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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorWilliam Eggleston's Guide
John Szarkowski · 112 pages
M.C. Escher: The Graphic Work
M.C. Escher · 96 pages
Henri Cartier-Bresson Photo Poche
Photo Poche · 144 pages
Ways 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
Steal This Book
Abbie Hoffman, Izak Haber, Bert Cohen · 318 pages
In 1967 a book called "F--k The System" was published privately under the pseudonym George Metesky, a favorite fake name of political theater artist Abbie Hoffman. It was the prototype for this edition, in 1971 greatly expanded and retitled "Steal This Book" and distributed by Grove Press from a label called Pirate Editions. Both books were designed to help political radicals on the lam from the
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
Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art
Scott McCloud · 215 pages
Praised throughout the cartoon industry by such luminaries as Art Spiegelman, Matt Groening, and Will Eisner, Scott McCloud's Understanding Comics is a seminal examination of comics art: its rich history, surprising technical components, and major cultural significance. Explore the secret world between the panels, through the lines, and within the hidden symbols of a powerful but misunderstood art
One Hundred Flowers
Georgia O'Keeffe · 129 pages
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.
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
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.
Vivian Maier: Out of the Shadows
Richard Cahan, Michael Williams
Fight Club
Chuck Palahniuk · 208 pages
A man who struggles with insomnia meets a colorful extremist, and they create a secret organization together. Chuck Palahniuk showed himself to be his generation’s most visionary satirist in this, his first book. Fight Club’s estranged narrator leaves his lackluster job when he comes under the thrall of Tyler Durden, an enigmatic young man who holds secret after-hours boxing matches in the base
Graffiti Woman: Graffiti And Street Art From Five Continents
Nicholas Ganz · 223 pages
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The Art of The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
Wayne G. Hammond, Christina Scull · 144 pages
When J.R.R. Tolkien wrote The hobbit, he had become an accomplished amateur artist, and he was keen to contribute visually to the work. The finished book contained eight black and white drawings, five colour plates, two maps and his own jacket design.
The Polaroid Book: Selections from the Polaroid Collections of Photography
Steve Crist · 353 pages
Selection of photographs from the Polaroid Collections, representing what can be accomplished with Polaroid film.
Anatomy for the Artist
Sarah Simblet · 255 pages
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.
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H.R. Giger · 240 pages
"HR Giger first received acclaim in the 1960s with his airbrushed fantasy landscapes. However, he scored his breakthrough in applied art, and particularly in his high-profile movie work on Ridley Scott's Alien. In 1980, he received an Oscar for "Best Achievement for Visual Effects" for his designs of the film's title creature and its otherworldly environment. His other celebrated film projects inc