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  • Land Art in the U.S.A.: A Complete Guide to Landscape, Environmental, Earthworks, Nature, Sculpture and Installation Art in the United States by Malpas, William
    William Malpas

    Land Art in the U.S.A.: A Complete Guide to Landscape, Environmental, Earthworks, Nature, Sculpture and Installation Art in the United States

    LAND ART IN THE U.S.A. A study of land art in America, featuring all of the well-known land artists from the 'golden age' of land art - the 1960s - to the present day. This book explores all of the major American land, environmental...
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  • Brice Marden by Garrard, Laura
    Laura Garrard

    Brice Marden

    BRICE MARDEN The American artist Brice Marden (b. 1938) is one of the great contemporary painters. Brice Marden's first works were the Minimalist monochrome panels of the 1960s, large, austere, 'implacable' oil and wax paintings characterized by a precise coolness. In 1975 Marden had...
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  • Brice Marden by Garrard, Laura
    Laura Garrard

    Brice Marden

    BRICE MARDEN The American artist Brice Marden (b. 1938) is one of the great contemporary painters. Brice Marden's first works were the Minimalist monochrome panels of the 1960s, large, austere, 'implacable' oil and wax paintings characterized by a precise coolness. In 1975 Marden had...
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  • Mark Rothko: The Art of Transcendence by Davis, Julia
    Julia Davis

    Mark Rothko: The Art of Transcendence

    MARK ROTHKO Mark Rothko (1903-1970, born Marcus Rothkowitz in Dvinsk, Russia) is one of the great 20th century American artists. A huge amount of material that has grown up around Rothko. Like Vincent van Gogh, Pablo Picasso, Claude Monet and Leonardo da Vinci, Mark...
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  • Mapping the Empty: Eight Artists and Nevada by Fox, William L.
    William L. Fox

    Mapping the Empty: Eight Artists and Nevada

    Foreword by Jeff Kelley. Nevada's open spaces have long inspired complex responses from a population largely shaped by European sensibilities toward land and its uses. In Mapping the Empty Fox considers how eight of the state's most distinguished and innovative contemporary artists have responded...
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  • The Negro in The American Rebellion by William Wells Brown
    William Wells Brown

    The Negro in The American Rebellion

    This documents the participation of both free blacks and slaves during the Civil War, as well as a background of African American participation in the Revolution and War of 1812. From the preface: "Feeling anxious to preserve for future reference an account of the...
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  • The San Francisco Bay Note Card Box by Killion, Tom
    Tom Killion

    The San Francisco Bay Note Card Box

    These lovely note cards beautifully reproduce the amazing woodcut prints of the California landscape that Tom Killion created over the past four decades. Each box contains twelve blank cards printed on fine white stock and twelve white envelopes. The San Francisco Bay Note Card...
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  • All City Writers: The Graffiti Diaspora by Caputo, Andrea
    Andrea Caputo

    All City Writers: The Graffiti Diaspora

    The title, All City Writers, describes a vast research on the Writing movement, focusing particularly on the process of its exportation from New York to all of Europe during the '80s. The first part of the research analyzes how graffiti in media such as...
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  • The Great American Paint In(r): Artists Sharing Their Pandemic Stories by Weinaug, William C.
    William Weinaug

    The Great American Paint In(r): Artists Sharing Their Pandemic Stories

    The first book to document the COVID-19 pandemic through the eyes of American artists in all 50 states Includes contributions from at least one celebrated artist from every U.S. state, plus several from Canada Cover artwork created by Mary Jane Volkmann "We are living...
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  • Rod Penner: Paintings, 1987-2022 by Meisel, Louis K.
    Louis K. Meisel

    Rod Penner: Paintings, 1987-2022

    The abandoned and forgotten landscapes of rural southwestern towns are the favored subjects of Rod Penner's paintings. His deft use of contrasts in his images--despondency and hope, isolation and nostalgia--evokes memories of The Last Picture Show and elicits complex responses from viewers. "I'm interested...
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  • 50 Contemporary Artists by Sanders Smith, Terrence
    Terrence Sanders Smith

