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  • Ornamented Tray

    Two Centuries of Ornamented Trays (1720-1920)

    by W.D. John ...
    This authoritative and definitive work contains the first formal history of antique trays every published. Each of its six chapters is written by a different authority. They discuss:Lace-Edge PaintingThe "Chippendale" StyleTrays Ornamented with Gold LeafThe Freehand Bronze TechniquesStenciled TraysThe Country Painted TrayThe book is lavishly illustrated with more than 500 photographs, seven of ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Clementine Hunter

    American Folk Artist

    This beautifully illustrated biography of the renowned Southern folk artist includes nearly 100 images, plus commentary from the artist herself.Exuberant colors, bold strokes, and everyday images of rural Southern life typify Clementine Hunter’s folk art. Born in Louisiana in 1887, Hunter spent most of her life working in cotton fields at Melrose Plantation. She only began painting in her fifties, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ornamented Chair

    Its Development in America (1700-1890)

    Edited by Zilla Rider Lea ...
    Discriminating decorators and collectors, no less than dealers and researchers in antiques, have long felt the need of a comprehensive study of the ornamented chair and its development in America. This book is the product of an effort to satisfy that need and at the same time to bring new pleasures to lovers of beautiful furniture.The book is based on photographic and research material collected ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Native American Architecture

    For many people, Native American architecture calls to mind the wigwam, tipi, iglu, and pueblo. Yet the richly diverse building traditions of Native Americans encompass much more, including specific structures for sleeping, working, worshipping, meditating, playing, dancing, lounging, giving birth, decision-making, cleansing, storing and preparing food, caring for animals, and honoring the dead. ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Art, Activism, and Oppositionality

    Essays from Afterimage

    Edited by Grant H. Kester ...
    There is a common perception in the arts today that overtly activist art—often seen to sacrifice an aesthetic pleasure for a subversive one—is no longer in fashion. In bringing together sixteen of the most important essays on activist and community-based art from the pages of Afterimage—one of the most influential journals in the media and visual arts fields for more than twenty-five years—Grant H ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • In Blue Mountains

    An Artist's Return to America's First Wilderness

    by Thomas Locker ...
    A picture book for all ages from painter Thomas Locker!"Most of all, he thanked the wilderness for teaching him to see in a new way."In Blue Mountains is about the love of nature and the importance of beauty. It tells the story of an artist who sets out to explore wilderness and discovers a new way of seeing. Bewildered at first by the profusion of natur... ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • My Home As I Remember

    Edited by Lee Maracle, Sandra Laronde ...
    My Home As I Remember describes literary and artistic achievements of First Nations, Inuit and Metis women across Canada and the United States, including contributions from New Zealand and Mexico. Their voices and creative expression of identity and place are richly varied, reflecting the depth of the culturally diverse energy found on these continents.Over 60 writers and visual artists are ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Homemade Esthetics

    Observations on Art and Taste

    Thanks to his unsurpassed eye and his fearless willingness to take a stand, Clement Greenberg (1909 1994) became one of the giants of 20th century art criticism a writer who set the terms of critical discourse from the moment he burst onto the scene with his seminal essays Avant Garde and Kitsch (1939) and Towards a Newer Laocoon (1940). In this work, which gathers previously uncollected essays ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • The Art of Transition

    Latin American Culture and Neoliberal Crisis

    Series series Latin America Otherwise
    The Art of Transition addresses the problems defined by writers and artists during the postdictatorship years in Argentina and Chile, years in which both countries aggressively adopted neoliberal market-driven economies. Delving into the conflicting efforts of intellectuals to name and speak to what is real, Francine Masiello interprets the culture of this period as an art of transition, referring ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Reading Rock Art

    Interpreting the Indian Rock Paintings of the Canadian Shield

    More than 400 rock paintings adorn the Canadian Shield from Quebec, across Ontario and as far west as Saskatchewan. The pictographs are the legacy of the Algonkian-speaking Cree and Ojibway, whose roots may extend to the beginnings of human occupancy in the region almost 10,000 years ago.Archaeologist Grace Rajnovich spent fourteen years of field research uncovering a multitude of clues as to the ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Odyssey of the Pueblo Indians

    An Introduction to Pueblo Indian Petroglyphs, Pictographs, and Kiva Art Murals in the Southwest

