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by Robert Hughes
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2012
Robert Hughes, who has stunned us with comprehensive works on subjects as sweeping and complex as the history of Australia (The Fatal Shore), the modern art movement (The Shock of the New), the nature of American art (American Visions), and the nature of America itself as seen through its art (The...
The Auctioneer
Adventures in the Art Trade
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
Just as William Goldman, the ultimate screenwriter, took us inside Hollywood, Simon de Pury, the ultimate art player, will take us inside an even more secretive business, whose staggering prices, famous collectors, and high crimes are front page news almost every day. The former Chairman of Sotheby's...
Mistress of Modernism
The Life of Peggy Guggenheim
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2004
The life story of the bohemian socialite who rebelled against her famous family and became a renowned art collector.
Peggy Guggenheim was the ultimate self-invented woman, a cultural mover and shaker who broke away from her poor-little-rich-girl origins to shape a life for herself as the enfant...
Lynne Pickering Funky Beach Art
Lynne Pickering Art and Interiors
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2015
This Funky Beach Art is a collection of Lynne Pickering's art in naive beach paintings. Lynne paints in many styles and she loves the beach. This style of art has sold all over the world and I would have to say that it is a favourite. Over five thousand five hundred paintings of Lynne's have been...
Masaccio, l'incompris
Le plus grand peintre de la première Renaissance
Language: French
Release Date: December 9, 2014
Décryptez l’art de Masaccio en moins d’une heure !Né dans l’Italie du quattrocento, Tommaso di Ser Giovanni, dit Masaccio, est considéré comme le plus grand peintre de la première Renaissance. Alors que le gothique tardif s’efface peu à peu au profit d’un art nouveau, Masaccio se démarque...
Antoine Watteau et le style rococo
De la commedia dell’arte à la fête galante
Language: French
Release Date: April 14, 2015
Décryptez l’art d'Antoine Watteau en moins d’une heure !Légèreté, frivolité, insouciance... Watteau, mieux que quiconque, a été capable de traduire dans ses toiles vibrantes la nouvelle ambiance de la Régence. Foudroyé par la tuberculose à l'âge de 37 ans, ce dessinateur hors pair, initiateur...
Old In Art School
A Memoir of Starting Over
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2018
**One of O: The Oprah Magazine's Top Books of Summer
"Old in Art School is a glorious achievement—bighearted and critical, insightful and entertaining. This book is a cup of courage for everyone who wants to change their lives." —Tayari Jones, author of An American Marriage and...
Ninth Street Women
Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell, and Helen Frankenthaler: Five Painters and the Movement That Changed Modern Art
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018
Five women revolutionize the modern art world in postwar America in this "gratifying, generous, and lush" true story from a National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize finalist (Jennifer Szalai, New York Times).
Set amid the most turbulent social and political period of modern times, Ninth...
The $12 Million Stuffed Shark
The Curious Economics of Contemporary Art
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2012
Why would a smart New York investment banker pay $12 million for the decaying, stuffed carcass of a shark? By what alchemy does Jackson Pollock's drip painting No. 5, 1948 sell for $140 million?
Intriguing and entertaining, The $12 Million Stuffed Shark is a Freakonomics approach to the economics...
Secret Teachings of a Comic Book Master
The Art of Alfredo Alcala
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
"Alfredo Alcala is one of the most disciplined and perceptive artists inking in comics. The years of distinguished work have earned Alfredo a special place in comics history." — Gil Kane.
In the late 1960s, an extremely talented group of Filipino illustrators took the American comic book...
by ART TK
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
From the legendary makers of Metroid Prime comes ReCore, an action-adventure game that pits the player against devious robotic foes while forging friendships with a courageous group of uniquely powerful robot companions!
Now, Dark Horse Books presents this comprehensive volume, examining the art and...
by Various
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
Take a behind-the-scenes journey into the richly detailed yet minimalist totalitarian futuristic universe of Mirror's Edge™ Catalyst with this oversized hardcover art book! Each glossy page is jam-packed with never before seen art, commentary, and insight from the creators of the game! See the concepts...
Artéfacts - Tome I, Là où nous sommes
Récits et aquarelles du terroir québécois
Language: French
Release Date: December 12, 2015
Artéfacts Là où nous sommes contient 33 récits illustrés d’aquarelles originales de lieux, de moments et de personnages du Québec représentés par Virginie Tanguay, une artiste accomplie qui vit sur les rives du lac Saint-Jean au Québec. L’ensemble de la création émerge de l’eau tels...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2011
Drawing on contributions from practicing artists, writers, curators and academics, Searching for Art’s New Publics explores the ways in which artists seek to involve, create and engage with new and diverse audiences: from passers-by encountering and participating in the work unexpectedly, to professionals...