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Lives of the Artists
Calvin Tomkins
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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."—
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Stealing History
Tomb Raiders, Smugglers, and the Looting of the Ancient World
Roger Atwood
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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...
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Image-Music-Text
Roland Barthes; Translated by Stephen Heath
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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...
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The Art of Teaching Art to Children
In School and at Home
Nancy Beal; With Gloria Bley Miller
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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...
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Glory in a Line
A Life of Foujita--the Artist Caught Between East and West
Phyllis Birnbaum
Faber and Faber, Inc.
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...
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Thieves of Baghdad
One Marine's Passion to Recover the World's Greatest Stolen Treasures
Matthew Bogdanos and William Patrick
Bloomsbury USA
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...
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The Venus Fixers
The Remarkable Story of the Allied Soldiers Who Saved Italy's Art During World War II
Ilaria Dagnini Brey
Picador
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.
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1066
The Hidden History in the Bayeux Tapestry
Andrew Bridgeford
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Vermeer's Hat
The Seventeenth Century and the Dawn of the Global World
Timothy Brook
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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...
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The Hare with Amber Eyes
A Family's Century of Art and Loss
Edmund de Waal
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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...
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The Art Instinct
Beauty, Pleasure, and Human Evolution
Denis Dutton
Bloomsbury Press
"[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,
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The Painter's Chair
George Washington and the Making of American Art
Hugh Howard
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An eloquent new look at the beginnings of the American republic—through the portraits of its first icon, George Washington, and the painters who defined him....
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Trickster Makes This World
Mischief, Myth, and Art
Lewis Hyde; New Foreword by Michael Chabon
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"A major work of scholarship that is also a major work of art."—
Sacvan Bercovitch, Harvard University
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The Judgment of Paris
The Revolutionary Decade that Gave the World Impressionism
King, Ross
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While the Civil War raged in America, another revolution took shape across the Atlantic, in the studios of Paris: The artists who would make Impressionism the...
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Walking on Water
Reflections on Faith and Art
Madeleine L'Engle
North Point Press
In Walking On Water, Madeleine L'Engle addresses the questions, What makes art Christian? What does it mean to be a Christian artist? What is the relationship...
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A Giacometti Portrait
James Lord
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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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Plausible Portraits of James Lord
With Commentary by the Model
James Lord
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Incisive reflections on more than twenty portraits of the author by some of the greatest artists of the last century Over the course of his life as a friend...
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Critical Writings
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F. T. Marinetti; Edited by Günter Berghaus; Translated by Doug Thompson
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"The volume compiles writings not previously available in English alongside fresh translations of his better-known works. This is all very nice, but if you're like me, the first thing you want to know when perusing any Marinetti edition is, 'Is the essay about sculpted meat included?' Happily it is."—
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Perspective and Other Optical Illusions
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Phoebe McNaughton
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A thinking person’s guide to reality. The science of perspective has informed the representational and decorative arts since their inception, and its...
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The Ransom of Russian Art
John McPhee
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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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How to Survive and Prosper as an Artist
Selling Yourself Without Selling Your Soul
Caroll Michels
Holt Paperbacks
"Provides the best overview of political and other aspects of the art world that I have ever come across . . . It is a bible that every artist should have."—
Shannon Wilkinson, president, Cultural Communications, New York
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Taj Mahal
Passion and Genius at the Heart of the Moghul Empire
Diana and Michael Preston
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The dazzling story of the Taj Mahal and the empire whose spirit it epitomizes. Built by the Moghul emperor Shah Jahan as a memorial to his beloved wife,...
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Letters on Cézanne
Rainer Maria Rilke; Edited by Clara Rilke; Translated by Joel Agee
North Point Press
Rilke's prayerful responses to the french master's beseeching art For a long time nothing, and then suddenly one has the right eyes. Virtually every day...
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The Man Who Became Caravaggio
Peter Robb
Picador
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year As vividly and unflinchingly presented herein with "blood and bone and sinew" (Times Literary Supplement) by Peter...
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