Art - American - General

Das Buch verortet Hans Mielichs fulminante und teilweise neu entdeckten Gemälde und Zeichnungen in der Kunstgeschichte des 16. Jahrhunderts. Als gefragter Maler seiner Zeit lernt Mielich Tizian in Venedig und die italienischen Manieristen in Rom kennen. Seine gegenüber der Malerei Albrecht Altdorfers, Bartel Behams...

The first substantial, scholarly overview of the American creative community living in postwar Paris, featuring never-before-published interviews with Americans and French artists, critics, and dealers. This book delves into the various circles of artists who lived in France following World War II. Featuring new...

A stunning full-colour art book and the first to explore the career of award-winning visual artist Sandra Meigs Part philosopher, part filmmaker, performer, writer, tinkerer, prankster, conjurer, naturalist, upholsterer, and teacher, Sandra Meigs has typically been referred to as a painter. But she engages...

Butterflies in art and poetry shown in art form. This recognized and award winning artist and poet conveys the beauty of butterflies.Author: Sue Wright OwensISBN-10: 172344460XISBN-13: 9781723444609Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/19/2018Pages: 26Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.21lbsSize: 10.00h x 8.00w x 0.07d

Cartoon Research presents Chuck and Jack Luchsinger's Cartoon TeleTales, network television's first "cartoon" series, broadcast 1948-1950. The book takes a look at the pioneering children's show and its creators, brothers Chuck and Jack Luchsinger, the co-hosts of the program. Jack Luchsinger, an actor, and...

"Everything that made us laugh when we were fourteen, and everything that makes us laugh today." - Joe Bob Briggs "Remember the good old days when cartoons used to be funny? Kit is proof that the good old days are still here. A Sherman...

Stay in touch with country and city dwelling friends by writing them a note inside these rural-themed greeting cards by New England illustrator extraordinaire, Mary Azarian. A handwritten note, on good paper and contained in a classy envelope, says something about the sender and...

A photograph book featuring street views, art displays inside buildings, art galleries and street arts in Short North Art District in Columbus OH.Author: Shoichiro NakamuraISBN-10: 1546766952ISBN-13: 9781546766957Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/03/2017Pages: 28Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.20lbsSize: 8.50h x 8.50w x 0.07d

What did it mean for painter Lee Krasner to be an artist and a woman if, in the culture of 1950s New York, to be an artist was to be Jackson Pollock and to be a woman was to be Marilyn Monroe? With this...

What did it mean for painter Lee Krasner to be an artist and a woman if, in the culture of 1950s New York, to be an artist was to be Jackson Pollock and to be a woman was to be Marilyn Monroe? With this...

This publication provides the first time ever look at Chaim Goldberg's Clowns and Circus. This collection has been kept boxed up until 2015 and now his true diverse genius can be seen and analyzed in the proper perspective.Author: Shalom GoldbergISBN-10: 1511985933ISBN-13: 9781511985932Publisher: Createspace Independent...

In the capital city of Jackson, visual artists and craftsmen have historically found a place where their work is cherished as part of the local economy. The works span nearly all mediums from sculpting to painting. Beginning in the 1920s with the formation of...

Inspired by experience in the music industry and origins as an aspiring pop star, British artist Michael Gillette delivers his greatest hits, demos, and rare cuts of the past three decades in DRAWN IN STEREO. Showcasing pieces produced for Beastie Boys, Paul McCartney, MGMT,...

The momentary beauty of Sage Vaughn's butterflies is palpable. These impossibly lovely, delicate creatures appear to have magically landed or violently crashed, oozing their colorful pigment like blood-stained marks across the canvas. The dichotomy of these delicate and ephemeral creatures co-existing over images of...

Fifties Slang coloring book for grown-ups will provide hours of stress relief and entertainment. Take a nostalgic trip through the fifties with these 24 coloring pages, each with its own unique slang word.Author: Lynn SmithISBN-10: 1537246569ISBN-13: 9781537246567Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/24/2016Pages: 52Format:...

