Graffiti Women: Street Art From Five Continents
From the author of the enormously successful Graffiti World comes this spectacular follow-up, celebrating the contributions of women to contemporary graffiti and street art. Female writers have always been in the vanguard of the graffiti movement, though often shunted to the sidelines by their male counterparts. This exhaustive 232 page book places them front and center, featuring 1,000 full-color illustrations from some of the world’s most prominent artists, including Brazil’s Nina, Japan’s Sasu, Mexico’s Peste, and the Americans Lady Pink, Swoon, and Miss 17. Two eight-page fold-out collages, a fold-out poster jacket, and an authoritative text round out the impressive package. The first and only comprehensive survey of its kind, this book is sure to attract and expand upon the wide and enthusiastic readership that made Graffiti World such a runaway success. Published by Abrams.

The author Nicholas Ganz, aka Keinom, is a young German graffiti artist who has traveled worldwide to become the leading authority on the graffiti scene. He lives in Essen, Germany. The introduction was written by Nancy Macdonald is the author of The Graffiti Subculture: Youth, Masculinity and Identity in London and New York. She lives in London. Swoon is a New York City-based street artist.

Cézanne: A Biography: A Biography
By John Rewald
Rewald's definitive study traces the artist's life from his boyhood in Aix-en-Provence through his tumultuous Paris years to his final, creative but lonely years in his native town. The author's own 1930s photographs, paired with paintings, show the exact sites the artist painted as he saw them--which 70 years later is no longer possible to do.

Andy Warhol: Pop Art Painter
By Susan Goldman Rubin
A leader of the American art movement known as Pop, short for "popular culture," Warhol changed the way we think of art. Assisted by photographs taken of Warhol throughout his life, and examples of his early drawings and best-known works, Susan Goldman Rubin traces his rise from poverty to wealth, and from obscurity to fame.

Art in The Frick Collection: Paintings, Sculpture, Decorative Arts
By Charles Ryskamp, Bernice Davidson, Susan Galassi, Edgar Munhall, and Nadia Tscherny
Photographers di Liberto and Taylor highlight the stunning integration of the 14th- through 19th-century paintings, furniture, sculpture, and other art objects with the rooms; other photographs present individual pieces. Curators Davidson, Galassi, Munhall, and Tscherny explain the background of the artists as well as their works.

The Art Opportunities Book: Finding and Winning. This is accurately described by author Benny Shaboy as "a manual and workbook for artists who want to show and sell their work outside the commerecial gallery system, at least for now." This book was easy to navigate for even the most left brain challenged artist and packed with practical, nuts and bolts advice plus insider's info. Benny Shaboy is one of the most qualified experts to write such a book, since he is the editor and publisher of Art Opportunities Monthly (formerly the editor and publisher of studioNotes from 1993-2003) and his experience shines. The book is enhanced by contributions from Raymond St. Arnaud, Tamara Wyndham and three dozen other working artists, curators and jurors. I also enjoyed the impressive art worksprinkled throughout the book. Click here to read an interview with Benny Shaboy and learn how you can order it at a special price.

Digital Canvas, The: Discovering the Art Studio In Your Computer
Inspirational yet highly practical, The Digital Canvas explores contemporary computer-generated art and shows how the computer can be a flexible and surprising tool for visual experimentation. This is not an instruction manual, but the digital equivalent of a survey of techniques and materials in the fine arts, emphasizing creativity and visual thinking over rote learning. It takes the elements common to all visual art and shows how they can be deployed using digital resources.

Leonardo Da Vinci:The Complete Paintings
This seminal book on the paintings of the great Renaissance master Leonardo da Vinci, first published by Abrams in 2000, has now been reissued in a compact, portable paperback format. As in the earlier volume, fresh photography and advanced printing techniques allow these precious masterworks to be reproduced with unparalleled accuracy and clarity, and every one of Leonardo's paintings is included, along with a text by one of the world's leading experts on the artist. Such beloved paintings as the Mona Lisa, The Madonna of the Rocks, and The Annunciation are all showcased in this magisterial book, and the restored Last Supper is seen in all its richness of detail and tone.

Visual Verse
By John Parkinson
Uniting the grandeur of the natural world with the glory of the written word, author and photographer John Parkinson captures the beauty of "God's Art" while expressing the poetry and profoundness that his photographs landscapes suggest. Visual Verse includes photographs of inspiring vistas, from the rugged rock formations of Utah and the autumn leaves of New England to the snow-capped mountains of Canada. Six of Parkinson's own poems are combined with verse from notable poets throughout history to create a soulful tribute to the glory of nature. This book is great for photography lovers and nature enthusiasts who will want to add this elegant book to their collections.

Interpreting Henri Rousseau
By Nancy Ireson From Tate Publishing
Henri Rousseau (1844-1910) is at once one of the most popular and most enigmatic of artists. "Interpreting" his work was no less difficult for his contemporaries than it is for us today. Different accounts of his life and art make him out to be either the starting point for modernism or a naïve, "primitive" artist, cut off from the world around him. Revealing some of the truths behind the myths, Interpreting Henri Rousseau is richly illustrated throughout.

Kandinsky: The Path to Abstraction
Edited by Hartwig Fischer and Sean Rainbird
Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944) pioneered abstract art and is a key figure in the history of modernism. This groundbreaking, fully illustrated study of Kandinsky's formative years follows his move from figurative painting to abstraction. Inspired in his early years by folklore scenes from Russia and the heightened colors of the landscape of southern Germany, he want on to co-found the Expressionist Blaue Reiter (Blue Rider) group of painters with Gabriele Münter, Alexej Jawlensky, and Franz Marc. Gradually he stripped away the descriptive detail in his painting, hiding visual imagery behind fields of bright color encompassed by strong lines. He felt that what he had discovered was a path to a new spiritual reality, more akin to music than the physical world.

Michelangelo's David
By Antonio Paolucci Photography by Aurelio Amendola
Michelangelo's classic David is one of the world's most recognizable sculptures, a masterpiece of the Italian Renaissance that is also a pop-culture icon. In Michelangelo's David, this timeless work is presented in an intriguing new light, with breathtaking original photographs and insightful writing. Antonio Paolucci, noted art historian and curator at the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, revisits the biblical story to rediscover David's personality, while reconstructing the milestones that marked Michelangelo's creation of this magnificent work. Sumptuous photographs--some never before published--by renowned photographer Aurelio Amendola capture David's precise carving, the elegant pose, and the grace of the modeling, revealing every detail of the statue as well as the wonder of the whole.

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