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  • A Little History of Art

    by Charlotte Mullins ...
    Series series Little Histories
    A thrilling journey through 100,000 years of art, from the first artworks ever made to art’s central role in culture today“This lively volume is ideal for the precocious high-schooler, the lazy collegian . . . and any adult who wishes for greater mastery of the subject. . . . Mullins leav[es] readers with an expansive, no-regrets appreciation of art and the human story.”—Meghan Cox Gurdon, Wall ... Read more

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  • The Complete Works of Jane Austen (In One Volume)

    Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, Lady ... Sandition, and the Complete Juvenilia

    by Jane Austen, Red Deer Classics ...
    The Complete Works of Jane Austen includes all six novels, and Austen's shorter works; Lady Susan, The Watsons, Sandition, and her complete Juvenilia. Jane Austen is famous for her six novels, Sense and Sensibility, Pride and prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, and Persuasion. Her works of romantic fiction, set among the landed gentry, earned her a place as one of the most widely ... Read more

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  • Autotheory as Feminist Practice in Art, Writing, and Criticism

    by Lauren Fournier ...
    Autotheory--the commingling of theory and philosophy with autobiography--as a mode of critical artistic practice indebted to feminist writing and activism.In the 2010s, the term "autotheory" began to trend in literary spheres, where it was used to describe books in which memoir and autobiography fused with theory and philosophy. In this book, Lauren Fournier extends the meaning of the term, ... Read more

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  • Dress Code

    Unlocking Fashion from the New Look to Millennial Pink

    by Véronique Hyland ...
    A New Yorker Magazine Best Book of 2022 * An Esquire Best Nonfiction Book of 2022 * A Town & Country Must-Read Book of 2022 * A Fashionista Summer Read“Smart, funny, and impressively thorough.”—The CutIn the spirit of works by Jia Tolentino and Anne Helen Peterson, a smart and incisive essay collection centered on the fashion industry—its history, its importance, why we wear what we wear,... ... Read more

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  • Art, Research, Philosophy

    by Clive Cazeaux ...
    Art, Research, Philosophy explores the emergent field of artistic research: art produced as a contribution to knowledge. As a new subject, it raises several questions: What is art-as-research? Don’t the requirements of research amount to an imposition on the artistic process that dilutes the power of art? How can something subjective become objective? What is the relationship between art and ... Read more

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  • Essays on Modern Art: Andy Warhol - Criticisms and Essays on Previously Unseen Art in the Koolhaas Collection

    by Justice Koolhaas ...
    Justice Koolhaas's Essays on Modern Art are reproduced alongside at least one of each artist's works that she owned. Unusually, these works were discards; even more unusually, she obtained them on condition that each artist signed a statement disowning them as artworks.Her theory work, a refusenikism written in deliberate opacity, is inspired by her collection of art refuse. She unblinkingly ... Read more

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  • What Are You Looking At?

    The Surprising, Shocking, and Sometimes Strange Story of 150 Years of Modern Art

    by Will Gompertz ...
    For skeptics, art lovers, and the millions of us who visit art galleries every year—and are confused—What Are You Looking At? by former director of London’s Tate Gallery Will Gompertz is a wonderfully lively, accessible narrative history of Modern Art, from Impressionism to the present day.What is modern art? Who started it? Why do we either love it or loathe it? And why is it such big money? Join ... Read more

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  • On Photography

    by Susan Sontag ...
    Winner of the National Book Critics' Circle Award for Criticism.One of the most highly regarded books of its kind, Susan Sontag's On Photography first appeared in 1977 and is described by its author as "a progress of essays about the meaning and career of photographs." It begins with the famous "In Plato's Cave"essay, then offers five other prose meditations on this topic, and concludes with a ... Read more

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  • The Wizard of Oz 15 Book Collection: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Box Set, The Marvellous Land of Oz, Ozma of Oz, Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz, The Road ... of Oz and More (The Wizard of Oz Collection) by L. Frank Baum (2014) Paperback

    by L. Frank Baum ...
    Welcome to the Wonderful World of Oz! Collected here is the ultimate Kindle edition of the beloved series starring such timeless characters as Dorothy, the Tin Man, the Scarecrow, the Cowardly Lion, and the Wicked Witch of the West. Included in 'The Wonderful Wizard of OZ: The Complete Collection of the Oz Series (Illustrated)' are: • All fourteen Oz books written by L. Frank Baum. • An individual ... Read more

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  • Hopper

    by Mark Strand ...
    Now in rich color, thirty of American painter Edward Hopper’s masterpieces with critiques from acclaimed poet Mark Strand. Strand deftly illuminates the work of the frequently misunderstood American painter, whose enigmatic paintings—of gas stations, storefronts, cafeterias, and hotel rooms—number among the most powerful of our time.In brief but wonderfully compelling comments accompanying each ... Read more

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  • Citizen

    An American Lyric

    by Claudia Rankine ...
    * Finalist for the National Book Award in Poetry ** Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry * Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism * Winner of the NAACP Image Award * Winner of the L.A. Times Book Prize * Winner of the PEN Open Book Award *ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR:The New Yorker, Boston Globe, The Atlantic, BuzzFeed, NPR. L... ... Read more

