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	The Girl with the Gallery In The Girl with the Gallery, journalist Lindsay Pollock vividly brings to life the fascinating, pioneering--and almost entirely forgotten--art dealer, Edith Gregor Halpert. In 1926, Halpert opened one of the first art galleries in Greenwich Village. She ran her Downtown Gallery for forty-four years, inventing the market for folk art, and pushing the first modern American artists into the history books, including Stuart Davis, Jacob Lawrence, and Georgia O'Keefe. But until now she has been lost ...
	A Certain Alchemy (Southwestern & Mexican Photography Series) Praise for Keith Carter's work: ". . . mythic territory, familiar from literature, earlier photography, popular music, and movies, but transformed by Mr. Carter into a freshly exotic land." --New York Times "This is lovely, mysterious stuff: welcome to the Carter cult." --Village Voice " . . . magic in the mundane, poetry in the commonplace . . ." --Atlanta Journal-Constitution Lauded as "a transcendent realist" and "a poet of the ordinary," Keith Carter is an internationally ...
	Spectrum 4: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art For nearly 15 years, Spectrum has been known as the premiere annual showcase for fantasy artwork. Early editions are now collector’s items, priced out of the reach of most buyers, but fortunately, this reissue makes Spectrum 4 available again to fans new and old. In its pages are 250 dazzling full-color works by nearly 175 fantasy artists from around the world, including James Gurney, Rafael Olbinski, and the year’s Grand Master Award winners, Leo Dillon and Diane Dillon....
	William Blake's Divine Comedy Illustrations: 102 Full-Color Plates Commissioned in 1824 — just three years before his death — Blake's sublime watercolors are not only peerless interpretations of Dante's vision of Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven, they are dramatic expressions of the great artist's integrity and imagination. Some apocalyptic, others angelic, the 102 plates range from completely finished pieces to rough sketches....
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	BibliOdyssey: Amazing Archival Images from the Internet With just a few select books to date, the British publisher (and design company) Fuel has already made a splash with its beautifully produced books on such ephemeral or popular arts as tattooing (Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopedia Volumes I and II), soccer programs (Match Day) and improvised domestic implements (Home-Made). Fuel's latest publication extends this visual anthropology to the Internet, specifically the blog BibliOdyssey. Across the world, libraries and institutions are only recent...
	The Impossible Collection: The 100 Most Coveted Artworks of the Modern Era A valuable work of art is today s new intellectual currency. Modern art draws attention from a new jet set: for media moguls, hedge-fund managers, and Hollywood darlings, collecting is the entree into an exclusive global community. Internationally vaunted art dealers Philippe Segalot and Franck Giraud build and break collections every day for high-profile art collectors. In The Impossible Collection, Segalot and Giraud curate the ideal modern collection a collection in which money is no object a...
	The Push Pin Graphic: A Quarter Century of Innovative Design and Illustration Part design and illustration studio, part pop culture think tank, Push Pin Studios made a phenomenal impact on visual culture from the 1950s to the 1980s, representing an important chapter in postwar graphic design. Founding member Seymour Chwast partners with key figures from the design community -- as well as co-founder Milton Glaser -- to provide a visual history of the studio by way of its signature publication, The Push Pin Graphic. Hundreds of memorable covers and spreads culled from each ...
	Interpreting Our Heritage Every year millions of Americans visit national parks and monuments, state and municipal parks, battlefields, historic houses, and museums. By means of guided walks and talks, tours, exhibits, and signs, visitors experience these areas through a very special kind of communication technique known as "interpretation." For fifty years, Freeman Tilden's Interpreting Our Heritage has been an indispensable sourcebook for those who are responsible for developing and delivering interpretive programs. Th...