Quick view Philadelphia Builds: Essays on Architecture MSRP: Now: $24.95 Was: An in-depth tout of Philadelphia’s architectural history from the 1700s to the present day—for the general reader. In Philadelphia Builds, architecture critic Michael J. Lewis explains why Philadelphia has produced so many extraordinary... MSRP: Now: $24.95 Was: Quick view
Quick view Geo-Graphics MSRP: Now: $19.99 Was: This special and unusual atlas is a marriage of science and art like no other. Our universe is brimming with secrets, and surprising curiosities. Here readers will learn the answers to all the questions they've asked themselves: What does... MSRP: Now: $19.99 Was: Quick view
Quick view Cats in Spring Rain MSRP: Now: $12.95 Was: This delightful little book pays homage to the cat through artfully curated Japanese poetry and prints. No one captures the graces and idiosyncrasies of cats quite like the painters, printmakers, and haiku masters of Japan. From the Edo to the Showa... MSRP: Now: $12.95 Was: Quick view
Quick view Artists on Art MSRP: Now: $17.99 Was: Through a carefully curated selection of quotations, images and interviews, Artists on Art reveals what matters most to the masters. You'll discover how the giants of the different artistic genres developed their distinctive visual... MSRP: Now: $17.99 Was: Quick view
Quick view Tools The Ultimate Guide MSRP: Now: $24.95 Was: This is the book for answering all your tool questions, gaining knowledge before hiring a professional, or simply flipping through just for the joy of learning something new about the objects that shape our world. This expansive guide catalogs more than... MSRP: Now: $24.95 Was: Quick view
Quick view Women Who Changed Architecture MSRP: Now: $50.00 Was: A visual and global chronicle of the triumphs, challenges, and impact of over 100 women in architecture, from early practitioners to contemporary leaders. Marion Mahony Griffin passed the architectural licensure exam in 1898 and created exquisite... MSRP: Now: $50.00 Was: Quick view
Quick view Pink Flamingos and the Yellow Pages MSRP: Now: $22.95 Was: Discover the weird and wonderful stories of our colorful world! Why are wedding dresses white? And what is the Ketchup and Mustard Theory? The answers always come back to color. Color infuses our lives with meaning, manifesting in science, language,... MSRP: Now: $22.95 Was: Quick view
Quick view Matisse: The Red Studio MSRP: Now: $55.00 Was: The adventures, mysteries and many lives of a Matisse masterpiece. Created in 1911, Henri Matisse’s The Red Studio would go on to become one of the most influential works in the history of modern art. The painting, which has hung in MoMA’s galleries... MSRP: Now: $55.00 Was: Quick view
Quick view Designing Peace: Building A Better Future Now MSRP: Now: $45.00 Was: How design can help foster the conditions for global peace: an intersectional visual conversation between activists, designers, architects and theorists. How might we collectively put our creative forces together to envision a future we want to live in... MSRP: Now: $45.00 Was: Quick view
Quick view Africa's Struggle for Its Art MSRP: Now: $29.95 Was: A major new history of how African nations, starting in the 1960s, sought to reclaim the art looted by Western colonial powers. For decades, African nations have fought for the return of countless works of art stolen during the colonial era and placed... MSRP: Now: $29.95 Was: Quick view
Quick view Gawkers: Art and Audience in Late Nineteenth-Century France MSRP: Now: $60.00 Was: How the urban spectator became the archetypal modern viewer and a central subject in late nineteenth-century French art. Gawkers explores how artists and writers in late nineteenth-century Paris represented the seductions, horrors, and banalities of... MSRP: Now: $60.00 Was: Quick view
Quick view Louise Bourgeois Paintings MSRP: Now: $45.00 Was: An unprecedented look at the little-known paintings from Louise Bourgeois’s early years in New York that laid the groundwork for her sculptural practice. Louise Bourgeois (1911–2010) is celebrated today for her sculptures. Less known are the paintings... MSRP: Now: $45.00 Was: Quick view
Quick view Courbet's Landscapes: The Origins of Modern Painting MSRP: Now: $50.00 Was: A groundbreaking insight into Gustave Courbet and his bold experiments in landscape painting. Between 1862 and 1866 Gustave Courbet embarked on a series of sensuous landscape paintings that would later inspire the likes of Monet, Pissarro, and Cézanne... MSRP: Now: $50.00 Was: Quick view
