Art - American - General

Commemorating the unconventional gallerist, featuring interviews with collaborators and friends such as Dennis Cooper, Charles Ray, Kay Rosen, Tony Tasset and David SedarisNeither a comprehensive oral history nor a biography, this reader is an intimate collection of anecdotes, reflections and musings that cohere to...

Like challenges? Test your skills and knowledge with word and picture puzzles-unique, exciting puzzles incorporating common, everyday expressions, vintage phrases, social messages, personalities, movies, TV shows, and old standards of thought. These puzzles are not only fun-they'll also help develop critical thinking skills and...

Author: Craig VolkISBN-10: 1941813496ISBN-13: 9781941813492Publisher: South Dakota Historical Society PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/19/2024Pages: 80Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.85lbsSize: 8.43h x 7.48w x 0.55d

A compelling look at Jackson Pollock's vibrant, quintessentially American art and the turbulent life that gave rise to it Jackson Pollock (1912-1956) not only put American art on the map with his famous "drip paintings," he also served as an inspiration for the character...

Southwestern ceramics have always been admired for their variety and aesthetic beauty. Although ceramics are most often used for placing the peoples who produced them in time, they can also provide important clues to past economic organization. This volume covers nearly 1000 years of...

Wonder City of the World: New York City Travel Posters is a century-spanning visual journey through the world's most fascinating city as promoted by the top advertisers and artists of poster history. From the Statue of Liberty to Times Square, Harlem to Coney Island,...

The Shakers are known for self-denial and austerity in everyday living and their material world, as embodied by the heavenly simplicity and purity of their chairs and blanket chests. Yet the believers also enjoyed a diversity of visual pleasures, from flowers, sunsets, rainbows, and...

Photorealistic wildlife artists face a problem in depicting fleeting moments such as facial expressions and postures. They are such fleeting moments that they cannot be fully remembered. This book is designed to overcome these problems and get every scale "just right". Snakes and Lizards...

This spectacular panoramic painting was created in 1889 to commemorate the Battle of the Little Bighorn, a key event in the Indian Wars of the late 19th century. The painting, which measures 50 feet high and 400 feet in circumference, is accompanied by a...

An essential archive of a progressive public art program, spotlighting over 50 artworks commissioned for one of New York City's most iconic parksThis publication chronicles the vibrant history of public art in Madison Square Park, presenting two decades' worth of celebrated artworks that have...

Employing an interdisciplinary approach, this book breaks new ground by considering how Robert Motherwell's abstract expressionist art is indebted to Alfred North Whitehead's highly original process metaphysics. Motherwell first encountered Whitehead and his work as a philosophy graduate student at Harvard University, and he...

Nationally recognized maritime artist Loretta Krupinski's meticulously rendered oil paintings show fascinating details of Maine's waterfront towns in their heyday, when fishing, quarrying, and the cargo trade were the backbone of the coastal economy. Historic photographs and text about how Maine people made their...

Energizing the visual landscape since 1968, New York City's community murals beautify, educate, protest, celebrate, and often motivate residents to action. Collaborations between artists and neighborhood groups, these painted walls reflect the social, cultural, and political climate of their times. The result of six...

""The Florentine Painters of the Renaissance"" is a comprehensive art history book written by the renowned art historian Bernhard Berenson. The book explores the works and lives of the most important painters from the Renaissance period in Florence, Italy. Berenson provides detailed analysis and...

Co-Creative Placekeeping in Los Angeles is a novel examination of Los Angeles-based socially engaged art (SEA) practitioners' equitable placekeeping efforts.Author: Brettany Shannon, David C. Sloane, Anne BrayISBN-10: 1032461993ISBN-13: 9781032461991Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/05/2023Pages: 214Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.11lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.56d

Three generations of women artists create a new visual vernacular inspired by Maine's scenic landscapeThis catalog unites the work of three women artists of different generations whose work responds to the unique environs of Maine. Spanning oil paintings, fused-glass works and ceramics, these pieces...

