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Afrikan Alphabets: The Story of Writing in Africa
by Saki Mafundikwa  Synopsis Afrikan alphabets have a long history, fantastic variety, and some continue to be in current use today. They are comparatively little known due largely to their suppression by colonial powers. This book sets the record straight. An entertaining and...
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Great Women Masters of Art
by Jordi Vigue Synopsis This is a guide featuring the life and work of the greatest women painters of Western art - from the 15th century to 2002. Women painters of each key historical movement are included. Each artist is represented by reproductions of her works, a...
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Figuring the Word: Essays on Books, Writing and Visual Poetics
by Johanna Drucker Synopsis Johanna Drucker is among the foremost authorities on the history of alphabets, writing, artists' books, and visual poetry. This book is a compendium of Drucker's thought -- yet rather than anthologize from her numerous published books, Figuring the Word...
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Secret Knowledge: Rediscovering the Lost Techniques of the Old Masters
by David Hockney Publisher Comments David Hockneys controversial book, now revised in paperback with thirty-two new pages of evidence Join one of the most influential artists of our time as he investigates the painting techniques of the Old Masters. Hockneys extensive research led him to...
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Wabi-sabi : for Artists, Designers, Poets and Philosophers (94 Edition)
by Leonard Koren Publisher Comments Wabi-sabi is the quintessential Japanese aesthetic. It is a beauty of things imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete. It is a beauty of things modest and humble. It is a beauty of things unconventional....
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Cuban Elegance
by Michael Connors Publisher Comments At a time when more and more travelers are discovering Cuba, which has been locked away from the outside world for more than 40 years, this lavishly illustrated, absorbing volume offers a completely different view of the island from the one seen by most...
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Design and Crime: And Other Diatribes
by Hal Foster Synopsis In these diatribes on the marketing of culture and the branding of identity, Hal Foster explores the history of a design led culture and in an attempt to illuminate the conditions for critical culture in the present asks if the new "political economy of...
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Art & Physics
by Leonard Shlain Publisher Comments Art interprets the visible world, physics charts its unseen workings--making the two realms seem completely opposed. But in Art & Physics, Leonard Shlain tracks their breakthroughs side by side throughout history to reveal an astonishing correlation of...
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Mysteries of the Rectangle: Essays on Painting
by Siri Hustvedt Publisher Comments From Siri Hustvedt, author of the bestselling novel What I Loved, comes this inspired collection of essays on painting. Here, Hustvedt concentrates her narrative gifts on the works of such masters as Francisco de Goya, Jan Vermeer, Jean-Baptiste-Siméon...
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Guy Pene Du Bois: Painter of Modern Life
by Betsy Fahlman Synopsis Guy Pene du Bois (1884-1958) was one of America's most stylish painters, a keen observer of the social scene around him who deftly captured the sophisticated spirit of the 1920s and 30s with a wit both subtle and effective. He found his subjects wherever...
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The Art Spirit
by Robert Henri Publisher Comments In this book are the essential beliefs and theories of a great teacher and American artist, Robert Henri. While it embodies the entire system of his teaching, with much technical advice and critical comment for the student, it also contains inspiration...
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Neoexpresionismo Aleman (Arte Hoy)
by Maria Jose De Los Santos Publisher Comments The essays provided in this condensed collection, meant for art lovers and novices alike, introduce and analyze the distinct artistic manifestations and tendencies of the 20th century and the artists who created them. Los ensayos...
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Lascaux: Movement, Space, and Time
by Norbert Aujoulat Publisher Comments Discovered by chance by two boys in France in 1940, the cave of Lascaux-with its radiant wall paintings of bison, aurochs, horses, and deer-offers us the most astonishing view we have of the shadowy, powerful animal world of the Old Stone Age some 18,000...
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Lost Painting : Quest for a Caravaggio Masterpiece (06 Edition)
by Jonathan Harr 
Powells.com 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. Recommended by Michal, Powells.com...
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Anish Kapoor (Arte Hoy)
by Eva Fernandez Del Campo Publisher Comments The essays provided in this condensed collection, meant for art lovers and novices alike, introduce and analyze the distinct artistic manifestations and tendencies of the 20th century and the artists who created them. Los ensayos...
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Byzantine Art (Oxford History of Art)
by Robin Cormack Publisher Comments Mostly religious in function, but preserving the classicism of Greco-Roman art, Byzantine buildings and art objects communicate the purity and certainties of the public face of early Christian art. Focusing on the art of Constantinople between 330 and...
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History of Italian Renaissance Art (6TH 07 Edition)
by Frederick Hartt Publisher Comments A broad survey of art and architecture in Italy between c. 1250 and 1600, this book approaches the works from the point of view of the artist as individual creator and as an expression of the city within which the artist was working. When Frederick Hartt'...
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Berlin: The Twenties
by Rainer Metzger Publisher Comments Berlin, a haunting vision of the twentieth century’s first modern city, is a cultural history filled with 400 shockingly fresh and romantic photographs, paintings, and other images. In the brief years between the twentieth century’s two cataclysmic...
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50 Women Artists You Should Know
by Christiane Weidemann Synopsis This beautifully produced, richly detailed and comprehensive survey of fifty influential women artists from the Renaissance to the Post-Modern era details their vast contributions to the art world. From the Early Baroque painter Artemisia Gentileschi and...
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Ways of Seeing
by John Berger Synopsis Examines the social implications and psychological impact of the images and conventions of modern and classical artists....
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