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	Jacob Lawrence: The Complete Prints (1963-2000), a Catalogue Raisonne Beginning with his first published print in 1963, Jacob Lawrence produced a body of prints that is both highly dramatic and intensely personal. This new edition of Jacob Lawrence: Thirty Years of Prints (1963-1993) includes 19 new prints produced by Lawrence since 1993, including 7 from the Toussaint L’Ouverture series. The book includes an essay by Patricial Hills. In his graphic work, as in his paintings, Lawrence turned to the lessons of history and to his own experience. From depiction...
	Gerhard Richter: Editions 1965-2004 (Hatje Cantz) Though Gerhard Richter is one of the most accomplished and best-known contemporary German artists, and his paintings are widely exhibited, his collector’s editions have attracted relatively little public attention. This catalogue raisonné, compiled through intensive research over a period of many years by art historian Hubertus Butin, Richter’s former assistant, documents the full range of graphic and photographic editions as well as the artist’s books, multiples, and editions in oil real...
	Charles Deas and 1840s America (The Charles M. Russell Center on Art and Photography of the American West) Charles Deas (1818-67), an enigmatic figure on the edge of mainstream artistic circles in mid-nineteenth-century New York, went west to explore new opportunities and subjects in 1840. From his adopted hometown of St. Louis, Deas sent his iconic paintings of fur trappers and Indians back east for exhibition and sale, briefly winning the recognition that had earlier eluded him. This handsome volume--featuring more than 150 illustrations, 70 in color--is the first book exclusively devoted to Deas....
	Museum Strategy and Marketing : Designing Missions, Building Audiences, Generating Revenue and Resources Museum Strategy and Marketing is the most comprehensive and level-headed presentation of its subject I have come across. The authors are sophisticated marketeers who really understand the differences between market-driven businesses and mission-driven museums. The book is not about selling widgets; it's about building museum audiences and strengthening institutions. - Robert P. Bergman, director, The Cleveland Museum of Art In a long-awaited answer of one of museum's most pressing challeng...
	Bologna Annual 2008 (Bologna Annual. Illustrators of Children's Books) Here is the official catalog of the 2008 Bologna Illustrators Exhibition, showcasing recent work by some of the world’s finest children’s book illustrators, including Einar Turkowski, winner of this year’s Hans Christian Andersen Medal. The exhibition is one of the largest and most prestigious international competitions for children’s book artists, attracting nearly 2,600 artists from around the world, narrowed down to the 99 presented in this catalog. Filled with a wide variety of paint...
	Windows of the World: Store Windows that Dazzle Over the years, shopping has grown from the traditional need to supply and provide subsistence into an everyday habit associated with leisure, social activity, and pleasure. Consequently, designing store windows has become an art form in itself. These settings, whose final objective is always to seduce the possible consumer, are laid out according to different concepts of color, light, materials and disposition. This book shows how successful store windows have become an important mediator betwe...
	Mimbres Pottery: Ancient Art of the American Southwest The standard work on lost New Mexico civilization's extraordinary craft. Stunning photos....
	Civilizing Rituals: Inside Public Art Museums (Re Visions : Critical Studies in the History and Theory of Art) The material conditions in which the production and consumption of art takes place is a topic of increasing importance in art history. Studies Art as an industry and a public practice, looking at how nations, institutions and private individuals present art to the community and how art museums are shaped by cultural, social and political determinants....
	Surrealism: Desire Unbound The surrealist leader André Breton described desire as the "only master that man must recognize." One of surrealism's defining themes, desire was expressed variously in Dali's charged landscapes, Miró's lyric abstractions, and Bellmer's unsettling nudes. Influenced by Freud, the surrealists saw sexual desire as a path to self-knowledge--"a theatre of provocations and prohibitions in which life's most profound urges confront one another." Published to accompany a major transatlantic exhibition...