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5000 Years of Faces

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501 Great Artists: A Comprehensive Guide to the Giants of the Art World

A concise yet comprehensive reference guide for art lovers and art students, this illustrated volume profiles major artists from classical antiquity to the modern era. All 501 artists featured in this book receive at least a one-page entry that summarizes their life, their work, and their influence. The most influential artists are discussed in entries of up to four pages. Entries are illustrated with portraits of the artists and reproductions of some of their best-known works. Included here are...

51st International Exhibition of Visual Arts 2005: Venice Biennale

Bringing together artists from every continent, speakers and art historians from around the globe, the Venice Biennale is a much-anticipated event. This year, for the first time in its history, the exposition will be curated by two women: Maria de Corral and Rosa Martinez.With more than seven hundred illustrations, this catalogue of the 2005 Biennale is a compendium of the world's leading avant-garde artists and trends. It consists of three volumes, each coinciding with the main themes of this y...

52 Adventures at the Metropolitan Museum (52 Series)

From posing with statues to counting horses in tapestries, these 52 activities will help kids (and adults) see, appreciate, and experience the amazing collections at The Metropolitan Musteum of Art....

54Th Carnegie International

When Andrew Carnegie founded the Carnegie Museum of Art, his goal was to introduce the people of Pittsburgh to paintings by modern American and European artists. His vision for developing the collection program centered on purchases from an annual exhibition of modern art, now known as the Carnegie International. First held in 1896, the exhibition is the longest running survey of recent art in North America. What was modern then is contemporary in 2004, and the 54th Carnegie International promis...

55 Degrees North: Contemporary Scandinavian Graphic Design

While Scandinavia has long had a worldwide reputation for furniture, architecture, and industrial design, its graphics tradition has been much less well-known. In the last five years however, a new wave of designers have won Scandinavia an international reputation for graphic design excellence and influenced designers and design audiences worldwide. This book surveys the contemporary Scandinavian graphic design scene with 360 lavish color illustrations that reflect the prolific output of a n...

55 Famous Quilts from the Shelburne Museum in Full Color

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56 Beaver St.

This engrossing book is named for artist/author Erik Wesselo's address in New York City from January 2001-April 2002. In the first, visual, section, he uses drawings, photographs, letters and notes to create a reminiscence of life and events at 56 Beaver Street while he lived there. The documents bear witness to moments of contact between people, when attempts were made to reach out to one another. Some are signs of love and humanity, and others show the moments when each person must care for hi...

560 Broadway: A New York Drawing Collection at Work, 1991-2006

560 Broadway is the first book to explore one of this country’s most remarkable private collections of modern and contemporary American drawings. Featuring such artists as Sol LeWitt, Mel Bochner, Jasper Johns, and Agnes Martin, the collection of Wynn Kramarsky has won high praise for its diversity, chronological sweep, and quality. Moreover, Kramarsky’s exhibition space at 560 Broadway in New York City, in operation from 1991 to 2006, served as a pivotal meeting place for museum and gallery...

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