    50 Contemporary Artists

    50 Contemporary Artists is my response to publishers, critics and curators who systematically regurgitate the same list of contemporary artists every season. Being an Artist, Editor-In-Chief of Artvoices Magazine and the Curator of Artvoices Art Books, I view thousands of artists and their works...
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  • The Art of Texas State Parks: A Centennial Celebration, 1923-2023 by Sansom, Andrew
    Andrew Sansom

    The Art of Texas State Parks: A Centennial Celebration, 1923-2023

    In 2023, the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department marks the 100th anniversary of the state park system. From its inception in 1923, the Texas park system has grown to 95 sites, covering more than 627,000 acres and comprising 74 state parks, 13 historic sites,...
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  • On Island Time: A Traveler's Atlas: Illustrated Adventures on and Around the Islands of Washington and British Columbia by O'Leary, Chandler
    Chandler O'Leary

    On Island Time: A Traveler's Atlas: Illustrated Adventures on and Around the Islands of Washington and British Columbia

    Dream of escaping to an island, for the slower pace and stunning views? This illustrated love letter to the Pacific Northwest's iconic islands--focusing on Puget Sound, the San Juans, and Canada's Gulf Islands and Vancouver Island--charms and educates travelers, locals, and armchair adventurers alike....
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  • Raymond Jonson and the Spiritual in Modernist and Abstract Painting by Hartel Jr, Herbert R.
    Herbert R. Hartel Jr

    Raymond Jonson and the Spiritual in Modernist and Abstract Painting

    This is the most thorough and detailed monograph on the artwork of Raymond Jonson. He is one of many artists of the first half of the twentieth-century who demonstrate the richness and diversity of an under-appreciated period in the history of American art. Visualizing...
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  • Lens on American Art: The Depiction and Role of Eyeglasses by Wilmerding, John
    John Wilmerding

    Lens on American Art: The Depiction and Role of Eyeglasses

    A reflection of American art's most iconic portraits that feature eyeglasses, and their significance to the artists--from Grant Wood to Alex Katz--through the lens of renowned art historian John Wilmerding. This book celebrates and interprets eyeglasses in American art through painting, prints, folk art,...
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  • Between You and Me: Queer Disclosures in the New York Art World, 1948-1963 by Butt, Gavin
    Gavin Butt

    Between You and Me: Queer Disclosures in the New York Art World, 1948-1963

    In the decades preceding the Stonewall riots--in the wake of the 1948 publication of Alfred Kinsey's controversial report on male sexuality and in the midst of a cold war culture of suspicion and paranoia--discussions of homosexuality within the New York art world necessarily circulated...
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  • Art in the Lives of Immigrant Communities in the United States by Dimaggio, Paul
    Paul Dimaggio

    Art in the Lives of Immigrant Communities in the United States

    Art in the Lives of Immigrant Communities in the United States is the first book to provide a comprehensive and lively analysis of the contributions of artists from America's newest immigrant communities--Africa, the Middle East, China, India, Southeast Asia, Central America, and Mexico. Adding...
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  • Native Art of the Northwest Coast: A History of Changing Ideas by Townsend-Gault, Charlotte
    Charlotte Townsend-Gault

    Native Art of the Northwest Coast: A History of Changing Ideas

    The Northwest Coast of North America has long been recognized as one of the world's canonical art zones. This volume records and scrutinizes the history of how and why this has come about. A work of critical historiography, it makes accessible for the first...
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  • Contemporary Cape Cod Artists: Images of Land and Sea: Images of Land and Sea by Forman, Deborah
    Deborah Forman

    Contemporary Cape Cod Artists: Images of Land and Sea

    This book features 45 Cape Cod artists working in abstraction, displaying more than 400 images of their work. Based on her interviews with the artists, the author writes about their aspirations and approaches. The art, which include paintings, photographs, sculpture, and prints, show a...
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  • Nancy Spero by Bird, Jon
    Jon Bird

    Nancy Spero

    American artist Nancy Spero (b.1929) concentrates on the depiction of women: mythological women, movie women, tortured women. Inspired by classical and modern sources, she collages and imprints her contemporary goddesses on to long, papyrus-like friezes that scroll around museum walls.Her subject matter, which has...
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  • Joey Kirkpatrick and Flora C. Mace by Tesner, Linda
    Linda Tesner