Quick view Cezanne (Art Institute of Chicago) MSRP: Now: $60.00 Was: Evoking the sensory richness and ambitions of the beloved French artist’s work through a multifaceted exploration of his art, career, and legacy. Cezanne presents a new examination of the work of Paul Cezanne (1839–1906) across media and genres,... MSRP: Now: $60.00 Was: Quick view
Quick view Pierre Bonnard Beyond Vision MSRP: Now: $60.00 Was: An unparalleled reassessment of Pierre Bonnard, exploring his paintings, drawings, photography, and prints. As one of the founders of the post-Impressionist group the Nabis, French artist Pierre Bonnard (1867–1947) is frequently seen as a transitional... MSRP: Now: $60.00 Was: Quick view
Quick view Franz Kafka: The Drawings MSRP: Now: $50.00 Was: The first book to publish the entirety of Franz Kafka’s graphic output, including more than 100 newly discovered drawings. The year 2019 brought a sensational discovery: hundreds of drawings by the writer Franz Kafka (1883–1924) were found in a private... MSRP: Now: $50.00 Was: Quick view
Quick view Traitor, Survivor, Icon: The Legacy of La Malinche MSRP: Now: $50.00 Was: The first major visual and cultural exploration of the legacy of La Malinche, simultaneously reviled as a traitor to her people and hailed as the mother of Mexico. An enslaved Indigenous girl who became Hernán Cortés’s interpreter and cultural... MSRP: Now: $50.00 Was: Quick view
Quick view SEEN Issue 003 MSRP: Now: $20.00 Was: BlackStar creates the spaces and resources needed to uplift the work of Black, Brown and Indigenous artists working outside of the confines of genre. We do this by producing year-round programs including film screenings, exhibitions, an annual film... MSRP: Now: $20.00 Was: Quick view
Quick view SEEN Issue 002 MSRP: Now: $20.00 Was: BlackStar creates the spaces and resources needed to uplift the work of Black, Brown and Indigenous artists working outside of the confines of genre. We do this by producing year-round programs including film screenings, exhibitions, an annual film... MSRP: Now: $20.00 Was: Quick view
Quick view Aperture Issue 238: House & Home MSRP: Now: $24.95 Was: How do homes serve as emblems of a moment, markers of the past, or articulations of future possibilities? The Spring 2020 issue of Aperture considers the meanings and forms of a home, and the relationships between architecture, design, and the domestic... MSRP: Now: $24.95 Was: Quick view
On Sale Quick view Michael Snow Photo Centric Bulletin MSRP: Now: $10.00 Was: $20.00 Michael Snow Photo-Centric focuses on a selection of the artist's photographic work from 1962 to the present. The book considers Snow's interest in late modernism's self-reflexivity and, specifically, his exploration of how the mechanics of photography... MSRP: Now: $10.00 Was: $20.00 Quick view
Quick view Leaves Of Gold: Manuscript Illuminations From Philadelphia Collections Cloth MSRP: Now: $29.99 Was: Philadelphia’s diverse public libraries, universities, scholarly institutions, and museums hold numerous—but often little-known—treasures, including many hand-produced manuscripts decorated with miniature paintings. Presented in this catalogue are eighty... MSRP: Now: $29.99 Was: Quick view
Quick view Ike Taiga And Tokuyama Gyokuran: Japanese Masters Of The Brush Softcover MSRP: Now: $45.00 Was: Taiga (1723–1776) and his wife, Tokuyama Gyokuran (1727–1784), were preeminent artists in eighteenth-century Japan. This landmark book—the only comprehensive survey available in English—focuses on the lives and times of these artists and accompanies the... MSRP: Now: $45.00 Was: Quick view
Quick view Barnstorming in Eastern Pennsylvania and Beyond MSRP: Now: $35.00 Was: Barns are iconic features of the American landscape. Among the wide variety of American barns, the Pennsylvania barn holds a special place in the agricultural traditions of North America. Combining features found in Alpine Switzerland and the... MSRP: Now: $35.00 Was: Quick view
Quick view Barbara Chase-Riboud Malcolm X Steles MSRP: Now: $25.00 Was: Bringing together more than forty works from the United States and Europe, this exhibition examines Barbara Chase-Riboud’s artistic career, focusing primarily on her important Malcolm X sculptures. Five works from that series—among them the Museum’s... MSRP: Now: $25.00 Was: Quick view
