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Mixed Blessings: New Art in a Multicultural America
ISBN: 9781565845732 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The New Press is proud to publish a new paperback edition of Mixed Blessings, the first book to discuss the cross-cultural process taking place in the work of contemporary Latino, Native, African, and Asian American artists. Rich with illustrations of artworks in many different media, and filled with incisive quotes and unsettling reports, it is more than a book about art; it is a complex meditation on the relationships of people to their cultures. Lucy R. Lippard, one of our most original and insightful writers on art, challenges conventional approaches and explores the role of... The New Press is proud to publish a new paperback edition of Mixed Blessings, the first book to discuss the cross-cultural process taking pl... |
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Philadelphia Murals & Stories They Tell
ISBN: 9781566399517 / Angielski / Twarda / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In June 1984, Jane Golden, a young muralist from Margate, New Jersey, headed up a project that was originally planned as a six-week youth program in the fledgling Philadelphia Anti-Graffiti Network. This title presents an illustrated chronicle of the Mural Arts Program.
In June 1984, Jane Golden, a young muralist from Margate, New Jersey, headed up a project that was originally planned as a six-week youth program in t...
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171,02 |
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State of the Arts: California Artists Talk About Their Work
ISBN: 9781566636315 / Angielski / Miękka / 382 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. If California is a state of mind, Barbara Isenberg's interviews with more than fifty of California's prominent painters, writers, composers, architects, directors, and performers help explain why. They include Dave Brubeck, Joan Didion, Clint Eastwood, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Frank Gehry, David Hockney, Randy Newman, Maxine Hong Kingston, Luis Valdez, Larry Gelbart, Matt Groening, Robert Graham, Carol Burnett, Michael Tilson Thomas, and many others. Some were born in California; others came from afar for its light, space, natural beauty, and opportunity. In these conversations, they talk about...
If California is a state of mind, Barbara Isenberg's interviews with more than fifty of California's prominent painters, writers, composers, architect...
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99,25 |
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Palmetto Silver: Riches of the South: A Celebration of South Carolina Silver
ISBN: 9781570035333 / Angielski / Miękka / 83 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This publication showcases the riches of South Carolina silver. Based on a 2002 exhibition by the same name at the University of South Carolina's McKissick Museum, the book is the result of several years of research and draws heavily on items from private collections throughout the South.
This publication showcases the riches of South Carolina silver. Based on a 2002 exhibition by the same name at the University of South Carolina's McKi...
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101,49 |
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More Philadelphia Murals and the Stories They Tell
ISBN: 9781592135271 / Angielski / Twarda / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Featured here is the remarkable story of an unlikely artistic collaboration between boys who live in a residential facility and men who lived in a maximum-security state correctional facility--and the eight-mile long mural they created.
Featured here is the remarkable story of an unlikely artistic collaboration between boys who live in a residential facility and men who lived in a max...
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171,02 |
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Mr. Clark's Awesome Designs Coloring Book
ISBN: 9781598008838 / Angielski-średniowieczny / Miękka / 60 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Mr. Clark's Awesome Designs Coloring Book
Welcome, I bring you some of my most interesting hand-done, all original designs that I'm sure all ages will enjoy. Through the years I showed my designs to kids and the feedback I got was awesome, (the word they used). They suggested I display my designs in a coloring book, which I decided to do. Kids of all ages really seem to enjoy coloring them in. My drawings vary from simple, easy to color to the more challenging designs. Are you up for the challenge? So keep those crayons and colored pencils sharp! When you're done coloring them in, you can... Mr. Clark's Awesome Designs Coloring Book
Welcome, I bring you some of my most interesting hand-done, all original designs that I'm sure all ages ... |
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52,84 |
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Pollock Matters
ISBN: 9781892850133 / Angielski / Miękka / 178 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Legendary abstract expressionist painter Jackson Pollock (1912 56) is most famous for the frenetic, highly textured works created through his trademark drip technique in which he poured paint from its can directly onto the canvas. "Pollock Matters" explores, for the first time, the personal and artistic interrelationship between the notorious artist and noted Swiss-born photographer and graphic designer Herbert Matter.
Published to coincide with an exhibition at Boston College s McMullen Museum of Art, "Pollock Matters "traces a close friendship that spanned almost two decades, beginning... Legendary abstract expressionist painter Jackson Pollock (1912 56) is most famous for the frenetic, highly textured works created through his trademar...