Since TASCHEN released The Great American Pin-up, international interest in this distinctly American art form has increased exponentially. Paintings by leading artists such as Alberto Vargas, George Petty, and Gil Elvgren that sold for $ 2,000 in 1996 are going for $ 200,000 and...

Tastemakers, Collectors, and Patrons explores the dynamic landscape of American art collecting in the United States from the late eighteenth through the early twentieth centuries. The geographic range of collecting histories presented in this publication spans the country, including the Eastern Seaboard, the Old...

The Mastery Of Oil Painting is a comprehensive guide to the techniques and principles of oil painting written by Frederic Taubes. The book covers everything from selecting materials and preparing surfaces to creating a finished painting. Taubes provides detailed instructions on how to mix...

Filled with meticulously constructed photographs that blur the boundaries between reality and imagination, this sumptuously produced retrospective features more than thirty years of work by one of America's most influential photographers. For more than three decades, Gregory Crewdson has been luring viewers into the...

New York's Harlem Valley, with the last stops on the Metro-North train line from Manhattan, has an incredibly eclectic history for a predominantly agricultural region. A Victorian utopian community claiming to see fairies settled in Wassaic, attracting Japanese samurai and remaking the townscape of...

A facsimile of the Just Above Midtown 1978 exhibition catalog that disrupted the white-dominated canon of postwar abstract artOriginally published in 1978 alongside an exhibition at the legendary Just Above Midtown gallery, Contextures was the first of its kind. More textbook than traditional catalog,...

This book investigates how and why women pictured the landscape in their needlework. It explores the ways their embroidered landscapes address the tumultuous environmental history of the period; how their depictions of nature differ from those made by men; and what women's choices of...

Out of Site explores the invisible landscapes of the American West through the interwoven forces of art and technology over the past 170 years. This interdisciplinary project features an array of visual media, including historical, modern, and contemporary photography, that punctuate a series of...

A special selection of Judd's minimalist works curated by his son, Flavin JuddThis catalog follows the first solo exhibition of Donald Judd's work in South Korea for nearly 10 years. Judd (1928-94) had a personal connection to Korea, having been stationed in Seoul in...

A new study of Mary Cassatt that explores the centrality of work to both her inventive technical practice and her distinctive approach to modern subjects Mary Cassatt's (1844-1926) sensitive depictions of the social, intellectual, and professional lives of modern women often emphasize the work...

For forty years, Jackie Frame stood at the center of business, entertainment, and publicity in Classic Hollywood. This stunning collection of never before told vignettes reveals that lost world in all its splendor and with all its quirks. No scholar of the period will...

Raised in Colombia during a violent civil war and now resident in Cornwall, England, the sculptor Carlos Zapata creates intimate and emotive works that have evolved from personal experience even as they belong to the tradition of folk and tribal arts. The Mestizo Art...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our...

In his debut poetry collection, The Nature of Things Fragile, Peter Vertacnik depicts a world fraught with vulnerability and loss. Utilizing a wide range of both received and nonce poetic forms, including sonnets, villanelles, triolets, a sestina, epigrams, blank verse, and word-count, he confronts...

A sharp portrait of this turbulent decade in American life and letters, Frederick J. Hoffman's The Twenties is can't missing reading. A first-rate discussion of an exciting era and of the writers who found new forms in which to re-create their times, The Twenties...

In this magnificently illustrated and comprehensive book, readers will take one of the most beautiful journeys our world has to offer: an exploration of the greatest are and architecture of Western civilization. Art of the Western World -- the companion volume to the nine-part...

The Disasters of War is a collection of 82 etchings created by Spanish artist Francisco de Goya between 1810 and 1820. The etchings depict the horrors of the Peninsular War and the Spanish War of Independence, focusing on the brutal effects of war on...

The book ""Paul Cezanne"" by Edward Alden Jewell is a comprehensive study of the life and works of the famous French artist, Paul Cezanne. The book provides a detailed account of Cezanne's childhood, education, and artistic development, as well as his personal relationships and...

