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  • Philadelphia Museum of Art The Essential Duchamp Philadelphia Museum of Art The Essential Duchamp

    The Essential Duchamp

    $29.95
    Matthew Affron (Author) With contributions by Cécile Debray, Alexander Kauffman, Michael R. Taylor, and John Vick This book offers an engaging and accessible introduction to one of the twentieth century’s greatest and most enigmatic artists, Marcel...
    $29.95
  • Tschabalala Self - Make Room Tschabalala Self - Make Room

    Tschabalala Self - Make Room

    $83.00
    First monograph of the African-American artist, renowned for her representations of black femininity, whose spectacular pop patchworks deconstruct and recompose the everyday feminine/masculine relationship in its domestic dimension, with seven essays and...
    $83.00
  • Print Making Bible Revised Edition Print Making Bible Revised Edition

    Print Making Bible Revised Edition

    $50.00
    Perfect for students and casual and professional artists, with lots of great reference information for print collectors as well, this is the ultimate guide to the ins and outs of every variety of printmaking practiced today. In addition to in-depth...
    $50.00
  • Robert Indiana: Beyond Love Robert Indiana: Beyond Love

    Robert Indiana: Beyond Love

    $60.00
    An insightful and long overdue reassessment of the full scope of the career of Robert Indiana, who combined Pop Art, hard-edged abstraction, and language-based conceptualism The popularity of Robert Indiana’s LOVE works made the Pop artist a household...
    $60.00
  • All-American Ads of the 90s All-American Ads of the 90s

    All-American Ads of the 90s

    $40.00
    From Game Boy to Gucci American advertising in the naughty 1990s From the Los Angeles riots to the Columbine High School massacre, Americans witnessed events and purchased items that reflected the best and worst of the decade. Bill Clinton’s presidency...
    $40.00
  • The Little House by Virginia Lee Burton The Little House by Virginia Lee Burton

    The Little House by Virginia Lee Burton

    $9.99
    The little house first stood in the country, but gradually the city moved closer and closer. This picture book about the changes that come to a little house is beautiful and timeless.  In 1942, Virginia Lee Burton created the Little House, and since...
    $9.99
  • Stone Soup by Marcia Brown Stone Soup by Marcia Brown

    Stone Soup by Marcia Brown

    $19.99
    Three soldiers come marching down the road towards a French village. The peasants, seeing them coming, suddenly become very busy, for soldiers are often hungry. All their food is hidden under mattresses or in barns. Then follows a battle of wits, with...
    $19.99
  • Face with Tears of Joy: A Natural History of Emoji Face with Tears of Joy: A Natural History of Emoji

    Face with Tears of Joy: A Natural History of Emoji

    $19.99
     A vibrant exploration of the world's newest language—where it came from, how it works and where it's going. We are surrounded by emoji. They appear in politics, movies, drug deals, our sex lives and more. But emoji’s impact has never been explored...
    $19.99
  • Folkish: Illustrations Inspired by Folklore Folkish: Illustrations Inspired by Folklore

    Folkish: Illustrations Inspired by Folklore

    $45.00
    Despite what society says, human beings were born to create and have been doing so since ancient times. Beginning with cave paintings, people have documented their culture and heritage regardless of geography, as seen in intricate Indian miniature...
    $45.00
  • Why the Museum Matters (Paperback) Why the Museum Matters (Paperback)

    Why the Museum Matters (Paperback)

    $18.00
    Art museums have played a vital role in our culture, drawing on Enlightenment ideals in shaping ideas, advancing learning, fostering community, and providing spaces of beauty and permanence. In this thoughtful and often personal volume, Daniel H. Weiss...
    $18.00
  • D Pauline Boudry / Renate Lorenz Moving Backwards D Pauline Boudry / Renate Lorenz Moving Backwards

    D Pauline Boudry / Renate Lorenz Moving Backwards

    $30.00
    The catalogue of the Swiss Pavilion at the 58th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia. At the 58th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, artist duo Pauline Boudry / Renate Lorenz will transform the Swiss Pavilion into a...
    $30.00
  • Pauline Boudry & Renate Lorenz: Stages Pauline Boudry & Renate Lorenz: Stages

