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Northwest Coast Indian Art: An Analysis of Form, 50th Anniversary Edition - Paperback

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by Bill Holm (Author), Burke Museum (Editor)The 50th anniversary edition of this classic work on the art of Northwest Coast Indians now offers color illustrations for a new generation of readers along with reflections from contemporary Northwest Coast artists about the impact of this book. The masterworks of Northwest Coast Native artists are admired today as among the great achievements of the world's artists. The painted and carved wooden screens, chests and boxes, rattles, crest hats, and ...

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Art of the Twentieth Century: A Reader - Paperback

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by Jason Gaiger (Editor), Paul Wood (Editor)This reader, a companion to The Open University's four-volume Art of the Twentieth Century series, offers a variety of writings by art historians and art theorists. The writings were originally published as freestanding essays or chapters in books, and they reflect the diversity of art historical interpretations and theoretical approaches to twentieth-century art.Accessible to the general reader, this book may be read independently or to supplement ...

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Gifts from the Ancestors: Ancient Ivories of Bering Strait - Paperback

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by William W. Fitzhugh (Editor), Julie Hollowell (Editor), Aron L. Crowell (Editor)The appearance during the first millennium A.D. of small, exquisitely carved artifacts of walrus ivory in the Bering Strait region marks the beginning of an extraordinary florescence in the art and culture of North America. The discovery in the 1930s and 1940s of world-class carvings of animals, mythical beasts, shape-shifting creatures, masks, and human figurines astounded scholars and excited collectors. Neve...

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Architecture as Icon: Perception and Representation of Architecture in Byzantine Art - Paperback

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by Slobodan Curcic (Editor), Slobodan Curcic (Contribution by), Evangelia Hadjitryphonos (Contribution by)Presenting the first formulation of the central subject, this volume challenges major assumptions long held by Western art historians and provides new ways of thinking about, looking at, and understanding Byzantine art in its broadest geographic and chronological framework, from A.D. 300 to the early nineteenth century. Byzantine art abandoned classical ideals in favor of formulas that co...

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by Arthur C. Danto (Author)A lively meditation on the nature of art by one of America's most celebrated art critics What is it to be a work of art? Renowned author and critic Arthur C. Danto addresses this fundamental, complex question. Part philosophical monograph and part memoiristic meditation, What Art Is challenges the popular interpretation that art is an indefinable concept, instead bringing to light the properties that constitute universal meaning. Danto argues that despite varied ap...

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Women of Abstract Expressionism - Hardcover

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by Joan Marter (Editor), Gwen F. Chanzit (Introduction by), Robert Hobbs (Contribution by)The celebrated survey of female Abstract Expressionist artists revealing the richness and lasting influence of their work The artists Jay DeFeo, Helen Frankenthaler, Grace Hartigan, Elaine de Kooning, Lee Krasner, Joan Mitchell, and many other women played major roles in the development of Abstract Expressionism, which flourished in New York and San Francisco in the 1940s and 1950s and has been recogniz...

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The City Lost and Found: Capturing New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles, 1960-1980 - Hardcover

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by Katherine A. Bussard (Author), Alison Fisher (Author), Greg Foster-Rice (Author)An unprecedented exploration of the relationship between art, architecture, social history, and public policy in New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles in the 1960s and '70s American cities underwent seismic transformations in the 1960s and '70s, from shifting demographics and political protests to reshaping through highways and urban renewal. Amid this climate of upheaval, photographers, architects, activists, pe...

Black Square: Malevich and the Origin of Suprematism - Hardcover

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by Aleksandra Shatskikh (Author), Marian Schwartz (Translator)An in-depth exploration of Malevich's pivotal painting, its context and its significance Kazimir Malevich's painting Black Square is one of the twentieth century's emblematic paintings, the visual manifestation of a new period in world artistic culture at its inception. None of Malevich's contemporary revolutionaries created a manifesto, an emblem, as capacious and in its own way unique as this work; it became both the quintessenc...

