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Arcadia Publishing (SC) Residential Architecture in the East Bay
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Arcadia Publishing Fort Clinch
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Arcadia Publishing Homewood Images of America
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Arcadia Publishing Early Kirkland Images of America
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Arcadia Publishing The Biltmore Estate Gardens and Grounds Images of
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Arcadia Publishing Denver Food
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History Press Hoffman Estates Continuing the Growth to
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History Press A History Lovers Guide to Charleston
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History Press Miles Minor Kellogg and the Encinitas Boathouses
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History Press Ledroit Park
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History Press The San Diego River
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History Press Edgar Degas in New Orleans
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History Press Lost Vincennes
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Arcadia Publishing (SC) Granbury Texas
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Arcadia Publishing (SC) Summer Cottage Communities
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History Press Lost Grand Resorts of Old Lake Tahoe
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History Press Lost Great Falls
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History Press Southern Appalachian Folkways
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Arcadia Publishing (SC) Mexican American Boxing from the Golden State
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Arcadia Publishing (SC) Minneapoliss Lake District
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Arcadia Publishing (SC) Garrison
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Arcadia Publishing (SC) Hampstead
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Arcadia Publishing (SC) Lost Gas Stations of San Mateo County
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Arcadia Publishing (SC) Temple City
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Arcadia Publishing (SC) Alamo
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Arcadia Publishing (SC) Historic Marysville City Cemetery
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Arcadia Publishing (SC) Concord After World War II
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Winston Churchill in British Art 1900 to the
Book SynopsisJonathan Black is a Senior Research Fellow in History of Art at Kingston University, UK. A Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts, he became interested in the image of Churchill when studying the sculptor Ivor Roberts-Jones, who was responsible for the iconic statue of Churchill in Parliament Square.Trade ReviewJonathan Black is an art historian, and reading him is rather like visiting a major exhibition in the company of its curator. No such collection as this, embracing the work of painters, sculptors, photographers, and cartoonists, has ever been assembled before … Enjoyable though it is to browse through the pictures, the substance of the book lies in the text, which is both scholarly and original. * Journal of Modern History *Full credit to Jonathan Black for spotting a significant gap in the exhaustive, indeed excessive, literature on Winston Churchill: his changing image in art. This book admirably qualifies as "iconography" not only as art historians mean it ... but also as a scholarly yet page-turning study of a veritable twentieth-century icon ... I give Jonathan Black a V for Victory sign. * The Tablet *[A] brisk and enjoyable biography through images. * London Review of Books *Unreservedly recommended, not only to librarians, but as a fine present for a Churchill buff, or for that matter anyone interested in the perception of ‘The Greatest Briton of All Time’. * Cercles *This well-written, well-researched and beautifully produced book covers every conceivable angle in the relationship between Winston Churchill and Art, often in surprising and inspiring ways. I didn’t think there was anything new to be said about Churchill, but Jonathan Black has certainly managed it. * Andrew Roberts, Visiting Professor, King's College London, UK *The lure of the enigmatic and ever charismatic Winston Churchill, as seen through the eyes of Britain’s leading artists throughout the nation’s most turbulent century, and expertly collated and analysed here by Jonathan Black, makes this long-overdue study irresistible. * Michael J. K. Walsh, Associate Professor of Art, Design & Media, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore *In this definitive study Jonathan Black examines the myriad representations made of Sir Winston Churchill over the course of the 20th century and into our own era. Black cogently analyses this evolving imagery in relation to Churchill’s tumultuous political career and its aftermath, from his period as First Lord of the Admiralty during World War One to the struggle to define the ‘myth’ of Churchill following his death in 1965. This lavishly illustrated book is a wonderful and timely addition to the vast literature on the life and legacy of Winston Churchill. * Mark Antliff, Mary Grace Wilson Professor of Art, Art History & Visual Studies, Duke University, USA *Table of ContentsIntroduction First Age: Young Winston, 1898-1909 Second Age: The Political Meteor, 1910-1915 Third Age: From Disgrace to Redemption, 1916-1929 Fourth Age: In the Wilderness, 1929-1939 Fifth Age: Finest Hour, 1940-1945 Sixth Age: Cold War Warrior, 1946-1955 Seventh Age: Twilight Years and Apotheosis, 1955-1980s Epilogue: Churchill in the 21st Century
£45.00
Amazon Publishing Van Gogh
