Category: Art

An extraordinary collection--hawk-eyed and understanding--from the Man Booker Prize-winning, best-selling author of The Sense of an Ending and Levels of Life. As Julian Barnes notes: "Flaubert believed that it was impossible to explain one art form in terms of another, and that great paintings required no words of explanation. Braque thought the ideal state would be reached when we said nothing at all in front of a painting . . . But it is a rare picture that stuns, or argues, us into silence. And if one does, it is only a short time before we want to explain and understand the very silence i...
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Left Right Left

By: Baruti Tucker

Price: $250.00

Publisher: : 2017-09-01 00:00:00

Seller ID: 94222

ISBN: 013077

Binding: Acrylic

Condition: New

A Landscape for Modern Sculpture: Storm King Art Center

By: Beardsley, John

Price: $29.98

Publisher: Abbeville Press : October 1985

Seller ID: 46735

ISBN-13: 9780896595873

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Graphic Arts From Early Manuscript Illumination to the Modern Poster

By: Beaujon, Paul

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Garden City Publishing Co. : January 1936

Seller ID: 189289

ISBN: B000FHFM1U

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Art for the People: The Rediscovery and Preservation of Progressive and WPA-Era murals in the Chicago Public Schools, 1904-1943

By: Becker, Heather

Price: $14.98

Publisher: Chronicle Books : November 2002

Seller ID: 180025

ISBN-13: 9780811835794

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Rediscovered a few years ago in woeful disrepair by a dedicated high school teacher, the murals of Chicagos public schools had long been painted over, torn down, forgotten. Dating back almost a century, these extraordinary murals, painted by celebrated artists such as Edgar Britton, Mitchell Siporin, Lucille Ward, and Edward Millman, were created during the Progressive (1904-1933) and New Deal (1933-1943) eras. Art for the People tells the inspiring story of their preservation: a project that brought conservators, historians, politicians, educators, and students together in a united cause, and...
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The Great Nadar: The Man Behind the Camera

By: Begley, Adam

Price: $14.00

Publisher: Tim Duggan Books : July 2017

Seller ID: 193110

ISBN-13: 9781101902608

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

A dazzling, stylish biography of a fabled Parisian photographer, adventurer, and pioneer. A recent French biography begins, Who doesn't know Nadar? In France, that's a rhetorical question. Of all of the legendary figures who thrived in mid-19th-century Paris--a cohort that includes Victor Hugo, Baudelaire, Gustave Courbet, and Alexandre Dumas--Nadar was perhaps the most innovative, the most restless, the most modern. The first great portrait photographer, a pioneering balloonist, the first person to take an aerial photograph, and the prime mover behind the first airmail service, Nadar was one ...
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The Boston Raphael: A Mysterious Painting, an Embattled Mueseum in an Era of Change, and a Daughter's Search for the Truth

By: Belinda Rathbone

Price: $14.98

Publisher: David R Godine : October 2014

Seller ID: 87356

ISBN-13: 9781567925227

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

The full, inside story of how the discovery of a previously unknown painting by Raphael, the Italian Renaissance master, went from media sensation to career-destroying scandal. On the eve of its centennial celebrations in December, 1969, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts announced the acquisition of an unknown and uncatalogued painting attributed to Raphael. Boston's coup made headlines around the world. Soon afterward, an Italian art sleuth began investigating the details of the painting's export from Italy, challenged the museum's right to ownership. Simultaneously, experts on both sides of the...
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What is Painting?: Representation and Modern Art

By: Bell, Julian

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Thames and Hudson : May 1999

Seller ID: 162283

ISBN-13: 9780500281017

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

A study and explanation of modern art and the nature of painting
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Art and anatomy in Renaissance Italy (Studies in the fine arts)

By: Bernard Schultz

Price: $300.00

Publisher: UMI Research Press : January 1985

Seller ID: 53237

ISBN-13: 9780835716710

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Like New

Louisiana Faces: Images from a Renaissance

By: Berry, Jason

Price: $19.98

Publisher: Louisiana State University Press : October 2000

Seller ID: 99760

ISBN-13: 9780807126219

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Since the late 1970s, Louisiana a state long known for outrageous politicians has witnessed a blossoming of the arts and their enthusiastic reception by a national, and even world-wide, audience. From John Kennedy Toole's A Confederacy of Dunces to James Lee Burke's detective Dave Robicheaux; from singers Fats Domino and Aaron Neville to jazz patriarch Ellis Marsalis and his music-making family; from George Rodrigue's blue dog to Chef Paul Prudhomme's transcendent cooking the list is long for Louisiana talent. Louisiana Faces documents in images and words the human texture of this remarkable r...
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CROWNED: Magical Folk and Fairy Tales from the Diaspora

By: Bethencourt, Kahran,Bethencourt, Regis

Price: $35.00

Publisher: St. Martin's Press : May 2023

Seller ID: 195071

ISBN-13: 9781250281388

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

GLORY: Magical Visions of Black Beauty

By: Bethencourt, Kahran,Bethencourt, Regis

Price: $30.00

Publisher: St. Martin's Press : October 2020

Seller ID: 153884

ISBN-13: 9781250204561

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. From Kahran and Regis Bethencourt, the dynamite husband and wife duo behind CreativeSoul Photography, comes GLORY, a photography book that shatters the conventional standards of beauty for Black children. Featuring a foreword by Amanda Seales With stunning images of natural hair and gorgeous, inventive visual storytelling, GLORY puts Black beauty front and center with more than 100 breathtaking photographs and a collection of powerful essays about the children. At its heart, it is a recognition and celebration of the versatility and innate beauty of blac...
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Ireland: An Artist's Year

By: Bewick, Pauline

Price: $27.50

Publisher: Methuen : June 1991

Seller ID: 47865

ISBN-13: 9780413643209

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Having been kept deliberately uneducated by her unorthodox mother, Pauline Bewick is uninfluenced by anybody else. In this book her visual words complemented by sketches and paintings depict her view of Ireland through a typical year.
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P.O.W.S. Still M.I.A.

By: Blaine Prescott

Price: $350.00

Publisher: : 2017-09-01 00:00:00

Seller ID: 94218

ISBN: 013071

Binding: Spray Paint, Colored Pencil, Charcoal, Graphite

Condition: New

The Training of the Memory in Art and the Education of the Artist

By: Boisbaudran, Lecoq De

Price: $17.99

Publisher: Waldo Specthrie Press : April 2011

Seller ID: 92259

ISBN-13: 9781447403562

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

This is a classic guide to training your memory for the purpose of producing art. It aims to teach the reader how to memorise things like form and colour composition so that they may draw and paint from memory alone. This fantastic guide is highly recommended for all artists, and it would make for a worthy addition to allied collections. Contents include: "The Training of the Memory in Art", "Memory of Form", "Memory for Colour", "Advanced Study - Practical", "Applications", "A Survey of Art Teaching", "Epilogue", "Letters to a Young Professor", "Drawing and Painting", "Notes on Illustrations"...
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