Art - American - General

Warfare, ritual human sacrifice, and the rubber ballgame have been the traditional categories through which scholars have examined organized violence in the artistic and material records of ancient Mesoamerica and Central America. This volume expands those traditional categories to include such concerns as gladiatorial-like...

The groundbreaking survey, showcasing 500 of the greatest American artists, now updated in an essential new edition'A lavish glimpse not only into American Art, but into the history of the century as well.' - The TimesFully revised and updated, this new edition of Phaidon's...

Ron Goulart, author of "The Funnies: 100 Years of American Comic Strips," called Percy the Mechanical Man the "first robot to star in a Sunday page of his own." This book, a tribute to Harry C. Greening, and his creation presents all 68 pages...

William Blake: His Philosophy and Symbols by Damon S. Foster is a comprehensive exploration of the life and work of the English poet and artist William Blake. The book delves into Blake's complex philosophy, which was deeply influenced by the mystical and philosophical traditions...

The definitive monograph on innovative American painter Lisa YuskavageLisa Yuskavage is one of the most acclaimed living painters. Known for her highly original approach to figurative painting, Yuskavage challenges conventional understandings of the genre. At times playful and at other times rueful, her bold,...

Author: Victo ArtistISBN-13: 9798349353628Publisher: Be Art New YorkLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/29/2025Pages: 370Format: HardcoverWeight: 2.51lbsSize: 8.50h x 8.50w x 1.13d

Art, politics and dissent provides a counter history to conventional accounts of American art. Close historical examinations of particular events in Los Angeles and New York in the 1960s are interwoven with discussion of the location of these events, normally marginalised or overlooked, in...

As the principal courtroom sketch artist for the New York Times and WABC in New York, Marilyn Church covered many of America's most infamous trials, from the downfall of John Gotti to the trial of would-be presidential assassin John Hinckley; from the conviction of...

Carol J. Szot started painting at age fourteen after years of watching her dad paint. She has had no professional schooling and is self-taught. Now, after more than forty-five years, she has developed a technique resulting from intense observation to fine detail. She paints...

Rick Fröberg was an accomplished artist and musician born in Southern California who spent most of his early creative years in San Diego before moving to New York, and then back to San Diego toward the end of his life. While juggling both of...

This book will be the first major monograph on the work of Haines's oeuvre, which builds on theevolution of Modernism as much as it harkens back to the Bronze Age. The clearest expression of this isa series of 1,000 elemental bronze "artifacts" he has...

The salted paper print process and the daguerreotype were invented, for all practical purposes, simultaneously. Though using different materials and methods (the salted paper print was patented, while daguerreotype was not) still both achieved the miracle of fixing an image from life within a...

This ambitious new catalogue highlights the erotic and playful sculpture of Louise Bourgeois, Eva Hesse and Alice Adams, foregrounding their shared commitment to using abstract form to ask important questions about fluid sexuality, bodies and humour. It accompanies a major exhibition at the Courtauld...

How artists created fictionalized identities to realize works that resisted political overreach and art historical conventions. This book explores how a group of real California artists created imaginary artists, engaging with the political climate of the Cold War era and frustrating the discipline of...

"When one looks at a portrait by Sarah Brokke, it's like meeting someone you've dreamt about--her paintings are at once familiar and fantastic--a step removed from our own reality. Brokke works in partnership with her subjects to honor their spirit and celebrate both the...

An exploration of the captivating works of Carla Arocha and Stéphane Schraenen, which reference both popular culture and Minimalism This lavishly illustrated monograph offers a comprehensive study of Arocha and Schraenen's individual works and collaborative practice since 2006. It explores their captivating works, which...

'A celebration of art-making.' - Wall Street JournalAn accessible, comprehensive celebration of the vast range of human artistry from 28,000 BC to today, now available in a gift-friendly mini formatPhaidon's groundbreaking book presents art differently from all other compendia by revealing the huge diversity...

