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The Year of Dancing Dangerously
$24.95
An illustrated and very personal look inside the exciting world of competitive dancing Learn More

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Visions of Tibet
$49.95
A spectacularly illustrated large-format book that reveals modern Tibet as never seen before Learn More

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A Victorian Flora:
$35.00
86 facsimile Victorian watercolors. Learn More

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Vanishing Tibet
$39.95
A riveting and spiritual photographic journey into a disappearing world Learn More

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Vanishing Paradise
$45.00
Stunning photography of the rainforest. Learn More

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Van Gogh Drawings (Paperback)
$12.95
Fascinating and detailed drawings by the master. Learn More

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Van Gogh Drawings
$22.50
Fascinating and detailed drawings by the master. Learn More

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The University
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The University, written in a concise, readable style by distinguished scholars drawn from a wide range of disciplines, brings us the events, the people, the cities, and the institutions that gave shape to this vast and absorbing story. Learn More

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Twentieth-Century Wildlife Artists
$85.00
A stunning presentation of the greatest nature artists. Learn More

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Totalitarian Art
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Totalitarian Art achieves nothing less than a thorough and serious comparative study of the official art of Stalin’s Russia, Hitler’s Germany, Mussolini’s Italy, Kim Jong-Il’s North Korea, and Saddam Hussein’s Iraq.
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Totalitarian Art
$30.00
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A stunning volume examining the major works of 20th century state propaganda. Learn More

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To Have and to Hold (Paperback)
$15.95
A probing and thoroughly entertaining history of man s passion for collecting, from nature's glorious exotica to beautiful cultural artifacts to elusive kitsch and ephemera. Learn More

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To Have and to Hold
$27.95
A probing and thoroughly entertaining history of man s passion for collecting, from nature's glorious exotica to beautiful cultural artifacts to elusive kitsch and ephemera. Learn More

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The Sunday Books
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Decades after Peake’s death, world-renowned fantasy writer (and friend of the Peakes) Michael Moorcock has written verses to go with Peake’s drawings. This star collaboration--funny, surprising, and haunting by turns--is accompanied by an illuminating and elegiac introduction by Moorcock. Learn More

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Street Knowledge
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An encyclopedia of street culture for those who love Banksy or Irvine Welsh and want to know about the cutting-edge talents, past and present who have shaped urban cool.


This eye-catching insider’s guide includes oldschool graffiti legends, avant-garde street artists, film makers, DJs, designers, writers, and poets who have influenced urban culture. From the groundbreaking New York artists of the 1980s to the unique work of modern-day Iranians, this book shows how street culture has penetrated every aspect of modern life. Street Knowledge includes work and exclusive interviews from some of the world’s most famous artists and talents, such as Banksy, David LaChapelle, Kelsey Brookes, Quik, Tony Kaye, Tama Janowitz, The KLF, Shawn Stussy, Obey, Irvine Welsh, Martha Cooper, and Benjamin Zephaniah, as well as lesser-known and up-coming talents who are literally coming up from the streets.



King Adz left his former life as a filmmaker and advertising exec to pick up a pen and do what he loves best. In his current incarnation as writer, cook, and street culture aficionado, he roams the globe to touch, taste, and experience what’s happening on the ground and document his findings.



Praise for Street Knowledge: "What makes the book most compelling is that, by virtue of placing the featured street art in the context of the cities where it appears, it doubles as an underground guide to the hottest art, culture, music, fashion, dining and film spots in some of the world's hippest cities."--Brain Pickings Blog

"This book is a perfect coffee-table compendium of all that's cool out there in the global urban jungle, from Banksy to Yo! MTV Raps, and then some. Illustrated lovingly throughout, this is a must-have for fans of street art and culture & its origins and a great guide to what has become one of the most important art forms to emerge from in recent years."--Digital Slander Blog

"In Street Knowledge, [Adz] presents an A-to-Z guide to the form, capturing starts like Banksy and Obey in exclusive interviews, early pioneers, and related art forms, for hip-hop to fashion." --Zocalo Public Square


