best Price: $60.00 I saw his exhibit at the Smithsonian in DC. I fell in love with his art. I wanted to buy his... |  Phil Collins: The World Won't ListenBest Price: $27.58 British artist Phil Collins (b. 1970) uses films, photographs and installations to explore the... |
 Playwriting: The Structure of Action, Revised and Expanded EditionBest Price: $14.88 This is not a cookie-cutter how-to book on playwriting. Sam Smiley knows that great writing must... |  Reconsidering Barnett NewmanBest Price: $15.00 In April 2002 the Philadelphia Museum of Art held a symposium in conjunction with a major... |  The Art of Domestic Life: Family Portraiture in Eighteenth-Century England (Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art)Best Price: $45.94 This book is the first to explore English family portraiture in the 18th century, a varied... |  Exploring in Chinese, Volume 1: A DVD-Based Course in Intermediate Chinese (English and Mandarin Chinese Edition)Best Price: $31.80 I love this item! I think the language learning methods in this book are top notch! The book... |  The Clark Brothers Collect: Impressionist and Early Modern Paintings (Clark Art Institute)Best Price: $18.70 This is a truly magnificent art book, large, heavy, complete. The paper on which the book is... |
 Politics, Transgression, and Representation at the Court of Charles II (Studies in British Art)Best Price: $47.53 The return of Charles II to the English throne after eleven years of Interregnum heralded the... |  Antonello da Messina: Sicily's Renaissance Master (Metropolitan Museum of Art Publications)Best Price: $424.64 Antonello da Messina (ca. 1430 ? 1479) was one of the most groundbreaking and influential... |  The Art of Indonesian Textiles: The E. M. Bakwin Collection at the Art Institute of Chicago (Museum Studies)Best Price: $22.49 A superbly presented work of seminal scholarship, "The Art Of Indonesian Textiles" by... |  Socrates Sculpture Park: 20th AnniversityBest Price: $33.30 Socrates Sculpture Park is one of the most acclaimed public art spaces in the country. The Park... |  Lee Lozano: DrawingsBest Price: $39.08 Lee Lozano (1930?1999) brought a potent voice to the 1960s New York art scene. Equipped with an... |
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