Art - American - General

This beautifully illustrated book--the definitive volume on American sculptor Mark di Suvero--features more than two hundred images of his most important works, interspersed with short texts by the artist and by other writers who have inspired his art-making practice, plus a contribution by Fran...

This volume examines the profound influence French Impressionist Berthe Morisot has had on the life and work of contemporary American artist Bill Scott. Berthe Morisot/Bill Scott: Gardens of Paradise examines the relationship between French Impressionist Berthe Morisot and the contemporary Philadelphia painter Bill Scott....

"Early American Portrait Painters" by Cuthbert Lee offers a comprehensive survey of the artistic landscape in early America, focusing on the significant figures who captured the likenesses of the nation's founding generations. This scholarly work delves into the lives and techniques of both well-known...

"Art in Our Country" serves as a comprehensive survey of the artistic achievements found throughout the United States during the early 20th century. This work acts as both a directory and a celebration of public art, monuments, and architectural landmarks that define the American...

Explore the renowned collections of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts with this comprehensive companion. Featuring highlights from its vast holdings, this guide offers an insightful journey through art history. From ancient artifacts to masterpieces of American painting, sculpture, and decorative arts, discover the...

Artistic Houses, Volume 2 offers a rare glimpse into the opulent interiors of America's most beautiful and celebrated homes during the late 19th century. This meticulously detailed volume showcases a series of interior views, providing a descriptive inventory of the art treasures contained within...

EDWARDA RHONDA NASH-GORDON IS AN AMERICAN ARTIST BORN IN NEW YORK CITY. EDWARDA.Author: Hana Gordon,Edwarda Rhonda Nash-GordonISBN-13: 9798641671970Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/29/2020Pages: 54Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.43lbsSize: 11.02h x 8.50w x 0.14d

Make It is the first book of original artwork accompanying poetry of inspiration, motivation, purpose, and life mastery; written during a personal transformation. These poems provide insight and guidance as well as motivation along life's journey. The beautiful artwork was selected from among my...

This is a beautifully crafted book of art and poetry which you are sure to enjoy.Author: Patrick J. LeaqchISBN-10: 1987742036ISBN-13: 9781987742039Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/13/2018Pages: 166Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.70lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.43d

In 2016 Johannes provided two Blogs on his personal website, Johannes-von-Gumppenberg.com: Johannes Speaks - weekly reflections Johannes Writes - longer essays This Johannes Speaks collection contains his current expressions during the year 2016, with illustrations he selected mostly from his unpublished work.Author: Janet Von...

Everything changes according to something.Author: Sandra AtisISBN-10: 1532860439ISBN-13: 9781532860430Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/21/2016Pages: 24Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.18lbsSize: 11.02h x 8.50w x 0.05d

Lose the blues, refresh your mind, and lift your spirits as you take a mystical tour through ODES & IMAGES poetry and fine art for the mind and soul.Author: Ginna ViverosISBN-10: 1500658995ISBN-13: 9781500658991Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/14/2015Pages: 86Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.66lbsSize: 11.00h x...

Featuring South Florida poets and artists.Author: Grace CavalieriISBN-10: 1453612475ISBN-13: 9781453612477Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/05/2010Pages: 110Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.71lbsSize: 10.04h x 7.97w x 0.33d

American Art And American Art Collections, Volume 1 offers a fascinating glimpse into the artistic landscape of America as seen through the eyes of the foremost art writers of its time. This collection of essays delves into various artistic subjects, providing insightful commentary and...

American Art And American Art Collections, Volume 2, presents a curated selection of essays by leading art writers of the period. This collection offers insights into the artistic landscape of America, exploring diverse themes, styles, and movements. From detailed analyses of individual artists to...

New Frontiers in American Painting is a book written by Samuel Melvin Kootz that explores the development of modern art in America during the mid-twentieth century. The book is a comprehensive study of the major artists and movements that shaped the American art scene...

Camel Brands And Graffiti From Iraq, Syria, Jordan, Iran And Arabia is a book written by Henry Field. The book is a comprehensive collection of camel brands and graffiti from various countries in the Middle East, including Iraq, Syria, Jordan, Iran, and Arabia. The...

This volume showcases a diverse array of exhibitions, highlighting significant works and artists. It offers insights into curatorial practices and the presentation of art to the public. A valuable resource for art enthusiasts, scholars, and museum professionals.This work has been selected by scholars as...

Explore the life and work of one of America's most celebrated artists in "Thomas Hart Benton, the Story of his Life and Work, Volume 2." This biography delves into the personal journey and artistic evolution of Benton, offering insights into his influences, techniques, and...

"Year Book of the Art Societies of New York, 1898-1899, Volume 1" offers a fascinating glimpse into the vibrant art scene of New York City at the close of the 19th century. This volume provides a comprehensive overview of the various art societies active...

Celebrating the prints two influential modernists made in collaboration with master printer Kenneth E Tyler This publication explores the pioneering postwar prints of Anni and Josef Albers and their impact on a generation of artistic practitioners. Original contributions by leading art historians explore the...

Light Is a Plastic Medium showcases the work of abstract photographer Carlotta Corpron, positioning her career within the rise of photography as a fine art form set to rival the traditional media of painting and sculpture.This catalog showcases photographs by Carlotta Corpron (1901-1988), a...

A stunning survey of work by Glenn Ligon, an artist known for explorations of cultural literacy and Blackness.Throughout his practice, artist Glenn Ligon has explored the power of language to visualize and materialize the Black experience in America. Accompanying a major touring exhibition, Glenn...

This collection explores expression through medium, method, presence and absence, scale, and meaning.Each drawing was created using a digital tablet, drawing application, and hand gestures. The quick, fluid movement of the thumb and forefinger across the touch screen created interacting linear elements using vector...

