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Electra Havemeyer Webb assembled Shelburne Museum s trove of American paintings in the late 1950s, creating a renowned and rich survey of American portraits, landscapes, marine paintings, sporting art, still lifes, and genre scenes from the eighteenth to...

African-American art has made an increasingly vital contribution to the art of the United States from the time of its origins in early-eighteenth-century slave communities. Folk and decorative arts such as ceramics, furniture, and quilts are discussed...

A wide-ranging study of Louisiana landscape painting that places art from the region into a broader national and global context With its dense forests and swamps, Louisiana captured the imagination of writers and painters who viewed its landscape as a...

How Venetian glass influenced American artists and patrons during the late nineteenth centurySargent, Whistler, and Venetian Glass presents a broad exploration of American engagement with Venice's art world in the late nineteenth century. During this...

No other introductory book presents the diversity and complexity of postwar American art from Abstract Expressionism to the present as clearly and succinctly as this groundbreaking survey.David Joselit traces and analyses the often contradictory formal,...

Shahzia Sikanderis one of the most influential artists working today. This lively volume presents her powerful early work (1987 to 2003) from South Asian, West Asian, and Western perspectives, illuminating new understandings for a wide audience...

This beautiful book, companion publication to the exhibition of the same name, presents a complex overview of the life and career of the pioneering African American artist Henry O. Tanner (1859-1937). Recognized as the patriarch of African American...

In this ambitious and imaginative study, Margaretta M. Lovell analyzes the large body of accomplished, sometimes startling, often brilliant work of American artists drawn to Venice's ragged splendor in the last century. Including major works by such...

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...

"Playing It Straight: Art and Humor in the Gilded Age" offers a stunning new look at late-nineteenth-century American art, and demonstrates the profound role humor played in determining the course of culture in the Gilded Age. By showing how complex...

A survey of the work of one of Chicago's most prolific artists. Edgar Miller (1899-1993) arrived in Chicago in 1917 and, over the next fifty years, established a successful career as a multi-hyphenate creative practitioner. He worked as an architect,...

This book explores the place of art in Latter-day Saint society during the first 50 years of the Utah settlement, beginning in 1847. Nathan Rees uncovers the critical role that images played in nineteenth-century Mormon religion, politics, and social...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780500296899Author Frances K PohlFormat PaperbackPage Count 644Imprint Thames & HudsonPublisher Thames & HudsonWeight(grams) 2041gDimensions(mm) 274mm *...

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. She was a largely self-taught artist, and...

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

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...

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

Out of Site explores the invisible landscapes of the American West through the interwoven forces of art and technology over the past 170 years. This interdisciplinary project features an array of visual media, including historical, modern, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780988177406Author Sarah A. HuntFormat HardbackPage Count 344Imprint American Museum of Western ArtPublisher American Museum of Western ArtWeight(grams)...

Less celebrated than their male counterparts, women have been vital contributors to the arts. Works by women of the colonial era represent treasured accomplishments of American culture and still impress us today, centuries after their creation. The...

This Place of Silence is a photographic portrait of Ohio's cemeteries and burial grounds by Ohio photographers Ian Adams and Randall Lee Schieber. The text and photo captions by Robin L. Smith provide an overview of the history of burial grounds, from...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611170429Author Sara C. ArnoldFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint University of South Carolina PressPublisher University of South Carolina...

Lithuanian-born artist Ben Shahn learned fresco painting as an assistant to Diego Rivera in the 1930s and created his own visually powerful, technically sophisticated, and stylistically innovative artworks as part of the New Deal Arts Project's national...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781889282350Author FSU Museum of Fine ArtsFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Florida State University, Museum of Fine ArtsPublisher Florida State...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611170412Author Sara C. ArnoldFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint University of South Carolina PressPublisher University of South Carolina Press

Appalachians have always honored craft. Showoff quilts, complicated whittlings, ""face jugs,"" intricate woven coverlets, and the work of famous basketmakers constituted the art of early Appalachia, the life and color of its remote...

Images of working cowhands and their horses loom large in the mind's eye of many who love the American West. Those same images form the heart and soul of this lavishly illustrated book, which captures the viewpoints, values, and observations of...

A survey of the topographic and metaphoric landscape of New Hampshire's White Mountains through the artistic and tourist life of the region as it appears in paintings and illustrations. Extending from the late-18th to the late-20th century, it includes a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781872501000Author RaguinPage Count 600Imprint Harvey Miller PublishersPublisher Brepols N.V.Weight(grams) 4325g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998592213Author Frederick RameyFormat HardbackPage Count 112Imprint LeapingmanPublisher LeapingmanWeight(grams) 726gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 269mm * 15mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781606181126Author Vivian Endicott BarnettFormat PaperbackPage Count 185Imprint American Philosophical SocietyPublisher American Philosophical Society

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781941789087Author Oscar TuazonFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint Msu BroadPublisher Msu BroadWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 188mm * 10mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781626197183Author Nell Linton KnoxFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm)...

This beautiful and informative volume illustrates the vitality and importance of North Carolina's contemporary art scene, showcasing the creation, collection, and celebration of art in all its richness and diversity. Featuring profiles of individual...

The Works Progress Administration gave federal financial support to a wide range of artistic projects during the Depression, from fiction to fine art. Of all these forms, however, the printmaking supported by the WPA is perhaps the one of most enduring...

For over a century the Chicago art community has struggled to define itself in relation to other urban art centers. While prominent American artists past and present have had strong connections to Chicago, many left to make their reputations elsewhere...

With striking contrasts, bold colors, and powerful textures and lines, Richard Kidwell Miller's art is abstract, yet integrated and powerful, while sensuous. Born in the coal-mining region of Fairmont, West Virginia during the Great Depression, Miller...