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Vendor: Intellect Books
Who's Who in Research: Media Studies
Increasingly, academic communities transcend national boundaries. 'Collaboration between researchers across space is clearly increasing, as well as being increasingly sought after, ' noted the online magazine Inside Higher Ed in a recent article about research in the social sciences and humanities. Even for those...- $128.50
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Vendor: Vince Dziekan
Virtuality and the Art of Exhibition: Curatorial Design for the Multimedial Museum
Digital technologies play an increasingly instrumental role in guiding the curatorial and institutional strategies of contemporary art museums. Designed around contextual studies of virtuality and the art of exhibition, this interdisciplinary volume applies practice-based research to a broad range of topics.Author: Vince DziekanISBN-10: 1841504769ISBN-13:...- $35.50
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Vendor: Claudia Alvares
Gendered Transformations: Theory and Practices on Gender and Media
Comprising the most current scholarship from leading experts in the fields of gender and media studies, Gendered Transformations offers readers a new foundation from which to reexamine traditional perspectives on gender. Organized into sections concerning representational politics, embodied performance, and social constructions of reality,...- $35.50
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Vendor: Glen Coutts
Art, Community and Environment: Educational Perspectives
Art, Community and Environment investigates wide-ranging issues raised by the interaction between art practice, community participation, and the environment, both natural and urban. This volume brings together a distinguished group of contributors from the United States, Australia, and Europe to examine topics such as...- $35.50
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Vendor: Anna Bentkowska-Kafel
Futures Past: Thirty Years of Arts Computing Volume 2
In decades past, artists envisioned a future populated by technological wonders such as hovercraft vehicles and voice-operated computers. Today we barely recognize these futuristic landscapes that bear only slight resemblance to an everyday reality. Futures Past considers digital media's transformative impact on the art...- $35.50
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Vendor: N. Katherine Hayles
Nanoculture: Implications of the New Technoscience
"Nano" denotes a billionth; a nanometer is a billionth of a meter. New instrumentation and techniques have for the first time made possible materials research and engineering at this level, the scale of individual molecules and atoms.Extraordinary visions of material abundance, unprecedented materials, and...- $35.50
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Vendor: Roberta Mock
Performing Processes: Creating Live Performance
Live performance continues to be created every time it is performed. This book explores the dynamic relationship between creative process, presentation and spectator response to provide students and scholars in Drama with new insights on performance from poetry to pantomime. These essays make parallels...- $28.50
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Vendor: Sienna Tally
Cricut Project Ideas 2 Books in 1: Fantastic Projects Designed For Your family and Events!
Your Customers Never Stop to Use this Amazing Guide!If you love creating small items to bring life and color to your home and events, you are definitely a crafter!Every year there are those holidays like Halloween, Valentine's Day, St. Patrick's Day, Christmas, and Easter...- $42.95
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Vendor: Jamesha Bazemore
Diary of a Creative Black Girl (Vol. 1)
40 page coloring book featuring images dedicated to the beauty of African-American Women.Author: Jamesha BazemoreISBN-10: 1794721320ISBN-13: 9781794721326Publisher: Lulu.comLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/03/2019Pages: 42Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.17lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.10d- $9.99
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Vendor: Jeremy Pilcher
Culture, Technology and the Image: Techniques of Engaging with Visual Culture
Culture, Technology and the Image explores the technologies deployed when images are archived, accessed, and distributed. The chapters discuss the ways in which habits and techniques used in learning and communicating knowledge about images are affected by technological developments. The volume discusses a wide...- $93.00
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Vendor: Courtney Nimura
Art in the Eurasian Iron Age: Context, Connections and Scale
Since early discoveries of so-called Celtic Art during the 19th century, archaeologists have mused on the origins of this major art tradition, which emerged in Europe around 500 BC. Classical influence has often been cited as the main impetus for this new and distinctive...- $75.00
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Vendor: Ross W. Prior
Using Art as Research in Learning and Teaching: Multidisciplinary Approaches Across the Arts
Using Art as Research in Learning and Teaching explores various multidisciplinary visual and performing art forms, including creative writing, as ways to provide a rich contribution and understanding to research, learning and teaching. Key figures in the field share their art-based research, arts practice...- $33.00
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Vendor: Natasha Chuk
Vanishing Points: Articulations of Death, Fragmentation, and the Unexperienced Experience of Created Objects
Deftly deploying Derrida's notion of the 'unexperienced experience' and building on Paul Virilio's ideas about the aesthetics of disappearance, Vanishing Points explores the aesthetic character of presence and absence as articulated in contemporary art, photography, film and emerging media.Author: Natasha ChukISBN-10: 1783204761ISBN-13: 9781783204762Publisher: Intellect...- $86.00
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Vendor: Celina Jeffery
The Artist as Curator
Recently, the museum and gallery have become self-reflexive spaces, in which the relationship between art, its display, its creators and its audience is subverted and democratised. Celina Jeffery brings together scholars and artists to explore the ways that artists have introduced new curatorial ways...- $45.00
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Vendor: Kathleen Quigley
Heart Speaks 5: Mother Earth
