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  • 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
  • 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
  • American Letters: 1927-1947 Jackson Pollock & Family American Letters: 1927-1947 Jackson Pollock & Family

    American Letters: 1927-1947 Jackson Pollock & Family

    $19.95
    Jackson Pollock, the towering American artist who was to revolutionize twentieth-century art with his “dripping” painting technique, grew up between the late 1920s and the late 1940s, the youngest of five boys born in the American West. Though often...
    $19.95
  • 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    Drawing on thousands of never-before-translated letters and unpublished sources, this biography reveals dramatic new information about the life and work of one of the late nineteenth century’s most important painters.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
  • 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
  • An Opinionated Guide to Women Painters An Opinionated Guide to Women Painters

    An Opinionated Guide to Women Painters

    $20.00
    For as long as there’s been paint, there have been women painters – these are the painters you may not have heard of who have shaped the way we see. From artists at the forefront of the Dutch Golden Age to avant-garde radicals in Soviet Russia and...
    $20.00
  • Lucy R. Lippard on Pop Art Lucy R. Lippard on Pop Art

    Lucy R. Lippard on Pop Art

    $16.95
     Explore the dynamic world of 1960s pop art through Lucy Lippard's insightful analysis of this groundbreaking international art movement. Surprising, questioning, challenging, enriching: the Pocket Perspectives series presents timeless works by...
    $16.95
  • Paris in Ruins: Love, War, and the Birth of Impressionism Paris in Ruins: Love, War, and the Birth of Impressionism

    Paris in Ruins: Love, War, and the Birth of Impressionism

    $35.00
    The Pulitzer Prize–winning art critic’s gripping account of the “Terrible Year” in Paris and its monumental impact on the rise of Impressionism From the summer of 1870 to the spring of 1871, famously dubbed the “Terrible Year” by Victor Hugo, Paris and...
    $35.00
  • 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
  • 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
  • Exquisite Dreams: The Art and Life of Dorothea Tanning Exquisite Dreams: The Art and Life of Dorothea Tanning

    Exquisite Dreams: The Art and Life of Dorothea Tanning

    $45.00
    Exquisite Dreams is the first full account of the art and life of Dorothea Tanning (1910–2012). Rather than only focusing on her well-known surrealist paintings, this book gives equal weight to Tanning’s lesser-known but equally powerful sculptures,...
    $45.00
  • On the Turtle's Back On the Turtle's Back

    On the Turtle's Back

    $25.95
    The Lenape tribe, also known as the Delaware Nation, lived for centuries on the land that English colonists later called New Jersey. But once America gained its independence, they were forced to move further west: to Indiana, then Missouri, and finally...
    $25.95
  • Story of Art Without Men Story of Art Without Men

    Story of Art Without Men

    $45.00
    The story of art as it’s never been told before, from the Renaissance to the present day, with more than 300 works of art. How many women artists do you know? Who makes art history? Did women even work as artists before the twentieth century? And what...
    $45.00
  •  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
  • Covered with Night Covered with Night

    Covered with Night

    $20.00
    The Pulitzer Prize-winning history that transforms a single event in 1722 into an unparalleled portrait of early America.  In the winter of 1722, on the eve of a major conference between the Five Nations of the Haudenosaunee (also known as the...
    $20.00
  • Artists on Art Artists on Art

    Artists on Art

    $17.99
    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...
    $17.99
  • 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