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How to Read Chinese Paintings - Paperback

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by Maxwell K. Hearn (Author)The Chinese often use the expression du hua, "to read a painting," in connection with their study and appreciation of such works. This volume closely "reads" thirty-six masterpieces of Chinese painting from the encyclopedic collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art in order to reveal the major characteristics and themes of this rich pictorial tradition. The book examines multiple layers of meaning--style, technique, symbolism, past traditions, and the artist's p...

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Ever Yours: The Essential Letters - Hardcover

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by Vincent Van Gogh (Author), Leo Jansen (Editor), Hans Luijten (Editor)"There is scarcely one letter by Van Gogh which I, who am certainly no expert, do not find fascinating." --W. H. Auden In addition to his many remarkable paintings and drawings, Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) left behind a fascinating and voluminous body of correspondence. This highly accessible book includes a broad selection of 265 letters, from a total of 820 in existence, that focus on Van Gogh's relentless quest to fi...

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by Anna Felicity Friedman (Author), Lars Krutak (Contribution by), Matt Lodder (Contribution by)"A grand tour of the world's great tattoos"--Atlas Obscura "This book--part global art historical tome, part coffee-table book of visual wonders--is a valuable corrective to many silly things that we assume about tattooing."--The New Republic A lavishly illustrated global exploration of the vast array of styles and most significant practitioners of tattoo from ancient times to today Tattoo art an...

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Leap Before You Look: Black Mountain College 1933-1957 - Hardcover

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by Helen Molesworth (Author), Ruth Erickson (Contribution by)A dynamic new look at the legendary college that was a major incubator of the arts in midcentury America In 1933, John Rice founded Black Mountain College in North Carolina as an experiment in making artistic experience central to learning. Though it operated for only 24 years, this pioneering school played a significant role in fostering avant-garde art, music, dance, and poetry, and an astonishing number of important artists taug...

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Louise Nevelson's Sculpture: Drag, Color, Join, Face - Paperback

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by Julia Bryan-Wilson (Author)A daring reassessment of Louise Nevelson, an icon of twentieth-century art whose innovative procedures relate to gendered, classed, and racialized forms of making In this radical rethinking of the art of Louise Nevelson (1899-1988), Julia Bryan-Wilson provides a long-overdue critical account of a signature figure in postwar sculpture. A Ukraine-born Jewish immigrant, Nevelson persevered in the male-dominated New York art world. Nonetheless, her careful procedure...

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Gauguin's Paradise Remembered: The Noa Noa Prints - Paperback

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by Alastair Wright (Author), Calvin Brown (Author)In 1891, Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) traveled to Tahiti in an effort to live simply and to draw inspiration from what he saw as the island's exotic native culture. Although the artist was disappointed by the rapidly westernizing community he encountered, his works from this period nonetheless celebrate the myth of an untainted Tahitian idyll, a myth he continued to perpetuate upon his return to Paris. He created a travel journal entitled Noa Noa ...

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by Lynne Cooke (Editor), Rhea Anastas (Contribution by), Douglas Crimp (Contribution by)New discourse on four decades of painting by one of the 20th century's most influential artists Gorgeously quiet in color and composition, Agnes Martin's paintings have a distinctive grace that sets them apart from those of the Abstract Expressionists of her day and the Minimalist artists she inspired. Martin attributed her grid-based works to metaphysical motivations, lending a serene complexity to her o...

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Wyeth: Andrew and Jamie in the Studio - Hardcover

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by Timothy J. Standring (Author)An essential new look at the diverse work and artistic methods of beloved American realist painters Andrew and Jamie Wyeth Father and son artists Andrew Wyeth (1917-2009) and Jamie Wyeth (b. 1946) are among the most celebrated American realist painters of the 20th century. Despite their similar habits of mind, studio practice, and rural Pennsylvania upbringing, the two artists produced strikingly different work. However, they also employed a wide range of proc...

