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Art: A Field Guide

Art: A Field Guide

Robert Cumming

ART. Your eyes will indeed be opened, and what you see in works of art will come newly alive when you have Robert Cumming, the former chairman of Christie's International Art Studies, as your guide.
Art & Language International: Conceptual Art between Art Worlds

Art & Language International: Conceptual Art between Art Worlds

Robert Bailey

In Art & Language International Robert Bailey reconstructs the history of the conceptual art collective Art & Language, situating it in a geographical context to rethink its implications for the broader histories of contemporary art.
19th-century Art

19th-century Art

Robert Rosenblum

The text draws on the historical documentation of the period, tracing the dynamics of the making and viewing of art, and examining the reciprocal influences of art and technology, art and politics, art and literature, art and music. "19th ...
Art: 21: Art in the Twenty-First Century

Art: 21: Art in the Twenty-First Century

Robert Storr

Companion book to Art for the Twenty-First Century, the first broadcast series for national television to focus exclusively on contemporary visual art and artists in the United States today.
Bioart and the vitality of media

Bioart and the vitality of media

Robert Mitchell

This is the first comprehensive account of the art form in the context of art history, laboratory practice, and media theory.--Robert Mitchell is associate professor of English at Duke University.-
The Working Press of the Nation

The Working Press of the Nation

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ASST to PUB: John Andreola. EDITOR: Robert B. Pitkin. ASST ED: James S. Swart z. AD REP: Robert P. Redden. ART: AI Marshall. ASST ART Dir: Walter Boll . ASSOC: Roy Miller. PG: 7 x 10; COL: 2%: PHOTO: Yes; MAT: No: CUT: No; ...
Chinese Boxing: Masters and Methods

Chinese Boxing: Masters and Methods

Robert W. Smith

Distilling the martial art known in the West as kung fu, Robert Smith presents Chinese boxing (ch’uan shu) as an art “that combines the hardness of a wall and the softness of a butterfly’s wings.” His lively, pragmatic account ...
Haase, AStG/DBA

Haase, AStG/DBA

Katharina Becker

Katharina Becker Florian Haase. Art. 6: Art. 7: Art. 8: Art. 9: Art. Art. Art. Art. Art. Art. Art. Art. Art. 10: 11: 12: 13: 15 und 16: 17: 18 und 19: 20: 21: Sylvia Galke / Prof. Dr. Florian Haase, M.I.Tax Rechtsanwältin, Steuerberaterin, Deloitte & Touche ...
Art Quilts: A Celebration : 400 Stunning Contemporary Designs

Art Quilts: A Celebration : 400 Stunning Contemporary Designs

Lark Books

Acclaimed author Robert Shaw, a widely recognized expert on American folk art, introduces the volume and provides both a beautifully illustrated history of the art quilt movement and a special section on building, displaying, and caring for ...
Robert Mapplethorpe: The Archive

Robert Mapplethorpe: The Archive

Frances Terpak

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, U.S.A. Image source: Art Resource, NY. Fig. 25: Jointly acquired by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, with funds provided by The David Geffen Foundation, and The J. Paul Getty Trust. Fig.
Painters Eleven: The Wild Ones of Canadian Art

Painters Eleven: The Wild Ones of Canadian Art

Iris Nowell

In addition, my thanks to Nina Kim and Robert and David Heffel, of Heffel Fine Art Auction House, and David Silcox, of Sotheby's Canada. The public art galleries have been an extremely useful resource with respect to both their collections ...
Spiritus Loci: A Theological Method for Contemporary Church ...

Spiritus Loci: A Theological Method for Contemporary Church ...

Bert Daelemans, S.J.

In On Art and Architecture, translated by Robert P. Scharlemann, edited by John and Jane Dillenberger, 81–85. New York: Crossroad, 1989. ——. “Honesty and Consecration in Art and Architecture.” In On Art and Architecture, translated by ...
Comics as Philosophy

Comics as Philosophy

Jeff McLaughlin

The Art of the Funnies by Robert C. Harvey; University Press of Mississippi, 1994. The Art of the Comic Book by Robert C. Harvey; University Press of Mississippi, 1996. Forging a New Medium: The Comic Strip in the Nineteenth Century edited  ...
The Saga of Solomon Kane

