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	Exhibit Design: High Impact Solutions EXHIBIT DESIGN presents over numerous full–color examples of the work of the best in exhibit display from trade shows throughout the United States. Featuring examples from industries as varied as clothing, automobiles, electronics, and insurance, this comprehensive volume shows how these designers use color, light, animation, and decorative props to create exhibits that are truly unique, innovative, and memorable....
	A Legal Primer on Managing Museum Collections, 2nd Edition ...
	The Secret Lives of Frames: One Hundred Years of Art and Artistry A painting wouldnt be the same without its frame. In fact, a frame can be as important as the art it surrounds. Yet the picture frame is the Cinderella of the art world, beautiful, hardworking, and frequently overlooked. The Secret Lives of Frames, inspired by the hundred-year history of Lowy, the premier fine arts services atelier in the country, celebrates the extraordinary art and artistry of the frame. In chapters such as The Making of a Framer and a Frame, The Lure of Antique Frames, and Ne...
	Collecting Contemporary Words from the wise: insiders’ tips on how to navigate the art market like a pro Art is about life, the art market is about money. —Damien Hirst Whether you’re an art fan, aficionado, or collector, this completely unique book should be on your required reading list. Like a textbook for a class given by all of the world’s leading experts, Collecting Contemporary is the one and only book to teach you everything you ever wanted to know about the contemporary art market. The introduction...
	Archive Fever: Uses of the Document in Contemporary Art Was it Joseph Cornell's dossiers on ballerinas and artists that first proposed the model of the archive as a creative storehouse, a vehicle for the ordering of chaotic fragments? Over the past 30 years, successive generations have taken wide-ranging approaches to archives, most of them (like Cornell) concentrating on photographic and filmic collections. Organized and written by renowned scholar and ICP Adjunct Curator Okwui Enwezor, and taking its title from Jacques Derrida's book of the same na...
	The Hours of Catherine of Cleves: Devotions, Demons and Daily Life in the Fifteenth Century Illuminated with spectacular miniatures and borders in glittering gold and splendid colors for Catherine of Cleves, Duchess of Guelders, this stunning manuscript is arguably the most beautiful ever produced in the Northern Netherlands. The craftsmanship of the anonymous artist who created it is visible in every extraordinary detail of the many leaves. This stunning volume is published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same name at the Morgan Library in New York . The book presents more th...
	Klimt's Women Viennese artist Gustav Klimt expressed his dedication to the theme of "woman" throughout his life--in his early historical paintings, in allegorical depictions and erotic drawings, and in classic large female portraits. This gorgeously illustrated book offers for the first time a survey of Klimt's approach to the female form and sets his work in the context of fundamental social changes at the turn of the century. Distributed for Dumont, Cologne...
	Still Time Expanded from an earlier catalogue of the same title, Still Time accompanied a traveling exhibition featuring more than twenty years of Sally Mann's photography.Still Time celebrates an artist whose acute perceptions and imagination embrace not only the photographs of children for which she is renowned, but also earlier landscapes, and the unexpected, compelling forays into color and abstract photography. The sixty images include abstract platinum prints, Cibachromes and Polaroids, landscapes, p...
	The 100 Best Art Towns in America: A Guide to Galleries, Museums, Festivals, Lodging and Dining, Fourth Edition Do small and medium size communities intrigue you? Are you the type of person who believes there's a pot of gold at the end of every rainbow? Can you envision yourself someday living in a arts-supportive community where there's only one coffeeshop selling decaf lattes? From Maine's lobster shacks to LaJolla's fish taco stands, the North American continent is home to hundreds of tiny towns and small cities where the arts are flourishing. And if you assume that small town art looks like a smiling ...