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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
The Star of Kazan	Eva Ibbotson	After twelve-year-old Annika, a foundling living in late nineteenth-century Vienna, inherits a trunk of costume jewelry, a woman claiming to be her aristocratic mother arrives and takes her to live i…	OL104406W
Invention by Design	Henry Petroski	This book explores the nature of engineering and technology through case studies of familiar objects, from paper clips and aluminum cans to airplanes and modern high-rise buildings. These real-world …	OL112178W
Shoot an Iraqi	Wafaa Bilal	The creator of "Domestic Tension," an unsettling interactive performance piece that speaks to the horrors of life in a conflict zone, reveals his experiences growing up under Saddam Hussein's rule.	OL11955322W
Pictures and Passions	James M. Saslow	Pictures and Passions is a sweeping panorama of art by, for, or about gays and lesbians across the world and across time, from Europe and North America to China and Australia, from the Stone Age to…	OL14865936W
The art of video games	Chris Melissinos,Patrick O'Rourke	"The forty-year history of the video game industry, the medium has undergone staggering development, fueled not only by advances in technology but also by an insatiable quest for richer play and more…	OL16521213W
Byzanz. Pracht und Alltag	Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland (Bonn)	original exhibition catalogue	OL16574303W
Art and Knowledge	Young, James O.	This is an interesting, as well as controversial, exploration of what art is and why it is valuable. Young reflects on the essence of art and argues that it provides insight into human nature. This t…	OL16989715W
Renaissance	Christopher Masters	A study of fifteenth-and sixteenth-century art in Italy and Europe. Features works by major artists such as Donatello and Botticelli.	OL17903469W
Africa, arts and cultures	Mack, John	"There are countless ways of looking at African art - in terms of ethnography, aesthetics, history, and the many ways these combine with personal knowledge and preference to influence the viewer. In …	OL18193458W
The queer encyclopedia of the visual arts	Claude J. Summers	"Why is St. Sebastian an icon of gay male artists? Is there such a thing as a gay or lesbian sensibility? What's the connection between Buddhist monasteries and Japanese homoerotic imagery? And are a…	OL18394095W
The Rape of the Masters	Roger Kimball	Colleges and universities used to teach art history to encourage connoisseurship and acquaint students with the riches of our artistic heritage. But now, as Roger Kimball shows in this witty and prov…	OL1844296W
Your bright future	Museum of Fine Arts, Houston	"Offers an unprecedented look at the work of twelve of Korea's most significant contemporary artists through three essays, artists' biographies and interviews, and a chronology"--Provided by publishe…	OL18668071W
The bride & the bachelors	Calvin Tomkins	An excellent book from the 1960s that thoughtfully profiles Duchamp, Tinguely, Cage, Rauschenberg, and Merce Cunningham, from the longtim writer for The New Yorker. Still useful, neither fawning no…	OL1889616W
Revolution of the eye	Berger, Maurice	"The aesthetics and concepts of modern art have influenced American television ever since its inception in the 1930s. In return, early television introduced the public to the latest trends in art and…	OL19665208W
America collects eighteenth-century French painting	Joseph Baillio,Joseph J. Rishel,Melissa Lee Hyde,Pierre Rosenberg,Robert Schindler,Christophe Leribault,Jack Hinton,Yuriko Jackall,Philippe Bordes,Susan Earle,D. Dodge Thompson	"Authors use sixty-eight 18th-century French paintings from American museum collections to present a fascinating American social history through the lens of taste and collecting practices. Depictions…	OL19720356W
More dimensions than you know	Jack Whitten	More Dimensions Than You Know takes as its focal point nearly 25 paintings created in the years from 1979 to 1989, highlighting Whitten's propensity for pushing the technical and aesthetic boundaries…	OL19730748W
World War II in American Art	Robert Henkes	"From the attack on Pearl Harbor, through the bitter years of combat, to V-E Day and V-J Day, the events of World War II inspired American artists. Working in many styles and media, they sought to ca…	OL1976054W
Rendez-vous with art	Philippe De Montebello	The fruits of a lifetime of experience by a cultural colossus, Phillippe de Montebello, the longest-serving director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in its history, distilled in conversations with …	OL19988030W
Erté	Grosvenor Gallery.	Summary:Romain de Tirtoff (1892-1990), who changed his name to Erté ('R' and 'T' in French) when he left his native St Petersburg for Paris in 1912, became one of the most sought-after artists of th…	OL20183397W
Tracks	An Van Dienderen	Hoe gaan kunstenaars en culturele werkers op de werkvloer om met diversiteit? Tracks volgt de zoektocht van een aantal artistieke praktijken in Vlaanderen en Brussel. De di-versiteit die te zien is o…	OL26193368W