Quick view Maus I & II paperback box set MSRP: Now: $33.90 Was: The paperback boxed set of the Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel in its original two-volume format, re-released to include a sixteen-page booklet designed by the artist. Acclaimed as “the most affecting and successful narrative ever done about... MSRP: Now: $33.90 Was: Quick view
Quick view Faith Ringgold: American People MSRP: Now: $79.95 Was: Faith Ringgold is a critically acclaimed and key figure of postwar American art, whose unique methods of visual storytelling have documented and advanced art historical, feminist, and civil rights movements for more than half a century... MSRP: Now: $79.95 Was: Quick view
Quick view 5 Days that Shook the World Seattle and Beyond MSRP: Now: $20.00 Was: In the annals of popular protest in America, these have been shining hours, achieved entirely outside the conventional arena of orderly protest, white paper activism and the timid bleats of the professional leadership of big labor... MSRP: Now: $20.00 Was: Quick view
Quick view Photography Against the Grain Essays and Photo Works 1973-1983 MSRP: Now: $40.00 Was: Long out of print, this seminal collection of essays and photographs by artist, theorist and filmmaker, Allan Sekula was originally published by the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in 1984. Sekula sought to portray the inextricable bond between... MSRP: Now: $40.00 Was: Quick view
Quick view Castle MSRP: Now: $12.99 Was: In this 1978 Caldecott Honor Book, award-winning author and illustrator David Macaulay explores the history and construction of castles in a richly illustrated resource for curious young readers. The word itself conjures up mystery, romance, intrigue,... MSRP: Now: $12.99 Was: Quick view
Quick view Protecting Art in the Street MSRP: Now: $16.95 Was: There has recently been a sharp increase in cases where corporations have been sued by street and graffiti artists because their artworks had been used and exploited without the artists' authorisation, for example in advertising campaigns, as... MSRP: Now: $16.95 Was: Quick view
Quick view Storied Stone: Reframing the Philadelphia Museum of Art's South Indian Temple Hall MSRP: Now: $40.00 Was: Storied Stone weaves together memories and scholarship to offer an illuminating perspective on one of the most striking museum spaces. While visiting Madurai, Tamil Nadu, in 1913, the Philadelphian Adeline Pepper Gibson purchased over sixty... MSRP: Now: $40.00 Was: Quick view
Quick view Sketch Book Challenge by Molly Egan MSRP: Now: $18.95 Was: Many people would love to learn to draw for pleasure, but don't know where to start. Being faced with a blank page can be daunting - even for a professional artist. In Sketchbook Challenge, illustrator Molly Egan shares prompts and ideas to get you... MSRP: Now: $18.95 Was: Quick view
Quick view Afro-Atlantic Histories MSRP: Now: $69.95 Was: Afro-Atlantic Histories brings together a selection of more than 400 works and documents by more than 200 artists from the 16th to the 21st centuries that express and analyze the ebbs and flows between Africa, the Americas, the Caribbean and Europe... MSRP: Now: $69.95 Was: Quick view
Quick view Making A Great Exhibition MSRP: Now: $18.99 Was: An exciting insight into the workings of artists and museums, Making a Great Exhibition is a colorful and playful introduction geared to children ages 3-7 How does an artist make a sculpture or a painting? What tools do they use? What happens to the... MSRP: Now: $18.99 Was: Quick view
Quick view Black Gaze: Artists Changing How We See MSRP: Now: $29.95 Was: In A Black Gaze, Tina Campt examines Black contemporary artists who are shifting the very nature of our interactions with the visual through their creation and curation of a distinctively Black gaze. Their work—from Deana Lawson’s disarmingly intimate... MSRP: Now: $29.95 Was: Quick view
Quick view The Making of Rodin MSRP: Now: $55.00 Was: Auguste Rodin (1840–1917) was a radical sculptor whose unorthodox approach to multiplication, assemblage, industrial production, and serial repetition challenged classical sculptural traditions and provided a definitive break in the history of art... MSRP: Now: $55.00 Was: Quick view