    Pauline Boudry & Renate Lorenz: Stages

    $45.00
    Ten years of multimedia installations and performances from a Berlin-based duo. Berlin-based artist duo Pauline Boudry (born 1972) and Renate Lorenz (born 1963) work across film, installation, sculpture and dance to create their politically charged...
    $45.00
  • Screen Printing Kit Screen Printing Kit

    Screen Printing Kit

    $78.00
    This screen-printing kit and step-by-step guide has been developed by Luckies with Print Club London so that anyone can design their own t-shirts, tea towels, bags and banners, whether or not they’ve printed before. Includes reusable templates and...
    $78.00
  • Rashid Johnson: A Poem for Deep Thinkers Rashid Johnson: A Poem for Deep Thinkers

    Rashid Johnson: A Poem for Deep Thinkers

    $65.00
    From his early self-portraits to his site-specific installations, this volume underscores Rashid Johnson's fearless engagement with the central themes, questions and aesthetics of the contemporary era Co-organized by the Guggenheim New York and the...
    $65.00
  • Screenprints: A History Screenprints: A History

    Screenprints: A History

    $50.00
    A celebration of the rich twentieth and twenty-first-century tradition of screen-printing as a means of artistic expression, from its commercial origins in 1920s America to the limited-edition screenprints of the postwar period and today. Screenprints: A...
    $50.00
  • Blow Up!: The Explosion of Contemporary Art Blow Up!: The Explosion of Contemporary Art

    Blow Up!: The Explosion of Contemporary Art

    $24.95
     A nonfiction graphic novel that tells the story of a century of revolutionary contemporary art. How did a urinal become art? And a can of tomato soup, a tent, a pickled shark. . . . How did what seemed like a prank at the New York Armory Show of...
    $24.95
  • Expressionism - World of Art Series Expressionism - World of Art Series

    Expressionism - World of Art Series

    $24.95
    A new comprehensive overview of expressionism, tracing its evolution from the nineteenth century to the present day. Expressionist artists believed in art's ability to communicate emotion, irrespective of any representational or narrative content. In...
    $24.95
  • A Little History of Art A Little History of Art

    A Little History of Art

    $15.00
    A thrilling journey through 100,000 years of art, from the first artworks ever made to art’s central role in culture today. Art can help us see the world differently or understand our place in it a little more clearly. It can move us emotionally,...
    $15.00
  • Pause PU Leather Magnetic Bookmark Pause PU Leather Magnetic Bookmark

    Pause PU Leather Magnetic Bookmark

    $16.00
    Add Papier's Pause PU leather bookmark to your product assortment - the perfect blend of style and function for book lovers and note-takes alike. This elevated bookmark keeps your place while offering a calming break during reading or writing. Ideal for...
    $16.00
  • Philadelphia, the Revolutionary City Philadelphia, the Revolutionary City

    Philadelphia, the Revolutionary City

    $29.95
    Philadelphia, the Revolutionary City explores the lived experiences of Philadelphians leading up to, during, and after the fight for independence, showcasing written documents as well as material culture, from diaries and journals to political cartoons,...
    $29.95
  • KAWS Handbook KAWS Handbook

    KAWS Handbook

    $18.95
     From New York street artist to pop culture sensation: the essential, accessible guide to KAWS The multidisciplinary artist KAWS is regarded as an emblem of postmodern art. Many consider him as the Andy Warhol of the 21st century. Throughout his...
    $18.95
  • All-American Ads of the 80s All-American Ads of the 80s

    All-American Ads of the 80s

    $40.00
    Massaging the Consumer The digital future of ads in the extravagant 1980s With the cold war ebbing, crime and inflation at record levels, and movie star-turned-President Ronald Reagan launching a Star Wars of his own, the 1980s did not seem likely to...
    $40.00
  • All-American Ads of the 70s All-American Ads of the 70s

    All-American Ads of the 70s

    $40.00
    Disco and Discovery Ads of the 1970s get funky and socially conscious Both eclipsed and influenced by television, American print ads of the 1970s departed from the bold, graphic forms and subtle messages that were typical of their sixties counterparts...
    $40.00
  • All-American Ads of the 60s All-American Ads of the 60s