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Ancient Greece: From Prehistoric to Hellenistic Times - Paperback

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by Thomas R. Martin (Author)This compact yet comprehensive history brings ancient Greek civilization alive, from its Stone Age roots to the fourth century B.C. "A highly readable account of ancient Greece."--Kirkus Reviews Focusing on the development of the Greek city-state and the society, culture, and architecture of Athens in its Golden Age, Thomas R. Martin integrates political, military, social, and cultural history in a book that will appeal to students and general readers alike. Now ...

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Mark Rothko: Toward the Light in the Chapel - Paperback

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by Annie Cohen-Solal (Author)A fascinating exploration of the life and work of one of America's most famous and enigmatic postwar visual artists Mark Rothko, one of the greatest painters of the twentieth century, was born in the Jewish Pale of Settlement in 1903. He immigrated to the United States at age ten, taking with him his Talmudic education and his memories of pogroms and persecutions in Russia. His integration into American society began with a series of painful experiences, especial...

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Toulouse-Lautrec Illustrates the Belle Époque - Paperback

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by Hilliard T. Goldfarb (Editor)The celebrated French artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901) created works that epitomize the theatricality, elegance, and decadence of late-19th-century Paris. This beautifully illustrated book features a selection of Toulouse-Lautrec's drawings, paintings, and posters, and more than 90 prints, some of which have never previously been published. The works cover the entirety of Toulouse-Lautrec's career, beginning with a drawing completed when he was just...

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Into Every Generation a Slayer Is Born: How Buffy Staked Our Hearts - Paperback

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by Evan Ross Katz (Author)Explore the history and cultural impact of a groundbreaking television show adored by old and new fans alike: Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Over the course of its seven-year run, Buffy the Vampire Slayer cultivated a loyal fandom and featured a strong, complex female lead, at a time when such a character was a rarity. Evan Ross Katz explores the show's cultural relevance through a book that is part oral history, part celebration, and part memoir of a personal fandom tha...

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The Berlin Painter and His World: Athenian Vase-Painting in the Early Fifth Century B.C. - Hardcover

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by J. Michael Padgett (Editor), Nathan Arrington (Contribution by), Elke Böhr (Contribution by)The Berlin Painter was the name given by British classicist and art historian Sir John Beazley to an otherwise anonymous Athenian red-figure vase-painter. The artist's long career extended from about 505 B.C. well into the 460s, and his elegant renderings of daily life and mythological stories offer invaluable insight into the social, political, religious, and artistic workings of early 5th-century ...

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The Artist's Reality: Philosophies of Art - Paperback

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by Mark Rothko (Author), Christopher Rothko (Editor), Makoto Fujimura (Afterword by)Mark Rothko's classic book on artistic practice, ideals, and philosophy, now with an expanded introduction and an afterword by Makoto Fujimura Stored in a New York City warehouse for many years after the artist's death, this extraordinary manuscript by Mark Rothko (1903-1970) was published to great acclaim in 2004. Probably written in 1940 or 1941, it contains Rothko's ideas on the modern art world, art histo...

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City of Gold: The Archaeology of Polis Chrysochous, Cyprus - Paperback

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by William A. P. Childs (Editor), Joanna S. Smith (Editor), J. Michael Padgett (Editor)The modern Cypriot town of Polis Chrysochous--"City of Gold"--lies above the city of Arsinoe and the earlier city-kingdom of Marion. In 1885 excavators began exploring the extensive cemeteries of these cities. Since 1983 the Princeton Cyprus Expedition has focused on the remains of sanctuaries, public buildings, workshops, and private residences spanning the Geometric through Classical periods of Marion and...

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Nature's Nation: American Art and Environment - Hardcover

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by Karl Kusserow (Editor), Alan C. Braddock (Editor), Miranda Belarde-Lewis (Contribution by)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, including environmentally informed ways of understanding art history. This multidisciplinary book off...

