1,173円 An Essential Guide To Choosing and Buying Paintings That Accentuate Your Home This book covers several topics including: Chapter 1: Buying Yellow Paintings Chapter 2: Buying Paintings: Symbolism Chapter 3: Buying Watercolor Paintings Chapter 4: Children's Art Paintings Chapter 5: Modern Oil ...

4,575円 There are many ways to approach the subject of public space: the threats posed to it by surveillance and visual pollution; the joys it offers of stimulation and excitement, of anonymity and transformation; its importance to urban variety or democratic politics. But public space remains an evanesc...

503円 Margaret Keane is one of America's most beloved modern artists. Her influence is seen in everything from Woody Allen's "Sleeper" to Weird Al Yankovic's song "Velvet Elvis." While her paintings are well known, few people know about the trouble life she led or her road to red...

5,378円 In The Migrant Image T. J. Demos examines the ways contemporary artists have reinvented documentary practices in their representations of mobile lives: refugees, migrants, the stateless, and the politically dispossessed. He presents a sophisticated analysis of how artists from the United States, ...

806円 A wonderfully entertaining look at the last twelve months through the eyes of multi-award-winning cartoonist Matt. No one does it better... From the Olympics to the Jubilee, transport troubles to the recession, Matt reviews the last twelve months in his own inimitable style.

427円 Rogues in the Gallery exposes it all: the cozy insurance ransom racket, the professional gangs of art thieves, the specialists, the connections with the international drug racket and the Mafia. Hugh McLeave has researched the whys and wherefores of the question for years, drawing on resources ava...

589円 Burne-Jones BY Alfred Lys Baldry. ILLUSTRATED WITH EIGHT REPRODUCTIONS IN COLOUR. MASTERPIECES IN COLOUR. EDITED BY T. LEMAN HARE. Published in 1833. This scarce antiquarian book. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as blurred pictures. Because we believe this work is culturally imp...

2,017円 Van Jones said it well: "If we're going to end this fiscal madness and start rebuilding America, we're going to have to get creative! We need a tsunami of music, film, poetry and art. The Culture of Possibility shows us how creativity can take our story back from Corporation Nation, tilting the c...

1,837円 The award-winning, highly acclaimed Artificial Hells is the first historical and theoretical overview of socially engaged participatory art, known in the US as "social practice." In recent decades, the art gallery and the museum have become a place for participatory art, where an audience is enco...

6,897円 In this collection distinguished American and European scholars, curators and artists discuss major issues concerning the representation and commemoration of slavery, as brought into sharp focus by the 2007 bicentennial of the abolition of the slave trade. Writers consider nineteenth and twentiet...

13,123円 Archaeology’s links to international relations are well known: launching and sustaining international expeditions requires the honed diplomatic skills of ambassadors. U.S. foreign policy depends on archaeologists to foster mutual understanding, mend fences, and build bridges. This book explores h...

2,021円 In sumptuous and illuminating detail, Simon Winchester, the bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman ("Elegant and scrupulous"ーNew York Times Book Review) and Krakatoa ("A mesmerizing page-turner"ーTime) brings to life the extraordinary story of Joseph Needham, the brilliant Cambridge ...