The Visual Culture Reader

(Paperback)

The Visual Culture Reader does justice to this exciting interdisciplinary field, bringing together key writings as well as specially commissioned articles by authors including Roland Barthes, Jean Baudrillard, Judith Butler, Donna Haraway and Kobena Mercer. In total, 63 essays cover photography, painting, sculpture, fashion, advertising, television, cinema and digital culture. The reader, now in a completely revised new edition, comprises....

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The Sourcebook of Contemporary Jewelry Design

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Orsanmichele and the History and Preservation of the Civic Monument

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"Proceedings of the symposium Orsanmichele and the History and Preservation of the Civic Monument, organized by the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art, and sponsored by Robert H. Smith. The symposium was held October 7, 2005, in Washington and October 12-13, 2006, in Florence."

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Architecture for the Screen: A Critical Study of Set Design in Hollywood's Golden Age

By Juan Antonio Ram-Rez & John F Moffitt(Paperback / softback)

It is unlikely that you have ever found yourself trapped inside a burning skyscraper or entombed within an Egyptian pyramid. Nonetheless, you probably have some idea of these and many other places because of their portrayal on screen. The movies have overcome the constraints of time and place by bringing us images of diverse and otherwise unfamiliar settings.

Hall of Fame: New York City

By Alain Ket Maridue a(Hardback)

The birthplace of the style writing school of graffiti is New York City. This is the place where young writers first began to transform letters from simple tags on a wall to elaborate masterpieces of colorful and camoflauged letters embellished with characters that depicted friends and heroes alike. By the 1980s the artwork was quickly destroyed by authorities and the....

Graffiti Tattoo 2

By Alain Ket Maridue a & Don Stone Karl(Hardback)

After the great international success of the first Graffiti Tattoo book, the authors Alain Ket Maridue a and Don Stone Karl ventured out to discover many more artists across the globe, that merge those two vivid art forms. Graffiti Tattoo 2 is the biggest and most informative tattoo book that documents the transition that graffiti writers are increasingly making into....

Hall of Fame: New York City

By Alain Ket Maridue a(Paperback / softback)

The birthplace of the style writing school of graffiti is New York City. This is the place where young writers first began to transform letters from simple tags on a wall to elaborate masterpieces of colorful and camoflauged letters embellished with characters that depicted friends and heroes alike. By the 1980s the artwork was quickly destroyed by authorities and the....

Seasons of New York

By Charles J. Ziga(Hardback)

New York is one of the most ever-changing and photogenic places in the world. Featuring full-color photographs of well-known landmarks from all five boroughs--from the Brooklyn Botanic Garden to South Street Seaport, as well as secret treasures throughout the city--this visual celebration of New York in all of its seasonal splendor is a perfect take-home souvenir for a tourist or....

Inventing the Modern World

By Catherine L. Futter(Hardback)

World's fairs were the most important vehicles for debuting advancements in modern living. These renowned international expositions were showcases for design on a national and global level, and they democratized design unlike any previous forum. "Inventing the Modern World" is lavishly illustrated with two hundred examples of woodwork, metalwork, ceramics, glass, jewelry, and textiles from private and public collections, primarily....

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Smithers' Mammales of Southern Africa

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A guide to the mammals of Southern Africa. It includes species descriptions; notes on habitats, behaviours, diets and conservation status; illustrations and spoor drawings; and, distribution maps. It is of interest to general readers and wildlife enthusiasts, as well as to specialists in the field of mammals.

J.J. Pizzuto's Fabric Science, 10th Edition

By Allen C Cohen & Ingrid Johnson(Paperback / softback)

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Abstract City

By Christoph Niemann(Hardback)

Turner Inspired - In the Light of Claude

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The English Romantic artist Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851) was hailed as the "painter of light" for his brilliantly colored landscapes and seascapes. He drew much influence from the French painter Claude Lorrain (c. 1604/5?-1682), who was a vital force in Turner's artistic practice from his formative years until the end of his working life. So great was Claude's influence....

Baby Ikki at the Museum

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Michael Smith (b. 1951) is known for his groundbreaking work in performance art as well as his immersive mixed media installations. Since 1979, the majority of his work has centered on his extraordinarily prescient and sympathetic character, Mike. Smith's other recurring performance persona is Baby Ikki, whose bizarre and precipitous infancy is marked by conspicuous facial hair, oversized diapers, and....

Whitney Biennial 2012

(Paperback)

An exciting showcase of innovative works by contemporary American artists

John Singer Sargent - Figures and Landscapes, 1900-1907 - The Complete Paintings V 7

(Hardback)

A beautifully illustrated collection of landscape paintings, whose varied subjects and composition styles evoke the artist's keen sense of modernity

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John Baldessari Catalogue Raisonne V 1 - 1956-1974

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The highly anticipated first volume of the complete catalogue of works by John Baldessari....

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Cai Guo-Qiang - Odyssey

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"An exploration, celebration, and commemoration of Odyssey, a monumental gunpowder drawing by world-renowned contemporary artist Cai Guo-Qiang installed at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. The book narrates the literally explosive creation of Odyssey through a combination of text and photographs"--Provided by publisher.

Art and Social Movements: Cultural Politics in Mexico and Aztlan

By Edward J McCaughan & Ed McCaughan(Paperback / softback)

This is a study of artist/activists and their participation in social movements in the 1960s, 70s, and 80s, in Mexico City, Oaxaca, and California. McCaughan places the three movements within their own local histories, cultures, and conditions, but also l

Ryan Mcginley

By Neville Wakefield(Hardback)

In 2002, two years after Ryan McGinley, then a student, staged his first exhibition of photographs in a SoHo gallery, he created inexpensive handmade books of a sampling of his work titled "The Kids Are Alright." Those books eventually found their way to Sylvia Wolf, then curator of photography at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, who....