    All-American Ads of the 60s

    $40.00
    Americana in Full Bloom To the moon and back with advertising in the 1960s With the consumerist euphoria of the fifties still going strong and the race to the moon at its height, the mood of advertising in the sixties was cheerful, optimistic, and at...
    $40.00
  • All-American Ads of the 50s All-American Ads of the 50s

    All-American Ads of the 50s

    $40.00
    Advertising in the Atomic Age From “The World’s Finest Automatic Washer” to the Cadillac which “Gives a Man a New Outlook” As McCarthyism swept across the United States and capitalism was king, white America enjoyed a feeling of pride and security that...
    $40.00
  • Souvenirs: From a Memoir - Ekphrasis Series Souvenirs: From a Memoir - Ekphrasis Series

    Souvenirs: From a Memoir - Ekphrasis Series

    $15.00
    A selection from the memoir of Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun, the renowned eighteenth-century French portraitist and one of the most important women painters in art history In her memoir, Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun offers a candid and thoroughly...
    $15.00
  • Hebdomeros : A Novel - Ekphrasis Series Hebdomeros : A Novel - Ekphrasis Series

    Hebdomeros : A Novel - Ekphrasis Series

    $15.00
    This seminal 1929 surrealist novel by the painter Giorgio de Chirico merges the realms of dream and reality. In the artist’s only novel, de Chirico invites the reader into a world where language, time, space, and meaning are fluid, highlighting...
    $15.00
  • A Queer Little History of Art A Queer Little History of Art

    A Queer Little History of Art

    $21.99
    Alex Pilcher’s A Queer Little History of Art is a beautiful book that illustrates the wide variety of queer art from around the world exploring bodies and identity, love and desire, and prejudice and protest through drawing, painting, photography,...
    $21.99
  • Abstract Expressionism - Basic Art Series Abstract Expressionism - Basic Art Series

    Abstract Expressionism - Basic Art Series

    $20.00
    Mood Marks The painterly gestures of personal feelings Hailed as the first American-born art movement to have a worldwide influence, Abstract Expressionism denotes the non-representational use of paint as a means of personal expression. It emerged in...
    $20.00
  • Bosch - Basic Art Series Bosch - Basic Art Series

    Bosch - Basic Art Series

    $20.00
    Between Heaven and Hell Hieronymus Bosch’s meticulous visions of the grotesque, debauched, and divine As cryptic as they are compelling, the masterpieces of Hieronymus Bosch (c. 1450–1516) remain some of the most enduring enigmas of the art world. Their...
    $20.00
  • Fracture: Japanese Graphic Design 1875 - 1975 Fracture: Japanese Graphic Design 1875 - 1975

    Fracture: Japanese Graphic Design 1875 - 1975

    $38.00
    The need-to-know names of Japanese graphic design from the late 19th century to the pre-digital decade, presented alongside more than 500 color images of vintage ephemera With Fracture, author Ian Lynam presents a survey of Japanese design across a...
    $38.00
  • Botanical Inspirations: Nature in Art and Illustration Botanical Inspirations: Nature in Art and Illustration

    Botanical Inspirations: Nature in Art and Illustration

    $45.00
    A world without plants is a world without life, both literally and figuratively. Besides forming the very basis of human survival on Earth, they are also an important source of creative inspiration, ingenuity, and expression. From scientific explorers...
    $45.00
  • Mucha - Basic Art Series Mucha - Basic Art Series

    Mucha - Basic Art Series

    $20.00
      All about the Belle Époque Delicate illustration that defined an era With his instantly recognizable decorative style, Czech artist and Art Nouveau master Alphonse Mucha (1860–1939) defined the look of the fin-de-siècle. In evocative shades of...
    $20.00
  • Diego Rivera's America Diego Rivera's America

    Diego Rivera's America

    $60.00
    Diego Rivera’s America revisits a historical moment when the famed muralist and painter, more than any other artist of his time, helped forge Mexican national identity in visual terms and imagined a shared American future in which unity, rather than...
    $60.00
  • Japan Style Japan Style