    Joey Kirkpatrick and Flora C. Mace

    Artists Joey Kirkpatrick and Flora C. Mace began collaborating at Pilchuck Glass School in 1979 and went on to become pioneers of style and technique in the art glass world. The innovation, scale, and complexity of their work firmly established their place alongside other...
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  • Southern/Modern: Rediscovering Southern Art from the First Half of the Twentieth Century by Stuhlman, Jonathan
    Jonathan Stuhlman

    Southern/Modern: Rediscovering Southern Art from the First Half of the Twentieth Century

    Inspired by a companion exhibition, Southern/Modern is the first book to survey progressive art created in the American South during the first half of the twentieth century. Featuring twelve essays, this lavishly illustrated volume includes all the works from the exhibition and assesses a...
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  • New Art City: Manhattan at Mid-Century by Perl, Jed
    Jed Perl

    New Art City: Manhattan at Mid-Century

    In this landmark work, Jed Perl captures the excitement of a generation of legendary artists-Jackson Pollack, Joseph Cornell, Robert Rauschenberg, and Ellsworth Kelly among them-who came to New York, mingled in its lofts and bars, and revolutionized American art. In a continuously arresting narrative,...
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  • The Funniest People in Art: 250 Anecdotes by Bruce, David
    David Bruce

    The Funniest People in Art: 250 Anecdotes

    This is a short, quick, and easy read. Most of these anecdotes are probably just OK, but there should be at least one or two that you will want to tell your friends. Anecdotes are retold in my own words to avoid plagiarism. Most...
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  • The Trump Effect in Contemporary Art and Visual Culture: Populism, Politics, and Paranoia by Messham-Muir, Kit
    Kit Messham-Muir

    The Trump Effect in Contemporary Art and Visual Culture: Populism, Politics, and Paranoia

    The 2021 Capitol Hill Riot marked a watershed moment when the 'old world' of factbased systems of representation was briefly overwhelmed by the emerging hyper-individual politics of aestheticized emotion. In The Trump Effect in Contemporary Art and Visual Culture, Kit Messham-Muir and Uros Cvoro...
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  • The Trump Effect in Contemporary Art and Visual Culture: Populism, Politics, and Paranoia by Messham-Muir, Kit
    Kit Messham-Muir

    The Trump Effect in Contemporary Art and Visual Culture: Populism, Politics, and Paranoia

    The 2021 Capitol Hill Riot marked a watershed moment when the 'old world' of factbased systems of representation was briefly overwhelmed by the emerging hyper-individual politics of aestheticized emotion. In The Trump Effect in Contemporary Art and Visual Culture, Kit Messham-Muir and Uros Cvoro...
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  • Portrait Drawing: A Guide to Drawing a Young Woman's Portrait by Williams, Kathy L.
    Kathy L. Williams

    Portrait Drawing: A Guide to Drawing a Young Woman's Portrait

    Have you ever tried to draw a friend's face? How did that go? Were you a little lost? I have just the help for you!In this book I share with you my approach to drawing a portrait. I enjoy drawing people. I love seeing...
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  • Buckman Journal 008: Anthology of Portland Artists and Writers by Sampson, Jerry
    Jerry Sampson

    Buckman Journal 008: Anthology of Portland Artists and Writers

    Yet again, the folks at Buckman have scoped the scene and printed the best that Portland and the environs has to offer. Short stories, essays, a poem here and there, and a bunch of art from the scene that is bursting at the seams...
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  • Mazz Florida Dreamscapes 2: Backus & Highwaymen Influenced Artist by Mazzarella, Mark
    Mark Mazzarella

    Mazz Florida Dreamscapes 2: Backus & Highwaymen Influenced Artist

    Step Inside the Painting and Imagine Being There! Vibrant colors and spectacular scenes! These High Quality Masterworks bring the beauty of Florida to life. See how it all Started! From the hectic, dangerous days of South Florida in 1979-80 to being commissioned by 20th...
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  • Art of the State: Celebrating the Visual Art of North Carolina by Roberts, Liza
    Liza Roberts

