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Synthetics: Aspects of Art and Technology in Australia, 1956-1975 (Leonardo Book Series) Best Price: $25.36 "Synthetics offers an unprecedented insight into the convergence of art...	The Essential Joseph Beuys Best Price: $324.87 This book is a great introduction and overview of Beuys difficult and varied work. It contains...	The Decorated Diagram: Harvard Architecture and the Failure of the Bauhaus Legacy In answering the critic Clement Greenberg's query "why all those ugly buildings?"...	Imaging Desire (Writing Art) Best Price: $42.08 "Imaging Desire", Mary Kelly's collection of writings from 1976 to 1995, asks...	A Day with Picasso Best Price: $18.80 If you ever wanted to travel back in time and grab a bite and spend the day with Picasso,...



Suspect: Alphabet City Magazine 10 Best Price: $3.94 What is the condition of the suspect in a post-9/11 world? Do perpetual ...	Guy Debord and the Situationist International: Texts and Documents (October Books) Best Price: $74.98 Guy debord,progenitor of the extraordianry Situationist Internationale, was brillaint,...	New Material as New Media: The Fabric Workshop and Museum Best Price: $38.88 From constructivist textile and clothing designs by Aleksandr Rodchenko and...	On the Passage of a Few People Through a Rather Brief Moment in Time: The Situationist International 1957-1972 (Inst of Contemporary Art, Boston) Texts by Peter Wollen, Greil Marcus, Tom Levin, Mark Francis, Elisabeth Sussman, Mirella...	Feedback: Television against Democracy Best Price: $7.67 American television embodies a paradox: it is a privately owned and operated...



Turner and the Sublime Best Price: $54.84 Throughout his life Turner was profoundly influenced by the eighteenth-century aesthetic theory...	Art and Objecthood: Essays and Reviews Best Price: $23.84 If formalism's your bag, you'll enjoy this book. Collection of critical writting about...	Cezanne: A Study of His Development Best Price: $12.95 Roger Fry's classic study of the art and life of Paul Cézanne, originally published in...	Law, Family, and Women: Toward a Legal Anthropology of Renaissance Italy Best Price: $12.75 Focusing on Florence, Thomas Kuehn demonstrates the formative influence of law on Italian...	The Thief, the Cross and the Wheel: Pain and the Spectacle of Punishment in Medieval and Renaissance Europe Best Price: $17.75 Why are the doors of America's prisons suddenly swinging open and catering to our most...

H. H. Richardson: Architectural Forms for an American Society Best Price: $242.04 Essays on the specifically American aspects of the art of the French-educated architect.	Pre-Columbian Art (Chicago Visual Library) Best Price: $41.98	The Sexuality of Christ in Renaissance Art and in Modern Oblivion Originally published in 1983, Leo Steinberg's classic work has changed the viewing habits of...	Bread, Wine, and Money: The Windows of the Trades at Chartres Cathedral Best Price: $27.99 At Chartres Cathedral, for the first time in medieval art, the lowest register of stained-glass...	Romanesque Art, Perspectives Series Best Price: $298.38 I have too many texts that go on and on about subjects but few illustrations and photos. This...

Roman Art Best Price: $74.97 I was lucky enough to take two classes from Nancy Ramage and developed a love of art history...	Italian Renaissance Art: A Source Book Best Price: $25.00 Focusing on select examples of Italian art spanning roughly four hundred years, Italian...	Leonardo da Vinci: Revised Edition Best Price: $10.55 Kenneth Clark gives an unpropogating look at Da Vinci. All too often Leonardo's name has...	Baudelaire: Selected Writings on Art and Literature (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $14.58 Before publishing the sensuous and scandalous poems of "Les Fleurs du Mal", Charles...	Leonardo da Vinci: The Marvellous Works of Nature and Man Best Price: $25.20 Three writers on Leonardo's scientific and engineering work to which Kemp refers are Paolo...

Eroticism and Art (Oxford History of Art) Best Price: $16.65 This whole Oxford series on art is excellent and this book is one of the best. It is a 21st...	Sculpture 1900-1945 (Oxford History of Art) Best Price: $67.95 Sculpture 1900-1945 provides a new critical analysis of the fascinating development of...	Nature and Culture: American Landscape and Painting, 1825-1875 With a New Preface Best Price: $29.95 In this richly illustrated volume, including a number of stunning color prints, Barbara Novak...	From the Ocean of Painting: India's Popular Paintings 1589 to the Present Best Price: $77.77 Stretching back over millennia and comprising a myriad of traditions, the art of painting in...	Monumental Intolerance: Jean Baffier, a Nationalist Sculptor in Fin-De-Siecle France Best Price: $88.99 Little known today, Jean Baffier (1851 1920) was never far from the headlines during his own...