"An encyclopedia of street culture for those who love Banksy or Irvine Welsh and want to know about the cutting-edge talents, past and present, who have shaped urban cool." --Publishers Weekly Spring Announcements

"A groundbreaking, encyclopedic insider's guide to the world's fantastically diverse urban landscapes and the arts cultures that identify each of these places as unique neighborhoods . . . If you're looking for an adventure, so is this book." --ForeWord

"Street Knowledge is an incredibly handsome book. The cover is thick and multi-dimensional, the title a cutout. It is printed on quality paper--it is heavy. The many, many photographs are beautifully reproduced. And its global reach makes it unique. Teens will be drawn to the book by its cover. Once they open it, the photographs will hold their interest. It is likely different from any book they have encountered before . . . A slice of street life . . . Beautiful color photographs . . . Fabulous for browsing . . . This isn't just a boring A-to-Z encyclopedia." --School Library Journal
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Silent Places (Paperback)
$35.00

Introduction by Judith Miller

An indelibly moving collection of photographic images; their melancholy beauty and emotional depth provide a glimpse into the past and into eternity

Jeff Gusky, a doctor of emergency medicine, decided at the age of 42 that he wanted to better confront the reality of modern Jewish history. A self-taught photographer who subsequently learned to make museum quality prints, he "bought a good, journalist-type camera and some lenses" and traveled to Poland-once the home of the largest concentration of Diaspora Jews." He read the instruction manuals on the plane en route.

Four trips later, accompanied each time by a top Polish guide, he traveled through the country, beyond the city ghettos and the sites of concentration camps, into remote villages where Jews had lived and worked for almost 1,000 years before the Holocaust capturing on film the austere landscapes and the remains of a once thriving Jewish culture.

The silence is deafening: here are Jewish cemeteries full of broken gravestones, ruined synagogues filled with trash and disfigured with graffiti, a Jewish home now used as a public toilet "where people lived, walked, worshipped, and were, ultimately, exterminated," says Gusky. The doleful, understated clarity of what he saw and photographed capture a poignant sense of loss-making at the same time, an indelible connection to the past.

Jeff Gusky's photographs have been exhibited at the Fleming Museum of Burlington, Vermont, the University of Texas at Dallas, and at the University of Texas at Tyler.

Dr. Jeff Gusky is a doctor of emergency medicine living in Dallas. Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, he attended Washington State University and received his medical degree from the University of Washington School of Medicine. His ancestors came to America from "somewhere in Russia," generations ago and settled in Pittsburgh.


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Silent Places
$50.00
An indelibly moving collection of photographic images; their melancholy beauty and emotional depth provide a glimpse into the past and into eternity Learn More

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Shut Up, You're Fine!
$14.95
The wickedly funny collection of nursery rhymes for the South Park generation illustrated by the incomparable Barry Moser. Learn More

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A Shrine for Tibet
$60.00
A lavishly illustrated compendium of Tibetan sacred art, uniquely presented here in the context of a Tibetan Buddhist shrine room Learn More

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Shelter, Sign, & Symbol (Paperback)
$16.95
A pioneering work on symbols.
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Shelter, Sign, & Symbol
$40.00
A pioneering work on symbols. Learn More

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Sacred Places
$35.00
A beautifully photographed journey to ancient sites that have been revered for centuries Learn More

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Reporting America
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There could be no more fitting or enjoyable tribute to the great man on what would have been his 100th birthday Learn More

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Reporting America
$17.95
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Over fifty years of reportage on American life by one of the 20th century's greatest broadcasters. Learn More

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Rembrandt Drawings
$19.95
Superb drawings by the great master. Learn More

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Rebuilding the Reichstag
$75.00
Account of the re-design of Germany's parliament building. Learn More

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Raymond Chandler's Los Angeles
$23.95
Raymond Chandler's words with photographs of the city. Learn More

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Phantoms of the Hudson Valley
$65.00
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Glorious estates of a lost era. Learn More

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Paul Klee Notebooks Vols. 1 & 2
$350.00
The notes and drawings from his Bauhaus lectures. Vol. 1 The Thinkin Eye, Vol. 2 The Nature of Nature Learn More

