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  • The Time is Always Now: Artists Reframe the Black Figure The Time is Always Now: Artists Reframe the Black Figure

    The Time is Always Now: Artists Reframe the Black Figure

    $45.00
     â€śThere is never a time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment, the time is always now,” wrote James Baldwin. Published in conjunction with the eponymous exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery,...
    $45.00
  • Reframing the Black Figure Reframing the Black Figure

    Reframing the Black Figure

    $19.95
    This visual gift book introduces readers to the field of Black figuration by highlighting key works from the National Portrait Gallery exhibition The Time is Always Now: Artists Reframe the Black Figure. The selections included in this brief introduction...
    $19.95
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson

    Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson

    $10.99
    Jacqueline Woodson's National Book Award and Newbery Honor winner is a powerful memoir that tells the moving story of her childhood in mesmerizing verse.  A President Obama "O" Book Club pick. Raised in South Carolina and New York, Woodson always...
    $10.99
  • 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: 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
  • Philadelphia A Brief History Philadelphia A Brief History

    Philadelphia A Brief History

    $19.95
    Understanding Philadelphia’s history requires that we understand that nothing is inevitable; history is not made by abstract forces, but by the decisions of real individuals as they conduct their lives. With its insightful analysis and engaging prose ,...
    $19.95
  • 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
  • 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
  • 1000 Lights - Bibliotheca Universalis Series 1000 Lights - Bibliotheca Universalis Series

    1000 Lights - Bibliotheca Universalis Series

    $25.00
    Light up your life Luminary design of the 20th century Designed to be a companion to our classic title 1000 Chairs, this edition contains an awesome selection of over 1000 lights. Presented chronologically by decade are the 20th century’s most...
    $25.00
  • An Opinionated Guide to Photography An Opinionated Guide to Photography

    An Opinionated Guide to Photography

    $20.00
    In a world of infinite images here is a guide to 65 of the best ever taken. From early experiments with light and form through Leica masterpieces and now artificially generated images, take it or leave it, this is our opinion as to why these particular...
    $20.00
  • Art Essentials: Looking at Photographs Art Essentials: Looking at Photographs

    Art Essentials: Looking at Photographs

    $18.95
    A new introductory guide to the art of looking at and engaging with photography. Photographs, even the most iconic, often have something seemingly obvious about them. They appear to represent the "real" world and our first instinct is that they can be...
    $18.95
  • Scandinavian Design 40th/45th Edition Series Scandinavian Design 40th/45th Edition Series

    Scandinavian Design 40th/45th Edition Series

    $30.00
    The best design from the Nordic region Scandinavia is world famous for its inimitable, democratic designs which bridge the gap between craftsmanship and industrial production, organic forms and everyday functionality. This all-you-need guide includes...
    $30.00
  • Aperture Issue 245: Latinx Aperture Issue 245: Latinx

    Aperture Issue 245: Latinx

    $24.95
    In “Latinx,” Carribean Fragoza traces Laura Aguilar’s influence on queer artmaking. Joiri Minaya remixes postcards from the Dominican Republic to unveil the fantasy of tourism. Christina Catherine Martinez profiles Reynaldo Rivera, who chronicled...
    $24.95
  • Chinese Myths: A Guide to Gods and Legends Chinese Myths: A Guide to Gods and Legends

    Chinese Myths: A Guide to Gods and Legends

    $25.95
    An illustrated guide to the fantastic world of Japanese myths: retelling the stories and exploring how Japanese mythology has changed over time, as new gods, heroes, and spirits have entered the  canon. While people around the world love Japan’s...
    $25.95
  • 1000 Chairs 1000 Chairs

    1000 Chairs

    $25.00
    Take a Seat An overview of exemplary chairs More than any other piece of furniture, the chair has been subjected to the wildest dreams of the designer. The particular curve of a backrest, or the twist of a leg, the angle of a seat or the color of the...
    $25.00
  • Christina Ramberg: A Retrospective Christina Ramberg: A Retrospective

    Christina Ramberg: A Retrospective

    $50.00
    Christina Ramberg (1946–1995) first gained renown for her acrylic-on-board paintings from the 1960s and 1970s that feature stylized fragments of female figures. Often associated with Chicago Imagism, Ramberg’s distinct linear approach was informed by a...
    $50.00
  • Morris - Basic Art Series Morris - Basic Art Series

    Morris - Basic Art Series

    $20.00
    William Morris was a polymath designer, writer, artist, and social activist, associated with England's Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood as well as Arts and Crafts movement. His prolific design work included tiles, embroidery, tapestries, wallpaper, and carpets...
    $20.00
  • Papier Tigre Color Inspiration Book Volume 3 Papier Tigre Color Inspiration Book Volume 3

