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by Lyn Letsinger-Miller (Author), Rachel Berenson Perry (Introduction by), Lyn Letsinger-Miller (Introduction by)From the early 1900s through the 1940s, the scenic hill country of Brown County, Indiana, was home to a flourishing colony of artists who migrated there from urban areas of the Midwest. Now back in print, The Artists of Brown County, first published in 1994, is the classic book on the history of this remarkable art colony.Following an introduction to "Peaceful Valley," as the area ...

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by Indiana Plein Air Painters Association I (Author), Indiana Landmarks (Author), Rachel Berenson Perry (Contribution by)The work of T. C. Steele, William Forsyth, J. Ottis Adams, Otto Stark, and Richard Gruelle, known collectively as the Hoosier Group, established plein air ("in the open air") painting as a major art form in Indiana. The vitality of this style is represented in Painting Indiana III: Heritage of Place which includes 100 juried works by current Indiana plein air artists, along...

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The Art of George Ames Aldrich - Hardcover

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by Wendy Greenhouse (Author), Gregg Hertzlieb (Author), Michael Wright (Author)A highly regarded impressionist-style artist, George Ames Aldrich drew on his years of experience living and studying in Europe to create beautiful landscape paintings. His life and work are explored in this gorgeous book. Many of the artist's finest creations, some representing French subjects and others depicting the midwestern steel industry and American landscapes, are included in this book. It features color r...

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Barry Gealt, Embracing Nature: Landscape Paintings, 1988-2012 - Hardcover

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by Rachel Berenson Perry (Author), Kathleen A. Foster (Foreword by)Barry Gealt's nature paintings, with their thick layers of pigment and saturated colors, evoke the drama of place--purple waves splashing over shell-pink sands, mossy rocks protruding among twisting water surfaces, the windless mists of Indiana mornings, and the hush and rustle of winter woods. This beautiful retrospective catalog presents forty of Gealt's works, mostly large oil-on-panel paintings, from 1985 through 2012. Rac...

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Grand Allusions: Robert Barnes--Late Works 1985-2015 - Hardcover

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by Michael Rooks (Author)Robert Barnes has been called the "most famous unknown painter in America." Picking up where his 1985 mid-career retrospective left off, this gorgeous catalog surveys Barnes's work from the past 30 years. Often identified as a Chicago School artist because of his training at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and his representation by several major Chicago area galleries, Barnes's style defies simple categorization. In addition to 18 largescale paintings from ...

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Giambattista and Domenico Tiepolo: Master Drawings from the Anthony J. Moravec Collection - Hardcover

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by Adelheid M. Gealt (Author)Giambattista and Domenico Tiepolo documents an important collection of master drawings donated by an individual to the Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art at Indiana University, including five drawings by the celebrated Venetian genius Giambattista Tiepolo and sixteen drawings by his most famous son, Domenico Tiepolo. Twelve of the sixteen form part of Domenico's most important drawing series--his exhaustive visual exploration of the New Testament. Also include...

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Rembrandt's Religious Prints: The Feddersen Collection at the Snite Museum of Art - Hardcover

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by Charles M. Rosenberg (Author)Rembrandt's stunning religious prints stand as evidence of the Dutch master's extraordinary skill as a technician and as a testament to his genius as a teller of tales. Here, several virtually unknown etchings, collected by the Feddersen family and now preserved for the ages at the University of Notre Dame, are made widely available in a lavishly illustrated volume. Building on the contributions of earlier Rembrandt scholars, noted art historian Charles M. Rose...

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Art World City: The Creative Economy of Artists and Urban Life in Dakar - Paperback

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by Joanna Grabski (Author)Art World City focuses on contemporary art and artists in the city of Dakar, a famously thriving art metropolis in the West African nation of Senegal. Joanna Grabski illuminates how artists earn their livelihoods from the city's resources, possibilities, and connections. She examines how and why they produce and exhibit their work and how they make an art scene and transact with art world mediators such as curators, journalists, critics, art lovers, and collectors fr...

