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  • Stockyard Institute: 25 Years of Art and Radical Pedagogy by Rodrigues Widholm, Julie
    Julie Rodrigues Widholm

    Stockyard Institute: 25 Years of Art and Radical Pedagogy

    Author: Julie Rodrigues WidholmISBN-10: 0578827786ISBN-13: 9780578827780Publisher: Dapaul Art MuseumLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/02/2021Pages: 232Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.55lbsSize: 9.70h x 7.10w x 0.80d
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  • Georgia O'Keeffe by Herreros, María
    Mar? Herreros

    Georgia O'Keeffe: A Graphic Biography

    A graphic biography of Georgia O'Keeffe, one of the most significant artists of the 20th century, known for her paintings of enlarged flowers and renowned for her contribution to modern art. Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986), the American artist known for her paintings of enlarged flowers,...
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  • Jane Dickson in Times Square by Dickson, Jane
    Jane Dickson

    Jane Dickson in Times Square

    Artist Jane Dickson is a deep-rooted and central voice in New York City's complex creative history. In the late 1970s and early '80s, she was part of the movement joining the legacies of downtown art, punk rock, and hip hop through her involvement with...
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  • Inventing the American Flag: How the Stars and Stripes Was Woven from Symbols by Moeller, Henry W.
    Henry W. Moeller

    Inventing the American Flag: How the Stars and Stripes Was Woven from Symbols

    A treasure hunt for the hidden meaning of the symbols that appear on America's beloved national flag."The best book on the American flag's origins. . . No one knows the ins and outs of the origins of the flag of the United States as...
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  • Audubon: Life and Art in the American Wilderness by Streshinsky, Shirley
    Shirley Streshinsky

    Audubon: Life and Art in the American Wilderness

    The compelling story of a legendary artist and an eternal American hero.Author: Shirley StreshinskyISBN-10: 1618580256ISBN-13: 9781618580252Publisher: TurnerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/03/2013Pages: 528Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.46lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 1.18d
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  • Russel Wright: The Nature of Design by Albrecht, Donald
    Donald Albrecht

    Russel Wright: The Nature of Design

    Donald Albrecht has curated exhibitions that have ranged from overviews of cultural trends to profiles of individual design firms and artists. He teaches in the Masters Program in the Decorative Arts at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum and lectures frequently about architecture and design...
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  • America's Art Museums: A Traveler's Guide to Great Collections Large and Small by Loebl, Suzanne
    Suzanne Loebl

    America's Art Museums: A Traveler's Guide to Great Collections Large and Small

    Much more than a simply practical guide, this book is a knowledgeable and enthusiastic tour not only of this country's great museums but also of the history of art in America. Suzanne Loebl is the perfect, passionate companion, as she takes you from the...
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  • The William Morris: An Assortment of Fictitious Lives by Yood, James
    James Yood

    The William Morris: An Assortment of Fictitious Lives

    This volume presents some of the more recent work in glass by American artist, William Morris. The sculptures explore themes related to archaeology, animals, and the hunt combining Morris' interest in myth and ancient history with his keen understanding of the natural world.Author: James...
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  • Goreys Worlds by Monroe, Erin
    Erin Monroe

    Goreys Worlds

    An exploration of the artistic and cultural influences that shaped writer and illustrator Edward Gorey The illustrator, designer, and writer Edward Gorey (1925-2000) is beloved for his droll, surreal, and slightly sinister drawings. While he is perhaps best known for his fanciful, macabre books,...
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  • The Lindquist Legacy: A History of the Us Studio Woodturning Movement by Robinson, Seri C.
    Seri C. Robinson

    The Lindquist Legacy: A History of the Us Studio Woodturning Movement

    The first book about Mark Lindquist's impact on the rise of woodworking from the studio craft movement to high art. Carefully researched and beautifully illustrated, this history reveals a clearer understanding of the art of woodturning and its current position in the United States...
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  • The Story of the Rockport-Fulton Art Colony: How a Coastal Texas Town Became an Art Enclave by Betz, Kay Kronke
    Kay Kronke Betz

    The Story of the Rockport-Fulton Art Colony: How a Coastal Texas Town Became an Art Enclave

