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by Bertie Stroup Marah (Author)Bertie Stroup Marah, along with her four siblings, spent her childhood in abject poverty moving from sawmill shacks, tents, trailers and even an abandoned railroad car in the isolated desert and mountainous hard scrabble areas of New Mexico. The children make the best of their tumultuous existence by creating games and diversions that Bertie describes with humor and heart. Bertie spent most of her life playing the role of family caregiver to her two younger sist...

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by Ryan S. Flahive (Editor)On a 140-acre campus on the high plains south of Santa Fe, New Mexico, the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA) stands as a world leader in contemporary Native arts and culture education-an educational institution committed to "difference." This fifty year history explores some basic questions. How is IAIA different from other colleges? What is it about the history, structure, location, and curriculum that makes it a special institution? How did a school that be...

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Magicians & Charlatans: Essays on Art and Culture - Hardcover

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by Jed Perl (Contribution by)"The Eakins Press Foundation is proud to announce the publication of Magicians & Charlatans, by the art critic Jed Perl. In this collection of 26 essays, Mr. Perl writes with great urgency about the art scene of the past decade. The poet John Ashbery has said that "For years Jed Perl has been covering the art world with tremendous empathy and unsparing accuracy. His ability to recognize the traditional forms of art behind their continual transmutation has made...

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Carl Van Vechten: 'o, Write My Name': American Portraits, Harlem Heroes - Hardcover

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by Carl Van Vechten (Artist)Portraits of 50 pioneering figures of the Harlem RenaissanceThis elegantly designed and beautifully produced volume presents portraits of 50 extraordinary individuals who contributed to making the Harlem Renaissance one of the great cultural movements in American history. Some of the subjects are familiar--icons of music, dance, theater, literature, art, academia and sports--while others are considerably less well known, but equally important to the spirit at the h...

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by Hassan Massoudy (Author)"A feast for the eyes and balm for the soul."--T l ramaHassan Massoudy's elegant calligraphy depicts the four seasons of the garden. From the icy palettes of winter to delicate spring growth, and from the dazzling sunshine and blooms of summer through the fading hues of autumn, he captures in calligraphy what countless poets have crafted with words.The proverb or quotation that inspired each artwork is handwritten in Arabic by Massoudy alongside the English texts on...

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The Rise of Islamic Calligraphy - Hardcover

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by Alain George (Author)"George writes with enviable clarity and precision. I have never read anything better on calligraphy."--Robert HillenbrandThe birth of Qur'anic calligraphy was a major event in the early history of Islam. In a few decades, it raised the Arabs and their language from the remote fringes of the civilized world to its very heart.Alain George brings together manuscript, mosaic, architecture, and text to reveal the evolution of Arabic calligraphy from its pre-Islamic concept...

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Arabicity: Contemporary Arab Art - Paperback

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by Rose Issa (Editor), Etel Adnan (Text by (Art/Photo Books)), Maliheh Afnan (Artist)Arabicity reflects on four decades of the aesthetic, conceptual, and socio-political concerns of contemporary Arab artists. Beautifully produced, it features over 200 artworks by 50 Arab artists including Bahia Shehab, Ayman Baalbaki, Hassan Hajjaj, and Raeda Saadeh, who explore their cultural heritage, and themes such as memory, destruction, and conflict, with great warmth, humour and visual poetry. Whether...

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Shoot an Iraqi: Art, Life and Resistance Under the Gun - Paperback

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by Wafaa Bilal (Author), Kari Lydersen (Contribution by)Wafaa Bilal's childhood in Iraq was defined by the horrific rule of Saddam Hussein, two wars, a bloody uprising and time spent interned in chaotic refugee camps in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. Bilal eventually made it to the United States to become a professor and a successful artist, but when his brother was killed by an unmanned U.S. Predator drone, he decided to use his art to confront those in the comfort zone with the realities of life ...

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Keep Your Eye on the Wall: Palestinian Landscapes - Hardcover

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by Olivia Snaije (Editor), Mitchell Albert (Editor), Raja Shehadeh (Foreword by)Shockingly beautiful and evocative . . . the artists echo the feelings of Palestinians who have to make do with life in a divided, disfigured land.--Raja ShehadehIn art and literature, walls are frequently used as powerful symbols of division. For the people of Palestine, however, the wall that cuts deeply into their land and society is all too real, snaking through over seven hundred kilometres of the West Bank. ...

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The Art and Life of Chaouki Chamoun - Hardcover

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by Chaouki Chamoun (Author)Chaouki Chamoun is one of the Middle East's most renowned artists. With 319 color plates to illustrate his story, Chamoun leads us through his own artistic journey, showing how the schools of the modern era have informed his technique and imagery, and how he has been motivated and inspired as much by the tiniest details of a pebble as by the political turmoil visited on his homeland.Born in Lebanon in 1942, Chaouki Chamoun has participated in over fifty group art s...

