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A History of the World in 100 Objects by Neil Macgregor Synopsis In 2010, the BBC and the British Museum embarked on an ambitious project: to tell the story of two million years of human history using one hundred objects selected from the Museums vast and renowned collection. Presented by the British Museums Director... (read more) Your price: $54.95 New - Compact Disc
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Responding To Art's Core Concepts in Art (Software) (04 Edition) by Robert Bersson Publisher Comments This text is designed to excite and interest students who have minimal knowledge of art and limited confidence in responding to it. To this end, the book starts at the students' introductory level and sets out to stimulate their active participation... (read more) List Price $55.00 Your price: $45.00 Used - Boxed Set
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Stealing the Mystic Lamb: The True Story of the World's Most Coveted Masterpiece by Noah Charney Publisher Comments Jan van Eyck's Ghent Altarpiece is on any art historian's list of the ten most important paintings ever made. Often referred to by the subject of its central panel, the Adoration of the Mystic Lamb, it represents the fulcrum between the Middle Ages and... (read more) Your price: $34.99 New - Compact Disc
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Art Detective: Fakes, Frauds, and Finds and the Search for Lost Treasures by Philip Mould Publisher Comments What separates a masterpiece from a piece of junk? Thanks to the BBC's Antiques Roadshow and its American spin-off, everyone is searching garage sales and hunting online for hidden gems, wondering whether their attics contain trash or treasures. In The... (read more) Your price: $29.99 New - Compact Disc
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Da Vinci's Ghost: Genius, Obsession, and How Leonardo Created the World in His Own Image by Toby Lester Publisher Comments Everybody knows the picture: a man, meticulously rendered by Leonardo da Vinci, standing with arms and legs outstretched in a circle and a square. Deployed today to celebrate subjects as various as the grandeur of art, the beauty of the human form, and... (read more) Your price: $71.99 New - Compact Disc
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Leonardo and the Last Supper by Ross King Synopsis Early in 1495, Leonardo da Vinci began work in Milan on what would become one of history's most influential and beloved works of art—The Last Supper. After a dozen years at the court of Lodovico Sforza, the Duke of Milan, Leonardo was at a low... (read more) Your price: $29.95 New - Compact Disc
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Stealing the Mystic Lamb: The True Story of the World's Most Coveted Masterpiece by Noah Charney Publisher Comments Jan van Eyck's Ghent Altarpiece is on any art historian's list of the ten most important paintings ever made. Often referred to by the subject of its central panel, the Adoration of the Mystic Lamb, it represents the fulcrum between the Middle Ages and... (read more) Your price: $83.99 New - Compact Disc
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Caveat Emptor: The Secret Life of an American Art Forger by Ken Perenyi Synopsis Ten years ago, an FBI investigation in conjunction with the U.S. Attorneys Office in the Southern District of New York was about to expose a scandal in the art world that would have been frontpage news in New York and London. After a trail of fake... (read more) Your price: $29.95 New - Compact Disc
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Art Modles Ultra Becca by Maureen Johnson Publisher Comments From action to static, fully clothed to nude, and full-body to close-up poses, this high resolution figure reference enables digital artists to give their creations ultra-realistic features and traditional artists to create detailed or monumental-size... (read more) List Price $49.95 Your price: $33.95 Sale - Compact Disc
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Sarah Morris: You Cannot Trust a Surface by Sarah Morris Publisher Comments Sarah Morris (born 1967) is internationally acclaimed for her filmic explorations of sites of power (Hollywood, the Olymic Games, Washington) and her abstract paintings inspired by newspapers. For this audio CD, Robert Eikmeyer and Thomas Knoefel... (read more) Your price: $30.00 New - Compact Disc
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Lady in Gold: The Extraordinary Tale of Gustav Klimt's Masterpiece, Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer by Anne-marie O'connor Publisher Comments The Lady in Gold, considered an unforgettable masterpiece, one of the twentieth century's most recognizable paintings, made headlines all over the world when Ronald Lauder bought it for $135 million a century after Klimt, the most famous Austrian painter... (read more) Your price: $44.99 New - Compact Disc
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Proust Was a Neuroscientist by Jonah Lehrer Publisher Comments In this technology-driven age, it's tempting to believe that science can solve every mystery. After all, science has cured countless diseases and even sent humans into space. But as Jonah Lehrer argues in this sparkling debut, science is not the only... (read more) Your price: $14.99 New - Compact Disc
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Liam Gillick: An Idea Just Out of Reach by Liam (art) Gillick Synopsis An audio portrait of British artist Liam Gillick (born 1964), An Idea Just Out of Reach was recorded at the Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin in February 2009, and records his thoughts on everything from his own work to larger matters of contemporary art. As a... (read more) Your price: $35.00 New - Compact Disc
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Cc in Art/art Across Time V2.0 by Laurie Schneider Adams Publisher Comments Art across Time seeks to inspire students in their study of art through a combination of large-scale reproductions, extensive use of color photographs, and effective incorporation of contextual material. Large format illustrations, 80% in color, allow... (read more) Your price: $71.25 New - Compact Disc
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art Masterworks CD-ROM (Metropolitan Museum of Art) by Julie Jones Synopsis This program includes 257 works of art with texts written by curators. The reproductions are in full color and a variety of sizes.... (read more) Your price: $39.95 New - Compact Disc
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Voice Tears by Allen S. Weiss Publisher Comments Voice Tears, an audio CD produced in conjunction with Experimental Sound and Radio, features works by leading sound and radio artists: Andreas Ammer and FM Einheit, Jacki Apple and Keith Antar Mason, John Corbett and Terri Kapsalis, Toni Dove, Andy Hass,... (read more) Your price: $21.50 New - Compact Disc
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The Theodore Psalter with Book by Charles Barber Publisher Comments The Theodore Psalter is one of the most valuable illuminated manuscripts to survive from the Byzantine Empire. One of only a few "fixed points" guiding the historian's understanding of Byzantine art and society, the Theodore Psalter's illumination is a... (read more) Your price: $95.75 New - Compact Disc
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Bibliography of Modern Art on Disc; Library Catalog of the Museum of Modern Art Library, New York. (CD-rom). Book News Annotation Established soon after the opening of The Museum of Modern Art in 1929, the museum library houses one of the world's leading concentrations of research and reference material on modern and contemporary art. Now on CD-ROM, the catalog provides... (read more) List Price $995.00 Your price: $497.50 New - Compact Disc
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The Beautiful Fall: Fashion, Genius, and Glorious Excess in 1970s Paris by Alicia Drake Your price: $32.95 New - Compact Disc
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My Life as a 10-Year-Old Boy -Lib: By Nancy Cartwright: The Voice of Bart Simpson on the Show the Simpsons by Nancy Cartwright Your price: $40.00 New - Compact Disc
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