    When Coastal Living Magazine listed Rockport, Texas, among its "Top 10 Coastal Artists' Colonies" with more well-known art communities such as Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, and Monhegan Island, Maine, many art lovers may have been surprised. But Rockport's inclusion represented an emerging Texas Gulf Coast aesthetic...
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  • Norman Rockwell: Behind the Camera by Schick, Ron
    Ron Schick

    Norman Rockwell: Behind the Camera

    Norman Rockwell: Behind the Camera is the first book to explore the meticulously composed and richly detailed photographs that Norman Rockwell used to create his famous artworks. Working alongside skilled photographers, Rockwell acted as director, carefully orchestrating models, selecting props, and choosing locations for...
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  • Walls of Empowerment: Chicana/O Indigenist Murals of California by Latorre, Guisela
    Guisela Latorre

    Walls of Empowerment: Chicana/O Indigenist Murals of California

    Exploring three major hubs of muralist activity in California, where indigenist imagery is prevalent, Walls of Empowerment celebrates an aesthetic that seeks to firmly establish Chicana/o sociopolitical identity in U.S. territory. Providing readers with a history and genealogy of key muralists' productions, Guisela Latorre...
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  • Pay Attention Please: Bruce Nauman's Words: Writings and Interviews by Nauman, Bruce
    Bruce Nauman

    Pay Attention Please: Bruce Nauman's Words: Writings and Interviews

    The most comprehensive collection to date of the artist Bruce Nauman's writings plus all of his major interviews from 1965 to 2001.Since the 1960s, the artist Bruce Nauman has developed a highly complex and pluralistic oeuvre ranging from discrete sculpture, performance, film, video, and...
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  • Memorial Mania: Public Feeling in America by Doss, Erika
    Erika Doss

    Memorial Mania: Public Feeling in America

    In the past few decades, thousands of new memorials to executed witches, victims of terrorism, and dead astronauts, along with those that pay tribute to civil rights, organ donors, and the end of Communism have dotted the American landscape. Equally ubiquitous, though until now...
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  • A Generous Vision: The Creative Life of Elaine de Kooning by Curtis, Cathy
    Cathy Curtis

    A Generous Vision: The Creative Life of Elaine de Kooning

    The first biography of Elaine de Kooning, A Generous Vision portrays a woman whose intelligence, droll sense of humor, and generosity of spirit endeared her to friends and gave her a starring role in the close-knit world of New York artists. Her zest for...
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  • From the Schuylkill to the Hudson: Landscapes of the Early American Republic by Marley, Anna
    Anna Marley

    From the Schuylkill to the Hudson: Landscapes of the Early American Republic

    From the Schuylkill to the Hudson delves into the important and under-explored tradition of landscape painting in Philadelphia from the early American Republic (1775) to the Centennial International Exposition (1876), and how that corpus shaped the better-known Hudson River School. Examining for the first...
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  • Childe Hassam: At Dusk: Boston Common at Twilight by Hassam, Childe
    Childe Hassam

    Childe Hassam: At Dusk: Boston Common at Twilight

    In this vivid account of one of Boston's best-loved paintings, leading American art specialist Erica E. Hirshler illuminates the context of Childe Hassam's 1880s city scene. With its rosy rust tones, intimate familial vignette and quiet expanse of snow-laden park, today "At Dusk (Boston...
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  • Lady Liberty: An Illustrated History of America's Most Storied Woman by Dim, Joan Marans
    Joseph Berger

    Lady Liberty: An Illustrated History of America's Most Storied Woman

    Magnificent art complements an unvarnished history of the Statue of Liberty and its relationship to immigration policy in the United States throughout the years. What began in 1865 in Glatigny, France, at a dinner party hosted by esteemed university professor douard Ren de Laboulaye...
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  • Georgia Quilts: Piecing Together a History by Holmes, Catherine
    Catherine Holmes

    Georgia Quilts: Piecing Together a History

    This abundantly illustrated volume arises out of the painstaking work of the Georgia Quilt Project, the most authoritative survey of quilts and quiltmakers ever undertaken in the state. Georgia Quilts showcases the diversity of quilting materials, methods, and patterns used in the state from...
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  • Fanny Palmer: The Life and Works of a Currier & Ives Artist by Rubinstein Charlotte Streifer
    Rubinstein Charlotte Streifer