    Art of the State: Celebrating the Visual Art of North Carolina

    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 artists, compelling interviews, and beautiful full-color photography, this book tells...
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  • Presidential Puzzlemint 500-Piece Puzzle: An Abraham Lincoln Jigsaw Puzzle & Mini-Poster: Jigsaw Puzzles for Adults by Wagner, Mark
    Mark Wagner

    Presidential Puzzlemint 500-Piece Puzzle: An Abraham Lincoln Jigsaw Puzzle & Mini-Poster: Jigsaw Puzzles for Adults

    A unique 500-piece jigsaw puzzle perfect for puzzlers and history buffs. - This puzzle's uniquely challenging design depicts a portrait of Abraham Lincoln rendered in deconstructed dollar bills.- The fusion of the elements of currency with a familiar historical face presents a fun challenge...
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  • Rex Brandt: Watercolor Paintings by Kvamme, Gary Lee
    Gary Lee Kvamme

    Rex Brandt: Watercolor Paintings

    Rex Brandt's work has always primarily represented the careless, joyful nature of the beach and its activities and lifestyle. His creations emerge more as reactions to the happenings around him in his life than representations of real things. Living in California and absorbing all...
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  • Smith & Wisznia Collection by Sanders Smith, Terrence
    Terrence Sanders Smith

    Smith & Wisznia Collection

    The Smith & Wisznia collection's singular focus: artists living, working and exhibiting in Louisiana post Hurricane Katrina. Louisiana during this period of renewal, rebirth, and rebuilding experienced an art renaissance. There was a migration of creatives from all areas of life to Louisiana: Musicians,...
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  • Georgia O'Keeffe by Messinger, Lisa Mintz
    Lisa Mintz Messinger

    Georgia O'Keeffe

    Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986) was a major figure in American art for seven decades. Throughout that long and prolific career she remained true to her unique artistic vision, creating a highly individual style that synthesized the formal language of modern European abstraction and the themes...
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  • David Smith: The Art and Life of a Transformational Sculptor by Brenson, Michael
    Michael Brenson

    David Smith: The Art and Life of a Transformational Sculptor

    "An essential account of America's greatest sculptor . . . [A] magnum opus." --Marjorie Perloff, The Times Literary SupplementThe landmark biography of the inscrutable and brilliant David Smith, the greatest American sculptor of the twentieth century. David Smith, a pioneer of Abstract Expressionism, did...
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  • Boundary Trouble in American Vanguard Art, 1920-2020: Volume 84 by Cooke, Lynne
    Lynne Cooke

    Boundary Trouble in American Vanguard Art, 1920-2020: Volume 84

    A profound examination of the complex constructs that have kept "outsider" and self-taught artists on the margins of the mainstream The artists in Boundary Trouble in American Vanguard Art defy binary constructs of insider and outsider. Some are credentialed professionals, others are self-identified amateurs,...
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  • Still Looking: Essays on American Art by Updike, John
    John Updike

    Still Looking: Essays on American Art

    From a master of American letters and the author of the acclaimed Rabbit series comes a richly illustrated book of eighteen insightful essays about American art, written while he was the art critic at The New York Review of Books."Remarkably elegant little essays, dense...
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  • 1898: Visual Culture and U.S. Imperialism in the Caribbean and the Pacific by Caragol, Taína
    Taína Caragol

    1898: Visual Culture and U.S. Imperialism in the Caribbean and the Pacific

    A revealing look at U.S. imperialism through the lens of visual culture and portraiture In 1898, the United States seized territories overseas, ushering in an era of expansion that was at odds with the nation's founding promise of freedom and democracy for all. This...
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  • Black Womanhood: Images, Icons, and Ideologies of the African Body by Thompson, Barbara
    Barbara Thompson

    Black Womanhood: Images, Icons, and Ideologies of the African Body

    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 icon--the black female body--and contemporary artists' interventions upon historical...
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  • George Post: Watercolor Paintings by Kvamme, Gary Lee
    Gary Lee Kvamme