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  • Charles Dickens: The Complete Novels (The Greatest Writers of All Time)

    by Charles Dickens, Red Deer Classics ...
    This edition has been professionally formatted and contains several tables of contents. The first table of contents (at the very beginning of the ebook) lists the titles of all novels included in this volume. By clicking on one of those titles you will be redirected to the beginning of that work, where you'll find a new TOC that lists all the chapters and sub-chapters of that specific work. This ... Read more

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  • The Work of Art

    How Something Comes from Nothing

    by Adam Moss ...
    **The New York Times bestseller and one of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of 2024"The gift book of the year, a volume that should have broad appeal and deliver many hours of pleasure to the recipient. The Work of Art is a gorgeous book.” —John Warner*, The Chicago Tribune*From former editor of New York magazine Adam Moss, a collection of illuminating conversations examining the very personal, ... Read more

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  • Nothing If Not Critical

    Essays on Art and Artists

    by Robert Hughes ...
    From Holbein to Hockney, from Norman Rockwell to Pablo Picasso, from sixteenth-century Rome to 1980s SoHo, Robert Hughes looks with love, loathing, warmth, wit and authority at a wide range of art and artists, good, bad, past and present.As art critic for Time magazine, internationally acclaimed for his study of modern art, The Shock of the New, he is perhaps America’s most widely read and admired ... Read more

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  • How to Be an Artist

    by Jerry Saltz ...
    **Instant New York Times Bestseller"Inspiration leaps off the pages from Jerry Saltz's new book on creativity. . . . This book is for the artist or non-artist, for the person who gets plain English, for the person who understands that practical talk can coax out the mystical messages that lie underneath." —Steve Martin**Art has the power to change our lives. For many, becoming an artist is a ... Read more

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  • Who's Afraid of Conceptual Art?

    by Peter Goldie, Elisabeth Schellekens ...
    What is conceptual art? Is it really a kind of art in its own right? Is it clever – or too clever?Of all the different art forms it is perhaps conceptual art which at once fascinates and infuriates the most. In this much-needed book Peter Goldie and Elisabeth Schellekens demystify conceptual art using the sharp tools of philosophy. They explain how conceptual art is driven by ideas rather than the ... Read more

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  • The Design of Everyday Things

    by Don Norman ...
    **The essential guide to human-centered design“Even more relevant today than it was when first published.”—Tim Brown, CEO, IDEO**Even the smartest among us can feel inept as we fail to figure out which light switch or oven burner to turn on, or whether to push, pull, or slide a door. The fault, argues this ingenious—even liberating—book, lies not in ourselves, but in product design that ignores ... Read more

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  • Film

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Michael Wood ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Film is considered by some to be the most dominant art form of the twentieth century. It is many things, but it has become above all a means of telling stories through images and sounds. The stories are often offered to us as quite false, frankly and beautifully fantastic, and they are sometimes insistently said to be true. But they are stories in both cases, and there are very few films, even in ... Read more

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  • Introductory Lectures on Aesthetics

    by Georg Hegel ...
    Translated by Bernard Bosanquet ...
    No philosopher has held a higher opinion of art than Hegel, yet nor was any so profoundly pessimistic about its prospects - despite living in the German golden age of Goethe, Mozart and Schiller. For if the artists of classical Greece could find the perfect fusion of content and form, modernity faced complicating - and ultimately disabling - questions. Christianity, with its code of unworldliness, ... Read more

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  • All About Color Mixing for Watercolor Beginners

    Watercolor

    by Honey Silvas ...
    Series series Watercolor
    All About Color Mixing for Watercolor Beginners is a joyful exploration into the world of colors! Learn all about modern color theory and practical color mixing. Great for beginners and intermediate artists! ... Read more

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  • War in Art. From War Propaganda to Artists’ Activism

    State of Art, #3

    by Roberto Russo ...
    Series Book 3 - State of Art
    War in Art. From War Propaganda to Artists' ActivismArt Subjects and Themes of War through the Masterpieces of Art HistoryFrom the Standard of Ur to Banksy's murals, passing through Goya's engravings, this book explores how artists have narrated, denounced, and transformed war into images.Through forty-four key works, it retraces the representation of conflict from the dawn of civilization to the ... Read more

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  • Women in Art. Stories of Female Imagery

    State of Art, #4

    by Roberto Russo ...
    Series Book 4 - State of Art
    Women in Art traces the visual history of the female figure across time: from ancient goddesses to Renaissance Madonnas, from muses and models to women artists who finally claim the right to represent themselves.This is an art history nonfiction book that offers a clear narrative about how the image of woman has been shaped, idealized, censored, celebrated, and ultimately reclaimed.This book shows ... Read more

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  • The Word Made Flesh

    Literary Tattoos from Bookworms

    by Eva Talmadge, Justin Taylor ...
    A beautifully packaged full-color collection of literary tattoos and short personal essays, The Word Made Flesh is an intimate but anonymous confessional book, in the vein of thought-provoking anthologies like PostSecret and Not Quite What I Was Planning. Gorgeous photographs and candid commentary are collected by authors Eva Talmadge—whose short story “The Cranes” was cited as Notable Nonrequired ... Read more

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  • Pop Song

    Adventures in Art & Intimacy

    by Larissa Pham ...
    "A warm and expansive portrait of a woman’s mind that feels at once singular and universal," this collection of essays interweaves commentary on modern life, feminism, art, and sex with the author's own experiences of obsession, heartbreak, and vulnerability (BuzzFeed)Like a song that feels written just for you, Larissa Pham's debut work of nonfiction captures the imagination and refuses to let go ... Read more

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