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  • Vanderbilt

    The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty

    New York Times bestselling author and journalist Anderson Cooper teams with New York Times bestselling historian and novelist Katherine Howe to chronicle the rise and fall of a legendary American dynasty—his mother’s family, the Vanderbilts.One of the Washington Post's Notable Works of Nonfiction of 2021When eleven-year-old Cornelius Vanderbilt began to work on his father’s small boat ferrying ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Battlelines: Road to Gettysburg

    Civil War Combat Artists and the Pictures They Drew, #1

    by Jim Stovall ...
    Series Book 1 - Civil War Combat Artists and the Pictures They Drew
    What did a battle during the Civil War look like?We have no photographs of Civil War battles because photography had no advanced to where it could stop that kind of action.But we can get a good idea of what the battles were like from the courageous -- and sometimes reckless -- combat artists from contemporary publications who took to the field and attached themselves to the armies.Sadly, the work ... Read more

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  • The Hip Hop Wars

    What We Talk About When We Talk About Hip Hop--and Why It Matters

    by Tricia Rose ...
    How hip hop shapes our conversations about race -- and how race influences our consideration of hip hopHip hop is a distinctive form of black art in America-from Tupac to the Pulitzer Prize-winning Kendrick Lamar, hip hop has long given voice to the African American experience. As scholar and cultural critic Tricia Rose argues, hip hop, in fact, has become one of the primary ways we talk about ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Rise

    A Pop History of Asian America from the Nineties to Now

    "Hip, entertaining...imaginative."****—Kirkus, starred review *****"Essential." —Min Jin Lee * "A Herculean effort."—Lisa Ling * "A must-read."—Ijeoma Oluo * "Get two copies."—Shea Serrano * "A book we've needed for ages." —Celeste Ng * "Accessible, informative, and fun." —Cathy Park Hong * "This book has serious substance...Also, I'm in it."****—Ronny ChiengRISE is a love letter to and for Asian ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Hollywood Black

    The Stars, the Films, the Filmmakers

    Series series Turner Classic Movies
    The films, the stars, the filmmakers-all get their due in Hollywood Black, a sweeping overview of blacks in film from the silent era through Black Panther, with striking photos and an engrossing history by award-winning author Donald Bogle.The story opens in the silent film era, when white actors in blackface often played black characters, but also saw the rise of independent African American ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Basquiat

    A Quick Killing in Art

    by Phoebe Hoban ...
    A New York Times Notable Book: This national bestseller is a vivid biography of the meteoric rise and tragic death of art star Jean-Michel BasquiatPainter Jean-Michel Basquiat was the Jimi Hendrix of the art world. In less than a decade, he went from being a teenage graffiti artist to an international art star; he was dead of a drug overdose at age twenty-seven. Basquiat’s brief career spanned the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Chalk

    The Art and Erasure of Cy Twombly

    by Joshua Rivkin ...
    **A New York Times Editors Choice**"The most substantive biography of the artist to date...propulsive, positive and persuasive."—Holland Cotter, New York Times Book Review**PEN / Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography Finalist****A Marfield Prize Finalist**Cy Twombly was a man obsessed with myth and history—including his own. Shuttling between stunning homes in Italy an... ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Everything She Touched

    Life of Ruth Asawa

    by Marilyn Chase ...
    Everything She Touched recounts the incredible life of the American sculptor Ruth Asawa.This is the story of a woman who wielded imagination and hope in the face of intolerance and who transformed everything she touched into art. In this compelling biography, author Marilyn Chase brings Asawa's story to vivid life. She draws on Asawa's extensive archives and weaves together many voices—family, ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • The Jazz of Physics

    The Secret Link Between Music and the Structure of the Universe

    A spectacular musical and scientific journey from the Bronx to the cosmic horizon that reveals the astonishing links between jazz, science, Einstein, and ColtraneMore than fifty years ago, John Coltrane drew the twelve musical notes in a circle and connected them by straight lines, forming a five-pointed star. Inspired by Einstein, Coltrane put physics and geometry at the core of his music ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The White Road

    Journey into an Obsession

    An intimate narrative history of porcelain, structured around five journeys through landscapes where porcelain was dreamed about, fired, refined, collected, and coveted.Extraordinary new nonfiction, a gripping blend of history and memoir, by the author of the award-winning and bestselling international sensation, The Hare with the Amber Eyes.In The White Road, bestselling author and artist Edmund ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Horses in the American West

    Portrayals by Twenty-Four Artists

    Series series American Wests, sponsored by West Texas A&M University
    Images of working cowhands and their horses loom large in the mind’s eye of many who love the American West. Those same images form the heart and soul of this lavishly illustrated book, which captures the viewpoints, values, and observations of twenty-four respected contemporary artists. The artists’ own words illuminate the painting, sculpture, photography, and drawings of these award-winning, ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Staying Up Much Too Late

    Edward Hopper's Nighthawks and the Dark Side of the American Psyche

    A fascinating study of Edward Hopper's iconic Nighthawks painting and its deep significance for understanding American culture.Staying up Much Too Late discusses the painting Nighthawks and the painter Edward Hopper and their central importance to twentieth-century American culture. Topics include individualism, New York City, Arthur "Weegee" Fellig, diners, pornography, capitalism, advertising, ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Slip

