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 Paul Thek: Diver, A Retrospective (Whitney Museum of American Art)Best Price: $42.11 An American sculptor, painter, and installation artist, Paul Thek (1933--1988) is primarily... |  Japan Fashion NowBest Price: $25.35 This is an absolutely fabulous Picture book of the Japanese fashion during the last few decades.... |  German Impressionist Landscape Painting: Liebermann-Corinth-SlevogtBest Price: $40.96 Since reading about the German impressionists I now put them in the league with the French... |  John Marin's Watercolors: A Medium for Modernism (Art Institute of Chicago)Best Price: $31.60 I learned by reading "John Marin's Watercolors" that Look magazine named John... |  Lyonel Feininger: At the Edge of the World (Whitney Museum of American Art)Best Price: $79.35 Recognized for his remarkable synthesis of Expressionist and Cubist techniques, Lyonel Feininger... |
 Old Javanese Gold: The Hunter Thompson Collection at the Yale University Art Gallery (Yale Art Gallery)Best Price: $18.40 While ancient Javanese bronze and ironwork have long elicited interest, there is a lesser-known... |  The Shahnama of Shah Tahmasp: The Persian Book of Kings (Metropolitan Museum of Art)Best Price: $145.46 One of the most voluminous epics of world literature, the Shahnama (or "Book of... |  Legacy: The Emily Fisher Landau Collection (Whitney Museum of American Art)Best Price: $11.00 In May 2010, New York philanthropist Emily Fisher Landau promised 370 works by more than 85... |  Sol LeWitt: Structures, 1965-2006Best Price: $26.70 Sol LeWitt (1928?2007), renowned for his role in establishing Conceptualism and Minimalism as... |  Twentieth-Century Russian and East European Painting: The Thyssen-Bornemisza CollectionBest Price: $197.95 At the heart of this pioneering study - the result of exhaustive comparative research in... |
| Paul Thek: Diver, A Retrospective (Whitney Museum of American Art) Best Price: $42.11 An American sculptor, painter, and installation artist, Paul Thek (1933--1988) is primarily... | Japan Fashion Now Best Price: $25.35 This is an absolutely fabulous Picture book of the Japanese fashion during the last few decades.... | German Impressionist Landscape Painting: Liebermann-Corinth-Slevogt Best Price: $40.96 Since reading about the German impressionists I now put them in the league with the French... | John Marin's Watercolors: A Medium for Modernism (Art Institute of Chicago) Best Price: $31.60 I learned by reading "John Marin's Watercolors" that Look magazine named John... | Lyonel Feininger: At the Edge of the World (Whitney Museum of American Art) Best Price: $79.35 Recognized for his remarkable synthesis of Expressionist and Cubist techniques, Lyonel Feininger... |
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 Art Guide Texas: Museums, Art Centers, Alternative Spaces, and Nonprofit GalleriesBest Price: $11.98 Perfect book for the art expert or novice. Mrs. Cohen has worked very hard on this book and it... |  Lance Letscher: Collage (Ut Press Fine Arts Series)Best Price: $35.00 I enjoyed seeing what can be done with torn up excercise books and material fished out of... |  Texas Images and VisionsBest Price: $215.78 |  The Shogun Age Exhibition: From the Tokugawa Art MuseumBest Price: $5.47 It has been over a century since Japanese works of art were first introduced to the West. During... |  Jacob Lawrence: American PainterBest Price: $40.00 |
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 Domenico Tiepolo: A New TestamentBest Price: $45.73 With 313 large scale colour plates, this handsomely produced and pleasantly designed book allows... |  Anish Kapoor: Past, Present, FutureBest Price: $18.69 This MIT Press release is tiny compared to the big catalogues we are used to in the art market,... |  O Say Can You See : American Photographs 1839-1939Best Price: $36.50 One Hundred Years of American Photography from the Collection of George R. Rinhart by Thomas... |  Ghost in the Shell: Photography and the Human Soul, 1850-2000Best Price: $49.99 Ghost in the Shell takes as its premise the idea that the outer person is a... |  The Manifesta Decade: Debates on Contemporary Art Exhibitions and Biennials in Post-Wall EuropeManifesta, the first itinerant European Biennial for Contemporary Art, emerged... |
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 Memory And Vision: Arts, Cultures, And Lives of Plains Indian PeoplesBest Price: $32.78 The story of the Native peoples of the Great Plains is a cornerstone in the history and heritage... |  Raimonds Staprans: Art of Tranquility & TurbulenceIn 1947, the young Raimonds Staprans emigrated with his family from Latvia to America, and for... |  Inside the Puppet Box: A Performance Collection of Wayang Kulit at the Museum of International Folk ArtBest Price: $28.88 This was so enjoyable and informative. It was clearly written, with beautiful photographs of the... |  Rome Reborn: The Vatican Library and Renaissance CultureBest Price: $57.99 Anthony Grafton's "Rome Reborn" is not just a simple and well done... |  Singular Multiples: The Peter Blum Edition Archive, 1980-1994 (Museum of Fine Arts, Houston)Best Price: $30.00 The book is beautifully printed and the reproductions are excellent. I bought this at a great... |
