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Vermeer's Hat: The Seventeenth Century and the Dawn of the Global World
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“Elegant and quietly important…Brook does more than merely sketch the beginnings of globalization and highlight the forces that brought our modern world into...
High Line: The Inside Story of New York City’s Park in the Sky
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“The High Line is not only a great work of design—surely the most important addition to the public realm of New York in this century; it is also a great saga. In this book Robert Hammond and Joshua David, who led the grass-roots movement to rescue the High Line from demolition, tell with energy, passion, and refreshing candor the story of how this industrial artifact became, against all odds, a magnificent park.”—Paul Goldberger
Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream
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“An essential text for our time . . . Not only a passionately argued, carefully reasoned dissection of the mess that is becoming man-made America but also a clear program of steps that can be taken to enhance the humanity of both our suburbs and our cities while conserving our rapidly dwindling countryside. Everyone who cares about the future of our American way of life should read this book.”—Robert A.M. Stern, Dean, Yale School of Architecture
The Secret Lives of Buildings: From the Ruins of the Parthenon to the Vegas Strip in Thirteen Stories
The Secret Lives of Buildings



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“Scintillating . . . Every so often, works on the building art capture the public imagination. Now Tracy Kidder and Witold Rybczynski are joined by Edward Hollis, whose new book, The Secret Lives of Buildings, offers an advanced seminar for graduates of Rybczynski’s introductory courses . . . Provides the ground for a reinvigorated public discourse on the role of architecture in contemporary society . . . Worthy of wide consideration.”—Martin Filler, The New York Review of Books
Twenty Minutes in Manhattan:
Twenty Minutes in Manhattan


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Every morning, the architect and writer Michael Sorkin walks downtown from his Greenwich Village apartment through Washington Square to his Tribeca office....
Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time
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“Truly a book that is so very needed, Walkable City moves theory into action. We now know we need to build walkable urban places for all sorts of economic, social, and environmental reasons. Jeff Speck shows how to do it in the same clear style we came to love in the classic Suburban Nation.”—Christopher B. Leinberger, visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution and author of The Option of Urbanism
Lives of the Artists: Portraits of Ten Artists Whose Work and Lifestyles Embody the Future of Contemporary Art
Lives of the Artists



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"Tomkins approaches art writing as a raconteur rather than a formalist: artists’ lives, Tomkins says, are 'integral to what they make' . . . Tomkins is a creature of our anything-goes cultural era. Though not a strictly nonjudgmental postmodern­ist, Tomkins is cheerfully ecumenical, defying both the squabbling sectarians of the art world and critics who believe art is becoming increasingly frivolous. These 10 profiles, which originally appeared from 1999 to 2008, helped ratify the contemporary canon in all its eclecticism, from the market-savvy provocations of Damien Hirst to the austere if gigantic minimalism of Richard Serra to the enigmatic theatricality of Cindy Sherman . . . [Tomkins'] consummate mastery of the magazine profile form and enthusiasm for his subjects are winning."—Mick Sussman, The New York Times Book Review
Thomas Hart Benton: A Life
Thomas Hart Benton



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“A marvelously thoughtful and graceful portrait of an artist who was thoughtless and graceless—albeit brilliant. Justin Wolff sees past the bluster of Benton’s public image and into the heart of a complex and compelling figure whose vision helped define the can-do spirit of America in the first half of the twentieth century.”—Deborah Solomon, author of Utopia Parkway: The Life and Work of Joseph Cornell
Drawing Words and Writing Pictures: Making Comics: Manga, Graphic Novels, and Beyond
Drawing Words and Writing Pictures



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"Smartly designed and easy to understand, Abel and Madden’s text is an edifying course in creating comics. Comprised of 15 comprehensive lessons, readers are taught the basic elements necessary to conceptualize and produce their own comics. Assuming an audience range from individuals to a group, this pedagogical survey is written to serve a wide array of learners . . . Extensive backmatter, including helpful appendices on such topics as homework critiques, and a considerable bibliography round out the volume. This erudite study should leave its readers with a greater understanding and appreciation of the command one must possess to create graphic media. A valuable resource for all interested in the field."—Kirkus Reviews
Stealing History: Tomb Raiders, Smugglers, and the Looting of the Ancient World
Stealing History



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Roger Atwood knows more about the market for ancient objects than almost anyone. He knows where priceless antiquities are buried, who is digging them up, and...
Image-Music-Text:
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These essays, as selected and translated by Stephen Heath, are among the finest writings Barthes ever published on film and photography, and on the phenomena...
Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography
Camera Lucida



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"This is a great book—flawed, impossible, infuriating, and moving . . . but he has accomplished in this extraordinary book something finer than mere polemic. En route to his last painful discovery, Barthes takes the reader on an exquisitely rendered, lyrical journey into the heart of his own life and the medium he came to love, a medium that flirts constantly with the 'intractable reality' of the human condition."—Douglas Davis, Newsweek
The Art of Teaching Art to Children: In School and at Home
The Art of Teaching Art to Children



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An inspiring and comprehensive guide to art education. In this accessibly written guide for classroom and art teachers as well as parents, Nancy Beal shows...
Glory in a Line: A Life of Foujita--the Artist Caught Between East and West
Glory in a Line



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The first biography in English of the Japanese artist who was a central figure in the dazzling artistic milieu of 1920s Paris When we think of expatriates...
Thieves of Baghdad: One Marine's Passion to Recover the World's Greatest Stolen Treasures
Thieves of Baghdad



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Thieves of Baghdad is a riveting account of Colonel Matthew Bogdanos and his team’s extraordinary efforts to recover over 5,000 priceless antiquities stolen...
The Venus Fixers: The Remarkable Story of the Allied Soldiers Who Saved Italy's Art During World War II
The Venus Fixers



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An untold chapter in WWII history, the story of the corps of unlikely soldiers who saved Italy's most precious art and architecture from destruction.
1066: The Hidden History in the Bayeux Tapestry
1066



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The House the Rockefellers Built: A Tale of Money, Taste, and Power in Twentieth-Century America
The House the Rockefellers Built



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“The Dalzells . . . do an astonishing job of placing Kykuit in historical context while weaving the larger-than-life Rockefeller personalities into its very...
The Hare with Amber Eyes: A Family's Century of Art and Loss
The Hare with Amber Eyes



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In the 1870s, Charles Ephrussi assembled a collection of 360 Japanese ivory carvings known as netsuke, some comical and some erotic, none of them larger than a...
The Art Instinct: Beauty, Pleasure, and Human Evolution
The Art Instinct



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"[Dutton’s] discussion of the arts and of our responses to them is uniformly insightful and penetrating . . . he touches on all the major issues of aesthetics in this fairly short book and invariably illuminates them . . . Dutton’s eloquent account sheds light on the role art plays in our lives, whatever its ultimate origins"—Anthony Gottlieb, The New York Times Book Review
Elements of Garden Design:
Elements of Garden Design


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Elements of Garden Design does what few gardening books do--it addresses the process of conceiving a whole garden, as opposed to a single element like color or...
Banksy: The Man Behind the Wall
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While hiding from the limelight, Banksy has made himself into one of the world’s best-known living artists. His pieces have fetched millions of dollars at...
Watching the World Change: The Stories Behind the Images of 9/11
Watching the World Change



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The attack on the World Trade Center was the most watched event in human history. And the footage recorded that day came from myriad perspectives—from TV...
A Book About Design: Complicated Doesn't Make It Good
A Book About Design



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Design is all about the perception of size, shape, and color. A fabulous and fun introduction to the concepts of design A Book About Design: Complicated...
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