The Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait
By: Carlos Fuentes , Frida Kahlo , Sarah M. Lowe
4.81
Format: 539 pages, Hardcover
Published here in its entirety, Frida Kahlo's amazing illustrated journal documents the last ten ye…
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1. Color and Light: A Guide for the Realist Painter (Volume 2) (James Gurney Art)
By: James Gurney
4.22
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
From New York Times best-selling author of the Dinotopia series, James Gurney, comes a carefully cr… read more
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"There is not a single brand of realism. Your paintings can be true to nature but emphasize different aspects of visual truth compared to another artist. The way you paint is a record of how you see. …"-James Gurney, Color and Light: A Guide for the Realist Painter (Volume 2) (James Gurney Art)
2. Gustav Klimt: 1862-1918
By: Gilles Néret
4.18
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Cult of pleasure: Feminine sensuality by the Vienna Secession's greatest proponentGustav Klimt's or… read more
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"Some elements appear in this picture which would be decisive in Klimt's subsequent work: for instance, the use of gold and the transformation of anatomy into ornamentation, of ornamentation into anat…"-Gilles Néret, Gustav Klimt: 1862-1918
"This intensely lyrical vision of the pregant woman in [i]Hope I[i] is set in an ambiguous context peopled with masks, death's heads and allegorical monsters such as Sin, Disease, Poverty and Death, a…"-Gilles Néret, Gustav Klimt: 1862-1918
"Eros and Thanatos were always the source of his inspiration, even though, from this time on, they usually appear in the guise of two simple and fundamental themes: flowers and women. These themes off…"-Gilles Néret, Gustav Klimt: 1862-1918
3. Art Through the Ages
By: Fred S. Kleiner , Helen Gardner , Christin J. Mamiya
3.85
Format: 1150 pages, Hardcover
The market-leading text for the art history survey course, GARDNER'S ART THROUGH THE AGES has serve… read more
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4. The Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait
By: Carlos Fuentes , Frida Kahlo , Sarah M. Lowe
4.81
Format: 539 pages, Hardcover
Published here in its entirety, Frida Kahlo's amazing illustrated journal documents the last ten ye… read more
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- feminism
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
5. History of Beauty
By: Umberto Eco , Alastair McEwen , None
4.33
Format: 481 pages, Hardcover
Now in paperback, Umberto Eco's groundbreaking and much-acclaimed first illustrated book has been a… read more
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6. Leonardo's Notebooks
By: Leonardo da Vinci , H. Anna Suh
4.31
Format: None pages, Hardcover
An all-new, jewel-like, reader-friendly format gives new life to this relaunch of an international … read more
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7. Interaction of Color
By: Josef Albers , Nicholas Fox Weber
4.21
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Josef Albers's Interaction of Coloris a masterwork in twentieth-century art education. Conceived as… read more
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8. Color: A Natural History of the Palette
By: Victoria Finlay
4.14
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Discover the tantalizing true stories behind your favorite colors. For example: Cleopatra used saff… read more
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9. Vincent Van Gogh: The Complete Paintings
By: Ingo F. Walther , Rainer Metzger
3.71
Format: 412 pages, Paperback
Van Gogh, who took up a variety of professions before becoming an artist, was a solitary, despairin… read more
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10. Seven Days in the Art World
By: Sarah Thornton
3.45
Format: None pages, Paperback
Named one of the best art books of 2008 by The New York Timesand The Sunday Times[London]: "An inde… read more
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11. The Letters of Vincent van Gogh
By: Vincent van Gogh , Mark Roskill , Arnold J. Pomerans , Ronald de Leeuw
3.73
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
A new selection of post-impressionist painter Vincent Van Gough's letters,The Letters of Vincent va… read more
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12. M.C. Escher: The Graphic Work
By: M.C. Escher , Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer
4.06
Format: 205 pages, Paperback
Presenting the structurally unthinkable as though it were a law of nature M.C. Escher was born in 1… read more
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13. Dali: The Paintings
By: Gilles Néret , Robert Descharnes
3.50
Format: 140 pages,
This publication presents the entire painted oeuvre of Salvador Dali (1904-1989). After many years … read more
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14. Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art
By: Scott McCloud
4.75
Format: 2112 pages, Paperback
The bestselling international classic on storytelling and visual communication "You must read this … read more
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15. History of Art
By: H.W. Janson , Anthony F. Janson
3.60
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
For 1000s of art lovers both amateur & professional, esthetic life began with Janson, as his Histor… read more
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16. Concerning the Spiritual in Art
By: Wassily Kandinsky
3.89
Format: 440 pages, Paperback
A pioneering work in the movement to free art from its traditional bonds to material reality, this … read more
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17. On Photography
By: Susan Sontag
3.89
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
First published in 1973, this is a study of the force of photographic images which are continually … read more
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"The painter constructs, the photographer discloses."-Susan Sontag, On Photography
"Photographs shock insofar as they show something novel."-Susan Sontag, On Photography
"Cameras miniaturize experience, transform history into spectacle."-Susan Sontag, On Photography
"Una fotografía es a la vez una pseudopresencia y un signo de ausencia."-Susan Sontag, On Photography
18. Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo
By: Hayden Herrera
3.59
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Hailed by readers and critics across the country, this engrossing biography of Mexican painter Frid… read more
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19. The Art Book
By: Phaidon Press
3.44
Format: None pages, Paperback
An A to Z guide to 500 great painters and sculptors from medieval to modern times, it debunks art h… read more
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20. The Secret Lives of Color
By: Kassia St. Clair
4.12
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The Secret Lives of Colour tells the unusual stories of the 75 most fascinating shades, dyes and hu… read more
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"Van Gogh's sunflowers, it seems, are wilting, just like their real-life counterparts did."-Kassia St. Clair, The Secret Lives of Color
21. Van Gogh: The Life
By: Steven Naifeh
4.18
Format: 976 pages, Kindle Edition
Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith, who galvanized readers with their Pulitzer Prize–winning bio… read more
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"Me pregunto por qué los brillantes puntitos del cielo no nos resultan tan asequibles como los puntos negros que llenan el mapa de Francia. Cogemos un tren para ir de Tarascón a Ruán, pero para llegar…"-Steven Naifeh, Van Gogh: The Life
