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Graffiti Woman: Graffiti And Street Art From Five Continents
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Include books by the same authorWays of Seeing
John Berger · 166 pages
How do we see the world around us? The Penguin on Design series includes the works of creative thinkers whose writings on art, design and the media have changed our vision forever."Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak.""But there is also another sense in which seeing comes before words. It is seeing which establishes our place in the surrounding world; we e
M.C. Escher: The Graphic Work
M.C. Escher · 96 pages
Transfigurations
Alex Grey · 176 pages
Ten years of visionary artwork from a rare artist embraced by critics, spiritual leaders, and the general public during his lifetime. Includes essays on Grey's work by the renowned art critic Donald Kuspit and by Stephen Larsen, author of Fire in the Mind: The Authorized Biography of Joseph Campbell. The long-awaited follow-up to Sacred Mirrors, which has sold more than 50,000 copies and has appea
Secret Knowledge: Rediscovering the Lost Techniques of the Old Masters
David Hockney · 312 pages
Wall and Piece
Banksy · 207 pages
From the Publisher: Graffiti artist Banksy decorates streets, walls, bridges and zoos of towns and cities throughout the world. His identity remains unknown but his work is witty, subversive and prolific. And now, he's put together the best of his work in a fully illustrated color volume.
Cindy Sherman: Untitled Films Stills
Cindy Sherman, Peter Galassi · 96 pages
Includes rarely seen works from the beginning of her career in the mid-1970s, including work created while Sherman was an art student at Buffalo State College, Buffalo, New York (1972-76). These early works from 1975-1978 demonstrate Sherman’s conceptual approach to photography and foretell the career that would launch her into the art world in the late 1970s. On view, a grid of twenty-three hand
Henri Cartier-Bresson Photo Poche
Photo Poche · 144 pages
William Eggleston's Guide
John Szarkowski · 112 pages
Francesca Woodman
Chris Townsend · 254 pages
"Francesca Woodman has become one of the most talked about, studied and influential of late twentieth-century photographers. She started taking photographs when she was barely thirteen, and in less than a decade created a body of work that has now secured her reputation as one of the most original American artists of the 1970s. Woodman brought an understanding of Baroque painting, modernist art an
History of Modern Art: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, Photography
H. Harvard Arnason, Peter Kalb · 787 pages
"Comprehensive and insightful, History of Modern Art: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, Photography is the definitive source of information on the art of the modern era. This Fourth Edition is a freshly retold story of the art and artists of the last 150 years from modernism's mid-nineteenth-century European beginnings to today's divergent art trends."--BOOK JACKET.
Subway Art
Martha Cooper, Henry Chalfant · 104 pages
New afterwords continue the story, tracing the decline of the subway and graffiti scene in the late 1980s to its unexpected rebirth as a global art movement.
A World History of Photography
Naomi Rosenblum · 704 pages
A World History of Photography encompasses the entire range of the medium, from the camera lucida to the latest computer technology, and from Europe and the Americas to the Far East. It investigates all aspects of photography - aesthetic, documentary, commercial, and technical - while placing it in historical context. Included among the more than 800 photographs by men and women are both little-kn
The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
Walter Benjamin · 45 pages
"An attempt by literary critic Walter Benjamin to analyze the changed experience of art in modern society."--Page 4 of cover.
Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty
Andrew Bolton, Harold Koda · 240 pages
The Paper Garden: Mrs. Delany Begins Her Life's Work at 72
Molly Peacock · 416 pages
Beautiful Evidence
Edward R. Tufte · 213 pages
Science and art have in common intense seeing, the wide-eyed observing that generates visual information. Beautiful Evidence is about how seeing turns into showing, how data and evidence turn into explanation. The book identifies excellent and effective methods for showing nearly every kind of information, suggests many new designs (including sparklines), and provides analytical tools for assess
Practices of Looking: An Introduction to Visual Culture
Marita Sturken, Lisa Cartwright · 495 pages
"This introduction to visual culture explores the ways we use and understand images. It looks at painting, photography, film, television, and new media across the realms of art, advertising, news, science, and law. Authors Marita Sturken and Lisa Cartwright present the diverse range of approaches to visual analysis that have emerged in the last few decades, and lead the reader through the key theo
Strong Is the New Pretty: A Celebration of Girls Being Themselves
Kate T. Parker · 240 pages
"Girls being fearless. Girls being silly. Girls being wild, stubborn, and proud. Girls whose faces are smeared with dirt and lit up with joy. So simple and yet so powerful, Strong Is the New Pretty celebrates, through more than 175 memorable photographs, the strength and spirit of girls being 100% themselves. Real beauty isn't about being a certain size, acting a certain way, wearing the right clo
Banksy Locations & Tours: A Collection of Graffiti Locations and Photographs in London, England
Martin Bull · 176 pages
Harry Potter: Film Wizardry
Brian Sibley · 159 pages
Immerse yourself in the world of the spectacular Harry Potter film series, and learn why Yule Ball ice sculptures never melt, where Galleons, Sickles, and Knuts are really "minted," how to get a Hippogriff to work with actors, the inspiration behind Hogwarts castle, and why Dementors move the way they do. Written and designed in collaboration with the cast and crew that brought J.K. Rowling's cele
Art and Visual Perception: A Psychology of the Creative Eye
Rudolf Arnheim · 485 pages
Since its first publication in 1954, this work has established itself as a unique classic. It applies the approaches and findings of modern psychology to the study of art: it describes the visual process that takes place when people create- or look at- works in the various arts, and explains how the eye organizes visual material according to definite psychological laws. Fresh in thought, clean in
Artist to Artist: 23 Major Illustrators Talk to Children about Their Art
Eric Carle, Mitsumasa Anno, Quentin Blake, Ashley Bryan, Nancy Ekholm Burkert, Tomie dePaola, Jane Dyer, Mordicai Gerstein, Robert Ingpen, Steven Kellogg, Leo Lionni, Petra Mathers, Wendell Minor, Barry Moser, Jerry Pinkney, Alice Provensen, Matthew Reinhart, Robert Sabuda, Maurice Sendak, Gennady S · 105 pages
Twenty-three illustrators of children's literature discuss their lives, inspirations, and creative backgrounds and present photographs of themselves and their work spaces along with examples of their illustrations.