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ERIC Archive 4,390
art 1,512
bub_upload 1,207
Artists 834
Painting 587
Music 417
Fine Arts 378
Sculpture 262
genealogy 238
artists 208
“RDD” 205
Karl Marx 194
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French 4,063
German 3,658
Italian 1,400
Russian 230
Spanish 230
Dutch 166
Latin 141
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“In more than five years of activity, the Free Art and Technology Lab (F.A.T. Lab) produced an impressive series of projects, all developed with open source software, shared online and documented in a way that allows everybody to copy, improve, abuse or simply use them. This approach situates F.A.T. Lab in a long tradition of DIY, processual, sharable artistic practices based on instructionals, and reveals a democratic idea of art where Fluxus scores meet hacker culture (and rap music)....
Topics: manual, internet, art, lab, online, step, evan, web, graffiti, universal construction, free...
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by Nicolas Maigret and Maria Roszkowska
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This book is available for purchase at http://thepiratebook.net/. The Pirate Book by Nicolas Maigret and Maria Roszkowska is both a visual essay and anthology, written in the wake of the Jolly Roger’s infamous skull and crossbones and compiled during its journey across the four corners of the world. In this book, the authors invite us to shift our perspective on piracy itself. This polyphonic work constitutes an attempt at probing the ambiguity inherent to piracy and at re-evaluating the...
Topics: Piracy, Warez, BBS, Cracking, Intellectual Property, Pirates, Software, Art, Underground
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Piracy! (EC Comics) (1954-1955) (Part 7 of 7)
Topics: coupon, mimosa, piracy, pirate, kemp, earned, ships, crockett, admiral, roberts, spare time, davy...
The Frick Art Reference Library
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The Frick Art Reference Library's book and photograph collections relate mainly to paintings, drawings, sculpture, and prints from the fourth to the mid-twentieth centuries by European and American artists. Known internationally for its rich holdings of auction and exhibition catalogs, the Library is a leading site for collecting and provenance research. Archival materials and special collections augment the research collections with documents pertaining to the history of collecting art and of...
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NYARC - New York Art Resources Consortium
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The New York Art Resources Consortium (NYARC) consists of the research libraries of three leading art museums in New York City: The Brooklyn Museum, The Frick Collection, and The Museum of Modern Art. With funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, NYARC was formed in 2006 to facilitate collaboration that results in enhanced resources to research communities.NYARC provides a framework to advance a series of programmatic services, with a potential for transforming the environments in which...
Topic: art
Toledo Museum of Art
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Since our founding in 1901, the Toledo Museum of Art has earned a global reputation for the quality of our collection. More than 30,000 works of art represent American and European painting, the history of art in glass, ancient Greek, Roman, and Egyptian works, Asian and African art, medieval art, sculpture, decorative arts, graphic arts, and modern and contemporary art. The Museum has been publishing books and catalogues exploring our splendid collection and exhibitions since 1912, as part of...
Topic: art
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Topics: color, light, colors, illustration, tonal, shadow, artist, art, eye level, tone, form principle,...
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Topics: color, painting, light, colors, paint, art, values, artist, arc, beauty, flat plane, broken color,...
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Topics: drawing, figure, arc, light, art, draw, artist, mannikin, color, die, successful artist, standing...
Signatures: *⁶ A-C¹² D⁶
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American Libraries
by Coomaraswamy, Ananda Kentish, 1877-1947
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Book digitized by Google from the library of the University of California and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb.
Topic: Art
Source: http://books.google.com/books?id=5ogcAAAAIAAJ&oe=UTF-8
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European Libraries
by Gautier, Théophile, 1811-1872
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Book digitized by Google from the library of Oxford University and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb.
