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Antoine's Alphabet
Watteau and His World
Written by Jed Perl
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: September 15, 2009
Price: $15.00
Antoine Watteau, one of the most mysterious painters who ever lived, is the inspiration for this delightful investigation of the tangled relationship between art and life. Weaving together historical fact and personal reflections, the influential art critic Jed Perl reconstructs the amazing story of this pioneering bohemian artist who, although he... Read more >
Watteau and His World
Written by Jed Perl
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: September 15, 2009
Price: $15.00
Antoine Watteau, one of the most mysterious painters who ever lived, is the inspiration for this delightful investigation of the tangled relationship between art and life. Weaving together historical fact and personal reflections, the influential art critic Jed Perl reconstructs the amazing story of this pioneering bohemian artist who, although he... Read more >
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The Shape of a Pocket
Written by John Berger
Format: eBook
On Sale: September 9, 2009
Price: $14.00
The pocket in question is a small pocket of resistance. A pocket is formed when two or more people come together in agreement. The resistance is against the inhumanity of the new world economic order. The people coming together are the reader, me and those the essays are about — Rembrandt... Read more >
Written by John Berger
Format: eBook
On Sale: September 9, 2009
Price: $14.00
The pocket in question is a small pocket of resistance. A pocket is formed when two or more people come together in agreement. The resistance is against the inhumanity of the new world economic order. The people coming together are the reader, me and those the essays are about — Rembrandt... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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New Art City
Manhattan at Mid-Century
Written by Jed Perl
Format: eBook, 656 pages
On Sale: June 3, 2009
Price: $18.95
A fascinating, panoramic exploration of art and culture in mid-twentieth-century New York City from one of our most important and influential art critics.
New Art City takes us from the solitude of the artist’s studio to the uproarious bars where artists gathered, from the ramshackle bohemian neighborhoods of downtown Manhattan to... Read more >
Manhattan at Mid-Century
Written by Jed Perl
Format: eBook, 656 pages
On Sale: June 3, 2009
Price: $18.95
A fascinating, panoramic exploration of art and culture in mid-twentieth-century New York City from one of our most important and influential art critics.
New Art City takes us from the solitude of the artist’s studio to the uproarious bars where artists gathered, from the ramshackle bohemian neighborhoods of downtown Manhattan to... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Hopper
Written by Mark Strand
Format: eBook, 80 pages
On Sale: March 25, 2009
Price: $15.00
Read more >
Written by Mark Strand
Format: eBook, 80 pages
On Sale: March 25, 2009
Price: $15.00
Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Selected Essays of John Berger
Written by John Berger
Format: eBook, 608 pages
On Sale: December 10, 2008
Price: $21.00
The writing career of John Berger–poet, storyteller, playwright, and essayist–has yielded some of the most original and compelling examinations of art and life of the past half century. In this essential volume, Geoff Dyer has brought together a rich selection of many of Berger’s seminal essays.
Berger’s insights make it impossible... Read more >
Written by John Berger
Format: eBook, 608 pages
On Sale: December 10, 2008
Price: $21.00
The writing career of John Berger–poet, storyteller, playwright, and essayist–has yielded some of the most original and compelling examinations of art and life of the past half century. In this essential volume, Geoff Dyer has brought together a rich selection of many of Berger’s seminal essays.
