Product DescriptionThe first time she made a pizza from scratch, art historian Nancy Heller made the observation that led her to write this entertaining guide to contemporary art. Comparing modern art not only to pizzas but also to traditional and children’s art, Heller shows us how we can refine analytical tools we already possess to understand and enjoy even the most unfamiliar paintings and sculptures. How is a painting like a pizza? Both depend on visual balance for much of their. . . More >>

Why a Painting Is Like a Pizza: A Guide to Understanding and Enjoying Modern Art

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Product DescriptionIt’s not just a photograph, it’s a work of Pop Art! The Pop Cam produces photos that mimic the image repetition and saturated color palettes of famous pop artists like Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein. One snap of the Pop Cam takes four pictures in the span of one second and preserves them in four different hues on one single print. Each 4″ x 2-1/2″ x 1-1/2″ (10. 2 cm x 6. 4 cm x 3. 8 cm) plastic camera uses any standard 35mm film and has no flash. With some imaginatio. . . More >>

Accoutrements Pop Cam – Point & Shoot camera – 35mm

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Product DescriptionIn Modern Art, players compete to gain the most money by buying and selling paintings at auctions and reselling them for profit. The game consists of four rounds–in each, works by up to five artists will be offered for sale and auctioned off in various ways. Players take on the roles of art dealers/collectors. It is their decision which artwork to sell, and how to sell them. Successful players must balance two aims. First, they’ll have to collect the best artwork f. . . More >>

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Product DescriptionHistory of Modern Art has long been recognized as the authoritative, encyclopedic history of painting, photography, sculpture, and architecture from the mid-19th century, when modern art emerged, to the present day. Revising author Marla F. Prather’s contributions to the new Fourth Edition include: More biographical information about each artist. An entirely new chapter on Cubism. A lively sense of social and historical context. Coverage of work in . . . More >>

History of Modern Art

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Product DescriptionA complete study of painting and sculpture of the 19th century, covering its major movements and incorporating its 18th centiry precedents and early 20th century developments. . . . More >>

Mainstreams of Modern Art

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Product DescriptionFrom cave paintings to the Renaissance, Impressionism to Pop Art, The Collins Big Book of Art takes you on a journey through the history of art in a delightful and informative way. With more than 1,200 works of art represented, this is both a coffee table book and an educational experience; cross-referenced throughout, and including the following sections and features: A Chronology spans the history of art, step by step. from 38,000 B. C. to the present. Pieces f. . . More >>

The Collins Big Book of Art: From Cave Art to Pop Art

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Product DescriptionAndy Warhol has been called the pope of twentieth-century pop culture-a one-man show who dazzled with his innovative influence not only on modern art, but also on film, music, fashion, and even the idea of celebrity. This box offers a unique peek at this modern legend’s vibrant, chaotic life, with exact reproductions of fascinating ephemera from the Factory years and beyond. Includes *Full-color booklet *Self-inking Factory ring stamp *Film wheelie . . . More >>

Andy Warhol Pop Box: Fame, the Factory, and the Father of American Pop Art

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Product DescriptionAsked why he painted pictures of pictures, Roy Lichtenstein replied that artists had, in a sense, always done so. The historical and actual power of the image is clear here, just as it is clear in Lichtenstein’s iconic paintings, wherein he captured familiar objects with an exceptional graphic precision by way of the comic book. Whether he was representing a couch, a turkey, an artist’s studio, or an emotional woman (“I don’t care! I’d rather sink–than call Brad fo. . . More >>

Roy Lichtenstein: All About Art

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Product Description Mass culture, popular taste, and kitsch-previously considered outside the limits of fine art-were the inspiration for and provocative themes of Pop Art, a movement that enjoyed great prominence in the late 1950s and 1960s. Rejecting the idea that art and life should be separated, artists in both the United States and Britain-among them Roy Lichtenstein, James Rosenquist, Andy Warhol, Peter Blake, and Richard Hamilton-used mass-produced objects and photographic ima. . . More >>

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Product DescriptionThis important and welcome volume is the first English-language anthology of writings on Latin American modern art of the twentieth century. The book includes some fifty seminal essays and documents-including statements, interviews, and manifestoes by artists-that encompass the broad diversity of this emerging field. Many of these materials are difficult to access and some are translated here for the first time. Together the selections explore the breadth and depth . . . More >>

Readings in Latin American Modern Art

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