Topic: Art
Source: http://books.google.com/books?id=BHAGAAAAQAAJ&oe=UTF-8
Getty Research Institute
by Staël, Madame de (Anne-Louise-Germaine), 1766-1817
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Getty Research Institute
by Staël, Madame de (Anne-Louise-Germaine), 1766-1817
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Smithsonian Libraries
by Capart, Jean, 1877-1947; Johns, Agnes Sophia (Griffith), Mrs., 1850-; Freer, Charles Lang, 1854-1919, former owner. DSI-F
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"This book made its first appearance in the form of a series of articles in the Annales de la Société d'archéologie de Bruxelles, vols. xvii-xviii, 1903-4. In March 1904 it was published as a separate volume, without any modification of the text"--Pref
Topic: Art
Getty Research Institute
by Speth, Balthasar, 1774-1846
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Vol. 2 published 1821. Vol. 3 published 1823, by J.A. Finsterlin
Topic: Art
Brigham Young University
by Detroit Museum of Art
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Description based on: no. 3 (July 1904); title from caption
Topic: Art
American Libraries
by Belgium. Commission royale des monuments et des sites. [from old catalog]
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Book digitized by Google from the library of the New York Public Library and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb.
Topic: Art
Source: http://books.google.com/books?id=wp0BAAAAYAAJ&oe=UTF-8
Getty Research Institute
by Beltramelli, Antonio, 1874-1930
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"First printed 1890."
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by Dupaty, Charles-Marguerite-Jean-Baptiste Mercier, 1746-1788
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Vol. 1 devoted principally to Genoa and Florence, v. 2. Rome, v. 3 Rome (cont.) and Naples and environs
Topic: Art
American Libraries
by Migeon, Gaston, 1861- [from old catalog]
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Book digitized by Google from the library of Harvard University and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb.
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Title vignettes
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Getty Research Institute
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Getty Research Institute
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American Libraries
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Book digitized by Google and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb.
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Source: http://books.google.com/books?id=95MNAAAAIAAJ&oe=UTF-8
Getty Research Institute
by Waetzoldt, Wilhelm, 1880-1945
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Topic: Art
University of Ottawa
by Ratouis de Limay, Paul, 1881-
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Topic: Art
Comic
Topic: Art
Really cool drawings
Topic: Art
Placebo Weekly. Comic
Topic: art
Community Media
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aset
Topic: art
Getty Research Institute
by Cochin, Charles Nicolas, 1715-1790; Cellot, Louis, 1731-1815; Jombert, Charles-Antoine, 1712-1784
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Cochin's Recueil de quelques pièces concernant les arts, extraites de plusieurs "Mercures de France" published by Jombert in 2 v., 1757-71
Topic: Art
Supplement to author's Principles and methods in vital-art education
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Getty Research Institute
by Gori, Antonio Francesco, 1691-1757; Passeri, Giovanni Battista, 1694-1780
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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American Libraries
by Jameson, Mrs. (Anna), 1794-1860
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Book digitized by Google from the library of Harvard University and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb.
Topic: Art
Source: http://books.google.com/books?id=FhoCAAAAYAAJ&oe=UTF-8
Getty Research Institute
by Ojetti, Ugo, 1871-1946; Esposizione internazionale del Sempione, (1906 : Milan, Italy)
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Library's copies 2 and 3 are part of the Leonardo Borgese Collection
Topic: Art
American Libraries
by Diehl, Charles, 1859-1944
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Book digitized by Google from the library of the University of Michigan and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb.
Topic: Art
Source: http://books.google.com/books?id=czojWFZ9fzYC&oe=UTF-8
Getty Research Institute
by Dupaty, Charles-Marguerite-Jean-Baptiste Mercier, 1746-1788
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Vol. 1 devoted principally to Genoa and Florence, v. 2. Rome, v. 3 Rome (cont.) and Naples and environs
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by Watelet, Claude-Henri, 1718-1786; Levesque, P. Ch
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First published as a part of the Encyclpoédie méthodique, with title: Dictionnaire des beaux-art ... 1788-91
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by Brée, J. van, author; Königliche Akademie der Künste (Berlin, Germany), organizer
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Exhibition held May 23-October 31, 1886, organized by the Royal Academy of Art
Topic: Art
Internet Archive Lending Library
by Pierce, James Smith
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Includes index
Topic: Art
American Libraries
by Pauli, Gustav, 1866-1938; Konody, Paul G. (Paul George), 1872-1933, tr
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Book digitized by Google from the library of the New York Public Library and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb.