Berger’s insights make it impossible... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Antoine's Alphabet
Watteau and His World
Written by Jed Perl
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
On Sale: September 16, 2008
Price: $25.00
Antoine Watteau, one of the most mysterious painters who ever lived, is the inspiration for this delightful investigation of the tangled relationship between art and life. Weaving together historical fact and personal reflections, the influential art critic Jed Perl reconstructs the amazing story of this pioneering bohemian artist who, although he... Read more >
Watteau and His World
Written by Jed Perl
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
On Sale: September 16, 2008
Price: $25.00
Antoine Watteau, one of the most mysterious painters who ever lived, is the inspiration for this delightful investigation of the tangled relationship between art and life. Weaving together historical fact and personal reflections, the influential art critic Jed Perl reconstructs the amazing story of this pioneering bohemian artist who, although he... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
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The Unknown Hieronymus Bosch
Written by Kurt Falk
Format: Trade Paperback, 116 pages
On Sale: September 16, 2008
Price: $29.95
The paintings of Hieronymus Bosch (1450–1516) have captivated and confounded observers for centuries, leading to wildly varying conclusions on the artist’s spirituality. Kurt Falk presents the first analysis of Bosch’s inner life in light of a hitherto unknown—and now lost—version of one of his seminal works, The Last Judgment, found by... Read more >
Written by Kurt Falk
Format: Trade Paperback, 116 pages
On Sale: September 16, 2008
Price: $29.95
The paintings of Hieronymus Bosch (1450–1516) have captivated and confounded observers for centuries, leading to wildly varying conclusions on the artist’s spirituality. Kurt Falk presents the first analysis of Bosch’s inner life in light of a hitherto unknown—and now lost—version of one of his seminal works, The Last Judgment, found by... Read more >
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Antoine's Alphabet
Written by Jed Perl
Format: eBook
On Sale: September 9, 2008
Price: $15.00
Antoine Watteau, one of the most mysterious painters who ever lived, is the inspiration for this delightful investigation of the tangled relationship between art and life. Weaving together historical fact and personal reflections, the influential art critic Jed Perl reconstructs the amazing story of this pioneering bohemian artist who, although he... Read more >
Written by Jed Perl
Format: eBook
On Sale: September 9, 2008
Price: $15.00
Antoine Watteau, one of the most mysterious painters who ever lived, is the inspiration for this delightful investigation of the tangled relationship between art and life. Weaving together historical fact and personal reflections, the influential art critic Jed Perl reconstructs the amazing story of this pioneering bohemian artist who, although he... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
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New Art City
Manhattan at Mid-Century
Written by Jed Perl
Format: Trade Paperback, 656 pages
On Sale: February 13, 2007
Price: $18.95
In this landmark work, Jed Perl captures the excitement of a generation of legendary artists–Jackson Pollack, Joseph Cornell, Robert Rauschenberg, and Ellsworth Kelly among them–who came to New York, mingled in its lofts and bars, and revolutionized American art. In a continuously arresting narrative, Perl also portrays such less well known... Read more >
Manhattan at Mid-Century
Written by Jed Perl
Format: Trade Paperback, 656 pages
On Sale: February 13, 2007
Price: $18.95
In this landmark work, Jed Perl captures the excitement of a generation of legendary artists–Jackson Pollack, Joseph Cornell, Robert Rauschenberg, and Ellsworth Kelly among them–who came to New York, mingled in its lofts and bars, and revolutionized American art. In a continuously arresting narrative, Perl also portrays such less well known... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Born Under Saturn
The Character and Conduct of Artists
Written by Rudolf Wittkower and Margot Wittkower
Introduction by Joseph Connors
Format: Trade Paperback, 360 pages
On Sale: November 28, 2006
Price: $18.95
A rare art history classic that The New York Times calls a “delightful, scholarly and gossipy romp through the character and conduct of artists from antiquity to the French Revolution.”
Born Under Saturn is a classic work of scholarship written with a light and winning touch. Margot and Rudolf Wittkower explore the... Read more >
The Character and Conduct of Artists
Written by Rudolf Wittkower and Margot Wittkower
Introduction by Joseph Connors
Format: Trade Paperback, 360 pages
On Sale: November 28, 2006
Price: $18.95
A rare art history classic that The New York Times calls a “delightful, scholarly and gossipy romp through the character and conduct of artists from antiquity to the French Revolution.”
