Art - American - General

This new survey provides a complete history of American art and architecture from its seventeenth-century colonial beginnings to the latest installation and video work. Structured chronologically, the book defines the characteristics of the different periods and highlights the consistent forms, techniques, and styles that...

Boston in the 1740s: a bustling port at the edge of the British empire. A boy comes of age in a small wooden house along the Long Wharf, which juts into the harbor, as though reaching for London thousands of miles across the ocean....

Early in the Depression, Diego Rivera was commissioned by Edsel Ford to create a series of murals in the gallery of the Detroit Institute of Arts, giant frescos whose theme would be America's industrial might. This volume studies the astonishing results and gives us...

Charles Cushman (1896-1972) photographed a disappearing world in living color. Cushman's midcentury America--a place normally seen only through a scrim of gray--reveals itself as a place as vivid and real as the view through our window. The Day in Its Color introduces readers to...

From the Cadillac to the Apple Mac, the skyscraper to the Tiffany lamp, the world in which we live has been profoundly influenced for over a century by the work of American designers. But the product is only the end of a story that...

Memorials to Shattered Myths: Vietnam to 9/11 traces the evolution and consequences of a new hybrid paradigm, which grants a heroic status to victims of national tragedies, and by extension to their families, thereby creating a class of privileged participants in the permanent memorial...

In 1952, John Cage shocked audiences with 4'33", his compositional ode to the ironic power of silence. From Cage's minimalism to Chris Burden's radical performance art two decades later (in one piece he had himself shot), the post-war American avant-garde shattered the divide between...

Encyclopedia of Jewish American Artists presents over 80 19th- and 20-century Jewish American artists, ranging from the critically neglected Theresa Bernstein, Ruth Gikow, and Jennings Tofel, to the well-known Eva Hesse, Roy Lichtenstein, and Larry Rivers. The subject matter of some of these artists...

A groundbreaking ecocritical exploration of American art that examines the complex and evolving relationship between art and the environment Public awareness of environmental issues has never been greater, nor has the need for imagining more sustainable and ethical habits of human action and thought,...

A New York Times critics' top art book of 2019, this volume tells the fascinating story of an art-world tastemaker who effectively defined American art in the 20th century The question "What is American art?" might conjure the hyperrealism of Raphaelle Peale and William...

Art AIDS America is the first comprehensive overview and reconsideration of 30 years of art made in response to the AIDS epidemic in the United States. This book foregrounds the role of HIV/AIDS in shifting the development of American art away from the cool...

Winner, Award of Merit for Non-Fiction, The Philosophical Society of Texas, 2015Before Abstract Expressionism of New York City was canonized as American postwar modernism, the United States was filled with localized manifestations of modern art. One such place where considerable modernist activity occurred was...

This new monograph on the art of Joe Zucker is a career-spanning survey that deals with all the artist's various bodies of work, from his grid paintings of the 1960s to his latest work, including the monumental 1000 Brushstrokes (2015- 2016). Zucker's art is...

A groundbreaking history of pioneering alternative art venues in New York where artists experimented, exhibited, and performed outside the white cube and the commercial mainstream.This groundbreaking book--part exhibition catalogue, part cultural history--chronicles alternative art spaces in New York City since the 1960s. Developed from...

Established by a pair of philanthropists who believed adamantly in the power of creativity, Yaddo has hosted some of the twentieth century's most renowned writers, composers, and visual artists, including Hannah Arendt, James Baldwin, Saul Bellow, Leonard Bernstein, Elizabeth Bishop, Truman Capote, Flannery O'Connor,...

In the 1970s, Manhattan's west side waterfront was a forgotten zone of abandoned warehouses and piers. Though many saw only blight, the derelict neighborhood was alive with queer people forging new intimacies through cruising. Alongside the piers' sexual and social worlds, artists produced work...

Ceramics had a far-reaching impact in the second half of the twentieth century, as its artists worked through the same ideas regarding abstraction and form as those for other creative mediums. Live Form shines new light on the relation of ceramics to the artistic...

