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The Shock of the New by Robert Hughes Staff Pick I know nothing about the visual arts so you can be assured anything I say I've stolen from Hughes's The Shock of the New. A distillation of his eight-part BBC/Time-Life television series, the book details the genesis of modern painting, sculpture, and... (read more) List Price $88.75 Your price: $31.00 Used - Trade Paper 
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Tattoo Machine: Tall Tales, True Stories, and My Life in Ink by Jeff Johnson Staff Pick A memoir like no other: entertaining, wise, heartbreaking, frightening, and, of course, hilariously bizarro. Johnson shares his stories with us, stirring them into the brilliant blood bath that is Tattoo Machine. I highly recommend this book.... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $10.95 Used - Hardcover
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A Lifetime of Secrets: A Postsecret Book by Frank Warren Staff Pick Who doesn't love that feeling of looking through someone else's mail without the risk of getting caught? Here, Warren presents another collection of intimate confessions, shared secrets, and endless pleasure for voyeurs and students of the human... (read more) List Price $28.99 Your price: $13.95 Used - Hardcover
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More Information Than You Require by John Hodgman Staff Pick Is there really such a thing as too much information? Not in this case. Hodgman's follow-up to The Areas of My Expertise is packed with even more lists, charts, and made-up facts that are so brilliant and hilarious you'll wish they were true!... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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1000 Tattoos (Taschen 25) by Henk Schiffmacher Staff Pick If you're looking for the perfect tiny butterfly to grace your ankle, you won't find it here. Brimming with images that will inspire, impress, amuse, intrigue, and perhaps offend, 1000 Tattoos is not for the faint of heart. Then again, neither is getting... (read more) List Price $12.99 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Grapefruit: A Book of Instructions and Drawings by Yoko Ono Staff Pick Hand this book to any Yoko-hater and watch as the corners of their mouth tremble, resisting a disarmed smile. This work (originally published in 1970) is probably, properly, "Fluxist," though it takes that project even further from the gallery than any... (read more) Your price: $18.00 New - Hardcover
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Rat Girl: A Memoir by Kristin Hersh Staff Pick If you're a fan of Throwing Muses or Kristin Hersh, you must absolutely read this book. If you don't know her music, introduce yourself here to Hersh's writing. Her voice is unlike any other: hopeful, poetic, and brimming with razor-sharp intelligence... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Unfashion by Tibor Kalman Staff Pick Whether you like the late Tibor Kalman's work or not, this book is a delightfully unconventional view of contemporary fashion, demonstrating the creative and similar ways that people around the world adorn their bodies at work and play. Done without text... (read more) Your price: $19.95 New - Trade Paper
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Everything That Rises by Lawrence Weschler Staff Pick Lawrence Weschler makes the reader do a lot of the work. This is a very good thing, as it's really fun work. He provides just enough description and imagery to reveal how "convergences" — similarities of form/theme across disparate eras/regions of... (read more) List Price $29.00 Your price: $11.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Lives of the Muses: Nine Women & the Artists They Inspired by Francine Prose Staff Pick In nine mini-biographies Prose finds the qualities in each woman that defines her as a muse. Elegantly written. Fascinatingly unique.... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Moby-Dick in Pictures 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: $35.46 Google eBooks - Electronic
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The Lost Painting by Jonathan Harr Staff Pick The mysterious fate of a lost masterpiece, an art restorer's obsession, and Caravaggio's troubled life are the focus of this riveting work of history.... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $1.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Japanese Graphics Now! by Taschen Staff Pick I'm a sucker for good packaging and design, and Japanese Graphics Now! is full of the stuff. It's aimed at graphic designers for packaging, posters and ads, and print. Poring through this book refreshes my brain and inspires me. You definitely get bang... (read more) List Price $12.99 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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Closet Confidential: Style Secrets Learned the Hard Way by Winona Dimeo Ediger Staff Pick Not your run-of-the-mill fashion book. Closet Confidential has a winning combination of fun (and funny) hints that will help you pull your wardrobe, and possibly your life, together. The author is not at all preachy in her advice, and she can be laugh... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty by Andrew Bolton Staff Pick "I find beauty in the grotesque, like most artists. I have to force people to look at things." Published in conjunction with an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty offers a stunning retrospective of the late... (read more) Your price: $50.00 New - Hardcover
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Twilight by Gregory Crewdson Staff Pick Crewdson's filmic images strongly reference TV programs such as 'The Twilight Zone' and deal with fantasy and the paranormal in a creepy "your-town-here" American setting. His work is surreal but even more so that he involved the community of small town,... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price: $19.50 Used - Hardcover
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Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees: Over Thirty Years of Conversations with Robert Irwin by Lawrence Weschler Staff Pick This book taught me so much about the value of slowness, in art-making and in perception itself. Its subject isn't really Irwin's art products or his technical processes. Instead, Weschler brilliantly arranges the surrounding biographical and... (read more) Your price: $26.95 New - Trade Paper
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Suffragettes to She-Devils: Women's Liberation and Beyond by Liz McQuiston Staff Pick You need to have this book on your coffee table, to stimulate good conversation, offend, and rejoice. Liz McQuiston has put together a beautiful collection of the shocking, honest, and sassy graphics that have illustrated the journey of women in our... (read more) List Price $59.95 Your price: $44.00 Used - Hardcover
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Dada: Zurich, Berlin, Hannover, Cologne, New York, Paris by Leah Dickerman Staff Pick Born in the heart of Europe during World War I, the Dada movement was one of the most significant movements of the historical avant-garde. Displaying a skepticism about accepted values and artistic practices of the 1940s, artists questioned the surreal... (read more) List Price $65.00 Your price: $32.98 Sale - Hardcover
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The Designer's Lexicon: The Illustrated Dictionary of Design, Printing, and Computer Terms by Alastair Campbell Staff Pick List Price $22.95 Your price: $12.00 Used - Hardcover
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