Born Under Saturn is a classic work of scholarship written with a light and winning touch. Margot and Rudolf Wittkower explore the... Read more >
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Ethics and the Visual Arts
Edited by Elaine King and Gail Levin
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: September 1, 2006
Price: $27.50
The dark side of the arts is explored in this timely volume, sure to spark discussion and debate. Nineteen diverse essays by such distinguished authors as Eric Fischl, Suzanne Boettger, Stephen Weil, Richard Serra, and more cover a broad range of topics facing today’s artists, policy makers, art lawyers, galleries, museum... Read more >
Edited by Elaine King and Gail Levin
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: September 1, 2006
Price: $27.50
The dark side of the arts is explored in this timely volume, sure to spark discussion and debate. Nineteen diverse essays by such distinguished authors as Eric Fischl, Suzanne Boettger, Stephen Weil, Richard Serra, and more cover a broad range of topics facing today’s artists, policy makers, art lawyers, galleries, museum... Read more >
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Why Paint Cats
The Ethics of Feline Aesthetics
Written by Burton Silver and Heather Busch
Format: Hardcover, 144 pages
On Sale: September 1, 2006
Price: $9.95
WHY PAINT CATS ruffled fur in 2002 with its scholarly study of a controversial art movement that treats cats as canvas. Those seminal books in feline aesthetics are now offered in new pocket-size editions filled with the best from each volume, making purrfect gifts for cat lovers and art lovers alike.Reviews"A... Read more >
The Ethics of Feline Aesthetics
Written by Burton Silver and Heather Busch
Format: Hardcover, 144 pages
On Sale: September 1, 2006
Price: $9.95
WHY PAINT CATS ruffled fur in 2002 with its scholarly study of a controversial art movement that treats cats as canvas. Those seminal books in feline aesthetics are now offered in new pocket-size editions filled with the best from each volume, making purrfect gifts for cat lovers and art lovers alike.Reviews"A... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Still Looking
Essays on American Art
Written by John Updike
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: November 8, 2005
Price: $45.00
When, in 1989, a collection of John Updike’s writings on art appeared under the title Just Looking, a reviewer in the San Francisco Chronicle commented, “He refreshes for us the sense of prose opportunity that makes art a sustaining subject to people who write about it.” In the sixteen years since... Read more >
Essays on American Art
Written by John Updike
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: November 8, 2005
Price: $45.00
When, in 1989, a collection of John Updike’s writings on art appeared under the title Just Looking, a reviewer in the San Francisco Chronicle commented, “He refreshes for us the sense of prose opportunity that makes art a sustaining subject to people who write about it.” In the sixteen years since... Read more >
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Artful Jesters
Innovators of Visual Wit and Humor
Written by Nicholas Roukes
Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
On Sale: March 1, 2004
Price: $19.95
While most artists use skill and imagination to create objects of inspiration, only a mischievous few challenge viewers with a dose of humor in the form of whimsy, wit, irony, parody, satire, or nonsense. In ARTFUL JESTERS, artist and professor Nicholas Roukes provides a historical perspective on the use of humor... Read more >
Innovators of Visual Wit and Humor
Written by Nicholas Roukes
Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
On Sale: March 1, 2004
Price: $19.95
While most artists use skill and imagination to create objects of inspiration, only a mischievous few challenge viewers with a dose of humor in the form of whimsy, wit, irony, parody, satire, or nonsense. In ARTFUL JESTERS, artist and professor Nicholas Roukes provides a historical perspective on the use of humor... Read more >
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Selected Essays of John Berger
Written by John Berger
Format: Trade Paperback, 608 pages
On Sale: March 11, 2003
Price: $21.00
The writing career of John Berger–poet, storyteller, playwright, and essayist–has yielded some of the most original and compelling examinations of art and life of the past half century. In this essential volume, Geoff Dyer has brought together a rich selection of many of Berger’s seminal essays.
Berger’s insights make it impossible... Read more >
Written by John Berger
Format: Trade Paperback, 608 pages
On Sale: March 11, 2003
Price: $21.00
The writing career of John Berger–poet, storyteller, playwright, and essayist–has yielded some of the most original and compelling examinations of art and life of the past half century. In this essential volume, Geoff Dyer has brought together a rich selection of many of Berger’s seminal essays.
Berger’s insights make it impossible... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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The Shape of a Pocket
Written by John Berger
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: March 11, 2003
Price: $14.00
The pocket in question is a small pocket of resistance. A pocket is formed when two or more people come together in agreement. The resistance is against the inhumanity of the New World Economic Order. The people coming together are the reader, me, and those the essays are about–Rembrandt, Paleolithic cave... Read more >
Written by John Berger
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: March 11, 2003
Price: $14.00
The pocket in question is a small pocket of resistance. A pocket is formed when two or more people come together in agreement. The resistance is against the inhumanity of the New World Economic Order. The people coming together are the reader, me, and those the essays are about–Rembrandt, Paleolithic cave... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Writing about Visual Art
Written by David Carrier
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: March 1, 2003
Price: $21.95
Read more >
Written by David Carrier
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: March 1, 2003
Price: $21.95
Read more >
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Reading Pictures
What We Think About When We Look at Art
Written by Alberto Manguel
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: October 15, 2002
Price: $19.00
This profoundly illuminating, entertaining book could well change the way we "read" the visual world around us, and certainly help open our eyes and minds to its astonishing riches. The language in which we speak about art has become steadily more abstruse, a jargon that only art critics and con-artists can... Read more >
What We Think About When We Look at Art
Written by Alberto Manguel
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: October 15, 2002
Price: $19.00
This profoundly illuminating, entertaining book could well change the way we "read" the visual world around us, and certainly help open our eyes and minds to its astonishing riches. The language in which we speak about art has become steadily more abstruse, a jargon that only art critics and con-artists can... Read more >
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Why Paint Cats
The Ethics of Feline Aesthetics
Written by Burton Silver and Heather Busch
Format: Trade Paperback, 96 pages
On Sale: August 8, 2002
Price: $17.95
Why did a woman in California pay an artist $5,000 to paint her cat to look like a pig? What made a New York stockbroker spend even more than that to have the image of Charlie Chaplin painted on his cat'¬?s posterior? WHY PAINT CATS reveals that, far from being an... Read more >
The Ethics of Feline Aesthetics
Written by Burton Silver and Heather Busch
Format: Trade Paperback, 96 pages
On Sale: August 8, 2002
Price: $17.95
Why did a woman in California pay an artist $5,000 to paint her cat to look like a pig? What made a New York stockbroker spend even more than that to have the image of Charlie Chaplin painted on his cat'¬?s posterior? WHY PAINT CATS reveals that, far from being an... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover.