Art, Liturgy, and Legend in Renaissance Toledo: The Mendoza and the Iglesia Primada Best Price: $91.95 In Art, Liturgy, and Legend in Renaissance Toledo, Lynette Bosch examines liturgical manuscripts...	Gardens, Landscape, and Vision in the Palaces of Islamic Spain A history of the gardens and palatine architecture of Islamic Spain. Gardens, Landscape, and...	Gardens, Landscape, and Vision in the Palaces of Islamic Spain Best Price: $34.80 I own the hardcover version of this book. This is a fascinating topic. The writing in this book...	The Essence Of Line: French Drawings From Ingres To Degas Best Price: $27.00 Many patrons of the arts in nineteenth-century America built collections of paintings and...	Dynamic Splendor: The Wall Mosaics in the Cathedral of Eufrasius at Porec Best Price: $95.00 Dynamic Splendor introduces a cycle of sixth-century mosaics little known to scholars, though...

Latin and the Romance Languages in the Early Middle Ages Best Price: $29.95 This book makes available for the first time in paperback the results of an important...	The Possessions of a Cardinal: Art, Piety, and Politics, 1450-1700 Best Price: $85.00 Cardinals occupied a unique place in the world of early modern Europe, their distinctive red...	A Touch of Blossom: John Singer Sargent and the Queer Flora of Fin-de-siecle Art Best Price: $73.14 A Touch of Blossom considers John Singer Sargent in the context of nineteenth-century botany,...	New Realisms, 1957-1962: Object Strategies Between Readymade and Spectacle Best Price: $24.50 Works by a pre-Pop, post-abstract expressionist generation of artists who ...	Women Artists at the Millennium (October Books) Best Price: $16.64 More than thirty years after the birth of the modern women's movement and ...

Contemporary Art in Asia: A Critical Reader Best Price: $19.41 In 2008, Asia stormed the citadel of the New Yorkart world when two major ...	Participation (Whitechapel: Documents of Contemporary Art) Best Price: $14.47 Until I read this book I could not give myself permission to have my own ideas about some of the...	Herbert Bayer - Limited Edition: The Complete Works Best Price: $289.50 absolutly the best book ive ever read on bayer !! a must have for anybody who likes his work....	Surrealism and Women Best Price: $11.99 This collection of essays is highly damaged by editor Rudolf Kuenzli's "Surrealism...	At a Distance: Precursors to Art and Activism on the Internet (Leonardo Book Series) Best Price: $13.42 Networked collaborations of artists did not begin on the Internet. In this...

Prosthetic Gods (October Books) Best Price: $18.03 How to imagine not only a new art or architecture but a new self or subject...	NETL: A System for Representing and Using Real-World Knowledge (Artificial Intelligence Series) Best Price: $29.04 "Consider for a moment the layers of structure and meaning that are ...	Hans Richter: Activism, Modernism, and the Avant-Garde Best Price: $20.36 Few artists spanned the movements of early twentieth-century art as completely...	Monumental Intolerance: Jean Baffier, a Nationalist Sculptor in Fin-De-Siecle France Best Price: $88.99 Little known today, Jean Baffier (1851 1920) was never far from the headlines during his own...	Art, Liturgy, and Legend in Renaissance Toledo: The Mendoza and the Iglesia Primada Best Price: $91.95 In Art, Liturgy, and Legend in Renaissance Toledo, Lynette Bosch examines liturgical manuscripts...

Gardens, Landscape, and Vision in the Palaces of Islamic Spain A history of the gardens and palatine architecture of Islamic Spain. Gardens, Landscape, and...	Gardens, Landscape, and Vision in the Palaces of Islamic Spain Best Price: $34.80 I own the hardcover version of this book. This is a fascinating topic. The writing in this book...	The Essence Of Line: French Drawings From Ingres To Degas Best Price: $27.00 Many patrons of the arts in nineteenth-century America built collections of paintings and...	Dynamic Splendor: The Wall Mosaics in the Cathedral of Eufrasius at Porec Best Price: $95.00 Dynamic Splendor introduces a cycle of sixth-century mosaics little known to scholars, though...	Latin and the Romance Languages in the Early Middle Ages Best Price: $29.95 This book makes available for the first time in paperback the results of an important...

The Possessions of a Cardinal: Art, Piety, and Politics, 1450-1700 Best Price: $85.00 Cardinals occupied a unique place in the world of early modern Europe, their distinctive red...	A Touch of Blossom: John Singer Sargent and the Queer Flora of Fin-de-siecle Art Best Price: $73.14 A Touch of Blossom considers John Singer Sargent in the context of nineteenth-century botany,...	To Conserve a Legacy: American Art from Historically Black Colleges and Universities Best Price: $1.53 This is a great addition to any art book collector. The photographs parallel the tour being...	Centerbeam Laser-projected images on moving steam screens, solar-tracked holograms, a 144-foot water prism...	Body Criticism: Imaging the Unseen in Enlightenment Art and Medicine Best Price: $27.95 In this erudite and profusely illustrated history of perception, Barbara ...

