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The Stud Book by Monica Drake Publisher Comments A sharp-edged satire of contemporary motherhood from a comic novelist on the rise. In the hip haven of Portland, Oregon, a pack of unsteady but loyal friends asks what it means to bring babies into an already crowded world. Sarah studies animal behavior... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $17.50 Sale - Hardcover
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Creating Their Own Image: The History of African-American Women Artists by Lisa E Farrington Publisher Comments Hailed as "a captivating and thorough study of a long-ignored aspect of America's art history" (CHOICE), Creating Their Own Image offers the first comprehensive history of African-American women artists, spanning from slavery to the Harlem Renaissance... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price: $14.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Annotated Mona Lisa: A Crash Course in Art History from Prehistoric to Post-Modern by Carol Strickland Publisher Comments Like music, art is a universal language. Although looking at works of art is a pleasurable enough experience, to appreciate them fully requires certain skills and knowledge. --Carol Strickland, from the introduction to The Annotated Mona Lisa: A Crash... (read more) List Price $22.99 Your price: $13.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Egon Schiele: The Leopold Collection by Egon Schiele Publisher Comments The Leopold Museum in Vienna is a Mecca for devotees of Egon Schiele as it houses the world's largest permanent collection of the artist's works. Comprising works from 1905 to 1918, the year of Schiele's death, this book features large-scale... (read more) List Price $65.00 Your price: $29.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Vertigo: A Century of Multimedia Art, from Futurism to the Web by Germano Celant Publisher Comments Vertigo seeks to document the surge of multimedia art driven by the advent of new technologies, including works produced by great names in art such as Balla, Warhol, Beuys, Anselm Kiefer, Nam June Paik, and Laurie Anderson.... (read more) List Price $50.00 Your price: $22.98 Sale - Hardcover
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This Is How: Surviving What You Think You Can't by Augusten Burroughs Publisher Comments From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Running With Scissors comes a groundbreaking book by Augusten Burroughs that explores how to survive what you think you can't. If you're fat and fail every diet, if you're thin but can't get... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $10.50 Sale - Trade Paper
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John Baldessari: Brick Bldg, Lg Windows W/Xlent Views, Partially Furnished, Renowned Architect by Martin Hentschel Publisher Comments Commissioned to produce an installation for Mies van der Rohe's Museum Haus Lange, John Baldessari decided to rub the building up the wrong way with humorous interventions.... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price: $8.97 Sale - Hardcover
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Floating World Japan in the Edo Period by John Reeve Publisher Comments A special selection of beautiful images drawn from Ukiyo-e prints, screens and paintings in the British Museum's world famous collection. *Also appeared in March Buyer's Notes*... (read more) Your price: $7.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Paul Gauguin Publisher Comments From Edvard Munch to Chris Ofili, French painter Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) has exerted a profound influence on artists of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Gauguin began as an Impressionist, contributing major works to the movement's groundbreaking... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Hardcover
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The Conference of the Birds by Peter Sis Publisher Comments Celebrated children's book author and illustrator Peter Sís creates his first book for adults, a beautiful and uplifting adaptation of the classic twelfth-century Sufi epic poem, The Conference of the Birds. In The Conference of the Birds... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $12.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Albertus Seba: Cabinet of Natural Curiosities (Taschen 25) by Irmgard Musch and Jes Rust and Rainer Willmann Publisher Comments Albertus Seba's Cabinet of Curiosities is one of the 18th century's greatest natural history achievements and remains one of the most prized natural history books of all time. Though scientists of his era often collected natural specimens for research... (read more) Your price: $39.99 Sale - Hardcover
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Birds: Mini Archive with DVD by Georges Louis Leclerc De Buffon Publisher Comments This lovely book showcases the delicate copper engravings of birds created by Georges-Louis Leclerc, Compte de Buffon (1707-88), for his masterpiece work Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière. The glorious birds... (read more) List Price $22.99 Your price: $12.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Complete Printmaker by John Ross Publisher Comments The most comprehensive up-to-date guide to printmaking on the market today, the revised, expanded, fully illustrated edition of this classic, containing 40 color plates and 600 black-and-white illustrations, covers every aspect of fine printing.... (read more) List Price $41.95 Your price: $17.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Chagall: A Biography by Jackie Wullschlager Publisher Comments “When Matisse dies,” Pablo Picasso remarked in the 1950s, “Chagall will be the only painter left who understands what color really is.” As a pioneer of modernism and one of the greatest figurative artists of the twentieth century,... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Pantone Guide to Communicating with Color by Leatrice Eiseman Publisher Comments Use the Pantone Guide to Communicating with Color to make your color choices credible, predictable and effective. Filled with hundreds of color combinations and illustrations, this book is based on color consultant Leatrice Eiseman's popular seminars on... (read more) List Price $39.99 Your price: $15.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Anatomy Drawing School: Animal by Andras Szunyoghy Synopsis The Anatomy Drawing School recognizes the prominent role of the anatomy for the fine arts. The familiar high quality of the illustrations and anatomic content joins with the Flexcover and the handy LCT-Format into two new, high value volumes, which... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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How to Read a Painting: Lessons from the Old Masters by Patrick De Rynck Publisher Comments How does an artists interpretation of historical events alter our understanding of them? Kings, queens, presidents, and generals from Alexander the Great to Theodore Roosevelt have commissioned paintings, drawings, sculptures, and photographs of major... (read more) List Price $37.50 Your price: $15.98 Sale - Flexible
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Creative Type: A Sourcebook of Classic and Contemporary Letterforms by Cees W De Jong Publisher Comments The digital era has entirely transformed the world of typography. This elegant and easy-to-use book provides a comprehensively illustrated record of developments in the field, clearly setting them in their historical context and forming an essential... (read more) List Price $50.00 Your price: $14.98 Sale - Hardcover
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In the Face of Presumptions: Essays, Speeches, & Incidental Writings by Barry Moser Book News Annotation Moser has illustrated a wide range of adult and children's books, most recently . The 22 pieces gathered here do not reveal his theory of art or religious beliefs, but speak of living the life he has being the person he is. One of them is a gallery of... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $3.75 Sale - Hardcover
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The Art of Todd Bratrud: Seen Unknown by Wins Publisher Comments The release of these two Seen Unknown titles marks the beginning of a new MBP series, edited by Winston Tseng, art director for Enjoi Skateboards. Tseng has worked with some of today’s most genre-defying visual artists and designers whose work... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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