    The New York City Street That Changed American Art Forever

    Longlisted for the National Book Award · Shortlisted for the Apollo Book of the Year Award**· A New York Times Notable Book of the Year**The never-before-told story of an obscure little street at the lower tip of Manhattan and the remarkable artists who got their start there.For just over a decade, from 1956 to 1967, a collection of dilapidated former sail-making warehouses clustered at the lower ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Project 562

    Changing the Way We See Native America

    by Matika Wilbur ...
    **NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A photographic and narrative celebration of contemporary Native American life and cultures, alongside an in-depth examination of issues that Native people face, by celebrated photographer and storyteller Matika Wilbur of the Swinomish and Tulalip Tribes.“This book is too important to miss. It is a vast, sprawling look at who we are as Indigenous people in these United ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Keith Haring Journals

    (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

    by Keith Haring ...
    Series series Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition
    Keith Haring is synonymous with the downtown New York art scene of the 1980's. His artwork-with its simple, bold lines and dynamic figures in motion-filtered in to the world's consciousness and is still instantly recognizable, twenty years after his death. This Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition features ninety black-and-white images of classic artwork and never-before-published Polaroid images, and ... Read more

    $14.99 USD $12.99 USD

  • Rogues' Gallery

    The Secret Story of the Lust, Lies, Greed, and Betrayals That Made the Metropolitan Museum of Art

    by Michael Gross ...
    “Behind almost every painting is a fortune and behind that a sin or a crime.”With these words as a starting point, Michael Gross, leading chronicler of the American rich, begins the first independent, unauthorized look at the saga of the nation’s greatest museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In this endlessly entertaining follow-up to his bestselling social history 740 Park, Gross pulls back ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Hopper

    A Journey into the American Dream

    by Tom Folsom ...
    As unconventional a biography as Dennis Hopper was a man, Hopper: A Journey into the American Dream by Tom Folsom charts his roller coaster life and career through the lens of the landscape of American popular culture.The chopper-riding hippie outlaw in Easy Rider. The prophetic madman in the jungle in Apocalypse Now. The terrifying psychopath in Blue Velvet. The kid gone wrong in Rebel Without a ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Glittering Images

    A Journey Through Art from Egypt to Star Wars

    WIth full-color illustrations throughoutFrom the best-selling author of Sexual Personae and Break, Blow, Burn and one of our most acclaimed cultural critics, here is an enthralling journey through Western art’s defining moments, from the ancient Egyptian tomb of Queen Nefertari to George Lucas’s volcano planet duel in Revenge of the Sith.America’s premier intellectual provocateur returns to the ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Red

    by Mr John Logan ...
    Series series Oberon Modern Plays
    'There is only one thing I fear in life, my friend... One day the black will swallow the red.'Under the watchful gaze of his young assistant and the threatening presence of a new generation of artists, Mark Rothko takes on his greatest challenge yet: to create a definitive work for an extraordinary setting.A moving and compelling account of one of the greatest artists of the 20th century whose ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Red Brick, Black Mountain, White Clay

    Reflections on Art, Family, and Survival

    **New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2012"Beautiful, haunted, evocative and so open to where memory takes you. I kept thinking that this is the book that I have waited for: where objects, and poetry intertwine. Just wonderful and completely sui generis." (Edmund de Waal, author of The Hare with Amber Eyes)**An unforgettable voyage across the reaches of America and the depths of memory, Red Brick, ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

    Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is an 1845 memoir and treatise on abolition written by famous orator and former slave Frederick Douglass during his time in Lynn, Massachusetts. It is generally held to be the most famous of a number of narratives written by former slaves during the same period. In factual detail, the text describes the events of his life and is considered to be one of ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • Mid-Century Modernism and the American Body

    Race, Gender, and the Politics of Power in Design

    The first investigation of how race and gender shaped the presentation and marketing of Modernist decor in postwar AmericaIn the world of interior design, mid-century Modernism has left an indelible mark still seen and felt today in countless open-concept floor plans and spare, geometric furnishings. Yet despite our continued fascination, we rarely consider how this iconic design sensibility was ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • American Mirror: The Life and Art of Norman Rockwell

    A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEARA FINALIST FOR THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE IN BIOGRAPHY AND SHORTLISTED FOR THE PEN/JACQUELINE BOGRAD WELD AWARD FOR BIOGRAPHY"Welcome to Rockwell Land," writes Deborah Solomon in the introduction to this spirited and authoritative biography of the painter who provided twentieth-century America with a defining image of itself. As the star ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Edward Hopper

    by Gerry Souter ...
    In his works, Hopper poetically expressed the solitude of man confronted to the American way of life as it developed in the 1920s. Inspired by the movies and particularly by the various camera angles and attitudes of characters, his paintings expose the alienation of mass culture. Created using cold colours and inhabited by anonymous characters, Hopper’s paintings also symbolically reflect the ... Read more

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