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Intro Art Books

Intro Art Books

Looking to quickly brush up on your favorite art style or era? What did Oscar Wilde have to say about art writing? Love a certain painting and want to know more about the artist?

Shop our Intro Art books from Taschen, Thames & Hudson, David Zwirner, and Penguin Random House to bring key ideas and concepts in art front and center.

  • Art Essentials: Looking at Pictures Art Essentials: Looking at Pictures

    Art Essentials: Looking at Pictures

    $16.95
    Looking at pictures can be an exciting or moving experience, but some pictures—often the most rewarding—require some explanation before they can be fully understood. Delving into the origins, designs, and themes  of over one hundred...
    $16.95
  • Art Essentials Symbols In Art Art Essentials Symbols In Art

    Art Essentials: Symbols In Art

    $18.95
    Iconography, or the study of symbols—be they animals, artifacts, plants,  geometric shapes, or gestures—is an essential aspect of interpreting  art. One of the most consistent features of human society throughout  time has been the use of...
    $18.95
  • Art Essentials Key Moments In Art Art Essentials Key Moments In Art

    Art Essentials: Key Moments In Art

    $16.95
    Art lovers can list history’s most important art objects, but what many  don’t know are the dramatic, funny, and sometimes bizarre stories behind  these most famous works. Spanning the last 500 years of art history,  this book revisits...
    $16.95
  • Gustav Klimt (Taschen) Gustav Klimt (Taschen)

    Gustav Klimt - Bibliotheca Universalis Series

    $25.00
    Fall under the spell of Gustav Klimt. A century after his death, the Viennese artist still startles with his unabashed eroticism, dazzling surfaces, and artistic experimentation. Master of 19th-century Viennese art and pioneer of the Secessionist...
    $25.00
  • Bauhaus Bauhaus

    Bauhaus - Bibliotheca Universalis Series

    $25.00
    In a fleeting 14-year period between two world wars, Germany’s Bauhaus school of art and design changed the face of modernity. With utopian ideas for the future, the school developed a pioneering fusion of fine art, craftsmanship, and technology,...
    $25.00
  • Philadelphia Museum of Art The Costume History Philadelphia Museum of Art The Costume History

    Auguste Racinet The Costume History - Bibliotheca Universalis Series

    $25.00
    From Togas to Top Hats The evolution of style from antiquity to 1888 Originally published in France between 1876 and 1888, Auguste Racinet’s Le Costume Historique was in its day the most wide-ranging and incisive study of clothing ever attempted...
    $25.00
  • Florilegium: The Book of Plants Florilegium: The Book of Plants

    Florilegium: The Book of Plants - Bibliotheca Universalis Series

    $25.00
    In 367 exquisite plates, this treasure of botanical literature records the flowers of the palatial grounds at Eichstätt, Bavaria, once some of the most beautiful gardens in history. The illustrations are organized by season and, following the...
    $25.00
  • Philadelphia Museum of Art Industrial Design Philadelphia Museum of Art Industrial Design

    Industrial Design - Bibliotheca Universalis Series

    $25.00
    If you take even the slightest interest in the design of your  toothbrush, the history behind your washing machine, or the evolution of  the telephone, you’ll take an even greater interest in this completely  updated edition of Industrial...
    $25.00
  • Modern Art Modern Art

    Modern Art - Bibliotheca Universalis Series

    $25.00
    Most art historians agree that the modern art adventure first  developed in the 1860s in Paris. A circle of painters, whom we now know  as Impressionists, began painting pictures with rapid, loose brushwork.  They turned to everyday street...
    $25.00
  • Art Essentials: Women Artists Art Essentials: Women Artists

    Art Essentials: Women Artists

    $16.95
    In 1971, in an essay that has now become one of the touchstones of feminist art history, Linda Nochlin raised the question heard round the world: “Why have there been no great women artists?” Since the 1970s, as a result of this kind of...
    $16.95