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Hopper
Written by Mark Strand
Format: Trade Paperback, 80 pages
On Sale: November 13, 2001
Price: $15.00
Read more >
Written by Mark Strand
Format: Trade Paperback, 80 pages
On Sale: November 13, 2001
Price: $15.00
Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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The Shape of Ancient Thought
Comparative Studies in Greek and Indian Philosophies
Written by Thomas Mcevilley
Format: Hardcover, 768 pages
On Sale: November 1, 2001
Price: $50.00
Read more >
Comparative Studies in Greek and Indian Philosophies
Written by Thomas Mcevilley
Format: Hardcover, 768 pages
On Sale: November 1, 2001
Price: $50.00
Read more >
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Uncontrollable Beauty
Toward a New Aesthetics
Written by David Shapiro
Edited by Bill Beckley
Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
On Sale: October 1, 2001
Price: $24.95
In this acclaimed art anthology, a prestigious group of artists, critics, and literati offer their incisive reflections on the questions of beauty, past, present, and future, and how it has become a domain of multiple perspectives.
Here is Meyer Schapiro’s skeptical argument on perfection . . . contributions from artists as... Read more >
Toward a New Aesthetics
Written by David Shapiro
Edited by Bill Beckley
Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
On Sale: October 1, 2001
Price: $24.95
In this acclaimed art anthology, a prestigious group of artists, critics, and literati offer their incisive reflections on the questions of beauty, past, present, and future, and how it has become a domain of multiple perspectives.
Here is Meyer Schapiro’s skeptical argument on perfection . . . contributions from artists as... Read more >
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Nobrow
The Culture of Marketing + The Marketing of Culture
Written by John Seabrook
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: February 6, 2001
Price: $13.95
From John Seabrook, one of our most incisive and amusing cultural critics, comes Nobrow, a fascinatingly original look at the radical convergence of marketing and culture.
In the old days, highbrow was elite and unique and lowbrow was commercial and mass-produced. Those distinctions have been eradicated by a new cultural landscape where... Read more >
The Culture of Marketing + The Marketing of Culture
Written by John Seabrook
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: February 6, 2001
Price: $13.95
From John Seabrook, one of our most incisive and amusing cultural critics, comes Nobrow, a fascinatingly original look at the radical convergence of marketing and culture.
In the old days, highbrow was elite and unique and lowbrow was commercial and mass-produced. Those distinctions have been eradicated by a new cultural landscape where... Read more >
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Redeeming Art
Critical Reveries
Written by Donald Kuspit
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: May 1, 2000
Price: $21.95
Read more >
Critical Reveries
Written by Donald Kuspit
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: May 1, 2000
Price: $21.95
Read more >
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Beauty and the Contemporary Sublime
Written by Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe
Format: Trade Paperback, 180 pages
On Sale: December 1, 1999
Price: $18.95
Esteemed critic, painter, and writer Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe offers a provocative critique of beauty in relation to the contemporary notion of the sublime, which is now found in technology and a high-powered economy rather than in nature. Refuting established views, this book questions today's ideas of beauty, including those applied to contemporary... Read more >
Written by Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe
Format: Trade Paperback, 180 pages
On Sale: December 1, 1999
Price: $18.95
Esteemed critic, painter, and writer Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe offers a provocative critique of beauty in relation to the contemporary notion of the sublime, which is now found in technology and a high-powered economy rather than in nature. Refuting established views, this book questions today's ideas of beauty, including those applied to contemporary... Read more >
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