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Without Boundary: Seventeen Ways of Looking - Hardcover

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by Ghada Amer (Artist), Mike Kelley (Artist), Shirana Shahbazi (Artist)The attention currently directed from the West to the Islamic world has profound ramifications for the art made by those who come from the region but live elsewhere: that origin is increasingly becoming a defining term in the consideration of works by artists such as Mona Hatoum and Shirin Neshat. Resisting any homogenizing impulse, Without Boundary recognizes a need to ask if this art is marked by an Islamic difference. A...

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by Philip Yenawine (Author)An accessible introduction to one of the six visual building blocks of art: placesThese bright, compact hardcovers introduce young readers and their parents to six visual building blocks--Lines, Shapes, Colors, People, Places and Stories--via an assortment of the great masterpieces of twentieth century art. Author Philip Yenawine, the longtime Director of Education at The Museum of Modern Art, is currently co-director of Visual Understanding in Education, a developm...

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by Hassan Massoudy (Illustrator), Venetia Porter (Introduction by)Hassan Massoudy's calligraphies are arranged to loosely follow the seasons, beginning and ending with autumn: sombre, wintry hues at one end, brilliant tones full of vibrant reds at the other.--Venetia PorterHassan Massoudy's elegant calligraphy depicts the four seasons of the garden. From the icy palettes of winter and the fading hues of autumn to delicate spring growth and the dazzling sunshine and blooms of summer, he captur...

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by Elizabeth Murray (Artist), Robert Storr (Text by (Art/Photo Books))Elizabeth Murray has radically altered the structure of Modernist painting. Her shaped and constructed canvases, often topologically modeled in three dimensions or fitted together out of multiple jigsaw-like parts, treat figure and ground in unprecedented ways, giving the elastic shapes of classic Surrealism a space in their own image. The alternatively comfortable and cataclysmic world that her images depict would crack ir...

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Khatt: Egypt's Calligraphic Landscape - Hardcover

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by Basma Hamdy (Author), Noha Zayed (Photographer), Huda Abifares (Contribution by)Egyptian cities and villages abound with an enormous wealth of khatt, or calligraphic script, ranging from casual scrawls and scribbles to elaborately-painted colourful murals. These historical and contemporary versions of urban lettering, varying in surface, medium and technique, adorn mosques, shop-fronts, houses, trucks, boats, schools, tuk tuks and walls. They are records of human existence, documenting exp...

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Vija Celmins & Eliot Weinberger: The Stars - Paperback

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by Vija Celmins (Artist), Eliot Weinberger (Text by (Art/Photo Books))New York artist Vija Celmins has made many images of the night sky--paintings, drawings and prints of gorgeous richness. In The Stars, she and her collaborator, the essayist and translator Eliot Weinberger, devote an artist's book to the theme. Celmins created three celestial prints for the project, which she also designed. One print, inspired by the worn binding of an early twentieth-century Japanese book, becomes the volu...

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by Sarah Ganz Blythe (Text by (Art/Photo Books)), Edward Powers (Text by (Art/Photo Books))Born in the midst of World War I, Dada posed a fundamental challenge to established social values and artistic norms. The 1910s and early 20s marked the birth of the illustrated press and radio broadcasting, the commercial cinema, and the industrial assembly line--phenomena that all contributed to shaping this extraordinarily dynamic movement, which had an enormous influence on the art and culture of la...

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Alfredo Boulton and His Contemporaries: Critical Dialogues in Venzuelan Art, 1912-1974 - Paperback

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by Ariel Jiménez (Text by (Art/Photo Books)), Hugo Achugar (Text by (Art/Photo Books)), Roldán Esteva-Grillet (Text by (Art/Photo Books))Alfredo Boulton (1908-1995) was Venezuela's foremost cultural and aesthetic observer of the twentieth century. An art critic, cultural historian and photographer, he was highly influential in the development of Modernist art and discourse--and of cultural self-definition--in Venezuela and the surrounding region. Boulton's diverse contributions serve as point...

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by Henri Matisse (Artist), Carolyn Lanchner (Text by (Art/Photo Books))Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Joan Mir and Andy Warhol each significantly shaped the development of art in the twentieth century. These Modern masters are the subjects of four small books, the first volumes in a series featuring important artists in the collection of The Museum of Modern Art. Each book presents a single artist and guides readers through a dozen of his most memorable achievements. Works are reproduced in c...

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by Joan Mir� (Artist), Carolyn Lanchner (Text by (Art/Photo Books))Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Joan Mir� and Andy Warhol each significantly shaped the development of art in the twentieth century. These Modern masters are the subjects of four small books, the first volumes in a series featuring important artists in the collection of The Museum of Modern Art. Each book presents a single artist and guides readers through a dozen of his most memorable achievements. Works are reproduced in color...

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by Aernout Mik (Artist), Laurence Kardish (Editor), Laurence Kardish (Text by (Art/Photo Books))Dutch artist Aernout Mik's moving-image installations meld filmmaking, sculpture and architecture into experiences that are at once compelling and unsettling, irrational yet plausible. The artist designs and constructs architectural spaces that hold his moving images, making the viewer's physical relationship to the piece a critical component of the overall experience. By interrogating the most bas...

