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Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking by David Bayles and Ted Orland Publisher Comments "This is a book about making art. Ordinary art. Ordinary art means something like: all art not made by Mozart. After all, art is rarely made by Mozart-like people; essentially—statistically speaking—there aren't any people like that... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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Proust Was a Neuroscientist by Jonah Lehrer Staff Pick The young Lehrer's keen portraits make for a winning read. Using Woolf, Stravinsky, Cézanne, Whitman, and a handful of others, he shows how art has given us as much insight into the human mind as science has.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Bento's Sketchbook by John Berger Publisher Comments Bento's Sketchbook is an exploration of the practice of drawing, as well as a meditation on how we perceive and seek to explore our ever-changing relationship with the world around us.... (read more) Your price: $28.95 New - Hardcover
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The View From the Studio Door by Ted Orland Publisher Comments In the perennial best-seller Art & Fear, Ted Orland (with David Bayles) examined the obstacles that artists encounter each time they enter their studio and stand before a new blank canvas. Now, in The View From The Studio Door, Orland turns his attention... (read more) List Price $6.99 Your price: $6.20 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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A Human Eye: Essays on Art in Society, 1997-2008 by Adrienne Rich Publisher Comments Across more than three decades Adrienne Rich"s essays have been praised for their lucidity, courage, and range of concerns. In A Human Eye, Rich examines a diverse selection of writings and their place in past and present social disorders and... (read more) Your price: $15.95 New - Trade Paper
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No More Secondhand Art: Awakening the Artist Within by Peter London Publisher Comments This book is about using art as an instrument of personal transformation, enabling us to move from an inherited to a chosen state of being. Peter London offers inspiration and fresh ideas to artists, art students, and art teachers—as well as to... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Artist's Reality: Philosophies of Art by Mark Rothko Publisher Comments I do not think it is an exaggeration to say that this publication--lovingly and discreetly edited by the artist's son, Christopher Rothko--is a major event, for to open The Artist's Reality is to discover buried treasure. This is a fully worked-out... (read more) Your price: $20.00 New - Trade Paper
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Barcelona by Robert Hughes Publisher Comments Barcelona is Robert Hughes's monumentally informed and irresistibly opinionated guide to the most un-Spanish city in Spain. Hughes scrolls through Barcelona's often violent history; tells the stories of its kings, poets, magnates, and revolutionaries... (read more) List Price $21.00 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Mannerism (67 Edition) by John Shearman Review "It is to John Shearman's credit that he has cut through the detritus of psychological guesswork, shown that the word mannerism has a precise meaning in its own time...Manierismo was the extreme consciousness of elegant style for its own sake, a passion... (read more) List Price $11.95 Your price: $7.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Practices of Looking: An Introduction to Visual Culture by Marita Sturken Publisher Comments Visual culture is central to how we communicate. Our lives are dominated by images and by visual technologies that allow for the local and global circulation of ideas, information, and politics. In this increasingly visual world, how can we best decipher... (read more) List Price $79.95 Your price: $31.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Seven Days in the Art World by Sarah Thornton Publisher Comments The art market has been booming. Museum attendance is surging. More people than ever call themselves artists. Contemporary art has become a mass entertainment, a luxury good, a job description, and, for some, a kind of alternative religion. In a series... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Painter of Modern Life and Other Essays (95 Edition) by Charles Baudelaire Publisher Comments This last article, for all its brevity and incompleteness, develops views hardly more than touched on in Baudelaire's other writings.... (read more) List Price $11.95 Your price: $7.00 Used - Trade Paper
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History of Beauty (10 Edition) by Umberto Eco Publisher Comments Now in paperback, Umberto Eco’s groundbreaking and much-acclaimed first illustrated book has been a critical success since its first publication in 2004. What is beauty? Umberto Eco, among Italy’s finest and most important contemporary... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $15.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Geometry of Art and Life by Matila Costie Ghyka Publisher Comments This classic study probes the geometric interrelationships between art and life in discussions ranging from dissertations by Plato, Pythagoras, and Archimedes to examples of modern architecture and art. Other topics include the Golden Section... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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In Search of the Miraculous: Or, One Thing Leads to Another by Milton Glaser Publisher Comments Milton Glaser is perhaps the most celebrated graphic designer in the world. As a young man, he read a phrase that stayed with him through his life: "In Search of the Miraculous." One could say that all human experience is a miracle--memory... (read more) Your price: $20.00 New - Trade Paper
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Color : Natural History of the Palette (02 Edition) by Victoria Finlay Publisher Comments In this vivid and captivating journey through the colors of an artist's palette, Victoria Finlay takes us on an enthralling adventure around the world and through the ages, illuminating how the colors we choose to value have determined the history of... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Artists in Times of War (Seven Stories' Open Media Book) by Howard Zinn Publisher Comments "Political power," says Howard Zinn, "is controlled by the corporate elite, and the arts are the locale for a kind of guerilla warfare in the sense that guerillas look for apertures and opportunities where they can have an effect." In his new book... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price: $6.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Art in Theory, 1900-2000 ((Rev)03 Edition) by Charles Harrison Publisher Comments This popular anthology of twentieth-century art theoretical texts has now been expanded to take account of new research, and to include significant contributions to art theory from the 1990s.New edition of this popular anthology of twentieth-century art... (read more) List Price $56.95 Your price: $43.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Concerning the Spiritual in Art by Wassily Kandinsky Publisher Comments Pioneering work by the great modernist painter, considered by many to be the father of abstract art and a leader in the movement to free art from traditional bonds. Kandinsky's provocative thoughts on color theory and the nature of art. Analysis of... (read more) List Price $5.95 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Elements of Color by Johannes Itten Publisher Comments A useful simplification and condensation of Johannes ltten's major work. The Art of Color, this book covers subjective feeling and objective color principles in detail. It presents the key to understanding color in ltten's color circle and color... (read more) List Price $53.25 Your price: $26.00 Used - Hardcover
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