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Fantastic Tales: The Photography of Nan Goldin

This book accompanies an exhibition of Nan Goldin's photographs, drawn from the private collection of Gerry and David Pincus and jointly organized by the Palmer Museum of Art at The Pennsylvania State University and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts....

New York Contemporary Art Galleries

The only comprehensive resource of its kind on NYC galleries. More than 1,000 detailed profiles of commercial galleries, private dealers, alternative exhibition venues, non-profit organizations, corporate art consultants, museums and artists' studios....

Utopia and Dissent: Art, Poetry, and Poltics in California

A landmark study of California's visual arts and poetry, 1925 to 1975, Utopia and Dissent demonstrates the profound influence this regional culture had on American art and thought. Combining intellectual and cultural history, it traces the spread of ideas developed in California's pre-World War II bohemian enclaves to mainstream America, where they became a major current of 1950s and 1960s counterculturism.The provincial nature of California's prewar arts institutions, Richard Cándida Smith sho...

Gianfranco Pedersoli - Master Engraver

This new first edition, beautiful color coffee table book featuring the Italian master engraver Gianfranco Pedersoli is the perfect holiday gift for any firearms enthusiast! Gianfranco Pedersoli's extraordinary engraving has graced guns for Beretta, Fabbri, Flli. Rizzini, Famars, Piotti, and many other best quality custom gun makers. This 212-page, deluxe hardbound color book features stunning images and first person captions of his best works, in addition to separate chapters on engraved knives...

Provenance Research in Book History

Reprint of the first edition with a new introductory section containing additional references to update the original text. This handbook offers a compendium of information on the ways of recognizing and identifying marks of ownership, and on placing that knowledge in a wider context. Topics covered include inscriptions, mottoes, bookplates, book labels, and book stamps, armorials, sales catalogues, catalogues and lists of private libraries, provenance indices, heraldry, and paleography. Co-pu...

Art Models: Life Nudes for Drawing Painting and Sculpting (Art Models series)

Step into the studio with eleven professional art models in over a hundred beautifully photographed full color poses. -Hone your skills -Practice new techniques -Try new materials -Find inspiration -Study a variety of models in fine detail. More than a full color book of poses- Art Models provides a solution to artists' search for nude models. Use it to practice with new materials and techniques, help plan compositions, and study body features. Also great as an idea book for artists and models. ...

Latin American Women Artists of the United States: The Works of 33 Twentieth-Century Women

This work examines the art of 33 Latina American artists and the manner in which these artists have merged Latino and Norte Americano cultures in their work. Juana Alicia, Leonora Arye, Santa Barraza, Pura Cruz, Linda Vallejo, Theresa Rosado, Joyce de Guatemala, and 26 other artists are included. A critical discussion of each artist is supplemented by photographs (some in color) and a list of exhibitions in which they have participated....

The Portable Picasso (Portables)

Considered by many to be the greatest artist of the twentieth century, Pablo Picasso created a body of work that continues to command enormous popular interest. Of hand-held size, this compact collection manages to be affordable and comprehensive—a veritable dictionary of the artist’s work. Included are all genres and periods of his work—through the early blue and rose periods to cubism and later abstraction. Introducing the images is an insightful essay by celebrated art critic Robert Hug...

Dictionary of Furniture

This work is a comprehensive listing of terms that refer to furniture - its style, manufacture and makers in all countries and cultures from earliest times to the present. It deals with details of construction, cabinet makers and aesthetic terminology....