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The Museum of Modern Art: Book of Cartoons - Hardcover

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by The New Yorker (Compiled by)When The Museum of Modern Art first opened its doors on November 8, 1929--in less than 5,000 square feet of rented office space in midtown Manhattan--it was considered a radical experiment. Who would have thought that a museum devoted entirely to "outrageous" Modern art could be successful? But succeed it did, weathering both the stock-market crash of 1929 just a week later and a storm of controversy that did not dissuade the crowds from going to see what all th...

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Compass in Hand: Assessing Drawing Now: Selections from the Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection - Hardcover

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by Christian Rattemeyer (Editor), Connie Butler (Text by (Art/Photo Books)), Gary Garrels (Text by (Art/Photo Books))Formed by Harvey S. Shipley Miller and donated to The Museum of Modern Art, New York, in 2005, The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection was conceived to be the widest possible cross-section of contemporary drawing made primarily within the past 20 years, surveying gestural and geometric abstraction, representation and figuration, systems-based and Conce...

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The Original Copy: Photography of Sculpture, 1839 to Today - Hardcover

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by Roxana Marcoci (Editor), Geoffrey Batchen (Text by (Art/Photo Books)), Tobia Bezzola (Text by (Art/Photo Books))Since its birth in the first half of the nineteenth century, photography has offered extraordinary possibilities of documenting, redefining and disseminating works of art. Through crop, focus, angle of view, degree of close-up and lighting, as well as through expostfacto techniques of dark room manipulation, collage, montage and assemblage, artists not only interpret the works th...

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The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection: Catalogue Raisonn� - Hardcover

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by Christian Rattemeyer (Editor), Isabelle Graw (Text by (Art/Photo Books)), Scott Gerson (Text by (Art/Photo Books))Formed by Harvey S. Shipley Miller and donated to The Museum of Modern Art, New York, in 2005, The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection was conceived to be the widest possible cross-section of contemporary drawing made primarily within the past 20 years, surveying gestural and geometric abstraction, representation and figuration, systems-based and conce...

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by Ron Arad (Artist), Paola Antonelli (Editor), Paola Antonelli (Text by (Art/Photo Books))The ethereal and conceptual work of a designer who has deftly avoided a recognizable style for more than 20 yearsEven among the most influential designers of our time, Ron Arad stands out for the versatile nature of his work and his daredevil use of materials and technology. Idiosyncratic, surprising and always visually arresting, Arad's work communicates the joy in creation, the pleasure in invention a...

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The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection Boxed Set - Boxed Set

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by Robert Rauschenberg (Artist), Carolyn Lanchner (Text by (Art/Photo Books))Robert Rauschenberg made a tremendous impact on Modern art in the twentieth century. As a pioneer of Pop art, he was a key figure in the postwar tradition that brought American art to the forefront of the international scene. This new volume in the MoMA Artist Series, which explores important artists and favorite works in the collection of The Museum of Modern Art, guides readers through a dozen of the artist's most ...

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A Picasso Portfolio: Prints from the Museum of Modern Art - Hardcover

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by Pablo Picasso (Artist), Deborah Wye (Text by (Art/Photo Books))Detroit at the end of the assembly line: an astonishing record of urban ruinPrintmaking was fundamental to Pablo Picasso's artistic vision. Over his long career, he made well over 2,000 printed images, focusing on the intaglio techniques of etching, engraving, drypoint and aquatint, as well as on lithography and linoleum cut. This publication, published to accompany an exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, explores Picasso's ...

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by Pablo Picasso (Artist), Anne Umland (Text by (Art/Photo Books))An in-depth examination of Picasso's modest yet radical cardboard and sheetmetal Guitar sculpturesPablo Picasso's modest yet radical cardboard and sheet metal Guitar sculptures (1912 and 1914, respectively) bracket a truly incandescent period of structural, spatial and material experimentation for the artist. In October 1912, while in what he described as "the process of imagining a guitar," Picasso embraced the techniques of a...

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What Is Contemporary Art? a Guide for Kids - Hardcover

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by Jacky Klein (Text by (Art/Photo Books)), Suzy Klein (Text by (Art/Photo Books))Contemporary art for kids in lively categories like Games, Outer Space and Bizarre BeastsWhat Is Contemporary Art? opens up the exciting, dynamic and sometimes bewildering world of contemporary art for a young audience, inviting readers to explore, enjoy and question a variety of artworks drawn from the collection of The Museum of Modern Art. Organized thematically by subjects of interest to children--from games...

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Sanja Ivekovic: Sweet Violence - Hardcover

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by Sanja Ivekovic (Artist), Roxana Marcoci (Text by (Art/Photo Books)), Terry Eagleton (Text by (Art/Photo Books))Published in conjunction with the first solo museum exhibition of the work of Sanja Ivekovic in the United States, this volume is the most comprehensive survey on the artist available in English. A feminist, activist and video and performance pioneer, Ivekovic came of age in the early 1970s during the period known as the Croatian Spring, when artists broke free from mainstream ins...