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Why do painters sometimes wish they were poets - and why do poets sometimes wish they were painters What happens when Rembrandt spells out Hebrew in the sky or Poussin spells out Latin on a tombstone What happens when Virgil, Ovid, or Shakespeare suspend their plots to describe a fictitious painting This title answers these questions.

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The fourth and final Ways book: a novel as conceptual art.

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Artists living in the new millennium must create new models for exhibitions and sales. They must also be aware of new modes of communication, from occupying un-rented space to social networking and the latest mobile phone apps. This book is like a language course that aims to enhance your ability to communicate your creative ideas to the world.

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Patasso is an artist who learns that not everyone likes his art.

Some people say and do mean things.
Patasso's message inspires children to overcome adversity,
follow their heart and be true to themselves.

Be uniquely you.

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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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What is the role of the arts in American culture Is art an essential element If so, how should we support it This book describes the history of patronage, and shows how patronage has elevated and damaged the arts in modern culture, and argues for the university as a serious patron of the arts.

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"Covering the process of 'stealing ideas' and finding inspiration, this book will teach you how to find inspiration all around you, discover how others' work can influence you, improve your photographic and post-processing skill set, and begin your own journey to defining your unique style"--

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Drawing on a range of images from Antiquity to the 20th century, which includes paintings, sculptures, prints, cartoons, postage stamps, medals, documents and photographs, this title investigates the genre as a particular phenomenon in Western art that is especially sensitive to changes in the perceived nature of the individual in society.

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The first in-depth examination of the meaning of colour in fairy tales. Text in English and German.

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A collection of essays chronicling the voice of one of America's art critics in the last 25 years of the 20th century. Donald Kuspit's reflections on art, artists and art criticism are eclectic, exploring the ways in which art and its criticism influenced 20th-century thought and psychology.

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How constructions of home in contemporary art reveal new ways of staying in place

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Linda Haverty Rugg explores how nondocumentary narrative art films create alternative forms of collaborative self-representation and selfhood. Lively and accessible, Self-Projection sheds new light on the films of iconic directors and on art cinema in general, ultimately showing how film can transform not only the autobiographical act, but what it means to have a self.

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Not simply a how-to book, Selling Art without Galleries is a hands-on guidebook to daily life in the complex and sometimes murky world of the art market. Sculpture Magazine

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For Art Dealers Facing Social, Cultural, and Economic Changes in the Contemporary Art World

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Demonstrates how avant-garde films better reflect the complexity of history than conventional film.

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Demonstrates how avant-garde films better reflect the complexity of history than conventional film.

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Frank OHara, Marilyn Monroe, John Cage, Allen Ginsbergchampagne-soaked postwar Manhattan and bohemian 1960s San Francisco come alive in Berkson's memoirs.