A Wall Street Journal and Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year Long-listed for the Plutarch AwardA bold new biography of the legendary painter John Singer Sargent, stressing the unruly emotions and furtive desires that drove his innovative work and defined the transatlantic, fin...

A collection of inspiring and provocative quotations from pioneering artist, feminist, and activist Judy Chicago A fierce activist for women's rights and against climate change, Judy Chicago defines herself best: "I'm Judy Chicago, and I'm an artist and a troublemaker." A leader of the...

In 1853, Eyre Crowe, a young British artist, visited a slave auction in Richmond, Virginia. Harrowed by what he witnessed, he captured the scene in sketches that he would later develop into a series of illustrations and paintings, including the culminating painting, Slaves Waiting...

In this wonderfully illustrated book, Joshua Brown shows that the wood engravings in the illustrated newspapers of Gilded Age America were more than a quaint predecessor to our own sophisticated media. As he tells the history and traces the influence of Frank Leslie's Illustrated...

More plays on words in picture form... More quirky, more downright funny... If you enjoyed Marion Wright's first book, you'll love "The Whimsical World of Marion Wright -- Revisited From Neptuian Potentates to Wright's rendition of fashions on Denver's 16th Street Mall, you will...

Etruscan Researches is a book written by Isaac Taylor and published in 1874. The book is a comprehensive study of the Etruscan civilization, which existed in ancient Italy from the 8th to the 3rd century BCE. The author discusses the history, art, religion, language,...

Gleaned from thousands of images, this book offers the best of American print advertising in the age of the "Big Idea." From the height of American consumerism, bold and colorful campaigns paint a fascinating portrait of the 1950s and '60s, as concerns about the...

Performance artist Linda Montano, curious about the influence childhood experience has on adult work, invited other performance artists to consider how early events associated with sex, food, money/fame, or death/ritual resurfaced in their later work. The result is an original and compelling talking performance...

Berkeley-based artist Nancy Genn (born 1930) explores various mediums and techniques, including drawing, painting, sculpture and printmaking in such materials as gouache, casein, mono-printing, collage and ceramics. This monograph presents her practice and her role in the movements of gestural abstraction and abstract expressionism.Author:...

Karen Kilimnik takes pictures with the same gesture she paints with: an unerring sense of the glut of shiny surface beauty, under which lurk the shades of monstrous things unseen and unspoken. She takes pictures with a shrewd, informed eye. She adores kitsch, but...

The Edinburgh Companion to Don DeLillo and the Arts is the first book to provide a comprehensive study of Don DeLillo's career-long engagements with the visual, literary, digital and televisual, performing, filmic, and spatial arts. Gathering original essays from a diverse range of international...

A selection of masterpieces from MFA Boston's preeminent decorative arts collectionAmerican Decorative Arts features over 100 carefully selected masterpieces of furniture, silver, glass, ceramics, base metals, coins and medals, basketry and sculpture from one of the world's preeminent collections. The Museum of Fine Arts,...

In May 2010, New York philanthropist Emily Fisher Landau promised 370 works by more than 85 artists to the Whitney Museum of American Art. This handsome volume highlights each of the artists in the gift, including Carl Andre, Jasper Johns, Willem de Kooning, Ed...

Best remembered as an influential illustrator and teacher, Howard Pyle (1853-1911) produced magnificent artwork and engrossing books and magazine stories about King Arthur, Robin Hood, swashbuckling pirates, and the American Revolution. He also completed public murals and trained many famous artists and illustrators at...

How do we create the new from the old? The Architecture of Influence explores this fundamental question by analyzing a broad swath of twentieth-century architectural works--including some of the best-known examples of the architectural canon, modern and postmodern--through the lens of influence. The book...

A Volume of Timeless Wisdom for Artists to Consult Like an Oracle Why do young artists struggle to find their voices? Walter Darby Bannard, a renowned teacher, critic, and internationally exhibited painter, contemplated that question for more than two decades. At the urging of...

A comprehensive portrait of the Bauhaus artist's work. Known for his famous expressionist images of architecture, Lyonel Feininger (1871-1956) was a painter, graphic artist, and caricaturist who served as one of the original teachers at the Bauhaus school of design. In 1936 he immigrated...

