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Vendor: T. Cat Hubbard
Songwriter's Notebook
Every songwriter and musician needs a dedicated notebook to carry along to record those fleeting original tunes and lyrics when they appear. Designed by musicians, the Songwriter's Notebook is it. Providing staff and tab outline to jot down inspired music you "hear" during the...- $9.99
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Vendor: Patricia Daly-Lipe
Myth, Magic, and Metaphor - A Journey into the Heart of Creativity
MYTH, MAGIC, and METAPHOR takes the reader on a journey. This book was not written to provide answers. It was written to provoke questions and ignite the imagination while examining history, art, literature, philosophy, mathematics, and music as components of the creative process. It...- $28.95
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Vendor: Eric C. Harrison
Quirkish Delight
80 pages - 75 drawings and sketches All of the drawings and sketches in Quirkish Delight were done in 2012 by Eric C. Harrison. Nearly all were created with pigment liners on sketch paper. Most of these pictures were started to curb anxiety and...- $14.00
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Vendor: Vivian Magarino-Gomez
Big Dots. Little Dots. the Elements of Art.
"But make no mistake, everything starts with a dot." The elements of art are part of everything from art making and math to the atom and the cosmos. Color, line, shape, form, texture, value, and space are simply defined and playfully illustrated. This book...- $15.00
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Vendor: Chris Funkhouser
pressAgain
Creating this graphical poem I employ and visually reflect elements of an alphabetic textual expansion method practiced by Jackson Mac Low and others. The process further involves remediating, or transcreating across media, as work created for digital projection now becomes a book. This authorial...- $12.00
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Vendor: James Courtney
The Kinky Coloring Book 3
The Kinky Coloring Book returns with the third edition, featuring 35 all-new black and white Illustrations of the hottest Bay Area alternative models, all drawn by artist James Courtney. So grab your favorite drawing tools, because it is time for some more kinky coloring...- $15.00
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Vendor: James Courtney
The Kinky Coloring Book 2
The Kinky Coloring Book returns with 35 new black and white Illustrations of the sexiest Bay Area alternative models drawn by artist James Courtney. So break out your crayons, paints and colored pencils, and get ready to have some more fun coloring in this...- $15.00
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Vendor: Suzanne Fredericq
Circle Drawings by Eugene J. Martin: 1969-1971
This series of eighty-four drawings was created by Eugene J. Martin between 1969-1971 in Washington D.C. Most of the works are mixed media, felt-tip and pen and ink drawings. All the circles measure 7.5 x 7.5 inches ( 19 x 19 cm). These artworks...- $48.20
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Vendor: Vijali Hamilton
Borderless: Poems, Essays & Drawings for a New Mind
Poet, artist and lover of Mother Earth, Vijali Hamilton shares heartfelt offerings of poems, drawings and personal essays reflecting peace and health for ourselves and our world. They speak to the joys and sorrows encountered in life's quest to truly understand our relationship with...- $14.99
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Vendor: Klaudija Cermak
How to Get Into and Survive Film, Advertising and TV Post-Production - The Alternative Guide
This book is an alternative guide to the skills required to get into and have a successful career in the post-production industry. It is filled with tips on how to choose the segment of the industry you wish to work in, key roles: how...- $14.82
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Vendor: Rupert Gunnis
Historic Cyprus: A Guide to Its Towns and Villages, Monasteries and Castles
Rupert Gunnis is one of the founding fathers of Cypriot historiography. Whilst working as an administrator in the British Colonial Government of Cyprus in the 1930s he visited every town and city on the island, recording its interesting historic buildings and sites. In this...- $30.00
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Vendor: Christopher Hartop
A Noble Pursuit: English Silver from the Rita Gans Collection at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Volume 2
In 1997 Rita Gans generously gave the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts an outstanding array of English silver from the collection she and her late husband, Jerome, had amassed over some thirty years. Thanks to the munificent gift in 2010 of more stunning silver...- $25.00
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Vendor: Aspen Song Kids
Sacred Spiral
We are the Aspen Song Kids from Taos Pueblo, a beautiful place in Northern New Mexico. Our mission is to preserve our culture, our heritage, our tradition, and our language. We do that through our art. We give our thanks to our elders and...- $17.95
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Vendor: Suzanne Anker
