Arts / Peinture

The Artistic Touch 5: Watercolor painting techniques and inspiration from more than 100 artists

de Chris Unwin

You'll Love This Watercolor Painting Book If:

• You love getting inspiration from fellow watercolor artists
• You want the feeling of peeking inside an artists' studio
• You love watercolor & want to improve your...

Create Your Own Photo Book: Design a Stunning Portfolio, Make a Bookstore-Quality Book

de Petra Vogt

These days, photographs live on hard drives and DVDs in the company of several thousand other images, coming to light on a computer screen only for a short moment, if ever.

In that respect our computer is a...

Print Culture: From Steam Press to Ebook

de Frances Robertson

With the advent of new digital communication technologies, the end of print culture once again appears to be as inevitable to some recent commentators as it did to Marshall McLuhan. And just as print culture...

I Sold Andy Warhol (Too Soon)

de Richard Polsky

In early 2005, Richard Polsky decided to put his much-loved, hard-won Warhol Fright Wig, up for auction at Christie's. The market for contemporary art was robust and he was hoping to turn a profit. His instinct...

Dialogues With Marcel Duchamp

de Pierre Cabanne

"”Marcel Duchamp, one of this century’s pioneer artists, moved his work through the retinal boundaries which had been established with impressionism into t field with impressionism into t field where l"

The Rape of Europa: The Fate of Europe's Treasures in the Third Reich and the Second World War

National Book Critics Circle for General Non-fiction 1994

de Lynn H. Nicholas

Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award

The cast of characters includes Hitler and Goering, Gertrude Stein and Marc Chagall--not to mention works by artists from Leonardo da Vinci to Pablo Picasso. And...

Tattoo Machine: Tall Tales, True Stories, and My Life in Ink

de Jeff Johnson

As the proprietor of the legendary Sea Tramp Tattoo Company, in Portland, Oregon, Jeff Johnson has inked gangbangers, age-defying moms, and sociopaths; he’s defused brawls and tended delicate egos. In Tattoo...

Robert Kipniss: A Working Artist's Life

de Robert Kipniss

A successful working artist relates his passion for life and art

Catalogue of Paintings by Joaquin Sorolla y Bastida

de , Leonard Williams

Originally published in 1909, this classic book contains a wealth of information on the famous artist Joaquin Sorolla Y Bastida and his works, and will make a valuable addition to the bookshelf of anyone with...

I'll Be Your Mirror: The Selected Andy Warhol Interviews

de Kenneth Goldsmith, Reva Wolf & Wayne Kostenbaum

The Question-and-Answer interview was one of Andy Warhol’s favorite communication vehicles, so much so that he named his own magazine after the form. Yet, never before has anyone published a collection of...

Cities For A Small Planet

de Richard Rogers

"Nothing else damages the earth’s environment more than our cities. As the world’s population has grown, our cities have burgeoned, and their impact on the environment worsened. At the same time, citie"

No Innocent Bystanders: Performance Art and Audience

de Frazer Ward

The changing role of the spectator in contemporary performance art

Matisse And Picasso: The Story Of Their Rivalry And Friendship

de Jack Flam

The parallel lives of two compelling and competitive artists and their recurrent engagements with desire and mortality

Inside Bruegel

de Edward Snow

In this brilliant, original and lavishly illustrated book, Edward Snow undertakes an inquiry into a single painting by the Flemish master Peter Bruegel the Elder—the kaleidoscopic Children’s Games—in order...

2013 Artist's & Graphic Designer's Market

de Mary Burzlaff Bostic

All the Tools You Need to Build a Successful Art Career!

2013 Artist's & Graphic Designer's Market is the must-have reference guide for any artist who wants to establish or expand a career in fine art, illustration...

La Venus de Milo

de , Félix Ravaisson

Cet ouvrage rare et original, paru à l'origine en 1871, constitue une appréciation de la célèbre sculpture grecque qui est actuellement conservée au musée du Louvre. L'auteur porte une attention particulière...

Letters from Linda M. Montano

de Linda M. Montano

Letters from Linda M. Montano is an anthology of writings by one of the seminal performance artists of the last century. It provides an autobiographical and historical record of Montano's artistic practice over...

Immaterial Architecture

de Jonathan Hill

This fascinating argument from Jonathan Hill presents the case for the significance and importance of the immaterial in architecture.

Architecture is generally perceived as the solid, physical matter that it...

Engaging Art: The Next Great Transformation of America's Cultural Life

de Steven J. Tepper & Bill Ivey

Engaging Art explores what it means to participate in the arts in contemporary society - from museum attendance to music downloading.  Drawing on the perspectives of experts from diverse fields (including Princeton...

The Postmodernist Turn: American Thought and Culture in the 1970s

de , Jr. Hoeveler

During the 1970s, the United States became the world's preeminent postindustrial society. The new conditions changed the way Americans lived and worked and even their perceptions of reality. In this reassessment...