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The Woodcut Artist's Handbook: Techniques And Tools for Relief Printmaking
George A. Walker; foreword by Barry Moser
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Past Reviews |
Anthony Blunt: His Lives | Miranda Carter | 
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Art: A Field Guide | Robert Cumming |
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Art Scene: Chicago 2000 | Ivy Sundell |
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Art's Prospect: The Challenge of Tradition in an Age of Celebrity | Roger Kimball |
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Blue Dog Man | George Rodrigue |
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Bright Earth: Art and the Invention of Color | Philip Ball |
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Chicago Art Scene, The | Ivy Sundell |
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Groovy Bob: The Life and Times of Robert Fraser | Harriet Vyner |
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Henry Darger: Art and Selected Writings | Michael Bonesteel |
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Hogarth: A Life and a World | Jenny Uglow |
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Hopper | Mark Strand |
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How to Survive and Prosper as an Artist | Carol Michels |
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John Piper in the 1930s: Abstraction on the Beach | David Fraser Jenkins and Frances Spalding |
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Madonna of the Future, The | Arthur C. Danto |
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Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling | Ross King |
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Missing Masterpieces | Gert-Rudolf Flick |
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Missing Masterpieces: Lost Works of Art 1450-1900 | Gert -Rudolph Flick |
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Reflections and Shadows | Saul Steinberg with Aldo Buzzi |
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Rembrandt's Eyes | Simon Schama |
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Romanticism and Its Discontents | Anita Brookner |
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Shakespeare in Art | Jane Martineau and Desmond Shawe-Taylor, Eds. |
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Surrealist Experiences | Penelope Rosemont, Rikki Ducornet |
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Tales from the Art Crypt | Richard Feigen |
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Turner's Britain | James Hamilton |
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Van Gogh and Gauguin | Druick and Zegers |
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Van Gogh and Gauguin: The Search for Sacred Art | Deborah Silverman |
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Vincent van Gogh: Portrait of an Artist | Jan Greenberg, Sandra Jordan |
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Viva Posada! A salute to the printmaker of the Mexican Revolution | Jose Guadalupe Posada, Carlos Cortez, Arsacio Vanegas Arroyo |
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Whistler and His Circle in Venice | Eric Denker |
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Women Who Ruled: Queens, Goddesses, Amazons in Renaissance and Baroque Art | Annette Dixon |
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Books Mentioned |
American Art Book, The | Phaidon Press | |
Anatomy of the Auschwitz Death Camp | Yisrael Gutman and Michael Berenbaum, editors |
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Art and Illusion | E. H. Gombrich |
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Art in Chicago: 1945-1995 | Lynne Warren (Editor), Jeff Abell, Dennis Adrian, Staci Boris (Editor) | |
Art Since Pop | John A. Walker | |
Artists On Art | edited by Robert Goldwater and Marco Treves | |
Auschwitz, 1270 to the present | Deb—rah Dwork & Robert Jan van Pelt |
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Chicago Art Review, The: An Illustrated | Various | |
Courage to Create, The | Rollo May |
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Crystal Gazing in the Amber Fluid and Other Wobbly Poems | Eugen Nelson | |
Forewords and Afterwords | W. H. Auden | |
Jose Gaudalupe Posada: Mexican Popular Prints | edited and designed by Julian Rothenstein | |
Lost Museum, The: Glimpses of Vanished Originals | Robert Adams |
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Love and Will | Rollo May |
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Man and His Symbols | Carl Gustav Jung |
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Maus: a survivor's tale | Art Spiegelman |
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Mexico: A History in Art | | |
National Audubon Society Field Guied to North American Weather | David M. Ludlum |
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Oxford History of Mexico, The | edited by Michael C. Meyer and William H. Beezley | |
Painted Word, The | Tom Wolfe | |
Polish Contemporary Graphic Art | Danuta Wraoblewska | |
Posada's Popular Mexican Prints by Robert Bedecio | Robert Bedecio, Jose Guadalupe Posada | |
Psychology in Progress | Richard C. Atkinson, ed. |
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Romantic Poetry and Prose | edited by Harold Bloom and Lionel Trilling | |
Story of Painting, The | Sister Wendy Beckett | |
The 20th Century Art Book | Phaidon Press | |
Weaveworld | Clive Barker |
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What Is Surrealism? Selected Writings of Andre Breton | Andre Breton, ed. Franklin Rosemont |
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Books Recommended |
A Bitter Truth: Avant-Garde Art and the Great War | Richard Cork | |
A Force of Nature: The Life and Work of Jens Jensen | Jane L. Johnston, ed. | |
A Short Guide to Writing About Art | Sylvan Barnet | |
American Visions: The Epic History of Art in America | Robert Hughes | |
Art in Theory, 1900-1990 | Edited by Charles Harrison and Paul Wood | |
Artist's Handbook of Materials and Techniques, The | Ralph Mayer | |
Baroque | John Rupert Martin | |
Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture | Ross King | |
Buddhist Art and Architecture | Robert E. Fisher | |
Caspar David Freidrich | Werner Hoffman | |
Collective Vision | Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art | |
Enduring Art of Japan, The | Langdon Warner | |
Japanese Art | Joan Stanley-Baker | |
Kandinsky: Complete Writings on Art | Edited by Kenneth C. Lindsay and Peter Vergo | |
Letters of Vincent Van Gogh, The | Selected and Edited by Ronald de Leeuw and Translated by Arnold Pomerans | |
Lost Chicago | David Garrard Lowe | |
Memoirs of Giorgio De Chirico, The | Giorgio De Chirico | |
Modernism | Edited by Vassiliki Kolocotroni, Jane Goldman and Olga Taxidou | |
Move Closer | John Armstrong | |
Neo-Classicism | Hugh Honour | |
Nothing If Not Critical | Robert Hughes | |
Painting American: The Rise of American Artists, Paris 1867 - New York 1948 | Annie Cohen-Solal | |
Picasso On Art: A Selection of Views | Ashton | |
Plain Pictures | Joni L. Kinsey | |
Readings in Art History | Harold Spencer, ed. | |
Romantic Art | William Vaughan | |
Surrealism | Patrick Waldberg | |
Surrealist Art | Sarane Alexandrian | |
Taken by Design: Photographs from the Institute of Design, 1937-1971 | Art Institute of Chicago | |
Theories and Documents of Contemporary Art | Edited by Kristine Stiles and Peter Selz | |
Uta Barth: Between Places | Sheryl Conkelton | |
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