    Papier Tigre Color Inspiration Book Volume 3

    $28.00
    For Papier Tigre “the Earth is blue like an orange” (Paul Eluard). The relationship between shapes and colors provides an opportunity for the clever mingling of the figurative and the abstract. Sometimes unexpected colors come to life and displace a too...
    $28.00
  • World Textiles World of Art Series World Textiles World of Art Series

    World Textiles World of Art Series

    $24.95
     An updated edition of this indispensable reference, surveying the history of textiles from twenty-five thousand years ago to the present.  The history of textiles, more than that of any other artifact, is a history of human ingenuity. From the...
    $24.95
  • Bauhaus (Second Edition) World of Art Series Bauhaus (Second Edition) World of Art Series

    Bauhaus (Second Edition) World of Art Series

    $21.95
    Reissued to mark the one hundredth anniversary of the founding of the Bauhaus, this book explores one of the most important art schools of the last hundred years. The Bauhaus, a school of art and design founded in Germany in 1919, informed the aesthetic...
    $21.95
  • Mapplethorpe Flora Mapplethorpe Flora

    Mapplethorpe Flora

    $100.00
    The definitive collection of Robert Mapplethorpe’s flower photographs in a sophisticated new edition. Robert Mapplethorpe is one of the twentieth century’s most important artists, known for his ground-breaking and provocative work. He studied painting,...
    $100.00
  • From Slave Ship to Harvard From Slave Ship to Harvard

    From Slave Ship to Harvard

    $26.95
    From Slave Ship to Harvard is the true story of an African American family in Maryland over six generations. The author has reconstructed a unique narrative of black struggle and achievement from paintings, photographs, books, diaries, court records,...
    $26.95
  • Black History in the Philadelphia Landscape Black History in the Philadelphia Landscape

    Black History in the Philadelphia Landscape

    $18.95
    Black Philadelphians have shaped Philadelphia history since colonial times. In Black History in the Philadelphia Landscape, Amy Cohen recounts notable aspects of the Black experience in Philadelphia from the late 1600s to the 1960s and how this history...
    $18.95
  • Any Day Now: Toward a Black Aesthetic Ekphrasis Series Any Day Now: Toward a Black Aesthetic Ekphrasis Series

    Any Day Now: Toward a Black Aesthetic Ekphrasis Series

    $15.00
    Larry Neal, a poet, dramatist, and critic, was a founding figure of the Black Arts Movement in the 1960s and 1970s in New York. Writing as the arts editor for Liberator magazine, a radical journal published in Harlem, Neal called for Black artists to...
    $15.00
  • Digging in the City of Brotherly Love Digging in the City of Brotherly Love

    Digging in the City of Brotherly Love

    $35.00
    Historic Philadelphia has long yielded archaeological treasures from its past. Excavations required by the National Historic Preservation Act have recovered pottery shards, pots, plates, coins, bones, and other artifacts relating to early life in the...
    $35.00
  • Melissa Shook Daily Self-Portraits 1972-1973 Melissa Shook Daily Self-Portraits 1972-1973

    Melissa Shook Daily Self-Portraits 1972-1973

    $60.00
    Melissa Shook (April 18, 1939 – August 27, 2020) was an American photographer, artist and educator. Her photographs are part of an exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Invitation Only: Photographs by Barbara Crane, Melissa Shook, and Carol...
    $60.00
  • Basilius Besler: The Garden at Eichstatt Basilius Besler: The Garden at Eichstatt

    Basilius Besler: The Garden at Eichstatt

    $200.00
    The 367 exquisite hand-colored plates of the Hortus Eystettensis, published in 1613 with elaborate descriptions to record the palatial gardens in Eichstätt, Bavaria, were a landmark in botanical illustration. This facsimile edition, featuring...
    $200.00
  • An Indigenous Present An Indigenous Present

    An Indigenous Present

    $75.00
    This landmark volume is a gathering of Native North American  contemporary artists, musicians, filmmakers, choreographers, architects,  writers, photographers, designers and more. Conceived by Jeffrey  Gibson, a renowned artist of...
    $75.00
  • Kiki Man Ray Art Love and Rivalry in 1920's Paris Kiki Man Ray Art Love and Rivalry in 1920's Paris

    Kiki Man Ray Art Love and Rivalry in 1920's Paris

    $18.95
    In freewheeling 1920s Paris, Kiki de Montparnasse captivated as a nightclub performer, sold out gallery showings of her paintings, starred in Surrealist films, and shared drinks and ideas with the likes of Jean Cocteau and Marcel Duchamp. Her...
    $18.95
  • Vincent Van Gogh Creative Inspiration Vincent Van Gogh Creative Inspiration