These drawings are Heart Energy transmissions which help us to reconnect to our own heart language and the universal heart - the One. May this book assist you in creating an ever expansive heart space in which to live from!Author: Kathleen QuigleyISBN-10: 1737307219ISBN-13: 9781737307211Publisher:...- $25.00
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Vendor: Underground Robin
Urban Surrealism: The Art of Gregory Hergert
Urban Surrealism: The Art of Gregory Hergert exposes parts of the city that few want to see and many pretend don't exist. Yet, we still yearn to take a peek behind the blue tarp that hides this true under-belly of all life on the...- $29.99
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Vendor: Perfect Colouring Books for Kid
Santa Claus colouring books: For kids & toddlers - activity books for preschooler - coloring book for Boys, Girls, Fun, ... book for kids ages 2-4
Looking for a Gift to your children this Holiday season?Then this coloring book is for you. For centuries, girls and boys around the world have used coloring as a means of entertainment. Drawing and coloring are fun, but also much more than that. When...- $5.99
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Vendor: Christopher John Murray
Encyclopedia of the Romantic Era, 1760-1850
In 850 analytical articles, this two-volume set explores the developments that influenced the profound changes in thought and sensibility during the second half of the eighteenth century and the first half of the nineteenth century. The Encyclopedia provides readers with a clear, detailed, and...- $550.00
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Vendor: Stephen D. Dowden
Tragedy and the Tragic in German Literature, Art, and Thought
Essays in this volume seek to clarify the meaning of tragedy and the tragic in its many German contexts, art forms, and disciplines, from literature and philosophy to music, painting, and history. The many catastrophes of German history have often been described as tragic....- $170.00
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Vendor: Donna Kelly
Uncovering the History of Children's Drawing and Art
Reactions to children's artwork have varied throughout different times and places. Donna Darling Kelly is calling for a more joyful appreciation of our youngest artists. She presents the dichotomy of the Mirror and Window paradigms. First, she explains the Mirror paradigm, which art educators,...- $75.00
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Vendor: Rocky Lau
Geometric Sculptures: an Exploration of Building Blocks Construction Techniques.
This book is about the construction of geometric sculptures using mainly building blocks and toy construction parts. Most of these geometric sculptures are already well known and have been mainly constructed in wood, metal or plastic. They are also popular as origami models. Only...- $71.20
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Vendor: Don White
Be Alright!
All of this started when I made my own sudoku puzzles, which I started doodling in to add a little more color. One day, my daughter noticed what I'd done; so for Christmas, she gave me a gift of adult coloring books, which I...- $15.99
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Vendor: Andy M. Connor
Creative Technologies for Multidisciplinary Applications
Given that institutions of higher education have a predisposition to compartmentalize and delineate areas of study, creative technology may seem oxymoronic. On the contrary, the very basis of western thought is found in the idea of transcendent knowledge. The marriage of opposing disciplines therefore...- $205.00
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Vendor: Carsten Strathausen
Bioaesthetics: Making Sense of Life in Science and the Arts Volume 43
In recent years, bioaesthetics has used the latest discoveries in evolutionary studies and neuroscience to provide new ways of looking at art and aesthetics. Carsten Strathausen's remarkable exploration of this emerging field is the first comprehensive account of its ideas, as well as a...- $30.00
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Vendor: Keith Blackburn
Changes in a Landscape
One of the bonuses of youth is that it has not accumulated enough decisions to regret. But, as age creeps in, future possibilities of regret become sparser, and decisions more urgent. At the age of forty, Steve Verity, part-time painter and part-time tutor in...- $19.95
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Vendor: Anna Laine
Practicing Art and Anthropology: A Transdisciplinary Journey
Practicing Art and Anthropology presents an in-depth exploration of transdisciplinary work in the expanding space between art and anthropology. Having trained and worked as an artist as well as an anthropologist, Anna Laine's decades-long engagement in art practice, artistic research and anthropology provide her...- $190.00
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Vendor: Marian Macken
Binding Space: The Book as Spatial Practice
Books orient, intrigue, provoke and direct the reader while editing, interpreting, encapsulating, constructing and revealing architectural representation. Binding Space: The Book as Spatial Practice explores the role of the book form within the realm of architectural representation. It proposes the book itself as another...- $87.99
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Vendor: Lee M. Jefferson
Christ the Miracle Worker in Early Christian Art
Artistic representations were of significant value to early Christian communities. In Christ the Miracle Worker in Early Christian Art, Lee Jefferson argues that images provided visual representations of vital religious and theological truths crucial to the faithful and projected concepts beyond the limitations of...- $39.00
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Vendor: Alexandra Tyng
Poet and Artists: O&S March/April 2010
This issue is featuring the art of Eric Zener on the cover.Author: Alexandra TyngISBN-10: 1450599788ISBN-13: 9781450599788Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/20/2010Pages: 152Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.10lbsSize: 9.90h x 8.00w x 0.60d- $30.00
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Vendor: Boardman Robinson
Cartoons on the War
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.Author: Boardman RobinsonISBN-10: 144377104XISBN-13: 9781443771047Publisher: Woods...- $14.99
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Vendor: Danielle Savoie Cornell Jasmine
XE8 Unveiled: Lyrical Poetry
