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	Myth and Magic: The Art of John Howe John Howe is one of the foremost fantasy artists working today, known especially for his remarkable renderings of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle–earth and as the conceptual artist for the film Lord of the Rings. Now, for the first time, 250 of Howe’s paintings and sketches have been collected in one volume....
	Art Business By the time you read this book, the art world may have witnessed the sale of its first $500 million painting. Whilst for some people money is anathema to art this is clearly a wealthy international industry, and a market with its own conventions and pressures. Drawing on the vast experience of Sotheby’s Institute of Art, The Art Business exposes the realities of the commercial trade in fine art and antiques. Attention is devoted to the role of auction houses, commercial galleries and art museu...
	Bernini and the Birth of Baroque Portrait Sculpture Gian Lorenzo Bernini was the greatest sculptor of the Baroque period, and yet--surprisingly--there has never before been a major exhibition of his sculpture in North America. Bernini and the Birth of Baroque Portrait Sculpture--on view from August 5 through October 26, 2008, at the J. Paul Getty Museum and from November 28, 2008, through March 8, 2009, at the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa--showcases portrait sculptures from all phases of the artist's long career, from the very early Antonio...
	Arcimboldo: 1526-1593 Famous all over the world for his portraits—an illustrated composite of plants, fruit, and animals combined to create the illusion of a human form— Arcimboldo still remains, paradoxically, a painter shrouded in mystery. This important monograph reveals the eclecticism of one of the most fertile and lively minds of the Mannerist period, placing him in the cultural context in which he lived and worked. Admired during his life, Arcimboldo fell into oblivion after his death in 1593. His original...
	William Stout: Prehistoric Life Murals William Stout: Prehistoric Life Murals is an astonishing look at dinosaurs and their primeval worlds. This lavishly illustrated 176-page volume contains all of Stout's stunning murals for The Houston Museum of Natural Science, Walt Disney World's Animal Kingdom, and the San Diego Natural History Museum. In 1981, award-winning paleoartist Stout's critically acclaimed book The Dinosaurs - A Fantastic New View of a Lost Era launched the ongoing public renaissance in the reexamination and revision o...
	Drawing Now: Between the Lines of Contemporary Art An exhibition in book form, this showcase of the best of drawing now features one hundred works by almost fifty artists including Susan Hauptman, Paul Noble, Jeff Gabel, Tracey Emin, Jane Harris, Julia Fish, Cornelia Parker and Jerwood Drawing Prize winner Sarah Woodfine. Carefully "curated" with many new drawings specifically commissioned for the volume, the book also includes an introduction, by the editors, which lays out the themes underpinning this diverse and exciting selection of work. Wi...
	Buckminster Fuller: Starting with the Universe (Whitney Museum of American Art Book) From his geodesic dome to books popularizing the terms “spaceship earth” and “synergetics,” the life mission of R. Buckminster Fuller (1895–1983) was to create living environments that minimized consumption of the earth’s resources while maximizing interconnections with global systems of information and transportation. This book explores Fuller's extraordinary body of work focusing on his wide-ranging and sometimes controversial role within the worlds of art, architecture, and utopi...
	Creation's Journey: Native American Identity and Belief Accompanying the exhibition at the National Museum of the American Indian in New York, an exploration of useful and artistic objects of native life reveals how such items as clothing, cradleboards, and decoys reflect customs and beliefs and perpetuate cultures. UP. ...
	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 ...