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  • The Handy Art History Answer Book

    by Madelynn Dickerson ...
    Series series The Handy Answer Book Series
    The Art of Discovery. The Discovery of Art. The History of Art!Warhol, Michelangelo, and da Vinci. Picasso, Monet, and Rembrandt, Ai WeiWei and Jenny Holzer. What were they thinking when they created their masterworks? While we can't always know an artist's exact thoughts, The Handy Art History Answer Book examines their benefactors, their wealth or poverty, their passions, the politics, and the ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Keeping an Eye Open

    Essays on Art

    by Julian Barnes ...
    **An extraordinary collection of essays on the great masters of nineteenth- and twentieth-century art—from the Booker Prize-winning, bestselling author of The Sense of an Ending.“An engaging and empathetic volume.” —The New York Times Book Review**As Julian Barnes notes: “Flaubert believed that it was impossible to explain one art form in terms of another, and that great paintings required no ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Why Do Men Fall Asleep After Sex?

    More Questions You'd Only Ask a Doctor After Your Third Whiskey Sour

    by Mark Leyner, Billy Goldberg M.D. ...
    The Doctor Is In . . . Again!Did the mega-bestselling Why Do Men Have Nipples? exhaust your curiosity about stuff odd, icky, kinky, noxious, libidinous, or just plain embarrassing? No, you say? Well, good, because the doctor and his able-bodied buddy are in! Again! Mark Leyner and Billy Goldberg, M.D., now take on the differences between the sexes—those burning questions like Why doesn’t my ... Read more

    Was $6.99 USD Now $5.99 USD

  • Breakfast at Sotheby's

    An A–Z of the Art Word

    by Philip Hook ...
    "A witty journey through the wonderfully tumultuous world of art dealers and markets—organized in the style of a dictionary, complete with a glossary." — InterviewTwo questions are key to experiencing a work of art in a museum or exhibition: 1.) Do I like it? 2.) Who's it by? You need quite a few more questions if you're in an auction room or dealer's gallery, however. You'll find yourself asking, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Final Faberge

    by Thomas Swan ...
    Series series The Inspector Jack Oxby Novels
    Rumor has it that a mysterious Fabergé Egg disappeared in the days just before the Russian Revolution. It's up to Scotland Yard art crime detective Jack Oxby to solve the mystery and find the infamous art treasure. Trouble is, whoever attempts to find the Fabergé Egg turns up dead. No matter for Oxby, the fearless hero of Thomas Swan's two previous art crime thrillers, The Da Vinci Deception and ... Read more

    Was $12.99 USD Now $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Civilizing Rituals

    Inside Public Art Museums

    by Carol Duncan ...
    Illustrated with over fifty photos, Civilizing Rituals merges contemporary debates with lively discussion and explores central issues involved in the making and displaying of art as industry and how it is presented to the community.Carol Duncan looks at how nations, institutions and private individuals present art , and how art museums are shaped by cultural, social and political determinants ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • 30-Second Leonardo Da Vinci

    His 50 Greatest Ideas and Inventions, each Explained in Half a Minute

    by Marina Wallace, Martin Kemp ...
    Series series 30-Second
    The bestselling 30-Second... series takes a revolutionary approach to learning about those subjects you feel you should really understand. Each title selects a popular topic and dissects it into the 50 most significant ideas at its heart. Every idea, no matter how complex, is explained in 300 words and one picture, all digestible in 30 seconds. 30-Second Leonardo da Vinci uses this unique approach ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Art in Minutes

    by Susie Hodge ...
    Series series IN MINUTES
    The perfect compact reference guide for all would-be art buffs. Art historian Susie Hodge takes you on a whistle-stop international tour of all the major artistic cultures, movements, phases, developments, artists and themes, from Prehistoric art to Hyperrealism. Contents also include Greek classicism, Gothic art, the Renaissance, Baroque, Romanticism, Realism, Impressionism, Cubism, surrealism, ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Playing to the Gallery

    Helping Contemporary Art in Its Struggle to Be Understood

    by Grayson Perry ...
    Grayson Perry’s book will overturn everything you thought you knew about “art”Now Grayson Perry is a fully paid-up member of the art establishment, he wants to show that any of us can appreciate art (after all, there is a reason he’s called this book Playing to the Gallery and not Sucking Up to the Academic Elite). This funny, personal journey through the art world answers the basic questions that ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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  • Extreme Weather Systems : 3rd Grade Geography Series

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    by Baby Professor ...
    Series series Children's Weather Books
    What is the weather today? Learning about the different weather systems will benefit many areas of life. It will help a child anticipate conditions for the rest of the days so clothes are adjusted, as well as plans. This book offers pictures more than descriptions so learning is very visual and therefore, highly effective. Secure a copy of this book today! ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Artworks

    Meaning, Definition, Value

    by Robert Stecker ...
    What is art? What is it to understand a work of art? What is the value of art? Robert Stecker seeks to answer these central questions of aesthetics by placing them within the context of an ongoing debate criticizing, but also explaining what can be learned from, alternative views. His unified philosophy of art, defined in terms of its evolving functions, is used to explain and to justify current ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Re-envisioning the Contemporary Art Canon

    Perspectives in a Global World

    Edited by Ruth Iskin ...
    Re-envisioning the Contemporary Art Canon: Perspectives in a Global World seeks to dissect and interrogate the nature of the present-day art field, which has experienced dramatic shifts in the past 50 years.In discussions of the canon of art history, the notion of ‘inclusiveness’, both at the level of rhetoric and as a desired practice is on the rise and gradually replacing talk of ‘exclusion’, ... Read more

    $58.99 USD