Quick view History of American Tonalism 1880-1920 MSRP: Now: $125.00 Was: A groundbreaking survey of the school of expressive, symbolic landscape painting that gave rise to American modernism—newly revised and updated. This magnificent volume, featuring more than 750 illustrations, is the first definitive account... MSRP: Now: $125.00 Was: Quick view
Quick view Atlas of the Invisible MSRP: Now: $40.00 Was: An unprecedented portrait of the hidden patterns in human society—visualized through the world of data. Award-winning geographer-designer team James Cheshire and Oliver Uberti transform enormous datasets into rich maps and cutting-edge visualizations. In... MSRP: Now: $40.00 Was: Quick view
Quick view Alice Neel An Engaged Eye MSRP: Now: $50.00 Was: One of the greatest portrait artists of the 20th century, Alice Neel's vibrant, expressionistic paintings revealed a breath-taking depth of emotion within her subjects. From works exploring loss and grief, to communist political art, Neel's work pushed... MSRP: Now: $50.00 Was: Quick view
Quick view Women Who Changed Art Forever Feminist Art the Graphic Novel MSRP: Now: $19.95 Was: These women changed art forever - told in colourful graphic novel form, this is the story of four pioneers of feminist art: Judy Chicago, Faith Ringold, Ana Mendieta, and the Guerilla Girls. Each made their mark in their own powerful way. Judy... MSRP: Now: $19.95 Was: Quick view
Quick view Designing Motherhood MSRP: Now: $44.95 Was: While birth often brings great joy, making babies is a knotty enterprise. The designed objects that surround us when it comes to menstruation, birth control, conception, pregnancy, childbirth, and early motherhood vary as oddly, messily, and... MSRP: Now: $44.95 Was: Quick view
Quick view Stone Age Ancient Castles of Europe MSRP: Now: $70.00 Was: Follow photographer Frédéric Chaubin as he embarks on a unique, century-spanning journey through Europe. Featuring images of more than 200 buildings in 21 countries, Stone Age presents the history and architecture of the most dramatic medieval castles of... MSRP: Now: $70.00 Was: Quick view
Quick view Eyes Open: 23 Photography Projects for Curious Kids MSRP: Now: $24.95 Was: Compiled by Magnum photographer Susan Meiselas, Eyes Open is a sourcebook of photography ideas for kids—to engage with the world through the camera. Twenty-three enticing projects help inspire a process of discovery and new ways of telling stories and... MSRP: Now: $24.95 Was: Quick view
Quick view Lee Friedlander: The Mind And The Hand MSRP: Now: $90.00 Was: Friedlander's social landscape is a who's who of postwar American photography. In the 1960s and '70s, Lee Friedlander (born 1934) developed his signature approach to documenting the American “social landscape”: deadpan,... MSRP: Now: $90.00 Was: Quick view
Quick view Emma Amos: Color Odyssey MSRP: Now: $40.00 Was: Born in Atlanta, Georgia, Emma Amos (1937 – 2020) was a distinguished painter and printmaker. She is best known for her bold and colorful mixed-media paintings that create visual tapestries in which she examines the intersection of race, class,... MSRP: Now: $40.00 Was: Quick view
Quick view In Pursuit Of History: A Lifetime Collecting Colonial American Art And Artifacts MSRP: Now: $45.00 Was: Edited by H. Richard Dietrich III and Deborah M. Rebuck with contributions by David L. Barquist, Edward S. Cooke Jr., Michael P. Dyer, Kathleen A. Foster, Morrison H. Heckscher, Philip C. Mead, Lisa Minardi, Deborah M. Rebuck, and William S. Reese This... MSRP: Now: $45.00 Was: Quick view
On Sale Quick view Richard Benson: The World Is Smarter Than You Are MSRP: Now: $22.50 Was: $45.00 A wide-ranging retrospective that reveals a master printer’s own photographs to be technically brilliant work of remarkable breadth and complexity.This book presents the first in-depth survey of photographs by Richard Benson (1943–2017), who... MSRP: Now: $22.50 Was: $45.00 Quick view
Quick view The Little Book of Zen: Sayings, Parables, Meditations & Haiku MSRP: Now: $10.95 Was: A revised edition of the classic little book, which has over 500,000 copies in print. New material and illustrations make the book even more accessible to readers who are interested in mindfulness, in seizing the moment, in staying steady in... MSRP: Now: $10.95 Was: Quick view
Quick view Philadelphia Inquirer's Walking Tours of Historic Philadelphia 4th ed MSRP: Now: $19.95 Was: Philadelphia—where more than three centuries of history come alive—is not one but several cities and you can experience all of them if you know where to look. Tucked amid the glass-and-steel skyscrapers stand the brick-and-mortar buildings of the... MSRP: Now: $19.95 Was: Quick view
