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Vendor: Gina M. Barlean
Czech & Slavic Epic History
To answer the question of what it means to be Slavic, I believe we must step way back to see the bigger picture of what it means to be human. Part of the meaning is that we as humans do what we must to...- $35.00
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Vendor: Cathy Turner
Dramaturgy and Architecture: Theatre, Utopia and the Built Environment
Dramaturgy and Architecture approaches modern and postmodern theatre's contribution to the way we think about the buildings and spaces we inhabit. It discusses in detail ways in which theatre and performance have critiqued and intervened in everyday spaces, modelled our dreams or fears and...- $99.99
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Vendor: Pil Hansen
Dance Dramaturgy: Modes of Agency, Awareness and Engagement
Ten international dramaturg-scholars advance proposals that reset notions of agency in contemporary dance creation. Dramaturgy becomes driven by artistic inquiry, distributed among collaborating artists, embedded in improvisation tasks, or weaved through audience engagement, and the dramaturg becomes a facilitator of dramaturgical awareness.Author: Pil HansenISBN-10:...- $69.99
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Vendor: G. Rodosthenous
Theatre as Voyeurism: The Pleasures of Watching
Theatre as Voyeurism (re)defines voyeurism as an 'exchange' between performers and audience members, privileging pleasure (erotic and aesthetic) as a crucial factor in contemporary theatre. This intriguing group of essays focuses on artists such as Jan Fabre, Romeo Castellucci, Ann Liv Young, Olivier Dubois...- $109.99
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Vendor: D. Varndell
Hollywood Remakes, Deleuze and the Grandfather Paradox
Hollywood Remakes, Deleuze and the Grandfather Paradox explores the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze using the framework of Hollywood's current obsession with remaking and rebooting classic and foreign films. Through an analysis of cinematic repetition and difference, the book approaches remakes from a range of...- $54.99
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Vendor: S. Bayly
A Pathognomy of Performance
Exploring the themes of the event, ephemerality and democracy that mark the encounter between performance and philosophy, this original study elaborates fresh perspectives on the experiences of undoing, fiasco and disaster that shadow both the both stage and everyday life.Author: S. BaylyISBN-10: 1349322776ISBN-13: 9781349322770Publisher:...- $54.99
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Vendor: Gregory Currie
An Ontology of Art
Author: Gregory CurrieISBN-10: 1349200409ISBN-13: 9781349200405Publisher: Palgrave MacMillanLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/03/1989Pages: 143Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.45lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.36d- $84.99
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Optical Technologies Applied to Cultural Heritage
A short book about different issues in optical technologies. The importance of optical technologies for artwork charaterization is well known, in this book we show some examples where different optical technologies are applied in real cultural heritage artworks.Author: Antonio Alvarez Fernandez- BalbuenaISBN-10: 3036546367ISBN-13: 9783036546360Publisher:...- $78.63
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Vendor: Richard Copley Christie
ノtienne Dolet: The Martyr of the Renaissance, 1508-1546
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...- $40.95
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Vendor: Frederic William Farrar
The Life of Christ As Represented in Art
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Vendor: Thomas Crawford
Opera Singers of the Twentieth Century: Selected Portraits and Biographies
This handsomely designed and printed book contains 50 oil painting portraits of eminent opera singers accompanied by informative biographies. The artist/author, who is a veteran of the U.S. Navy and Foreign Service and retired attorney, has combined his dual interests in opera and painting...- $22.99
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Vendor: Yash Paul Soni
Global Village and the Economy
No, time has not ceased and space has not vanished, but life does seem to be moving rapidly that way. Telecommunications, satellites, computers, and fiber optics taken together are halving the cost of processing, storing, and transmitting information every eighteen months. The global village...- $18.99
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Vendor: Mine Dogantan Dack
The Chamber Musician in the Twenty-First Century
In recent research, there has been growing emphasis on the collaborative, social, and collective nature of musical behaviour and practices. Among the emerging hypotheses in this connection are the idea that listening to music is always listening together and being with the other; that...- $106.97
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Vendor: Vachel Lindsay
