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  • The Enchanting Lives of Others
    The Enchanting Lives of Others
    Can Xue
    A celebration of the beguiling power of literature, from one of the world’s greatest storytellers.At the Pigeon Book Club, a circle of readers gathers for exhilarating meetings to discuss literature. The only requirements for entry are an all-encompassing love of books and the intuition that to read is to love and to love is to read. Xiao Sang, a department store clerk, wonders...

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  • Virtual Realities
    Virtual Realities
    Woodall, Dena M.
    An expansive consideration of the creative output of a unique twentieth-century master that brings a fresh perspective to his enigmatic and enduring workM. C. Escher (1898–1972) was born in the Netherlands and is known internationally for his self-described “mental images” that connect to mathematics and various branches of science. Considered a one-man art movement, he remaine...

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  • Bruce Goff
    Bruce Goff
    Fisher, Alison
    A major exploration of the work of American architect Bruce Goff, including the paintings, objects, and ephemera often overshadowed by his architectural legacyCelebrated as one of the most innovative American architects of the twentieth century, Bruce Goff (1904–1982) practiced an unbounded modernism that was deeply embedded in the Midwest and Great Plains. He is best known for...

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  • Man Ray
    Man Ray
    D'Alessandro, Stephanie
    The first in-depth study of Man Ray’s groundbreaking rayographs of the 1920s and their interconnections with his Dada and Surrealist works:This is the first in-depth study of the rayograph (or camera-less photograph) pioneered by Man Ray (1890–1976) in 1920s Paris, between the Dada and Surrealist movements. The transformative, magical qualities of these experiments led the poet...

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  • A Little History of Archaeology
    A Little History of Archaeology
    Fagan, Brian
    The thrilling story of archaeological adventure, and astonishing discoveries around the globeArchaeology tells the story of our ancestors: how they lived, what they believed in and how their cultures developed over millennia. Brian Fagan introduces us to pharaohs’ tombs, Mayan ruins, the first colonial settlements at Jamestown, mysterious Stonehenge, and Pompeii – the city buri...

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  • A Little History of Poetry
    A Little History of Poetry
    Carey, John
    A vital guide to poetry from ancient times to the presentPoetry is language made special, so that it will be remembered and valued. It does not always work – over the centuries countless thousands of poems have been forgotten. This Little History is about some that have not.John Carey tells the stories behind the world’s greatest poems, from the oldest surviving one written nea...

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  • Sargent and Paris
    Sargent and Paris
    Herdrich, Stephanie L.
    A fascinating look at John Singer Sargent’s formative years as a young painter in Paris, a city that helped forge his artistic identity and sparked his rise to the pinnacle of the nineteenth-century art worldIn 1874, eighteen-year-old American artist John Singer Sargent went to Paris to become a painter. Ten years later, he would become an art-world sensation when he sparked co...

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  • Caspar David Friedrich
    Caspar David Friedrich
    Hokanson, Alison
    A richly illustrated volume surveying the career of Caspar David Friedrich, the German landscape painter whose emotionally profound visions of nature are among the most iconic works of Romantic artThe paintings and drawings of the nineteenth-century German landscape painter Caspar David Friedrich (1774–1840) brilliantly illuminate our experience of the natural world. This gener...

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  • Tattoos
    Tattoos
    Lodder, Matt
    The true history of tattoo as both art and profession in the West There is a pervasive stereotype of tattoo culture as relating to an underworld of scoundrels, sailors, and ne’er-do-wells, yet it has existed in the West as a professionalized art practice for centuries. Drawing on extensive new research and unprecedented access to largely unpublished private archives of photogra...

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  • The Last Lover
    The Last Lover
    Can Xue
    From the sensational Chinese author who has been called “a new world master,” a Kafkaesque novel set in a fictional Western nationWinner of the 2015 Best Translated Book Award for fiction, presented by Three Percent, a resource for international literature“[A] mind-bending novel... Xue succeeds in creating a unique, immersive, tale of ‘intersecting dreamworlds.’”—Publishers Wee...