Quick view Encyclopedia of Witchcraft: The Complete A-Z for the Entire Magical World MSRP: Now: $34.99 Was: In the fascinating Encyclopedia of Witchcraft folklore expert Judika Illes introduces readers to the mystical world of witchcraft. Here are mythic witches, modern witches, sacred goddess witches, even demon witches, male and female witches,... MSRP: Now: $34.99 Was: Quick view
Quick view Encyclopedia of 5,000 Spells: The Ultimate Reference Book for the Magical Arts MSRP: Now: $34.99 Was: For serious readers and dabblers alike, the acclaimed author of the Encyclopedia of 5000 Spells offers the essential book for working with supernatural beings. Spirits permeate every corner of our culture, and the Encyclopedia of Spirits explains who... MSRP: Now: $34.99 Was: Quick view
Quick view Becoming Philadelphia: How An Old American City Made Itself New Again MSRP: Now: $29.95 Was: Once dismissed as a rusting industrial has-been—the “Next Detroit”—Philadelphia has enjoyed an astonishing comeback in the 21st century. Over the past two decades, Inga Saffron has served as the premier chronicler of the city’s physical... MSRP: Now: $29.95 Was: Quick view
Quick view AMC's Best Day Hikes Near Philadelphia MSRP: Now: $18.95 Was: AMC's Best Day Hikes Near Philadelphia offers 50 of the region's best hikes for all levels. Ideal for families, tourists, and locals alike, this easy-to-use guide will help hikers explore Eastern Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware year-round, from... MSRP: Now: $18.95 Was: Quick view
Quick view Aperture Issue 240: Native America MSRP: Now: $24.95 Was: Native America is a special issue about photography and Indigenous lives, guest edited by the artist Wendy Red Star. As debates around nationalism and borders in North America reach a fever pitch, Aperture magazine releases “Native America,” a special... MSRP: Now: $24.95 Was: Quick view
Quick view Communication Arts Typography: January/February 2021 MSRP: Now: $24.00 Was: Communication Arts Typography Annual 11 features the award-winning projects from their 11th Annual Typography Competition, plus in-depth profiles of Prague-based photographer Bet Orten, Portland, Oregon–based design firm OMFGCO, Brooklyn-based... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Was: Quick view
Quick view Hex Signs: Myth & Meaning in Pennsylvania Dutch Barn Stars MSRP: Now: $30.00 Was: With special emphasis on Berks and Lehigh Counties, PA, this groundbreaking work is an unparalleled presentation of the area's most publically-acclaimed regional folk art, known as Hex Signs or Barn Stars. This valuable collection offers the rare... MSRP: Now: $30.00 Was: Quick view
Quick view Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency MSRP: Now: $16.95 Was: In this remarkable, inspiring collection of essays, acclaimed writer and critic Olivia Laing makes a brilliant case for why art matters, especially in the turbulent political weather of the twenty-first century. Funny Weather brings together a career’s... MSRP: Now: $16.95 Was: Quick view
Quick view Ways of Seeing MSRP: Now: $17.00 Was: John Berger's Ways of Seeing is one of the most stimulating and the most influential books on art in any language. First published in 1972, it was based on the BBC television series about which the Sunday Times critic commented: "This is an eye-opener in... MSRP: Now: $17.00 Was: Quick view
Quick view Edo Ball: The Art of Basketball MSRP: Now: $45.00 Was: This series of paintings seamlessly fuses contemporary basketball imagery with Edo-period Japanese art and culture, with captivating results. Each image riffs on a classic Japanese painting or subject, adding a surprisingly weighty visual twist as... MSRP: Now: $45.00 Was: Quick view
On Sale Quick view Jasper Johns: Mind/Mirror MSRP: Now: $30.00 Was: $60.00 Jasper Johns (b. 1930) is one of the most influential artists living today . Over the past 65 years, he has produced a radical and varied body of work marked by constant reinvention. Inspired by the artist’s long-standing fascination with mirroring and... MSRP: Now: $30.00 Was: $60.00 Quick view