    George Post: Watercolor Paintings

    George Post was born in Oakland, California and felt a profound connection to the land. His expressively rendered plein air compositions captured the essence of California's diverse landscapes in a manner that resonated with both critics and art patrons alike, and his numerous painting...
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  • Chryssa & New York by Larigakis, Sophia
    Megan Holly Witko

    Chryssa & New York

    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 figure in the postwar New York art...
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  • American Watercolors, 1880-1990: Into the Light by Homann, Joachim
    Joachim Homann

    American Watercolors, 1880-1990: Into the Light

    A celebration of the diverse world of American watercolors from the late nineteenth through the twentieth century, featuring works from the Harvard Art Museums' collection Watercolor holds a special place in the history of American art. For generations of artists, the medium has provided...
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  • Fellow Wanderer: Isabella Stewart Gardner's Travel Albums by Greenwald, Diana Seave
    Diana Seave Greenwald

    Fellow Wanderer: Isabella Stewart Gardner's Travel Albums

    A revealing and beautifully illustrated critical edition of Gardner's collaged travel albums In 1865, art collector and philanthropist Isabella Stewart Gardner (1840-1924) lost her only child to pneumonia at less than two years old. In an effort to rouse her from depression, Gardner and...
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  • Why?: The Philosophy Behind the Question by Huneman, Philippe
    Philippe Huneman

    Why?: The Philosophy Behind the Question

    A philosopher explores the many dimensions of a beguilingly simple question. Why did triceratops have horns? Why did World War I occur? Why does Romeo love Juliet? And, most importantly, why ask why? Through an analysis of these questions and others, philosopher Philippe Huneman...
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  • Stories for Little Comrades: Revolutionary Artists and the Making of Early Soviet Children's Books by Steiner, Evgeny
    Evgeny Steiner

    Stories for Little Comrades: Revolutionary Artists and the Making of Early Soviet Children's Books

    In the Soviet Union of the 1920s, the most prominent avant-garde artists were eager children's book illustrators. Reaching a mass audience of unformed, malleable young people appealed to their commitment to an art manifesto based on the creation of a new kind of person...
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  • Warhol's World: A 1000 Piece Jigsaw Puzzle by Ander, Martin
    Martin Ander

    Warhol's World: 1000 Piece Jigsaw Puzzle

    Step into Warhol's New York with this challenging 1,000 piece jigsaw puzzle. Piece together a motley crowd of pop cultural icons, movie stars, musicians and art icons as they mingle inside the Factory. In this magnificent illustration by Martin Ander you will find an...
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  • Bill Viola in Dialogue: Selected Writings and Lectures by Viola, Bill
    Bill Viola

    Bill Viola in Dialogue: Selected Writings and Lectures

    The Museum der Moderne Salzburg is dedicating a comprehensive exhibition to the US-American video and installation artist Bill Viola, offering an overview of his oeuvre that now stretches over fifty years. Viola is regarded across the world as a pioneer of video and media...
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  • Saul Steinberg: Between the Lines by Steinberg, Saul
    Saul Steinberg

    Saul Steinberg: Between the Lines

    Featuring many rare works and a large- scale, previously forgotten masterwork, this wide-ranging yet intimate book reintroduces readers to one of the most versatile and beloved artists of the post-war era. Romanian-born Saul Steinberg (1914-1999) had one of the most remarkable careers in American...
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  • Wild Flowers of North America: Botanical Illustrations by Mary Vaux Walcott by Henson, Pamela
    Pamela Henson

    Wild Flowers of North America: Botanical Illustrations by Mary Vaux Walcott

    Now available in a new, large single volume with an appendix also listing the modern plant names, this classic collection by "the Audubon of botany" features more than 250 exquisite reproductions of Walcott's celebrated watercolors of wildflower life in the United States of America...
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  • Keith Haring: The Story of His Life by Parisi, Paolo
    Paolo Parisi

    Keith Haring: The Story of His Life

    Celebrated artist, activist and humanitarian, Keith Haring is the perfect subject for this graphic novel. Focused on three colors, this comic-book tells the fascinating life story of a man who lived his truth on all kinds of canvases. From his boyhood days spent drawing...
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