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by Lamoureux, Johanne
Language: French
Release Date: May 26, 2011
Language: French
Release Date: May 26, 2011
Émancipée des récits de vie d’artiste et d’un statut de « fille de l’archéologie » qui, de la Renaissance au xixe siècle, en ont orienté les pratiques, l’histoire de l’art traverse depuis une trentaine d’années un moment important dans sa constante redéfinition disciplinaire....
A View from the South
The Narrative Art of Boyd Saunders
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2019
A View from the South: The Narrative Art of Boyd Saunders is the first comprehensive examination of the life and art of one of America’s premier printmakers. In this celebration of an enduring and widely acclaimed career as an artist, Thomas Dewey II chronicles Saunders’s work not only as a printmaker,...
Caveat Emptor: The Secret Life of an American Art Forger
The Secret Life of an American Art Forger
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2012
It is said that the greatest con man in the world is the one who has never been caught—and here for the first time is the astonishing story of America’s most accomplished art forger
Ten years ago, an FBI investigation in conjunction with the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Southern District...
by Deborah Solomon
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR
A FINALIST FOR THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE IN BIOGRAPHY AND SHORTLISTED FOR THE PEN/JACQUELINE BOGRAD WELD AWARD FOR BIOGRAPHY
"Welcome to Rockwell Land," writes Deborah Solomon in the introduction to this spirited and authoritative...
by Justin Roiland
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2017
Featuring exclusive never before seen concept art with a killer Glow-in-the-Dark cover, this is the art book that Rick and Morty fans have been waiting for!
The animated science-fiction adventures of Rick and Morty are irreverent, shocking, and hilarious--from the cynical and rapid-fire one...
The Art of Comic Book Writing
The Definitive Guide to Outlining, Scripting, and Pitching Your Sequential Art Stories
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
A practical guide for beginner and advanced comic book writers that outlines the steps needed to successfully craft a story for sequential art.
With this latest book in the SCAD Creative Essentials series from the esteemed Savannah College of Art and Design, comics writer and instructor Mark Kneece...
by Baby Professor
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Did you know that art is a strong indicator of the culture and traditions of a civilization? If you study many art forms, you will notice a distinct difference in how characters are formed and colors are blended. In this book, you will learn about the art of the Ancient Egyptians. Enjoy a treat for the eyes and creativity. Secure a copy today!
Leonardo's Art Workshop
Invent, Create, and Make STEAM Projects like a Genius
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2018
Leonardo’s Art Workshop leads children on an interactive adventure through key art concepts by following the multidisciplinary approach of the Renaissance period polymath Leonardo da Vinci: experimenting, creating projects, and exploring how art intersects with science and nature. Photos of Leonardo’s...
by David Joselit
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2012
Art as we know it is dramatically changing, but popular and critical responses lag behind. In this trenchant illustrated essay, David Joselit describes how art and architecture are being transformed in the age of Google. Under the dual pressures of digital technology, which allows images to be reformatted...
The Age of Insight
The Quest to Understand the Unconscious in Art, Mind, and Brain, from Vienna 1900 to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2012
A brilliant book by Nobel Prize winner Eric R. Kandel, The Age of Insight takes us to Vienna 1900, where leaders in science, medicine, and art began a revolution that changed forever how we think about the human mind—our conscious and unconscious thoughts and emotions—and how mind and brain relate...
Priceless
How I Went Undercover to Rescue the World's Stolen Treasures
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
The Wall Street Journal called him “a living legend.” The London Times dubbed him “the most famous art detective in the world.”
In Priceless, Robert K. Wittman, the founder of the FBI’s Art Crime Team, pulls back the curtain on his remarkable career for the first time, offering a real-life...
by Justice Koolhaas
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
Justice Koolhaas’s Essays on Modern Art are reproduced alongside at least one of each artist’s works that she owned. Unusually, these works were discards; even more unusually, she obtained them on condition that each artist signed a statement disowning them as artworks.Her theory work, a refusenikism...
by Leonardo da Vinci, Delphi Classics
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The genius of Leonardo da Vinci epitomises, more than that of any other figure, the Renaissance humanist ideal. The Italian painter, draftsman, sculptor, architect and engineer produced some of the most influential masterpieces of Western art, which remain the most widely popular and influential paintings...
Celtic Art
The Methods of Construction
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2013
The construction principles of Celtic art were re-discovered in the middle of the 20th century by George Bain. Until his writing, the intricate knots, interlacings, and spirals used in illuminating The Book of Kells and in decorating craftwork and jewelry seemed almost impossible, "the work of...