The Molecular Gaze: Art in the Genetic Age
The gene has become a cultural icon and an increasingly rich source of imagery and ideas for visual artists. Drawing on a wide range of contemporary painting and sculpture, The Molecular Gaze: Art in the Genetic Age explores the moral and bioethical questions these...- $47.00
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Vendor: Made Wijaya
Architecture of Bali: A Source Book of Traditional and Modern Forms
This is at once a compendium for designers and an entertaining essay on the architecture of Asia's most glamorous tropical island by one of its foremost admirers. Landscape and architectural designer Made Wijaya draws on his photographic archives, compiled over the past thirty years,...- $52.00
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Vendor: Andrea Mattiello
Late Byzantium Reconsidered: The Arts of the Palaiologan Era in the Mediterranean
Late Byzantium Reconsidered offers a unique collection of essays analysing the artistic achievements of Mediterranean centres linked to the Byzantine Empire between 1261, when the Palaiologan dynasty re-conquered Constantinople, and the decades after 1453, when the Ottomans took the city, marking the end of...- $170.00
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Vendor: Harry Trosman M. D.
Contemporary Psychoanalysis and Masterworks of Art and Film
In Contemporary Psychoanalysis and Masterworks of Art and Film, Harry Trosman demonstrates that a psychoanalytic point of view can vastly enrich one's understanding and appreciation of works of art. Drawing on current psychoanalytic views of the importance of fantasy, attachment and individuation theory, preoedipal...- $28.00
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Vendor: Richard H. King
Dixie Debates: Perspectives on Southern Cultures
The contemporary American South is a region of economic expansion, political sophistication, and, particularly, cultural ferment. Its literature is well-known and celebrated. But what of the popular cultural forms of expression that have done so much to reflect the curious tensions between the traditional...- $30.00
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Vendor: Andrea Ponsi
Analogy and Design
Analogical thought is fundamental to creativity. The use of analogy can help to solve problems, make connections between disciplines, and use those relations to form original solutions.In Analogy and Design, Andrea Ponsi considers the role of analogical thought in architectural design. Almost all work...- $69.50
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Vendor: Joni Maya Cherbo
Understanding the Arts and Creative Sector in the United States
The arts and creative sector is one of the nation's broadest, most important, and least understood social and economic assets, encompassing both nonprofit arts and cultural organizations, for-profit creative companies, such as advertising agencies, film producers, and commercial publishers, and community-based artistic activities. The...- $43.95
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Vendor: David Hershberg
Perspectives on Contemporary Literature: Literature and the Other Arts Volume 13
Today's music, painting, and film share with literature in the development of a new aesthetic, even as these other arts influence (and are influenced by) literary themes and structures. And at the same time the music and art of the past continue to re-echo...- $15.00
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Vendor: Hester Dorsey Richardson
Side-Lights on Maryland History, with Sketches of Early Maryland Families. in Two Volumes. Volume II
This landmark of Maryland genealogy consists of a large number of meticulously researched articles which were designed, in part, to counter the "scurrilous" claim that Maryland was settled largely by convicts and indentured servants. It is as a compilation of family histories and source...- $57.50
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Vendor: Richard Wagner
The Art-Work of the Future and Other Works
Poor, frustrated, and angered by the "fashion-mongers and mode-purveyors" of art, Richard Wagner published The Art-Work of the Future in 1849. It marked a turning point in his life: an appraisal of the revolutionary passions of mid-century Europe, his farewell to symphonic music, and...- $25.00
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Vendor: Neil Campbell
The Rhizomatic West: Representing the American West in a Transnational, Global, Media Age
Is the American West in Sergio Leone's "spaghetti westerns" the same American West we find in Douglas Coupland's Generation X? In Jim Jarmusch's movies? In Calexico's music? Or is the American West, as this book tells us, a constantly moving, mutating idea within a...- $30.00
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Vendor: Jean-Maurice Belekwa
I Waited So Long
Bobo the Gorilla had missed the chance to have a tail at the giving tail ceremony. Who is to blame for that? The Creator? Simba the Lion? Tembo the Elephant? Kelechi the fox? Gogo the Horse? Polipo the Crocodile? or Bobo the Gorilla himself?...- $16.99
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Vendor: Eliot Deutsch
Essays on the Nature of Art
