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  • Pegi by Herself

    The Life of Pegi Nicol MacLeod, Canadian Artist

    by Laura Brandon ...
    One of the most vibrant artists of her generation, Pegi Nicol MacLeod was a charismatic bohemian whose expressive images of the contemporary world were an essential component of Canadian modernism during the 1930s and 1940s. In Pegi by Herself, the first full-length biography of Nicol MacLeod, Laura Brandon draws on the artist's remarkable autobiographical paintings and extraordinarily vivid ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Pegi by Herself

    The Life of Pegi Nicol MacLeod, Canadian Artist

    by Laura Brandon ...
    One of the most vibrant artists of her generation, Pegi Nicol MacLeod was a charismatic bohemian whose expressive images of the contemporary world were an essential component of Canadian modernism during the 1930s and 1940s. In Pegi by Herself, the first full-length biography of Nicol MacLeod, Laura Brandon draws on the artist's remarkable autobiographical paintings and extraordinarily vivid ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Portraits of Remembrance

    Painting, Memory, and the First World War

    by Margaret Hutchison, Steven Trout, Martin Bayer, Philip D. Beidler, Laura Brandon, Heidi Cook, Peter Harrington, Marguerite Helmers, Mark Levitch0, Caroline Lord1, Andrew Nedd2, Elizabeth Richards Rivenbark3, Sandrine Smets4, Gizem Tongo5, Jay M. Winter6 ...
    Series series War, Memory, and Culture
    Interdisciplinary collection of essays on fine art painting as it relates to the First World War and commemoration of the conflictAlthough photography and moving pictures achieved ubiquity during the First World War as technological means of recording history, the far more traditional medium of painting played a vital role in the visual culture of combatant nations. The public’s appetite for the ... Read more

    $46.79 USD

  • Art and War

    by Laura Brandon ...
    Series series Art and Series
    This is a truly encyclopedic survey of artists' responses - both 'official' and personal - to 'the horrors of war'. "Art and War" reveals the sheer diversity of artists' portrayals of this most devastating aspect of the human condition - from the 'heroic' paintings of Benjamin West and John Singer Sargent to brutal and iconic works by artists from Goya to Picasso, and the equally oppositional work ... Read more

    $29.99 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

  • Lee Krasner

    A Biography

    by Gail Levin ...
    A "compelling" biography of the brilliant abstract expressionist painter who was far more than just Mrs. Jackson Pollock ( Los Angeles Times).Lee Krasner is best known as the artist-wife of Jackson Pollock, the renowned abstract expressionist painter. Yet in this riveting biography, the first full-length account of her colorful life, Krasner emerges as a significant artist who deserves her place ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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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  • Landscape Theory

    Edited by Rachel DeLue, James Elkins ...
    Series series The Art Seminar
    Artistic representations of landscape are studied widely in areas ranging from art history to geography to sociology, yet there has been little consensus about how to understand the relationship between landscape and art. This book brings together more than fifty scholars from these multiple disciplines to establish new ways of thinking about landscape in art. ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Wartime Kiss

    Visions of the Moment in the 1940s

    by Alexander Nemerov ...
    Series series Essays in the Arts
    A deeply personal meditation on the haunting power of American photos and films of the 1940sWartime Kiss is a personal meditation on the haunting power of American photographs and films from World War II and the later 1940s. Starting with a stunning reinterpretation of one of the most famous photos of all time, Alfred Eisenstaedt's image of a sailor kissing a nurse in Times Square on V-J Day, ... Read more

    $28.09 USD

  • Stateless: Diary of a Spirited Boy at Napho Camp

    by Sanva Saephan ...
    Displaced by the Secret War in Laos from 1963 to 1975, tens of thousands of highland Laotians, Mienh and Hmong people made the perilous journey across the Mekong River to seek temporary refuge in various camps scattered across Thailand. Many harbored hopes of returning to their home land, while some opted for a new start in foreign countries that would grant them a place under the sun. The author ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Legal Emblems and the Art of Law

    Obiter Depicta as the Vision of Governance

    by Peter Goodrich ...
    The emblem book was invented by the humanist lawyer Andrea Alciato in 1531. The preponderance of juridical and normative themes, of images of rule and infraction, of obedience and error in the emblem books is critical to their purpose and interest. This book outlines the history of the emblem tradition as a juridical genre, along with the concept of, and training in, obiter depicta, in things seen ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Puppetry Handbook for Christian Leaders

    by TERRY PRICE ...
    This illustrated 48 page book is designed for those who want to start a puppet ministry or for those who want to enhance their existing ministry. It is full of ideas that have been tested for many years and is designed for the trainer or puppeteer to use.It contains ideas on how to build your own puppet stage, how to start a ministry, history of puppetry, how to train and evaluate potential ... Read more

    $3.99 USD