Along the WayMTA Arts for TransitWritten by Sandra Bloodworth and William Ayres, Foreword by Stanley TucciFormat: Hardcover On Sale: November 2, 2006 Price: $50.00 Along the Way is a tour through New York's underground museum of contemporary art, works commissioned by MTA Arts for Transit for the subway system and commuter rail lines. Vivid murals by Roy Lichtenstein and Romare Bearden convey the energy of Times Square, while Robert Wilson's Coney Island Baby captures the... |
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Asian Art NowWritten by Melissa Chiu and Benjamin GenocchioFormat: Hardcover On Sale: September 28, 2010 Price: $60.00 The remarkable phenomenon of the twenty-first-century art world is contemporary Asian art. Fueled by a newfound openness in the East, and by an economic boom that has promoted a vibrant cultural confidence, art made in Asia or by Asian artists since the 1990s has become dynamic and exciting, acknowledged and appreciated... |
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The Ballets Russes and the Art of DesignEdited by Alston Purvis, Peter Rand and Anna WinesteinFormat: Hardcover On Sale: December 1, 2009 Price: $50.00 The Ballets Russes was a phenomenon of the early twentieth century, permeating daily life wherever the company traveled and leaving a lasting impact on dance, theater, and the visual arts. Sergei Diaghilev, impresario from 1909 until his death in 1929, fused the most avant-garde, groundbreaking movements in dance, choreography, art, design... |
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David Stark DesignWritten by David StarkFormat: Hardcover On Sale: April 27, 2010 Price: $40.00 David Stark is one of New York’s most creative and sought-after event designers. This book explores forty of Stark’s elaborate yet eco-friendly events—corporate, non-profit, and private—with 200 exquisite photographs and descriptive text. Organized according to the designer’s quirky phraseology—“Animate the Inanimate” “Don't Take It So Seriously . . . At the... |
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Eric Fischl1970-2007Written by Arthur C. Danto and Robert Enright, Afterword by Steve MartinFormat: Hardcover On Sale: May 15, 2008 Price: $85.00 Eric Fischl emerged in the 1980s as one of America's most important figurative painters. His paintings, many of which show a single intense moment, compel the viewer to participate in a world of middle-class suburban ambiguity and drama. In Fischl's engaging distinctly American canvases, narrative, morality, sexuality, and psychology are preeminent... |
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GraphicInside the Sketchbooks of the World's Great Graphic DesignersWritten by Steven Heller and Lita TalaricoFormat: Trade Paperback On Sale: October 26, 2010 Price: $60.00 We are constantly surrounded by design—in advertisements, in books and magazines, on the Internet, on television—and each graphic element we see was carefully constructed through a designer’s very personal process. Yet only the finished article is presented. Rarely do we gain insight into how visual solutions have been reached or the... |
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Henri MatisseRooms with a ViewWritten by Shirley Neilsen BlumFormat: Hardcover On Sale: November 16, 2010 Price: $60.00 The colorful, painterly, uplifting, and often joyous works of Henri Matisse are critical in the history of modern art. Throughout his many years as a painter, the celebrated artist kept returning to one particular subject—the windowed interior. Henri Matisse: Rooms with a View explores in depth, for the first time, the... |
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A History of the FutureWritten by Donna GoodmanFormat: Hardcover On Sale: November 25, 2008 Price: $45.00 The political, social, and economic upheaval of the early twentieth century generated an extraordinary range of proposals for the future as successive generations grappled with issues of organizing vast urban systems and humanizing dense industrial environments. As conceptual design became the vehicle for exploring ideas and presenting new movements, a dialogue... |
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I WonderWritten by Marian BantjesFormat: Hardcover On Sale: October 19, 2010 Price: $40.00 Quirky, poignant, astute, funny—this beautiful book presents a compelling collection of observations on visual culture and design, written and illuminated by world-renowned typographic illustrator Marian Bantjes. In Stefan Sagmeister's telling words, Bantjes's work is his "favorite example of beauty facilitating the communication of meaning." |