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221,80 |
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Medieval American Art: Volume 1
ISBN: 9781931313667 / Angielski / Miękka / 436 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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124,15 |
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Pop L.A.: Art and the City in the 1960s
ISBN: 9780520256347 / Angielski / Miękka / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Andy Warhol said about his road trip to Los Angeles in 1963: "The farther West we drove, the more Pop everything looked on the highways." In this original and engaging book, Cecile Whiting examines what Pop looked like when it left the highbrow cloisters of Manhattan's art galleries and ventured westward to the sprawling suburbs of Los Angeles. She finds that the artists who made California their home in the 1960s did not abandon their paint brushes for tennis rackets and surfboards, but rather created in their works a new and different sense of space, the urban experience, and popular...
Andy Warhol said about his road trip to Los Angeles in 1963: "The farther West we drove, the more Pop everything looked on the highways." In this orig...
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160,34 |
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Summers with Lincoln: Looking for the Man in the Monuments
ISBN: 9780823228959 / Angielski / Twarda / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Across the country, in the middle of busy city squares and hidden on quiet streets, there are nearly 200 statues erected in memory of Abraham Lincoln. No other American has ever been so widely commemorated. A few years ago, anticipating the bicentennial of Lincoln's birth in 2009, Jim Percoco, a history teacher with a passion for both Lincoln and public sculpture, set off to see what he might learn about some of these monuments--what they meant when they were unveiled, and what they mean to us today. The result is this captivating book, a fascinating chronicle of four summers on the road...
Across the country, in the middle of busy city squares and hidden on quiet streets, there are nearly 200 statues erected in memory of Abraham Lincoln....
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379,46 |
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Thaddeus Strode: Absolutes and Nothings
ISBN: 9780936316246 / Angielski / Twarda / 80 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Thaddeus Strode s vibrant large-scale paintings are universes unto themselves: wild mash-ups of California surf and skateboard culture, Zen philosophy, rock music, literature, film, and comic books. "Absolutes and Nothings" marks the artist s first major museum show, presented as part of the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum s Contemporary Projects series.
Strode s images draw on a wealth of motifs inspired by a broad range of sources in popular culture, freely combined with the artist s own creations. The strength and visual pleasure of Strode s aesthetic come from his self-reflexive... Thaddeus Strode s vibrant large-scale paintings are universes unto themselves: wild mash-ups of California surf and skateboard culture, Zen philosophy...
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120,26 |
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Andre Beauneveu: Artist to the Courts of France and Flanders
ISBN: 9781903470664 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This catalogue accompanied an exhibition at the Groeninge Museum, Bruges, which celebrated one of the greatest European artists of the late fourteenth century, Andre Beauneveu, apparently born in Valenciennes c. 1335. Active throughout the Southern Netherlands, his reputation grew swiftly and in 1364 he was commissioned by the King of France, Charles V, to create a group of royal tombs at St Denis. In the 1370s he oversaw another ambitious funerary project, for Louis de Male, Count of Flanders, at Courtrai, whilst continuing to undertake major civic commissions at Ypres, Mechelen and his home...
This catalogue accompanied an exhibition at the Groeninge Museum, Bruges, which celebrated one of the greatest European artists of the late fourteenth...
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160,34 |
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Theatres of Life: Drawings from the Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor
ISBN: 9781903470725 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Most of the drawings gathered together for this exhibition have never been exhibited in public and most have not been published. There are works by major French draftsmen of the eighteenth century, including Francois Boucher, Jean-Honore Fragonard, Jean-Baptiste Greuze, Nicolas Lancret, Gabriel de Saint-Aubin and Jean-Baptiste Le Prince. Other artists are less familiar, Charles-Nicolas Cochin and Moreau le jeune among them, and it is hoped that this exhibition will introduce the visitor to the verve and originality of their work. The selection reflects the diversity of the Rothschild...
Most of the drawings gathered together for this exhibition have never been exhibited in public and most have not been published. There are works by ma...
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133,61 |
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Different Views in Hudson River School Painting
ISBN: 9780231138215 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Hudson River School artists shared an awe of the magnificence of nature as well as a belief that the untamed American scenery reflected the national character. In this new work, color reproductions of more than 115 paintings capture the beauty and illuminate the aesthetic and philosophical principles of the Hudson River School painters. The pieces included in this volume reflect a period (1825-1875) when American landscape painting was most thoroughly explored and formalized with personal, artistic, cultural, and national identifications. Judith Hansen O'Toole reveals the subtleties and...
