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Miskwabik, Metal of Ritual: Metallurgy in Precontact Eastern North America - Hardcover

$59.85

by Amelia M. Trevelyan (Author)Miskwabik, Metal of Ritual examines the thousands of beautiful and intricate ritual works of art-from ceremonial weaponry to delicate copper pendants and ear ornaments-created in eastern North America before the arrival of Europeans. The first comprehensive examination of this 3,000-year-old metallurgical tradition, the book provides unique insight into the motivation of the artisans and the significance of these objects, and highlights the brilliance and sophis...

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Great Road Style: The Decorative Arts Legacy of Southwest Virginia and Northeast Tennessee - Hardcover

$64.75

by Betsy White (Author), William King Regional Art Center (Prepared by)Linked historically, culturally, and geographically, the counties that make up southwestern Virginia and northeastern Tennessee are also connected by a shared decorative arts tradition. "Great Road Style," so called because of the region's historical importance as a stage route connecting the eastern seaboard with the western frontier, is evidenced in distinctive forms of furniture, ceramics, textiles, and metalwork. Yet u...

Lincoln Perry's Charlottesville - Hardcover

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by Lincoln Perry (Author), Ann Beattie (Author)Lincoln Perry is justly celebrated for his murals and edgy narrative figure paintings, with their saturated palette and multifaceted architectural compositions--Poussin refracted through de Chirico. This beautiful new book showcases his images of Charlottesville, Virginia--many of them multipanel compositions featuring the University of Virginia and its environs--accompanied by an essay and interview by his wife, the writer Ann Beattie.Perry's mu...

Prodigy Houses of Virginia: Architecture and the Native Elite - Hardcover

$144.00

by Barbara Burlison Mooney (Author)In a list of objectives and inquiries meant to guide and make profitable the European travel of two young Americans in 1788, Thomas Jefferson noted, "Architecture is] worth great attention. As we double our numbers ever 20 years we must double our houses.... It is then among the most important arts: and it is desireable to introduce taste into an art which shews so much." Referring both to the large physical presence of architecture, as well as the ability ...

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The Hand and the Soul: Aesthetics and Ethics in Architecture and Art - Paperback

$57.60

by Sanda Iliescu (Editor)The essays in The Hand and the Soul explore the question of how ethical ideas guiding the design process--a concern for the environment or for social justice--relate to the beauty of our buildings, cities, and artworks. The book presents a range of viewpoints and does not ignore the perils of an easy association of ethics and aesthetics. Yet the majority of contributors, among them historians, theorists, as well practicing designers and artists, argue passionately in ...

Art for Equality: The Naacp's Cultural Campaign for Civil Rights - Hardcover

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by Jenny Woodley (Author)The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is the nation's oldest civil rights organization, having dedicated itself to the fight for racial equality since 1909. While the group helped achieve substantial victories in the courtroom, the struggle for civil rights extended beyond gaining political support. It also required changing social attitudes. The NAACP thus worked to alter existing prejudices through the production of art that countere...

Tilmann Riemenschneider: His Life and Work - Paperback

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by Justus Bier (Author)In the hauntingly beautiful sculptures of Tilmann Riemenschneider, the Late Gothic art of Germany achieved its highest expression. Now, for the first time in English, the eminent art historian Justus Bier accords Riemenschneider the extended attention he so richly deserves. Riemenschneider (ca. 1460-1531) holds a pivotal place in the development of German art. Rejecting the anonymous soulfulness of earlier Gothic sculpture, he created a style reflecting the deeply spiri...

Regionalism and Reform: Art and Class Formation in Antebellum CI - Paperback

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by Wendy Jean Katz (Author)"This book is exceptionally smart, really one of the best books I've read in its interdisciplinary way. . . .] I find it original, thoughtful, and useful." -Barbara Groseclose, The Ohio State University Before the Civil War, Cincinnati, Ohio, was considered the most important art center of what was then regarded as the U.S. West. In this book, Wendy Jean Katz explores the role of artists and art associations in moral and social reform in antebellum Cincinnati. Its ...

Entering Cultural Communities: Diversity and Change in the Nonprofit Arts - Paperback

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by Diane Grams (Editor), Betty Farrell (Editor), Diane Grams (Contribution by)Arts organizations once sought patrons primarily from among the wealthy and well educated, but for many decades now they have revised their goals as they seek to broaden their audiences. Today, museums, orchestras, dance companies, theaters, and community cultural centers try to involve a variety of people in the arts. They strive to attract a more racially and ethnically diverse group of people, those from a broade...

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George and Martha Washington: Portraits from the Presidential Years - Paperback

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by Ellen G. Miles (Author), Edmund S. Morgan (Preface by)RESPONDING TO a near-constant flow of requests, George and Martha Washington sat for about two dozen portraits from 1789 to 1797, collected here in this elegantly illustrated volume. From miniatures executed on ivory for family and friends to a historical portrait that depicts Washington during the Revolution, the../images vary widely in treatment and setting. What they all reflect, Ellen Miles suggests, is the great need the new republ...

