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 The Man Who Made Vermeers: Unvarnishing the Legend of Master Forger Han van MeegerenBest Price: $16.44 Aside from being the most finely researched and best written study on the spectacular forgery... |  Paintings in Proust: A Visual Companion to In Search of Lost TimeBest Price: $26.55 As a dedicated Proustian for twenty happy years, I have read his long novel several times but... |  Art & Fear: Observations On the Perils (and Rewards) of ArtmakingBest Price: $6.97 This book addresses flawed, fallible human readers, the ones who hopes to perfect craft despite... |  Mary Engelbreit's On the Edge: 2009 Wall CalendarBest Price: $8.65 The art of Mary Engelbreit is always a treat and this year's calendar is no exception. |  The Forger's Spell: A True Story of Vermeer, Nazis, and the Greatest Art Hoax of the Twentieth CenturyBest Price: $15.50 "The Forger's Spell" offers up a cartoon version of history, leavened, to ill effect,... |
 Proust Was a NeuroscientistBest Price: $8.71 Proust Was a Neuroscientist by Jonah Lehrer attempts to reveal ideas from artists about the mind... |  Seven Days in the Art WorldBest Price: $16.47 A fly-on-the-wall account of the smart and strange subcultures that make, trade, curate,... |  30,000 Years of ArtBest Price: $32.93 The Amazon editorial review of this impressive book is excellent. This monstosity is the... |  Dark Water: Flood and Redemption in the City of MasterpiecesBest Price: $12.75 This dramatic, beautifully written account of the flood that ravaged?Florence,?Italy, in 1966... |  Ways of Seeing: Based on the BBC Television SeriesBest Price: $8.10 Sure, it was written in the 1970's, sure it's full of Marxist theory, sure it's over-confident... |
 Mary Engelbreit's Each Day Is A Gift: 2009 Desk CalendarBest Price: $8.29 So disappointed to learn the month at a glance section was discontinued in this year's calendar.... |  Old Masters and Young Geniuses: The Two Life Cycles of Artistic CreativityBest Price: $12.21 The contrast between 'conceptual' and 'experimental' artists, the first being the prodigy-... |  Antoine's Alphabet: Watteau and His WorldBest Price: $14.88 Antoine Watteau, one of the most mysterious painters who ever lived, is the inspiration for this... |  SKULLSBest Price: $8.95 The first time I have stumbled upon this magnificent little book was during lazy browsing on... |  Andy Goldsworthy: A Collaboration with NatureBest Price: $30.65 This lovely, large book was all I had hoped for--and MORE. Great value for the price. I am... |
 The Little Book of Hindu Deities: From the Goddess of Wealth to the Sacred Cow (Little Book)Best Price: $7.91 This is a handy compendium of Hindu deities, with the gods and goddesses made cute in a... |  Atlas of Human Anatomy for the Artist (Galaxy Books)Best Price: $11.20 its a very useful book for life drawing, detailed images on the bones and muscule. |  Meggs' History of Graphic DesignBest Price: $55.00 Great book! Teaches you so much about Graphic Design! It's so packed with information. |  Graffiti World: Street Art from Five ContinentsBest Price: $21.39 This book is a good piece to just leave out on your coffee table and let visitors pick up. It's... | Graffiti World: Street Art from Five Continents Best Price: $21.39 This book is a good piece to just leave out on your coffee table and let visitors pick up. It's... |
 Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for ManhattanBest Price: $20.11 While "Delirious" has its fair share of archispeak, Mr. Koolhaas pulls off an... |  John Howe Fantasy Art WorkshopBest Price: $2.96 This is a very lovely book for showing how a professional artist goes about his business. I... |  The Art SpiritBest Price: $11.75 Henri would not relate directly to his students while they were working; instead he would return... |  The Annotated Mona Lisa: A Crash Course in Art History from Prehistoric to Post-ModernBest Price: $14.21 I bought this for my daughter's summer reading for Art History class - a 200+ page brief summary... |  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... |
 Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedia Volume IIIBest Price: $21.75 When I bought this book, I flipped through the pages and looked at all the tattoos before... |  Art History, Vol. 1, 3rd EditionBest Price: $87.99 I recieved this book for an Art History class and it has all kinds of information in it.... |  The Story of Art: Pocket EditionBest Price: $12.49 This book does not only tell the history of art, at the same time, the history of architecture,... |  Mona Lisa in Camelot: How Jacqueline Kennedy and Da Vinci's Masterpiece Charmed and Captivated a NationBest Price: $16.47 What an enchanting and thoroughly fascinating book! Ms. Davis' richly evocative, cinematic... |  Vitamin D: New Perspectives in Drawing (Themes)Best Price: $43.97 As an artist myself, I have to first be aesthetically attracted to a book before I can look... |