    Fanny Palmer: The Life and Works of a Currier & Ives Artist

    As one of Currier & Ives's leading artists, Frances ("Fanny") Bond Palmer (1812-1876) was a major lithographer whose prints found their way into homes, schools, barns, taverns, business offices, yacht clubs, and elsewhere, reaching a mass audience during her day. Her life was a...
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  • Eugenic Design: Streamlining America in the 1930s by Cogdell, Christina
    Christina Cogdell

    Eugenic Design: Streamlining America in the 1930s

    In 1939, Vogue magazine invited commercial designer Raymond Loewy and eight of his contemporaries--including Walter Dorwin Teague, Egmont Arens, and Henry Dreyfuss--to design a dress for the "Woman of the Future" as part of its special issue promoting the New York World's Fair and...
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  • Beyond Madness: The Art of Ralph Blakelock, 1847-1919 by Geske, Norman A.
    Norman A. Geske

    Beyond Madness: The Art of Ralph Blakelock, 1847-1919

    This book, featuring the life and works of Ralph Blakelock, situates him in the context of American art. Representing over twenty years of study and the examination of several thousand works attributed to him, Beyond Madness reveals the unusual nature of Blakelock's life story...
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  • Artists Respond: American Art and the Vietnam War, 1965-1975 by Ho, Melissa
    Melissa Ho

    Artists Respond: American Art and the Vietnam War, 1965-1975

    How the Vietnam War changed American art By the late 1960s, the United States was in a pitched conflict in Vietnam, against a foreign enemy, and at home--between Americans for and against the war and the status quo. This powerful book showcases how American...
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  • Harvey Quaytman: Against the Static by Diquinzio, Apsara
    Apsara Diquinzio

    Harvey Quaytman: Against the Static

    Harvey Quaytman's paintings are distinct for their inventive, whimsical exploration of shape, meticulous attention to surface texture, and experimental application of color. While his works display a rigorous commitment to formalism, they are simultaneously invested with rich undertones of sensuality, decorativeness, and humor--expressed, too,...
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  • Drawing the Line: The Early Work of Agnes Martin by Rosenberger, Christina Bryan
    Christina Bryan Rosenberger

    Drawing the Line: The Early Work of Agnes Martin

    Agnes Martin's (1912-2004) celebrated grid paintings are widely acknowledged as a touchstone of postwar American art and have influenced many contemporary artists. Martin's formative years, however, have been largely overlooked. In this revelatory study of Martin's early artistic production, Christina Bryan Rosenberger demonstrates that...
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  • Envisioning Howard Finster: The Religion and Art of a Stranger from Another World by Girardot, Norman J.
    Norman J. Girardot

    Envisioning Howard Finster: The Religion and Art of a Stranger from Another World

    The Reverend Howard Finster (1916-2001) was called the "backwoods William Blake" and the "Andy Warhol of the South," and he is considered the godfather of contemporary American folk and visionary art. This book is the first interpretive analysis of the intertwined artistic and religious...
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  • True to Life: Twenty-Five Years of Conversations with David Hockney by Weschler, Lawrence
    Lawrence Weschler

    True to Life: Twenty-Five Years of Conversations with David Hockney

    Soon after the book's publication in 1982, artist David Hockney read Lawrence Weschler's Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees: A Life of Contemporary Artist Robert Irwin and invited Weschler to his studio to discuss it, initiating a series of engrossing...
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  • Hockney's Portraits and People by Livingstone, Marco
    Marco Livingstone

    Hockney's Portraits and People

    Ever since he made his first portraits and self-portraits at the age of sixteen, David Hockney has been fascinated by people--"the human clay," as W. H. Auden put it--and how they have been represented throughout the history of art. As much as any other...
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  • The Gentle Art of Making Enemies by Whistler, James
    James Whistler

