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The Louvre: All the Paintings by Erich Lessing Publisher Comments An historic publishing event! Endorsed by the Louvre and for the first time ever, every painting from the world's most popular museum is available in one stunning book. All 3,022 paintings on display in the permanent painting collection of the Louvre are... (read more) List Price $75.00 Your price: $42.98 Sale - Hardcover 
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Joseph Beuys: Leve Sieht Beuys: Block Beuys: Photographs by Leve Manfred Synopsis Joseph Beuys created his Block Beuys installation in the 1960s out of greatly varied materials and salvaged items that were selected, manipulated, altered and brought together in unusual ways. The objects correspond to one another and, in their... (read more) List Price $65.00 Your price: $19.97 Sale - Hardcover
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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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Bodoni: Manuale Tipografico by Giambattista Bodoni Publisher Comments The origin of the ubiquitous typeface Celebrated printer and type designer Giambattista Bodoni set the standard for printing the alphabet with his Manuale Tipografico (1818). The two-volume set—published posthumously in a limited edition of 250... (read more) List Price $69.99 Your price: $49.98 Sale - Hardcover
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From Monet to Cezanne: Late 19th-Century French Artists by Jane Turner Book News Annotation Some 300 in-depth biographies explore the life and work of painters who brought about the artistic revolutions of realism, impressionism, and post-impressionism in late 19th-century France. Each entry includes a bibliography. Arrangement of entries is... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $2.75 Sale - Trade Paper
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Basics Illustration #04: Basics Illustration: Global Contexts by Mark Wigan Williams Synopsis Comprehensive and inspiring, this work is packed with insightful and thought-provoking commentary. The author introduces the concept of illustration as a form of language and visual communication, conveying ideas, messages, and emotions for cultural... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $14.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Ecomedia by Sabine Himmelsbach Publisher Comments In recent years the idea of ecology as a communications system in which humans, animals and organic materials occupy equivalent status has gained in authority. To whose advantage and disadvantage are ecosystems destroyed? What consequences do these hold... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price: $5.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Street Art Stencil Book by Onstudio Synopsis Containing 20 laser cut stencils from the world's leading street artists, this book is a must for artists, illustrators, and anyone who loves street art. The stencils are printed on perforated card stock so that they can be removed and used. Each artist... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $13.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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In the Darkest Hour There May Be Light: Works from Damien Hirst's Murderme Collection by Hans Ulrich Obrist Publisher Comments Published to accompany the exhibition at the Serpentine Gallery, London in November 2006, In the darkest hour there may be light provides a revealing and concise overview of Damien Hirsts murderme collection to date. As Julia Peyton-Jones puts it... (read more) List Price $75.00 Your price: $25.97 Sale - Hardcover
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Mariko Mori by Mariko Mori Publisher Comments One of the best-known Japanese artists of the international scene, Mariko Mori, born in 1967 in Tokyo, envisions fantastical worlds and beings in spectacular photographs and videos--frequently casting herself amid these scenarios as a Bjork-esque avatar... (read more) List Price $80.00 Your price: $16.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Custom Lettering of the 60s & 70s by Rian Hughes Publisher Comments When personal computers became de rigueur for the design world, their font lists standardized the array of typefaces available to layout artists and typesetters. But in the decades before computer dominance, hand-drawn fonts were the highlight of... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price: $19.98 Sale - Flexible
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Francis Bacon: Anatomy of an Enigma by Michael Peppiatt Publisher Comments Francis Bacon was one of the most powerful and enigmatic creative geniuses of the twentieth century. Immediately recognizable, his paintings continue to challenge interpretations and provoke controversy. Bacon was also an extraordinary personality... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Zen Art Book: The Art of Enlightenment by John Daido Loori Publisher Comments When a Zen master puts brush to paper, the resulting image is an expression of the quality of his or her mind. It is thus a teaching, intended to compassionately stop us in our tracks and to compel us to consider ultimate truth. Here, forty... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $10.94 Sale - Trade Paper
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Moby-Dick in Pictures: One Drawing for Every Page by Matt Kish Staff Pick In 2009, Matt Kish had an idea, a dream, a plan. Every day he would read a page from Moby-Dick, choose one passage, and then create an image based on the text — for all 552 pages! A year and a half later his epic quest came to an end, and Portland's... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price: $27.97 Sale - Trade Paper
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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 $27.50 Your price: $3.75 Sale - Hardcover
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Subway Art by Martha Cooper and Henry Chalfant Publisher Comments During the 1970s and 80s, photographers Martha Cooper and Henry Chalfant captured the environment and the imagination of a generation by documenting the burgeoning New York City graffiti movement. Now 25 years and more than a half a million copies later,... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price: $17.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Vasily Kandinsky by Max Bill Publisher Comments As a painter and a teacher, and co-founder of the Blaue Reiter, the Russian-born artist Vasily Kandinsky has played a leading role in the unfolding of modern art. Greatly influenced by music-- music is the ultimate teacher, he once averred--Kandinsky... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $17.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Backyard Ballistics by William Gurstelle Staff Pick As tempting as it sounds to spend the afternoon with the two digital puppies wrestling under Lara Croft's wife-beater, nothing is really more entertaining than plain ol' throwing rocks at stuff. Or, better still, shooting said rocks out of a homemade... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Ripped: How the Wired Generation Revolutionized Music by Greg Kot Publisher Comments No less than a decade ago, the majority of mainstream music was funneled through a handful of media conglomerates. But now more individuals are listening to more music from a greater variety of sources than at any time in history. Ripped tells the story... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Erotic Fantasy (Temporis) by Hans Jugrgen Dopp Synopsis The many and varied points of view encountered in this work demonstrate the multifarious aspects of sexuality. It reveals that nothing is more natural than sexual desire; and paradoxically, nothing is less natural than the forms in which this desire... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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