"Olson deftly sketches a lively portrait of the man. . . . She gives us his rich inner life as well. . . . Riveting. . . . Refreshing."--Wall Street Journal Exquisitely illustrated and innovative, an investigation of the artistic evolution of John James...

Astonishing, hyperrealistic black-and-white drawings of wings, urban landscapes, x-rayed paintings and moreA sequel to the 2011 publication, Charcoal Volume 2 presents the charcoal drawings of American artist Robert Longo (born 1953) from 2012 to the present. This large-format, elaborately designed catalog--printed on natural paper...

In 2015 the Renaissance Society presented an exhibition of newly commissioned works by Los Angeles-based artist Mathias Poledna. Coinciding with the museum's centennial, it marked the final show in the institution's first hundred years. For this project Poledna used the notion of iconoclasm and...

Andy Warhol (1928-1987) is arguably the most iconic figure of twentieth-century art, a highly enigmatic personality who not only altered the definition of art itself but also left in his wake a vast and staggeringly complex record of his activities. Warhol's archive consists not...

Circling the Start by Dixie Denman Junius is a groundbreaking debut in the Anhinga Visual Poetry Series, offering a transformative journey through the realms of visual poetry, asemics and glitch. Chosen by curator Kristine Snodgrass for its vibrant script work and radical meditative energy,...

The first book to celebrate the dramatic Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, setting and renowned art collection of the Brandywine River Museum of Art and its historic homes, studios, and sites relating to three generations of the Wyeth family. The Brandywine River Museum of Art is...

"History painting," for many people, conjures up Washington Crossing the Delaware and other paintings of heroic historical events. But history has made its way into considerably more American art than such obvious examples, in the view of Michael Kammen. In three thought-provoking and innovative...

The Hieroglyphical System Of The Ancients is a book written by George Oliver that delves into the ancient Egyptian writing system. The book provides a comprehensive overview of hieroglyphs, their meanings, and how they were used in ancient Egyptian society. It explores the history...

A Grand Tour of the works of Master Painters in Cuba during the XIX century.Author: Olga Isabel Nodarse, Ra伃 Eduardo ChaoISBN-10: 1329643259ISBN-13: 9781329643253Publisher: Lulu.comLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/13/2023Pages: 140Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.59lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.36d

This beautifully illustrated catalogue showcases the artwork of Daniel Huntington, who was a prominent figure in the American art scene in the 19th century. It provides valuable insight into his life and work, and is sure to be appreciated by anyone with an interest...

Inspired by global masonry techniques and Hudson Valley history, Martin Puryear's installation for Storm King Art Center opens its oculi onto the museum groundsThis catalog documents the construction and unveiling of American artist Martin Puryear's (born 1941) monumental site-specific installation, Lookout, at Storm King...

A window into the life of a pioneering figure in the proliferation of East Coast surf culture since the 1960sTony Caramanico has lived many lives bound by a singular passion. A competitive surfer, TV producer, surf shop owner, astute traveler, apprentice and artist, few...

(Bilingual Edition: English / German)With over 1,000 works by a total of more than 140 artists from the 1930s to the present, Eva Felten has built up a unique photo collection over the past four decades, which is presented in this catalog for the...

The untold story of women artists in the United States and the social impact of their work during the crucial decades of the 1950s to the 1970s. In Women Artists in Midcentury America, readers embark on a journey spanning two decades, delving into the...

The first comprehensive account of Charles J. Connick, America's most innovative and influential stained glass artist working in the first half of the twentieth century When Charles J. Connick (1875-1945) began his stained glass career in Pittsburgh in the 1890s, America's fascination with the...

Robert Irwin began his career in the 1950s as an abstract painter. As a pioneer of the Light and Space movement in Los Angeles in the 1970s and early '80s, Irwin focused on exploring aesthetic perception as the fundamental feature of art, culminating in...