Readings Recommends: Visual Arts
In Another Light Danish Painting In The 19 Th Century
$115.00 (Hardcover book / Thames And Hudson )
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Peter Doig
$49.95 (Paperback book / Tate Gallery )
Peter Doig's highly distinctive paintings have been exhibited in major museums and galleries worldwide to international acclaim. In each work, Doig seeks to create an atmosphere that will draw the viewer into an intense ... More »
Francis Bacon In The 1950 S
$99.95 (Hardcover book / Yale Univ Pr )
From the screaming heads and snarling chimpanzees of the late 1940s to the anonymous figures trapped in tortured isolation some ten years later, British artist Francis Bacon during one crucial decade created many of the ... More »
Whitney Biennial
$71.95 (Paperback book / Yale Univ Pr )
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An Alphabet By Peter Blake
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Hiroshige One Hundred Views Of Edo
$315.00 (Hardcover book / Taschen )
Hiroshige (1797-1858) was one of the last great artists in the ukiyo-e tradition. Though he captured a variety of subjects, his greatest talent was in creating landscapes of his native Edo (modern-day Tokyo) and his fina... More »
William Kentridge Tapestries
$59.95 (Hardcover book / Yale Univ Pr )
South African artist William Kentridge (b. 1955) has produced an outstanding body of work in multiple mediums—drawings, animations, sculptures, theater and stage design—all of which trace the fraught political and cultur... More »
Isamu Noguchi
$72.00 (Hardcover book / Yale Univ Pr )
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Lepidoptera
$55.00 (Paperback book / Idea Books )
Beautiful. More than 700 objects, ranging from tennis balls and Tupperware, to shoes and plastic spoons, have been collected by this Amsterdam based artist over the last two years. Out of each object a butterfly has been... More »
Tokyo Art And Design
$90.00 (Hardcover book / Rizzoli )
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Society Portrait
$105.00 (Hardcover book / Thames And Hudson )
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30,000 Years Of Art
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30,000 Years of Art presents 1000 great works of art from all periods and regions in the world, arranged in chronological order for a general readership. Breaking through the usual geographical and cultural boundaries of... More »
Cubist Picasso
$150.00 (Hardcover book / Flammarion )
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Mirror Of The World
$75.00 (Hardcover book / Thames And Hudson )
What is art and where did it begin? Why do we make it and why does it change? These are some of the many questions that Julian Bell considers in this new story of art for the 21st century.From humans' first impulses to c... More »
Louise Bourgeois
$75.00 (Trade paperback / Tate Gallery )
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Gordon Bennett
$49.95 (Paperback book / Nat Gallery Of Vic )
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Eva Hesse: Visible and Invisible Intentions
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Uncommissioned Art The A Z Of Australian Graffiti
$39.95 (Hardcover book / Miegunyah Press )
This is an expertly designed and packaged title on a somewhat controversial topic – that of graffiti. The photographs are from all over Australia from Alice Springs to Perth, Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane.
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Street Art And The War On Terror
$60.00 (Hardcover book / Korero Books )
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Art Museum From Boullee To Bilbao
$62.95 (Paperback book / Univ California Pr )
Art museums, oases of beauty and calm in a fast-paced world, have emerged in recent decades as the most vibrant and popular of all cultural institutions. But as they have become more popular, their direction and values h... More »
Tao Of Seduction
$65.00 (Hardcover book / Abrams )
Discovered in tombs dating from the Han Dynasty (206 BC - 8 AD) were 4 bamboo scrolls, on which were some of the oldest existing treatises written on the subject of sexuality. All contain recurring themes of Taoism: What... More »
Life Of Picasso The Cubist Rebel 1907 1916
$48.95 (Paperback book / Alfred A Knopf )
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Becoming Art Exploring Cross Cultural Categories
$44.95 (Paperback book / Nsw Press )
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Lace Contemporary Textiles
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Cross Currents Focus On Contemporary Australian Art
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Joseph Cornell Navigating The Imagination
$120.00 (Hardcover book / Yale Univ Pr )
Joseph Cornell (1903-1972) was a self-taught yet highly sophisticated artist who is celebrated for his pioneering achievement in collage, assemblage, and film. Cornell’s lyrical compositions combine found materials in wa... More »
Niki De Saint Phalle
$45.00 (Paperback book / Tate Gallery )
Niki de Saint Phalle burst upon the art world in the 1960s as a beautiful, provocative and fiercely independent artist whose life and work were equally flamboyant. This is the catalogue of the Tate exhibition which spans... More »
Findings On Ice
$70.00 (Paperback book / Lars Muller )
The Pars Foundation was founded from the conviction that art and science are both essentially creative processes. Artists begin with an idea that is ultimately expressed in the form of music, images, or words. Scientists... More »