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African Photographer J. A. Green: Reimagining the Indigenous and the Colonial - Paperback

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by Martha G. Anderson (Editor), Lisa Aronson (Editor), Christraud M. Geary (Contribution by)J. A. Green (1873-1905) was one of the most prolific and accomplished indigenous photographers to be active in West Africa. This beautiful book celebrates Green's photographs and opens a new chapter in the early photographic history of Africa. Soon after photography reached the west coast of Africa in the 1840s, the technology and the resultant images were disseminated widely, appealing to African elit...

Artists, Performers, and Black Masculinity in the Haitian Diaspora - Paperback

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by Jana Evans Braziel (Author)Jana Evans Braziel examines how Haitian diaspora writers, performance artists, and musicians address black masculinity through the Haitian Creole concept of gwo nègs, or "big men." She focuses on six artists and their work: writer Dany Laferrière, director Raoul Peck, rap artist Wyclef Jean, artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, drag queen performer and poet Assotto Saint, and queer drag king performer Dréd (a.k.a. Mildréd Gerestant). For Braziel, these individuals confro...

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The Indiana Dunes Revisited: Frank V. Dudley and the 1917 Dunes Pageant - Paperback

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by James R. Dabbert (Author)Born of deaf parents at Delavan, Wisconsin, Frank Dudley (1868-1957) sketched the rolling hills and lakes of his boyhood haunts. His love of landscape led him to Chicago and its Art Institute, with his younger brother Clarence soon to follow. The two eventually established a portrait photography shop in the Union Park neighborhood on Chicago's near west side. In the mid-1890s, Union Park Superintendent Jens Jensen was there experimenting with his "American Garden" ...

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Folk Masters: A Portrait of America - Hardcover

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by Tom Pich (Photographer), Barry Bergey (Author)Discover one hundred of the greatest folk artists practicing in the United States in Folk Masters: A Portrait of America. Over the past 25 years, photographer Tom Pich has traveled the country to the homes and studios of recipients of the National Endowment for the Arts' National Heritage Fellowship, the highest honor given to folk and traditional artists in the US. His portraits give us a glimpse into their art, their process, and their cultur...

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Global Clay: Themes in World Ceramic Traditions - Hardcover

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by John A. Burrison (Author)For over 25,000 years, humans across the globe have shaped, decorated, and fired clay. Despite great differences in location and time, universal themes appear in the world's ceramic traditions, including religious influences, human and animal representations, and mortuary pottery. In Global Clay: Themes in World Ceramic Traditions, noted pottery scholar John A. Burrison explores the recurring artistic themes that tie humanity together, explaining how and why those ...

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by Marsha MacDowell (Author), Clare Luz (Author), Beth Donaldson (Author)Name an illness, medical condition, or disease and you will find quiltmaking associated with it. From Alzheimer's to Irritable Bowel Syndrome, Lou Gehrig's Disease to Crigler-Najjar Syndrome, and for nearly every form of cancer, millions of quilts have been made in support of personal well-being, health education, patient advocacy, memorialization of victims, and fundraising. In Quilts and Health, Marsha MacDowell, Clare...

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Frankenstein 200: The Birth, Life, and Resurrection of Mary Shelley's Monster - Paperback

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by Rebecca Baumann (Author)Two centuries ago, a teenage genius created a monster that still walks among us. In 1818, Mary Shelley published Frankenstein, and in doing so set forth into the world a scientist and his monster. The daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft, famed women's rights advocate, and William Godwin, radical political thinker and writer, Mary Shelley is considered the mother of the modern genres of horror and science fiction. At its core, however, Shelley's Frankenstein is a contemp...

