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	Dore's Illustrations of the Crusades (Dover Pictorial Archives) Magnificent compilation of all 100 original plates from Michaud’s classic History of the Crusades. Includes The War Cry of the Crusaders, The Massa-cre of Antioch, The Road to Jerusalem, The Baptism of Infidels, The Battle of Lepanto and many more. Powerful, striking copyright-free illustrations widely regarded as the finest pictorial recreations of the subject. Captions....
	Dogs in the Louvre Throughout the ages, artists have frequently depicted dogs as symbols of positive values such as courage, loyalty, and vigilance. Whether serving as guards, guides, companions, or hunters, dogs have a very strong presence in the great artworks at the Louvre. They appear in the form of Mesopotamian statuettes of the third millennium BC; they flank peasants in Le Nain’s paintings, or sit loyally at the queen’s side in Rubens’s The Coronation. They may be portrayed as active, accompanying Dia...
	Sacred Visions Early Paintings from Central Tibet Devoted to a period of extraordinary cultural achievement - from the 11th to the mid-15th century - when Tibet became known as the Buddhist holy land - this book accompanies a major touring show opening at the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art in October 1998. It includes a collection of exquisite "thankas" (paintings) that incorporated traditions from eastern India, Nepal and China as well as the Tibetans' own Buddhist imagery. Though Tibet was closed to the West until the early-20th century,...
	Robert Ryman Robert Ryman is considered one of the preeminent abstract painters of the last fifty years. This remarkable book features over two dozen of Ryman’s works from the 1960s to the present, all of which demonstrate his keen desire to investigate the essential properties of a painting—its color, surface, texture, support, and relationship to the wall on which it is displayed—in order to achieve direct and unmediated painterly effects.The book comprises works from the artist’s own collection as...
	The Museum in Transition: A Philosophical Perspective During the past thirty years, museums of all kinds have tried to become more responsive to the interests of a diverse public. With exhibitions becoming people-centered, idea-oriented, and contextualized, the boundaries between museums and the "real" world are eroding. Setting the transition from object-centered to story-centered exhibitions in a philosophical framework, Hilde S. Hein contends that glorifying the museum experience at the expense of objects deflects the museum's educative, ethical...
	Birth and Present: A Studio Portait of Yoshitomo Nara a great photo essay of nara by photographer mie morimoto. during a six month period morimoto worked with nara in the studio documenting the artist giving birth to some of his extraordinary pieces. a must have for admirers of nara. hardcover 96 pages 62 full-color reproductions....
	New Bamboo: Contemporary Japanese Masters (Japan Society Series) While woven bamboo containers have been common in Asia for thousands of years, it is only in the past 150 years that basketry has become widely regarded as an art form. This stunning book celebrates contemporary Japanese bamboo masters whose breathtakingly beautiful and imaginative new works are changing the definition of basketry. Focusing on contemporary bamboo artists working in sculptural forms, the book is based on recent interviews and critical analysis. In his compelling and accessible t...
	Sketchbook: The Other Artwork of Boris Vallejo and Julie Bell With their Fall 2000 release Titans still catching attention from comic lovers and critics everywhere, Boris Vallejo and Julie Bell give us the eagerly awaited Sketchbook. The masters of fantasy art reveal the creative process behind their finished masterpieces. The sketches, in a variety of different media, provides us with insight into the artistic imagination of Boris and Julie--some were produced for pure pleasure and experiment, others as preliminary ideas for commissioned work. They are st...
	Bruce Nauman First book-length study of the life and works of the influential multimedia artist. "From the beginning I was trying to see if I could make art that did that. Art that was just there all at once. Like getting hit in the face with a baseball bat. Or better yet, like getting hit in the back of the neck. You never see it coming; it just knocks you down. I like that idea very much: the kind of intensity that doesn't give you any trace of whether you're going to like it or not."—Bruce Nauman ...