• Art Journey America Landscapes: 89 Painters' Perspectives

    Showcasing the work of more than 100 top contemporary American master artists of our day, this book features landscapes (a popular subject for art collectors and a tradition throughout American art history) from all across the country—east and west, north and south—rendered in watercolor, oil, acrylic, pastel, colored pencil and mixed media. Accompanying each painting are the thoughts, techniques and inspirations for the paintings by each artist.

    • ASIN: 1440315248
    • UPC: 035313653810
    • ASIN: 1440315248
    • ISBN: 1440315248
    • Brand: North Light Books
    • Manufacturer: North Light Books

  • Twentieth-century Jewellery: From Art Nouveau to Contemporary Design in Europe and the United States

    The largest and most diverse anthology on jewelry, supported with a concise, authoritative and stimulating essay. This is the third book in Skira’s series dedicated to the modern decorative arts, following Italian Art Ceramics 1900-1950 and Twentieth-century Fabrics. The work is organized chronologically into eight sections and includes analysis of such topics as the Art Nouveau period; great names such as Cartier, Van Cleef & Arpels, and Tiffany; European and American production from the 1950s; and the advent of computer driven-designs. Twentieth-century Jewellery includes an analysis of so... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 8861305326
    • ASIN: 8861305326
    • ISBN: 8861305326
    • Manufacturer: Skira

  • Whistler: Landscapes and Seascapes (Watson-Guptill Famous Artists)

    This book reexamines the colorful American artist's all-but-forgotten role as "midwife at the birth of abstract painting". In text that sparkles with the painter's own vivid epigrams, the author documents how Whistler's unorthodox pictorial design and his new vision of space set the stage for geometric abstraction in 20th century art. 32 full-page color reproductions.

    • ASIN: 0823057267
    • ASIN: 0823057267
    • ISBN: 0823057267
    • Brand: Brand: Watson-Guptill
    • Manufacturer: Watson-Guptill

  • The Best of Sketching and Drawing: A Collection of Still Lifes, Portraits and Landscapes

    Collected in these pages are sketches and drawings that capture the true essence of their medium. Moods, textures, nuances of tone and gesture, all are here - in an amazing range of artistic styles and approaches. Selected from hundreds of entries, these beautifully reproduced drawings make a rich gallery of new work from some of today's most gifted artists. More than 150 sketches and drawings in charcoal, pencil, or pen-and-ink. Work in a variety of genres: portraits, landscapes, abstracts, and still lifes. An international collection of sketches and drawings.

    • ASIN: 1564965104
    • ASIN: 1564965104
    • ISBN: 1564965104
    • Brand: Brand: Rockport Publishers
    • Manufacturer: Rockport Pub

  • The Fauve Landscape

    This text is devoted to the colourful landscapes produced during the Fauvist period of 1904-1908. An essay on the emergence of the Fauve landscape is followed by four essays devoted to individual sites and such topics as Fauvism's impact on tourism and politics. Another essay concentrates on the critical landscape, in essence the critics' reception of these paintings. Matisse, Braque, Derain, Vlaminck, Dufy, Marquet, Manguin and Friesz are represented with examples of their works.

    • ASIN: 0875871518
    • ASIN: 0875871518
    • ISBN: 0875871518
    • Brand: Brand: Los Angeles County Museum of Art
    • Manufacturer: Los Angeles County Museum of Art

  • Georgia O'Keeffe: The Artist's Landscape

    Description: 95 p. : ill. ; 34 cm. Responsibility: photographs by Todd Webb.

    • ASIN: 094264204X
    • ASIN: 094264204X
    • ISBN: 094264204X
    • Manufacturer: Twelvetrees Pr

  • Landscape Meditations: An Artist's Guide to Exploring Themes in Landscape Painting

    Landscape Meditations examines the process of capturing a sense of place through a series of views of a single landscape subject, like Van Gogh did with sunflowers or Monet did with haystacks and cathedrals. Topics explored include using mist, wildflowers, the beach, fields, trees, and roads and pathways. Each of these topics begins with a brief introduction to the specific theme, followed by paintings that show the progression of the idea being explored. A concluding discussion provides artists with further thoughts about how the theme might apply to their work.• For landscape painters at a... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0823026027
    • ASIN: 0823026027
    • ISBN: 0823026027
    • Brand: Brand: Watson-Guptill
    • Manufacturer: Watson-Guptill

  • California Light: A Century of Landscapes: Paintings of the California Art Club

    A first-of-its-kind celebration of the California Art Club, a society whose members have for one hundred years captured California’s staggeringly beautiful landscapes in resplendent plein air paintings. At the dawn of the twentieth century, California became home to artists from all over America and Europe who aspired to depict the state’s awe-inspiring natural landscapes on canvas. In 1909, these artists founded the California Art Club, which stands today as one of the most esteemed painting societies in the United States. The club has achieved distinction for its commitment to plein air ... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0847836258
    • ASIN: 0847836258
    • ISBN: 0847836258
    • Manufacturer: Skira Rizzoli

  • The Worlds of TSR: A Pictorial Journey Through the Landscape of Imagination (Dungeons & Dragons)


    • ASIN: 1560768797
    • ASIN: 1560768797
    • ISBN: 1560768797
    • Brand: Miscellaneous Promos, Calendars, Clothing and
    • Manufacturer: Wizards of the Coast

  • Gustav Klimt: Landscapes

    Book by Dobai, Johannes, Klimt, Gustau

    • ASIN: 0821216880
    • ASIN: 0821216880
    • ISBN: 0821216880
    • Brand: Brand: New York Graphic Society
    • Manufacturer: New York Graphic Society

  • Day in the Country: Impressionism and the French Landscape (Abradale)

