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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: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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But Is It Art? : an Introduction To Art Theory (01 Edition) by Cynthia Freeland Publisher Comments From Andy Warhol's Brillo boxes to provocative dung-splattered madonnas, in today's art world many strange, even shocking, things are put on display. This often leads exasperated viewers to exclaim--is this really art? In this invaluable primer on... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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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: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain by Betty Edwards Publisher Comments When Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain was first published in 1979, it hit the New York Times bestseller list within two weeks and stayed there for more than a year. In 1989, when Dr. Betty Edwards revised the book, it went straight to the Times... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Color: A Natural History of the Palette 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: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Art on the Edge and Over: Searching for Art's Meaning in Contemporary Society, 1970s-1990s by Linda Weintraub Publisher Comments Linda Weintraub recognizes that art at the end of the 20th century changes too quickly and is too multifaceted to be quickly and easily understood. Here she explains the intractably avant-garde art of the 1970s, 80s, and 90s by searching for art's... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Short Guide To Writing About Art (9TH 08 - Old Edition) by Sylvan Barnet Publisher Comments This best-selling text has guided tens of thousands of art students through the writing process. Students are shown how to analyze pictures (drawings, paintings, photographs), sculptures and architecture, and are prepared with the tools they... (read more) List Price $49.70 Your price: $34.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection by Julia Kristeva Publisher Comments Powers of Horror is an excellent introduction to an aspect of contemporary French literature which has been allowed to become somewhat neglected in the current emphasis on para-philosophical modes of discourse.... (read more) List Price $32.00 Your price: $23.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Critique Handbook: Art Stud. Sourcebook (2ND 10 Edition) by Kendall Buster Publisher Comments This unique textbook is an invaluable tool for students in any art course requiring critiques. The Critique Handbook is an excellent resource both for beginners and more experienced students. This text was written to address an existing gap... (read more) List Price $28.90 Your price: $24.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Art and Myth in Ancient Greece (91 Edition) by Thomas H. Carpenter Publisher Comments Here is the first scholarly, comprehensive and succinct survey of the treatment of myth by the artists of ancient Greece. With its copious illustrations, it forms an indispensable and unrivaled reference work for everybody interested in art, drama... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $11.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Design Drawing / With CD (98 - Old Edition) by Francis D. K. Ching Publisher Comments Author and architecture educator Francis D.K. Ching shares his unique command of visual language in this new presentation of drawing principles and techniques. Design Drawing is a comprehensive introduction to drawing and more-its innovative book-plus-CD-... (read more) List Price $54.95 Your price: $27.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Freehand Sketching (04 Edition) by Paul Laseau Publisher Comments From basic skills to sketch construction using grids, frames, and shapes to the creation of tone, texture, color, and detail, and experimentation with digital rendering, Freehand Sketching helps you build your drawing skill and confidence through mastery... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Greek Art (World of Art) by John Boardman Publisher Comments First published in the early 1960s, this history of Greek art has been enlarged and rewritten. It takes into account new finds as well as new ideas and attitudes to the subject, and emphasizes that Greek art should be seen in its proper context, not that... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Art and Experience in Classical Greece by Jerome Pollitt Publisher Comments delightful, readable, and scholarly. The volume is profusely and well illustrated, each art example is clearly labelled and dated, and superb supplementary references for illustrations and supplementary suggestions for further reading are added to... (read more) List Price $41.25 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Gender and Art (99 Edition) by Gill (ed.) Perry Synopsis Encompassing European art, architecture and design from the 16th century to the present day, this volume uses case studies to examine the role of gender difference in the production, consumption and interpretation of works of art.... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $23.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Nothing If Not Critical (90 Edition) by Robert Hughes Publisher Comments The most controversial art critic in America--author of the bestselling The Fatal Shore and The Shock of the New--looks with love and loathing, wit and authority, at art and artists from the past to the present. Hughes evokes and defines the essences... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $10.00 Used - 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: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Designing With the Mind in Mind (10 Edition) by Jeff Johnson Publisher Comments Early user interface (UI) practitioners were trained in cognitive psychology, from which UI design rules were based. But as the field evolves, designers enter the field from many disciplines. Practitioners today have enough experience in UI design that... (read more) List Price $52.95 Your price: $26.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Royal Arts of Africa : the Majesty of Form - a Perspectives Book (98 Edition) by Suzanne Preston Blier Publisher Comments This is a revealing look at the rich artistic traditions of the Benin, Yoruba, Cameroon, and other great African kingdoms by one of the world's leading scholars. Suzanne Blier treats the arts of these royal African cultures in light of the most up-to... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $13.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Greek Sculpture : the Late Classical Period (95 Edition) by John Boardman Publisher Comments This sequel to Sir John Boardman's widely acclaimed handbooks on Greek sculpture of the Archaic and Classical periods brings the story down through the fourth century BC to the days of Alexander the Great. The author discusses the innovations of the... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $12.00 Used - Trade Paper
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