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John Willats – Art and Representation : New Principles in the An…
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsIn Art and Representation, John Willats presents a radically new theory of pictures. To do this, he has developed a precise vocabulary for describing the representational systems in pictures: the [...]
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The Oxford Book of the Supernatural
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsFrom the eerie visitation of Scrooge by Marley’s ghost, to the three witches brewing evil on the heath in Macbeth, to the deadly lust for blood of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, […]
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Mythical Beasts: Traditions and Tales of Favorite Fabled Creatures
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsMost of the mythical monsters and beasts that live in our literature and lore — some wild and dangerous, others noble and gentle — were born in the fertile crescent […]
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Frank O. Gehry: Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsNo building was more anticipated than Frank Gehry’s stunning new museum in Bilbao, an industrial city in the Basque Country of northern Spain. Philip Johnson, the dean of American [...]
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W.J.T Mitchell – Iconology: Image, Text, Ideology
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsDiscusses the nature of images, examines the connection between images and words, and analyzes the ideological meaning of images This book is in Good readable condition. It has been read […]
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Pat Steir: Paintings
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsFeaturing the paintings of the widely acclaimed and widely exhibited artist, this book contains the reflections of the author on Steir’s position in the art world and the art tradition […]
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Reading Blake’s Designs (as-is, no dustjacket)
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsIn this innovative study, Christopher Heppner constructs a new assessment and interpretation of William Blake as an illustrator of texts that were not his own. Ranging over topics such as […]
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The Levant: A Fractured Mosaic
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsAt the outset of the 21st century, perhaps the most interesting feature of the Levant (in Arabic, Bilad al-Sham), in the midst of an overwhelmingly Sunni Muslim Arab world, is […]
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The Greek Qabalah: Alphabetic Mysticism and Numerology in the Ancient …
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThis book will be of interest to a wide range of readers, from students of Ancient History and early Christianity, to Qabalists and modern magicians. Extensive notes and citations from […]
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Gods in the Bazaar: The Economies of Indian Calendar Art
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsGods in the Bazaar is a fascinating account of the printed images known in India as “calendar art” or “bazaar art,” the color-saturated, mass-produced pictures often used on calendars and […]
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Cahokia: Mirror of the Cosmos
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsAt the turn of the last millennium, a powerful Native American civilization emerged and flourished in the American Midwest. By A.D. 1050 the population of its capital city, Cahokia, was […]
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Andrea Aromatico – Alchemy: The Great Secret
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsMedieval alchemists, forerunners of today’s chemists, sought to transmute base metals into gold. This lively illustrated history explores intriguing aspects of this mix of science, [...]
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Remote Viewing: Invented Worlds in Recent Painting and Drawing
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsNew painting and drawing is the subject of Remote Viewing, which accompanies an exhibition at the Whitney Museum. The book brings together eight artists, some well known, others emerging, all [...]
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Doctor Illuminatus: A Ramon Llull Reader
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsFor this new anthology, Anthony Bonner has chosen central texts from his acclaimed two-volume compilation Selected Works of Ramon Llull (Princeton, 1985). Available for the first time in an [...]
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Creative Copies: Interpretative Drawings from Michelangelo to Picasso
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsGathers studies and interpretative sketches of famous paintings and sculptures by other artists, and discusses how each artist responded to his source This book is in Good readable condition. It [...]
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H. P. Blavatsky – Isis Unveiled Vol II
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsISIS UNVEILED was H. P. Blavatsky’s first major literary effort, a critical response to the growing materialism in both scientific and religious institutions, and a vindication of the [...]
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H. P. Blavatsky – Isis Unveiled
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsISIS UNVEILED was H. P. Blavatsky’s first major literary effort, a critical response to the growing materialism in both scientific and religious institutions, and a vindication of the [...]
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Polly Schaafsma – The Rock Art Of Utah
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsOver many centuries, the prehistoric Fremont and Anasazi peoples of present-day Utah left an artistic record in which distinctive styles are readily identifiable. From the Uinta Mountains through [...]
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Pre-Columbian Art and the Post-Columbian World : Ancient American Sour…
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsUntil this trailblazing 1993 book, now reissued in paperback, much attention had been given to the connection between modern art and indigenous African forms, while pre-Columbian sources of [...]
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Jacques Ranciere – Aisthesis: Scenes from the Aesthetic Regime o…
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsComposed in a series of scenes, Aisthesis–Rancière’s definitive statement on the aesthetic–takes its reader from Dresden in 1764 to New York in 1941. Along the way, we view the Belvedere […]
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Rosemary Clark – The Sacred Tradition in Ancient Egypt: The Esot…
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsAt the heart of the monumental splendor of ancient Egypt was a spiritual goal, the elevation of human life from its material condition to its original divine nature. And the […]
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Molefi Kete Asante – Kemet, Afrocentricity And Knowledge
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items“Asante’s book, Kemet,Afrocentricity,and Knowledge, continues his project of forging a new discipline out of the many strands of Black Studies. Like his previous works, this is a [...]
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Knowledge for the Afterlife: The Egyptian Amduat – A Quest for I…
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsEvery evening the sun becomes old and weak and finally sets behind the Western horizon. Yet, it rises again in the morning, rejuvenated. How is that possible? How could the […]
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Victoria Newhouse – Art and the Power of Placement
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsWhere and how an artwork is presented can enhance it or detract from it, or even alter its meaning. Depending on the display, painting and sculpture can denote a religious, […]
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The Veil of Isis : An Essay on the History of the Idea of Nature
$15.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsNearly twenty-five hundred years ago the Greek thinker Heraclitus supposedly uttered the cryptic words “Phusis kruptesthai philei.” How the aphorism, usually translated as [...]
