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How do pictures tell stories This ground-breaking book analyses visual narrative in nineteenth-century history and genre paintings across Europe. It reveals how artists constructed plots via objects, managing the tension between narrative and style and prompting viewers to weave their own tales.

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Offers an understanding of artistic creativity by examining the careers not only of great painters but also of important sculptors, poets, novelists, and movie directors. This book provides insights into the mysterious processes of human creativity.

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Offers an approach to understanding the evolution of abstractionism by looking at the personal artistic development of seven of its practitioners. This book explores the works and concerns of three European abstract painters - Mondrian, Malevich, Kandinsky - and then those of their American successors - Pollock, Newman, Rothko, and Still.

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A comprehensive guide to the complex world of public art.

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A meditation on twilight in Western thought, painting, and literature. This ambitious account of the arts of the evening, now available in paperback, deftly combines prose-poetry, memoir, philosophy, and art history. Intertwining personal, cultural, and artistic histories, it is a richly rewarding book written in a unique voice.

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A new book from Reaktion best-selling author and artist, David Batchelor, The Luminous and the Grey is a unique study of the places where colour comes into being and where it fades away.

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The Movie Art of Syd Mead: Visual Futurist represents the most extensive collection of Mead's visionary film work ever printed, including ALIENS, Blade Runner, Star Trek The Motion Picture, and Elysium, compiling hundreds of images, sketches and concept arts from a career spanning almost 40 years, many of which have never been seen in print before.

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Introduction -- Determine what art is -- Make something from nothing -- Stand out in a noisy and distracted world -- Get others to see things in very specific ways -- Make things that are meaningful -- One more thing ... -- Text notes -- Quotation sources.

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Antiquities need to be protected from looting but also from nationalistic identity politics. This title calls for measures to broaden rather than restrict international access to antiquities. It explains how partage broadened access to our ancient heritage and helped create national museums in Cairo, Baghdad, and Kabul.

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Will accompany the exhibition of the same name, and will feature critical texts by a range of Australian and international writers and curators.

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John OConnor (19132004), a romantic but also a realist, recorded old endangered things, high and low: churches, canals, barges, dilapidated barns and garden sheds.With a keen eye, sure hand and way with words, he drew, engraved, painted and described what he valued most around him.

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A brief, brilliant and essential introduction to the key concepts in art, from ancient times to the present day.

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LIFE! What does it all mean

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Eco awareness has had an enormous impact across all cultural and political spectrums, not least in the art world. This book presents an exploration of the ways in which contemporary artists are confronting nature, the environment, climate change and ecology.

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The powerful artworks that emerged following the rise of the gay rights movement, from Alice Neel to Glenn Ligon.

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Aristocrat, literary celebrity, Rose Queen, devoted wife, lesbian, recluse, iconoclast Vita Sackville-West was many things, but she was never straightforward. Her life is re-told here in a dazzling new biography.

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Bestselling author Tristan Manco explores the many exciting new ways in which scale is being taken to new extremes in art.

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Reveals the ways in which the work of bio artists offers new meanings for our lives in the wake of scientific discovery, as well as new frameworks for describing them. This book covers key areas in which biotechnology has had an impact on world, including ecology, biomedicine, designer genomes and evolutionary theory.

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Featuring focused essays with broad scope and appeal, this book will include over 60 essays on key works and artists represented in the Queensland Art Gallery's contemporary Australian art collection.