    The Gentle Art of Making Enemies

    The Gentle Art of Making Enemies is a book by the painter James McNeill Whistler, published in 1890. The book was in part a response to, in part a transcript of, Whistler's famous libel suit against critic John Ruskin. Ruskin, in a review of...
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  • Frederic Remington: 113 Paintings and Drawings by Tsaneva, Maria
    Maria Tsaneva

    Frederic Remington: 113 Paintings and Drawings

    Frederic Sackrider Remington was an American painter, illustrator, sculptor, and writer who specialized in depictions of the Old American West, specifically concentrating on the last quarter of the 19th-century American West and images of cowboys, American Indians, and the U. S. Cavalry. His style...
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  • Distinctly Kentucky: Coloring Book by Powell, Robert a.
    Robert a. Powell

    Distinctly Kentucky: Coloring Book

    This fantastic collection of sketches by Robert A. Powell represent scenes that are Distinctly Kentucky. The symbols and subjects cover the diverse natural and man-made landmarks as well as activities that depict the colorful heritage of Kentucky. To fully represent our great state, subjects...
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  • Desert to Dream: A Dozen Years of Burning Man Photography by Traub, Barbara
    Barbara Traub

    Desert to Dream: A Dozen Years of Burning Man Photography

    This groundbreaking, eyewitness account of this iconic festival bursts with striking color photography. A collectible coffee table book for pop culture and Burning Man fans. The Black Rock Arts Festival (otherwise known as "Burning Man") has become an annual pilgrimage for a generation of...
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  • I Sold Andy Warhol (Too Soon): A Memoir by Polsky, Richard
    Richard Polsky

    I Sold Andy Warhol (Too Soon): A Memoir

    In early 2005, Richard Polsky decided to put his much-loved, hard-won Warhol Fright Wig, up for auction at Christie's. The market for contemporary art was robust and he was hoping to turn a profit. His instinct seemed to be on target: his picture sold...
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  • Working South: Paintings and Sketches by Mary Whyte by Whyte, Mary
    Mary Whyte

    Working South: Paintings and Sketches by Mary Whyte

    In Working South, renowned watercolorist Mary Whyte captures in exquisite detail the essence of vanishing blue-collar professions from across ten states in the American South with sensitivity and reverence for her subjects. From the textile mill worker and tobacco farmer to the sponge diver...
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  • Robert Henri: Oil Paintings by Kvamme, Gary Lee
    Gary Lee Kvamme

    Robert Henri: Oil Paintings

    Robert Henri is to be remembered distinctly as a painter of portraits. Under his brush the likeness becomes a living reality. One carries away from an examination of his work the impression of "unpreparedness" on the sitter's part. The sincerity seen in his portraits...
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  • Mindscapes: An Artist's Thoughts and Visions by Haughey, Karen
    Karen Haughey

    Mindscapes: An Artist's Thoughts and Visions

    After my last book, Angels, Guardians of the Light was published by Hay House in 1995, my journey continued onward in multifaceted layers that consisted of travel, giving seminars and lectures, and later on being called into the ministry, which transitioned into healthcare chaplaincy....
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  • Humans: Volume 5 by Bieger, Laura
    Laura Bieger

    Humans: Volume 5

    Surveys the representations and constructions of the human being in American art. Humans are organisms, but "the human being" is a term referring to a complicated, self-contradictory, and historically evolving set of concepts and practices. Humans explores competing versions, constructs, and ideas of the...
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  • Marlene Dumas: Female by Winzen, Matthias
    Matthias Winzen

    Marlene Dumas: Female

    Marlene Dumas - feminist view of the body No other series has been as formative for the way the artist saw herself or sees herself now in retrospect, nor indeed more decisive for what was to follow, than the portrait sequence Female from 1992/3....
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  • Thought Experiments: The Art of Jonathon Keats by Decker, Julie
    Julie Decker

    Thought Experiments: The Art of Jonathon Keats

    Jonathon Keats' work as an artist and thinker is compelling for our time. Keats poses critical questions, asks us to fundamentally reconsider our assumptions, and proposes radical methods of response. In a time when the environment and human lifeways are experiencing unprecedented change, thought...
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  • Maine's Lithographic Landscapes: Town and City Views, 1830-1870 by Shettleworth, Earle G.
    Earle G. Shettleworth