WORDS ARE TRIGGERS AND CATALYST OF EMOTION. The poetry contained in this book are without music written from the heart and delivered by spirit. They actually started out just being profound quotes and eventually became pieces of a puzzle that fit together in a...- $24.99
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Vendor: Lauren Spencer
A Step-By-Step Guide to Issue-Based Writing
Here is an instructional how-to resource that explains various types of issue-based writing such as essays a research papers. It uses bulleted points that reinforce common terms and key concepts as well as clearly written samples, graphic organizers, and writing exercises. Tips and techniques...- $29.25
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Vendor: Kejun Xia
Chinese Philosophy and Contemporary Aesthetics: Unthought of Empty
The purpose of Chinese Philosophy and Contemporary Aesthetics is simple and straightforward: to discuss empty, nothing, opening, white, nature color, blankness, and different delicate senses, in ink-water painting and calligraphy, around discourses of poetics, philosophy ideas, and art critics. Because xu has inner plasticity...- $100.75
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Vendor: Steven L. Bindeman
The Antiphilosophers
In this volume, author Steven L. Bindeman presents a survey of the key figures in postmodern antiphilosophy. The author demonstrates how the antiphilosophers are united in questioning the centrality of the great cornerstones of western metaphysics - time, self, universe, and God - because...- $110.50
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Vendor: Corrado Federici
The Aesthetics of Grace: Philosophy, Art, and Nature
In The Aesthetics of Grace: Philosophy, Art, and Nature, Raffaele Milani traces the fascinating history of the idea of 'grace' from ancient times to the 1700s. Although this term has been displaced by other concepts with the advent of modernism and postmodernism, the complex...- $102.25
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Vendor: Shirley R. Steinberg
Aesthetics Primer
The Aesthetics Primer is intended for anyone interested in the topic of aesthetics and how it can influence directions in education. The text is suitable for university courses that address aesthetics specifically, but also art education, values education, philosophy of education, and qualitative research...- $23.45
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Vendor: Anne-Marie Quigg
Bullying in the Arts: Vocation, Exploitation and Abuse of Power
Workplace bullying has long been identified in a range of disciplines and fields, but Anne-Marie Quigg's research suggests that the arts, despite subscribing to ideas like governance by consensus, respect for the individual and celebration of diversity, tolerate the highest level of bullying recorded...- $190.00
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Vendor: Esther Singleton
Social New York Under the Georges, 1714-1776: Houses, Streets, and Country Homes, With Chapters On Fashions, Furniture, China, Plate, and Manners
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...- $25.95
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Vendor: James Fiske
The Belgians to the Front
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: Montreal Château de Ramezay
Catalogue of the Château Ramezay Museum and Portrait Gallery
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Vendor: John Leech
John Leech: His Life and Work, Volume 2
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Vendor: Edward Verrall Lucas
A Wanderer in London
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Vendor: Wilkie Collins
Memoirs of the Life of William Collins, Esq., R. A.: With Selections From His Journals and Correspondence, Volume 2
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Vendor: John Lancaster Spalding
Religion and Art: And Other Essays
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Vendor: John Clammer
The Aesthetics of Development: Art, Culture and Social Transformation
Through a unique range of theoretical and practical case studies, this collection considers the relationship between the arts (understood as the visual arts, crafts, theatre, dance, and literature) and development, creating both a bridge between them that is rarely explored and filling in concrete...- $119.99
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Vendor: Na Na
The Arts, Community and Cultural Democracy
This interdisciplinary and international collection explores the role of the arts in shaping contemporary religion and politics. The authors ask about the future of viable communities and democratic cultures in a postmodern world, looking for clues in artistic practices and institutions and their impact...- $109.99
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Vendor: Patrick Duggan
Performing (For) Survival: Theatre, Crisis, Extremity
This volume gathers contributions from a range of international scholars and geopolitical contexts to explore why people organise themselves into performance communities in sites of crisis and how performance - social and aesthetic, sanctioned and underground - is employed as a mechanism for survival....- $109.99
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Vendor: M. Schweitzer
Transatlantic Broadway: The Infrastructural Politics of Global Performance
Transatlantic Broadway traces the infrastructural networks and technological advances that supported the globalization of popular entertainment in the pre-World War I period, with a specific focus on the production and performance of Broadway as physical space, dream factory, and glorious machine.Author: M. SchweitzerISBN-10: 1349493805ISBN-13:...- $54.99
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A History of 1970s Experimental Film: Britain's Decade of Diversity
This comprehensive historical account demonstrates the rich diversity in 1970s British experimental filmmaking, acting as a form of reclamation for films and filmmakers marginalized within established histories. An indispensable book for practitioners, historians and critics alike, it provides new interpretations of this rich and...- $54.99
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New York School Collaborations: The Color of Vowels
Ranging from conceptual theater to visual poetry the New York School explored the possibilities of collaboration like no other group of American poets. New York School Collaborations gathers essays from a diverse group of scholars on the alliances and artistic co-productions of New York...- $54.99
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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.