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Frank Stella Unbound: Literature and Printmaking - Hardcover

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by Mitra Abbaspour (Author), Calvin Brown (Author), Erica Cooke (Author)Focusing on the vital role of literature in the development of the artistic practice of Frank Stella (b. 1936), this insightful book looks at four transformative series of prints made between 1984 and 1999. Each of these series is named after a literary work--the Had Gadya (a playful song traditionally sung at the end of the Passover Seder), Italian Folktales, compiled by Italo Calvino, Moby-Dick by Herman Melville, and T...

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Horace Pippin, American Modern - Hardcover

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by Anne Monahan (Author)A nuanced reassessment that transforms our understanding of this self-taught artist Arguably the most successful African American artist of his day, Horace Pippin (1888-1946) taught himself to paint in the 1930s and quickly earned international renown for depictions of World War I, black families, and American heroes Abraham Lincoln, abolitionist John Brown, and singer Marian Anderson, among other subjects. This volume sheds new light on how the disabled combat vetera...

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by Tamara Schenkenberg (Editor), Aruna D'Souza (Contribution by), Helen Molesworth (Contribution by)"Doing is living. That is all that matters."--Ruth Asawa Throughout her long and prolific career American artist Ruth Asawa (1926-2013) developed innovative sculptures in wire, a medium she explored through increasingly complex forms using craft-based techniques she learned while traveling in Mexico in 1947. In 1949, after studying at Black Mountain College, Asawa moved to San Francisco and cr...

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N. C. Wyeth: New Perspectives - Paperback

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by Jessica May (Author), Christine Podmaniczky (Author), D. B. Dowd (Contribution by)A fresh and surprising overview of N. C. Wyeth's career that considers the full range of the multifaceted artist's oeuvre N. C. Wyeth (1882-1945) was widely renowned for his iconic images of characters such as King Arthur, Robin Hood, and Robinson Crusoe that were reproduced as illustrations for books and magazines. The patriarch of the Wyeth family, father of Andrew Wyeth and grandfather of Jamie, he was al...

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Whistler in Watercolor: Lovely Little Games - Hardcover

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by Lee Glazer (Author), Emily Jacobson (Author), Blythe McCarthy (Author)A focused investigation of Whistler's watercolors that introduces readers to a rarely seen aspect of the artist's creative output In the 1880s, James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) reinvented himself through the medium of watercolor. At the time, excellence in watercolor was most often associated with British artists, and most notably with the work of J. M. W. Turner (1775-1851). Whistler's embrace of watercolor allowed t...

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Virginia Jaramillo: Principle of Equivalence - Hardcover

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by Erin Dziedzic (Editor), Matthew Jeffrey Abrams (Contribution by), Barbara Calderon (Contribution by)The first comprehensive look at the nearly seven-decades-long career of contemporary Mexican American artist Virginia Jaramillo Over the course of her career, Virginia Jaramillo (b. 1939) has forged a pathway to exploring ideas and concepts of space through abstract paintings and handmade paper works influenced by her myriad interests including physics, the cosmos, mythology, ancient cultur...

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by Gabriel Josipovici (Author)In this brilliant new book, a preeminent literary thinker muses over the central question of how we can feel at home in the world, given that the world is independent of and indifferent to our wishes. Drawing on books and films, cultural history and his own experiences, Gabriel Josipovici argues that it is possible to feel comfortable in the world and in our relationships with others only if we value touch over sight, if we respect distance but also work to overc...

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by David Kastan (Author), Stephen Farthing (Author)Ranging from Homer to Picasso, and from the Iranian Revolution to The Wizard of Oz, this spirited and radiant book awakens us anew to the role of color in our lives Our lives are saturated by color. We live in a world of vivid colors, and color marks our psychological and social existence. But for all color's inescapability, we don't know much about it. Now authors David Scott Kastan and Stephen Farthing offer a fresh and imaginative explora...