Art - American - General

Since its founding in 1993 by the late Pace Foods heiress Linda Pace, Artpace has become one of the premiere foundations for contemporary art. An artist residency program based in San Antonio, Texas, Artpace's goal is to give artists time and space to imagine...

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Pictures and Power: Imaging and Imagining Frederick Douglass 1818-2018 is the result of decades of collaborations and conversations among academics, artists, and activists living and working in the UK and the US. For the first time, contributors map Douglass' eclectic and experimental visual archive...

In the years of the Great Depression and the New Deal in America, the master realist painter Edward Hopper (1882 - 1967) looked at everyday life in America with disenchantment and melancholy, yet searching for the existence of a meaning in it. This artist...

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...

A unique and fascinating collection of American Art from the 1920s and 1930s "Machine Age".Author: Katherine BourgignonISBN-10: 1910807214ISBN-13: 9781910807217Publisher: Ashmolean MuseumLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/31/2018Pages: 184Format: PaperbackWeight: 2.00lbsSize: 10.90h x 8.70w x 0.60d

An exploration of "plein Air" art by the artist Phil Dynan. Over 50 pages of full-colour paintings that demonstrate the artist's work. The term "new plein air" refers to using creative license to paint "in the open" and use of an impressionistic and expressive...

In 1967 the Dutch author Bert Schierbeek flew to New York to portray painter Willem de Kooning. They talked for a few days and nights, after which Schierbeek wrote an extensive account in English. Fragments were published in the catalog of the first retrospective...

Relax and Unwind with this fun coloring book loaded with beautiful victorian pictures. Fun for all ages .... TO SEE INSIDE THIS BOOK > go to authors page> S.A KnightAuthor: S. a. KnightISBN-10: 1530442656ISBN-13: 9781530442652Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/08/2016Pages: 38Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.25lbsSize:...

Founded in 1881, the Cincinnati Art Museum is one of the oldest art museums in the United States. Public art museums were still rare, especially as far west as Cincinnati. But the city had emerged as a thriving cultural center and calls for an...

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...

-Street art is an ever evolving scene with a passionate, inquisitive and loyal following -The book is multi artist and appeals to a broad range of enthusiasts, with a long-term appeal due to the transient nature of the works -A series that will include...

Author: Yunhee MinISBN-10: 0991109252ISBN-13: 9780991109258Publisher: Insert Blanc PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/08/2014Pages: 64Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.50lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.31d

Harry Wilcox was an artist for the Grit newspaper. He explored many aspects of commercial art during his career 1912-1943, including illustration, engraving, animation, and camouflage work for the government. This collection of his art includes personal photographs and insights into his life and...

The only truly personal biography of one of the greatest artists of our time Eighty interviews with illustrious artists, designers, and others, each of whom was influenced by Andy Warhol The Thank You Andy Warhol project began one morning in January, 2011, when author...

The Unknown Blakelock offers new perspectives on Ralph A. Blakelock (1847-1919) by addressing the modernity of his accomplishments as reflected in the exhibition's paintings. A self-taught artist, Blakelock digressed from habitual procedures into stylistic experiments that were considerably in advance of common practice of...

In his "Ten O'Clock Lecture" in 1885, American James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) presented himself as an artist set apart from the public, bearing no relation to the historical moment in which he lived. However, the myth of artistic independence that Whistler developed was but...

The exuberant personalities of 22 landmark buildings in downtown Fresno are captured in watercolor portraits and brief explanations of each structure's significance in this architectural survey. Covering well-known properties in all stages of repair, this collection includes images of the Hotel Californian, the Liberty...

Blanche Lazzell went from Maidsville, West Virginia, to the leading edge of twentieth-century American art. A member of the prominent art communities of Paris and Provincetown, MA during the '20s and '30s, Lazzell was always on the fringe of important developments in the modern...

The artists who came and formed the tight-knit northern New Mexican artistic community that flourished between the wars and later were as diverse as the styles they developed and brought with them. Not all, of course, were painting in the modern idiom, but it...

In 2014 the Denver Art Museum held a symposium hosted by the Frederick and Jan Mayer Center for Pre-Columbian and Spanish Colonial Art and co-organized by Donna Pierce and Emily Ballew Neff, Director of the Brooks Museum, Memphis. They assembled an international group of...

The American conceptual artist Agnes Denes investigates science, philosophy, linguistics, psychology, art history, poetry, and music. A pioneer of ecological art, Denes's work involves ecological, cultural, and social issues.Author: Agnes DenesISBN-10: 088214569XISBN-13: 9780882145693Publisher: Spring PublicationsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/2007Pages: 320Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.05lbsSize: 8.90h x 6.00w x...

The murals of the Saint Francis Auditorium of the Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico were dedicated in 1918 when the Museum of Fine Arts was the subject of great festivities held for the grand opening of the building, financed by private...

The rich context behind one of Andrew Wyeth's most beloved and mysterious late paintings. Perhaps nowhere else is Andrew Wyeth's highly distinctive style more palpable, or moving, than in Snow Hill. His masterful tempera painting of 1989 provides a visual and poetic summary of...

In New York's Golden Age of Bridges, artist Antonio Masi teams up with writer and New York City historianJoan Marans Dim to offer a multidimensional exploration of New York City's nine major bridges, their artistic andcultural underpinnings, and their impact worldwide. The tale of...

Reflections: The American Collection of the Columbus Museum of Art adds a novel and provocative element to the library of art museum collection catalogs. In the traditional manner, Reflections features selected works--more than 125--from the museum's collection, accompanied by concise essays by scholars of...

