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  • Just Kids

    An Autobiography

    von Patti Smith
    WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARDIt was the summer Coltrane died, the summer of love and riots, and the summer when a chance encounter in Brooklyn led two young people on a path of art, devotion, and initiation.Patti Smith would evolve as a poet and performer, and Robert Mapplethorpe would direct his highly provocative style toward photography. Bound in innocence and enthusiasm, they traversed the Mehr lesen

    Zuvor € 8,89 Jetzt € 2,89

  • Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

    An Inquiry Into Values

    von Robert M Pirsig
    THE CLASSIC BOOK THAT HAS INSPIRED MILLIONSA penetrating examination of how we live and how to live betterFew books transform a generation and then establish themselves as touchstones for the generations that follow. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance is one such book. This modern epic of a man’s search for meaning became an instant bestseller on publication in 1974, acclaimed as one of the Mehr lesen

    € 10,99

  • Yes Please

    von Amy Poehler
    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERDo you want to get to know the woman we first came to love on Comedy Central's Upright Citizens Brigade? Do you want to spend some time with the lady who made you howl with laughter on Saturday Night Live, and in movies like Baby Mama, Blades of Glory, and They Came Together? Do you find yourself daydreaming about hanging out with the actor behind the brilliant Leslie Mehr lesen

    € 5,09

  • The Making of a Caribbean Avant-Garde

    Postmodernism as Post-nationalism

    Series series Comparative Cultural Studies
    Focusing on the Anglophone Caribbean, The Making of a Caribbean Avant-Garde describes the rise and gradual consolidation of the visual arts avant-garde, which came to local and international attention in the 1990s. The book is centered on the critical and aesthetic strategies employed by this avant-garde to repudiate the previous generation’s commitment to modernism and anti-colonialism. In three Mehr lesen

    Kostenlos

  • Girl in a Band

    A Memoir

    von Kim Gordon
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERKim Gordon, founding member of Sonic Youth, fashion icon, and role model for a generation of women, now tells her story—a memoir of life as an artist, of music, marriage, motherhood, independence, and as one of the first women of rock and roll, written with the lyricism and haunting beauty of Patti Smith's Just Kids.Often described as aloof, Kim Gordon opens up as never Mehr lesen

    € 8,39

  • Art Collecting for Beginners: A Quick Start Guide to Art Design, Buying Paintings and Collecting Art Work and Art Auctions

    Series series "Quick Start Guide" Series
    Art Collecting for Beginners: A Quick Start Guide to Art Design, Buying Paintings and Collecting Art Work and Art AuctionsBuying and collecting art intelligently can be done by anyone. That's right, anyone. You do not need to have experience in collecting art, previous knowledge about the art business, or even a degree in art history. The truth is, all you’ll need is love for and appreciation of Mehr lesen

    € 6,20

  • The Accidental President

    Harry S. Truman and the Four Months That Changed the World

    von A. J. Baime
    A hypnotically fast-paced, masterful reporting of Harry Truman’s first 120 days as president, when he took on Germany, Japan, Stalin, and a secret weapon of unimaginable power—marking the most dramatic rise to greatness in American history.Chosen as FDR’s fourth-term vice president for his well-praised work ethic, good judgment, and lack of enemies, Harry S. Truman was the prototypical ordinary Mehr lesen

    € 9,39

  • Keith Haring Journals

    (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

    von Keith Haring
    Series series Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition
    Keith Haring is synonymous with the downtown New York art scene of the 1980's. His artwork-with its simple, bold lines and dynamic figures in motion-filtered in to the world's consciousness and is still instantly recognizable, twenty years after his death. This Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition features ninety black-and-white images of classic artwork and never-before-published Polaroid images, and Mehr lesen

    € 7,69

  • Art Works

    How Organizers and Artists Are Creating a Better World Together

    von Ken Grossinger
    Named one of The Progressive magazine's Favorite Books of the YearAn inside look at the organizers and artists on the front lines of political mobilization and social change“Ken [Grossinger] is one of the smartest strategists I know.” —John Sweeney, AFL-CIO president, 1995–2009An artist’s mural of George Floyd becomes an emblem of a renewed movement for racial equality. A documentary film injects Mehr lesen

    € 20,56

  • We Inspire Me

    Cultivate Your Creative Crew to Work, Play, and Make

    von Andrea Pippins
    The best thing a creative person can have is a crew of friends, allies, and mentors to support them. Packed with inspiration and ideas from author-illustrator Andrea Pippins, this is a one-of-a-kind handbook for doers and makers looking to expand and nourish their creative community. Drawing on her own network of talented artists, designers, and friends, Pippins offers tips on how to: reach out to Mehr lesen

    € 9,34

  • The Racial Unfamiliar

    Illegibility in Black Literature and Culture

    von John Brooks
    Series series Literature Now
    The works of African American authors and artists are too often interpreted through the lens of authenticity. They are scrutinized for “positive” or “negative” representations of Black people and Black culture or are assumed to communicate some truth about Black identity or the “Black experience.” However, many contemporary Black artists are creating works that cannot be slotted into such Mehr lesen

    € 26,61

  • Millennial Style

    The Politics of Experiment in Contemporary African Diasporic Culture

    In Millennial Style, Aliyyah I. Abdur-Rahman looks at recent experiments in black expressive culture that begin in the place of ruin. By ruin, Abdur-Rahman means the political terror and social abjection that constitute the ongoing peril of black lives. Whereas earlier black writers and artists have employed realist modes of expression to represent racial harm and to imaginatively remediate it, Mehr lesen

