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Accompanying a year-long exhibition at the University of Kentucky Art Museum, A Place Not Forgotten explores the distinctiveness of Southern landscape painting from the early nineteenth century through the 1940s. More than twenty-five color...

This beautifully illustrated sourcebook chronicles the history of the Newcomb Pottery at Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana, from its founding in 1895, and explores the development of the art form, presenting a sensitive picture of the artists...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780976572367Author Ian BerryFormat HardbackPage Count 296Imprint The Skidmore College, Tang Teaching Museum & Art GalleryPublisher The Skidmore College,...

On the occasion of the University of Vermont's 225th anniversary, the Fleming Museum of Art presents an exhibition and accompanying catalogue featuring works from the outstanding art collections of the University's alumni. Highlights include painting,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913875237Author Elizabeth HeuerFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint GilesPublisher GilesWeight(grams) 241g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781684751013Author David LittleFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Rowman & LittlefieldPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams) 1129g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781938461484Author Norman SunshineFormat HardbackPage Count 244Imprint Pointed Leaf PressPublisher Pointed Leaf Press

Coinciding with the centennial of women’s suffrage in Washington State, Show of Hands: Northwest Women Artists 1880-2010 surveys the contributions made by women to the legacy of Pacific Northwest art. Highlighting work in all media by artists from...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781882507177Author Robert ConwayFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Trust for Museum ExhibitionsPublisher Trust for Museum ExhibitionsWeight(grams) 744g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780977762453Author Peter HeldFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Arizona State University Art MuseumPublisher Arizona State University Art...

Frank Boyden is a highly regarded Oregon ceramic artist and printmaker who has created a stunning body of work based on the flora and fauna of Oregon. Boyden has explored a wide variety of themes in his prints, including animals, the landscape, and most...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781588344946Author National Portrait GalleryFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint Smithsonian BooksPublisher Smithsonian BooksWeight(grams) 1g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783864423390Author Richard KalinaFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Snoeck Verlagsgesellschaft mbHPublisher Snoeck Verlagsgesellschaft mbH

How does political policy-making shape the creative activities of artists? Do the political interests of artists influence actual political practices in any way? Legislating Creativity examines the relationship between art and politics through an...

Ann Morris has become a priestess of sorts, investing her mind and spirit into an ambitious oeuvre of figurative bronzes that speak with a singular and meditative voice. In a comprehensive and insightful essay, Ted Lindberg traces the arc of Morris's...

The Fruits of Empire is a history of American expansion through the lens of art and food. In the decades after the Civil War, Americans consumed an unprecedented amount of fruit as it grew more accessible with advancements in refrigeration and...

The need to describe the world around us is an impulse as old as the earliest cave wall depictions of running horses and wounded bison. In this descriptive enterprise we have consistently found nature to be a valuable and inspiring companion, and over...

An in-depth look at the changing status of American artists in the 18th and early 19th century This fascinating book is the first comprehensive art-historical study of what it meant to be an American artist in the 18th- and early 19th-century...

A milestone in American cultural history, the 1876 Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia was one of the most broadly shared, heavily attended, and thoroughly documented public experiences of the nineteenth century. Power and Posterity illuminates how the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781884919268Author David RosandFormat PaperbackPage Count 106Imprint Columbia University, Wallach Art Gallery,U.S.Publisher University of Washington...

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...

Hot Art, Cold War - Northern and Western 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. With the exception of those originally...

Artist Frank Okada played a significant role in the modern art history of the Pacific Northwest. Born a Nisei in 1931, he was raised in Seattle's International District and throughout his life retained its influences and his vivid memories in his art...

A first-century Roman cinerary urn. A Coca-Cola bottle from 1910. A contemporary sculpture of bandaged bones. Contrasts: A Glass Primer presents a wide variety of remarkable glass objects in an accessible and lively format. These objects are grouped, as...

Ours is a culture defined by marketing and acquiring. Virtually every activity in our lives is experienced through purchases, from layettes to caskets. The landscape is studded with logos, brand names, and billboards. Branded and On Display examines the...

For this American edition of his legendary arts dictionary of information and opinion, the distinguished critic and arts historian Richard Kostelanetz has selected from the fuller third edition his entries on North Americans, including Canadians,...

This collection offers the first place for the importance of Brainard's poetry, collaborations and art to be recognised for their contribution and influence, all in one place.Book InformationISBN 9781474436670Author Yasmine ShammaFormat PaperbackPage...

The Unknown Blakelock offers new perspectives on Ralph A. Blakelock (1847-1919) by addressing the modernity of his accomplishments as reflected in the exhibition's paintings. A self-taught artist, Blakelock digressed from habitual procedures into...

This book explores the place of art in Latter-day Saint society during the first fifty years of the Utah settlement, beginning in 1847. Nathan K. Rees uncovers the critical role that images played in nineteenth-century Mormon religion, politics, and...

A landmark examination of the art and artists inspired by American dance from 1830 to 1960 As an enduring wellspring of creativity for many artists throughout history, dance has provided a visual language to express such themes as the bonds of community,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788857232386Author Cecilia AlemaniFormat HardbackPage Count 464Imprint SkiraPublisher SkiraWeight(grams) 2810g

A highly-illustrated monograph on the life and work of Arthur Singer, an American wildlife artist specializing in birds. His work in reference books and U.S. stamps is internationally acclaimed. Arthur B. Singer was an American wildlife artist...

ConFiguring America brings together a series of incisive essays that analyse a wide range of such figures: those who embody America's tendency to produce celebrities and iconic personalities with global reach. Drawing on theoretical insights from a...

Antebellum American Pendant Paintings: New Ways of Looking marks the first sustained study of pendant paintings: discrete images designed as a pair. It opens with a broad overview that anchors the form in the medieval diptych, religious history, and...

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...

Art Along the Rivers: A Bicentennial Celebration coincides with the Missouri state bicentennial. The catalogue brings together the region's paintings, sculptures, works on paper, furniture, ceramics, metals, textiles, and more to reveal and celebrate...

Regarded as one of the country's foremost scholars of 19th-century French art, Gabriel P. Weisberg has worked closely with his wife, Yvonne, to amass a significant collection of art. For nearly forty years the Weisbergs have used their knowledge and...

Lawrence Weiner, born 1942 in the Bronx, New York City, is a key protagonist of early conceptual art. His work is characterised by his use of language as an artistic medium. It is descriptive rather than prescriptive and does not instruct the viewer to...

In this generously illustrated volume, the distinguished teacher, author, and critic Joyce Brodsky brings together works by the expatriate Chinese painter Yun Gee and his Chinese American daughter, Li-lan, exploring connections between each artist's life...

Winner, Award of Merit for Non-Fiction, The Philosophical Society of Texas, 2015 Before Abstract Expressionism of New York City was canonized as American postwar modernism, the United States was filled with localized manifestations of modern art. One...