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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 notmade by Mozart. After all, art is rarely made by Mozart-like people; essentially-statistically speaking-there aren'tany people like that. Geniuses get made once-...
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Figuring the Word: Essays on Books, Writing and Visual Poetics
by Johanna Drucker Publisher Comments 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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New Art in the 60s and 70s: Redefining Reality
by Anne Rorimer Publisher Comments A detailed account of the conceptual art movement. New in paperback....
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The Shape of Content
by Ben Shahn Review In this brilliant book, which brings the many talents of Ben Shahnand#133;into one crisp, clear, unified, astounding career, the primary focus is the exploration and explanation of the relationship between Shahn's paintings and photographsand#133;The...
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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...
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Soundings: Studies in Art and Literature
by Anita Brookner Publisher Comments The essays and articles on art and Literature assembled here have been written over the fast twenty-five years by a writer who has earned recognition as much for her academic achievements as for the accomplishments of her literary career. Anita Brookner...
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Art & Physics: Parallel Visions in Space, Time, and Light (P.S.)
by Leonard Shlain Publisher Comments Art interprets the visible world. Physics charts its unseen workings. The two realms seem completely opposed. But consider that both strive to reveal truths for which there are no words––with physicists using the language of mathematics and...
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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. 12 illustrations....
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The Private Life of a Masterpiece
by Monica Bohm Duchen Publisher Comments The world's most well known works of art are both instantly familiar and profoundly mysterious. What has made these images so popular, and how did they come into existence? The Private Life of a Masterpiece answers these questions by delving into the...
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Color: A Course in Mastering the Art of Mixing Colors
by Betty Edwards Publisher Comments Millions of people have learned to draw using the methods of Dr. Betty Edwards's bestseller, The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain. Now, much as artists progress from drawing to painting, Edwards moves from black-and-white into color. This much...
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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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Left to Right: The Cultural Shift from Words to Pictures
by David Crow Publisher Comments The Picture Book takes readers on a journey through our increasingly visual culture--a journey that asks us to consider how technological change has influenced the way we think, the way we see, and the way we communicate. The trend in mass media...
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History of the Art of Antiquity (Texts & Documents)
by Johann Winckelmann Publisher Comments In 1764, Johann Joachim Winckelmann published a key early instance of art-historical thinking, his Geschichte der Kunst des Alterthums, here translated into English for the first time. Dazzled by the sensuous and plastic beauty of recently excavated...
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Again the Metaphor Problem and Other Engaged Critical Discourses about Art: A Conversation between John Baldessari, Liam Gillick and Lawrence Weiner, Moderated by Beatrix Ruf
by John Baldessari and Liam Gillick and Lawrence Weiner and Beatrix Ruf Publisher Comments The use of metaphor has always been a central strategy of art. In The Metaphor Problem Again, American artists John Baldessari and Lawrence Weiner join British artist Liam Gillick for a discussion about the use of metaphor in their work. Their exciting...
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The Shape of Time: Remarks on the History of Things
by G A Kubler Synopsis Arising from the study of art history, this book presents a radically new approach to the problem of historical change. George Kubler draws upon new insights in fields such as anthropology and linguistics and replaces the notion of style with the idea of...
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The Painting of Modern Life: Paris in the Art of Manet and His Followers
by T J Clark Publisher Comments The Paris of the 1860s and 1870s was supposedly a brand-new city, equipped with boulevards, cafes, parks, and suburban pleasure grounds--the birthplace of those habits of commerce and leisure that constitute "modern life." Questioning those who view...
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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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Vitamin P: New Perspectives in Painting
by Barry Schwabsky Publisher Comments Barry Schwabsky's introductory text offers a critical survey of the evolution of painting since the late 1950?s Modernist painting, and introduces some of the trends, methods and artists included in the book. In the following and largest section of...
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Art Czar: The Rise and Fall of Clement Greenberg
by Alice Goldf Marquis Publisher Comments A new biography of the preeminent American art critic and cultural power broker, including his crucial involvement with Jackson Pollock and Abstract Expressionism, based on unpublished documents and interviews. By the author of Marcel Duchamp: The...
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Art After Modernism
by Brian Wallis Synopsis The waning of the century-old modernist movement in the arts has called forth an array of artistic and critical responses. The 25 essays in this text provide a survey of the most provocative directions taken by art and criticism in the postmodern age....
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