Quick view Extra Bold: A Feminist, Inclusive, Anti-racist, Nonbinary Field Guide for Graphic Designers MSRP: Now: $29.95 Was: Extra Bold is the inclusive, practical, and informative career handbook for designers that we've all been waiting for. Written collaboratively by a diverse team of authors, the book opens with critical essays that rethink design principles and practices... MSRP: Now: $29.95 Was: Quick view
Quick view Joel Meyerowitz: How I Make Photographs MSRP: Now: $19.99 Was: The 'Masters of Photography' series is a new approach to photography how-to. Each volume is dedicated to the work of one key photographer who, through a series of bite-sized lessons and ideas, tells you everything you always wanted to know about their... MSRP: Now: $19.99 Was: Quick view
Quick view Design is Storytelling MSRP: Now: $17.95 Was: Good design, like good storytelling, brings ideas to life. The latest book from award-winning writer Ellen Lupton is a playbook for creative thinking, showing designers how to use storytelling techniques to create satisfying graphics, products, services... MSRP: Now: $17.95 Was: Quick view
Quick view Still Life Drawing: A Creative Guide to Observing the World Around You MSRP: Now: $19.99 Was: Many people say they can't draw, but everyone can. Still Life Drawing reminds us that putting pen to paper is a simple pleasure, available to anyone. And when it comes to combining colors, playing with pattern and exploring shapes, there are no... MSRP: Now: $19.99 Was: Quick view
Quick view What Adults Don't Know About Art MSRP: Now: $19.99 Was: Inspiring Young Minds to Love and Enjoy Art Everyone tells children that art matters— but the truth is that very often it's hard to know why it really does. Museum visits can feel like a chore as does having to learn the names of the big artists we're... MSRP: Now: $19.99 Was: Quick view
Quick view Start with a House, Finish with a Collection MSRP: Now: $75.00 Was: Offers a unique personal perspective on the journey of collecting American art and antiques Start with House, Finish with a Collection is the story of how a couple's use of American art and antiques evolved from furnishing a house into a... MSRP: Now: $75.00 Was: Quick view
Quick view Dieter Rams: Less but Better MSRP: Now: $40.00 Was: Few product designs have the staying power of creations by Dieter Rams. Almost everything produced by the most influential designer of the twentieth century is today considered a classic. This new and revised edition... MSRP: Now: $40.00 Was: Quick view
Museum Exclusive Quick view Homer: Two Sailboats Bookmark MSRP: Now: $9.00 Was: Hold your place in any book with this wood bookmark from Homer's Two Sailboats in the museum collection. Homer's love of the sea was a rich source of themes while closely observing the fishermen, the sea, and the marine weather. Homer’s skill as a... MSRP: Now: $9.00 Was: Quick view
Museum Exclusive Quick view Roesen: Flower Still Life with Bird's Nest Bookmark MSRP: Now: $9.00 Was: You won't loose your place in a book with artist Severin Roesen's Still Life with Bird's Nest reproduced on this bookmark. A lavish depiction of flowers is crowded with blooms from every season. Daylilies, irises, lilacs, morning... MSRP: Now: $9.00 Was: Quick view
Museum Exclusive Quick view Tall Case Clock Face Bookmark MSRP: Now: $14.00 Was: While it is easy to lose time when reading a good page turner, you won't loose your place with this bookmark detailing the face of a tall case clock in the museum's Early American Art collection. German-born watch- and clockmaker Frederick Dominick... MSRP: Now: $14.00 Was: Quick view
Museum Exclusive Quick view Angel Bookmark MSRP: Now: $14.00 Was: Keep your place marked with this angel bookmark. This detail from a chest of drawers in the museum's Pennsylvania German Furniture collection is found in our Early American Art Galleries. Furniture painted with this decoration is known as... MSRP: Now: $14.00 Was: Quick view
Museum Exclusive Quick view Paul Revere Teapot Bookmark MSRP: Now: $14.00 Was: Mark your place with Paul Revere's teapot as you enjoy Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's Tales of a Wayside Inn. Longfellow popularized Paul Revere, an 18th-century American activist and artisan, in "Paul Revere's Ride", a poem first published in 1861,... MSRP: Now: $14.00 Was: Quick view
Quick view When America First Met China MSRP: Now: $16.95 Was: Brilliantly illuminating one of the least-understood areas of American history, best-selling author Eric Jay Dolin now traces our fraught relationship with China back to its roots: the unforgiving nineteenth-century seas that separated a brash, rising... MSRP: Now: $16.95 Was: Quick view
