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Jewels in Our Crown: Churches of Los Angeles
by Carolyn Ludwig
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Ed Ruscha: Catalogue Raisonne of the Paintings: 1958-1970
Ed Ruscha and Photography - by Sylvia Wolf
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Women Artists of the American West by Susan R. Ressler This book presents the work of more than 150 women artists who live or once lived west of the Mississippi River. The first half of the book consists of fifteen interpretive essays examining the work and concerns of many types of 19th and 20th century artists.
Concepts of community, identity, spirituality, and locality are explored in interdisciplinary contexts. The second half of the book is an alphabetical listing of all the artists (photographers, quiltmakers, painters, printmakers, clay artists, sculptors, digital artists and more) discussed in the essays, with biographical information, notes on exhibitions and collections, and the artists' own statements about their work and their visions.
Together these artists represent the full spectrum of ethnicites and cultures that comprise the American West. The text is lavishly illustrated with more than 300 reproductions, including 32 pages of color.
Susan R. Ressler is Professor of Art at Purdue University. She is an interdisciplinary scholar and artist whose work centers on Women Studies and Visual Culture.
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Self-Portrait in the Green Bugatti - related book : Tamara De Lempicka
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Les Escaliers
De Montmartre
by Brassai
framed print
....The Garden Within:
The Art of Peter Ellenshaw
100 Suns - by Michael Light Despite all the thousands of caricatures and artistic re-interpretations of the nuclear "mushroom cloud," photographs of the real thing are still intensely frightening and visually fascinating.
The "thousand suns" referred to in the Bhagavad Gita, from which J. Robert Oppenheimer quoted when the first atomic bomb was detonated in New Mexico on July 16, 1945, are depicted here in 100 carefully selected photographs of the aboveground nuclear tests conducted by the United States in the Nevada and New Mexico deserts and over the Pacific Ocean.
Culled by Light (author of Full Moon) from formerly classified documents held by the United States National Archives and Los Alamos National Laboratory, the photos, dating from 1942 to 1962, are awe-inspiring. [Publishers Weekly]
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....The Erotic History of Advertising - by Tom Reichert In the supposedly prudish late-19th century, tobacco products were advertised with posters showing a variety of buxom, practically (or entirely) topless women. They were invariably draped in toga-like robes and adopted pseudo-Grecian poses.
In the 1930s, ads for a Midwestern varnish company used completely naked models; as they were used in trade magazines with an almost entirely male readership, it was considered unlikely that any woman would ever see them.
Reichert, a University of Alabama advertising professor, unearthed these tidbits and others in the course of researching this entertaining and fairly comprehensive history of the use of sex in American advertising over the past 150 years.
At first, this research may seem unnecessary, since the sex and advertising are so inextricably intertwined. Yet Reichert plots a telling time line, from the late-19th-century petticoat-wearing women coyly exposing themselves on beer tavern walls to the double entendres of 1960s magazine ads and the lasciviously photographed nudes plastered throughout today's fashion glossies. [Publishers Weekly]
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The Universe: 365 Days
by Robert J. Nemiroff, Jerry T. BonnellGleaned from six years of entries posted on the website "Astronomy Picture of the Day," these 365 selections include images from NASA's archives as well as recent Hubble images, photographs from observatories around the world, submissions from astrophotographers, and even an artist's rendition or two.
[from Book News summary]
left : The Red Spider Planetary Nebula shows the amazing result when a normal star explodes, becomes a white dwarf and pushes out gusts of hot gas and dust. 
