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Trade Paperback : $17.00 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...

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The House the Rockefellers Built

A Tale of Money, Taste, and Power in Twentieth-Century America

Robert F. Dalzell and Lee Baldwin Holt Paperbacks

“The Dalzells . . . do an astonishing job of placing Kykuit in historical context while weaving the larger-than-life Rockefeller personalities into its very...

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Trade Paperback : $14.00 Buy	Elements of Garden Design Joe Eck North Point Press 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...

Hardcover : $21.95 Buy	A Book About Design Complicated Doesn't Make It Good Mark Gonyea Henry Holt and Co. 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...

Hardcover : $30.00 Buy	The Painter's Chair George Washington and the Making of American Art Hugh Howard Bloomsbury Press 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....

Trade Paperback : $16.95 Buy	The Judgment of Paris The Revolutionary Decade that Gave the World Impressionism King, Ross Walker & Company 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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Painting Chinese

A Lifelong Teacher Gains the Wisdom of Youth

Herbert Kohl Bloomsbury USA

As Herbert Kohl approached seventy, he realized the image he had of himself (energetic man in midlife) was not in keeping with how he was viewed by others...

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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...

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Dali & I

The Surreal Story

Stan Lauryssens Thomas Dunne Books

An extraordinary memoir of fortune, fraud, and the master of modern art Art dealer Stan Lauryssens made millions in modern art, but he sold only one name:...

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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...

Hardcover : $25.00 Buy	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...

Trade Paperback : $45.00 Buy	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.

Hardcover : $10.00 Buy	Perspective and Other Optical Illusions Wooden Books Phoebe McNaughton Walker & Company A thinking person’s guide to reality. The science of perspective has informed the representational and decorative arts since their inception, and its...

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 : $14.95 Buy	I Bought Andy Warhol Richard Polsky Bloomsbury USA In 1987, Richard Polsky put aside $100,000 to buy a Warhol painting, a dream that took twelve years to realize. In a book that spans the years from the wild...

Paper Over Board : $29.95 Buy	The Art of Getting Over Graffiti at the Millennium Stephen Powers St. Martin's Press What started as simple street movement, a way to assert individuality and pride, has blossomed into much more: Graffiti is everywhere. From Sprite...

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 : $13.00 Buy	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...

Trade Paperback : $22.00 Buy	M 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...

Hardcover : $27.95 Buy	Grounds for Golf The History and Fundamentals of Golf Course Design Geoff Shackelford; Illustrations by Gil Hanse Thomas Dunne Books Golfers dream of playing the legendary courses of the game: St. Andrews, Augusta National, Pinehurst, Pebble Beach. And anyone who has played the royal and...

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Van Gogh and Gauguin

The Search for Sacred Art

Debora Silverman Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks

A leading scholar offers fresh insight into one of the key moments in modern art history During the fall of 1888, Vincent Van Gogh and Paul Gauguin lived...

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Trade Paperback : $17.00 Buy	Variations on a Theme Park The New American City and the End of Public Space Edited by Michael Sorkin Hill and Wang 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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Trade Paperback : $18.00 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...