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Hardcover : $145.00 Buy	Royal Persian Paintings The Qajar Epoch 1779-1924 Edited by Layla S. Diba and Maryam Ekhtiar I.B. Tauris Iranian art of the Qajar period (1779-1925) has long been neglected and is little understood. This beautifully illustrated book for the first time...

Trade Paperback : $16.00 Buy	Under the Sign of Saturn Essays Susan Sontag Picador This third essay collection by America's leading essayist brings together her most important critical writing from 1972 to 1980, in which she explores some of...

Trade Paperback : $15.00 Buy	A Giacometti Portrait James Lord Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks When we look at a painting hanging on an art gallery wall, we see only what the artist has chosen to disclose--the finished work of art. What remains...

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Giacometti

A Biography

James Lord Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks

The work of one of the towering creative spirits of the century, Alberto Giacometti's visionary sculptures and paintings from a testament to the artist's...

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The Ransom of Russian Art

John McPhee Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks

In the 1960s and 1970s, an American professor of Soviet economics forayed on his own in the Soviet Union, bought the work of underground...

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Trade Paperback : $24.99 Buy	Michelangelo A Biography George Bull St. Martin's Griffin Much has been written about the paintings and sculptures of Michelangelo, arguably the greatest artist of the Renaissance. But what about the man? In this...

Hardcover : $30.00 Buy	The Fate of a Gesture Jackson Pollock and Post-War American Art Carter Ratcliff Farrar, Straus and Giroux Flinging his colors onto the canvas, pouring and dripping his paints in a quintessentially American gesture, Jackson Pollock redefined the art of painting. It...

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The Desire of My Eyes

The Life & Work of John Ruskin

Wolfgang Kemp; Translated by Jan Van Heurck Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks

This "tour de force of analysis" (Joel Agee) examines the life and work of the prolific, visionary writer, painter and critic. Kemp finds in Ruskin's life --...

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Hardcover : $12.00 Buy	Beyond the Brillo Box The Visual Arts in Post-Historical Perspective Arthur Coleman Danto Farrar, Straus and Giroux Arthur C. Danto's ground-breaking collection of interconnected essays grapples with the most challenging issues in art today, among them the problems of...

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Inside Bruegel

The Play of Images in Children’s Games

Edward Snow North Point Press

In this brilliant, original and lavishly illustrated book, Edward Snow undertakes an inquiry into a single painting by the Flemish master Peter Bruegel the...

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Trade Paperback : $24.95 Buy	In Contact With the Gods? Directors Talk Theatre Edited by Maria M. Delgado and Paul Heritage Manchester University Press Rarely has the private world of the director in the rehearsal room been so frankly and entertainingly opened. In addition to the art and craft of directing,...

Hardcover : $101.95 Buy	Bihzad, Master of Persian Painting Ebadollah Bahari I.B. Tauris Although Kamal al-Din Bihzad (1460-1535) is acknowledged to be one of the greatest masters of Persian painting, there has to date been no comprehensive study...

Hardcover : $65.00 Buy	Splendours of an Islamic World The Art and Architecture of the Mamluks Henri and Anne Stierlin I.B. Tauris Few know of the reign of the Mamluks, but all will appreciate the beauty of the art and architecture they left behind. The reign of the Mamluks marked a...

Hardcover : $65.00 Buy	Houses and Palaces of Majorca Mariella Caracciollo I.B. Tauris

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De Kooning's Bicycle

Artists and Writers in the Hamptons

Robert Long Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Some of the twentieth century's most important artists and writers--from Jackson Pollock to Saul Steinberg, Frank O'Hara to Jean Stafford--lived and worked on...

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Hardcover : $29.95 Buy	Flower Power The Meaning of Flowers in Art, 1500-2000 Anna Pavord, Andrew Moore, and Christopher Garibaldi Philip Wilson Publishers The book brings together a wide variety of ravishing illustrations of the cut flower in the history of European fine and decorative art since 1500. The...

Hardcover : $55.00 Buy	Gilbert and George Obsessions and Compulsions Robin Dutt Philip Wilson Publishers A fully-illustrated look at Gilbert & George, including previously unseen work

Hardcover : $55.00 Buy	Calder/Miró Edited by Elizabeth Turner and Oliver Wick, Alexander S. Rower, Joan Punyet Miró, Ernst Beyeler, Jay Gates Philip Wilson Publishers A first-time look at the artistic relationship between Alexander Calder and Joan Miró

Hardcover : $55.00 Buy	Kitaj Andrew Lambirth Philip Wilson Publishers An illustrated look at Kitaj and a wide selection of his work

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Staying Up Much Too Late

Edward Hopper's Nighthawks and the Dark Side of the American Psyche

Gordon Theisen Thomas Dunne Books

A fasinating study of Edward Hopper's iconic Nighthawks painting and its deep significance for understanding American culture. Staying up Much Too Late...

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Trade Paperback : $18.99 Buy	Il Gigante Michelangelo, Florence, and the David 1492-1504 Anton Gill St. Martin's Griffin/Thomas Dunne Books At the turn of the 16th century, Italy was a turbulent territory made up of independent states, each at war with or intriguing against its neighbor. There...

Hardcover : $45.00 Buy	Christo and Jeanne-Claude: International Projects Dieter Ronte Philip Wilson Publishers Christo and Jeanne-Claude have created some of the most controversial and compelling public artworks of the twentieth century. On a moderate or monumental...

Hardcover : $55.00 Buy	Maxfield Parrish Master of Make-Believe Alma Gilbert Philip Wilson Publishers Maxfield Parrish, Master of Make-Believe describes the life and popularity of this famous early twentieth-century American artist. This beautifully illustrated...

Trade Paperback : $35.00 Buy	Calder/Miró Elisabeth Hutton Turner and Oliver Wick Philip Wilson Publishers Places the mobile sculptures of Calder alongside the poem paintings of Miró, providing fresh insights into the visual dialogues between these two artists....

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