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The Day Our World Changed: Children's Art of 9/11 by Robin Goodman Publisher Comments This unusual book, presents children's artwork created in response to 9/11. Seventy-five works by children 5-18 years old, all from the New York area, were selected for the book and accompanying juried exhibition, which is scheduled to open on September... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover 
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Interieur, Exterieur: Living in Art: From the Painted Interiors of the Romantic Era to Designs for the Home of the Future by Markus Bruderlin Publisher Comments Contemporary artist Andrea Zittel's A-Z Enterprise is an investigation into all aspects of daily life--including shelter, furniture and clothing, which she designs. Architect Marcel Breuer said of his 1966 Modern design for New York's Whitney Museum, It... (read more) List Price $67.25 Your price: $24.95 Short Discount Markdown - Hardcover
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Architecture in Art by Ljiljana Baird Synopsis The world's best-loved painters and writers are celebrated in a series combining brilliant art with writings by great literary figures. Gleaned from the walls of the National Gallery in London, this collection of paintings features architectural subjects... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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500 Years of Illustration: From Albrecht Durer to Rockwell Kent (Dover Books on Fine Art) by Howard Simon Publisher Comments For working artists and students alike, this is an unrivaled treasury of the methods, techniques, and examples of great illustrators from the dawn of printing to the 20th century. Featuring works by Goya, Hogarth, Dürer, Morris, Dor&... (read more) Your price: $34.95 New - Trade Paper
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Best of Disc Art 1: Innovation in CD, DVD & Vinyl Packaging Design by Charlotte Rivers Publisher Comments Best of Disc Art is a new and regularly updated series that reveals the best international design and packaging in the worlds of CDs, DVDs, and vinyl records. CD and DVD sales remain healthy, despite the unstoppable iPod, and high-definition disc... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price: $14.95 Used - Hardcover
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Naked: The Nude in America by Bram Dijkstra Publisher Comments A resplendent presentation of the nude in American art, photography, and popular culture, from the eighteenth century to the present. With more than four hundred color illustrations, this is the most thorough and wide-reaching survey of the... (read more) Your price: $75.00 New - Hardcover
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Lines of Attack: Conflicts in Caricature by Neil Mcwilliam Publisher Comments Lines of Attack raises broad questions about the nature of political caricature by juxtaposing two distinct historical moments in the development of the medium: its emergence in France in the 1830s, as artists including Honoré-Victorin Daumier... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $13.50 New - Trade Paper
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Drawings on Hands by Serge Onnen Synopsis This veritable visual encyclopedia collects 132 images of our most dexterous body part, gathered by Dutch-French artist Serge Onnen from across the annals of art history--from meticulous sixteenth-century renderings (Hendrick Goltzius) to contemporary... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $9.95 Sale - Trade Paper
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Narcissus Reflected: The Myth of Narcissus in Surrealist and Contemporary Art by David Lomas Publisher Comments The story of Narcissus, as told by Ovid in The Metamorphoses, is of a beautiful youth who is so infatuated by his own reflection in a stream that he pines away for himself and is transformed into a flower of the same name. Since the classical era, the... (read more) Your price: $27.00 New - Trade Paper
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Illusions of Reality by Gabriel P Weisberg Publisher Comments Capturing realistic images on canvas has been a staple aspiration of western art since the Renaissance development of scientific perspective. At the end of the nineteenth century, however, animated by the invention of photography and cinema, artists... (read more) List Price $50.00 Your price: $33.95 Sale - Hardcover
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Girls! Girls! Girls! in Contemporary Art by Lori Waxman Publisher Comments Since the 1990s, female artists have led the contemporary art world in the creation of art depicting female adolescence, producing challenging, critically debated, and avidly collected artworks that are driving the current and momentous shift in... (read more) Your price: $40.00 New - Trade Paper
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Body in Three Dimensions by Tom Flynn Publisher Comments No subject in the art world has been of more interest than the human body -- its meanings, its symbolism, its transformation in art. Tom Flynn surveys the representation of the human body in Western sculpture from prehistory to the present, examining... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Alpha and Omega: Visions of the Millennium by J Paul Getty Museum Publisher Comments One of the most definitive visions of a new age is described in the Revelation of St. John the Divine, from which the title of this beautiful volume is taken: "I was in the Spirit of the Lord's day, and heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $4.50 Used - Hardcover
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Narcissus in the Studio Self-Portrait: Artist Portraits and Self-Portraits by Robert (edt) Cozzolino Publisher Comments Among the most popular images in the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts' rich collection are self-portraits and depictions of studio life. This publication accompanies a landmark exhibition investigating the complex nature of artistic identity... (read more) Your price: $30.00 New - Trade Paper
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Woman as Design: Before, Behind, Between, Above, Below by Stephen Bayley Synopsis A completely original reappraisal of that most familiar, yet mysterious, of things, the female body. In this endlessly provocative volume, Stephen Bayley, design authority and cultural critic, takes on the female body, analyzing each crook and every... (read more) List Price $50.00 Your price: $25.00 Used - Hardcover
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Art Journey America Landscapes: 89 Painters' Perspectives by Edited By Kathy Kipp With Editors From C Publisher Comments howcasing the work of more than 100 top contemporary American master artists of our day, this book features landscapes (a popular subject for art collectors and a tradition throughout American art history) from all across the country--east and west... (read more) Your price: $49.99 New - Hardcover
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Mexican Modernity (05 Edition) by Rub Gallo Publisher Comments In Mexican Modernity, Ruben Gallo tells the story of a second Mexican Revolution, a battle fought on the front of cultural representation. The new revolutionaries were not rebels or outlaws but artists and writers; their weapons were cameras, typewriters,... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Man as Hero: The Human Figure in Western Art (Classical America Series in Art and Architecture) by Pierce Rice Publisher Comments As he takes his argument through several categories, including the cherub, the celebration of victory, and the Virgin as Mother, there are some unexpected artists in the pantheon: not only Michelangelo, Veronese, Fragonard, and Winslow Homer but also J... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $3.25 Used - Trade Paper
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The Tropics by Alfons Hug Publisher Comments Western art has long nurtered an idyllic dream of the tropics, absorbing larger cultural longings for exoticism, armchair travel, uninhibited sensuality and the rejection of industrialized civilization. Taking European constructions of tropicality as its... (read more) List Price $69.00 Your price: $14.95 Used - Hardcover
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Burning Issues: Fire in Art and the Social Imagination by Alan Krell Publisher Comments In the Greek myth, Prometheus steals fire from Zeus and gives it as a gift to mankind. Fire, once possessed only by the gods, can now be used by lowly man. Like knowledge in the Garden of Eden, fire is at once essential to living and a dangerous... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price: $36.00 Used - Hardcover
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