Art - American - General

Christine Weber has been writing since she was just a child. Stories circled around in her imagination waiting for her to give them voice. This collection is just a "Glimpse" of her work throughout the years. All sketches are her original work, a symbol...

Baskets are often a part of our everyday life. But do we think of them when we think of great art? Here is a picture book for students of all ages...A picture book of dozens of baskets in art - including Jesus and the...

WHAT I purpose in the following pages is, to give a plain and distinct account of the steps by which I was led, during a course of many years, to embrace the doctrine of Christian Perfection. This I owe to the serious part of...

Fire-cat masks, earth mother icons, henna tattoos, ankhs, and water altars--these objects may sound like the inventory in an ancient druid's sanctuary. But they are part of the sacred reliquary created by contemporary artists and practitioners of Neo-Pagan ritual. Calling themselves "witches" and "pagans"...

If California is a state of mind, Barbara Isenberg's interviews with more than fifty of California's prominent painters, writers, composers, architects, directors, and performers help explain why. "I find great delight in reading this book, and in the richness and contributions its heroes have...

The works of more than 50 illustrators and cartoonists, many friends of Wood, are represented in this personal memoir.Author: Art WoodISBN-10: 1565547969ISBN-13: 9781565547964Publisher: Pelican Publishing CompanyLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/2000Pages: 196Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.03lbsSize: 11.02h x 8.28w x 0.48d

Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth made significant contributions to American history and civil rights. The paper doll book is a tribute to these great American women who bravely helped to improve the lives of others. The paper dolls have clothes that are representative of...

Nikki McClure's new journal features beautiful papercut images of women rallying to defend, renew, astound, and connect with the world around them. Drawn from Nikki McClure's bestselling calendar, the simple but evocative papercut images in Rally show women being brave, taking risks, and pushing...

The compelling story of a legendary artist and an eternal American hero. In 1803, an eighteen-year-old West Indies-born Frenchman arrived in New York City, fleeing Napoleon's conscription. His work would become inextricably entwined with the new world he so proudly adopted in his motto...

Images of working cowhands and their horses loom large in the mind's eye of many who love the American West. Those same images form the heart and soul of this lavishly illustrated book, which captures the viewpoints, values, and observations of twenty-four respected contemporary...

This richly illustrated collection of essays, reissued in paperback with a new foreword by Karen L. Cox, examines Confederate memorials from Monument Avenue to Stone Mountain and explores how each monument, with its associated public rituals, testifies to the romanticized narrative of the American...

A Unique Slant of Light: The Bicentennial History of Art in Louisiana is a handsome, unprecedented, commemorative hardcover edition limited to approximately 3,000 copies. This large-format volume encompasses 450 color pages featuring approximately 275 artists and photographers. For art collectors and enthusiasts, for followers...

James Castle (1899-1977) spent his formative years in remote Garden Valley, Idaho and his adult life at locations near Boise, where, for nearly seven decades, he devoted himself daily to intensive art-making. Castle worked with materials that were immediately available, including a wide range...

In this book, original Captain America creator, Joe Simon tells the compelling, definitive history of the creators who gave us Superman, Captain America, Archie, Captain Marvel, Spider-Man and more. Meet the crime comics editor who would himself be accused of a gruesome murder; the...

MAURICE SENDAK Maurice Sendak is the widely acclaimed American children's book author and illustrator. This critical study focusses on his famous trilogy, Where the Wild Things Are, In the Night Kitchen and Outside Over There, as well as the early works and Sendak's superb...

MAURICE SENDAK Maurice Sendak is the widely acclaimed American children's book author and illustrator. This critical study focusses on his famous trilogy, Where the Wild Things Are, In the Night Kitchen and Outside Over There, as well as the early works and Sendak's superb...

In the first decades of the 20th century, George Bellows and other painters of the Ashcan School, a loosely connected group of gritty, urban realists, created images of the city from street level. Following older artist Robert Henri's insistence that artists should make "pictures...

An illustrated exploration of Helen Chadwick's erotic, playful, and fierce 1986 installation. In 1986 the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London showed a new commission by the artist Helen Chadwick (1954-1996). What Chadwick conceived for the ICA exhibition explored her characteristic themes--the female body...

Presenting the unique vision of an American original . . . Alexandre Hogue, a renowned artist whose career spanned from the 1920s to his death in 1994, inherited the view of an America that imagined itself as filled with limitless potential for improvement, that...

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...

Are you trying to find a unique novelty gift for your best friend, well you have just found it. Do you have a terrible with your boss, spouse, kids, mother-in-law, or incompetent neighbor? Does your annoying coworker never shut up? Do you have to...

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...

Painting the Divine explores New World images of the Virgin Mary that portray some of the events in her life, as well as examples of apparitions unique to various locales in the Americas. Iconography seen in these artworks tells a story that mixes religion,...

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 American Art Colony studies three generations of a New Jersey art colony, setting a new model for the analysis of artistic biography and broadening the social context of artistic production. Its contribution rests on the historical value of colony changes over time from...

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...

Synesthesia in its simplest terms refers to sensory fusions or crossovers. Interest peaked between 1890 and 1930, when synesthesia became a focus of serious attention in the fields of visual art, music, literature and linguistics. During that period, Edvard Munch and Wassily Kandinsky were...

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...

Richard Diebenkorn: Revised and Expanded by Gerald Nordland is a detailed look at the artwork and life of the acclaimed American artist Richard Diebenkorn. This book captures the modernist works of Diebenkorn, who passed away in 1993. It includes sections on the artist's prints,...

Lawrence Calcagno (1913-93) was a painter of the San Francisco school of Abstract Expressionism, and, as described by Gerald Nordland, "a proud, self-reliant, and independent figure in postwar American art." He taught at a number of schools and universities, received many invitations for residencies...

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...