Hudson River School artists shared an awe of the magnificence of nature as well as a belief that the untamed American scenery reflected the national c...
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160,34 |
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The Dancer: Degas, Forain, Toulouse-Lautrec
ISBN: 9781883124274 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Artists in late 19th-century France produced some of Europe's most celebrated and revolutionary works of art. Among those innovators are Edgar Degas, Jean-Louis Forain, and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, who captured the renowned dancers of Paris in paintings, pastels, drawings, prints, and sculptures, creating potent icons of a unique time, place, and culture. Each sought to portray rapidly changing urban life, concentrating on the human figure in its social context. The dancer proved to be a fruitful subject for their investigations of modernity. Degas focused on the artifice of the... Artists in late 19th-century France produced some of Europe's most celebrated and revolutionary works of art. Among those innovators are Edgar Dega... |
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213,52 |
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Making American Art
ISBN: 9780415420693 / Angielski / Twarda / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Making American Art presents a thematic, interdisciplinary examination of art in the United States from the seventeenth century to the present day. The themes and issues explored in Making American Art pull together documentary material, art works and contemporary theory to enliven what can often be a complex and geographically overwhelming history. The abiding and connective theme of the book is an extended and multidimensional examination of the perennial and vexing question: what is American about American art? In attempting an answer, the book draws upon topics... Making American Art presents a thematic, interdisciplinary examination of art in the United States from the seventeenth century to the pre... |
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527,98 |
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Yaddo: Making American Culture
ISBN: 9780231147378 / Angielski / Miękka / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Established by a pair of philanthropists who believed adamantly in the power of creativity, Yaddo has hosted some of the twentieth century's most renowned writers, composers, and visual artists, including Hannah Arendt, James Baldwin, Saul Bellow, Leonard Bernstein, Elizabeth Bishop, Truman Capote, Flannery O'Connor, Aaron Copland, Langston Hughes, Carson McCullers, Sylvia Plath, Philip Roth, and Clyfford Still. Richly illustrated with photographs, prints, intimate letters, papers, and ephemera from archives and collections at both Yaddo and The New York Public Library--many of which have...
Established by a pair of philanthropists who believed adamantly in the power of creativity, Yaddo has hosted some of the twentieth century's most reno...
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157,72 |
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In Quiet Places: Selected Landscape Paintings of GC Myers 2003-2008
ISBN: 9781435716704 / Angielski / Miękka / 84 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 84 pages with 89 paintings presented in full color. The landscape paintings of well-known contemporary American artist GC Myers from the years 2003-2008. A self-taught painter, GC Myers is best known for his evocative, symbolic landscapes that are often emotionally charged. His work is characterized by bold use of colors, strong lines and an idiosyncratic way of seeing things. This book features his signature "Redtree," a lone tree that stands apart from most others while taking on a human persona, as well as his "Red Roof" series and his most recent group of work, "Archaeology," which...
84 pages with 89 paintings presented in full color. The landscape paintings of well-known contemporary American artist GC Myers from the years 2003-20...
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197,21 |
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New Deal Art in North Carolina: The Murals, Sculptures, Reliefs, Paintings, Oils and Frescoes and Their Creators
ISBN: 9780786437795 / Angielski / Miękka / 254 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume provides the only one-volume record of all of the North Carolina towns and structures that received federal artwork under the New Deal programme, as well as in-depth accounts of the works themselves and the artists who created them.
This volume provides the only one-volume record of all of the North Carolina towns and structures that received federal artwork under the New Deal pro...
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227,12 |
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Edwin Howland Blashfield: Master American Muralist
ISBN: 9780393732818 / Angielski / Twarda / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The first book in decades to focus on the renowned muralist, this covers the artist as defender of the classical tradition, surveys his artistic production, observes the works from a conservator's perspective, and discusses his legacy. It references Blashfield's writing and leadership of numerous cultural organizations, as well as his paintings, in examining his efforts to codify the professional relationship between architects and artists and promote the blending of classic principles with American symbolism, history and contemporary realities.
The first book in decades to focus on the renowned muralist, this covers the artist as defender of the classical tradition, surveys his artistic produ...
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213,73 |
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