All About Art: Books for Color Our World

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Updated May 28, 2025
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Art : a visual history
Cumming, Robert
Paper Book
"Art is not what you see, but what you make others see." Edgar Degas Covering every era and over 650 artists, this comprehensive, illustrated guide offers an accessible yet expansive view of art history, featuring everything from iconic works and lesser-known gems to...
ART : discovering infinite connections in art history
Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Paper Book
A fresh and unconventional approach to exploring 6,000 years of art history through 800 masterpieces from The Metropolitan Museum of Art Featuring more than 800 artworks from the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, this groundbreaking book -- organized by thematic...
Art : the definitive visual guide
Paper Book
Discover more than 2,500 of the world's most influential paintings and sculptures in this beautifully- illustrated guide to the history of art.  Introducing Art: The Definitive Visual Guide - an invaluable reference book that spans 30,000 years of global art history,...
The art of jazz : a visual history
Shipton, Alyn
Paper Book
The Art of Jazz explores how the expressionism and spontaneity of jazz spilled onto its album art, posters, and promotional photography, and even inspired standalone works of fine art. Everyone knows jazz is on the cutting edge of music, but how much do you know about its...
Black art : a cultural history
Powell, Richard J.
Paper Book
This groundbreaking studyexplores the visualrepresentations of Blackculture across the globethroughout the twentiethcentury and into thetwenty-first. The African diaspora--a direct result of the transatlantic slave trade and Western colonialism--has generated a wide array of artistic...
Contemporary African art
Kasfir, Sidney Littlefield.
Paper Book
The twentieth century has been a period of major disruption for traditional institutions in Africa. But even as old forms of art patronage were being suppressed, new avenues of artistic expression opened up. Postcolonial art in Africa has built seamlessly upon already existing structures in which...
Georgia O'Keeffe : desert painter
Kucharczyk, Emily Rose.
Paper Book
Strong-willed and fiercely independent, she immersed herself in the world of art and developed an unparalleled and uniquely American painting style.
How Banksy saved art history
Grovier, Kelly
Paper Book
A new take on the history ofart through the eyes of theinternational phenomenonthat is Banksy. Few would dispute that Banksy is the most famous urban artist in the world today. That he is also a perceptive art historian might come as a surprise to many. Taken together, the myriad...
The island of extraordinary captives : a painter, a poet, an heiress, and a spy in a World War II British internment camp
Parkin, Simon
Paper Book
The "riveting...truly shocking" (The New York Times Book Review) story of a Jewish orphan who fled Nazi Germany for London, only to be arrested and sent to a British internment camp for suspected foreign agents on the Isle of Man, alongside a renowned group of refugee musicians,...
The museum
Verde, Susan.
Paper Book
When I see a work of art, something happens in my heart! As a little girl tours and twirls through the halls of the art museum, she finds herself on an exciting adventure. Each piece of art evokes something new inside of her: silliness, curiosity, joy, and ultimately inspiration. When...

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