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The Cultural Cold War: The CIA and the World of Arts and Letters
$33.98 Add to cartDuring the Cold War, freedom of expression was vaunted as liberal democracy’s most cherished possession–but such freedom was put in service of a hidden agenda. In The Cultural Cold War, Frances Stono… [more below]
- Author: Saunders, Frances Stonor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: November 05 2013
- ISBN10: 1595589147
- Language: English
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The Power of Art: A Human History of Art: From Babylon to New York City
$39.95 Add to cartAn epic work of art history that will transform our understanding of the world by unlocking the human stories behind millennia of art.
Taking readers from ancient Babylon to contemporary Pyongyang, t- Author: Campbell, Caroline
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: January 02, 2024
- ISBN10: 1639365494
- Language: English
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The Other Side: A Story of Women in Art and the Spirit World
$29.95 Add to cartThe first major work of art history to focus on women artists and their engagement with the spirit world, by the author of The Mirror and the Palette.
It’s not so long ago that a woman’s expressed int- Author: Higgie, Jennifer
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 02, 2024
- ISBN10: 1639365435
- Language: English
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The Secret Lives of Color
$25.00 Add to cartOne of USA Today’s “100 Books to Read While Stuck at Home During the Coronavirus Crisis”
A dazzling gift, the unforgettable, unknown history of colors and the vivid stories behind them in a beautiful- Author: St Clair, Kassia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 24, 2017
- ISBN10: 0143131141
- Language: English
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A Garden Eden. Masterpieces of Botanical Illustration. 40th Ed.
$35.00 Add to cartIn pursuit of both knowledge and delight, the craft of botanical illustration has always required not only meticulous draftsmanship but also a rigorous scientific understanding. This new edition of a
- Series: 40th Edition
- Author: Lack, H. Walter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: September 10 2022
- ISBN10: 383659191X
- Language: English
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Brushed Aside: The Untold Story of Women in Art
$45.00 Read moreDiscover anew the herstory of art that Publishers Weekly calls “illuminating” and Foreword Reviews calls “spirited” for an enlightening art history read.
How many female artists can you name? Frida Ka
- Author: Charney, Noah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: October 15 2023
- ISBN10: 153817099X
- Language: English
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Caravaggio. the Complete Works. 40th Ed.
$35.00 Add to cartCaravaggio, or more accurately Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571-1610), was a legend even in his own lifetime. Notorious bad boy of Italian painting, the artist was at once celebrated and contro
- Series: 40th Edition
- Author: Schütze, Sebastian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: July 29 2021
- ISBN10: 3836587963
- Language: English
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A Little History of Art
$25.00 Read moreA thrilling journey through 100,000 years of art, from the first artworks ever made to art’s central role in culture today
“This lively volume is ideal for the precocious high-schooler, the lazy colle- Series: Little Histories
- Author: Mullins, Charlotte
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 26 2022
- ISBN10: 0300253664
- Language: English
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Art of the Andes: From Chav? to Inca
$39.95 Add to cartThis wide-ranging survey has established itself as the best singlevolume introduction to Andean art and architecture, and is an essential guide to pre-Columbian Peru, Ecuador, and Bolivia for the gene… [more below]
- Series: World of Art #0
- Author: Stone, Rebecca R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 250
- Publish Date: September 10, 2012
- ISBN10: 0500204152
- Language: English
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Design as Art
$17.00 Add to cartAn illustrated journey into the artistic possibilities of modern design, by the enfant terrible of Italian art and design for most of the twentieth century
A Penguin Classic Bruno Munari was among the- Author: Munari, Bruno
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0141035811
- Language: English
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The Madman’s Gallery: The Strangest Paintings, Sculptures and Other Curiosities from the History of Art
$35.00 Add to cartEnter The Madman’s Gallery and discover an extraordinary, illustrated exhibition of the greatest curiosities from the global history of art, featuring one hundred magnificently eccentric antique paint… [more below]
- Author: Brooke-Hitching, Edward
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 07, 2023
- ISBN10: 1797221760
- Language: English
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The Handy Art History Answer Book
$54.95 Add to cartThe Art of Discovery. The Discovery of Art. The History of Art!
Warhol, Michelangelo, and da Vinci. Picasso, Monet, and Rembrandt, Ai WeiWei and Jenny Holzer. What were they thinking when they create
- Series: Handy Answer Books
- Author: Dickerson, Madelynn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 01 2013
- ISBN10: 1578594170
- Language: English