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..right : Once thought to be an impact crater, the Richat Structure in the Sahara Desert was probably formed by volcanic activity then sculpted by erosion.
captions and images from cnn.com
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Slim Aarons is now acknowledged as one of the most influential photographers of his generation. ... a freelance photographer for many magazines including Holiday, Town & Country, Harper's Bazaar, Vogue... This luxurious book is the ultimate insider's view of the lifestyles of the wealthy, privileged, and powerful. Aarons's first book in nearly 30 years (his book A Wonderful Time is a collector's item) is an eagerly anticipated publishing event. Presenting Hollywood royalty, European aristocracy, the grande dames of high society, captains of industry, media moguls, statesmen, and luminaries of various stripes, across a vast geography of opulent and glamorous settings, Slim Aarons's photographs - some 250 of which are included here - define the Beautiful People and document a lost era of style, grace, and grandeur. |
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by Margaret Livingstone, David H. Hubel Why does Mona Lisa appear at times to smile, at others not? Is there an underlying science here? Are black and white really colors? What makes an impressionist painting of a static motif appear more lively than a classical painting of an action scene? Why does Mondrian's Broadway Boogie Woogie blink like the lights of Times Square, and Warhol's Electric Chair pulse with current? Margaret Livingstone, a neurobiologist at Harvard Medical School, answers these and many more questions in this groundbreaking study on how we see. She shows how the eye and brain translate different wavelengths of light into the colors and forms of the world around us, and how artists take advantage of these physical phenomena to create uncanny visual effects. |
.. .. from review by Gary Michael & Kristine Leonard-Amodeo, The Fine Arts Magazine |
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Blue: The History of a Color
by Michel Pastoureau
How to Make a Watercolor Paint Itself :
Experimental Techniques for Achieving
Realistic Effects by Nita Engle
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Art From the UK: Angela Bulloch, Willie Doherty, Tracey Emin,
Douglas Gordon, Mona Hatoum, Abigail Lane, Sarah Lucas,
Sam Taylor-Wood, Rachel Whitread
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Painting
at the Edge of the World by Douglas Fogle et al
"... work by an international and intergenerational group of artists...Brazil, Ethiopia, Germany, South Africa, Scotland, Japan, Belgium, Iran, Italy, and the United States. Designed in two sections--a gatefold plate section containing reproductions of the work, and a french-folded section containing critical essays--the book brings together a wide range of contemporary views on painting from a diverse array of disciplines, including the visual arts, film, architecture, design, and music in an attempt to assessthe relevance of painting in the contemporary global context." [Amazon.com review] |
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Seeing Ourselves : Women's Self-Portraits by Frances Borzello "...self-portraits across eight centuries, deftly weaving together art and social history, the biographies
of many women artists, and a wide selection of paintings, prints, and photographs by women."
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batik artist, Indonesia ; "women painters of the Polish town of Zalipie cover their houses inside and out with floral designs... They have even painted blossoms on the town fire truck." > from book: In Her Hands: Craftswomen Changing the World -
by Paola Gianturco - book site herhands.com~ ~ ~ ~
My advice to you: You'll never lay on your death bed wishing you'd kept the cupboards a little cleaner... or that you'd watched more TV... but you might lay there wishing you'd spent more time doing what you loved to do. Forget the dishes and the dust bunnies.... draw instead! **Ann Kullberg****quotes from her site
****image from her book:**Capturing Soft Realism in Colored Pencil**by Ann Kullberg
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Women of the World : A Global Collection of Art - by Claudia Demonte, Arlene Raven Sculptor and painter Claudia DeMonte asked 177 female artists - each from a different country - to create an image that represents "woman." The result is the vivid book and traveling exhibition Women of the World. [oprah.com summary]
Coca-Cola Girls : An Advertising Art History by Chris H. Beyer
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Museum of Non-Primate Art
pages include:
Exhibitions include:
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Why
Cats Paint : A Theory
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Cat
Artists & Their Work
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by Abraham Marie Hammacher
Design & Composition Secrets
of Professional Artists :16 Successful Painters Show How
They Create Prize-Winning Work
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painting by elephant artist Seng Wong
from site: The Asian Elephant Art & Conservation
Project - a non-profit dedicated to saving the
diminishing number of Asian elephantsrelated book: When Elephants Paint: The Quest of
Two Russian Artists to Save the Elephants of Thailand
...more
books
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