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  • Georgia O'Keeffe
    Georgia O'Keeffe
    Oehler, Sarah Kelly
    A revelatory study of Georgia O’Keeffe’s New York paintings of the late 1920s and their deep significance within the artist’s developmentIn 1924 Georgia O’Keeffe (1887–1986) first moved to the Shelton Hotel in New York with her husband, the photographer and art dealer Alfred Stieglitz. The Shelton was Manhattan’s earliest residential skyscraper, and its dizzying heights inspire...

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  • Hidden Faces
    Hidden Faces
    Nogueira, Alison Manges
    Highlighting the creativity and symbolism of covered portraits, this volume explores an intriguing but largely unknown aspect of Italian and Northern European Renaissance artMany small Renaissance portraits were richly adorned with covers or backs bearing allegorical figures, mythological scenes, or emblems that celebrated the sitter and invited the viewer to decipher their mea...

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  • Toshiko Takaezu
    Toshiko Takaezu
    Adamson, Glenn
    Toshiko Takaezu (1922–2011) was an American artist whose multidisciplinary work in ceramics, painting, sculpture, weaving, and installation innovatively drew from the natural world, combining expressionist energies with influences from East Asia. The closed ceramic forms for which she is best known are effectively abstract paintings in the round. Her reputation as a ceramic art...

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  • Art of the Literary Poster, The
    Art of the Literary Poster, The
    Rudnick, Allison
    An exploration of late nineteenth-century American literary posters—a vibrant genre at the vanguard of modern commercial art and graphic design Spurred by innovations in printing technology, the modern poster emerged in the 1890s as a popular form of visual culture in the United States. Created by some of the best-known illustrators and graphic designers of the period — includi...

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  • Love in the New Millennium
    Love in the New Millennium
    Can Xue
    Longlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2019The most ambitious work of fiction by one of the world’s greatest writersIn this darkly comic novel, a group of women inhabits a world of constant surveillance, where informants lurk in the flower beds and conspiracies abound. Some try to flee—whether to a mysterious gambling bordello, underground ancestral homes, or Nest Co...

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  • Barefoot Doctor
    Barefoot Doctor
    Can Xue
    A profound, poignant story of a village healer and her community, from one of the world’s great contemporary novelistsIn rural Yun Village, herbalist Mrs. Yi lives with her husband in a cottage at the foot of Niulan Mountain, where she gathers herbs to treat the ailments of the villagers by day and studies medicine by night. Sickness and herbs are lovers, she tells her patients...

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  • Remedios Varo
    Remedios Varo
    Haskell, Caitlin / Arcq, Tere
    An exploration of the captivating work and mystical outlook of the modern artist Remedios Varo, focusing on her years in Mexico City This publication offers a definitive look at the artistic practice of Remedios Varo (1908–1963) following her emigration from Spain to Mexico City in 1941. Her work from 1955 to 1963 made a lasting contribution to modern art and the legacy of Surr...

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  • World Atlas of Street Art and Graffiti, The: Revised Edition
    World Atlas of Street Art and Graffiti,...
    Schacter, Rafael / MacDowall, Lachlan / Fekner, John (foreword)
    Bursting with color and energy, this revised edition of the definitive guide to street art and graffiti covers the world’s most significant artists, styles, and the urban landscapes that form their canvas Ten years after its original publication, The World Atlas of Street Art and Graffiti is recognized as the definitive guide to the most significant artists and styles of street...

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  • Look at the Lights, My Love
    Look at the Lights, My Love
    Ernaux, Annie
    A revelatory meditation on class and consumer culture, from 2022 Nobel laureate Annie ErnauxFor half a century, the French writer Annie Ernaux has transgressed the boundaries of what stories are considered worth telling, what subjects worth exploring. In this probing meditation, Ernaux turns her attention to the phenomenon of the big-box superstore, a ubiquitous feature of mode...

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  • Wounded Storyteller, The
    Wounded Storyteller, The
    Hoffmann, E. T. A.
    E. T. A. Hoffmann (1776–1822) was one of the greatest German Romantic authors of fantasy and a pioneer in the genre we now call Gothic horror. His innovative stories explore ideas of madness, genius, doppelgängers, artificial intelligence, and the boundaries between realities and dreams. Artist Natalie Frank and leading fairy-tale scholar Jack Zipes have joined forces in this l...