    € 19,79

  • Georgia O’Keeffe and artworks

    von Janet Souter
    In 1905 Georgia travelled to Chicago to study painting at the Art Institute of Chicago. In 1907 she enrolled at the Art Students’ League in New York City, where she studied with William Merritt Chase. During her time in New York she became familiar with the 291 Gallery owned by her future husband, photographer Alfred Stieglitz. In 1912, she and her sisters studied at university with Alon Bement, Mehr lesen

    € 13,99

  • Pollock

    von Donald Wigal
    Jackson Pollock (Cody, Wyoming, 1912 – New York, 1956) Pollock fut le représentant le plus important et le plus influent de l’expressionnisme abstrait. Il avait étudié auprès du régionaliste Thomas Hart Benton, et était également marié au peintre abstrait Lee Krasner (étudiante de Hans Hofmann). Il comptait parmi ses collègues Aschile Gorky, Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline, Robert Motherwell, et d Mehr lesen

    € 11,76

  • Republics and empires

    Italian and American art in transnational perspective, 1840–1970

    Republics and empires provides transnational perspectives on the significance of Italy to American art and visual culture and the impact of the United States on Italian art and popular culture. Covering the period from the Risorgimento to the Cold War, it reveals the complexity of the visual discourses that bound two relatively new nations together. It also gives substantial attention to literary Mehr lesen

    € 98,77

  • Caribbean Art

    von Veerle Poupeye
    Series series World of Art
    Caribbean Art presents and discusses the diverse, fascinating and highly accomplished work of Caribbean artists, whether indigenous or from the diaspora, popular or high culture, rural or urban based, politically radical or religious. This expanded edition has a new preface, and has been updated to reflect on recent challenges to the ideological premises and institutions of conventional art Mehr lesen

    € 16,16

  • Edward Hopper

    von Gerry Souter
    In his works, Hopper poetically expressed the solitude of man confronted to the American way of life as it developed in the 1920s. Inspired by the movies and particularly by the various camera angles and attitudes of characters, his paintings expose the alienation of mass culture. Created using cold colours and inhabited by anonymous characters, Hopper’s paintings also symbolically reflect the Mehr lesen

    € 14,99

  • Roots of the Black Chicago Renaissance

    New Negro Writers, Artists, and Intellectuals, 1893-1930

    Series series New Black Studies Series
    The Black Chicago Renaissance emerged from a foundational stage that stretched from the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition to the start of the Great Depression. During this time, African American innovators working across the landscape of the arts set the stage for an intellectual flowering that redefined black cultural life.Richard A. Courage and Christopher Robert Reed have brought together Mehr lesen

    € 15,17

  • Hitler's defeat

    World War II: the best photos from D-Day to the liberation of Europe

    Series series Zoom Archives
    This issue is dedicated to World War II. The Normandy landings, celebrated by the images of Robert Capa, come alive here in largely unknown photographs from the U.S. State Archives, shots by photographers who documented those historic moments on the battlefield. But in this book you will find not only war photos, but also emotionally powerful images such as the one of the little French girl Mehr lesen

    € 9,99

  • African American Identity

    Racial and Cultural Dimensions of the Black Experience

    Jas M. Sullivan and Ashraf M. Esmail’s African American Identity: Racial and Cultural Dimensions of the Black Experience is a collection which makes use of multiple perspectives across the social sciences to address complex issues of race and identity. The contributors tackle questions about what African American racial identity means, how we may go about quantifying it, what the factors are in Mehr lesen

    € 62,36

  • Les Aztèques (Londres - 2002)

    Les Fiches Exposition d'Universalis

    À de nombreux titres, l'exposition présentée à Londres, à la Royal Academy of Arts, du 16 novembre 2002 au 11 avril 2003, constitua un événement majeur pour la perception européenne des arts précolombiens...À PROPOS DE L’ENCYCLOPAEDIA UNIVERSALISReconnue mondialement pour la qualité et la fiabilité incomparable de ses publications, Encyclopaedia Universalis met la connaissance à la portée de tous. Mehr lesen

    € 6,99

  • Thomas Cole: Selected Paintings

    von Gibb Crompton
    Thomas Cole (1801 - 1848) was an American artist. He is regarded as the founder of the Hudson River School, an American art movement that flourished in the mid-19th century. Cole's Hudson River School, as well as his own work, was known for its realistic and detailed portrayal of American landscape and wilderness, which feature themes of romanticism and naturalism. Mehr lesen

    € 1,99

  • Horses in the American West

    Portrayals by Twenty-Four Artists

    Series series American Wests, sponsored by West Texas A&M University
    Images of working cowhands and their horses loom large in the mind’s eye of many who love the American West. Those same images form the heart and soul of this lavishly illustrated book, which captures the viewpoints, values, and observations of twenty-four respected contemporary artists. The artists’ own words illuminate the painting, sculpture, photography, and drawings of these award-winning, Mehr lesen

    € 8,68

  • The Art of Instruction

    Vintage Educational Charts from the 19th and 20th Centuries

    Large-scale wall charts were fundamental tools of classroom instruction throughout Europe in the mid-nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Collected here for the first time in one deluxe volume are over 100 of these vintage educational posters now important relics in the history of science, art, and design. From the anatomy of a tulip or an apple tree to that of a hedgehog or starfish, the botanical Mehr lesen

    € 15,83