    Vincent Van Gogh Creative Inspiration

    $16.95
    A beautiful and delightfully handy art book that is designed to inspire, this collection of 150 beautifully reproduced Vincent Van Gogh images makes a stylish gift. His writings have been edited and selected to create an enlightening, uplifting, and...
    $16.95
  • The Shape of Time: Korean Art after 1989 The Shape of Time: Korean Art after 1989

    The Shape of Time: Korean Art after 1989

    $50.00
    Focusing on the work of 33 artists, this volume examines the ways contemporary Korean art reflects the dynamic changes in the country following the 1980 Gwangju Uprising and 1988 Seoul Olympics, when a newly democratic South Korea opened up to the rest...
    $50.00
  • Fashion Designers A-Z - 40th/45th Edition Series Fashion Designers A-Z - 40th/45th Edition Series

    Fashion Designers A-Z - 40th/45th Edition Series

    $30.00
    Celebrating over a century of fashion’s greatest talents, from Azzedine AlaĂŻa and Coco Chanel to Alexander McQueen and Yves Saint Laurent. From Azzedine AlaĂŻa, CristĂłbal Balenciaga, and Coco Chanel to  Alexander McQueen, Yves Saint Laurent, and...
    $30.00
  • Read This If You Want to Take Great Photographs new ed Read This If You Want to Take Great Photographs new ed

    Read This If You Want to Take Great Photographs new ed

    $19.99
    Photography is now more popular than ever thanks to the rapid development of digital cameras. Read This if You Want to Take Great Photographs is ideal for this new wave of snap shooters using DSLR, compact system and bridge cameras. It contains no...
    $19.99
  • Stitching Love and Loss: A Gee's Bend Quilt Stitching Love and Loss: A Gee's Bend Quilt

    Stitching Love and Loss: A Gee's Bend Quilt

    $29.95
    A meditation on suffering, resilience, creativity, and grace. In 1942 Missouri Pettway, newly suffering the loss of her husband, pieced together a quilt out of his old, worn work clothes. Nearly six decades later her daughter Arlonzia Pettway,...
    $29.95
  • Art Essentials: Photography Art Essentials: Photography

    Art Essentials: Photography

    $16.95
    Photography has a complex relationship to art. This volume uses an innovative framework to help readers appreciate photography as its own modern art form. In his unique and insightful approach, professor of photography David Bate presents iconic...
    $16.95
  •  Papier Tigre Color Inspiration Book: Volume II  Papier Tigre Color Inspiration Book: Volume II

    Papier Tigre Color Inspiration Book: Volume II

    $28.00
    Discover 300 pages of color inspiration with 450 as rich as they are surprising, combinations inspired by 150 destinations. Reflecting the diversity and beauty of our animal world. This book is a great combination to the volume 1, still with CMYK and...
    $28.00
  •  Vincent Van Gogh: Healing Power of Nature  Vincent Van Gogh: Healing Power of Nature

    Vincent Van Gogh: Healing Power of Nature

    $16.95
    'Sometimes I long so much to do landscape, just as one would for a long walk to refresh oneself, and in all of nature, in trees for instance, I see expression and a soul.' Vincent van Gogh saw nature and art as inseparably linked. In The Healing Power...
    $16.95
  • Just Enough Design Just Enough Design

    Just Enough Design

    $16.95
    A Japanese designer offers a compelling alternative way to engage with our possessions, our history, our environment, and each other. The Japanese phrase "hodo-hodo" originates in ancient times. When contemporary designer Taku Satoh applies it to his...
    $16.95
  • Sonia Delaunay Sonia Delaunay

    Sonia Delaunay

    $30.00
    Sonia Delaunay was a true pioneer of modernist abstraction; breaking with the figurative vocabulary that subordinated color to subject matter, she placed dynamic color interaction at the core of her vision, whether expressed through painting, book...
    $30.00
  • Phantoms of Fairmont Phantoms of Fairmont

    Phantoms of Fairmount

    $12.00
    Philadelphia is a city of neighborhoods and Fairmount is among its most famous.  But you know it for the Parkway and the museums.  Did you know it is also home to a ghostly history?  Eastern State Penitentiary has had countless reports of...
    $12.00
  • Japanese Myths A Guide to Gods, Heroes and Spirits Japanese Myths A Guide to Gods, Heroes and Spirits