Elizabeth Osborne (born 1936) is a painter who responds with awe and religiosity to the grandeur, the frightening power, and the rich fluid diversity of nature. Early she painted the same landscapes -- particularly in Maine and New Mexico -- that have attracted many...

""How To Make Good Pictures: A Book For The Amateur Photographer"" is a comprehensive guidebook published by the Eastman Kodak Company in 1922. The book aims to educate amateur photographers on the art of taking good pictures, covering topics such as selecting and using...

Figure drawings from the hand of Kit Anderson, rendered with graphite pencil on white paper then scanned for publication. No digital pencils were used in the creation of this work, because the Artist kinda hates digital drawing.Author: Kit AndersonISBN-13: 9798990513297Publisher: TK PriceLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/05/2025Pages:...

Although Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986) has long been regarded as a central figure in 20th-century art, the abstract works she created throughout her career have remained critically and popularly overlooked in favor of her representational subjects. Beginning with charcoal drawings made in 1915, which were...

""Paintings In Oil And Pastel By James A. McNeill Whistler"" is a book written by Florence Nightingale Levy and published in 1910. The book is a comprehensive collection of the works of James Abbott McNeill Whistler, a prominent American artist who was known for...

Delve into the rich history of American sculpture with Adeline Adams' "The Spirit of American Sculpture." This meticulously prepared republication explores the evolution of sculpture in the United States throughout the 19th and 20th centuries. From iconic statues to the artists who shaped them,...

The first survey of the vast Thierry Barbier-Mueller art collection, now exhibited at the Musée Jenisch in Switzerland. Driven by an existential quest, Thierry Barbier-Mueller (1960-2022), a Geneva-based real estate entrepreneur and patron of the arts, assembled an impressive collection of works by major...

With handsome full-page reproductions, this volume provides a new look at the extensive oeuvre of Leon Kelly, a fascinating American artist. The American artist Leon Kelly (1901-1982) is known for his surrealist work. However, his career, which spanned fifty years, was also influenced by...

An intimate journey of discovery of the life and work of American painter Edward E. Boccia. Edward E. Boccia (1921-2012) is a widely collected yet often overlooked American artist whose compelling pictorial language reveals a vision of universal experience, love, loss, and suffering as...

Features the otherworldly work of sculptor and surreal artist Liz Craft. American artist Liz Craft creates sculptures and figurative installations that appear like fragments in space. They tell dreamlike stories and conjure an atmosphere associated with surrealism, fairytales, or drug-induced hallucinations. For her art,...

Discover how Miami's local artcommunity transformed the city into a hub of global artistic exchangeStep intothe vibrant heartbeat of Miami's art scene during a transformative period in Miami'sArt Boom. Award-winning art critic Elisa Turner presents over 100 of herbest profiles, reviews, and stories to...

With some 400 members, the California Camera Club was the largest photography network in the United States in the early twentieth century. In The California Camera Club, Carolin Görgen recaptures the lost history of this community--and reveals its critical but little-known role in defining...

Printmakers today are sustained both by their traditions and by their willingness to embrace new technologies, new mediums, and innovative processes. Over 500 beautiful color images display the innovative work of 75 talented printmakers and 30 print shops. Traditional printing techniques featured include lithography,...

Considers the enduring legacy of California Conceptualism, known for its lax approaches to creating, writing about, and exhibiting art. Moving away from making objects, and turning instead to staging scenes, the artists associated with California Conceptualism--including Eleanor Antin, John Baldessari, David Lamelas, Tony Ramos,...

Because it creates paradigm shift, Happily Hippie: Meet a Modern Ethnicity (4th ed.) is stunning. Popular social science that's well-organized with bolded headings, this book is reader friendly. Often using scholarly sources, it's well-researched and carefully argued; however, it has a sense of humor....

AMERICAN IMPRESSIONISM: A COLLECTION OF LIGHT, LANDSCAPE, AND LIFE This book is a comprehensive exploration of the Impressionist movement that swept through the American art scene from the late 19th to the early 20th century. It delves into the unique light, color, natural landscapes,...