Topic: Art
Source: http://books.google.com/books?id=-CMNAAAAYAAJ&oe=UTF-8
American Libraries
by Henley, William Ernest, 1849-1903
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Book digitized by Google from the library of the University of Michigan and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb.
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Source: http://books.google.com/books?id=YC-SZwwNe4IC&oe=UTF-8
University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries
by National Endowment for the Arts
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1978 inscribed on cover: "Faubion."
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Brigham Young University
by Adeline, Jules, 1845-1909; Fairholt, F. W. (Frederick William), 1814-1866
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"While nothing that has made M. Jules Adeline's 'Lexique des termes d'art' so excellent an authority has been omitted, a large amount of information has been incorporated from Mr. F. W. Fairholt's 'Dictionary of terms in art'."--Introd
Topic: Art
Getty Research Institute
by Bing, Siegfried, 1838-1905
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Paged continuously
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Brigham Young University
by Michel, André, 1853-1925; Vitry, Paul, 1872-1941; Lefrançois-Pillion, Louise
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Vol. VIII edited by Paul Vitry
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University of Toronto - Robarts Library
by Cotterill, H. B. (Henry Bernard), b. 1846; Dick, Stewart, b. 1874
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The chapters on "England" (vol. II, p. 455-497) and "Supplementary chapters on the art of the Far East" (p. 499-537) are contributed by Stewart Dick
Topic: Art
Boston Public Library Interlibrary Loan
by Whitman, Sarah; Whitman, Sarah, designer
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Binding designed by Sarah Wyman Whitman
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American Libraries
by Ricci, Corrado, 1858-1934
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Book digitized by Google from the library of Harvard University and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb.
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Source: http://books.google.com/books?id=Cu0AAAAAYAAJ&oe=UTF-8
Getty Research Institute
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Brigham Young University
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T. 1-4., with t. 4
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California Digital Library
by Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723-1792; Fry, Roger Eliot, 1866-1934
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"First published in 1857, under the title: The political economy of art."--Introd
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Getty Research Institute
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Plates have tissue cover sheets
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Brigham Young University
by Autotype Company (London)
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Cover title: Reproductions of famous works of art by the autotype permanent process
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American Libraries
by Carr, J. Comyns (Joseph Comyns), 1849-1916
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Book digitized by Google from the library of University of California and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb.
Topic: Art
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Getty Research Institute
by Vitet, Louis, 1802-1873
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Includes bibliographical references
Topic: Art
University of Michigan Books
by Viollet-le-Duc, Eugène-Emmanuel, 1814-1879
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Added t.-p. in colors, within ornamental borders
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California Digital Library
by Hamerton, Philip Gilbert, 1834-1894
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That certain artists should write on art.--Painting from nature.--Painting from memoranda.--The place of landscape painting amongst the fine arts.--The relations between photography and painting.--Word painting and color painting.--Transcendentalism in painting.--The law of progress in art.--Analysis and synthesis in painting.--The reaction from pre-Raphaelitism.--The painter in his relation to society.--Picture buying.--The housing of national art treasures.--Fame.--Art criticism.--Proudhon as...
Topic: Art
Getty Research Institute
by Dallaway, James, 1763-1834; Cadell, T. (Thomas), 1742-1802; Davies, William, fl. 1793-1819; Bensley, Thomas, ca. 1760-1835
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Signatures: a b B-2L
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At head of title: Musée National du Louvre
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The Library of Congress
by Nashville. Tennessee centennial and international exposition, 1897. [from old catalog]
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Getty Research Institute
by Exposition universelle d'Amsterdam (1883). Section des beaux-arts; Dumas, F. G. (François Guillaume), b. 1847
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American Libraries
by Kahn, Otto Hermann, 1867-1934
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University of Toronto - Robarts Library
by Sturt, Henry, 1863-
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Solidarity! Revolutionary Center and Radical Library
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Comic
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Boston Public Library
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