    Richard R. Brettell, Scott Schaefer, Sylvie Gache-Patin, Francoise Heilbrun

    • ASIN: 0810980975
    • ASIN: 0810980975
    • ISBN: 0810980975
    • Brand: Brand: Harry N. Abrams
    • Manufacturer: Harry N. Abrams

  • Art: The Twentieth Century

    This book on the art of the twentieth century is published almost ten years after the end of the so-called “short century“―which, in terms of art, was anything but short―and is a valuable tool for reflection. The author has placed a series of works in sequence, accompanied by easy to understand critical commentary. With concise introductions devoted to every significant art movement and more than 400 color illustrations, this volume enables the reader to become familiar with the fascinating and complex world of contemporary art from futurism to pop-art, dada to conceptual. Presented ar... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 8861308015
    • ASIN: 8861308015
    • ISBN: 8861308015
    • Brand: Brand: Skira
    • Manufacturer: Skira

  • Art of the Twentieth Century, Volume V: 2000 and Beyond, Contemporary Tendencies

    The fifth book in the series, this volume concludes this extraordinary publishing project by analyzing the fascinating and controversial phenomena of contemporary art. This volume presents ten chapters, each written by an international expert. To mention just a few: exhibition curator Nicolas Bourriad discusses installations, video and action art in the post-media age. Gabriella Belli, director of the Mart of Trento and Rovereto, tells of the “meaning” of the contemporary museum. Paco Barragán, cultural broker, describes art fairs and explains what is understood by the term neobiennialism... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 8857201287
    • ASIN: 8857201287
    • ISBN: 8857201287
    • Manufacturer: Skira

  • Earthworks and Beyond: Contemporary Art in the Landscape (Abbeville Modern Art Movements)

    The third edition updated and expanded survey of the influential Land Art Movement details the most recent and interesting efforts by artistsoften in collaboration with architects and city plannersto transform ravaged landscapes and desolate cityscapes into pleasure-giving parks and artworks. 210 illustrations. 80 in full color.

    • ASIN: 0789202964
    • ASIN: 0789202964
    • ISBN: 0789202964
    • Manufacturer: Abbeville Pr

  • Buckminster Fuller and Isamu Noguchi: Best of Friends

    •An illustrated biography recounting the friendship between Buckminster Fuller and Isamu Noguchi, two exceptional and important figures of 20th-century art and architecture Best of Friends is an informal, close-up biography of the friendship between Buckminster fuller (1895-1983) and Isamu Noguchi (1904-1988). Author Shoji Sadao, who was a friend and business partner to both, chronicles the deep and abiding respect, affection, and support they had for one other. Fuller's development of his dymaxion Map, Geodesic geometry, and the dymaxion Car are discussed in detail as are Noguchi's multi-fa... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 8874395434
    • ASIN: 8874395434
    • ISBN: 9788874395439
    • Manufacturer: 5Continents

  • Lord of the Flies : (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century)

    The classic study of human nature which depicts the degeneration of a group of schoolboys marooned on a desert

    • UPC: 620362
    • Rating: 3.736

  • Queen Unseen : My Life with the Greatest Rock Band of the 20th Century

    For more than a decade, Peter Hince worked alongside one of the greatest bands in the history of rock, touring the world andheading up their road crew. Here he recalls the highlights ofthose years. He

    • UPC: 49365099

  • On the Road : (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century)

    Follows the counterculture escapades of members of the Beat generation as they seek pleasure and meaning while traveling coast to

    • UPC: 620358
    • Rating: 3.346

  • The Grand Escape : The Greatest Prison Breakout of the 20th Century

    Neal Bascomb, author of The Nazi Hunters, returns with his next thrilling work of narrative nonfiction about a group of Allied POWs who staged an escape for the ages during World War

    • UPC: 741324871
    • Rating: 4.5

  • The Best Military Science Fiction of the 20th Century - eBook

    Explosive and provocative battles fought across the boundaries of time and space—and on the frontiers of the human mind.Science fiction’s finest have yielded this definitive collection featuring stories of warfare, victory, conquest, heroism, and overwhelming

    • UPC: 967602528
    • Rating: 3.0

  • 20th Century Ghosts

    This award-winning collection of short fiction by the "New York Times"-bestselling author of "Heart-Shaped Box" leads readers into a maze filled with exits into a vast country of the surreal. Available for the first time

    • UPC: 9603713
    • Rating: 3.982

  • 20th Century Boys: The Perfect Edition, Vol. 1

    A deluxe bind-up edition of Naoki Urasawa's award-winning epic of doomsday cults, giant robots and a group of friends trying to save the world from destruction! A deluxe bind-up edition of Naoki Urasawa's award-winning epic

    • UPC: 703352120
    • Rating: 4.5

  • The Best Alternate History Stories of the 20th Century : Stories

    Presents a collection of "what if" stories that offer an alternate version of actual historical events in an anthology with works by Kim Stanley Robinson, Greg Bear, Ward Moore, Gregory Benford, and Susan

    • UPC: 1265661
    • Rating: 4.0

  • A Pope and a President : John Paul II, Ronald Reagan, and the Extraordinary Untold Story of the 20th Century

    9781610171526

    • UPC: 458847368

  • The Best Alternate History Stories of the 20th Century - eBook

    Explore fascinating, often chilling “what if” accounts of the world that could have existed—and still might yet . . .Science fiction’s most illustrious and visionary authors hold forth the ultimate alternate history collection. Here you’ll

    • UPC: 944021623
    • Rating: 4.0

  • Top 10 Painters of All Time

    21st Century Realism at the Delaware Art Museum

    "50 Greatest Paintings" "History Masterpieces" "Famous Artists" "Expensive Pieces"