Presents a theory of art which is at once universal in its general conception and historically-grounded in its attention to aesthetic practices in diverse cultures. Argues that art, especially today, enjoys a special kind of autonomy but that it has, nevertheless, important social and...- $31.95
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Vendor: Matthew Jones
Time Travel in Popular Media: Essays on Film, Television, Literature and Video Games
In recent years numerous films, television series, comic books, graphic novels and video games have featured time travel narratives, with characters jumping backward, forward and laterally through time. No rules govern time travel in these stories. Some characters move by machine, some by magic,...- $35.00
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Vendor: Carroll Gantz
Founders of American Industrial Design
As the Great Depression started in 1929, several dozen creative individuals from a variety of artistic fields, including theatre, advertising, graphics, fashion and furniture design, pioneered a new profession. Responding to unprecedented public and industry demand for new styles, these artists entered the industrial...- $39.95
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Vendor: Elisenda Vila Llonch
Beyond El Dorado: Power and Gold in Ancient Colombia
Among the cultures of the northern Andes, gold has been revered above all other materials. Gold was believed to be a product of the Sun, the supreme procreator, and as such had special associations with fertility and power. For the people of Colombia, the...- $29.95
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Vendor: M. Patrick Duggan
Myths and Monsters Grown-up Coloring Book, Volume 3
This remarkable coloring book by M. Patrick Duggan contains 30 beautiful illustrations of mythical gods, goddesses, monsters, heroes, and creatures. You will be fascinated by the commentary on the Art Nouveau movement, along with notes and gently humorous asides about mythology across multiple cultures...- $6.95
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Vendor: Jim Holl
All The Living Things
Since the industrial revolution, humankind has been enlightened by scientific discoveries concerning the workings of the universe. New postulations on commonplace phenomena have led science to the threshold of metaphysics. Many of the discoveries in physics parallel beliefs of ancient philosophies with uncanny accuracy....- $20.00
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Vendor: Tara Larson Nearents
Pattern Play Coloring Book
Bust out those colored pencils and your mad skills... It's time to enjoy some rad and happy pattern play 30 hand drawn bold patterns mixed with original lettering that range in complexity from piece of cake to master colorer. Coloring fans of all ages...- $12.50
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Vendor: Peter Weltner
Late Summer Storm In Early Winter
"In Late Summer Storm in Early Winter, exquisite poetry by Peter Weltner and startling images by Galen Garwood engage in an ineffable dialogue that ranges between the echoing call of the distant past and the intimate whisper of the mythological present. Here the radiant...- $30.00
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Vendor: Zach Collins
We Said Hello and Shook Hands
"We Said Hello and Shook Hands"is not only about the art of collage but about the art of collage collaboration. Using the Internet as his primary vehicle of communication, Collins "said hello" to hundreds of artists around the world between 2011 and 2014 by...- $42.00
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Vendor: Larry Blamire
Great Scott: The Rare Imaginary Comic Book Covers of Larry Blamire
It's like browsing a spinner rack in another dimension, as artist, writer, filmmaker, bon vivant and nosy busybody Larry Blamire channels his love for 12-cent silver age comic books and sheer absurdity with a colorful volume of completely made up, but strangely convincing comic...- $39.50
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Vendor: Martin Meisel
Realizations: Narrative, Pictorial, and Theatrical Arts in Nineteenth-Century England
In this richly illustrated study of the relationship of art, drama, and fiction in the nineteenth century, Martin Meisel illuminates the collaboration between storytelling and picturemaking that informed narrative painting, pictorial dramaturgy, and serial illustrated fiction. Originally published in 1984. The Princeton Legacy Library...- $200.00
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Vendor: Betty Fountain Yamakuchi
Home Again
A collection of the works of artist and poet Betty Yamakuchi.Author: Betty Fountain YamakuchiISBN-10: 0615481884ISBN-13: 9780615481883Publisher: Sloopy PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/28/2011Pages: 32Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.10lbsSize: 7.99h x 5.00w x 0.08d- $10.99
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Vendor: Suzanne Fredericq
Oval Drawings by Eugene J. Martin: 1971-1974
This publication includes reproductions of more than ninety oval-shaped works on paper created by Eugene James Martin (1938-2005) between 1971 and 1974 in Washington D.C. The works are mostly felt-tip drawings that may include ink washes and mixed media; others are oval-shaped pen and...- $53.00