Americana Insights 2023 presents the latest research and discoveries on traditional American folk art and material culture. Groundbreaking essays by leading scholars provide a wealth of new insights on a wide array of artistic traditions. Covering a broad geographic area--including New England, the mid-Atlantic,...

Coloring Book with architectural and landscape scenes for adults and youth.Author: Mark T. RushISBN-10: 1533124388ISBN-13: 9781533124388Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/05/2016Pages: 50Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.31lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.10d

Reinterprets American art through one institution's iconic collection, spotlighting contributions by Black, women, and LGBTQ+ artists. Making American Artists delves into the extensive historical and modern collections of the first art school and museum in the United States, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine...

"A riveting tale told through personal accounts and sketches along the way--ultimately, a story of success against great odds. I enjoyed it enormously." --Tom Brokaw The first book to tell the full story of how a traveling road show of artists wielding imagination, paint,...

American Landscapes: Meditations on Art and Literature in a Changing World is a major contemporary survey of landscapes in art and literature of the United States, especially the American South. Inspired by William Dunlap's extraordinary landscape Meditations on the Origins of Agriculture in America...

Public sculpture is a major draw in today's cities, and nowhere is this more the case than in New York. In the Big Apple, urban art has become synonymous with the municipal "brand," highlighting the metropolis as vibrant, creative, tolerant, orderly, and above all,...

Author: Paul Kingsbury, Jim Sherrarden, Elek HorvathISBN-10: 0811828565ISBN-13: 9780811828567Publisher: Chronicle BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/01/2001Pages: 160Format: HardcoverWeight: 2.46lbsSize: 10.35h x 10.27w x 0.93dReview Citation(s): Publishers Weekly 04/09/2001 pg. 63Booklist 05/15/2001 pg. 1718BookPage 07/01/2001 pg. 22Reference and Research Bk News 08/01/2001 pg. 257Choice 12/01/2001 pg. 673Not available...

For nearly thirty years, Mort K?stler has focused his considerable artistic talent on interpreting the Civil War. In crafting his work to reflect poignant moments or critical instances of the conflict, he has turned to leading historians and scholars, such as Henry Steele Commager,...

Unlike earlier generations, Jewish American artists born between the 1930s and the early 1960s were among the first to overtly embrace and challenge religious themes in their work. These Jewish artists felt comfortable as assimilated Americans yet developed an overwhelming desire to explore their...

Contemporary artists probe the impact of human intervention on the environmentJust as artists of the 19th and 20th centuries participated in forging an American natural history as explorers, cataloguers, collectors, and early environmentalists, contemporary artists continue to incorporate and comment on the natural world...

Thomas Eakins is widely considered one of the great American painters, an artist whose uncompromising realism helped move American art from the Victorian era into the modern age. He is also acclaimed as a paragon of integrity, one who stood up for his artistic...

This beautiful, weather-inspired journal features gorgeous papercut artwork by the popular Pacific Northwest author of Arrow to Alaska, S is for Salmon, and B is for Bear. This beautiful, high-quality lined journal will inspire you to record your thoughts and ideas or even just...

Endlessly pursued but ever elusive, Moby-Dick roams freely throughout the American imagination. A fathomless source for literary exploration, Melville's masterpiece has also inspired a stunning array of book illustrations, prints, comics, paintings, sculptures, mixed media, and even architectural designs. Innovative and lavishly illustrated, Unpainted...

A loose knit cadre of high tech companies overthrow the governments of earth, to clear the way for their technological revolutions. The most powerful of which transforms the very foundation of evolution of life on earth.Do you know that we'll soon be able to...

Jack Wilkinson Smith's paintings are full of poetry-lyrical rather than dramatic. His work impresses the observer as warm and sensitive to nature's beauty in its simplest forms with a consummate perfection of his craftsmanship as well.The present work showcases a fine array of new...

Many of August Gay's oils were painted on cigar box tops and small segments of artboard. His wonderful depictions of the Monterey Wharf, of the Carmel Valley, coastal scenes, and the fishing fleet of Monterey Bay were inspired by the Cubists in form and...