Contemporary Art Books | Schiffer Publishing

A retrospective of works and brief introductions to 19 Chinese artists working in performance and conceptual art, film and video, installation, sound art, and digital art. The 2008 global financial crisis caused a precipitous drop...

The Brandywine River Valley, located in southeastern Pennsylvania, is home to the late Andrew Wyeth and birthplace of an important art movement known as the Brandywine Tradition. As this comprehensive guide unfolds, you see that...

Here is a rare opportunity to appreciate the incomparable beauty of Brazil’s women in the equally striking environs of this tropical paradise. Photographer Joaquim Nabuco’s collection of nude art photos creates a lush, whimsical, and...

Henry Harvey's delightful and scintillating writing style presents his universe of sculpting and divulges secrets and tips on everything from metalworking tools, the creative process, and life as an artists. Join Harvey as he deconstructs...

This lavish, hand-painted artist volume comes to light for the first time since it was created by Deborah Passmore Gillingham (b. ? - 1877) in the mid 1870s. A celebration of the lilies and magnolias...

Explore the creative minds of artists up and down the American West Coast, enjoying paintings and mixed-media art that runs the stylistic gamut from abstract to landscape. A mix of emerging, mid-career, and established artists...

Biographies and over 440 fine art photographs of 100 brilliant 20th century New York photographers. An extensive review of the great range of contemporary New York photographers and their widely diverse, surprisingly divergent, images, this...

Ornament, as practiced by architects, artists, and designers for a hundred years, presents itself as a system of order and grid, and not merely as adornment. Long before the recently occurring renaissance of the ornament,...

Over 280 of Aubrey Bodine’s photographs chronicle nearly every aspect of Maryland life from 1924 to 1970.  “Photography in the United States was a big thrill, but I always get a bigger thrill when I...

From once-cast-aside items, these artists have carefully crafted fine jewelry to experiential gallery installations. This book takes you on an exciting tour through their imaginations. Experience the found object art movement touted by artists and...

Marjorie Reed was a prominent 20th century Western artist best known for her paintings of the Butterfield-Overland Stage Trail. Reed made her living solely as a freelance artist for over 65 years and left behind...

Jim Cromartie first came to Nantucket as a college student, but for the past 35 years he has called the island home. As a young artist, his major patron was the late Nelson Rockefeller, who...