Vachel Lindsay
Vachel Lindsay (1879-1931) studied painting at the Art Institute of Chicago and then in New York with Robert Henri before becoming a poet. He was a member of the Modernist School (others included Ezra Pound,e. e. cummings, and Wallace Stevens) ... [... more]
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Arms and Armor in the Art Institute of Chicago
Chicago Art Institute - Book - arms and armor: An excellent photographic softcovered record of the Chicago Art Institutes collection - which actually the original collection of George F. Harding, Jr. Several period engraving plates, paintings, and [... more]
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Comtemporary American Realist Drawings: The Jalane and ...
 Highly recommended for art library reference collections.: Contemporary American Realist Drawings: The Jalane And RichardDavidson Collection At The Art Institute Of Chicago superbly showcasesone of the finest collections on the subject extent today. [... more]
CDN$45.00
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Why Art Cannot Be Taught: A HANDBOOK FOR ART STUDENTS
all art students and profs should have to read this: The author details art instruction through the ages and discusses the question asked in the title. Art and artists would be so much better thought of by society, and art istself would improve, if the [... more]
CDN$23.08
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Pictures and Tears: A History of People Who Have Cried ...
AFFECTING AND AFFECTIONATE BOOK: This book is beautifully illustrated with paintings by Caravaggio, Greuze, Bellini (Giovanni), Bouts, and Friedrich along with a picture of a chapel designed by Mark Rothko. As the blurb states, it is a "strange and [... more]
CDN$29.12
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Painting Wildlife in Watercolor
Fearless technique to painting wildlife: This book is outstanding! Peggy shows approaches to watercolor that make if fun for the beginer as well as an advanced painter. Her tecniques could be used in many aplications, not just wildlife. A beautifuly [... more]
CDN$30.05
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Japanese Prints
From Amazon.com: Another in the Abbeville's Tiny Folios series, this little book is a real gem. The Art Institute of Chicago houses one of the world's most beautiful and comprehensive collections of Japanese woodblock prints in the world. Clarence [... more]
CDN$18.00
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Sister Wendy's American Collection
From Amazon.com: Sister Wendy's catholic view of art is as rare as her insightful view of Western religious painting. The work she admires is startlingly diverse, embracing Paul Revere's silver and a bodhisattva from Pakistan, an Issey Miyake metallic [... more]
CDN$49.95
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Taken by Design: Photographs from the Institute of ...
Much more than a catalog: Much more than a catalog This book is not just a catalog of the show now at San Francisco's MOMA. It is a rich source that chronicles the evolution of the Chicago Institute of Design (ID) and its photography program. With 6 [... more]
CDN$46.88
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Van Gogh And Gauguin
Eldorado: "Van Gogh and Gauguin: The Studio of the South" is a great and rare achievement, since it captures the atmosphere of artists lives as no other book or film has done in the past, being magnificently precise in details and facts, yet [... more]
CDN$98.00
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Taoism and the Arts of China
From Amazon.com: Taoism and the Arts of China, the catalog for a blockbuster show in Chicago, represents an explosion of recent research into Taoism, China's most important indigenous religion and one of the world's oldest mystical traditions. Western [... more]
CDN$65.22
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Martin Puryear
From Amazon.com: Martin Puryear's sculpture has received increasing acclaim in the years since 1989, when he was awarded a MacArthur Foundation grant and the grand prize at the São Paulo Bienal, where he was the sole United States representative. [... more]
CDN$62.51
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