Facsimile

An unprecedented cultural history of reproductions of medieval manuscriptsFacsimiles are, or claim to be, exact copies of objects, and medieval manuscripts have long been a focus for this kind of reproduction. Today, digitization delivers complete, high-resolution, full-color digital copies of th...

Bodies & souls

An examination of artworks that illuminate the critical role of community among artists active in Philadelphia, Chicago, Massachusetts, San Francisco, and New YorkAll artists enrich their creative lives through engagement with others, especially fellow artists. Peers provide inspiration, share mu...

Steve ditko space wars

Echoes drawings of michael wm kaluta

Art by Kaluta including works related to Lord of the Rings, Conan the Barbarian, The Shadow, Metropolis and more.

Mythos: the fantasy art realms of frank brunner

Mythos: Fantasy Art Realms of Frank Brunner, is a dazzling showcase of classic and new art from this master of fantasy illustration. Top properties Conan, Man-Thing, Dr. Strange, Red Sonja, Howard the Duck, Elric, and many others are featured in this exciting collection, along with insightful com...

Thrilling comic book cover art of alex schomburg

Thrilling, Wonder, Captain America, America's Best, Marvel, Exciting, Startling: Alex Schomburg produced the most dazzling array of high-quality comic-book covers in the Golden Age of American Comics. Spider-Man, Hulk, and X-Men co-creator Stan Lee said, "Alex Schomburg was to comic books what No...

Panoramic and immersive media studies yearbook

The PIMS Yearbook surveys the historical and contemporary landscape of panoramic and immersive media. This interdisciplinary field includes—but is not limited to—360-degree paintings; dioramas and museum displays; gaming; gardens; immersive experience; maps; material culture studies; media archeo...

Collectors, commissioners, curators

This volume celebrates the storied career of Stephen N. Fliegel, the former Robert Bergman Curator of Medieval Art at the Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA). Authors of these essays, all leading curators in their fields, offer insights into curatorial practices by highlighting key objects in some of t...

Jeffrey jones: the definitive reference

Vanguard follows their hit Frazetta:The Definitive Reference with Jeffrey Jones: The Definitive Reference. Legendary artist Frank Frazetta once called Hugo Award and World Fantasy Award winner Jones "the great living painter." Jones and Frazetta were the top two heroic fantasy book cover artists ...

The secret life of tattoos

This book delves into the meaning behind tattoos, exploring their past, present and their symbolism.

How to draw a river: from the source to the sea

A short course in landscape drawing and sketching water.

Eyewitness to revolution

A heavily illustrated catalog of 78 objects, dating from 1760 to 1790, from the collection of the Concord Museum in MassachusettsIn 1775, the people of Concord, Massachusetts, understood they were living through extraordinary times. David Brown, captain of one of Concord’s minute companies, and h...

George r. anthonisen

George R. Anthonisen: Meditations on the Human Condition is a comprehensive volume documenting the arc of Anthonisen’s artistic career spanning 65 years as a figurative sculptor. Well versed in history and current events, Anthonisen (b. 1936) creates visual dialogues, primarily in bronze, that in...

Never broken

Through a focus on Lenape art, culture, and history and a critical examination of historical visualizations of Native and European American relationships, Never Broken explores the ways in which art can create, challenge, and rewrite history. This richly illustrated volume features contemporary w...

Abnormal peripheries

Abnormal peripheries traces an early history of performance art from the former Czechoslovakia, telling a unique story of localised resistance to a monolithic public sphere through artistic intervention, a closely knit community, artistic exchange, and agonistic reframing of socialism as a philos...

Syd carpenter

This retrospective catalogue presents the first comprehensive resource on Syd Carpenter (b. 1953), a nationally recognized Philadelphia-based ceramic artistSyd Carpenter (b. 1953) is a nationally recognized, Philadelphia-based ceramic artist whose work gives sculptural form to African American fa...

Icons of style: charli xcx

Genre trailblazer in both music and fashion, Charli XCX is revising the rules on self-expression as a popstar.From the bright patterns of the 2010s to the grungy, hyperpop style of Brat Summer, Charli XCX has reigned over the cool-girl aesthetic on stage and in the club for over a decade. Discove...

Redouté. roses

Flower painter and botanist Pierre-Joseph Redouté was an unparalleled master of botanical illustrations and engravings. His most celebrated work Les Roses was published in three volumes between 1817 and 1824. This edition displays his remarkable talent for capturing nature's elusive beauty with v...

Surrealist sabotage and the war on work

Surrealist sabotage and the war on work is an art historical study devoted to international surrealism’s critique of wage labour between 1920 and 1980. Topics such as automatism, artworks across media, radical publications and social interventions are examined in relation to the movement’s ongoin...

