Alexis RockmanWritten by Stephen Jay Gould, Jonathan Crary and David QuammenFormat: Hardcover On Sale: January 5, 2004 Price: $75.00 At the intersection of science and art, documentary and fantasy, the beautiful and the grotesque lies the work of Alexis Rockman, whose meticulously rendered paintings fascinate, amuse, and alarm -- often simultaneously -- as they explore the relationship between humanity and nature. A native New Yorker who frequented the American Museum... |
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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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An American OdysseyThe Warner Collection of American Fine and Decorative ArtsWritten by Tom ArmstrongFormat: Hardcover On Sale: April 15, 2002 Price: $60.00 An American Odyssey is the story of Jonathan Westervelt Warner, entrepreneur, art collector, and philanthropist. The grandson of Herbert Westervelt, inventor of the EZ Opener brown-paper grocery bag and founder of Gulf States Paper Corporation in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, and the son of Mildred Westervelt Warner, former president of Gulf States and... |
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American SignsForm and Meaning on Rte. 66Written by Lisa Mahar-KeplingerFormat: Trade Paperback On Sale: October 14, 2002 Price: $40.00 The roadside sign has become an American icon: a glowing neon symbol of the golden age of the open road. Yet signs are complex pieces of design, serving not only as physical markers but also as cultural, political, and economic ones. In American Signs, Lisa Mahar traces the evolution of motel... |
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Art and the Power of PlacementWritten by Victoria NewhouseFormat: Hardcover On Sale: May 19, 2005 Price: $50.00 Where and how an artwork is presented can enhance it or detract from it, or even alter its meaning. Depending on the display, painting and sculpture can denote a religious, political, decorative, or educational significance, as well as aesthetic and commercial value. Just how powerful the effect of placement can be... |
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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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Betty WoodmanWritten by Janet Koplos, Betty Woodman and Arthur C. DantoFormat: Hardcover On Sale: April 1, 2006 Price: $65.00 One of the world's leading ceramists, Betty Woodman bridges the gap between art and craft, and continues to expand the boundaries of her discipline. Published in conjunction with a retrospective exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, this beautifully illustrated book shows how she became a pioneer in... |
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The Design Art of Nicos ZographosWritten by Peter Bradford, Introduction by George LoisFormat: Hardcover On Sale: July 17, 2000 Price: $50.00 The world's most singular, severely elegant collection of contemporary furniture has been created by Nicos Zographos. He has produced hundreds of striking designs for thousands of spaces in America and Europe. Many great architects like Philip Johnson, Gordon Bunshaft, Walter Gropius, and I. M. Pei have used his work to complement... |
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Emotion As PromotionA Book of ThirstWritten by Rick ValicentiFormat: Hardcover On Sale: April 21, 2005 Price: $60.00 From innovative fonts and commercial logos to products and artists' books, the work of graphic design collective Thirst is unmistakable: dazzling in form, intellectually challenging, incorporating Real Human Presence, just over the edge of the Discomfort Zone. The firm is known not only for fusions of text and image but for... |
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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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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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Jim DineThe Alchemy of ImagesWritten by Marco LivingstoneFormat: Hardcover On Sale: October 1, 1998 Price: $85.00 In fewer than four decades, Jim Dine has produced more than 3,500 works in an astonishing range of media -- above all in painting, sculpture, drawing, and printmaking, but with occasional excursions into performance, stage design, book design, poetry, and even music -- using a variety of approaches and imagery. Illustrated... |
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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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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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Work, Life, ToolsThe Things We Use to Do the Things We DoWritten by Milton Glaser and Steelcase Design, Foreword by George M. BeylerianFormat: Trade Paperback On Sale: December 1, 1997 Price: $35.00 Work, Life, Tools artfully examines the tools people use in their everyday lives. Developed by Steelcase Design Partnership and designed by Milton Glaser, this original portrait of late-twentieth-century American work and culture serves as a time capsule for generations to come. Fifty individuals from diverse backgrounds and professions were asked to... |
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