The Art of the Moving Picture ...: Being the 1922 Revision of the Book First Issued in 1915
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Vendor: Adeline Halvorson
Mini Lessons for Artists: Daily Guidance and Inspirations to Improve Your Paintings
There are so many different things to think about when creating a painting.Fortunately, the act of painting also comes with a lot of thinking time! This book guides you to improve your paintings on a daily basis by focusing on one little lesson at...- $20.24
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Vendor: Larry Rowe
Encyclopedia of Experimental Musical Instruments
Learn all about experimental instruments in this collection of articles by author/musician Larry M. Rowe.Author: Larry RoweISBN-10: 1329903285ISBN-13: 9781329903289Publisher: Lulu.comLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/14/2016Pages: 122Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.66lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.26d- $39.95
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Vendor: Jss Us
The Early Famed Works of the Kyoto Smiths
Kyoto area Japanese sword reference for collectors of Nihonto.Author: Jss UsISBN-10: 1329826094ISBN-13: 9781329826090Publisher: Lulu.comLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/09/2016Pages: 144Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.77lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.31d- $40.00
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Vendor: Kendall Durelle Briggs
Tonal Counterpoint Third Edition
Tonal Counterpoint is a study of counterpoint in the Common Practice focusing on the contrapuntal arts from the Baroque through the 19th Century. This book presents a step by step study of how to create imitation, canons and fugues of all types and varieties.Author:...- $95.00
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Vendor: Robert Jan Van Pelt
Lodz and Getto Litzmannstadt: promised land and croaking hole of Europe
From 1941 to 1944, the Polish Jewish photographer Henryk Ross (1910-1991) was a member of an official team documenting the implementation of Nazi policies in the Lodz Ghetto in Poland. Covertly, he captured on film scores of both quotidian and intimate moments of Jewish...- $8.21
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Vendor: Shinyoung Chung
Writings: On Korean and Japanese Contemporary Artists 2003-2015
Starting as a New York correspondent for a Korean art magazine, Shinyoung Chung has been contributing for art magazines since 2001, on the up-to-date exhibitions taking place in New York, Seoul and Tokyo. In this volume, her contributions to Art Asia Pacific and Artforum...- $17.98
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Vendor: Martin Bradley
THE DHARMA FLOWER SUTRA (Lotus Sutra) SEEN THROUGH THE ORAL TRANSMISSION OF NICHIREN [I]
The Dharma Flower Sutra (Lotus Sutra) Seen through the Oral Transmission of Nichiren Daishōnin, translated and interpreted by Martin Bradley: "What is being attempted here is a close study of what it was that made Nichiren realise that the salvation of humankind is to...- $44.06
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Vendor: Raymond Lucas
Sensory Notation Handbook 2014
The Sensory Notation Handbook is the result of an AHRC/EPSRC research project under the Designing for the 21st Century Scheme. The research was conducted at the University of Stratchlyde, and has since been used as a teaching tool at the Manchester School of Architecture...- $21.87
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Vendor: Gary Friedman
The Complete Guide to Sony's Alpha 58 SLT (B&W Edition)
Love your new 20 megapixel wonder, but having a hard time understanding all of its functions? Then this book is for you. Written for the advanced user (with tutorials and easy explanations in case you're not so advanced), this easy-to-understand yet thorough guide provides...- $41.50
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Vendor: Timothy Aymar
I Am My Art: An Anagram of Tim Aymar
This hodge-podge zine is a collection of various works I put together in 2019, when I turned 50. The art was done over a 25 year period, and it includes early digital art, paintings, poems, photography, and self portraits. Most of the work was...- $10.99
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Vendor: David Cycleback
Identifying Antique Commercial Printing Processes, And the Basics of Authenticating Antique and Art Prints
This black-and-white print version on the online guide reprints previously published articles by the prominent art scholar and authentication expert David Cycleback. The book focuses on identifying standard printing processes, but includes additional chapters on authenticating and dating antique and fine art prints, and...- $19.00
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Vendor: Brian Catanzaro
North Jersey Post Punk
This book is an attempt to document some of the many ways pop music and punk and post-punk style affected the lifestyles of that period in Northern New Jersey. It is based on my scrapbook and what I can remember about my favorite events...- $18.48
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Vendor: N駸tor Romeral Andr駸
Yavalath & Co.
