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Walking on Water
Reflections on Faith and Art
Madeleine L'Engle
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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
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James Lord
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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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Introduction to Multimodal Analysis
David Machin
Bloomsbury USA
This groundbreaking approach to visual media analysis explains the tools to assess media and provides examples for an analytical model which can be followed.
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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
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"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."—
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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
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On Photography
Susan Sontag
Picador
"A brilliant analysis of the profound changes photographic images have made in our way of looking at the world and at ourselves over the last 140 years."—
The Washington Post Book World
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Regarding the Pain of Others
Susan Sontag
Picador
"Sontag reappraises many of the opinions she laid out in her well known 1977 book
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Variations on a Theme Park
The New American City and the End of Public Space
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America's cities are being rapidly transformed by a sinister and homogenous design. A new Kind of urbanism--manipulative, dispersed, and hostile to traditional...
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I Heard God Talking to Me
William Edmondson and His Stone Carvings
Elizabeth Spires
Frances Foster Books
One night in the early 1930s, William Edmondson, the son of former slaves and a janitor in Nashville, Tennessee, heard God speaking to him. And so he began to...
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Young at Art
Teaching Toddlers Self-Expression, Problem-Solving Skills, and an Appreciation for Art
Susan Striker
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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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Comic Art Propaganda
A Graphic History
Fredrik Strömberg with a Foreword by Peter Kuper
St. Martin's Griffin
As one of the most effective and powerful forms of communication, it comes as no surprise that comic art has been misappropriated by governments, self-interest...
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Platonic & Archimedean Solids
Wooden Books
Daud Sutton
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Whereas Sacred Geometry introduced readers to two-dimensional forms, Platonic & Archimedean Solids presents the world of three dimensions, which was understood...
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Islamic Design
A Genius for Geometry
Wooden Books
Daud Sutton
Walker & Company
An exploration of the construction and meaning of Islamic geometric patterns. Throughout their long history the craft traditions of the Islamic world...
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Off the Wall
A Portrait of Robert Rauschenberg
Calvin Tomkins; Revised and Updated Edition
Picador
"I commend Calvin Tomkins, as Bernard Berenson did Vasari, for 'being a singularly warm, generous, and appreciative critic.'"—
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Reading American Photographs
Images As History-Mathew Brady to Walker Evans
Alan Trachtenberg
Hill and Wang
Winner of the Charles C. Eldredge Prize In this book, Alan Trachtenberg reinterprets some of America's most significant photographs, presenting them not as...
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Guernica
The Biography of a Twentieth-Century Icon
Gijs van Hensbergen
Bloomsbury USA
Guernica relates the powerful story of Picasso’s 1937 masterpiece, a painting that from its birth out of war and violence became known worldwide as a symbolic...
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Loot
The Battle over the Stolen Treasures of the Ancient World
Sharon Waxman
Times Books
“Sharon Waxman’s
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North American Indian Arts
A Golden Guide from St. Martin's Press
Andrew Hunter Whiteford, under the editorship of Herbert S. Zim, Ph.D., Sc.D.; Illustrated by Owen Vernon Shaffer
Golden Guides from St. Martin's Press
Golden Guides from St. Martin's Press have been updated and revised to revitalize the complete line of guides for a new generation of students.
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