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Painting for Calligraphers
$35.00
Illustrated volume on painting techniques for scribes. Learn More

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Origins of the Romanesque
$60.00
The illustrated study of a vital period in art history. Learn More

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Open All Night (Paperback)
$30.00
The photographer's first collection. Learn More

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Open All Night
$45.00
The photographer's first collection. Learn More

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New York Living Rooms
$29.95
Photographs of living rooms of famous New Yorkers. Learn More

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New York in the 70s
$45.00
A unique and largely unseen picture of the excitement of New York in the 1970s Learn More

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New York in the 70s
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A unique and largely unseen picture of the excitement of New York in the 1970s Learn More

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Neurotica
$29.95
The darkest art of J.K. Potter. Learn More

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Mythologies: Sculpture of Helaine Blumenfeld
$75.00
First complete study of one of our leading modern sculptors. Learn More

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More Than Fine Writing
$39.95
An illustrated guide to the life and calligraphy of Irene Wellington. Learn More

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Moore in the Bagatelle Gardens, Paris
$60.00
The exhibition of Moore's bronzes. Learn More

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Mandala
$29.95
"Mandala" is an ancient Sanskrit word meaning "sacred circle that protects the soul." It also refers to the sacred cosmograms that serve as core symbols of all cultures. Westerners have been fascinated for centuries about the mandalas of the Hindu-Buddhist cultures of Asia, most often painted geometric diagrams of great beauty and sophistication, that draw the viewer into a realm of balance, harmony, and calm. Learn More

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Magritte
$85.00
A definitive study of the surrealist painter. Learn More

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Lilies and Related Flowers
$65.00
A book of stunning botanical illustrations. Learn More

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Life Along the Hudson
$45.00
Wood engravings of Hudson River subjects from Harper's Weekly, 1859-1903. Learn More

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Lewis Rubenstein
$29.95
The Hudson Valley painter's monograph. Learn More

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Leonardo and the Mona Lisa Story
$37.50
We ve all seen that famous smile a thousand times. It graces the face of La Gioconda, or the Mona Lisa, created by Leonardo da Vinci around 1505. Five centuries later, her mysterious smile has reached celebrity status. Da Vinci himself is in the public eye like no other artist before him. Yet few of us know the compelling story of this priceless world treasure how she was created; her impact on other artists; the story of her theft; and how, through a mix of luck, history and her own innate beauty, she came to be regarded as the world s greatest painting. Learn More

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Klee
$75.00
A highly illustrated look at the artist's life and work. Learn More

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Kate Malone: A Book of Pots
$50.00
An extravagantly illustrated full-color volume showcasing for the first time the work of one of contemporary ceramics' most dynamic artists. Learn More

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Israeli Painting:
$75.00
A stunning survey of Israeli art in the 20th century. Learn More

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Islamic Art and Culture
$65.00
Now more than ever, Islam and Islamic culture is a topic that is as misunderstood as it is fascinating. In this exquisite oversized volume spanning 1200 years of history, celebrated scholar Professor Nasser D. Khalili presents a benchmark visual history of the peoples, the cultures, and the artworks that have defined the Islamic world. Learn More

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In the Footsteps of Abraham
$65.00
The peoples, landscapes and architecture of the Holy Land in spectacular hand-painted images Learn More

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In Search of the Miraculous
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A thought-provoking design work that
shows the connectedness of ideas Learn More

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Images from the Bible
$40.00
Biblical tales in paintings and writings. Learn More

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Icons of the 20th Century
$75.00
A stunning tribute in photos and text to the century's most famous people. Learn More

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Hope:
$29.95
The story of sculptor Gustav Kraitz's stunning U.N. monument. Learn More

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Hollywood on Main Street
$65.00
The photorealist movie-house paintings of Davis Cone. Learn More

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Holland Mania:
$37.95
A fascinating and idiosyncratic work of art history. Learn More

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Havana: La Vida
$60.00
Exquisite collection of photos documenting life in Cuba's capital. Learn More