    Japan Style

    $49.95
    The authoritative and wide-ranging visual essay on the aesthetics of Japan, a classic volume now back in print with a stunning new cover design ‘Japan style’ is an aesthetic recognizable to everyone: a beautifully displayed flower, an elegant...
    $49.95
  • The Process Book The Process Book

    The Process Book

    $35.00
    No longer a catalog, but an intimate window into how and why Nakashima Woodworkers do what Nakashima Woodworkers do. THe Process Book acts a first step in understanding our foundations and identifying what you hope to achieve in working with us. Defined...
    $35.00
  • How to Cook a Wolf How to Cook a Wolf

    How to Cook a Wolf

    $19.00
    Written to inspire courage in those daunted by wartimes shortages, How to Cook a Wolf continues to rally cooks during times of plenty, reminding them that providing sustenance requires more than putting food on the table. M. F. K. Fisher knew that the...
    $19.00
  • The Art Front by Rose Valland The Art Front by Rose Valland

    The Art Front by Rose Valland

    $55.00
    More than four decades after the passing of Monuments Woman Captain Rose Valland (1898–1980), one of the great heroines of World War II, the Monuments Men and Women Foundation released the first-ever English translation of her 1961 memoir, The Art Front:...
    $55.00
  • Mid-Century Modern Designers Mid-Century Modern Designers

    Mid-Century Modern Designers

    $89.95
    An homage to the design pioneers who defined the Mid-Century aesthetic through their work in furniture, glassware, ceramics and textiles More than 50 years later, the fascination with mid-century design is stronger than ever before. Explore the popular...
    $89.95
  • Charles and Ray Eames: Objects and Furniture Design Charles and Ray Eames: Objects and Furniture Design

    Charles and Ray Eames: Objects and Furniture Design

    $30.00
    Midcentury masterpieces from the inventors of the Eames chair Best known for their contributions to architecture, furniture design, industrial design, film and photography, Charles and Ray Eames remain among the most renowned American designers of the...
    $30.00
  • domus 1940–1949 domus 1940–1949

    domus 1940–1949

    $40.00
    Forms on the front line Architecture and design in the context of WWII Founded in 1928 as a “living diary” by the great Milanese architect and designer Gio Ponti, domus has been hailed as the world’s most influential architecture and design journal. With...
    $40.00
  • Patented: 1,000 Design Patents Patented: 1,000 Design Patents

    Patented: 1,000 Design Patents

    $49.95
    An unprecedented, substantial, and extraordinary celebration of more than a century of fascinating product and industrial design, as shown through their detailed original patent documents - the ultimate 'flick book' of modern design with hundreds of...
    $49.95
  • Saarinen - Basic Architecture Series Saarinen - Basic Architecture Series

    Saarinen - Basic Architecture Series

    $20.00
    Sculptural Structures Eero Saarinen’s new dimensions The creator of the ubiquitous Knoll “Tulip” chairs and tables, Eero Saarinen (1910–1961) was one of the 20th century’s most prominent space shapers, merging dynamic forms with a modernist sensibility...
    $20.00
  • Eames - Basic Architecture Series Eames - Basic Architecture Series

    Eames - Basic Architecture Series

    $20.00
    The creative duo Charles Eames and Ray Kaiser Eames transformed the visual character of America. Though best known for their furniture, the husband and wife team were also forerunners in architecture, textile design, photography, and film.   The...
    $20.00
  • Salon Culture in Japan Making Art, 1750 - 1900 Salon Culture in Japan Making Art, 1750 - 1900

    Salon Culture in Japan Making Art, 1750 - 1900

    $45.00
    In early modern Japan, cultural salons were creative spaces for people of all ages and social levels to pursue painting, poetry, and other artistic endeavors as serious but amateur practitioners. All using a pen- or art-name, individuals were able to...
    $45.00
  • Medieval Cats: Claws, Paws, and Kitties of Yore Medieval Cats: Claws, Paws, and Kitties of Yore

    Medieval Cats: Claws, Paws, and Kitties of Yore

    $15.99
    A hilarious celebration of cats in artwork from medieval times. Look what the cat dragged in from the Middle Ages—a curious compendium of cats unlike any you’ve ever lapped up before. Here’s the purrfect bedside companion for cat...
    $15.99
  • Durer - Masters of Art Series Durer - Masters of Art Series