Visualizing the Carceral State: Art, Power, and Abolition explores how visual culture has shaped, justified, and contested systems of incarceration. Bringing together leading scholars in art history and related fields, this interdisciplinary volume examines the images, objects, and spaces that have made the carceral...

What we see in this series, apart from the beautifully recognizable style of TM Givens, is the constricting space of pandemic-era living. Compared to his "Garden Prayers" series and the recent Coffee Shop drawings, whose fluid lines and outward observations express a sense of...

James B. Thompson: Fragments in Time explores the development of Thompson's work over the past two decades, from his Certain Situations series of the mid-1990s to his more recent Forgotten Biography of Tools series from 2015. Bob Hicks best describes Thompson's work: "[it] grapples...

The Avant-Garde and American Postmodernity: Small Incisive Shocks by Philip Nel. Was there a sudden break in the world of art, literature, and music when modernism gave way to postmodernism? Philip Nel attacks the notion of tremendous and sudden change in artistic understanding and...

Dirtypilot.com Year 1 Rewind presents the work of 15 of the artists that Dirtypilot.com has showcased in its monthly online exhibitions during its inaugural year, beginning in May 2007. These works embrace a range of movements from graffiti, street and urban art to pop...

Following in the painted footsteps of Nagarya, Naï, mah, the woman warrior, has a body with all necessary things in the necessary places and planty of it. Drifting in a world where sexual stimulation is happening at every moment, where creatures of all sorts...

Luminist Horizons celebrates the art and collection of James A. Suydam (1819-1865), an American landscapist best known for his luminist paintings. Despite the fact that his name has been linked with luminism since the term was first coined, Suydam has not received the scholarly...

"Early American Silver" is an authoritative exploration of the craftsmanship and evolution of silverware in the American colonies and the early republic. This work provides a comprehensive survey of the styles, techniques, and regional variations that defined American silversmithing from the seventeenth century through...

With the publication of this second volume of the Census of Gothic Sculpture in America the project has examined over 650 works of sculpture in stone and wood located in twelve states and twenty museums. The richness and inclusiveness of this material - although...

Edward Koren is best known for his cartoons and covers for The New Yorker magazine. This book explores the full range of the art he has produced during the past five decades: original drawings for cartoons and illustrated books as well as prints and...

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 reproductions are accompanied by essays on southern art and culture...

Trained at the University of South Florida, Robert Stackhouse was born in Bronxville, New York in 1942. By the 1980s Robert Stackhouse was regarded as one of America's most prominent young sculptors and his massive, ribbed installations were known nationwide. He taught at the...

From church-sponsored arts festivals to religious protests outside museums, religion and art often interact as dynamic forces in American life. Now, following up on a fascinating series of dialogues among artists, religious leaders, journalists, and scholars, an interdisciplinary group of distinguished thinkers investigates this...

The art of Paul Havas (1940-2012) is one of natural beauty, formal control, and unusual colors. Havas settled in the Puget Sound region in 1965 and went on to create a body of work dominated by oil paintings and drawings of landscapes and cityscapes,...

Michael C. Spafford, one of the most respected and admired painters in the Northwest, has created a cohesive body of work of rare intelligence and power. Now professor emeritus at the University of Washington School of Art, he began teaching in 1963 and was...

Wood Gaylor was a prime mover in the modern art world of New York City and Ogunquit, Maine, from the teens to the thirties, but has not received the attention either his role or his work merits. Wood Gaylor and American Modernism, 1913-1936, accompanying...

A fresh look at this giant of 1960s Pop Art--featuring his billboard-sized images of commercial subjects and combining his eye of an advertising man and the heart of a Pop artist. Lipsticks, automobiles, dishwashers, men in business suits, spaghetti, rockets, airplanes, hairdryers, ice cream...

America's favorite flora are the homey ray flowers, a tribe featuring daisies, sunflowers, chrysanthemums, dahlias, coneflowers, and black-eyed Susans, combined with the elegant, multifaceted rose. Children pick ray flowers for their prepubescent crush or for their mom; when they get older, they graduate to...

There has never been a book like this intertwining the arts and artifacts of both the traditional and the evolving worlds. The Pennsylvania Germans are a remarkable people; some are among the most conservative of Americans, retaining a strong cultural identity to this day,...

If you grew up on American soil, whether you were a boy or a girl, you probably played "Cowboys and Indians" in your backyard. If you grew up in the 1940s and 1950s, you no doubt watched Roy Rogers, Dale Evans, and Gene Autry...

A revisionist reading of modern art that examines how artworks are captured as property to legitimize power In this provocative new account, David Joselit shows how art from the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries began to function as a commodity, while the qualities of...

Author: Miguel de BacaISBN-10: 1443883751ISBN-13: 9781443883757Publisher: Cambridge Scholars PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/22/2016Pages: 240Format: Hardcover

The Art of Jim Woodson: Landscape and the Poetics of Place celebrates fifty years of painting by the renowned Texas artist Jim Woodson. The book traces the arc and significance of his career while exploring the distinctive vision that animates his expressive interpretations of...

"Carmel--at Work and Play" offers a fascinating glimpse into the early life of Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, during its formative years as a world-renowned artist colony. Written by Daisy F. Bostick, a dedicated observer of the Monterey Peninsula, this work captures the unique spirit of a...

In this collection, Grace, poetry is a bridge between the temporal and the eternal, weaving together themes of faith, longing, and spiritual reflection.Each verse is a step along the way-through grace, through trial, through hope-moving the reader toward deeper understanding of God and a...

Pictures in the Collection of P. A. B. Widener offers a detailed look at the British and Modern French paintings housed at Lynnewood Hall, the opulent estate of Peter A. B. Widener in Elkins Park, Pennsylvania. Compiled in 1915, this volume provides a historical...