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Jasper Johns: A Retrospective
$15.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsAccompanying the major exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, in 1996-97, Jasper A Retrospective contains 264 color plates illustrating Johns’s work in all its facets – [...]
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Lesley Dill: A Ten Year Survey
$15.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsMonograph/overview of the early career of the New York based multi-media artist. This book is in Good readable condition. It has been read and may show some age & wear […]
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Michael Leja – Reframing Abstract Expressionism : Subjectivity a…
$15.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsIn the wake of World War II, the paintings of Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Barnett Newman, Willem de Kooning, and other New York School artists participated in a culture-wide initiative […]
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Max Ernst (as-is, no dustjacket)
$15.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsBeautiful monograph covering the Surrealist’s entire career. This book is in Good readable condition. It has been read and may show some age & wear to the wraps/boards, or light […]
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John Bennett – The Night of the Great Butcher
$15.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsA collection of short stories & pieces by the iconoclastic proto-beat writer. This book is in Good readable condition. It has been read and may show some age & wear […]
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Matt Mullican: A Drawing Translates the Way of Thinking
$15.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsPublished on the occasion of The Drawing Center’s exhibition, Matt Mullican: A Drawing Translates the Way of Thinking presents a selection of the artist’s work from throughout his [...]
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Victor Stoichita – A Short History of the Shadow
$18.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsIn this investigative tour de force, Victor I. Stoichita untangles the history of one of the most enduring technical and symbolic challenges to beset Western artists – the depiction and […]
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Sacred Visions: Early Paintings from Central Tibet (as-is, no dustjack…
$18.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsDevoted to a period of extraordinary cultural achievement – from the 11th to the mid-15th century – when Tibet became known as the Buddhist holy land – this book accompanies [...]
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The Global Contemporary and the Rise of New Art Worlds
$20.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsMapping the new geography of the visual arts, from the explosion of biennials to the emerging art markets in Asia and the Middle East. The geography of the visual arts […]
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Brought to Light : Photography and the Invisible, 1840-1900
$20.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsBrought to Light invites readers to step back to a time when photography, X-rays, and movies were new, when forays into the world beneath the skin or the realm beyond […]
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Eduardo M. Moctezuma – The Aztecs
$20.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsPresents a comprehensive portrait of the Aztec people, their culture, and their art This book is in Good readable condition. It has been read and may show some age & […]
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Himalayas: An Aesthetic Adventure
$18.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThis sweeping survey of the artistic achievements of Himalayan culture is the first major exhibition to include objects from all the major religions of the region. Created to accompany the […]
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Hans Belting – Likeness and Presence: A History of the Image bef…
$18.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsBefore the Renaissance and Reformation, holy images were treated not as “art” but as objects of veneration which possessed the tangible presence of the Holy. In this magisterial book, [...]
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Photography and Painting in the Work of Gerhard Richter: Four Essays o…
$20.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsEssays by Benjamin H.D. Buchloh, Jean-Francois Chevrier, Armin Zweite, and Rainer Rochlitz. This publication brings together four texts which analyze Gerhard Richter’s monumental project [...]
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Wilson Bryan Key – Subliminal Seduction
$20.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsExplains the ways in which the media uses sex and violence to manipulate human behavior, citing specific examples from Playboy, Vogue, and Cosmopolitan magazines. This book is in Good readable [...]
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Stella Kramrisch – The Hindu Temple Vol II
$25.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThis two-volume work explains in detail the religious and spiritual significance of the temple by means of copious references to Sanskrit texts–both sacred and scientific. It depicts the [...]
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Stella Kramrisch – The Hindu Temple Vol I
$25.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThis two-volume work explains in detail the religious and spiritual significance of the temple by means of copious references to Sanskrit texts–both sacred and scientific. It depicts the [...]
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The New Art–the New Life: The Collected Writings Of Piet Mondria…
$25.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsWhen the Dutch painter Piet Mondrian (1872-1944) made his first ventures into the realm of nonrepresentational art, he could hardly have imagined the impact his vision would have on [...]
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Art & Today
$28.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsTargeting the same audience as Phaidon’s highly successful and long-selling Art Today by Edward Lucie-Smith, Art & Today surveys contemporary art from 1980 to today, discussing over 450 [...]
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Henri Matisse: Modernist Against the Grain
$30.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsWhat makes Henri Matisse a “modernist,” when so much of his work harks back to older French traditions and the artist himself never seems entirely at home in the twentieth […]
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Charles & Ray Eames – Powers Of Ten: A Flipbook
$30.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsHold the universe in your hands with the Powers of Ten flipbook. This spectacular adventure in space and time takes the reader from the edge of the cosmos to a […]
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A Collecting Odyssey: The Alsdorf Collection of Indian and East Asian …
$30.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsA major contribution to the scholarship of South and Southeast Asian art. A major survey of South and Southeast Asian art drawn from the Alsdorf Collection, one of the finest […]
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Michael Fried – The Moment of Caravaggio
$32.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThis is a groundbreaking examination of one of the most important artists in the Western tradition by one of the leading art historians and critics of the past half-century. In […]
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Alfred Jensen: Concordance
$35.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsIn an imaginative merging of abstraction and personalized iconography, Alfred Jensen’s bright paintings elaborate his comsological speculations, drawing on astronomy, physics and [...]
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Manuel Lima – Visual Complexity: Mapping Patterns of Information
$40.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsOur ability to generate information now far exceeds our capacity to understand it. Finding patterns and making meaningful connections inside complex data networks has emerged as one of the [...]
GENRE: Non-Fiction