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Major works from the Walker Art Center's collection, seen in the context of two watershed moments in American history This diverse survey of American art from the collection of the Walker Art Center uses two of the nation's most significant events as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780873658256Author Penelope Ballard DrookerFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology,U.S.Publisher Peabody Museum of...

In Cartoon Vision Dan Bashara examines American animation alongside the modern design boom of the postwar era. Focusing especially on United Productions of America (UPA), a studio whose graphic, abstract style defined the postwar period, Bashara...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780890136140Author Lois Palken RudnickFormat HardbackPage Count 296Imprint Museum of New Mexico PressPublisher Museum of New Mexico PressWeight(grams) 1482g

"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...

Socially engaged art, by means of its transformative practice, is shaping today's institutions and the very culture of now. And in a city famous for both its physical and political structures, few creative communities are as deeply intertwined with a...

An introduction to the refined, spiritually significant, and often dazzling arts produced by the varied cultures of a cradle of world civilization The ancient cultures of the Americas comprise a vast array of societies, whose peoples spoke thousands of...

More than a quarter of a century ago, critic and author Michael Ennis observed that "There is no comprehensive work on Texas art; there has never been an exhibition offering more than a cursory overview of Texas art from the nineteenth century to the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780935519280Author Sabine RussFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint Anderson Gallery, Virginia Commonwealth UniversityPublisher Anderson Gallery, Virginia...

Carl Hall, born in 1921 in Detroit, was an accomplished Magic Realist painter on the brink of a major career in American art when World War II intervened. As a young Army recruit, he was assigned to Camp Adair near Corvallis, Oregon, in 1942. For Hall,...

There is a common perception in the arts today that overtly activist art-often seen to sacrifice an aesthetic pleasure for a subversive one-is no longer in fashion. In bringing together sixteen of the most important essays on activist and community-based...

The first book to examine the key role played by art dealer Valentine Dudensing in shaping the canon of modern art in the United States and presents an overview of his life while exploring the wider context of the New York art market of the time.

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Walt Disney was a man of many passions; art, storytelling, family, and entrepreneurship. But not many people know about his love affair with the titan of transportation: the train.

An accessible, comprehensive, celebration of the vast range of human artistry from 28,000 BC to today, now available in a gift-friendly mini format

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The groundbreaking survey, showcasing 500 of the greatest American artists, now updated in an essential new edition

The definitive monograph on innovative American painter Lisa Yuskavage

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Tracing the dissemination of Secessionist ideas of child creativity - from their origination in early-20th century Vienna through to their eventual commodification in postwar America - this book highlights the central role that visual art has played in...

Whether it's cocktails at the Carlyle, taking in a show at Lincoln Center, traveling via subway, or flying out of LaGuardia's venerable Marine Air Terminal, uptown to downtown to the outer boroughs, the art created for the walls of New York City's bars,...

A fascinating look at John Singer Sargent's formative years as a young painter in Paris, a city that helped forge his artistic identity and sparked his rise to the pinnacle of the nineteenth-century art world In 1874, eighteen-year-old American artist...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781469688428Author Wendy BellionFormat PaperbackPage Count 388Imprint Omohundro Institute and Unc PressPublisher Omohundro Institute and Unc Press

Hot Art, Cold War – Southern and Eastern European Writing on American Art 1945-1990 is one of two text anthologies that trace the reception of American art in Europe during the Cold War era through primary sources. Translated into English for the first...

A close-up look at 50 artists-their work, their studios, their style-creating a wide variety of art in the HamptonsIt's one thing to admire an artist's work; it's another to get a real feel of the person behind the work. In these pages you'll get a...

An unprecedented examination of the underexplored late work of the iconic American modernist Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986) has long been celebrated for her paintings, photographs, and contributions to American modernism in the 1930s and early 1940s, yet...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781606180402Author Anna MajeskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint American Philosophical SocietyPublisher American Philosophical Society

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798890180919Author Ala EbtekarFormat HardbackPage Count 196Imprint Radius BooksPublisher Radius Books

This is the origin story of Nashville's surging contemporary art scene told by the ones who were there before anyone else. Not a story about commercial spaces or official institutions-this is the story of moldy warehouse studios and improvised galleries,...

The first monograph of the hundreds of billboards by artist-led coalition For Freedoms, the largest public creative collaboration in American history Founded in 2016 by Hank Willis Thomas, Eric Gottesman, Wyatt Gallery, and Michelle Woo, For Freedoms is...