Quick view Home Computers: 100 Icons that Defined a Digital Generation MSRP: Now: $29.95 Was: Today, people carry powerful computers in our pockets and call them “phones.” A generation ago, people were amazed that the processing power of a mainframe computer could be contained in a beige box on a desk. This book is a celebration of... MSRP: Now: $29.95 Was: Quick view
Quick view How to Rule at Photography: 50 Tips and Tricks for Using Your Phone's Camera MSRP: Now: $19.99 Was: How to Rule at Photography features 50 bite-size tips and tricks to help you improve your photo skills with your phone's camera. Creating brilliant photos with your phone isn't as hard as you might think, and the easy-to-follow advice in this book goes... MSRP: Now: $19.99 Was: Quick view
Quick view The Hill We Climb: An Inaugural Poem For The Country MSRP: Now: $15.99 Was: YES!! That poet and that poem! This is a special edition of the poem "The Hill We Climb," read at the inauguration of the 46th president of the United States, Joe Biden, on January 20, 2021.On January 20, 2021, Amanda Gorman became the sixth and... MSRP: Now: $15.99 Was: Quick view
Quick view The Design Book: Mini Edition MSRP: Now: $19.95 Was: From the paperclip to the Eames Lounge Chair, the hundreds of everyday objects included in The Design Book span the last five centuries and shape our society in indelible ways. This extraordinary collection includes classic pieces by... MSRP: Now: $19.95 Was: Quick view
Quick view W. E. B. Du Bois's Data Portraits: Visualizing Black America MSRP: Now: $29.95 Was: Famed sociologist, writer, and Black rights activist W.E.B. Du Bois fundamentally changed the representation of Black Americans with his exhibition of data visualizations at the 1900 Paris Exposition. Beautiful in design and powerful in content,... MSRP: Now: $29.95 Was: Quick view
Quick view The Grand Old Lady of Modern Art: Marcel Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase MSRP: Now: $39.95 Was: Marcel Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2 , one of the best known and immediately recognizable paintings in the history of 20th century art, "is famous," as the critic Robert Hughes astutely observed, "for being famous." Indeed,... MSRP: Now: $39.95 Was: Quick view
Quick view Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists? MSRP: Now: $14.95 Was: Many scholars have called Linda Nochlin’s seminal essay on women artists the first real attempt at a feminist history of art. In her revolutionary essay, Nochlin refused to answer the question of why there had been no “great women... MSRP: Now: $14.95 Was: Quick view
Quick view Made by Hand: A Crafts Sampler MSRP: Now: $17.99 Was: Whirr, buzz, hum. Before busy machines in factories turned out most of what we need and use, people crafted these items by hand. From a globe to a pie crimper, a butter churn to a rocking horse, this unique collection highlights fourteen... MSRP: Now: $17.99 Was: Quick view
Quick view The Backyard Birdwatcher's Bible MSRP: Now: $35.00 Was: The Backyard Birdwatcher’s Bible is that rare type of book, one that is as packed with information as it is pleasing to look at. An elegant aesthetic is paired with practical tips on identifying, attracting, and caring for backyard birds, as well as... MSRP: Now: $35.00 Was: Quick view
Quick view Jasper Johns: Redo An Eye MSRP: Now: $60.00 Was: Spanning over 60 years of Jasper Johns’s (b. 1930) prolific career, this spectacular publication is the most comprehensive and definitive study of the artist’s work to date. Written by noted Johns expert Roberta Bernstein, the book explores... MSRP: Now: $60.00 Was: Quick view
On Sale Quick view Michelangelo Pistoletto: From One to Many, 1956 - 1974 MSRP: Now: $19.99 Was: $40.00 One of Europe’s most influential contemporary artists, Michelangelo Pistoletto (born 1933) has persistently investigated and expanded the role of the spectator in art since the 1950s through painting, sculpture, and performance. His present... MSRP: Now: $19.99 Was: $40.00 Quick view
On Sale Quick view Adventures In Modern Art: The Charles K. Williams II Collection MSRP: Now: $22.50 Was: $45.00 This fully illustrated catalogue features entries on more than one hundred significant works by artists including Stieglitz Circle painters Georgia O'Keeffe, John Marin, Marsden Hartley, and Arthur Dove; Precisionists Charles Demuth, Ralston... MSRP: Now: $22.50 Was: $45.00 Quick view
