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Life stories of women artists, 1550-1800 Life stories of women artists, 1550-1800 Julia Kathleen Dabbs It is an old adage that "anonymous" was a woman. However not all female artists are anonymous. In this anthology of biographies of female artists, Dabbs (art history, University of Minnesota) and her… OL13773675W
Red brick, Black Mountain, white clay Red brick, Black Mountain, white clay Christopher E. G. Benfey " An incandescent journey to unearth the beginnings of American art. An unforgettable voyage across the reaches of America and the depths of memory, Red Brick, Black Mountain, White Clay tells the s… OL16184357W
My life in a column My life in a column Tracey Emin An anthology of pieces artist Tracey Emin wrote for The Independent newspaper in London, a weekly column that ran between 2005 and 2009, that touch on everything from the themes behind her work to he… OL16693286W
The A to Z of Renaissance Art The A to Z of Renaissance Art Lilian H. Zirpolo The A to Z of Renaissance Art covers the years 1250 to 1648,the period most disciplines place as the Renaissance Era. A completeportrait of this remarkable period is depicted in this book through ach… OL16978053W
Garth Evans Sculpture Beneath The Skin Garth Evans Sculpture Beneath The Skin Ann Compton 221 p. : 28 cm OL17583323W
Ascending Chaos Ascending Chaos Catherine Clark,Alison Bing,Kathryn A. Hoffmann Introduction by Catharine Clark,Essays by Alison Bing,and Eleanor Heartney,and Kathryn A. Hoffmann Published to coincide with a series of major exhibitions extending beyond 2007, Ascending Chaos i… OL17721436W
Wear your dreams Wear your dreams Don Ed Hardy ""Ed Hardy" is emblazoned on everything from t-shirts and hats to perfumes and energy drinks. From LA to Japan, his colorful cross-and-bones designs and ribbon-banners have become internationally ubi… OL17856480W
Larry Rivers Larry Rivers Jacquelyn Days Serwer,Barbara Rose "Artist Larry Rivers has shocked, scandalized, and intrigued audiences for close to fifty years. Rivers emerged as a pop art pioneer in the 1950s and later became one of America's most important figu… OL19492374W
Art sex music Art sex music Cosey Fanni Tutti "[This book] is the autobiography of a musician who, as a founding member of the avant-garde group Throbbing Gristle and electronic pioneers Chris & Cosey, has consistently challenged the boundaries … OL19714814W
David Lamelas David Lamelas David Lamelas The renowned Argentinian conceptual artist David Lamelas (born 1946) has an expansive oeuvre, which shows his work to be evocative, restive, and exhilarating. This book, published to coincide with th… OL19747681W
Titian Titian Sheila Hale A biography of the Venetian artist, Titian and the evolution of his paintings. OL19960838W
Van Gogh Van Gogh Bell, Julian "'I believe in the absolute necessity of a new art of colour, of drawing and--of the artistic life,' Vincent van Gogh wrote to his brother Theo in 1888. 'And if we work in that faith, it seems to me … OL19995414W
A-Z great modern artists A-Z great modern artists Andy Tuohy A fun introduction to the world of modern artists, from Albers to Zox, via Basquiat, Kahlo, Warhol and more. OL20002679W
Of arms and artists Of arms and artists Paul J. Staiti A "chronicle of the American Revolution through the stories of the five great artists whose paintings animated the new American republic...Charles Willson Peale, John Singleton Copley, John Trumbull,… OL20039617W
Where there's smoke, there's dinner Where there's smoke, there's dinner Regi Carpenter These honest tales - some hilarious, some heartbreaking - celebrate the glorious and gut-wrenching lives of four generations of Carpenters raised on the St. Lawrence River in Clayton, New York. OL20868559W
Midsummer Snowballs Midsummer Snowballs Andy Goldsworthy "Just after midnight on June 21, 2000, Midsummer Day, artist Andy Goldsworthy supervised the unloading of thirteen huge snowballs from refrigerated trucks onto the streets of London's financial distr… OL2108034W
Rembrandt's house Rembrandt's house Anthony Bailey Annotation OL31213384W
Lightning Man Lightning Man Kenneth Silverman In this brilliantly conceived and written biography, Pulitzer Prize--winning Kenneth Silverman gives us the long and amazing life of the man eulogized by the New York Herald in 1872 as "perhaps the m… OL3243636W
Marc Chagall Marc Chagall Jonathan Wilson Novelist and critic Jonathan Wilson clears away the sentimental mists surrounding an artist whose career spanned two world wars, the Russian Revolution, the Holocaust, and the birth of the State of I… OL3517196W
Gwen John Gwen John Sue Roe "In 1942, at the height of his fame, Augustus John predicted that 'fifty years after my death I shall be remembered as Gwen John's brother'. Gwen John (1876-1939) is indeed now recognised as a great … OL4452081W
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