Art and Design

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Updated May 15, 2025
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GUSTAVE CAILLEBOTTE: PAINTING MEN
ALLAN, SCOTT
Paper Book
This richly illustrated volume paints a complex portrait of Caillebotte, masculinity, and identity in late nineteenth-century France. More than any other French Impressionist, painter Gustave Caillebotte (1848-1894) observed and depicted the many men in his life,...
FAMILY ROMANCE
STROUSE, JEAN
Paper Book
Jean Strouse captures the dramas, mysteries, intrigues, and tragedies surrounding John Singer Sargent's portraits of the Wertheimer family. Jean Strouse's Family Romance: John Singer Sargent and the Wertheimers looks at twelve portraits of one English family painted by...
ART, ANNOTATED
Paper Book
A stunning art gallery in a book, art, annotated spans more than 3,000 years of paintings, sculptures, and prints. Combining reproductions of each work of art with precise annotations and visual analysis, it is an expertly curated selection of the finest art ever created....
Housesketching : learn to create energetic and expressive architectural drawings
Kiefer, Albert
Paper Book
Housesketching shows artists of all skill levels how to sketch architecture expressively and become more creative in the process.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE: MY NEW YORKS
OEHLER, SARAH KELLY
Paper Book
A revelatory study of Georgia O'Keeffe's New York paintings of the late 1920s and their deep significance within the artist's development In 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....
Leonardo Da Vinci : an untraceable life
Campbell, Stephen J.
Paper Book
How our image of the Renaissance's most famous artist is a modern myth Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) never signed a painting, and none of his supposed self-portraits can be securely ascribed to his hand. He revealed next to nothing about his life in his extensive writings, yet...
GIANTS: ART FROM THE DEAN COLLECTION OF SWIZZ BEATZ AND ALICIA KEYS
GANT, KIMBERLI
Paper Book
'An encyclopedic necessity for anyone interested in contemporary art.' - Vanity Fair 'We want people to see themselves... We want you to see the giants on whose shoulders we stand.' - Alicia Keys The first book to showcase selections from the groundbreaking Dean Collection of Swizz...
VANESSA BELL: A WORLD OF FORM AND COLOUR
BIRRELL, REBECCA
Paper Book
This publication, together with the exhibition it accompanies, presents the largest ever survey of work by Vanessa Bell (1879-1961). Described in 1923 as 'the most important woman painter in Europe', Bell was a pioneering modernist and founding member of the Bloomsbury Group,...
WILD THING: A LIFE OF PAUL GAUGUIN
PRIDEAUX, SUE
Paper Book
Paul Gauguin's legend as a transgressive genius arises as much from his biography as his aesthetically daring Polynesian paintings. Gauguin is chiefly known for his pictures that eschewed convention, to celebrate the beauty of an indigenous people and their culture. In this gorgeously illustrated...
TAYLOR SWIFT STYLE: FASHION THROUGH THE ERAS
CHAPELLE, SARAH
Paper Book
An instant New York Times and USA Today bestseller! Dazzling. Incomparable. Unforgettable. The definitive book of Taylor Swift's fashion evolution. This gorgeous hardcover edition has gilded gold edges, foiled cover accents and colored endpapers....
UNIVERSE IN 100 COLORS
THRASHER, TYLER
Paper Book
At the intersection of science, art, and design, this must-have coffee table book highlights 100 mind-blowing colors that you've likely never seen before. From Instagram sensation and self-described "mad scientist artist" Tyler Thrasher and creator of the popular Matter subscription...
MARY CASSATT AT WORK
THOMPSON, JENNIFER A
Paper Book
A new study of Mary Cassatt that explores the centrality of work to both her inventive technical practice and her distinctive approach to modern subjects       Mary Cassatt's (1844-1926) sensitive depictions of the social, intellectual, and...

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