Yavalath is a board game with extremely simple rules, but an emergent twist that makes it interesting and fun to play. It came about as a result of the following question: can computers invent board games? This book features 15 games that can be...- $5.22
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Vendor: Frankie Frain
More Weight: The Making of Having Fun Up There (and Other Filmmaking Tales)
Frankie Frain is an independent filmmaker, animator, and podcaster, best known for feature films such as A-Bo the Humonkey and Sexually Frank, and viral cartoons that lampoon Hollywood directors. In 2013, he directed his fourth feature film titled Having Fun Up There (written by...- $19.95
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Vendor: Craig Fraedrich
Practical Jazz Theory for Improvisation
"Practical Jazz Theory for Improvisation" is a jazz theory text with an emphasis on improvisation. Originally conceived as the Jazz Theory/Improvisation text and curriculum for the 2014 National Jazz Workshop, it has already been adopted by several university jazz programs. This book begins at...- $24.05
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Vendor: Michael Allen
Photography Lighting Secrets
Michael Allen offers his professional insights from his experience as an editorial photographer. His book offers simple lighting setups, from all natural light to both portable flash and studio flash setups. Michael gets calls to work on major photos shoots for both his photography...- $34.95
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Vendor: Donald Camp
Dust Shaped Heart
Photographs by Donald E. Camp. Dust Shaped Hearts project completed with raw earth pigment and casein on archival paper. The book is a partial record of the project that includes, Sons of My Father, New Orleans, Earth and Milk, and Men Who PrayAuthor: Donald...- $46.08
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Vendor: Draconis Blackthorne
The Devil's Diary 13
THE DEVIL'S DIARY 13: Walpurgisnacht XLIII Anno Satanas Contents by various outstanding Satanists include: Interview with Reverend Chris Redstar, essays on ritual experiences within and outside the Chamber, indulgent existence, omnivorous contemplations, a time travel ritual experience, digital to material total environments, black heart...- $6.66
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Vendor: Gary Lee Kvamme
Porfirio Salinas: Paintings
Porfirio Salinas dedicated himself to painting landscapes of Central Texas with particular attention to the bluebonnets that grow in abundance in the springtime.The present work showcases a fine array of new photographic images of paintings by Salinas utilizing the Kvamme process of digital enhancement.Author:...- $22.72
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Vendor: William Somerset Maugham
The Moon and Sixpence
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 is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...- $20.95
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Vendor: Singer Sewing Machine Company
Mechanics of the Sewing Machine
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 is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...- $29.95
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Vendor: Kakuzo Okakura
The Book of Tea: A Japanese Harmony of Art Culture and the Simple Life
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 is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...- $30.95
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Vendor: Carl Lewis Barnes
The Art and Science of Embalming: Descriptive and Operative
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 is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...- $29.95
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Vendor: Henry Cole
Fifty Years of Public Work of Sir Henry Cole ... Accounted for in His Deeds, Speeches and Writings [Ed. by a S. and H.L. Cole]
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 is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...- $38.95
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Vendor: Sergei Baranov
Amsterdam 101 Black And White Street Photographs
Amsterdam is a theater where people are actors. Actors come and go, but Amsterdam remains. Everyone who visits Amsterdam, enjoying its visual theatrical collages that explore the questions of what it means. Where is the truth, where is the allegory, each one decides for...- $37.85
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Vendor: Blake Richardson
Colors Drum Transcription
The official drum transcription for Between the Buried and Me's highly acclaimed album "Colors." Drum performed by Blake Richardson. Drums transcribed by Alex Rudinger.Author: Blake RichardsonISBN-10: 1387171003ISBN-13: 9781387171002Publisher: Lulu.comLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/03/2017Pages: 86Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.49lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.18d- $30.00
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Vendor: Ananda Jaroslaw Istok
Rainbow Songs - Ananda's Spiritual Songbook
No more unknown songs in a Songbook! Small is beautiful! You can take this little book with you everywhere. Who knows where the next opportunity for singing in spiritual circles arises. Mantras, Bhajans, Kirtans, Rainbow Family and Nature Songs, Everything! Small but Wow!;) Almost...- $15.00
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Vendor: Michael D'Antuono
Art and Response: One Nation Divided by Art
Through his highly provocative art, Michael D'Antuono, reveals a nation deeply divided. Not just an art book, "ART & RESPONSE: One Nation Divided By Art" serves as a barometer of our country's disparate attitudes and values.Author: Michael D'AntuonoISBN-10: 0578181266ISBN-13: 9780578181264Publisher: Michael d'AntuonoLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/26/2016Pages:...- $80.68
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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...- $10.25
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Vendor: Count Zsigmond Szechenyi
Land Of ElephantsBig Game Hunting In Kenya Tanganyika And Uganda
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Vendor: Jay Hambidge
Dynamic Symmetry: The Greek Vase
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Vendor: Alpha Pierce Jamison
Isometric Drawing: A Treatise On Mechanical Illustrating Dealing With Typical Constructions and Outlining; a Course in the Art
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Prehistoric Structures of Central America. Who Erected Them? A Lecture
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Vendor: Barker North
Chemistry for Textile Students: A Manual Suitable for Technical Students in the Textile and Dyeing Industries
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Vendor: D. A. Gregg
Rendering in pen and ink; Instruction Paper
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Vendor: Wittemann A. (Adolph)
Richfield Springs, Illustrated
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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.