The Saga of Solomon Kane

Various

#3, October 1973 Written by Roy Thomas Featuring characters created by Robert E. Howard and Bram Stoker Art by Alan ... July 1975 Written by Roy Thomas • Adapted from the story by Robert E. Howard Art by Alan Weiss and Neal Adams ...
The Encyclopedia of Art Deco

The Encyclopedia of Art Deco

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2, 1926 5 Henri Mouron, A. M. Cassandre Rizzoli, New York, 1985; Robert K. Brown & Susan Reinhold, The Poster Art of A. M. Cassandre, E. P. Dutton, New York, 1979 6 Patricia Frantz Kery, Art Deco Graphics, Harry N. Abrams, lnc., New  ...
Dog in Art

Dog in Art

Robert Rosenblum

The dog, as viewed in paintings, watercolors, drawings, photographs, architecture, and sculpture, with comments by an art historian
The Rebirth of Dialogue: Bakhtin, Socrates, and the ...

The Rebirth of Dialogue: Bakhtin, Socrates, and the ...

James Philip Zappen

Andrea Wilson Nightingale and Robert Wardy observe Socrates' insistence that his art of dialogue is the only "true political art" since his art alone is capable of improving people's lives.41 Brickhouse and Smith and Penner explain the Socratic ...
Encounters & Reflections: Art in the Historical Present

Encounters & Reflections: Art in the Historical Present

Arthur Coleman Danto

Provides a collection of essays on modern art covering such artists as Andy Warhol, David Hockney, and Robert Mapplethorpe
Modern Art Despite Modernism

Modern Art Despite Modernism

Robert Storr

This book was published as the second in a series of three titles, in conjunction with the millennial exhibitions schedule of MoMA2000 at The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Life on the Press: The Popular Art and Illustrations of ...

Life on the Press: The Popular Art and Illustrations of ...

Robert L. Gambone

The resultant work, both popular and controversial, challenged notions of good art and proper subject matter.
Allan Kaprow, Robert Smithson, and the Limits to Art

Allan Kaprow, Robert Smithson, and the Limits to Art

Philip Ursprung

Moreover, the author reveals the importance of photography and writing in both of the artist’s works, and how their expansion of the artwork as textual and discursive has been thus far ignored by traditional art historian definitions.
Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings

Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings

Robert Smithson

Robert Smithson, Jack D. Flam. A SEDIMENTATION OF THE MIND: EARTH PROJECTS (1968) The earth's surface and the figments of the mind have a way of disintegrating into discrete regions of art. Various agents, both fictional and real, ...
Accidental Ambassador Gordo: The Comic Strip Art of Gus Arriola

Accidental Ambassador Gordo: The Comic Strip Art of Gus Arriola

Robert C. Harvey

The Comic Strip Art of Gus Arriola Robert C. Harvey, Gus Arriola. All cartoons, comic strips, and drawings herein are used for analytical, critical, and scholarly purposes; copyrights are held by Gus Arriola, Screen Gems, MGM, and the New ...
What Art Is: The Esthetic Theory of Ayn Rand

What Art Is: The Esthetic Theory of Ayn Rand

Michelle Kamhi

The participation of one “philosopher of art,” Robert Sitton, was reported in the Getty Center's newsletter as one of DBAE's early successes. Through a program called Artists in the Schools, partly sponsored by the National Endowment for the  ...
American art of the 1960s

American art of the 1960s

Irving Sandler

Discusses the avant-garde, pop art, photo-realism, op art, kinetic sculpture, minimal sculpture, process art, earthworks, and conceptual art
Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time: The Eye of the World #10:

Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time: The Eye of the World #10:

Robert Jordan

written by ROBERT JORDAN script by CHUCK DIXON art by ANDIE TONG colors by NICOLAS CHAPUIS letters and interior design by BILL TORTOLINI cover by ANDIE TONG original series edits by ERNST DABEL & RICH YOUNG thematic ...
Tony Bennett in the Studio: A Life of Art and Music

Tony Bennett in the Studio: A Life of Art and Music

Robert Sullivan

The legendary singer reflects on his career, the recurring themes in his life, and the inspiration that shapes his music and his art, in a musical memoir enhanced by reproductions of his own artwork and a CD containing some of the author's ...
The Cambridge Illustrated History of Prehistoric Art

The Cambridge Illustrated History of Prehistoric Art

Paul G. Bahn

Surveys prehistoric art throughout the world, including body art, art on rocks and walls, and objects; changes in scholarship; and what the art can reveal about early sexual, social, economic, and religious life

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