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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780595747504Author Joseph E SsaliFormat HardbackPage Count 112Imprint iUniversePublisher iUniverseWeight(grams) 367g

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)...

This is a social history of American craft.""Choosing Craft"" explores the history and practice of American craft through the words of influential artists whose lives, work, and ideas have shaped the field. Editors Vicki Halper and...

Colorado Abstract examines the establishment of abstraction in the art of Colorado during the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.For this groundbreaking study, Michael Paglia and Mary Voelz Chandler begin with the first generation of artists...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780977991075Author Douglas Kent HallFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Albuquerque Museum of Art and HistoryPublisher Albuquerque Museum of Art and...

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

"We seek to inform as well as to celebrate. The best posters about American workers and the jobs at which they labor make up a visually fascinating body of work that rewards our attention. The posters were produced with a dual purpose: to entertain and...

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) 216g

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,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780595282364Author Joseph E SsaliFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint iUniversePublisher iUniverseWeight(grams) 181g

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 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 Lucia Marquand BooksPublisher Lucia Marquand BooksWeight(grams) 181g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781626197183Author Nell Linton KnoxFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint History Press (SC)Publisher History Press (SC)Weight(grams) 454g

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...

This study focuses on street art and large-scale murals in metropolitan Miami/Dade County, while also foregrounding the diasporic and aesthetic interventions made by migrant and second-generation artists whose families hail from the Caribbean and Latin...

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...

This lavishly illustrated book explores the aesthetic and cultural impact of New Mexico art from the 1880s to the present, and highlights a refreshing range of works representing European, native, ethnic, tourist, regional and commercial art. For the...

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...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807615737Author Katherine ManthorneFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint George BrazillerPublisher George BrazillerWeight(grams) 1075g

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...