Robert L. McGrath leads a tour of New Hampshire's White Mountains through art and illustration spanning three centuries. He surveys--often at an exhilarating pace--the topographic and metaphoric landscape of New Hampshire's White Mountains through the artistic and tourist life of the region as it...

Museums have become ground zero in America's culture wars. Whereas fierce public debates once centered on provocative work by upstart artists, the scrutiny has now expanded to mainstream cultural institutions and the ideas they present. In Displays of Power, Steven Dubin, whose Arresting Images...

Thirty illustrated essays highlighting a variety of Detroit artists. Essay'd 2: 30 Detroit Artists follows the welcome reception of last year's Essay'd: 30 Detroit Artists in presenting short, illustrated essays about artists who live and work in Detroit, or who have participated in the...

Thirty illustrated essays highlighting a variety of best-loved and little-known Detroit artists. Essay'd: 30 Detroit Artists highlights the individual contributors to Detroit's thriving and diverse art scene. Stemming from the popular website of the same name, Essay'd seeks to introduce readers to some of...

Focusing on the rich heritage of art-making in the eighteenth century, this lushly illustrated book positions both well-known painters and unknown artisans within the framework of their economic lives, their families, and the geographies through which they moved as they created notable careers and...

A critical shift took place in contemporary American art in the late 1950s. Long dominated by Abstract Expressionism, the field took a new turn as two major alternatives appeared on the scene: Assemblage Art and Post-Painterly Abstraction. Together, these new styles redirected the course...

The Shingle Style embodied intellectual pluralism and cultural democracy--ideals fundamental to American belief and developed quickly and richly. After a period of reaction against the Shingle Style, it was revitalized, finding its first fully renewed expression in 1959 in a design for a beach...

Because western art is by definition topical, it is also by necessity representational, and often narrative. Western artists must therefore rely on a certain degree of realism to express themselves visually. While this tendency toward realism is out of keeping with abstract impressionism, which...

Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Laurel Thatcher Ulrich has remarked, "Much of the social history of early America has been lost to us precisely because women were expected to use needles rather than pens." This book, part of the multivolume series of the International Quilt Study...

As the people and economy of the United States struggled to recover during the Great Depression, 42 towns in North Carolina would benefit directly from the $83 million the federal government allocated for public art as part of the New Deal. The result was...

"Behind almost every painting is a fortune and behind that a sin or a crime." With these words as a starting point, Michael Gross, leading chronicler of the American rich, begins the first independent, unauthorized look at the saga of the nation's greatest museum,...

"Describes the life and work of American-born artist Maurice Robert Bebb (1891-1986), who participated in most of the important print societies of his day, including the Chicago Society of Etchers, the Print Makers of California, the Society of American Etchers, and the Prairie Print...

Join Paul "Cavs" Cavalieri on a journey through graffiti history and the evolution of a major cultural landmark. In this account, Cavs shares his experiences under the Bronx's East 238th Street bridge, which over the years has become a Bronx "Graffiti Hall of Fame,"...

Private History in Public examines history exhibits in small community museums and non-museum settings like bars, churches, and barbershops and argues that these exhibits promote dialogue on historical topics by engaging visitors with individualized perspectives.Author: Tammy S. GordonISBN-10: 075911935XISBN-13: 9780759119352Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield PublishersLanguage:...

Flesh Cinema: The corporeal turn in American avant-garde cinema explores the groundbreaking representation of the body in experimental films of the 1960s and 1970s. Focusing on sexually explicit films by Andy Warhol, Barbara Rubin, Stan Brakhage, Carolee Schneemann, Yoko Ono and Paul Sharits, this...

Travelers in Kansas in search of fine art needn't restrict themselves to the state's many excellent museums. They need look no further than the walls of their own communities to discover a remarkable array of murals--artistic creations that are striking, democratic, and easily accessible....

An in-depth look at how democratic values have widened the American arts scene, even as it remains elite and cosmopolitan Two centuries ago, wealthy entrepreneurs founded the American cathedrals of culture--museums, theater companies, and symphony orchestras--to mirror European art. But today's American arts scene...

A bold new view of sentimental art's significance in American visual culture from the eighteenth to the twentieth century In Moved to Tears, Rebecca Bedell overturns received ideas about sentimental art. Countering its association with trite and saccharine Victorian kitsch, Bedell argues that major...

Joseph Cornell and Astronomy provides an in-depth look at one artist's intense fascination with the science of astronomy. Joseph Cornell (1903-72) has often been viewed as a recluse, isolated in his home on Utopia Parkway, lost in the fairy tales and charming objects of...

"How almost true they sometimes almost ring!" Samuel Beckett's character rues his words. "How wanting in inanity!" A person could almost understand them! Why taunt and flout us, as Beckett's writing does? Why discourage us from seeing, as Mark Rothko's paintings often can? Why...

The Biography Of A Painting is a book written by Ben Shahn that tells the story of an artwork from its creation to its eventual destruction. The painting in question is a mural that was commissioned by the Works Progress Administration (WPA) during the...

It is a story that has gone down in the annals of American art history: a New Yorker visiting upstate Hoosick Falls is entranced by four pictures hanging in the window of a drugstore. Investigating further, he learns they are the handiwork of a...

This engaging cultural history examines the emergence of a professional identity for American women artists. By focusing on individual sculptors, painters, and illustrators, Laura Prieto gives us a compelling picture of the prospects and constraints faced by women artists in the United States from...

This book presents a new look at landscape painting in the nineteenth century as it transformed from the depiction of known places to explorations of mood and time passing. Masterpieces in oil and watercolor illustrate the genre from its predominance in Britain to extraordinary...