    Maine's Lithographic Landscapes: Town and City Views, 1830-1870

    During the nineteenth century, Americans celebrated their towns and cities through printed landscapes. In Maine, lithographs were commissioned from such leading artists as Fitz Henry Lane and talented, lesser known local artists, such as Esteria Butler. This book reproduces many of these works and...
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  • Preternatural: Michael Scott by Scott, Michael
    Michael Scott

    Preternatural: Michael Scott

    Michael Scott's landscapes embody the primacy of place. They draw from memory, archetypes, and iconic works of the American canon. His paintings aim not to capture a landscape's particularity, as such, but to infuse it with the regenerative spirit of nature itself. He brings...
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  • In Process: Photos and Notes from the Archives of Phil Hansen by Hansen, Phil
    Phil Hansen

    In Process: Photos and Notes from the Archives of Phil Hansen

    This is not your father's Artist Biography. There are no essays waxing on about the work and meaning. This is a living collection of photos and notes that cover nearly 20 years documenting the life and projects of Artist Phil Hansen (still alive). For...
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  • Duncan and Marjorie Phillips and America's First Museum of Modern Art (B&W) by Carter-Birken, Pamela
    Pamela Carter-Birken

    Duncan and Marjorie Phillips and America's First Museum of Modern Art (B&W)

    He was born to privilege and sought the world of art. She lived at the center of that world-a working artist encouraged by the famous artists in her extended family. Together, Duncan Phillips and Marjorie Acker Phillips founded The Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C.,...
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  • West Point Points West by Museum, Denver Art
    Denver Art Museum

    West Point Points West

    To twenty-first-century observers, artistic training may seem an unnecessary frill in a soldier's education. But during the nineteenth and even the twentieth centuries, military officers were expected to sketch battlefields and design fortifications. Officers of the Army Corps of Topographical Engineers, which organized exploring...
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  • Wild Spaces, Open Seasons, 27: Hunting and Fishing in American Art by Sharp, Kevin
    Kevin Sharp

    Wild Spaces, Open Seasons, 27: Hunting and Fishing in American Art

    Wild Spaces, Open Seasons traces the theme of hunting and fishing in American art from the early nineteenth century through World War II. Describing a remarkable group of American paintings and sculpture, the contributors reveal the pervasiveness of the subjects and the fascinating contexts...
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  • Branding the American West, 23: Paintings and Films, 1900-1950 by Wardle, Marian
    Marian Wardle

    Branding the American West, 23: Paintings and Films, 1900-1950

    Artists and filmmakers in the early twentieth century reshaped our vision of the American West. In particular, the Taos Society of Artists and the California-based artist Maynard Dixon departed from the legendary depiction of the "Wild West" and fostered new images, or brands, for...
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  • Fern Hunting Among These Picturesque Mountains: Frederic Edwin Church in Jamaica by Kornhauser, Elizabeth Mankin
    Elizabeth Mankin Kornhauser

    Fern Hunting Among These Picturesque Mountains: Frederic Edwin Church in Jamaica

    In 1865, the American landscape painter Frederic Edwin Church and his wife, Isabel, traveled to Jamaica on a sojourn of recovery after the tragic deaths of their two young children Herbert and Emma. A time to mourn and escape from the constant reminders found...
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  • Reading Basquiat: Exploring Ambivalence in American Art by Saggese, Jordana Moore
    Jordana Moore Saggese

    Reading Basquiat: Exploring Ambivalence in American Art

    Before his death at the age of twenty-seven, Jean-Michel Basquiat completed nearly 2,000 works. These unique compositions--collages of text and gestural painting across a variety of media--quickly made Basquiat one of the most important and widely known artists of the 1980s. Reading Basquiat provides...
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  • A Troublesome Subject: The Art of Robert Arneson by Fineberg, Jonathan
    Jonathan Fineberg

    A Troublesome Subject: The Art of Robert Arneson

    The first major book to consider the life and work of Robert Arneson, A Troublesome Subject tells the fascinating story of how a high school art teacher transformed himself into an artist of international stature and ambition. Representing the full scope of Arneson's career...
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