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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780988615519Author Barbara BeitoFormat PaperbackImprint BeitohausPublisher BeitohausWeight(grams) 68g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692977439Author M Patrick DugganFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Squid Black EntertainmentPublisher Squid Black EntertainmentWeight(grams)...

Artist Raphael Soyer (1899-1987), whose Russian Jewish family settled in Manhattan in 1912, was devoted to painting people in their everyday urban lives. He came to be known especially for his representations of city workers and the down-and-out, and for...

Thousands of women pursued artistic careers in the United States during the late 19th century. According to census figures, the number of women among the ranks of professional artists rose from 10 per cent to nearly 50 per cent between 1870 and 1890...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780974589985Author Dianne L DuranteFormat PaperbackPage Count 82Imprint Dianne L. DurantePublisher Dianne L. DuranteWeight(grams) 159g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780972621052Author Beth Anna OtellartFormat PaperbackPage Count 90Imprint Blue Vortex PublishersPublisher Blue Vortex PublishersWeight(grams) 132g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780393004045Author Jan Karel KouwenhovenFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint WW Norton & CoPublisher WW Norton & CoWeight(grams) 317g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780974589916Author Dianne L DuranteFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint Forgotten DelightsPublisher Forgotten DelightsWeight(grams) 236g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780912887951Author Everett AisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 202Imprint Pleasure Boat StudioPublisher Pleasure Boat StudioWeight(grams) 140g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780997439311Author Dave CampbellFormat PaperbackPage Count 52Imprint Dave CampbellPublisher Dave CampbellWeight(grams) 145g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780941062275Author Jane Dupree RichardsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 70Imprint Gray Oak PressPublisher Gray Oak PressWeight(grams) 191gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

A compelling blend of art history, social analysis, and personal testimony, this book presents a new paradigm for understanding Chicana/o studies. By following the artistic and ideological journeys of two groups of northern California Chicana artists,...

Land art encompasses the full spectrum of human responses to a specific landscape over time. From the perspective of architect Chris Taylor and artist Bill Gilbert, land art ranges from the inscription of pictographs and petrogylphs to the construction...

This lavishly illustrated study tells the remarkable story of the work of one of Canada's great artists. David B. Milne (1882-1953) left rural Ontario for New York City in 1903. After training at the Art Students' League, he emerged as an exceptional...

Looking behind the scenes at the personalities and policies of such venerable institutions as the Federal Arts Project and the Museum of Modern Art, A. Joan Saab discerns a broad-based democratic modernism inspired by and engaged with the social life of...

Modernism, referring to the period dating roughly from the late 19th century to 1970, is regarded as a crucial moment in the history of American art. Although Modernist artists adopted a wide range of styles, they were linked by a desire to interpret a...

In his debut poetry collection, The Nature of Things Fragile, Peter Vertacnik depicts a world fraught with vulnerability and loss. Utilizing a wide range of both received and nonce poetic forms, including sonnets, villanelles, triolets, a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780972435307Author Robert HunterFormat PaperbackPage Count 308Imprint University Press of New EnglandPublisher University Press of New England

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692291382Author Stephanie Mayer HeydtFormat PaperbackPage Count 68Imprint Marquand Books IncPublisher Marquand Books IncWeight(grams) 181g

What did it mean for painter Lee Krasner to be an artist and a woman if, in the culture of 1950s New York, to be an artist was to be Jackson Pollock and to be a woman was to be Marilyn Monroe? With this question, Griselda Pollock begins a...

Mark Tobey and Teng Baiye: Seattle / Shanghai is the first book to explore artistic and intellectual exchanges between Chinese artist Teng Baiye (1900-1980) and his American contemporary Mark Tobey (1890-1976). Essays by Jo-Anne Birnie Danzker and David...

Charles Reiffel (1862-1942) is widely regarded today as one of the foremost figures of the California plein air school of landscape painting. This book, accompanying an exhibition of the same name at The San Diego Museum of Art and San Diego History...

Few regions of the country produced such a distinctive group of artists with such a particular view on the modern world as did the Pacific Northwest in the 1930s and 1940s. Capitalizing on their particular geographical position at what was a modern art...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780890134979Author Joseph TraugottFormat HardbackPage Count 276Imprint Museum of New Mexico PressPublisher Museum of New Mexico PressWeight(grams) 1930g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780873516358Author Robert L. CrumpFormat HardbackPage Count 194Imprint Minnesota Historical Society Press,U.S.Publisher Minnesota Historical Society Press,U...

In 1939, Vogue magazine invited commercial designer Raymond Loewy and eight of his contemporaries-including Walter Dorwin Teague, Egmont Arens, and Henry Dreyfuss-to design a dress for the "Woman of the Future" as part of its special issue promoting the...

Focusing on the rich heritage of art-making in the eighteenth century, this lushly illustrated book positions both well-known painters and unknown artisans within the framework of their economic lives, their families, and the geographies through which...

This book features 45 Cape Cod artists working in abstraction, displaying more than 400 images of their work. Based on her interviews with the artists, the author writes about their aspirations and approaches. The art, which include paintings,...

This book features 45 Cape Cod artists working in abstraction, displaying more than 400 images of their work. Based on her interviews with the artists, the author writes about their aspirations and approaches. The art, which include paintings,...

This book features 45 Cape Cod artists working in abstraction, displaying more than 400 images of their work. Based on her interviews with the artists, the author writes about their aspirations and approaches. The art, which include paintings,...

Artists Joey Kirkpatrick and Flora C. Mace began collaborating at Pilchuck Glass School in 1979 and went on to become pioneers of style and technique in the art glass world. The innovation, scale, and complexity of their work firmly established their...

In the Vanguard: Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, 1950-1969 traces this unique school's impact on American art during the mid-twentieth century. Accompanying a landmark exhibition, this catalogue documents Haystack's innovative pedagogy and its role...

The End of Landscape in Nineteenth-Century America examines the dissolution of landscape painting in the late nineteenth-century United States. Maggie M. Cao explores the pictorial practices that challenged, mourned, or revised the conventions of...

Beginning with responses to fascism in the 1930s and ending with protests against the Iraq wars, David McCarthy shows how American artists - including Philip Evergood, David Smith, H. C. Westermann, Ed Kienholz, Nancy Spero, Leon Golub, Chris Burden,...

Using landscape photography to reflect on broader notions of culture, the passage of time, and the construction of perception, photographers Mark Klett and Byron Wolfe spent five years exploring the Grand Canyon for their most recent project,...

"State of Mind", the lavishly illustrated companion book to the exhibition of the same name, investigates California's vital contributions to Conceptual art - in particular, work that emerged in the late 1960s among scattered groups of young artists. The...

The Europeans who first settled North America were endlessly intrigued by the indigenous people they found there; even before the colonials began to record the landscape, they drew and painted Indians. This study offers a new visual perspective on...

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...

A stunning book that features highlights from Mystic Seaport, one of the finest maritime museums in the world The history of America is largely a history of the sea. This marvelous book features a selection of more than two hundred of the finest objects...

Many of today's emerging artists are using portraiture or self-portraiture to explore complex issues of identity. At the same time, these artists are also testing the boundaries of the genre of figurative art. Others are finding success through a renewed...