    Japanese Myths: A Guide to Gods, Heroes and Spirits

    $25.95
    An illustrated guide to the fantastic world of Japanese myths: retelling the stories and exploring how Japanese mythology has changed over time, as new gods, heroes, and spirits have entered the  canon. While people around the world love Japan’s...
    $25.95
  • Barbara Chase-Riboud Malcolm X Steles

    Barbara Chase-Riboud Malcolm X Steles

    $25.00
    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...
    $25.00
  • Philadelphia Museum of Art Funny Weather Art in an Emergency Philadelphia Museum of Art Funny Weather Art in an Emergency

    Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency

    $16.95
    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...
    $16.95
  • Philadelphia Museum of Art Ways of Seeing Philadelphia Museum of Art Ways of Seeing

    Ways of Seeing

    $17.00
    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...
    $17.00
  • Philadelphia Museum of Art Design is Storytelling Philadelphia Museum of Art Design is Storytelling

    Design is Storytelling

    $17.95
    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...
    $17.95
  • Philadelphia Museum of Art Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists? Philadelphia Museum of Art Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?

    Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?

    $14.95
    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...
    $14.95
  • Philadelphia Museum of Art F L Wright Basic Architecture Philadelphia Museum of Art F L Wright Basic Architecture

    F. L. Wright - Basic Architecture Series

    $20.00
    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...
    $20.00
  • Philadelphia Museum of Art Kandinsky Basic Art 2.0 Philadelphia Museum of Art Kandinsky Basic Art 2.0

    Kandinsky - Basic Art Series

    $20.00
    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...
    $20.00
  •  Eugene Atget: Paris  Eugene Atget: Paris

    Eugene Atget: Paris

    $25.00
    Take an intimate promenade through Paris with some 500 images from Eugène Atget. Down main streets and side streets, through courtyards, arcades, and the city’s 20 arrondissements, we find a unique portrait of a beloved city and the making...
    $25.00
  •  Tarot  Tarot

    Library of Esoterica: Tarot

    $40.00
    To explore the Tarot is to explore ourselves, to be reminded of the  universality of our longing for meaning, for purpose and for a  connection to the divine. This 600-year-old tradition reflects not only a  history of seekers, but our...
    $40.00
  • Philadelphia Museum of Art Long Light: Photography by David Lebe Philadelphia Museum of Art Long Light: Photography by David Lebe

    Long Light: Photography by David Lebe

    $25.00
    Throughout the 1970s and 1980s David Lebe (b. 1948) pushed the boundaries of photography, creating nuanced and visually complex images using innovative techniques. Often enhancing his prints with hand-coloring, Lebe made experimental pinhole photographs,...
    $25.00
  • Lisa Roberts Mr. Waffles Loves Design Lisa Roberts Mr. Waffles Loves Design

    Mr. Waffles Loves Design

    $24.95
    By Lisa Roberts At four months old Mr. Waffles was rescued from a shelter by a family who collects contemporary design. Luckily for everyone involved - Mr. Waffles Loves Design! Take a tour through a history of design with this very smart and curious cat...
    $24.95
  • Off The Wall: American Art To Wear Off The Wall: American Art To Wear

    Off The Wall: American Art To Wear

    $30.00
    Edited by Dilys E. Blum with essays by Dilys E. Blum and Mary Schoeser, and a contribution by Julie Schafler Dale This is the first publication to consider art to wear, also known as wearable art, as a discrete American movement that mirrored the...
    $30.00
  • Cy Twombly: Fifty Days At Iliam Cy Twombly: Fifty Days At Iliam

    Cy Twombly: Fifty Days At Iliam

    $45.00
    Edited by Carlos Basualdo with essays by Carlos Basualdo, Olena Chervonik, Richard Fletcher, Emily Greenwood, and Nicola Del Roscio This revelatory publication provides a comprehensive and multifaceted account of Cy Twombly’s masterpiece Fifty Days...
    $45.00
  • Philadelphia Museum of Art A History Of Photography: From 1839 To The Present Philadelphia Museum of Art A History Of Photography: From 1839 To The Present

    A History Of Photography: From 1839 To The Present

    $25.00
    George Eastman’s career developed in a particularly American way. The founder of Kodak progressed from a delivery boy to one of the most important industrialists in American history, and a crucial innovator in photographic history. Eastman died in 1932,...
    $25.00
  • Philadelphia: Pictorial Map And Walking Guide Philadelphia: Pictorial Map And Walking Guide

    Philadelphia: Pictorial Map And Walking Guide

    $6.95
    This pictoral map of Philadelphia features detailed illustrations of points of interest, as well as historical information and sight seeing reccomendations. It incorporates antique imagery and architectural renderings of Philadelphias most renowened...
    $6.95