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Tales from La Vida: A Latinx Comics Anthology - Paperback

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by Frederick Luis Aldama (Author)In the Latinx comics community, there is much to celebrate today, with more Latinx comic book artists than ever before. The resplendent visual-verbal storyworlds of these artists reach into and radically transform so many visual and storytelling genres. Tales from la Vida celebrates this space by bringing together more than eighty contributions by extraordinary Latinx creators. Their short visual-verbal narratives spring from autobiographical experience as sit...

Dixie Debates: Perspectives on Southern Cultures - Paperback

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by Richard H. King (Editor), Helen Taylor (Editor)The contemporary American South is a region of economic expansion, political sophistication, and, particularly, cultural ferment. Its literature is well-known and celebrated. But what of the popular cultural forms of expression that have done so much to reflect the curious tensions between the traditional South--white-dominated, rural, religous--and contemporary multicultural forms and discourses? This collection offers a wealth of exciting ne...

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Structural Intuitions: Seeing Shapes in Art and Science - Hardcover

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by Martin Kemp (Author)"All great achievements of science must start from intuitive knowledge," wrote Albert Einstein. In Structural Intuitions, a fascinating exploration of the commonalities between two seemingly disparate realms, renowned art historian Martin Kemp applies Einstein's notion both to science and to art. Kemp argues that in both fields, work begins at the intuitive level, curiosity aroused by our recognition of patterns or order. Kemp's "structural intuitions," then, are the w...

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by Andrea Ponsi (Author), Antony Shugaar (Translator)Analogical thought is fundamental to creativity. The use of analogy can help to solve problems, make connections between disciplines, and use those relations to form original solutions. In Analogy and Design, Andrea Ponsi considers the role of analogical thought in architectural design. Almost all work in design and architecture is the result of analogical thinking, with respect to systems derived from nature, technical and scientific mode...

Surrealism: Surrealist Visuality - Hardcover

$192.60

by Silvano Levy (Editor)Dal. Picasso. Ernst. Magritte. Maddox. Breton. Artaud, Fondane, Masson--all are to be found in this gallery of surrealist artists. Focussing on surrealist visuality--defined as the visual expression of internal perception or, in Andr Breton's words, internal representation--the contributors to this handsomely illustrated volume shed new light on one of the twentieth century's most exciting cultural movements. Number of Pages: 176 Dimensions: 0.56 x 9 x 6 IN Publication...

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Guardians of Detroit: Architectural Sculpture in the Motor City - Hardcover

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by Jeff Morrison (Author), Jeff Morrison (Photographer)Detroit is home to amazing architectural sculpture-a host of gargoyles, grotesques, and other silent guardians that watch over the city from high above its streets and sidewalks, often unnoticed or ignored by the people passing below. Jeff Morrison's Guardians of Detroit: Architectural Sculpture in the Motor City documents these incredible features in a city that began as a small frontier fort and quickly grew to become a major metropolis...

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Gods in Granite: The Art of the White Mountains of New Hampshire - Hardcover

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by Robert L. McGrath (Author)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 appears in paintings and illustrations. Extending from the late eighteenth to the late twentieth century, he includes by far the most extensive collection of pictorial wo...

Gustav Stickley's Craftsman Farms: The Quest for an Arts and Crafts Utopia - Hardcover

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by Mark Hewitt (Author)From 1911 to 1917 Craftsman Farms--now a major museum--was the home of Gustav Stickley, one of the central figures in the American Arts and Crafts Movement. This book unravels the rich and sometimes contradictory ideas that informed not only Stickley but many of the artists and literary figures of the progressive era in America. The year 1900 was the fulcrum in a long arc of utopian ideals dating back to Thomas Carlyle, John Ruskin, and William Morris in England, a move...

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Painting in the Middle East: Contemporary Issues in the Middle East - Hardcover

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by Ann Kerr-Adams (Author)"We each paint our lives and frame our experiences of the world in a distinctive way for reasons that we cannot always understand," writes Ann Kerr in her book. The watercolors that fill its pages are an expression of the author's affection and fascination for the Middle East, painted during her many sojourns there starting in the mid-fifties and continuing to the present time. The paintings are unashamedly romantic and reveal nothing of the turmoil going on in the r...

Absence / Presence: Critical Essays on the Artistic Memory of the Holocaust - Hardcover

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by Stephen C. Feinstein (Author)Since the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps and recognition of the Holocaust as a watershed event of the twentieth century, if not in Western Civilization itself, the capacity of art to represent this event adequately has been questioned. As it analyzes a cross section of Holocaust art within the context of art history, Absence / Presence addresses the discussion head on and explores the interchange between media and horror. The book's contributors inc...

Wild Exuberance: Harold Weston's Adirondack Art - Paperback

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by Rebecca Foster (Author), Caroline M. Welsh (Author)Augmented by scholarly essays on aspects of Weston's painting, this catalog offers over 100 colour plates of his work. Number of Pages: 136 Dimensions: 0.39 x 9.96 x 8.5 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: June 16, 2005

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Life Lessons: The Art of Jerome Witkin, Second Edition - Hardcover

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by Sherry Chayat (Author)As a master of realism, Jerome Witkin illustrates in his art the moral plight of everyday lives. His most complex and critically acclaimed works--intense, often disturbing scenes of the Holocaust--have earned him a growing international audience. This second edition of Life Lessons incorporates material from the past decade, including ten of his most important and provocative paintings. It brings the viewer in intimate contact with the dense interior landscapes of bot...

