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California Video: Artists and Histories

California Video: Artists and Histories

Glenn Phillips

This illustrated volume focuses on 58 artists, from early video pioneers to established artists.
Interviews-artists 4

Interviews-artists 4

N. P. James

Interviews-Artists brings together artists active in the fields of painting, drawing, photography, print and sculpture.
Great Artists Explained

Great Artists Explained

Robert Cumming

A compendium of fifty great artists and their most important works spans six centuries and includes biographical profiles, information on style, movements, influences, and identifiable techniques for such artists as Michelangelo, Van Gogh, ...
Monhegan: The Artists' Island

Monhegan: The Artists' Island

Jane Curtis

This book examines the mystique of Monhegan, and uncovers the stories of the artists who have been inspired by the island. Includes reproductions of the work of more than 151 artists.
Parkett - 20 years of artists' collaborations

Parkett - 20 years of artists' collaborations

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Mirjam Varadinis. INHALT / CONTENTS 1-5 ARTISTS" COLLABORATIONS Faxe, Briefe und Künstlerdokumente/ Faxes . letters and artists" documents 9 INHALT / CONTENTS 11/12 DANK / ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 13 IMPRESSUM / IMPRINT ...
Contemporary glass: color, light & form

Contemporary glass: color, light & form

Ray Leier

Contemporary Glass presents the work of artists important to the early expansion of the field, as well as new artists who continue to explore this most beautiful and demanding art medium. * Stellar work by top artists in the field * ...
The Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists

The Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists

Ian Chilvers

Previously entitled The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists, this major new edition is essential for students and teachers of art, design, art theory, and art history, and it is ideal for artists, visitors to art exhibitions and ...
HERE&NOW13: Eleven contemporary Western Australian artists

HERE&NOW13: Eleven contemporary Western Australian artists

Teo Snell

HERE&NOW13, presented as a part of the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery’s annual exhibition of emerging Western Australian Artists, will for the first time bring together 11 of Western Australia’s most outstanding artists with disability. ...
Culture Care: Reconnecting with Beauty for Our Common Life

Culture Care: Reconnecting with Beauty for Our Common Life

Makoto Fujimura

We serve others as cultural custodians of the future. This is a book for artists, but artists come in many forms.
Booktrek: Selected Essays on Artists' Books (1972-2010)

Booktrek: Selected Essays on Artists' Books (1972-2010)

Clive Phillpot

Examines the evolution of the artists' book and their perception in the art world.
The Christian Story: Five Asian Artists Today

The Christian Story: Five Asian Artists Today

Patricia Pongracz

"The volume features both color plates of the artworks in the exhibition, and sample portrayals of the artists' oeuvre.
Wall to Wall: Carpets by Artists

Wall to Wall: Carpets by Artists

Cornelia Lauf

Wall to Wall: Carpets by Artists is curated by Dr. Cornelia Lauf and features work from a wide cross-section of contemporary artists and their weaving partners, taking as its point of departure a history of art, rather than a history of ...
Artists of the Possible: Governing Networks and American ...

Artists of the Possible: Governing Networks and American ...

Matt Grossmann

Artists of the Possible takes on these questions, analyzing sixty years of domestic policy history to provide a new understanding of what drives policymaking in all three branches of government.
Born Under Saturn: The Character and Conduct of Artists : a ...

Born Under Saturn: The Character and Conduct of Artists : a ...

Rudolf Wittkower

This is a book about the personalities of artists from ancient times to the beginning of the Romantic Age. The authors set out to discover whether there is such a thing as the artistic personality and, if there is, how it can be described.
What Do Artists Know?

What Do Artists Know?

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See Mapping Landscapes for Performance as Research: Scholarly Acts and Creative Cartographies, edited by Shannon Rose Riley and Lynette Hunter ( London: Palgrave, 2009). The book contains an excerpt from Artists with PhDs, but not ...
Outside the Lines: An Artists' Colouring Book for Giant ...

Outside the Lines: An Artists' Colouring Book for Giant ...

Souris Hong-Porretta

"Features the work of Keith Haring, Shepard Fairey, AIKO, and more than 100 other contemporary artists" -- cover.
Symbolism 16

Symbolism 16

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In Cuban Artists Across the Diaspora: Setting the Tent Against the House, Andrea O'Reilly Herrera suggests an alternate model for understanding the work of Cuban-American artists, especially those of the one-and-a-half generation.
Artists of the Middle Ages

Artists of the Middle Ages

Leslie Ross

Examines the lives and work of artists from all areas of the medieval art world, including metalwork, scribework, sculpture, architecture, iconography, and art instruction.
Tattoo in Japan: Traditional and Modern Styles

Tattoo in Japan: Traditional and Modern Styles

Manami Okazaki

Not solely for fans of tattoos, it's equally appealing for people who are interested in Japanese culture and art. This book will likewise delight graphic artists, fashion designers and visual artists.
Now what? Artists write!: a new collection of artists' ...

Now what? Artists write!: a new collection of artists' ...

Mark Kremer

"There is a tendency to clutter things up, to try to make sure people know something about art, when all that's necessary is to present it and to leave it alone," wrote Bruce Nauman, expressing the idea that's central to this inspiring, ...
Summer Autumn Winter... and Spring: Conversations with ...

Summer Autumn Winter... and Spring: Conversations with ...

Sam Bardaouil

Moderated by experts on contemporary Middle Eastern art, this first book to give voice to artists across this region features conversations with 15 well-established Arab artists. Original.
The American School: Artists and Status in the Late Colonial ...

The American School: Artists and Status in the Late Colonial ...

Susan Rather

A comprehensive look at the changing status of American artists in the 18th and early 19th century
Ceramics: Contemporary Artists Working in Clay

Ceramics: Contemporary Artists Working in Clay

Kate Singleton

This ebook presents the work of 30 contemporary artists who have turned to clay to shape their most innovative ideas into stunning works of art.
Just Like Me: Stories and Self-portraits by Fourteen Artists

Just Like Me: Stories and Self-portraits by Fourteen Artists

Harriet Rohmer

Fourteen artists and picture book illustrators present self-portraits and brief descriptions that explore their varied ethnic origins, their work, and their feelings about themselves.
Twelve Australian Photo Artists

Twelve Australian Photo Artists

Blair French

This book offers a comprehensive introduction to the work of twelve artists whose photographic practice has been central to the development of contemporary Australian art.
Drawing birds

Drawing birds

John Busby

Examples and illustrations feature over three dozen different artists and their varied sketching styles. Detailed step-by-step drawing instructions are helpful for both beginning and experienced artists.
Dictionary of Artists' Models

Dictionary of Artists' Models

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Marie Lathers's Changing Tastes: Ethnicity and the Artist's Model examines artists' interest in particular ethnic groups, usually from immigrant populations. Exploring the model's influence beyond the realm of art are Elizabeth Hollander and ...
Aurora: The Journal of the History of Art

Aurora: The Journal of the History of Art

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Even books listing by ethnic group, like Lenwood Davis and Janet L. Sims' Black Artists of the United States, for example, or Cecilia Puerto's Latin American Women Artists, keep interpretive material to a minimum.6 Some aspects of this book ...

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