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Public Art: Thinking Museums Differently
 By considering the museum itself as art, rather than as a receptacle, Hein's Public Art: Thinking Museums Differently argues for an improved understanding of the role museums play in shaping public discourse. |

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Forgotten Warriors: Combat Art from Vietnam
 This book combines 152 works of art with oral histories and quotations from some of the better novels on the Vietnam War in order to give the general reader a better understanding of what the combat soldier endured. Perhaps this art gives the truest picture of the war in human terms. Dennis Noble |

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Ancient Art From Cyprus: The Cesnola Collection
 This work brings together some 500 objects from the Cesnola Collection of Cypriot art at Metropolitan Museum of Art. The works include glass, stone sculpture, figurines, terracotta and jewellery from the prehistoric, Archaic, Classical/Hellenistic and Roman periods. |

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Careers in Art (Careers in Series)
 Find an exciting, fulfilling career that turns your life into a masterpiece! . . The worlds of art and business are fast becoming one. Any enterprise that has to get a message across will have a need for those rare individuals who possess a talent for color, shape, and composition. Whether you |

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Museum of Islamic Art: Doha, Qatar
 With architecture designed by I. M. Pei, an interior by J.-M.
Wilmotte, and one of the world s finest collections, the
Museum of Islamic Art in Doha, Qatar, showcases the artistic
achievements of the Muslim world in a dazzling way. Interviews
with I.M. Pei and Jean-Michel Wilmotte reveal how the |

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Maria Sibylla Merian and Daughters: Women of Art and Science
 This gorgeously illustrated book presents the life and work of Maria Sibylla Merian, who defied the conventions of her time to pursue her passion for documenting the natural world in all its glorious, and sometimes ferocious, detail.
After more than fifteen years of marriage to a fellow artist |

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Introduction to Rock Art Research
 Once a stepchild of archaeology, rock art research has become increasingly important tool in recent archaeological work for understanding the symbolic and ideological systems of ancient peoples. Yet, methods of working with pictographs, petroglyphs and geoglyphs are rarely taught in a systematic |

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Moma Highlights
 In this updated, expanded, and superbly produced handbook, The Museum of Modern Art presents its own selection of the most significant artworks in its collection. Few institutions approach the richness of The Museum of Modern Art's holdings in painting, sculpture, drawing, prints, illustrated books, |

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