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Last Folio: Textures of Jewish Life in Slovakia - Paperback

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by Yuri Dojc (Author), Katya Krausova (Author)Last Folio features stunning photographs taken by Yuri Dojc of once-vibrant Jewish communities throughout Slovakia. Dojc's photographic journey began in an abandoned school in Bardejov where time had stood still since the day in 1942 when its students were taken to concentration camps. The books were still there, along with student essays marked with corrections and school reports--all disintegrating on dusty shelves. Dojc's eloquent photographs t...

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The Lilly Library from A to Z: Intriguing Objects in a World-Class Collection - Hardcover

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by Darlene J. Sadlier (Author)What do locks of Edgar Allan Poe's hair, Sylvia Plath's attractive handmade paper dolls, John Ford's Oscars, and Ian Fleming's James Bond 007 cigars have in common? They are just a few of the fascinating objects found in the world-famous Lilly Library, located on the campus of Indiana University Bloomington. In this beautifully illustrated A-to-Z volume, Darlene J. Sadlier journeys through the library's wide-ranging collections to highlight dozens of intriguing i...

Bike Boys, Drag Queens, and Superstars: Avant-Garde, Mass Culture, and Gay Identities in the 1960s Underground Cinema - Hardcover

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by Juan A. Suarez (Author)"This comprehensive, insightful study demonstrates that 1960s New York underground film fused 'artistic innovation and the exploration of everyday life' and distinctively interacted with mass culture.'" --Choice" . . . thoroughly researched [and] engaging text . . . " --Library Journal"This is a very timely and welcome book. . . . intervenes very effectively to rewrite the history of the 1960s American underground cinema." --UTS ReviewAt the confluence of experimenta...

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by Myvillages (Editor)An investigation through texts, interviews, and documentation of the complex relationship between the urban, the rural, and contemporary cultural production.What, and where, is "the Rural"? From the rocks that break a farmer's plough on a field in Japan to digital infrastructures that organize geographically dispersed interests and ambitions, vast parts of our lives are still connected and dependent on resources, production, and infrastructures located within rural geogr...

Prophet's Ascension: Cross-Cultural Encounters with the Islamic Mi'raj Tales - Hardcover

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by Christiane Gruber (Editor), Frederick S. Colby (Editor)The tales of the mi'raj describe the prophet Muhammad's journey through the heavens, his encounters with prophets and angels, and his visit to heaven and hell. The tales are among Islam's most popular, appearing in Arabic, Persian, and Turkish literature, and in later adaptations throughout the Muslim world. Often serving as narratives designed to promote the worldview of particular Muslim groups, the tales were also a means for commun...

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by Sarah Cook (Editor)An art-historical reassessment of information-based art and exhibition curation, from 1960s conceptualism to current digital and network-based practices.This anthology provides the first art-historical reassessment of information-based art in relation to data structures and exhibition curation. It examines such landmark exhibitions as "Information" at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, in 1970, and the equally influential "Les Immat riaux," initiated by the philosopher ...

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by Tom McDonough (Author)Boredom in modern and contemporary art: as something to be struggled against, embraced as an experience, or explored as a potential site of resistance.Without boredom, arguably there is no modernity. The current sense of the word emerged simultaneously with industrialization, mass politics, and consumerism. From Manet onwards, when art represents the everyday within modern life, encounters with tedium are inevitable. And starting with modernism's retreat into abstract...

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by Friederike Sigler (Editor), Iwona Blazwick (Editor)Work's meaning both within art and in its wider economic and social context: the complexities of being an art worker in the new economy.Warhol's Factory of the 1960s, Minimalism's assembly-line aesthetics, conceptual and feminist concern with workers' conditions in the 1970s--these are among the antecedents of a renewed focus on the work of art: labor as artistic activity, as artistic method and as object of artistic engagement. In 2002, t...

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Shanzhai: Deconstruction in Chinese - Paperback

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by Byung-Chul Han (Author), Philippa Hurd (Translator)Tracing the thread of "decreation" in Chinese thought, from constantly changing classical masterpieces to fake cell phones that are better than the original.Shanzhai is a Chinese neologism that means "fake," originally coined to describe knock-off cell phones marketed under such names as Nokir and Samsing. These cell phones were not crude forgeries but multifunctional, stylish, and as good as or better than the originals. Shanzhai has sinc...