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Vendor: H. Keith Wagner Partnership
H. Keith Wagner / Partnership: Line, Form and Texture
A retrospective monograph celebrating 20 years of Landscape Architecture from the firm, H. Keith Wagner Partnership.Author: H. Keith Wagner PartnershipISBN-10: 0615250785ISBN-13: 9780615250786Publisher: H. Keith Wagner PartnershipLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/15/2008Pages: 96Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.41lbsSize: 8.50h x 8.50w x 0.25d- $42.95
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Vendor: Ra Malika Imhotep
The Black Feminist Study Theory Atlas
Literary Nonfiction. African & African American Studies. Women's Studies. LGBTQIA Studies. The Church of Black Feminist Thought (CoBFT) is an effort to share citations in more accessible ways. The CoBFT met as an intergenerational community of artist and changemakers in the Bay Area from...- $35.00
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Vendor: Smet Pierre-Jean De
New Indian Sketches
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you...- $31.95
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Vendor: Jenifer Neils
The Parthenon: From Antiquity to the Present
This volume offers an overview of the Parthenon from antiquity to the modern era. Recent discoveries, such as the marble sculpture fragments found during the current restoration work on the Acropolis, or a vase excavated in Northern Greece whose decoration echoes a lost pedimental...- $125.00
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Vendor: David Pye
The Nature and Art of Workmanship
This is a digital reprint of David Pye's original 1968 edition. Within it he argues that the aesthetic quality of our environment depends as much on its workmanship as on its design, and that workmanship has been largely ignored. He proceeds to develop a...- $47.99
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Vendor: Vladimir Paperny
Architecture in the Age of Stalin: Culture Two
Paperny examines the evolution of architecture in Russia during the Stalinist period. Defining two conflicting trends--Culture One and Culture Two--that have alternately prevailed in Russian culture, the author argues that the shift away from the architectural avant-garde of the 1920s was not entirely the...- $39.99
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Vendor: Charles Baudelaire
Baudelaire: Selected Writings on Art and Artists
Before publishing Les Fleurs du Mal in 1857, Baudelaire was probably better known to his contemporaries as a critic than as a poet, and the articles translated here by P. E. Charvet illustrate the development of Baudelaire's critical ideas. The essays cover the visual,...- $53.99
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Vendor: Rudolf Arnheim
The Dynamics of Architectural Form, 30th Anniversary Edition
In this classic volume, Rudolf Arnheim, an authority on the psychological interpretation of the visual arts, turns his experienced eye to the visual aspects of buildings, amplifying his theories with new features specific to the medium of the architect. Arnheim explores the unexpected perceptual...- $34.95
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Vendor: Frances Duncan
The Joyous Art of Gardening: A Book of First Aid to the Amateur
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you...- $22.95
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Vendor: Nigel Wheale
The Postmodern Arts: An Introductory Reader
For better or worse, modernism and postmodernism are now the two most comprehensive and influential terms applied to twentieth-century culture. The Postmodern Arts begins by establishing definitions of both words, while also demonstrating the inconsistencies and contradictions which are inherent within them. As with...- $49.95
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Vendor: Sadie Plant
The Most Radical Gesture: The Situationist International in a Postmodern Age
This book is the first major study of the Situationist International. Tracing the history, ideas and influences of this radical and inspiring movement from dada to postmodernism, it argues that situationist ideas of art, revolution, everyday life and the spectacle continue to inform a...- $84.95
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Vendor: Margarida Rendeiro
Challenging Memories and Rebuilding Identities: Literary and Artistic Voices that undo the Lusophone Atlantic
Taking an original approach, Challenging Memories and Rebuilding Identities: Literary and Artistic Voices that undo the Lusophone Atlantic explores a selected body of cultural works from Portugal, Brazil and Lusophone Africa. Contributors from various fields of expertise examine the ways contemporary writers, artists, directors,...- $170.00
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Art Books
Art books are collections of written content and visual imagery that focus on various aspects of art, including history, techniques, movements, artists, and specific mediums. Art books serve as valuable resources for art enthusiasts, students, professionals, and anyone seeking to deepen their understanding and appreciation of the diverse world of art.
