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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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Trade Paperback : $12.00 Buy	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...

Trade Paperback : $16.99 Buy	Stealing History Tomb Raiders, Smugglers, and the Looting of the Ancient World Roger Atwood St. Martin's Griffin 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...

Trade Paperback : $16.95 Buy	Taj Mahal Passion and Genius at the Heart of the Moghul Empire Diana and Michael Preston Walker & Company 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,...

Trade Paperback : $16.95 Buy	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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Trickster Makes This World

Mischief, Myth, and Art

Lewis Hyde; New Foreword by Michael Chabon Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks

"A major work of scholarship that is also a major work of art."—Sacvan Bercovitch, Harvard University

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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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Trade Paperback : $18.00 Buy	Vermeer's Hat The Seventeenth Century and the Dawn of the Global World Timothy Brook Bloomsbury Press “Elegant and quietly important…Brook does more than merely sketch the beginnings of globalization and highlight the forces that brought our modern world into...

Trade Paperback : $15.00 Buy	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...

Trade Paperback : $18.99 Buy	Young at Art Teaching Toddlers Self-Expression, Problem-Solving Skills, and an Appreciation for Art Susan Striker Holt Paperbacks From the creator of the bestselling Anti-Coloring Book series with more than 600,000 copies sold, a new parenting guide to encouraging creativity in...

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