Quick view One Hundred Aspects of the Moon: Japanese Woodblock Prints by Yoshitoshi MSRP: Now: $36.95 Was: Yoshitoshi (1839–1892) was the last great woodblock print master of the Ukiyo-e tradition, and One Hundred Aspects of the Moon is regarded as his greatest achievement. The only complete set of the series, in the collection of the Museum of International... MSRP: Now: $36.95 Was: Quick view
On Sale Quick view Rookwood Pottery at the Philadelphia Museum of Art MSRP: Now: $14.99 Was: $30.00 The Rookwood Pottery was probably the most famous company making art pottery in the United States in the late nineteenth century into the twentieth century, achieving an international reputation and consistently promoting artistic innovation. Proud that... MSRP: Now: $14.99 Was: $30.00 Quick view
Quick view Senga Nengudi: Topologies MSRP: Now: $45.00 Was: For almost fifty years, Senga Nengudi has shaped an œuvre that inhabits a specific and unique place between sculpture, dance, and performance. And that work has been widely recognized as groundbreaking. Her iconic R.S.V.P... MSRP: Now: $45.00 Was: Quick view
On Sale Quick view Italian Master Drawings MSRP: Now: $16.00 Was: $32.00 The Philadelphia Museum of Art is fortunate to have a collection of Italian drawings that encompasses a broad sweep of Italy’s art history, from the Renaissance to Futurism to the contemporary, and includes works by such famed artists as Batoni,... MSRP: Now: $16.00 Was: $32.00 Quick view
On Sale Quick view Warren Rohrer MSRP: Now: $16.00 Was: $32.00 This text accompanies the first museum survey of the mature work of Warren Rohrer, one of the premiere abstract artists to work in Philadelphia in the 20th century, bringing together 32 large-scale paintings from the years 1972 to 1993. This selection... MSRP: Now: $16.00 Was: $32.00 Quick view
Quick view Werner's Nomenclature of Colours MSRP: Now: $14.95 Was: In the late eighteenth century, mineralogist Abraham Gottlob Werner devised a standardized color scheme that allowed him to describe even the subtlest of chromatic differences with consistent terminology. His scheme was then adapted by an Edinburgh... MSRP: Now: $14.95 Was: Quick view
Quick view Meier Basic Architecture MSRP: Now: $20.00 Was: Ever since his self-proclamation as part of the “New York Five,” Richard Meier has risen through one top commission after another to the dizzy heights of architectural stardom. From Madison Square Garden to Shenzhen, China, his sleek, luminously... MSRP: Now: $20.00 Was: Quick view
Quick view Zaha Hadid Basic Architecture MSRP: Now: $20.00 Was: Discover the audacious futurism of Zaha Hadid. As the first woman to win both the Pritzker Prize for architecture and the RIBA Royal Gold Medal, Hadid broke the rules and re-defined the game, despite some saying her designs were unbuildable... MSRP: Now: $20.00 Was: Quick view
Quick view F. L. Wright Basic Architecture MSRP: Now: $20.00 Was: Acclaimed as the “father of skyscrapers,” the quintessentially American icon Frank Lloyd Wright was an architect of aspiration. He believed in giving cultivated American life its fitting architectural equivalent and applied his idealism to structures... MSRP: Now: $20.00 Was: Quick view
Quick view Le Corbusier Basic Architecture MSRP: Now: $20.00 Was: Even in his unrealized projects, Le Corbusier redefined modern living, synthesizing functionalism, expressionism, and expansive urban thinking from Switzerland to Chandigarh, India. This book provides a succinct introduction to his... MSRP: Now: $20.00 Was: Quick view
Quick view Kandinsky Basic Art 2.0 MSRP: Now: $20.00 Was: Over the course of his artistic career, Wassily Kandinsky (1866–1944) transformed not only his own style, but the course of art history. From early figurative and landscape painting, he went on to pioneer a spiritual, emotive, rhythmic use of color... MSRP: Now: $20.00 Was: Quick view
Quick view Steinlen Le Chat Noir Bookmark MSRP: Now: $14.00 Was: Never lose your page again with this bookmark that reproduces Steinlen's Le Chat Noir. Known best for his works celebrating the Montmartre neighborhood of Paris, Steinlen included cats in many of his illustrations, and even published a book of his... MSRP: Now: $14.00 Was: Quick view