Book SynopsisTrade Review“What distinguishes Bell’s elegant rendering is an astute perception of his artistic vision and shimmering descriptions of his work…A graceful, empathetic, deeply probing portrait.” —Kirkus Reviews “Bell brings his insight as a fellow artist to the life and work of Vincent Van Gogh in a condensed, accessible primer on the renowned artist.” —Publishers Weekly “Vincent Van Gogh’s life story is almost too well known, but Julian Bell has made it harrowing, urgent, and touching all over again. Bell’s pulsing, immaculately carpentered language is an event in itself. Passage after passage made me stare in wonder (and some jealousy) at his word choices and the never conventional rhythms of his sentences. And how great to have Van Gogh’s story told without heroics or sentimentality—and with the edgy vitality with which it was lived.” —Sanford Schwartz “Van Gogh writes beautifully about his own life and art, but his words don’t always match what he painted or what he did. Bell works the gaps, poring over a drawing, scanning the artistic horizon, backtracking to make a connection, delivering an irreverent aside. Bell interprets; the result is captivating.” —The New York Times Book Review “A splendid new biography.” —The New York Review of Books “An impressively concise biography.” —The Wall Street Journal “[A] short, fervent biography…a respectful portrait of van Gogh.” —The Washington Post “Bell, like van Gogh, writes to explain what painting won’t.” —The Toronto Star
£10.95
BookBaby Classical Sculpture in Color
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Royal Collins Publishing Company Appreciating Chinese Classics in Paper Cuttings
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Royal Collins Publishing Company Xiushi
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Royal Collins Publishing Company The Art of Printing
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Royal Collins Publishing Company Chinese Characters
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Naturalogic Publishing Inc. Dunhuang Rencontre Le Louvre
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Royal Collins Publishing Company Ancient Chinese Timber Architecture
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Resonant Matter
Book SynopsisIn Resonant Matter, Lutz Koepnick considers contemporary sound and installation art as a unique laboratory of hospitality amid inhospitable times. Inspired by Ragnar Kjartansson's nine-channel video installation The Visitors (2012), the book explores resonancethe ability of objects to be affected by the vibrations of other objectsas a model of art's fleeting promise to make us coexist with things strange and other. In a series of nuanced readings, Koepnick follows the echoes of distant, unexpected, and unheard sounds in twenty-first century art to reflect on the attachments we pursue to sustain our lives and the walls we need to tear down to secure possible futures. The book's nine chapters approach The Visitors from ever-different conceptual angles while bringing it into dialogue with the work of other artists and musicians such as Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Guillermo Galindo, Mischa Kuball, Philipp Lachenmann, Alvien Lucier, Teresa Margolles, Carsten Nicolai, Camille NTrade ReviewKoepnick's profoundly insightful and engagingly written volume can serve as a kind of advanced introduction to sound art while offering a generously broad host of new ideas to the specialist. Last but not least, the volume also proposes a new type of 'resonant criticism.' * Monatshefte *Koepnick wrote one of the best introductions to sound art I could think of: by exploring one single artwork he guides us into the corpus of contemporary discourses and aesthetic strategies in sound art—returning, again and again, to the one major unresolved matter of sound art theory that many researchers are still struggling with: how is it possible that a sound artwork succeeds not only in touching the lives of its audiences but in moving its listeners to unexpected tears? Koepnick's book brings us a crucial step closer in understanding why. * Holger Schulze, Professor in Musicology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, and author of The Sonic Persona *The open, explorative premise of Resonant Matter itself resonates through our turbulent times, suggesting sound to assist us in our struggle to dynamically attune to an ”inhospitable” environment. Koepnick listens closely to a single artwork, then amplifies an extended contextual framework that responds with the ear and agency of a great and skilled improvisation. * Camille Norment, multi-media artist, musician, composer *Koepnick has written an excellent book that explores the rarely addressed topic of resonance in contemporary sound art. He offers many new insights and captures the complexity and politics of sound art for a wide range of scholars and students of art, art history, music, aesthetics, performance, and theatre studies. As he has done in many of his previous publications, Koepnick once again helps us to think more clearly about the collaborative dimensions and the materiality of art today. * Lilian Haberer, Materiality in Art History, Academy of Media Arts Cologne, Germany *Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. Resonance 3. Enchantment 4. Listening 5. Singing 6. Subjectivity 7. Matter 8. Attention 9. Politics 10. Critique
£33.53
Dark Horse Comics,U.S. Final Fantasy Ultimania Archive Volume 3
Book SynopsisThe journey through the creation of the groundbreaking video games continues with this breathtaking volume, featuring hundreds of pieces of concept art, design notes, and creator retrospectives from the original team behind the making of Final Fantasy X, Final Fantasy XI, Final Fantasy XII, Final Fantasy XIII, and Final Fantasy XIV.Art, commentary, and lore from a transformative era in the indispensable role-playing franchise, collected in a beautifully printed 300-plus-page hardcover. Foray into one of gaming's most iconic properties, exploring beautiful art and incisive commentary behind five of the most memorable entries in the Final Fantasy saga.Final Fantasy Ultimania Archive Volume 3 authentically translates original Japanese source material to present unparalleled access for a Western audience. This incredible tome is a must-have addition to any Final Fantasy enthusiast's collection.