A portrait of elizabeth willing powel (1743-1830)

Drawing on original manuscript sources, Maxey has produced a persuasive study of a late-18th-century portrait and its subject. He has focused attention on an enigmatic painting, and the person portrayed in it -- a woman of talent and verve, whose life has remained undeservedly obscure. Elizabeth ...

The story of looking

Looking can be an act of empathy or aggression. It can provoke desire or express it. And from the blurry, edgeless world we inhabit as infants to the landscape of screens we grow into, looking can define us.In The Story of Looking, filmmaker and writer Mark Cousins takes us on a lightning-bright ...

Borderline bodies in art and visual culture

This collection of essays traverses media, styles, geographies and disciplines to offer innovative interpretations of visual representations of human bodies that might be considered ‘borderline’.

David hockney. a chronology. 45th ed.

A year-by-year journey through the life and work of David Hockney that follows the artist from London in the Swinging Sixties, via Californian swimming pools, to the landscapes of his native Yorkshire. Artworks and biographical text together let the reader take part in Hockney’s artistic research...

Along the diagonal

The first book to offer an expansive view of both major figures and emerging voices in Latin American and US Latinx artWith a poet’s eye and a critic’s insight, Guggenheim Fellow and celebrated scholar Roberto Tejada brings together a dynamic collection drawn from decades of lectures, articles, c...

The orchid

Queen of the night, Darwin's comet, lady's slipper, little dragon, black chimaera - the otherworldly names of orchid species are as beautiful as these sought-after flowers themselves.From flamboyant and colourful to strange and understated, and from alpine meadows to cloud forests, the orchid's v...

Feminist substances

Feminist substances considers why and how women artists engaged with plastics as artistic materials in the 1960s and 1970s. Discussing the works of Carla Accardi, Lea Lublin and Alina Szapocznikow, the book explores the feminist potential of these controversial materials, addressing questions of ...

Hartmann schedel. chronicle of the world 1493

Hartmann Schedel’s Weltchronik was a groundbreaking illustrated encyclopedia and the most lavishly illustrated book ever printed in Europe. Featuring over 1,800 woodcuts, this complete facsimile faithfully reproduces a rare hand-colored copy, offering essays and vivid depictions of biblical scene...

Walking with the enemy

This book is about artists and activists who have embraced mimicry as a subversive tactic and responded to ideologies by imitating their outward forms. Chapters discuss mimicry in reference to the post-truth era, the neoliberal consensus, the politics of race and gender, online subcultures, the r...

Ecology and feminism in performance

This book provides the first extensive history of feminism and ecology in performance. It proposes ‘composting’ as a new method for writing feminist history, re-reading canonical artists and analysing contemporary practices to show how performance challenges ecocidal culture from 1962 to the pres...

J.c. volkamer. the book of citrus fruits. 45th ed.

Citrons, lemons, and bitter oranges float like heavenly bodies above Italian villas, Nuremberg gardens, and picturesque countryside in J. C. Volkamer’s ode to the citrus fruit. Reproducing a hand-colored set of copper plates, this publication shows 170 varieties of citrus fruits, reviving a time ...

Kay nielsen. 1001 nights

This stunning edition of Kay Nielsen’s illustrations for a world heritage classic, A Thousand and One Nights, highlights his unique, vivid imagery and features history, description, and essays on the making of this series. It also offers rarely-seen colorful artworks by Nielsen and the drawings h...

Confessions of monuments

This book examines the role of artefacts and design practice in representing and commemorating a new political community of Turks within the cultural transformation from empire to nation-state between 1908-50s. It offers an expanded understanding of nation-building within global, public as well a...

Marks she made

This book explores the remarkable life of Begum Samru (c. 1750–1836), a North Indian ruler who rose from courtesan to sovereign, using art and architecture to navigate power in early modern India. Through her story, the book reveals how women defied gender norms to shape public and political sphe...

Playmakers

What does it take to make a classic videogame?To answer that question, Playmakers lifts the lid on some of the world's most revered studios and speaks with many of the industry's most celebrated designers, offering unrivalled insight into 30 influential, acclaimed and bestselling games that helpe...

David hockney. my window

This wallet-friendly edition is the successor to the 2020  limited edition artist’s book by David Hockney. In 120 iPhone and iPad drawings, the artist records his perceptions of the world from the window of his Yorkshire home. Each image depicts a fleeting moment—together they paint the passage o...

Truly tribal

Nineteen Indigenous ancestral skin markers from fifteen Nations and cultures around the world discuss their reclamation of traditional tattooing practices.