This catalog offers a glimpse into the life and work of J. Rollin Tilton, a renowned American painter who lived and worked in Rome during the late 19th century. Featuring beautiful reproductions of Tilton's oil paintings and watercolors, along with extensive notes on his...

James Thomas Flexner has been a professional writer for most of his adult life. After several years spent at the City desk at the New York Herald Tribune after graduating from Harvard University, Flexner went on to become one of America's foremost historians. He...

A book of theory and critical writing on art in Miami, Florida, including Charles Recher, Roxy Paine, Jens Diercks, Frederico Uribe, Normal Leibman, Salvador Dali, Guy Richards Smit, Diego Machado, and many more -- plus the city of Miami itself!Author: Michael BetancourtISBN-10: 0809511223ISBN-13: 9780809511228Publisher:...

A reevaluation of American art of the 1960s that foregrounds the role of surrealism during a period of social and political upheaval Challenging what we think we know about art of the 1960s, this volume moves beyond the established movements of pop art, minimalism,...

What Andy Warhol didn't know--or pretended not to know--changed history. He habitually adopted the guise of a fool in public, which made it all the harder to grasp what he was getting at with his pop paintings and deadpan films. By making his own...

With the order for the Bethesda Fountain in Central Park, Emma Stebbins became the first woman to earn a public sculpture commission from the city of New York. Today, this monument is a beloved global icon, while the full scope of Stebbins's history-making life...

A comprehensive study of Pennsylvania German redware and a celebration of this vibrant folk art tradition Americana Insights 2025 is the third volume in an annual series that presents the latest research and discoveries on traditional Americana, folk art, and material culture. In this...

Blazing Light is published to coincide with Mimi Plumb's first solo museum exhibition of the same name (High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia) and brings together three of her major bodies of work--The White Sky, Landfall and The Golden City, and The Reservoir--that collectively...

Honor Song is published to coincide with the first major retrospective exhibition of the artist Hock E Aye Vi Edgar Heap of Birds, known internationally for his conceptual artwork--colorful text-based prints, drawings, paintings, sculptures, and public interventions--that addresses Indigenous rights, sovereignty, and relationships to...

Depicting the bustling crowds of humanity from magisterial heights was once a popular visual genre among artists and the public, regularly appearing in mass-market newspapers and magazines: carnivals and circuses, cook-outs and baseball games, bustling city streets and train stations or parades and epic...

Experience the brilliance of John Singer Sargent in this meticulously reproduced exhibition catalog, "Retrospective exhibition of important works of John Singer Sargent," originally presented by the Grand Central Art Galleries from February 23rd to March 22nd, 1924. This volume offers a glimpse into a...

What role should the arts play in a democracy? At the height of the Great Depression, President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal turned crisis into opportunity. Through unprecedented federal funding for the arts, the New Deal launched the careers of artists such as Philip...

Walt Disney was a man of many passions; art, storytelling, family, and entrepreneurship. But not many people knew about his love affair with the titan of transportation: the train. Walt Disney's Trains: A Grand Circle Tour Through His Life and Legacy reveals a part...

A new edition of the timeless holiday favorite showcasing Norman Rockwell's artwork alongside festive stories, poems, and recipes Originally published by Abrams in 1977, Norman Rockwell's Christmasis a holiday classic that has remained a bestselling family treasure for more than 30 years. With over...

A revelatory look at midcentury American artistic responses to the Holocaust, and the role of the Jewish experience in the development of modern art The profound effects of the Holocaust and the Jewish experience of World War II left an indelible mark on artists...

""Drawings of Joseph Stella: From the Collection of Rabin and Krueger"" is a book that showcases a collection of drawings by the Italian-American artist Joseph Stella. The book is written by William Gerdtz and features a comprehensive look at the drawings from the private...

This is the first book to closely examine the curatorial work that the celebrated poet Frank O'Hara (1926-1966) undertook for the Museum of Modern Art in New York and abroad. Upon his premature death, the New York Times obituary ran with the headline: 'Frank...