£29.60
Dartmouth College Press Thomas Hirschhorn
Book SynopsisThe first study in English on the work and theory of a major installation artist
£39.90
InterVarsity Press The Art of Living in Advent
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University of Minnesota Press Rene Magritte: Selected Writings
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University of Minnesota Press Sound, Image, Silence: Art and the Aural
Book SynopsisA visionary new approach to the Americas during the age of colonization, made by engaging with the aural aspects of supposedly “silent” images Colonial depictions of the North and South American landscape and its indigenous inhabitants fundamentally transformed the European imagination—but how did those images reach Europe, and how did they make their impact? In Sound, Image, Silence, noted art historian Michael Gaudio provides a groundbreaking examination of the colonial Americas by exploring the special role that aural imagination played in visible representations of the New World.Considering a diverse body of images that cover four hundred years of Atlantic history, Sound, Image, Silence addresses an important need within art history: to give hearing its due as a sense that can inform our understanding of images. Gaudio locates the noise of the pagan dance, the discord of battle, the din of revivalist religion, and the sublime sounds of nature in the Americas, such as lightning, thunder, and the waterfall. He invites readers to listen to visual media that seem deceptively couched in silence, offering bold new ideas on how art historians can engage with sound in inherently “mute” media.Sound, Image, Silence includes readings of Brazilian landscapes by the Dutch painter Frans Post, a London portrait of Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Edison’s early Kinetoscope film Sioux Ghost Dance, and the work of Thomas Cole, founder of the Hudson River School of American landscape painting. It masterfully fuses a diversity of work across vast social, cultural, and spatial distances, giving us both a new way of understanding sound in art and a powerful new vision of the New World. Trade Review"In this breathtaking study Michael Gaudio invites us to listen to visual media that seem couched in silence or in deceptive tranquility. He studies the graphic character of speech and dance in copperplate engravings of Jean de Léry’s encounter with the New World; soundscapes of seventeenth-century paintings depicting Dutch holdings in Brazil; Enlightenment art depicting thunder and lightning; the voice of nature in American painting of the early 1800s; the sound of music in very early cinema. Of broad scope, written with uncommon force and elegance, Sound, Image, Silence inspires by virtue of a unique aural vision. It changes the direction of our appreciation of the visual arts."—Tom Conley, Harvard University"Sound, Image, Silence is a study of how art making is a dance among sensorial pathways and human encounter. Michael Gaudio searches for interstitial meanings between many kinds of binaries in our cultures and histories—between what is heard and not heard, mimesis and invention, assimilation and otherness. What results is an enthralling, crackling, heady journey into heretofore silent territories of artistic imagination."—Asma Naeem, Eddie C. and C. Sylvia Brown Chief Curator, The Baltimore Museum of Art"One of the many merits of Gaudio’s bracing book is how it avoids positing sound as synonymous with speech, as a mere metaphor for how certain pictures “mean.” Thus Sound, Image, Silence, in a refreshing way, moves us away from the enduring Derridian preference for différence as something written rather than heard."—CAA Reviews"With both eyes and ears in sound studies, Michael Gaudio’s clairaudience brilliantly achieves, in Sound, Image, Silence, to tune in to that uncertain Atlantic passage, turning it on into a captivating journey between sight and sound."—Visual Studies"Generous in its approachability and well-suited for the early American studies classroom."—Early American Literature
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University of Minnesota Press Harriet Bart: Abracadabra and Other Forms of
