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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...

The first major publication in more than thirty years on contemporary artist Chryssa, an innovator of light art Chryssa & New York offers a timely reassessment of Greek-born artist Chryssa (Chryssa Vardea-Mavromichali, 1933-2013). Chryssa was a leading...

American folk music has long presented a problematic conception of authenticity, but the reality of the folk scene, and its relationship to media, is far more complicated. This book draws on the fields of media archaeology, performance studies, and sound...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788489771604Author Nancy SperoFormat PaperbackPage Count 191Imprint Museu D'Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA)Publisher Museu D'Art Contemporani de...

Prints of a New Kind details the political strategies and scandals that inspired the first generation of American caricaturists to share news and opinions with their audiences in shockingly radical ways. Complementing studies on British and European...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Benjamin Franklin Award (Biography) 2018 and Benjamin Franklin Award (Cover Design (Large)) 2018.Book InformationISBN 9780998422404Author Cj CookFormat...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780957664920Author Ron EnglishFormat HardbackPage Count 178Imprint Korero PressPublisher Korero PressWeight(grams) 1172g

Roy De Forest's brightly hued, crazy-quilted paintings and sculptures are dotted with nipples of color and inhabited by a cast of characters uniquely his own, a perennial favorite being his instantly recognizable, wild-eyed and pointy-eared dogs...

The art of William Ingham demonstrates how the modernist tradition, specifically Abstract Expressionism, has flourished in the Pacific Northwest. This lavishly illustrated volume brings to a wider audience the Seattle-born artist's highly gestural and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781566499835Author The Scala GroupFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Welcome Rain Publishers,USPublisher Welcome Rain Publishers,USWeight(grams)...

Art AIDS America is the first comprehensive overview and reconsideration of 30 years of art made in response to the AIDS epidemic in the United States. This book foregrounds the role of HIV/AIDS in shifting the development of American art away from the...

In collaboration with Miami's Vizcaya Museum and Gardens, a rediscovery of a lost figure of American modernism - the early-twentieth-century American painter born into the Astor family, whose imagination and patrician clientele provide a fascinating...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780867197648Author Billy ShireFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Last Gasp,U.S.Publisher Last Gasp,U.S.Weight(grams) 1673g

The Evolution of Taste in American Collecting is a new critical translation of Rene Brimo's classic study of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century patronage and art collecting in the United States. Originally published in French in 1938, Brimo's...

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...

All Aboard is a ground-breaking book. Presented thematically the authors cover the environmental impact of the railroad both on the flora and fauna, and on the social landscape; the role of the railroad on the western expansion of the USA, and the...

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...

An indispensable introduction to one of the most influential artists of the twentieth century. Part of the pioneering Tate Introductions series. Andy Warhol's work reflected and commented on contemporary themes in American society:...

A new look at French Orientalism's influence on the art of the American West, showing how aesthetics and ideology jointly informed approaches to colonialism and expansion during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in both France and the United...

Elizabeth Catlett, born in Washington, DC, in 1915, is widely acknowledged as a major presence in African American art, and her work is celebrated as a visually eloquent expression of African American identity and pride in cultural heritage. But this is...

When every land seems already explored, and space travel has declined in scope and prestige, the northern exploits of our Victorian forebears offers a pleasantly distant mirror from which to regard our own time. The Arctic regions have been the subject...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816539468Author Katherine G. MorrisseyFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint University of Arizona PressPublisher University of Arizona Press

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...

Art and entertainment constitute America's second-largest export. Most Americans-96%, to be exact-are somehow involved in the arts, whether as audience participants, hobbyists, or via broadcast, recording, video, or the Internet. The contribution of the...

A major new textbook for students of contemporary American art and media, and modern American history. American Visual Cultures analyses the role of painting, photography, film, television, advertising, journalism and other visual media in the historical...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814253335Author Wendy Jean KatzFormat PaperbackPage Count 286Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams) 422g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615554464Author Nadia RussFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint Neopoprealism PressPublisher Neopoprealism PressWeight(grams) 290g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692456453Author Dave CoonFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Criscola DesignPublisher Criscola DesignWeight(grams) 303g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578955452Author Phil HansenFormat PaperbackPage Count 788Imprint Phil in the CirclePublisher Phil in the CircleWeight(grams) 503gDimensions(mm) 152mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615562223Author Nadia RussFormat PaperbackImprint Neopoprealism PressPublisher Neopoprealism PressWeight(grams) 218g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780809511228Author Michael BetancourtFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Wildside PressPublisher Wildside PressWeight(grams) 233g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615470085Author Nadia RussFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint Neopoprealism PressPublisher Neopoprealism PressWeight(grams) 290g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578306193Author Patricia SweedenFormat HardbackPage Count 66Imprint Patrick SweedenPublisher Patrick SweedenWeight(grams) 395g

Making American Art presents a thematic, interdisciplinary examination of art in the United States from the seventeenth century to the present day.The themes and issues explored in Making American Art pull together documentary material, art works and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798890180803Author James DrakeFormat HardbackPage Count 212Imprint Radius BooksPublisher Radius Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798215312537Author David BruceFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint David BrucePublisher David BruceWeight(grams) 141g

A vivid and engaging exploration of California's debt to the ancient world. Discussing the influence of the classics on America is nothing new; indeed, classical antiquity could be considered second only to Christianity as a force in modeling...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781879636187Author Lisa Tremper HanoverFormat HardbackPage Count 152Imprint University of Pennsylvania PressPublisher University of Pennsylvania Press