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  • Stopgap Measures

    Writings on Mike Kelley

    by John C. Welchman, Neil Holt ...
    Series Book 32 - Hatje Cantz Text
    Stopgap Measures presents an exciting selection of essays, interviews and shorter pieces on the work of American artist Mike Kelley (1954–2012) written over more than three decades by the noted art historian and cultural critic John C. Welchman.Kelley's provocative career gave rise to some of the most conceptually and materially diverse work of recent times— in performance, writing, painting, ... Read more

    $54.99 CAD

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  • Art After Appropriation

    Essays on Art in the 1990s

    by John C. Welchman ...
    Beginning with the first comprehensive account of the discourse of appropriation that dominated the art world in the late 1970s and 1980s, Art After Appropriation suggests a matrix of inflections and refusals around the culture of taking or citation, each chapter loosely correlated with one year of the decade between 1989 and 1999. The opening chapters show how the Second World culture of the USSR ... Read more

    $81.06 CAD

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  • Priceless

    How I Went Undercover to Rescue the World's Stolen Treasures

    by Robert K. Wittman, John Shiffman ...
    The Wall Street Journal called him “a living legend.” The London Times dubbed him “the most famous art detective in the world.”In Priceless, Robert K. Wittman, the founder of the FBI’s Art Crime Team, pulls back the curtain on his remarkable career for the first time, offering a real-life international thriller to rival The Thomas Crown Affair.Rising from humble roots as the son of an antique ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

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  • The Art of Rivalry

    Four Friendships, Betrayals, and Breakthroughs in Modern Art

    by Sebastian Smee ...
    Pulitzer Prize–winning art critic Sebastian Smee tells the fascinating story of four pairs of artists—Manet and Degas, Picasso and Matisse, Pollock and de Kooning, Freud and Bacon—whose fraught, competitive friendships spurred them to new creative heights.Rivalry is at the heart of some of the most famous and fruitful relationships in history. The Art of Rivalry follows eight celebrated artists, ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Art

    Everything You Need to Know About the Greatest Artists and Their Works

    by Susie Hodge ...
    Art introduces readers to 100 of the world's most important artists and their paintings, from the 13th century to the modern era. Works by artists including Caravaggio, Vermeer, van Gogh and Warhol are reproduced in superb high quality, arranged chronologically and set in their historical context by Susie Hodge's concise and readable narrative.Including explanations of key periods in art history - ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Portraits and Persons

    by Cynthia Freeland ...
    Portraits have for centuries been one of the most important art forms. But what do portraits tell us? What do they mean? And what makes a picture into a portrait? In this book, leading art philosopher Cynthia Freeland addresses these questions and more. As she shows, portraits have served two fundamental functions throughout the ages. Firstly, they preserve identity, bringing us closer to loved ... Read more

    $14.29 CAD

  • Fashion and Art

    Edited by Adam Geczy, Vicki Karaminas ...
    For at least two centuries, fashion and art have maintained a competitive love-hate relationship. Both fashion and art construct imaginary worlds, and use a language of style to invigorate beliefs, perceptions and ideas.Until now the crossovers of fashion and art have received only scattered treatment and suffered from a dearth of theorization. As an attempt to theorize the area, this collection ... Read more

    $47.49 CAD

  • Christian Art

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Beth Williamson ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Christian images have a long history within the Western art tradition from the narrative and devotional works of the Medieval and Renaissance periods, to the radical new interpretations of the twenty-first century. This fascinating new book explores the changing nature of the representation of key themes and subjects found in Christian art, covering the Eucharist, the crucifixion, the Virgin Mary, ... Read more

    $4.79 CAD

  • Michelangelo: Selected Readings

    Edited by William Wallace ...
    Michaelangelo: Selected Readings is the long-awaited condensation of the five volume English article collection of Michaelangelo's life. Selections include: Life and Early Works; The Sistine Chapel; San Lorenzo; Tomb of Julius II and Other Works in Rome; and Drawings, Poetry and Miscellaneous Studies. ... Read more

    $136.03 CAD

  • Making Art History

    A Changing Discipline and its Institutions

    Edited by Elizabeth Mansfield ...
    Making Art History is a collection of essays by contemporary scholars on the practice and theory of art history as it responds to institutions as diverse as art galleries and museums, publishing houses and universities, school boards and professional organizations, political parties and multinational corporations.The text is split into four thematic sections, each of which begins with a short ... Read more

    $111.30 CAD

  • Ancient Art of Dowsing

    by Duane Ose ...
    This book answers all the questions on dowsing, informing the reader as to why and how dowsing works. Moreover, it has the instructions to test oneself to become a dowser. Dowsing locates all objects that I refer to as targets, then to also measure the depths no matter how deep it is to the targets. Targets are can be mapped or traced from the surface, enabling the dowser to determine what the ... Read more

    $5.39 CAD

  • Amateur Craft

    History and Theory

    by Stephen Knott ...
    Amateur Craft provides an illuminating and historically-grounded account of amateur craft in the modern era, from 19th century Sunday painters and amateur carpenters to present day railway modellers and yarnbombers. Stephen Knott's fascinating study explores the curious and unexpected attributes of things made outside standardised models of mass production, arguing that amateur craft practice is ... Read more

    $45.39 CAD