Anatomy for the Artist
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Using superb specially commissioned photographs of male and female models together with historical...
Beg, Steal and Borrow: Artists Against Originality
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"Art is theft," Picasso once proclaimed. The wily old Spaniard was being provocative - he often...
By the Pen and What They Write: Writing in Islamic Art and Culture
Sheila S. Blair and Jonathan M. Bloom
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Considered by Muslims as the only true art, calligraphy has played a prominent role in Islamic...
Eye of the Beholder: Johannes Vermeer, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, and the Reinvention of Seeing
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By the early 17th century the Scientific Revolution was well under way. Philosophers and scientists...
Figures of History
Julie Rose and Jacques Ranciere
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In this important new book the leading philosopher Jacques Ranciere continues his reflections on the...
Geographies of Making, Craft and Creativity
Laura Price and Harriet Hawkins
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This book brings together cutting edge research from leading international scholars to explore the...
Is That Biedermeier: Amerling, Waldmuller and More
Agnes Husslein-Arco and Eszter Bekefi
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This volume illustrates the development of art in Central Europe from 1830 - 1860 - a period which...
Jasper Johns: An Allegory of Painting, 1955-1965
John Elderfield, Jeffrey Weiss, Carol Mancusi-Ungaro and Robert Morris
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Jasper Johns (b. 1930) is one of the most significant figures in the history of postwar art. His...
My Cool Scooter: An Inspirational Guide to Stylish Scooters
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In terms of public image, the scooter has long played second fiddle to the motorcycle. Of course,...
Necropolitics and its Discontents: Art, Mortality and the Political Imagination
Mick Wilson, Silvia Loeffler and Noel Fitzpatrick
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Necropolitics and its Discontents addresses the relationship between the contemporary political...