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This Is for You
This Is for You
by Rob Ryan
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Artful, eye-catching, and full of heart, renowned screen printer and artist Rob Ryan's papercuts have graced book covers, album covers, and the fashion collections of Paul Smith. In This Is for You, Ryan takes his unique vision and crafts a book-length... (read more)

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@Earth
@Earth
by Peter Kennard
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As revolutionary in form as in content, @earth tells its story in the language of photomontage, one that requires no translation to be understood the world over. Its also the medium long favored by radical artists like Peter Kennard, whose work... (read more)

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Robert Lehman Lectures on Contemporary Art No. 4
Robert Lehman Lectures on Contemporary Art No. 4
by Cooke Lynne
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Since 1992, the Dia Center for the Arts has presented the Robert Lehman Lectures on Contemporary Art-an example of Dia's ongoing commitment to cross-disciplinary critical discourse. This fourth volume of collected theoretical and critical essays focuses... (read more)

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Drop Dead Cute
Drop Dead Cute
by Ivan Vartanian
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"Drop Dead Cute" showcases the work of 10 cutting-edge female Japanese artists whose art combines the pop charge of Takashi Murakami and Yoshitomo Nara with a thrilling personal mixture of sweetness and power. This next wave of painters and illustrators... (read more)

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Antony and the Johnsons: Swanlights
Antony and the Johnsons: Swanlights
by Antony Hegarty
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Antony of Antony and the Johnsons pres­ents his debut collection of visual art, thought-provoking dreamscapes composed of paintings, drawings, photogra­phy, collage, song lyrics, and writings. Often fragmentary images, these pieces capture... (read more)

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Domino Cannibal
Domino Cannibal
by Jimmie Durham
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Staged in the eighteenth-century convent church Sala Veronicas, the year-long exhibition project Domino Canibal invited a succession of artists to create his or her work based on that of the preceding artist, either destroying, appropriating or... (read more)

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Further
Further
by Mars-1
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Further documents and presents the symbiotic relationship between seven artists and friends who share a visual dialogue: MARS-1, NoMe Edonna, Oliver Vernon, Tomokazu Matsuyama, Damon Soule, David Choong Lee, and Robert Hardgrave. The dialogue between... (read more)

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Sofa Chicago 1999: Sculpture Objects Functional Art
Sofa Chicago 1999: Sculpture Objects Functional Art
by Sofa
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See the broadest and highest-quality array of contemporary glass, fiber, ceramic, wood, and metal works created by artists worldwide in only one book: this lavishly illustrated volume. Its three-dimensional pieces from artists like Peter Voulkos and John... (read more)

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Two Schools of Cool
Two Schools of Cool
by Sarah C. Bancroft
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Representing contemporary artists from the last half century, this unique exhibition catalog captures the spirit of a daring experiment to pair California icons with their new millennium comrades. This fascinating book accompanying an exhibition of the... (read more)

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Oliver Payne & Nick Relph: Taschen
Oliver Payne & Nick Relph: Taschen
by Oliver Payne
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The pulsating eclectic style of Relph and Payne's cinematic essays reflect the zeitgeist of a young urban generation.... (read more)

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Mirroring Evil: Nazi Imagery/Recent Art
Mirroring Evil: Nazi Imagery/Recent Art
by Norman L Kleeblatt
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Mirroring Evil: Nazi Imagery/Recent Art features works by thirteen internationally recognized artists who use imagery from the Nazi era to explore the nature of evil. Their works are a radical departure from previous art about the Holocaust, which... (read more)

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Wii Love Arts
Wii Love Arts
by Michael Schmidt
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Nintendo's Wii gaming console is revolutionary: The gamer's actual movements are synced with the movements of on-screen characters, using a special controller (see cover). In other words: no more gaming sitting down! This new "movement"has been given an... (read more)

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Badlands: New Horizons in Landscape
Badlands: New Horizons in Landscape
by Denise Markonish
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The artist's relationship to landscape was once invoked by a canvas on an easel in a picturesque vista. No more. In the 1960s, the Earth Artists started focusing on natural systems and entropy; in the 1970s, photographers in the New Topographics movement... (read more)

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Painting People: Figure Painting Today (08 Edition)
Painting People: Figure Painting Today (08 Edition)
by Charlotte Mullins
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Now available in paperback After a century in which the lexicon of artists' materials expanded from the classic oil, canvas, stone and plaster to include photography, film, performance, found objects and concepts, the spotlight has finally swung back. A... (read more)

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Moving Pictures: Contemporary Photography and Video from the Guggenheim Museum Collection
Moving Pictures: Contemporary Photography and Video from the Guggenheim Museum Collection
by Nancy Spector
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A lavishly illustrated volume exploring Tom Sachs' ambitious installation Nutsy's.... (read more)

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The Art of Sketch Theatre Volume 1
The Art of Sketch Theatre Volume 1
by Sketch Theatre
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The Art of Sketch Theatre Volume 1 is an inspiring collection of sketches, finished work and insightful profiles by over 50 professional artists who have participated in the ongoing SketchTheatre.com project. In the words of Sketch Theatre founder Alex... (read more)

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Pop! Revolution (10 Edition)
Pop! Revolution (10 Edition)
by Marquis
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This book is a social history of Pop art, a group portrait of both the artists and the people who made some of them rich and famous in just a few years, while setting in motion the drastically altered way art has been marketed and appreciated-in the... (read more)

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The 3D Art Book
The 3D Art Book
by Tristan Eaton
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This book presents work by a group of the world's most esteemed young contemporary artists and designers in a medium they've previously not explored - retro 3D.... (read more)

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The Sienese Shredder Issue 3 [With CD (Audio)]
The Sienese Shredder Issue 3 [With CD (Audio)]
by Brice Brown
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Steered by artist-editors Brice Brown and Trevor Winkfield, The Sienese Shredder continues its voyage along the more wayward byways of art and literature with this fabworthy third issue. As always, the lineup is mouthwatering: an interview with Maurice... (read more)

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60: Innovators Shaping Our Creative Future
60: Innovators Shaping Our Creative Future
by Thames & Hudson
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Artists, photographers, architects, fashion designers, product designers, street artists, graphic designers: all are helping to redefine our aesthetics, values, and ideas about the future. Here, a group of international experts from twelve contemporary... (read more)

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