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Gustav Klimt and Emilie Floge:
$60.00
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A dual biography of the painter and his muse. Learn More

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The Grimani Breviary
$175.00
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The Overlook Press is making the legendary Grimani Breviary available to all. Learn More

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Green
$29.95
The brilliant pairing of text and image continues in this sequel to Blue. Learn More

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The Genius of Design
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In The Genius of Design, the author and design historian, Penny Sparke, offers us far more than a history of design icons. Learn More

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Fin de Siecle
$35.00
Art and society in an age of uncertainty. Learn More

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Film Noir
$35.00
Illustrated encyclopedia to 300 films. Learn More

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The Exploration of Africa
$60.00
A beautifully designed, lavishly illustrated, large format book that documents the daring and merciless history of exploration on the continent of Africa. Learn More

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Eva Zeisel on Design
$45.00
The twentieth century s leading designer of pottery and ceramics reveals stunning insights on creativity and artistic passion. Learn More

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Eva Zeisel on Design
$27.50
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Finally in paperback, the leading designer of ceramics reveals stunning insights on creativity and artistic passion Learn More

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Eric Gill
$85.00
First complete survey of the eccentric genius of figural sculpture. Learn More

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The Era of German Expressionism (Paperback)
$16.95
Documentation of the art movement after the First World War. Learn More

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Encountering Art:
$35.00
Personal accounts of encounters with great works of art. Learn More

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Drawing Is Thinking
$45.00
By the master designer, an extraordinary glimpse behind the creative veil Learn More

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Dora Holzhandler
$40.00
Monograph of the respected Jewish artist. Learn More

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Domenico Gnoli
$85.00
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A look at one of modern art's most unusual painters. Learn More

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A Curator's Quest
$100.00
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The visual biography of a brilliant curator, critic, collector, and teacher. Learn More

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Chinese Art and Design
$40.00
A stunning and complete visual survey. Learn More

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Chanel
$35.00
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The elegantly illustrated classic work on Coco Chanel, now in its sixth printing Learn More

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Caro at the Trajan Markets, Rome
$60.00
The modern sculptor's defining exhibit. Learn More

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British Folk Art
$37.95
Illustrated book on the folk art of Britain. Learn More

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Blue (Paperback)
$29.95
A stunningly original first novel inspired by the Talmud, full-color illustrations throughout Learn More

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Blue
$40.00
A stunningly original first novel inspired by the Talmud, full-color illustrations throughout Learn More

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Beastly Feasts!
$19.95
An outlandish menagerie of madcap rhymes and extraordinary animals, from the inimitable mind of Robert Forbes Learn More

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The Bauhaus:
$85.00
An important new book on the most influential design school of the 20th century. Learn More

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The Arts of Islam
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The Arts of Islam documents the Islamic art collection of Nasser D. Khalili in over five hundred stunning color photographs Learn More

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The Artist's Mother
$25.00
Perfect for Mother s Day, a unique tribute to their mothers by the world s most famous artists Learn More

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The
The Art of Noir (Paperback)
$35.00
As tantalizingly dark, dangerous, and utterly stylish as film noir itself a lavish, oversized volume of the most stunning posters and graphics of the classic noir era. Learn More

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The Art of Noir
$65.00
As tantalizingly dark, dangerous, and utterly stylish as film noir itself a lavish, oversized volume of the most stunning posters and graphics of the classic noir era. Learn More

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Art Is Work (Paperback)
$50.00
Back in stock--the lavishly illustrated, beautifully designed oversized book featuring the work of the world's preeminent graphic designer. Learn More

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The
The Art Forger's Handbook (Paperback)
$21.95
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The uniquely fascinating and compelling how-to book by the world's most notorious forger of art. Learn More

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The
The Art and Architecture of Freemasonry (Paperback)
$45.00
Study of the secret society's artistic influence. Learn More

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Anglo-Saxon Art
$85.00
The definitive illustrated work by a great scholar. Learn More

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Andree Putman (Paperback)
$29.95
The work of one of the world's most innovative and influential interior designers. Learn More

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