A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Whether you are interested in Junk Art or Byzantine Art, the Ash-Can School or the Antipodeans, Praxiteles and Phidias or Gilbert and George, The Oxfo rd Dictionary of Art is the first place to turn for accurate information ab out artists, schools, periods, techniques, critical terms, major museums, a rt historians, philosophers, and much much more. Compiled from three highly acclaimed Oxford Companions --The Oxford Companion to Art, to Twentieth-Ce n... View More...
A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. View More...
A highly collectible first edition, protected in a new brodart wrapper,not price clipped or any inscriptions, all orders sent out the same day; Catalog of an exhibition which opened Nov. 15, 1983 at Homeworks, London. Includes index. View More...
A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Griffin: It's good to get in touch with you at last. Could I have one of yo ur fish postcards? I think you were right -- the wine glass has more impact than the cup. --Sabine But Griffin had never met a woman named Sabine. How did she know him? How did she know his artwork? Who is she? Thus begins the strange and intriguing correspondence of Griffin and Sabine. And since each letter must be pulled from its own envelope, the reader has the delightful, ... View More...
A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Don't miss The Pharos Gate, the final volume in the Griffin & Sabine story. Published simultaneously with the 25th-anniversary edition of Griffin & Sa bine, the book finally shares what happened to the lovers. Griffin--Foolish man. You cannot turn me into a phantom because you are fri ghtened. You do not dismiss a muse at a whim. If you will not join me, then I will come to you. --Sabine Sabine was supposed to be imaginary, a friend and lover that Gri... View More...
A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Cutting-edge theorist Jean Baudrillard on the complicitous dance of art, po litics, economics, and media; includes "War Porn," on Abu Ghraib as a new g enre of reality TV. The images from Abu Ghraib are as murderous for America as those of the World Trade Center in flames. The whole West is contained in the burst of sadistic laughter of the American soldiers, as it is behind the construction of the Israeli wall. This is where the truth of these images... View More...
A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. "As a provocative group of essays, this anthology is a useful first step in creating what, one hopes, will be a continuing dialogue on art, society, a nd responsibility." -"The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism. View More...
In the art market, the value of a work has never been as relative as it is today. An intense marketing system has been established that makes the pric e of an item dependent not just on its quality but also on the identity of the seller and the buyer and even on the location of the sale. Through anec dotes and famous stories, The Worth of Art takes an in-depth look at exactl y how the circumstances of a sale influence the price a work ultimately com mands. The book highlights a selection of record-breaking auctions sales-fr om Van Gogh's "Portrait of Dr. Gachet" to a Louis XVI dresser to Leona... View More...
A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. These 67 sequential lessons are illustrated with paintings by students and professionals, and presented in an easy-to-follow format. Lessons progress from simple to challenging within eight sections: Methods, Mediums & Foundations; Experimenting & Practicing, Still Life, Landscape and excercises Other Media, Working Abstractly, Portraits & Figure Studies, and Texture. View More...
A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. The Turner Prize was established in 1984 and has from the start aimed to draw contemporary British art to the attention of a wide audience. With media coverage and visitor numbers increasing each year, its success is not in doubt, but has controversy flourished at the expense of serious consideration of the artists involved? Why did the 1992 winner, Grenville Davey advise future contenders that they would need "protective headgear, thick gloves and ba... View More...
A tight clean copy, no inscriptions, price clipped, not an ex-lib, protecte d in a new brodart wrapper; Ivories of the West by Massimo Carra, published in 1970 by the Hamlyn Publishing Group Limited, 159 pages in hardcover measuring approximately 5 3/8 by 7 5/8 inches. This vintage hardcover, now out of print, is profusely illustrated with 71 plates in full color. View More...
The world has changed faster during the 20th century than ever before. All our previous assumptions about God, our social, economic and political stru ctures, science and technology, and - by extension - ourselves and our cult ure have been utterly transformed. The 20th century is the century that dar ed to question everything and its progress is told in this tour de force. " Modern Times" are explored through the cultural expressions - in art, in li terature, in music - of the true conviction that we have lived through an u nprecedentedly testing period in human experience. "Modern Places" ar... View More...
The Culture Vulture A Guide to Style, Period, and ISM Can you tell pop art from dada? Are baroque and rococo, or existentialism and minimalism, all Gr eek to you? Would you like to be able to differentiate a Georgian manor hou se from a Tudor mansion, a Meissen cup from a Delft saucer? Anyone who read s is constantly coming across more or less arcane references to period and style. Even television has gotten into the act. One episode of the former s eries "Miami Vice" caught a character describing the upscale taste of a bur glar: "This guy knows the difference between Baccarat and Lalique." On... View More...
A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Painting in oil or acrylics is one of the most popular of the fine arts, wi th an enormous body of lore for the aspiring painter to master. Diane Ediso n offers a new approach that explains traditional techniques and materials, but also emphasizes expression and creativity. Edison wants the new painte r to feel fearless and free to experiment. Her method, honed though years o f teaching painting and drawing, quickly overcomes the stiff, forced feelin ... View More...
