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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999034224Author Symeon ShiminFormat PaperbackPage Count 156Imprint Mercury Press InternationalPublisher Mercury Press International

For a concise edition of his legendary arts dictionary of information and opinion, the distinguished critic and arts historian Richard Kostelanetz selects entries from the 2018 third edition. Typically he provides intelligence unavailable anywhere else,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780934658157Author Andrea P RosenFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Fleming Museum of ArtPublisher Fleming Museum of ArtWeight(grams) 299g

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...

The power of Christmas derives from the appeal of its repeated rituals, the presumed antiquity of its traditions, and its ability to adapt to changing cultural conditions. Christmas cards seemed inevitable and ubiquitous, but in recent years the genre...

The "modern" American poster has figured prominently in virtually every major political, social, commercial, and cultural development in the country. With arresting images and text, these posters have informed and sold Americans on election...

First published in 1988. This book shows how censorship as a set of institutions, practices and discourses was involved in the struggle over the nature of cinema in the early twentieth century. It also reveals the part played in this struggle by other...

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...

During the 1930s, the era of the Depression and the New Deal, American artists transformed printmaking into one of the decade's most exciting forms of art. As a cheap, vital, and egalitarian means of artistic expression, prints came close to realizing...

The de la Torre brothers combine exquisitely ornate blown and flame-worked glass works with cheap, mass-produced knickknacks, plastic flowers, fake fur, painted coins, and other found objects. Their art is a skillful combination of disparate elements,...

A sweeping look at the ways American artists have viewed themselves, their peers, and their painted worlds over two centuries This stunning book provides an unprecedented glimpse into the past two centuries of American art, tracing artistic tradition and...

The most recent installation by the internationally acclaimed artist Alicja Kwade (b. 1979), who comes from Katowice, explores the French physicist Leon Foucault's (1819-1868) proof that the world rotates and develops the experiment further. The present...

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...

The Addison Gallery of American Art, located at Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, is internationally recognized for its outstanding collection of paintings, sculpture, prints, drawings, and photography. When its founder, Thomas Cochran, opened...

In the spirit of popular Rizzoli titles, including California Light and Hudson River School, At First Light chronicles a group of twenty-six artists from the last 200 years who lived and worked in Maine. The state's extraordinary landscape--from its...

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

An exploration of the human figure and artistic imagination in public art of the American Renaissance, from the nation’s centennial to World War I In an era of sweeping change following the devastation of the Civil War, an ambitious generation of...

Featuring an introductory essay by exhibition curator Grant Arnold—who has worked with the Lawrence Weiner Poster Archive since the mid-1990s—and short commissioned texts from artists, scholars and curators who worked closely with Weiner over the course...

This volume details the extraordinary development of the Bay Area art scene from 1930 to 1960. A great museum director, enlightened patron, and brilliant art school helped create an environment to nurture a host of brilliant and innovative artists. This...

This is the first book to examine the art and life of Boston-born artist Francesca Alexander (1837–1917). Francesca and her parents moved to Florence in 1853 and became part of a thriving international community. Her long residence in Italy was...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798987228227Author Louis MeiselFormat HardbackPage Count 168Imprint Artist Book FoundationPublisher Artist Book Foundation

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798890181053Author Judy TuwaletstiwaFormat PaperbackPage Count 302Imprint Radius BooksPublisher Radius Books

Robert Longo’s work captures moments of tension in nature, politics and history at their emotional climax. Presented at a monumental scale, the size and virtuoso technique of his photorealistic charcoal drawings enhance his powerful imagery. Based on...

In Earth Diplomacy, Jessica L. Horton reveals how Native American art in the mid-twentieth-century mobilized Indigenous cultures of diplomacy to place the earth itself at the center of international relations. She focuses on a group of artists including...

Artvoices Magazine 2008-2018 "Special Collection" features ground breaking articles mainly on emerging, neglected and under recognized artists of color, LGBTQ, mature and women. Established in 2008 Artvoices Magazine was an important and necessary...

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

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798890180827Author Ruth DuckworthFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Radius BooksPublisher Radius Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798890180834Author Veronica RobertsFormat HardbackPage Count 340Imprint Radius BooksPublisher Radius Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798890180872Author Tomas van HoutryveFormat HardbackPage Count 164Imprint Radius BooksPublisher Radius Books

Zigi Ben-Haim is a painter and sculptor who works with aluminum, wire mesh, burlap, newsprint, and unconventional materials. His constant reinvention gives his work a dynamic and powerful vibration that sparks curiosity in its viewers and never fails to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912165599Author Hilary HarknessFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Black Dog PressPublisher Black Dog Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798890181015Author Patrick DoughertyFormat HardbackPage Count 164Imprint 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...

In Earth Diplomacy, Jessica L. Horton reveals how Native American art in the mid-twentieth-century mobilized Indigenous cultures of diplomacy to place the earth itself at the center of international relations. She focuses on a group of artists including...