David hockney. 220 for 2020

Now in an unlimited edition: David Hockney’s artist book of iPad paintings, made around a small farmhouse in Normandy during a year of lockdown. His vivid impressions of the changing light and landscape are brought from the glowing screen to the printed volume with a special six-color printing tr...

Romeyn b. hough. the woodbook. the complete plates

A thorough facsimile reproducing all pages from the original volumes of Romeyn Beck Hough’s American Woods, an indispensable reference work of breathtaking beauty that set the standard for the study of wood. In this edition, each specimen is broken down in three cross-section cuts, revealing its ...

Taking the train

In the 1960s and early 1970s, young people in New York City radically altered the tradition of writing their initials on neighborhood walls. Influenced by the widespread use of famous names on billboards, in neon, in magazines, newspapers, and typographies from advertising and comics, city youth ...

Redouté. the book of flowers. 45th ed.

Meet “the Raphael of flowers,” botanical painter Pierre-Joseph Redouté. This book, adapted from our XL edition, gathers the finest engravings from Redouté’s most important works, including Selection of the Most Beautiful Blooms and Branches with the Finest Fruits. The images recall the greenhouse...

Drawings in books in medieval britain from the ninth century to the reformation

The first broad and long study of a major aspect of British medieval art, examining the historical relationships between medieval drawings and books.The art of drawing and its products had a determining relationship to the visual arts of the Middle Ages. They also had other purposes, which if und...

In view of the tradition

A field-shaping account of how contemporary Black art revitalizes the Black radical tradition In View of the Tradition argues that contemporary Black artists do not simply comment on politics. They help to generate it. Moving across sculpture, installation, photography, and film, Roderick A. Ferg...

A pillared hall from a temple at madura, india, in the philadelphia museum of art

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniv...

Around the world in 80 pots

"The pots in this book are snapshots of time, thought and emotion that have endured through thousands of years of human progress. It's mind-blowing, don't you think?" - Keith Brymer-JonesReligion. Humour. Trade. Sex. Folklore. Creativity. Pots can tell us more about the lives of the people who ma...

Leonhart fuchs. the new herbal

With his 1543 herb manual, botanical pioneer Leonhart Fuchs created a masterpiece of Renaissance botany and publishing. This edition is based on Fuchs’s personal, hand-colored original and features over 500 illustrations, including the first visual record of New World plant types such as maize, c...

The art of decolonisation

A transnational and transhistorical history of the artistic, political, and diplomatic relations between France and Senegal from the 1950s to the 1970s. This book examines the strategies of decolonisation from a globalised perspective and decentres perspectives about modernism and the global turn...

Die werke des jan van eyck

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Einführung in die griechische plastik an der hand von meisterwerken im alten museum

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Führer durch die sammlung des kunstgewerbe-museums

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Die flandrische malerei des fünfzehnten jahrhunderts

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Stilwandlungen und irrungen in den angewandten künsten

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The world is mine and i'm thinking about you

A new book from poly-dimensional artist, Jesse Draxler.Provoking the specter of desire itself, The World Is Mine & I’m Thinking About You brings us into the perspective of one of today’s most compelling artists and creators.Spanning medium and context Draxler’s work effortlessly carries his u...

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Thought forms

A study on the nature and power of thoughts, this is the most well-known book of the prominent Theosophist, women's rights activist, writer and orator.

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Re-visionen

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Die apokryphen petrusgeschichten

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Führer durch das kaiser-friedrich-museum

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Nach 1860

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Voiceless vanguard

Das elsaß und seine stellung in der kunstgeschichtlichen entwicklung

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Bartholomäus breenbergh

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Die einheit der griechischen kunst

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Die schulräume – die nebenanlagen

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Handbuch der hydrostatik

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Führer durch die sammlung des kunstgewerbe-museums

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Die erfindung und frühzeit des meissner porzellans

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Der nordwesten des thüringer waldes oder zehn tage in ruhla

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Die bildende kunst des alten orients und die bergvölker

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Über die tempel und gräber im alten ägypten und ihre bildwerke und inschriften

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Bronzestatuetten

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Aachen - köln

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Zur geschichte der oberdeutschen miniaturmalerei im xvi. jahrhundert

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Die antike münze als kunstwerk

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Die antiken marmor-bildwerke in der sog. stoa des hadrian, dem windthurm des andronikus, dem wärterhäuschen auf der akropolis und der ephorie im cultusministerium zu athen

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Der weg zum kunstverständnis

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Kunst im konflikt

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When art makes news

From the time the word kul'tura entered the Russian language in the early nineteenth century, Russian arts and letters have thrived on controversy. At any given time several versions of culture have coexisted in the Russian public sphere. The question of what makes something or someone distinctly...

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