 Treasures from The Art Institute of ChicagoBest Price: $51.64 At last a comprehensive, full-color volume joins Hudson Hills Press's successful series of... |  Eva Hesse DrawingBest Price: $95.00 Eva Hesse focused on two main expressive media in her (unfortunately brief) life and career;... |  Art and Emancipation in Jamaica: Isaac Mendes Belisario and His Worlds (Yale Center for British Art)Best Price: $58.26 This truly fantastic exhibition at the Yale Center for British Art is comitted to paper in a... |  British and Irish Silver in the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Art MuseumsBest Price: $58.28 The Fogg Art Museum?s silver collection is one of the most significant in America and includes... |  Princeton University Art Museum: Handbook of the Collections (Princeton University Art Museum Series)Best Price: $30.00 This is a fantastic handbook that shows some of the most important works housed in the Princeton... |
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 Wenceslaus Hollar: A Bohemian Artist in EnglandBest Price: $49.76 This is the definitive book on the experimental printmaker Wenceslaus Hollar, renown for his... |  Diderot on Art, Volume II: The Salon of 1767Best Price: $26.12 The 18th-century French philosopher Denis Diderot - the principal intelligence behind the... |  Creating French Culture: Treasures from the Bibliotheque nationale de FranceBest Price: $5.00 I am a nut about French Literature and History and this volume is one of my prized posessions.... |  The National Gallery Complete Illustrated Catalogue (National Gallery London Publications) |  Japan's Golden Age: MomoyamaBest Price: $717.82 A time of dramatic social and political change, and of brilliant artistic innovation and... |
 German Photography 1870-1970: Power of a MediumBest Price: $45.00 German photography of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries has long been overshadowed by... |  Lorenzo Lotto: Rediscovered Master of the RenaissanceBest Price: $54.46 Hailed as the greatest Venetian painter after Titian, Lorenzo Lotto (c. 1480-1556) is known for... |  A Maritime Album: 100 Photographs and Their Stories |  Benin: Royal Arts of a West African Kingdom (Art Institute of Chicago)Best Price: $7.08 This book corresponds to what I think the average visitor to an exhibition needs: a short... |  Playing with Pictures: The Art of Victorian Photocollage (Art Institute of Chicago)Best Price: $247.02 I really enjoyed this exhibit at the Art Institute of Chicago. The creative things that the... |
 Warhol's Jews: Ten Portraits Reconsidered (Jewish Museum)Best Price: $98.88 I saw the exhibit so was keen to acquire the catalogue. The pictures are high-quality and... |  Art and China's Revolution (Asia Society)Best Price: $37.86 CHINA: population over 1.3 billion (yep thats with a B), a global economic powerhouse. But can... |  G. F. WattsBest Price: $53.55 Widely regarded as a genius and as the greatest painter of the Victorian age, George Frederic... |  Houdini: Art and Magic (Jewish Museum)Best Price: $25.35 The Jewish Museum in New York City created an exhibit of Houdini's art and magic (October... |  Pen and Parchment: Drawing in the Middle Ages (Metropolitan Museum of Art)Best Price: $39.18 Well, not everyone's cup of tea, of course. This pictorial extravaganza is based on the... |
 Bruce Nauman: Topological Gardens (Philadelphia Museum of Art)Best Price: $14.00 One of the most complex and fascinating artists working today, Bruce Nauman (b. 1941) has... |  Gauguin's Paradise Remembered: The Noa Noa Prints (Princeton University Art Museum Series)Best Price: $4.95 In 1891, Paul Gauguin (1848?1903) traveled to Tahiti in an effort to live simply and to draw... |  Francis Bacon in the 1950sBest Price: $19.49 I saw the Bacon's retrospective at the Met this summer and the prints in this monograph are... |  On ReflectionBest Price: $71.50 'On Reflection' is a highly erudite, constantly stimulating, beautifully (and always... |  Contemporary Cultures of Display (Art and Its Histories Series)Best Price: $39.75 This book examines trends in the display of art since the mid-twentieth century, focusing... |
 Thomas Eakins: The Rowing Pictures (Yale Art Gallery)Best Price: $42.77 Any opportunity to study the works of Thomas Eakins is a pleasure. This small book from Yale... |  The Drawings of Filippino Lippi and His CircleBest Price: $46.82 A collection of the most important drawings of the Florentine artist, Filippino Lippi... |  East Asian Lacquer The Florence and Herbert Irving CollectionBest Price: $23.91 A catalogue of 178 objects from the Florence and Herbert Irving Collection of East Asian... |  Between Two Cultures: Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century Chinese Painting from the Robert H. Ellsworth CollectionBest Price: $29.95 During a crucial period from the 1860s to about 1980, Chinese painting was transformed into a... |  Dreaming in Pictures: The Photography of Lewis CarrollBest Price: $85.00 This book was meant to accompany the exhibit of the photography of Lewis Carroll that visited... |
 The Medici, Michelangelo, and the Art of Late Renaissance FlorenceBest Price: $57.04 Library Journal "This catalog for a show of 16th-century Florentine Renaissance art, which... |  The Written Image: Japanese Calligraphy and Painting from the Sylvan Barnet and William Burto CollectionBest Price: $15.30 Calligraphy is often regarded as the purest manifestation of an artist's inner character and... |  Paul HenryAn important Irish landscape painter of the 20th century, Paul Henry defined the quintessential... | ||