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	Photographs of the Past: Process and Preservation In recent years, interest in old photographs has grown significantly among a broad public, from collectors, conservators, and archivists to amateurs seeking to preserve precious family albums. Although the medium of photography is barely 150 years old, its relatively brief history has witnessed the birth of a wide range of photographic processes, each of which poses unique conservation challenges. Photographs of the Past: Processes and Preservation provides a comprehensive introduction to the p...
	Chip Kidd: Book One: Work: 1986-2006 (Bk. 1) Described as "the closest thing to a rock star" in graphic design today (USA Today), Chip Kidd is universally recognized as an American master of contemporary book design. At the forefront of a revolution in publishing, Kidd's iconic covers, with their inventive marriage of type and found images, have influenced an entire generation of design practitioners in many fields.Chip Kidd: Book One collects all of his book covers and designs for the first time, as well as hundreds of developmental sketc...
	Norman Rockwell: Pictures for the American People Accompanying the first major traveling exhibition of works by Norman Rockwell (1894-1978), this volume presents a complete reappraisal of one of America's most beloved artists. Contributors from a wide range of fields-including leading art historians, cultural critics, a renowned child psychiatrist, and a leading graphic designer-shed new light on the complexity of Rockwell's art and his place as a shaper of mass-media imagery. Stunning colorplates reproduce Rockwell's paintings in crisp...
	Musee du quai Branly: The Collection: Art From Africa, Asia, Oceania, and the Americas From sculptures to utilitarian utensils, architectural ornaments to revered totems, and ceremonial masks to matrimonial costumes, this museum celebrates the world’s rich cultural diversity. The comprehensive volume includes three hundred masterpieces and incisive essays from thirty-seven international art experts....
	The Rose Art Museum at Brandeis The Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University possesses one of the most extraordinary collections of any academic institution, spanning the last century in Western art, from the early European and American Modernists up to the 21st century. This catalogue of its holdings demonstrates the breadth of the collection.Early purchases from the 1960s dominate the core of the collection, including works by Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Willem De Kooning, and Andy Warhol. Contemporary works by artists ...
	Selling Art Without Galleries: Toward Making a Living from Your Art The first guide to selling art independently * Easy-to-follow, in-depth advice on the marketing of art * Follow-up to The Business of Being an Artist--35,000 copies sold! * Exclusive information on "thinking outside the gallery" from other artists This comprehensive resource shows artists how to make a living from their art--without relying on galleries. Through interviews with a range of successful artists, readers will learn how to write about their own work, how to arrange and curate ...
	Picasso Line Drawings and Prints (Dover Art Library) drawings from many periods, styles show master 20th-century draughtsman’s incredible line. 1905 circus family, portraits of Diaghilev, Balzac, cubist studies, neo-classical nudes, mythological scenes, many media: lithograph, drypoint, etching, pen-and-ink....
	Sweet Oblivion: The Urban Landscape of Martin Wong (New Museum Books) The visionary paintings of Martin Wong, one of the unsung geniuses of New York's East Village art scene of the 1980s, are collected here and examined in depth for the first time. Entirely self-taught, Wong creates intricate compositions that combine gritty social documents, cosmic witticisms, and highly charged symbolic languages-customized manual alphabets for the deaf, street graffiti, Nuyorican poetry, hand-lettered signs, meticulously rendered brick facades, rearrangements of Zodiac signs-so...
	Tragic Kingdom: The Art of Camille Rose Garcia ...