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 Misty Dawn: Portrait of a MuseBest Price: $31.40 Excellent work focusing on Jock Sturges' photography of his true muse, Misty Dawn. The book... |  The Art SpiritBest Price: $11.63 Henri would not relate directly to his students while they were working; instead he would return... |  Vitamin P: New Perspectives in PaintingBest Price: $24.95 This book is full of images...unfortunately they are so unoriginal and overworked that it is... |  Participation (Documents of Contemporary Art)Best Price: $15.55 Until I read this book I could not give myself permission to have my own ideas about some of the... |  The Nude Male: 21st Century VisionsBest Price: $23.97 I purchased this book after seeing David Leddick's "The Male Nude". The Male Nude... |
 On UglinessBest Price: $26.15 THIS BOOK SEES ART FROM ANOTHER POINT OF VIEW TAKING A DISTANCE FROM DECORATION AND BEAUTY ... |  100 Years of Fashion IllustrationBest Price: $21.67 It needed more coverage on Italian Moda. But the whole expose is great. I would recommend it. ... |  HorseBest Price: $94.49 Powerful, beautiful, wild, fragile, and elegant, horses are as diverse and as enigmatic as... |  Leonardo's NotebooksBest Price: $19.18 Though there are nice, complete versions of Leonardo da Vinci's Notebooks, this well designed,... |  How to Read Chinese Paintings (Metropolitan Museum of Art)Best Price: $15.68 I bought the soft cover edition of the book. At $16.50 (after discount), I feel it's a good buy.... |
 The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on MediaBest Price: $11.79 Benjamin's famous "Work of Art" essay sets out his boldest thoughts-on media and on... |  A Time it Was: Bobby Kennedy in the SixtiesBest Price: $17.95 This is an amazing journey through an historic time in America's history. A wonderful... |  Art: The Definitive Visual GuideBest Price: $28.53 ART , the ultimate visual guide to 2,000 of the world's most revered paintings and sculptures,... |  Drawing Dynamic Hands (Practical Art Books)Best Price: $11.40 Hogarth has some of these sketches in other books but w/o the details about HOW to really draw... |  Air Guitar: Essays on Art & DemocracyBest Price: $11.96 For the most part, art critism is pretty dry, boring stuff. In Hickey's hands, it's much more... |
 Art as ExperienceBest Price: $7.18 Dewey discusses making art and viewing art are not unique activities -- that discipline,... |  Heart StonesBest Price: $5.33 This will make the perfect little gift for my sister who is an avid collector of heart stones. |  A Short Life of Trouble: Forty Years in the New York Art WorldBest Price: $17.22 This engrossing memoir brings to vivid life the behind-the-scenes struggles of Marcia Tucker,... |  One Place after Another: Site-Specific Art and Locational IdentityBest Price: $12.28 This is a helpful survey of the related issues of site specificity and institutional critique. ... |  Reality Through the Arts (6th Edition)Best Price: $77.75 The seller was excellent with communicating with me. Not only did he send the product the same... |
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 Cartoon Modern: Style and Design in 1950s AnimationBest Price: $16.00 Fantastic book! This book is well written and is amazingly interesting. A must read for anyone... |  Art in Theory 1900 - 2000: An Anthology of Changing IdeasBest Price: $43.55 The subtitle to this book is "An Anthology of Changing Ideas", which is remarkably... |  The Photograph as Contemporary Art (World of Art)Best Price: $11.24 Excellent book for anyone interested in photography. Even more beneficial when you begin to get... |  Over: The American Landscape at the Tipping PointBest Price: $24.73 If you have MacLean's previous book: 'Designs on the land' you'll enjoy this latest collection... |  Secret Knowledge (New and Expanded Edition): Rediscovering the Lost Techniques of the Old MastersBest Price: $11.98 Many reviews have questioned the value of this book, and it's true that this book might not be... |
 Mexican Muralists: Orozco, Rivera, SiqueirosBest Price: $14.00 I am gald I was able to get this book and it fit with my budget perfectly and I am glad that I... |  The Silk Road: Two Thousand Years in the Heart of AsiaBest Price: $13.81 First, the edition I have to hand is from the Folio Society; a handsome presentation which... |  Frank Lloyd Wright the BuildingsBest Price: $42.50 Accompanying Rizzoli's best-selling Frank Lloyd Wright: The Houses, this exceptional publication... |  The Field of Cultural ProductionBest Price: $15.29 Bourdieu's analyses of class, taste and culture are seminal and serve as a framework for deeper... |  BouguereauBest Price: $16.99 If you want to have a first approach to Bouguereau: ?a va! If you want a deeper focus on this... |
 Let's See: Writings on Art from The New YorkerBest Price: $17.96 Peter Schjeldahl is simply the best. Not only is he extremely knowledgeable on art from A to Z... |  Art and Visual Perception: A Psychology of the Creative EyeBest Price: $16.25 Good book, but I was expecting more images with description of contents rather than general theory. |  The Painted WordBest Price: $7.19 This is an unpersuasive essay about the failure of modern art and about how we are all caught up... |  The Power of ArtBest Price: $27.50 It's difficult to decide what's more gorgeous, the full-color reproductions (wonderful, quality... |  Audrey Hepburn: A Life in PicturesBest Price: $24.89 This is a gorgeous book. The pictures are huge and clear with lots of bio tidbits and quotes... |
 Creating Nature in Watercolor: An Artist's GuideBest Price: $8.38 In this hardcover artist's guide, "Creating Nature in Watercolor," author and artist... |  Life: Heaven on Earth: 100 Places to See in Your Lifetime (Life)Best Price: $16.00 I bought this book for just a table book for people to look at and it's just that. People love... |  Chromophobia (FOCI)Best Price: $17.95 I picked up this book from a list of gotta-haves for a class on aesthetics and I gotta say this... |  Birds in Flight: The Art and Science of How Birds FlyBest Price: $15.62 They soar and they glide, they flap and they flutter, they swoop and they plummet.? Solo or en... |  Understanding Art (with ArtExperience CD-ROM) (Understanding Art)Best Price: $53.99 This was a required textbook for a class and it is a great reference book. |
 A Handbook of Tibetan Buddhist SymbolsBest Price: $16.67 Tibetan Buddhist symbolism is extremely complex,yet in this volume artist/Buddhist Robert Beer... |  The Forgotten HorsesBest Price: $27.21 I am not a fan of coffee-table type books and I usually pass them over. It's not that I don't... |  Grateful Dead 365Best Price: $17.97 Impressing! A detailed bookreview of the Dead. Some pictures seen before but a most for every... |  Art and IllusionBest Price: $24.89 Great text, but in this printing the illustrations appear poorly printed (they are pale),... | |
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