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Theories of Modern Art A Source Book by Artists
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Modern Art 1851-1929 Capitalism and Representation (Oxford History of Art)
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The Shock of the New
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CassBeth TakeA+ ...iption ...nd an updated discussion of the European and American art movements in the 70s and 80s including minimalist and public art, 70s American... Read more
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Painting and Experience in Fifteenth Century Italy A Primer in the Social History of Pictorial Style
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Alphonse Mucha The Spirit of Art Nouveau
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CassBeth TakeA+ ...iption ..., jewelry, sculpture, photographs, books, and interiors. The authors discuss Mucha`s years in Paris, his iconography of Sarah Bernhardt,... Read more
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Impressionism Art, Leisure, and Parisian Society
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Theories and Documents of Contemporary Art A Sourcebook of Artists' Writings (California Studies in the History of Art ; 35)
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CassBeth TakeA+ ...iption ...terviews, and critical and theoretical comments provide bold and fertile insights into the construction of visual knowledge. Featuring a... Read more
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Robert Smithson The Collected Writings (Documents of Twentieth Century Art)
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CassBeth TakeA+ ...uilt into Great Salt Lake, Utah, the piece is a tribute to the movement's scale and engineering as well as to its visionary union of art... Read more
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Twentieth Century Design (Oxford History of Art)
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CassBeth TakeA ...nopsis ...nd may tell more about our culture than a narrowly defined canon of classics. This book takes a fresh look at the wider issues of design... Read more
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Art and Innovation The Xerox PARC Artist-In-Residence Program
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Ingres in Fashion Representations of Dress and Appearance in Ingres's Images of Women
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CassBeth TakeA+ ...ean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres in a wealth of richly detailed studies. For the fashion historian, Ingres's works offer visual insight into... Read more
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Art and Illusion
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CassBeth TakeA+ ...iption ...he shifting styles of art, from antiquity to the present, employing modern concepts of visual perception, information theory, and learning. Read more
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Art and Innovation The Xerox PARC Artist-In-Residence Program
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Writing About Art
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CassBeth TakeA ...cience ... texts, this book is a step-by-step process from choosing your piece to preparing the final essay for beginners as well as more advanced... Read more
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John Singer Sargent The Early Portraits (The Complete Paintings , Vol 1)
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CassBeth TakeA+ ...iption ...nt. This volume catalogues portraits by Sargent from 1874, when he began his training in Paris, and covers pictures painted while he was... Read more
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What Is Cinema
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CassBeth TakeA+ ...d continues to be felt today. He popularized the auteurtheory, the idea that directors were the authors of their films. He was one of the first to... Read more
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The Originality of the Avant-Garde and Other Modernist Myths
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African-American Art (Oxford History of Art)
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The Italian Renaissance
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Signs & Symbols in Christian Art
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The Return of the Real The Avant-Garde at the End of the Century
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CassBeth TakeA ...Review ...ey. Black and white reproductions of works by various artists pepper a survey which consider the controversies and issues of avant garde... Read more
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The Coming of the Book The Impact of Printing 1450-1800 (Verso Classics, 10)
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CassBeth TakeA+ ...iption ...f immense historical importance and heralded the dawning of the epoch of modernity. In this much praised history of that process, Lucien... Read more
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Techniques of the Observer On Vision and Modernity in the 19th Century (<i>October</i> Books)
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Shape of Time Remarks on the History of Things
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Three Thousand Years of Chinese Painting (The Culture & Civilization of China)
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CassBeth TakeA ...ee millenniaas much a delight for the amateur lover of art as it is indispensable for the student of the field. Written by three eminent... Read more
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A Short Guide to Writing About Art (The Short Guide Series)
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CassBeth TakeA ...iption ...sixth edition are new guidelines for using the World Wide Web and the Internet for art-historical research, five new checklists (e.g., a... Read more
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Art Fundamentals Theory & Practice
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CassBeth TakeA ...iption ...nts of art and to the rich and varied history of their uses. Art Fundamentals offers a wealth of full color and black-and-white fine art... Read more
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Exhibiting Cultures The Poetics and Politics of Museum Display
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Farewell to an Idea Episodes from a History of Modernism
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CassBeth TakeA ...Review ..., it is clearly, almost seductively, written. What is more, it is shot through with his passion for the pictures he has chosen to consider. Read more
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Ways of Seeing
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Body Art/Performing the Subject
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CassBeth TakeB+ ...nopsis ...tical terrain of postmoderism. The result is a wonderful and permissive space in which the viewer...can wander"...-Moira Roth, Trefethen... Read more
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Six Years The Dematerialization of the Art Object from 1966 to 1972 A Cross-Reference Book of Information on Some Esthetic Boundaries consisting
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CassBeth TakeA+ ...RTnews ...book. . . . Nothing short of a reading of the whole can provide even a faint suggestion of its liveliness or the range of ideas it covers." Read more
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The Art of Art History A Critical Anthology (Oxford History of Art)
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CassBeth TakeC+ ...nopsis ... centuries. More than 30 readings from a diverse collection of writers focus on key issues such as aesthetics, style, history as an art,... Read more
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Archaic and Classical Greek Art (Oxford History of Art)
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Art and Society in Italy 1350-1500 (Oxford History of Art)
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CassBeth TakeA+ ...nopsis ...mines the issues of materials, workshop practices, and artist-patron relationships and explores the ways in which visual imagery related... Read more
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Native North American Art (Oxford History of Art)
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CassBeth TakeA ...nopsis ...and iconographic continuities over five centuries and across an immensely diverse range of regions. 53 color photos. 104 halftones. 8 maps. Read more
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The Art of Ancient Egypt
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Art and Visual Perception A Psychology of the Creative Eye
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Postmodernism, Or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (Post-Contemporary Interventions Series)
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A+ ...tching ...ou are not very used to. Nevertheless, this is a good exercise in the broadest sense of the word for everybody. It should be so actively... Read more
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Art in Theory 1900-1990 An Anthology of Changing Ideas
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CassBeth TakeA ...ishers ...er with the necessary materials for an up-to-date understanding of twentieth-century art at a time when current debates about the status... Read more
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Critical Terms for Art History
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American Art History and Culture
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Picture Theory Essays on Verbal and Visual Representation
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Painting With Light
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CassBeth TakeA ...best and most unusual books in the field. Written with good humor and full of helpful diagrams and photographs, it is certainly the most... Read more
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The Notebooks of Leonardo De Vinci (Oxford World's Classics)
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Displays of Power Memory and Amnesia in the American Museum
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CassBeth TakeC+ ... Power ...d for the control of expression where elitist and populist camps clash over politically sensitive art. . . . Dubin cogently demonstrates... Read more
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The Shape of Content
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A+ ...rn Art ...n painting and art. It is an enormously human and genuine dialogue on art of the fifties. Few books so clearly establish how and why one... Read more
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