    Durer - Masters of Art Series

    $14.99
    Brimming with stunning reproductions and illuminating texts, this handy and accessible book is the perfect introduction to the famous Renaissance artist Albrecht Dürer. Albrecht Dürer (1471–1521) is considered the most important German painter and...
    $14.99
  • Hokusai's Method Hokusai's Method

    Hokusai's Method

    $45.00
    An omnibus edition collecting fifteen volumes of Hokusai's dedicated drawing manuals, also known as e-tehon. Best known for woodblock prints such as The Great Wave off Kanagawa, the ninteenth-century artist Hokusai was prolific in other media. Of...
    $45.00
  • Great Women Artists Great Women Artists

    Great Women Artists

    $69.95
    Five centuries of fascinating female creativity presented in more than 400 compelling artworks and one comprehensive volume The most extensive fully illustrated book of women artists ever published, Great Women Artists reflects an era where art made by...
    $69.95
  • Monet: The Restless Vision Monet: The Restless Vision

    Monet: The Restless Vision

    $45.00
    Drawing on thousands of never-before-translated letters and unpublished sources, this biography reveals dramatic new information about the life and work of one of the late nineteenth century’s most important painters. Despite being mocked at the...
    $45.00
  • COLLAB Award-Winning Author
    Super Normal: Sensations of the Ordinary Super Normal: Sensations of the Ordinary

    Super Normal: Sensations of the Ordinary

    $28.00
    A window into the world of functional everyday design The designers Jasper Morrison and Naoto Fukasawa have compiled 204 everyday objects in search of “super normal design”: alongside examples of anonymous design like the Swiss Rex vegetable...
    $28.00
  • Impressionism and the Sea Impressionism and the Sea

    Impressionism and the Sea

    $40.00
    Capturing the natural beauty of coastal landscapes and the delicate play of light on water, this volume celebrates impressionist depictions of nautical and beachside life. The impressionists were forever inspired by the sea, which Claude Monet...
    $40.00
  • Local Author
    Exploring Philly Nature A Guide for All Seasons Exploring Philly Nature A Guide for All Seasons

    Exploring Philly Nature A Guide for All Seasons

    $17.95
    Billy Brown, 2023 winner of the Witmer Stone Award for Best Ornithological Book of the Year from the Delaware Valley Ornithological Club Do snakes and salamanders fascinate you or make you squeamish? Have you ever listened closely to the birds chirping...
    $17.95
  • Morpho: Face, Head, and Neck Anatomy for Artists Morpho: Face, Head, and Neck Anatomy for Artists

    Morpho: Face, Head, and Neck Anatomy for Artists

    $16.95
    The must-have guide for all artists who draw the human figure! This small, portable book presents a unique perspective on the head, face, and neck for artists to study and implement in their drawing work. In this book, artist and teacher Michel...
    $16.95
  • Morpho: Hands and Feet Anatomy for Artists Morpho: Hands and Feet Anatomy for Artists

    Morpho: Hands and Feet Anatomy for Artists

    $16.95
    The must-have guide for all artists who draw the human figure! In Morpho: Hands and Feet, artist and teacher Michel Lauricella presents a unique approach to learning to draw the human body. In this book, Lauricella focuses exclusively on the hands and...
    $16.95
  • Pissing Figures 1280 - 2014 - Ekphrasis Series Pissing Figures 1280 - 2014 - Ekphrasis Series

    Pissing Figures 1280 - 2014 - Ekphrasis Series

    $15.00
    Jean-Claude Lebensztejn’s history of the urinating figure in art, Pissing Figures 1280–2014, is at once a scholarly inquiry into an important visual motif, and a ribald statement on transgression and limits in works of art in general...
    $15.00
  • Salon of 1846 by Charles Baudelaire - Ekphrasis Series Salon of 1846 by Charles Baudelaire - Ekphrasis Series