Do you want to learn more about Drawing? Continue Reading For many who admire the art of drawing, this is the right book for you to get acquainted with step by step guidelines throughout the whole journey of drawing. Many people who ventures in...

Brief biographies of selected 19th century American landscape painters with discussions of their artistic stylyes. Auction price histories of their work from 1946 to 2015 with prices also shown in current 2015 dollar prices to give collectors some idea of changes in price in...

A LOUISIANA BAYOU CHISTMAS WITH PAPA ODIS was written to bring joy to my children's families, and now we offer it to the world to bring joy to all families. It is best when colored together, as the joy it brings is in the...

A native of Springfield, Massachusetts, HAROLD J. RABINOVITZ (1915-1944) earned a fine arts degree from Yale in 1935, studied at the Art Students League in New York City and rose quickly to prominence in American art circles before his burgeoning career was cut short...

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 breadth of creative expression is as impressive...

How museums' visual culture contributes to knowledge accumulation Sarita See argues that collections of stolen artifacts form the foundation of American knowledge production. Nowhere can we appreciate more easily the triple forces of knowledge accumulation--capitalist, colonial, and racial--than in the imperial museum, where the...

PJ McMouse is a character for all ages. Becoming weary of a complicated life he really can't rewind, PJ decides to start life anew, shunning his past and deciding to live a life of kind-hearted adventure with the friends he loves His innate ability...

Amelie "Amie" Sloan took her first pottery course at the Rehoboth, Delaware Art League with Dorothy Lewis in 1973. Since then, she has worked on sculpting ethnic clay masks. In 2007 a retrospective of her work was hung at the League. This book is...

""American Tradition In Painting"" by John W. McCoubrey is a comprehensive exploration of the history and evolution of American painting from colonial times to the mid-twentieth century. The book covers the major movements and styles of American art, including the Hudson River School, American...

This book introduces American painting from the colonial period to the early 20th century. It includes works by John Singleton Copley, Gilbert Stuart, Rembrandt Peale, James Peale, Joshua Johnson, Edward Hicks. Thomas Cole. John Quidor. George Inness, John Frederick Kensett, Frederic Edwin Church, Albert...

This spiral-bound weekly desk diary is filled with evocative photographs and paintings of New York City from The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York City is defined by its soaring skyscrapers and broad bridges. But it's also represented by modest scenes of quiet backyards...

Historical explanations of the decorative ironwork of South Carolina.Author: Alston DeasISBN-10: 0941936384ISBN-13: 9780941936385Publisher: Linden PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/01/1997Pages: 112Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.77lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.54w x 0.32d

Connoisseurs and casual visitors alike have long admired the American paintings, sculpture, and drawings on display at the Chrysler Museum of Art in Norfolk, Virginia. Now for the first time, the collection's scope and detail are illuminated in print form. Rich in works by...

With this publication, produced in conjunction with the largest expansion in the history of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, the full scope of the museum's outstanding American art collection is represented for the first time.Following an introduction tracing the history of American art...

Prior to World War I, printmaking in the United States was, with a few exceptions, primarily the domain of commercial enterprises that produced largely picturesque European scenes or depictions of popular towns on the East Coast. Prints of Minnesota scenes, especially by Minnesota artists,...

In 1851 Frank Blackwell Mayer, a talented young artist from Baltimore, traveled to Minnesota Territory to attend the signing of the Treaty of Traverse des Sioux between the Dakota Indians and the United States government. "He went," notes Bertha Heilbron in the introduction, "not...

In 1899 at the age of fifty-six, Josephine Jefferson Foard moved from the East Coast to Laguna Pueblo in New Mexico, where she built her own house and a kiln for firing pottery. Her intent was to show Pueblo potters how to strengthen their...

Fugitive Testimony traces the long arc of the African American slave narrative from the eighteenth century to the present in order to rethink the epistemological limits of the form and to theorize the complicated interplay between the visual and the literary throughout its history....