 A World of ArtBest Price: $70.00 A World of Art by Henry Sayre is meant to give individuals their first exposure to art and art... |  Abstract Painting: Concepts and TechniquesBest Price: $14.18 I only wish I had seen this book before I started painting. It would have saved me time and... |  Surgical Speed Shooting: How To Achieve High-Speed Marksmanship In A GunfightBest Price: $8.96 This book tries to cover most aspects of defensive or tactical shooting. It is NOT about... |  1001 Paintings You Must See Before You DieBest Price: $20.93 What an amazing compilation of some of the world's most beautiful works of art through the ages!... |  Participation (Documents of Contemporary Art)Best Price: $15.61 Until I read this book I could not give myself permission to have my own ideas about some of the... |
 Chanel: Collections and CreationsBest Price: $25.56 I see this book has been almost universally praised. Much as I hate to be almost the sole... |  Loot: The Battle over the Stolen Treasures of the Ancient WorldBest Price: $14.50 A journey across four continents to the heart of the conflict over who should own the great... |  Leonardo's NotebooksBest Price: $21.98 Though there are nice, complete versions of Leonardo da Vinci's Notebooks, this well designed,... |  Learning to Love You MoreBest Price: $11.97 Good overview of the "learningtoloveyoumore.com" project. I like the initiative based... |  Scrapbooks: An American HistoryBest Price: $29.70 Jessica's latest effort builds on the brilliance of her previous offerings. WIth great rigor,... |
 Humans, Nature, and Birds: Science Art from Cave Walls to Computer ScreensBest Price: $23.19 This book invites readers to enter a two-floor virtual "gallery" where 60-plus images... |  Art: The Definitive Visual GuideBest Price: $23.00 ART , the ultimate visual guide to 2,000 of the world's most revered paintings and sculptures,... |  The Artist's Complete Guide to Facial ExpressionBest Price: $15.14 This book is the best I have read about drawing portraits. You learn a lot from this book as it... |  Universe of Stone: A Biography of Chartres CathedralBest Price: $12.88 UNIVERSE OF STONE really piqued my interest in Gothic architecture, medieval history, and... |  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... |
 The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on MediaBest Price: $11.90 Benjamin's famous "Work of Art" essay sets out his boldest thoughts-on media and on... |  Art as ExperienceBest Price: $7.95 Dewey discusses making art and viewing art are not unique activities -- that discipline,... | Art as Experience Best Price: $7.95 Dewey discusses making art and viewing art are not unique activities -- that discipline,... |  TattooBest Price: $3.35 This book is a work of art. Whenever I have friends over, we always end up looking through it.... |  Gardner's Art Through the Ages, Volume I, Chapters 1-18 (with ArtStudy Student CD-ROM and InfoTrac )Best Price: $59.95 this book is great, and is very informative, however it is not the most recent edition of the... |
 Survey Of Historic Costume: A History Of Western DressBest Price: $52.00 If you are looking for great illustrations and colorful examples of historical costume, don't... |  Blue Dog SpeaksBest Price: $15.53 I LOVE anything Rodrigue and Blue Dog, and this book is no exception. Though not exacting what... |  How to Read Chinese Paintings (Metropolitan Museum of Art)Best Price: $15.68 The Chinese often use the expression du hua , "to read a painting," in connection... |  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. ... |  Drawing From Life: The Journal as ArtBest Price: $11.25 Art journaling has become so popular, I think by example. People see themselves in others' work... |
 Flowers A to Z with Donna DewberryBest Price: $11.43 Great book for anybody whos intrested in learning one stroke painting because it teaches you how... |  7000 Years of Jewelry: An International History and Illustrated Survey from the Collections of the British MuseumBest Price: $19.25 The best rapport cost/benefice. High-quality images, concise text, thorough presentation of the... | |||
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