Lorenzo de' Medici at Home: The Inventory of the Palazzo Medici in 1492 - Paperback

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by Richard Stapleford (Editor)An inventory of the private possessions of Lorenzo il Magnifico de' Medici, head of the ruling Medici family during the apogee of the Florentine Renaissance.Author BiographyRichard Stapleford is Professor of Art History at Hunter College, City University of New York. Number of Pages: 232 Dimensions: 0.52 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: January 15, 2014

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Henry James and American Painting - Hardcover

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by Colm Tóibín (Author), Marc Simpson (Author), Declan Kiely (Author)Explores how the novels of Henry James reflect the significance of the visual culture of his society, and how essential the language and imagery of the arts, as well as friendships with artists, were to James's writing.Author BiographyColm Tóibín is the author of nine novels, including The Master, Brooklyn and, most recently, House of Names. He is Irene and Sidney B. Silverman Professor of the Humanities at Columbia Universi...

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The Moving Statues of Seventeenth-Century Amsterdam: Automata, Waxworks, Fountains, Labyrinths - Paperback

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by Angela Vanhaelen (Author)This book opens a window onto a fascinating and understudied aspect of the visual, material, intellectual, and cultural history of seventeenth-century Amsterdam: the role played by its inns and taverns, specifically the doolhoven. Doolhoven were a type of labyrinth unique to early modern Amsterdam. Offering guest lodgings, these licensed public houses also housed remarkable displays of artwork in their gardens and galleries. The main attractions were inventive disp...

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by Gaby Bazin (Author), Vineet Lal (Translator)For fans of Iggy Peck, Architect and the Little People, BIG DREAMS series, this is the first children's art book to spotlight the fascinating world of lithography--exploring the techniques that make it work, and revealing the secrets behind this truly artistic profession. Combining science, art, and history, Meet the Lithographer showcases a centuries-old printing practice that evolved into the process used today to print books, magazines, newspa...

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Porcelain for the Emperor: Manufacture and Technocracy in Qing China - Hardcover

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by Kai Jun Chen (Author)The exquisite ceramic ware produced at the Imperial Porcelain Manufactory at Jingdezhen in southern China functioned as a kind of visual propaganda for the Qing dynasty (1644-1911) court. Porcelain for the Emperor charts the career of bannerman Tang Ying, a technocrat in the porcelain industry, through the first half of the eighteenth century to uncover the wider role of specialist officials in producing the technological knowledge and distinctive artistic forms that w...

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse: The Art of the Movie - Hardcover

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by Ramin Zahed (Author), Sony Pictures (Illustrator)The official behind-the-scenes tie-in book to Sony Pictures Animation's Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse Miles Morales returns for the next chapter of the Oscar(R)-winning Spider-Verse saga, an epic adventure that will transport Brooklyn's full-time, friendly neighborhood Spider-Man across the Multiverse to join forces with Gwen Stacy and a new team of Spider-People to face off with a villain more powerful than anything they have ever e...

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by Angela Oberer (Author)Author BiographyAngela Oberer is a lecturer in art history with a PhD from the Technische Universität Berlin. She has written and lectured extensively on the work of Rosalba Carriera. Number of Pages: 144 Dimensions: 0.6 x 13.6 x 8.1 IN Publication Date: June 27, 2023

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The Peacock Room Comes to America - Paperback

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by Lee Glazer (Author)You're invited to the Peacock Room, a stunning Victorian London dining room turned immersive work of art at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Asian Art The Peacock Room Comes to America details the unique history of a dining room so masterfully decorated, it crossed oceans to become an art collector's piece. The room is a study in opulence, offering a 360-degree showstopping view. This book features splendid illustrations and close-up shots of the room's most intricat...