    Salon of 1846 by Charles Baudelaire - Ekphrasis Series

    $15.00
    Charles Baudelaire, considered a father of modern poetry, wrote some of the most daring and influential prose of the nineteenth century. Prior to publishing the international bestseller Les Fleurs du mal (1857), he was already notable as a forthright...
    $15.00
  • Dix Portraits by Gertrude Stein - Ekphrasis Series Dix Portraits by Gertrude Stein - Ekphrasis Series

    Dix Portraits by Gertrude Stein - Ekphrasis Series

    $15.00
    Written between 1913 and 1929, revolutionary years in art history, Dix Portraits conveys the deep human engagement between an artist and her subject. The artist book unites Stein’s ten portraits in prose with sketches by five artists: Pablo...
    $15.00
  • Blue by Derek Jarman - Ekphrasis Series Blue by Derek Jarman - Ekphrasis Series

    Blue by Derek Jarman - Ekphrasis Series

    $15.00
    Derek Jarman's Blue weaves a sensory tapestry that serves as both a political call to action and a meditation on illness, dying, and love.   “For Blue there are no boundaries or solutions.” —Derek Jarman   Originally...
    $15.00
  • Japanese Woodblock Prints - Basic Art Series Japanese Woodblock Prints - Basic Art Series

    Japanese Woodblock Prints - Basic Art Series

    $20.00
    The Japanese woodblock print showcased breathtaking landscapes, blush-inducing erotica, ghosts and demons that torment the living, and made sumo wrestlers and kabuki actors into rock stars. This book reveals the most exceptional prints from 1710–1925,...
    $20.00
  • Gothic Modern: From Edvard Munch to Käthe Kollwitz Gothic Modern: From Edvard Munch to Käthe Kollwitz

    Gothic Modern: From Edvard Munch to Käthe Kollwitz

    $52.00
    How medieval Gothic art inspired a generation. Gothic Modern illuminates the pivotal discovery of medieval Gothic art for Edvard Munch, Käthe Kollwitz, and their artist contemporaries. It explores their deep attraction to the Gothic art of...
    $52.00
  • The Great Mughals: Art, Architecture and Opulence The Great Mughals: Art, Architecture and Opulence

    The Great Mughals: Art, Architecture and Opulence

    $70.00
    Showcases some of the most stunning treasures from the dynasty that created the Taj Mahal The Great Mughals presents, for the first time, the opulent, internationalist culture of Mughal Hindustan in the age of its greatest emperors: Akbar (r...
    $70.00
  • Helen Frankenthaler: Painting without Rules Helen Frankenthaler: Painting without Rules

    Helen Frankenthaler: Painting without Rules

    $39.95
    A sweeping overview of poetic compositions from the beloved American postwar painter known for her groundbreaking and inventive approach to abstraction. Celebrated among the second generation of postwar American abstract painters, Helen Frankenthaler...
    $39.95
  • Magritte - Basic Art Series Magritte - Basic Art Series

    Magritte - Basic Art Series

    $20.00
    This Is Not a Book Everyday enigma from Belgium's leading Surrealist From men in bowler hats, floating in the sky, to a painting of a pipe above the caption "this is not a pipe", René Magritte (1898–1967) created an echo chamber of object and image, name...
    $20.00
  • Calling the Shots: A Queer History of Photography Calling the Shots: A Queer History of Photography

    Calling the Shots: A Queer History of Photography

    $60.00
    An accessible, inspirational, and engaging introductory survey of LGBTQIA+ photography, as told through the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Drawing on one of the oldest and largest photography collections in the world, Calling the...
    $60.00
  • El Anatsui: Art and Life El Anatsui: Art and Life

    El Anatsui: Art and Life

    $60.00
    This expanded and revised edition celebrates the work of Ghanaian artist El Anatsui by exploring the artist's life and the trajectory of his remarkable career. El Anatsui: Art and Life by Susan Mullin Vogel is the essential resource on the Ghanaian...
    $60.00
  • El Anatsui: The Reinvention of Sculpture El Anatsui: The Reinvention of Sculpture

    El Anatsui: The Reinvention of Sculpture

    $70.00
    The product of more than 30 years of research, this astounding and authoritative volume reveals the political metaphors underpinning El Anatsui’s magnificent abstract sculpture Authored by two acclaimed scholars, Okwui Enwezor and Chika...
    $70.00