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Kiki SmithWritten by Helaine Posner, Contribution by Christopher LyonFormat: Hardcover On Sale: November 17, 2005 Price: $65.00 Through her explorations of the human body and the natural world, internationally acclaimed artist Kiki Smith has confronted the most urgent social and spiritual issues of our day. Direct and accessible, Smith's expressive art engages social and cultural issues in a sometimes viscerally disturbing way. In her recent work, Smith has... |
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A Life of StyleFashion, Home, EntertainingWritten by Rebecca MosesFormat: Hardcover On Sale: August 23, 2010 Price: $35.00 Style is a reflection of who we are, where we come from, and what we have experienced—the good, the bad, and the indifferent. It is what makes us into the unique beings that we are. Star fashion designer Rebecca Moses has devoted herself to crafting chic garments for stylish women world-wide. Underpinning... |
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Paris-New YorkDesign Fashion Culture 1925-1940Edited by Donald AlbrechtFormat: Hardcover On Sale: September 9, 2008 Price: $50.00 A burst of creative energy in the fields of architecture, design, and fashion characterized the years between the two World Wars. Shaping new styles of buildings and furnishings, redefining contemporary dress, and giving visual form to avant-garde performing arts, architects and designers forged a still-influential modern aesthetic. The era's most creative... |
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PicassoWritten by Philippe DagenFormat: Hardcover On Sale: November 17, 2009 Price: $150.00 Art critic and scholar Philippe Dagen approaches Picasso as a subject through a series of questions. What does it mean to be an artist in the twentieth century? What does it mean to be an artist in the time of newspapers and museums, in a time when the art market has... |
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Public Art for Public SchoolsWritten by Michele Cohen, Photographed by Stan Ries, Foreword by Michael BloombergFormat: Hardcover On Sale: April 14, 2009 Price: $50.00 What makes a good schoolhouse? Beyond the basics of classrooms and library, a good school inspires students and teachers and enhances the learning environment through its architecture and its art. Nowhere is this principle better demonstrated than in the New York City school system, the largest in the United States, where... |
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TainoPre-Columbian Art and Culture from the CaribbeanWritten by Ricardo E. Alegria and Jose ArromFormat: Trade Paperback On Sale: February 1, 1998 Price: $45.00 Organized by El Museo del Barrio in New York to coincide with a major exhibition, this is the first comprehensive English-language publication on the fascinating legacy of Taíno art and culture. Showcasing over one hundred rare and beautiful ceremonial and domestic artworks and individual masterpieces of this ancient culture -- produced... |
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Tangible VisionsNorthwest Coast Indian Shamanism and Its ArtWritten by Allen WardwellFormat: Hardcover On Sale: June 16, 2009 Price: $85.00 Northwest Coast Indian art is famous for its spectacular totem poles, house posts, feast dishes, boxes, and painted house fronts. Less well known but equally important is the art made for use by shamans, particularly those of the Tlingit, Tsimshian, and Haida tribes. This volume presents the first comprehensive illustrated study... |
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Tara DonovanWritten by Tara Donovan, Text by Lawrence Weschler, Nicholas Baume and Jen MergelFormat: Hardcover On Sale: September 16, 2008 Price: $45.00 Artist Tara Donovan uses commonplace consumer materials--toothpicks, tape, pencils, buttons, paper plates, and the like--to create her dazzling sculptural installations. Often biomorphic or topographical in character, her large-scale abstract works utilize systematic arrangements of thousands or even millions of units. Visually evocative and perceptually seductive, her pieces are at once organic... |
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Van Gogh in AuversHis Last DaysWritten by Wouter Van Der Veen, Preface by Axel RugerFormat: Hardcover On Sale: October 26, 2010 Price: $75.00 In the last seventy days of his life, Vincent van Gogh experienced an unprecedented burst of creativity. He painted at least one canvas per day, often more, and wrote dozens of eloquent, personal letters to family, fellow artists, and friends. For the first time, this volume gathers all that he produced... |
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