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  • Story of Architecture, The
    Story of Architecture, The
    Rybczynski, Witold
    An inviting exploration of architecture across cultures and centuries by one of the field’s eminent authors “Rybczynski’s expansive account traces the influence of social, technological, and economic shifts on architecture across centuries.”—New York Times Book Review “The finest architectural writer in our language.”—Mark Alan Hewitt, New Criterion In this sweeping history, fr...

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  • Lives of the Gods
    Lives of the Gods
    Pillsbury, Joanne (ed.)
    This engaging exploration of the Maya pantheon introduces readers to the complex stories of Mesoamerican divinity through the stunning carvings, ceramics, and metalwork of the Classic period Focusing on the period between A.D. 250 and 900, Lives of the Gods...

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  • Edward Hopper's New York
    Edward Hopper's New York
    Conaty, Kim
    A revealing exploration of Edward Hopper’s inspired relationship to New York City through his paintings, drawings, prints, and never-before-published archival materialsThis engaging book delves into the iconic relationship between Edward Hopper (1882–1967) and New York City. This comprehensive look at an essential aspect of the revered American artist’s life reveals how Hopper’...

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  • Black Artists in America
    Black Artists in America
    Lovelle Jenkins, Earnestine
    Exploring how artists at midcentury addressed the social issues of their day—from Jacob Lawrence to Elizabeth Catlett, Rose Piper to Charles White This timely book surveys the varied ways in which Black American artists responded to the political, social, and economic climate of the United States from the time of the Great Depression through the landmark Brown v. Board of Educa...

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  • Versace
    Versace
    Blancks, Tim (Ed.)
    The first comprehensive presentation of Versace's womenswear collections from its 1978 debut to today, seen through stunning catwalk photographyFounded in 1978, Gianni Versace's family-operated fashion house quickly grew into a symbol of high glamour and luxury known the world over. Throughout the 1980s and 1990s Versace's styles were worn by iconic celebrities such as Madonna ...

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  • Devotion
    Devotion
    Smith, Patti
    From the renowned artist and author Patti Smith, a rare and generous look into the creative process A work of creative brilliance may seem like magic—its source a mystery, its impact unexpectedly stirring. How does an artist accomplish such an achievement, connecting deeply with an audience never met? In this groundbreaking book, one of our culture’s beloved artists offers a de...

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  • Why Marx Was Right
    Why Marx Was Right
    Eagleton, Terry
    In this combative, controversial book, Terry Eagleton takes issue with the prejudice that Marxism is dead and done with. Taking ten of the most common objections to Marxism—that it leads to political tyranny, that it reduces everything to the economic, that it is a form of historical determinism, and so on—he demonstrates in each case what a woeful travesty of Marx's own though...

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  • Interaction of Color: 50th Anniversary Edition
    Interaction of Color: 50th Anniversary...
    Albers, Josef
    The 50th anniversary edition of a classic text, featuring an expanded selection of color studies Josef Albers’s classic Interaction of Color is a masterwork in art education. Conceived as a handbook and teaching aid for artists, instructors, and students, this influential book presents Albers’s singular explanation of complex color theory principles. Originally published by Yal...

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  • Chanel: The Vocabulary of Style
    Chanel: The Vocabulary of Style
    Gautier, Jerome
    Gabrielle Bonheur "Coco" Chanel (1883-1971) was undoubtedly the most influential fashion designer of the 20th century. Her clothes and accessories have remained perennially chic, and her legendary fashion house continues to exert a powerful sway over today's designers. Jérôme Gautier tells the story of Chanel's iconic style through hundreds of images, many taken by the leading ...

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  • Manus x Machina
    Manus x Machina
    Bolton, Andrew
    The complex and often ambiguous relationship between the hand crafted and the machine made is examined in this intriguing look at the ever-changing world of fashion and taste. Manus x Machina traces styles of dress from one-of-a-kind works and haute couture created by highly skilled artisans, through the introduction of industrial manufacturing, to extraordinary recent technolo...

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