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Of Walking in Ice: Munich-Paris, 23 November-14 December 1974 - Paperback

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by Werner Herzog (Author), Martje Herzog (Translator), Alan Greenberg (Translator)In late November 1974, filmmaker Werner Herzog received a phone call from Paris delivering some terrible news. German film historian, mentor, and close friend Lotte Eisner was seriously ill and dying. Herzog was determined to prevent this and believed that an act of walking would keep Eisner from death. He took a jacket, a compass, and a duffel bag of the barest essentials, and wearing a pair of new boots, set o...

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Of Mules and Mud: The Story of Alabama Folk Potter Jerry Brown - Paperback

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by Jerry Brown (Author), Joey Brackner (Introduction by), Joey Brackner (Editor)The life and times of Alabama folk potter Jerry Brown, as told in his own words Born in 1942, Jerry Brown helped out in his father's pottery shop as a young boy. There he learned the methods and techniques for making pottery in a family tradition dating back to the 1830s. His responsibilities included tending the mule that drove the mill that was used to mix clay (called "mud" by traditional potters). Business su...

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by Wolf Jahn (Author)- Wolf Jahn is deeply knowledgeable about Gilbert & George's work and practice, having written extensively about them over the past 40 years, including the book The Art of Gilbert & George (Thames & Hudson, 1989)- The Meaning of the Earth has been designed to reflect the anarchic nature of Gilbert and George's practice. Only Gilbert and George's works are allowed to sit large across the pages - all other works and comparative images are deliberately shrunk dow...

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Voyaging: Southward from the Strait of Magellan - Paperback

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by Rockwell Kent (Author)The 75th anniversary printing of the captivating story of Kent's journey to Tierra del Fuego.Rockwell Kent is one of America's most famous graphic artists. He was also an avid traveler. Kent was especially fascinated by remote Arctic lands and often stayed for extended periods of time to paint, write, and become acquainted with the local inhabitants. Between 1918 and 1935, he wrote and illustrated several popular books about his travels. Voyaging, originally published...

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Anni Albers: Selected Writings on Design - Hardcover

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by Anni Albers (Author)The only source in print of the key essays of a pioneer of modernist design.Anni Albers (1899 - 1994) was one of the most influential textile designers of the 20th century. Born in Berlin, in 1922 she became a student at the Bauhaus in Weimar, where she met her husband, Josef Albers. From 1933 to 1949 Albers taught at Black Mountain College. The fifteen essays gathered here illustrate Anni Albers's concept of design as the pursuit of wholeness -- "the coalition of form ...

Silence: Lectures and Writings - Paperback

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by John Cage (Author), Kyle Gann (Other)Silence, A Year from Monday, M, Empty Words and X (in this order) form the five parts of a series of books in which Cage tries, as he says, "to find a way of writing which comes from ideas, is not about them, but which produces them." Often these writings include mesostics and essays created by subjecting the work of other writers to chance procedures using the I Ching (what Cage called "writing through").John Cage is the outstanding composer of avant-g...

Engraving the Savage: The New World and Techniques of Civilization - Paperback

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by Michael Gaudio (Author)In 1585, the British painter and explorer John White created images of Carolina Algonquian Indians. These images were collected and engraved in 1590 by the Flemish publisher and printmaker Theodor de Bry and were reproduced widely, establishing the visual prototype of North American Indians for European and Euro-American readers. In this innovative analysis, Michael Gaudio explains how popular engravings of Native American Indians defined the nature of Western civili...

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by Lary Bloom (Author)An intimate portrait of a renowned conceptual artistSol LeWitt (1928-2007), one of the most influential artists of the twentieth century, upended traditional practices of how art is made and marketed. A key figure in minimalism and conceptualism, he proclaimed that the work of the mind is much more important than that of the hand. For his site-specific work--wall drawings and sculpture in dozens of countries--he created the idea and basic plan and then hired young artist...

Yellow Future: Oriental Style in Hollywood Cinema - Paperback

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by Jane Chi Hyun Park (Author)Yellow Future examines the emergence and popularity of techno-oriental representations in Hollywood cinema since the 1980s, focusing on the ways East Asian peoples and places have become linked with technology to produce a collective fantasy of East Asia as the future. Jane Chi Hyun Park demonstrates how this fantasy is sustained through imagery, iconography, and performance that conflate East Asia with technology, constituting what Park calls oriental style. Pa...

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The Imagine and Draw Activity Book - Paperback

$16.99

by Highlights (Created by)Calling all young artists! This engaging activity book is packed with 80 pages of activities and drawing prompts designed to spark creative thinking and encourage imagination in kids 6 and up. It includes 3 double-sided, brush tip markers with 6 total colors to use while solving puzzles, inventing creatures, designing desserts and more. Featuring more than 75 open-ended drawing activities designed to get kids' imaginations flowing, this flexi-bound activity book help...