Talking Visions : Multicultural Feminism in a Transnational Age (Discourses in Contemporary Art Ser.)	Couture Culture: A Study in Modern Art and Fashion In Couture Culture , Nancy Troy offers a new model of how art and fashion were linked in the...	Painter And Priest: Giovanni Canavesio's Visual Rhetoric And the Passion Cycle at La Brigue Best Price: $55.00 Featuring high-quality paper and quite a few stunning full-color illustrations, particularly...	Art of Empire: Painting and Architecture of the Byzantine Periphery : A Comparative Study of Four Provinces Between the ninth and twelfth centuries the Byzantine Empire encompassed a wide geographical...	High Art: Charles Baudelaire and the Origins of Modernist Painting Best Price: $59.50 The great poet Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867) was also an extremely influential art critic. High...

Margherita of Cortona & Lorenzetti Best Price: $750.00	The Manuscripts (Making of the Bible Moralisees) (Vol I) "John Lowden?s impressive powers of analysis and interpretation have been fully engaged...	Country, Park & City: The Architecture and Life of Calvert Vaux Best Price: $11.95 After beginning his career as an architect in London, Calvert Vaux (1824-1895) came to the...	April Blood: Florence and the Plot against the Medici Best Price: $8.00 Centered on the conspiracy in 1478 to kill the Medici brothers Guiliano and Lorenzo, and to take...	Contemporary Indian Sculpture: An Algebra of Figuration Best Price: $37.86 This book discusses the development of contemporary Indian sculpture in relation both to the...

The Art of Sirvijaya	Figures of Motion: Selected Writings Len Lye, like many artists I imagine, wrote in a broken style without necessarily carrying...	Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: Great Britain, Fascicule 15 Castle Ashby, Northampton (British Academy 1979)	Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Stone Sculpture, Volume I: County Durham (Vol 1) This analytical catalogue of sculpture from the historic counties of Devon, Dorset, Somerset and...	Art and Politics in Renaissance Italy (British Academy) Best Price: $57.00 Our modern conception of the Renaissance has been changed substantially by the scholarship of...

The Medieval Stained Glass of Lancashire (Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi: Great Britain) Best Price: $237.81 This is a catalogue of the pre-Gothic Revival stained glass found at 57 sites in Lancashire....	Agostino Agazzari and Music at Siena Cathedral, 1597-1641 (Oxford Monographs on Music) Best Price: $165.00 Agostino Agazzari (c. 1580-c.1642) has long been recognized as one of the most prominent...	Paul Klee: Legends of the Sign (Interpretations in Art)	Art of the Imperial Cholas Best Price: $35.00 This book is adapted from a series of lectures given by the author at the Asia Society in 1987....	Here I Stand Best Price: $57.43 Norris Kelly Smith has a point of view about art through the ages that may cause clangor among...

Robert Motherwell : What Art Holds Best Price: $67.79 I am a professional artist for 30 years, I am just getting to the time in my career where I want...	Frog in the Well: Portraits of Japan by Watanabe Kazan, 1793-1841 (Asia Perspectives) Best Price: $25.37 Frog in the Well is a vivid and revealing account of Watanabe Kazan, one of the most important...	Queer Beauty: Sexuality and Aesthetics from Winckelmann to Freud and Beyond (Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts) Best Price: $25.43 In principle Davis' book addresses an important theme: the emergence of a gay sensibility as...	Dialectical Passions: Negation in Postwar Art Theory (Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts) Best Price: $35.00 Representing a new generation of theorists reaffirming the radical dimensions of art, Gail Day...	The Icon

Dance and the Music of J.S. Bach (Music: Scholarship and Performance) Best Price: $62.99 Johann Sebastian Bach devoted a significant portion of his life to the composition of stylized...	Sailing the Inland Sea: On Writing, Literature, and Land (Quarry Books) Best Price: $45.99 Calling on the image of the Midwest's vanished inland sea, Susan Neville has written a...	Monteverdi (Master Musicians (Paperback Oxford)) Best Price: $20.84 Celebrating its 100th anniversary, this extraordinary series continues to amaze and captivate...	Early Celtic Art (Oxford Reprints)	The Architecture of Norman England The first full-length study of the architecture of Norman England in over sixty years, this book...

Practices of Looking: An Introduction to Visual Culture Best Price: $27.25 Postmodernism and Popular Culture In Chapter seven of Practices of Looking, titled...	On Installation: Issue 2 2001 Vol 24 (Oxford art journal) On installation is the first publication to critically examine installation art in its...	Classical Sculpture and the Culture of Collecting in Britain since 1760 (Classical Presences) Best Price: $76.99 This is a book about classical sculptures in the early modern period, centuries after the...	Lloyd Rees Centenary Yearbook This collection of quality illustrations is in a yearbook that commemorates one of...	Irnian Art Best Price: $14.13 This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing...

A Life of Picasso. Volume 1: 1881-1906	A Genius for Failure: The Life of Benjamin Robert Haydon Best Price: $28.12 A vivid and compelling biography of Benjamin Robert Haydon?historical painter, polemicist,...

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