Book SynopsisA retrospective and creatively collaborative review of this international feminist conceptual artist Young women victims of a garment factory fire in New York in 1911. An autobiographical progression through stages of womanhood. American veterans killed in Iraq. A giant trough filled with books and surrounded by an urban cornfield. The subjects of Harriet Bart’s art are as varied as the media and genres in which she works—sculpture, installation, textiles, painting, drawing, artist’s books. Harriet Bart: Abracadabra and Other Forms of Protection is a comprehensive look at the prolific and dynamic career of this international feminist conceptual artist. A founder of the Women’s Art Registry of Minnesota (WARM, a nationally recognized feminist art collective in the Twin Cities) and of the Traffic Zone Center for Visual Art in Minneapolis, Bart has sought deep and evocative expressions of memory through several decades of innovative artistic creation and collaboration. This book, which accompanies the first retrospective exhibition of her work at the Weisman Art Museum in 2020, features poetry and prose contributions by significant writers, artists, and curators who have been influenced by her art. Contributors: Betty Bright; Stephen Brown, Jewish Museum; Robert Cozzolino, Minneapolis Institute of Art; Elizabeth Erickson; Heather Everhart; Nor Hall; Matthea Harvey, Sarah Lawrence College; Joanna Inglot, Macalester College; Lyndel King, Weisman Art Museum; Eric Lorberer, Rain Taxi; Jim Moore, Hamline U; Diane Mullin, Weisman Art Museum; Samantha Rippner; Joan Rothfuss; John Schott; Sun Yung Shin; Susan Stewart, Princeton U.
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Random House USA Inc Rad Women Worldwide: 20 Mini-Posters
Book SynopsisFor holding high at your next protest march, gifting to a feminist friend, or hanging on your classroom or dorm room wall, these progressive posters based on the New York Times bestseller include 20 portraits--each with a powerful female on the front and her inspiring quote on the back. Rad Women Worldwide shared fresh, engaging, and amazing tales of perseverance and radical success through riveting biographies and cut-paper portraits. Now here is the art ready for hanging or framing. Measuring 7x11 inches--perfect for an 8x10-inch frame--these colorful portraits feature widely acclaimed (and also less known) heroines alike. The Rad Women include:-Hatshepsut (The great female king who ruled Egypt peacefully for two decades) -Malala Yousafzi (The youngest person to win the Nobel Peace Prize) -Liv Arnesen and Ann Bancroft (Polar explorers and the first women to cross Antarctica)-Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Novelist and writer)-Venus and Serena Williams (Tennis players and Olympic medalists) -Faith Bandler (Activist and Advocate for Indigenous Australians)-Kalpana Chawla (First Indian woman in space)-Policarpa "La Pola" Salavarrieta (Revolutionary hero of Colombian independence)-Madres de la Plaza de Mayo (A group of mothers and grandmothers who march weekly in honor of -their missing sons and daughters)-Nanny of the Maroons (National hero of Jamaica)-Frida Kahlo (Painter)-Queen Liliuokalani (First and final Queen of the Kingdom of Hawaii)-Junko Tabei (First woman to climb Mt. Everest)-Miriam Makeba (South African singer also known as "Mama Africa")-Wangari Maathai (Nobel Prize winning environmental activist)
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Pen & Sword Books Ltd The Real Coco Chanel
Book SynopsisCoco Chanel lived her life as a romantic heroine. Fuelled by nineteenth century literature, she built a life that was part myth, part fact. She was the fashion designer everyone admired. The business woman whose fortunes were impossible to track. She was a performer and the lover of many high profile intellectuals. She was also believed, by many, to have been a Nazi spy. Her life was impacted heavily by history; the Second World War left an indelible trace. She was also greatly influenced by symbolism and literature, both huge sources of inspiration. This biography explores the course of her life, from her troubled and poverty stricken upbringing to the opening of her first hat shop. We discover Coco's passions and secrets, uncovering the myths and the facts of her life and examining how they match up, if at all. There are chapters focussing on the Chanel Maison and the creation of her iconic trademark, as well as her 'little black dress' and 'Chanel No 5'. Three exclusive interviews with individuals who have known Coco and researched her life also feature. Finally, the biography ends with a reflection on how the myth and legacy of Coco Chanel is represented today in pop culture.
£17.92
Quercus Publishing The Visual Arts: A History: Revised 7th Edition
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Arcadia Publishing (SC) Concord After World War II
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Arcadia Publishing (SC) Southern Appalachian Folkways
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