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Anyone studying a Van Gogh painting with its heavily articulated brushstrokes, dazzling color, and hypnotic perspective will wonder about the artis...

Tracing the arc of van Gogh's career, this volume presents his portraits and self-portraits, landscapes, and haunting interiors. Readers will learn...

Vivan Sundarams eclecticism is a distinctive feature of his work and is the focus of this monograph. A pioneer of installation art in India, Sundar...

Based on an award-winning exhibition, Viviane Sassen''s new book focuses on a common theme in her photographs: shadow. In this book she leads us th...

Not too long ago, it might have seemed impossible that cannabis would step out of the shadows into the mainstream. But now, as legalization sweeps ...

For a decade between 1935 and 1946, Weegee made a name for himself snapping crime scenes, victims and perpetrators. Armed with a Speed Graphic came...

This dynamic book opens with a familiar and joyful sight-a baby bird hatching from an egg that sits in a nest high on a tree. The following pages ...

No one knows who exactly invented the wheel, but in the inventive hands of illustrator Tom Schamp young readers will have great fun learning about ...

The heroine of this beautifully illustrated story feels her anger like a storm in a dark forest. It sweeps her away, and she thunders and howls. Sh...

From Fluxus to conceptualism and feminism, an inside look at how California's legendary school nurtured a generation of exciting, experimental arti...

A toaster, a refrigerator, a sink, a bed, a car. Most kids can recognize these and other things that are part of their everyday lives. Leave it to ...

When Antoinette, a comely young frog, learns that a famous artist is searching for beautiful flowers to paint, she becomes determined to get into t...

Every two years, on the occasion of the Made in L.A. biennial, the Hammer Museum honors artistic excellence by administering the Mohn Award to an a...

An intimate art form, drawing offers a direct connection to one's imagination; a means of exercising the eye, brain, and the hand; and a way to spa...

What does it mean to live in a material world, and how do materials of the past and present hold the keys to our future? This book tackles these qu...

The Wiener Werkstatte, founded by Josef Hoffmann, Koloman Moser, and Fritz Waerndorfer, was an artists' and craftsmen's collective that existed in ...

Sarah Glover loves to cook, whether it''s on the edge of a windswept cliff, in a clearing in the forest, or on a sandy stretch of beach. Although s...

This captivating book brings the natural world into sharp focus. Beautifully colored and intricately detailed illustrations depict places as exotic...

Growing up in Miami, and of Afro-Peruvian descent, William Cordovas life has been marked by the transformation of materials and identities. In this...

Since the 1990s, parallel to his stage productions, Forsythe has developed a body of work he calls Choreographic Objects. These experimental, inter...

Explore William Kentridge's remarkable performance piece, The Head & The Load, and discover how music, dance, writing, and fine art are combine...