2008 Association of American University Presses Award for Jacket Design A comprehensive history of American political cartooning, complete with over 200 illustrations The Art of Ill Will is a comprehensive history of American political cartooning, featuring over two hundred illustrations. From the colonial period...

Stop, look, and discover--the streets and parks of Manhattan are filled with beautiful historic monuments that will entertain, stimulate, and inspire you. Among the 54 monuments in this volume are major figures in American history: Washington, Lincoln, Lafayette, Horace Greeley, and Gertrude Stein; more...

Essay'd 3: 30 Detroit Artists is the third volume in a series of collections that present short, illustrated essays about artists who live and work in Detroit or who have participated in the Detroit art scene in an important way. Stemming from the popular...

"This book is exceptionally smart, really one of the best books I've read in its interdisciplinary way. . . .] I find it original, thoughtful, and useful." -Barbara Groseclose, The Ohio State University Before the Civil War, Cincinnati, Ohio, was considered the most important...

Since the early decades of the eighteenth century, European, and especially British, thinkers were preoccupied with questions of taste. Whether Americans believed that taste was innate--and therefore a marker of breeding and station--or acquired--and thus the product of application and study--all could appreciate that...

Lists 5,100 artists, with nearly 10,000 signature examples with biographical, bibliographical, and auction sources.Author: John CastagnoISBN-10: 0810822490ISBN-13: 9780810822498Publisher: Scarecrow PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/01/1990Pages: 844Format: HardcoverWeight: 4.75lbsSize: 11.30h x 8.80w x 2.00d

From the Potomac to the Gulf, artists were creating in the South even before it was recognized as a region. The South has contributed to America's cultural heritage with works as diverse as Benjamin Henry Latrobe's architectural plans for the nation's Capitol, the wares...

In The Familiar Made Strange, twelve distinguished historians offer original and playful readings of American icons and artifacts that cut across rather than stop at the nation's borders to model new interpretive approaches to studying United States history. These leading practitioners of the "transnational...

Religious imagery was ubiquitous in late-nineteenth-century American life: department stores, schoolbooks, postcards, and popular magazines all featured elements of Christian visual culture. Such imagery was not limited to commercial and religious artifacts, however, for it also found its way into contemporary fine art. In...

Hassam's impressive career as one of America's foremost Impressionists is celebrated and illuminated in this volume with authoritative essays and color illustrations that represent all of his styles. Includes an illustrated chronology and annotated Bibliography. 230 illustrations, 200 in color.Author: Warren Adelson, William H....

Andy Warhol said about his road trip to Los Angeles in 1963: "The farther West we drove, the more Pop everything looked on the highways." In this original and engaging book, C cile Whiting examines what Pop looked like when it left the highbrow...

In the early work of John Singer Sargent (1856-1925), Henry James saw "the slightly 'uncanny' spectacle of a talent which on the threshold of its career has nothing more to learn." Sargent's talent, nay, genius was indeed uncanny, sustained with equal intensity through his...

Accompanying an exhibition at the Wallace Collection, Inspiring Walt Disney explores the influences of the art and architecture of France on Walt Disney and his studio artists, highlighting in particular the Disney classics of hand-drawn animation, Cinderella (1950) and Beauty and the Beast (1991)....

As curator of a major U.S. museum, Germano Celant had access to the most influential figures in the scene at a time when America was the eye of the contemporary art storm. This book presents his essays devoted to the most powerful movements in...

Published for the inaugural exhibition of the Cleveland Triennial, this book features essays and conversations by leading curators and critics of biennials who investigate what it means to stage a large-scale biennial today, in an American Midwestern city. Richly illustrated with all exhibitions and...

The 16th National Exhibition of the American Society of Marine Artists represents over 100 outstanding works of art created by Americans leading marine artists.Author: Len Tantillo, American Society of Marine ArtistsISBN-10: 1505904323ISBN-13: 9781505904321Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/05/2015Pages: 154Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.13lbsSize: 11.00h x...

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...