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This groundbreaking account of postwar American art traces the profound influence of Antonin Artaud Proposing an original reassessment of art from the 1950s to the 1970s, No More Masterpieces reveals how artistic practice in postwar America was...

The first in-depth exploration of the rise and evolution of abstract, symbolic, and conceptual portraiture in American art This groundbreaking book traces the history of portraiture as a site of radical artistic experimentation, as it shifted from a...

This book focuses on the performance art of Marilyn Arsem, an internationally acclaimed performance artist known for her innovative and experimental work. Arsem's work addresses women's history and myth-making capacities, the potency of site and...

Explorations of contemporary art have focused on issues of identity and race for some time. Few, however, have sought to investigate these themes by juxtaposing historical and contemporary frameworks. Black Womanhood examines an especially charged...

The first major publication in more than thirty years on contemporary artist Chryssa, an innovator of light art Chryssa & New York offers a timely reassessment of Greek-born artist Chryssa (Chryssa Vardea-Mavromichali, 1933-2013). Chryssa was a leading...

Nowhere is the complex and destructive painter Jackson Pollock (1912-1956) revealed with more compassion and insight than in this exemplary biography. Friedman, a friend of Pollock's and active in the art world, shows him to be a brilliant man tormented...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788489771604Author Nancy SperoFormat PaperbackPage Count 191Imprint Museu D'Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA)Publisher Museu D'Art Contemporani de...

Prints of a New Kind details the political strategies and scandals that inspired the first generation of American caricaturists to share news and opinions with their audiences in shockingly radical ways. Complementing studies on British and European...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780957664920Author Ron EnglishFormat HardbackPage Count 178Imprint Korero PressPublisher Korero PressWeight(grams) 1172g

Roy De Forest's brightly hued, crazy-quilted paintings and sculptures are dotted with nipples of color and inhabited by a cast of characters uniquely his own, a perennial favorite being his instantly recognizable, wild-eyed and pointy-eared dogs...

The art of William Ingham demonstrates how the modernist tradition, specifically Abstract Expressionism, has flourished in the Pacific Northwest. This lavishly illustrated volume brings to a wider audience the Seattle-born artist's highly gestural and...

Taking citizenship as a political position, cultural process, and intertwining of both, this edited volume examines the role of visual art and visual culture as sites for the construction and contestation of both state-sanctioned and cultural...

A visual treasury of the iconic Street & Smith pulp novel covers of the 1930s and 1940sPulp Power: The Shadow, Doc Savage, and the Street & Smith Universe gives fans a rare glimpse into the pre-war pulp novel decade of the 1930s, a period of bold action...

Art AIDS America is the first comprehensive overview and reconsideration of 30 years of art made in response to the AIDS epidemic in the United States. This book foregrounds the role of HIV/AIDS in shifting the development of American art away from the...

In collaboration with Miami's Vizcaya Museum and Gardens, a rediscovery of a lost figure of American modernism - the early-twentieth-century American painter born into the Astor family, whose imagination and patrician clientele provide a fascinating...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780867197648Author Billy ShireFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Last Gasp,U.S.Publisher Last Gasp,U.S.Weight(grams) 1673g

The Evolution of Taste in American Collecting is a new critical translation of Rene Brimo's classic study of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century patronage and art collecting in the United States. Originally published in French in 1938, Brimo's...

It is often assumed that surrealism did not survive beyond the Second World War and that it struggled to take root in America. This book challenges both assumptions, arguing that some of the most innovative responses to surrealism in the postwar years...

All Aboard is a ground-breaking book. Presented thematically the authors cover the environmental impact of the railroad both on the flora and fauna, and on the social landscape; the role of the railroad on the western expansion of the USA, and the...

We the people-these words embody the ethos of what it means to be an American citizen. As individuals we are a tapestry of colors and creeds; united we are a nation committed to preserving our hard-earned freedom. In this heart-stirring collection of...

The tension between social reform photography and photojournalism is examined through this study of the life and work of German emigre Hansel Mieth (1909-1998), who made an unlikely journey from migrant farm worker to Life photographer. She was the...

In the Soviet Union of the 1920s, the most prominent avant-garde artists were eager children's book illustrators. Reaching a mass audience of unformed, malleable young people appealed to their commitment to an art manifesto based on the creation of a new...

An indispensable introduction to one of the most influential artists of the twentieth century. Part of the pioneering Tate Introductions series. Andy Warhol's work reflected and commented on contemporary themes in American society:...

A new look at French Orientalism's influence on the art of the American West, showing how aesthetics and ideology jointly informed approaches to colonialism and expansion during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in both France and the United...

Republics and empires provides transnational perspectives on the significance of Italy to American art and visual culture and the impact of the United States on Italian art and popular culture. Covering the period from the Risorgimento to the Cold War,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781599541570Author Maria Teresa ComettoFormat PaperbackPage Count 238Imprint Bordighera PressPublisher Bordighera PressWeight(grams) 354gDimensions(mm)...

In the early 1990s, a major exhibition Chicano Art: Resistance and Affirmation, 1965-1985 toured major museums around the United States. As a first attempt to define and represent Chicano/a art for a national audience, the exhibit attracted both praise...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781952143502Author Carl LittleFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Islandport PressPublisher Islandport PressWeight(grams) 567gDimensions(mm) 246mm * 218mm...

When every land seems already explored, and space travel has declined in scope and prestige, the northern exploits of our Victorian forebears offers a pleasantly distant mirror from which to regard our own time. The Arctic regions have been the subject...

This innovative study of two of the most important artists of the twentieth century links the art practices of Allan Kaprow and Robert Smithson in their attempts to test the limits of art - both what it is and where it is. Ursprung provides a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780810963757Author Robert KnottFormat HardbackPage Count 210Imprint Harry N. Abrams, Inc.Publisher AbramsWeight(grams) 1565g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781735441054Author Laurence CarrFormat PaperbackPage Count 138Imprint LightwoodpressPublisher LightwoodpressWeight(grams) 313g

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Three essays explore three great masterworks of European art that visualize the relationship between spiritual and physical love expressed passionately and graphically in the biblical Song of Songs. Marilyn Aronberg Lavin writes on Cimabue's vast fresco...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781936449149Author Marion WrightFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint Banyan Tree PressPublisher Banyan Tree PressWeight(grams) 154gDimensions(mm) 279mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780810967069Author Alison De Lim GreeneFormat HardbackPage Count 278Imprint Harry N. Abrams, Inc.Publisher AbramsWeight(grams) 300g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781733071949Author Sandy BleiferFormat PaperbackPage Count 34Imprint Sandra BleiferPublisher Sandra BleiferWeight(grams) 91g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798348143152Author Elena StepkinaFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Be Art CaliforniaPublisher Be Art CaliforniaWeight(grams) 703g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781940025551Author Cindy OwingsFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint Bitterroot Mountain Publishing LLCPublisher Bitterroot Mountain Publishing...

This publication showcases the riches of South Carolina silver. Based on a 2002 exhibition by the same name at the University of South Carolina's McKissick Museum, the book is the result of several years of research and draws heavily on items from...