One of the fundamental purposes of art books is to provide an in-depth exploration of different art movements throughout history. These books cover significant periods such as the Renaissance, Impressionism, Cubism, Surrealism, and contemporary art, shedding light on the context, characteristics, and prominent artists within each movement. By studying these books, readers gain an understanding of the evolution of art and how societal, political, and cultural influences shape artistic expression. Art books also offer valuable insights into the lives and works of celebrated artists. Biographies and monographs provide detailed examinations of individual artists, offering glimpses into their personal lives, inspirations, techniques, and artistic philosophies. Through these publications, readers can delve into the fascinating stories behind the masterpieces and better understand the motivations and creative processes of these iconic figures.
Moreover, art books often showcase various artistic techniques, mediums, and materials. From painting and sculpture to printmaking and photography, these books offer valuable instructional content, step-by-step demonstrations, and practical tips to artists looking to enhance their skills. They can be instrumental for both beginners and experienced artists, providing inspiration and guidance on aspects like composition, color theory, perspective, and more. Beyond historical and instructional content, art books offer a curated selection of images, showcasing artworks from renowned museums, private collections, and exhibitions. These visual collections allow readers to appreciate the diversity and brilliance of artistic creations firsthand, with high-quality reproductions that capture the nuances, textures, and details of the original works.
Art books serve as valuable resources for individuals interested in exploring different facets of art. Offering historical context, biographical insights, instructional content, and visual collections, these books provide readers with a deeper understanding and appreciation of the artistic world. Whether as educational tools, sources of inspiration, or cherished collectors' items, art books contribute significantly to the enrichment of art lovers and the wider cultural community.
Popular Art Books
Art books are a beloved category among book enthusiasts, offering an exploration of various art forms, artists, movements, and techniques. With their striking visuals and insightful texts, art books have a universal appeal that transcends cultural boundaries. Within this vast collection, there are several popular books that have captured the hearts and minds of readers around the world. Let's delve into some of these captivating titles.
1. "The Story of Art" by E.H. Gombrich: Widely considered a masterpiece in art education, this book presents a comprehensive overview of art history. Gombrich's engaging writing style and accessible language make it an ideal choice for beginners and experienced art lovers alike.
2. "Ways of Seeing" by John Berger: This seminal work explores the ways in which we perceive and interpret art. Berger's thought-provoking essays, combined with captivating imagery, challenge traditional notions of art and offer a fresh perspective on the subject.
These are just a few examples of the popular books within the art book collection. Whether you are an art enthusiast, a student, or simply someone who appreciates beauty, there is an art book out there that will captivate and inspire you with its stunning visuals and profound insights.
What sets White Rain Book House apart from other bookstores is its commitment to acquiring rare and limited-edition art books. Acquiring these treasures is an incredibly meticulous process, involving extensive research, collaborations with reputable publishers and dealers, and attending art fairs and exhibitions to ensure a distinctive collection that cannot be found elsewhere. Art collectors and aficionados flock to White Rain Book House, knowing they can find unique editions that enhance their collections and deepen their knowledge of the art world.