    William Eaton’s detailed guide to finding and interpreting Pueblo Indian petroglyphs, pictographs, and Kiva Art murals found in the states of Utah, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, and Colorado is a treasure for Pueblo Indians as well as anyone interested in Native American history and art. Includes many illustrations. ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Visionary Film

    The American Avant-Garde, 1943-2000

    Critics hailed previous editions of Visionary Film as the most complete work written on the exciting, often puzzling, and always controversial genre of American avant-garde film. This book has remained the standard text on American avant-garde film since the publication of its first edition in 1974. Now P. Adams Sitney has once again revised and updated this classic work, restoring a chapter on ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Something All Our Own

    The Grant Hill Collection of African American Art

    by Grant Hill ...
    Since 1990, Grant Hill has thrilled sports fans with his artistry on the basketball court, first as an All-American player at Duke University and then as a six-time NBA All-Star for the Detroit Pistons and the Orlando Magic. During these years, Hill has amassed a collection of art by African Americans that he now shares with the public through this book, which accompanies a traveling exhibition ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Seeing the Unspeakable

    The Art of Kara Walker

    One of the youngest recipients of a MacArthur “genius” grant, Kara Walker, an African American artist, is best known for her iconic, often life-size, black-and-white silhouetted figures, arranged in unsettling scenes on gallery walls. These visually arresting narratives draw viewers into a dialogue about the dynamics of race, sexuality, and violence in both the antebellum South and contemporary ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Eakins Revealed

    The Secret Life of an American Artist

    by Henry Adams ...
    Thomas Eakins is widely considered one of the great American painters, an artist whose uncompromising realism helped move American art from the Victorian era into the modern age. He is also acclaimed as a paragon of integrity, one who stood up for his artistic beliefs even when they brought him personal and professional difficulty--as when he was fired from the Pennsylvania Academy of Art for ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • American Artifacts of Personal Adornment, 1680-1820

    A Guide to Identification and Interpretation

    Series series American Association for State and Local History
    Bracelets, buckles, buttons, and beads. Clasps, combs, and chains. Items of personal adornment fill museum collections and are regularly uncovered in historical period archaeological excavations. But until the publication of this comprehensive volume, there has been no basic guide to help curators, registrars, historians, archaeologists, or collectors identify this class of objects from colonial ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Between You and Me

    Queer Disclosures in the New York Art World, 1948-1963

    by Gavin Butt ...
    In the decades preceding the Stonewall riots—in the wake of the 1948 publication of Alfred Kinsey’s controversial report on male sexuality and in the midst of a cold war culture of suspicion and paranoia—discussions of homosexuality within the New York art world necessarily circulated via gossip and rumor. Between You and Me explores this informal, everyday talk and how it shaped artists’ lives, ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Yorktown

    A Play

    by Robert Manns ...
    "You found a trenchant, driving rhythm for the verse, something that is all your own. It wasn't imposed on the characters: it spoke for them."-Christopher Fry"I consider Robert Manns one of the most talented playwrights in the generation not yet recognized by the commercial theater His choice of style is unique; his imagination boundless; and his dedication intense. And I believe he has a real ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Native Moderns

    American Indian Painting, 1940-1960

    Series series Objects/Histories
    Between 1940 and 1960, many Native American artists made bold departures from what was considered the traditional style of Indian painting. They drew on European and other non-Native American aesthetic innovations to create hybrid works that complicated notions of identity, authenticity, and tradition. This richly illustrated volume focuses on the work of these pioneering Native artists, including ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Voyages of the Self

    Pairs, Parallels, and Patterns in American Art and Literature

    by Barbara Novak ...
    Barbara Novak is one of America's premier art historians, the author of the seminal books American Painting of the Nineteenth Century and Nature and Culture, the latter of which was named one of the Ten Best Books of the Year by The New York Times and was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award. Now, with Voyages of the Self, this esteemed critic completes the trilogy begun with the two ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • American Painting of the Nineteenth Century

    Realism, Idealism, and the American Experience

    by Barbara Novak ...
    In this distinguished work, which Hilton Kramer in The New York Times Book Review called "surely the best book ever written on the subject," Barbara Novak illuminates what is essentially American about American art. She highlights not only those aspects that appear indigenously in our art works, but also those features that consistently reappear over time. Novak examines the paintings of ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Nature and Culture

    American Landscape and Painting, 1825-1875, With a New Preface

    by Barbara Novak ...
    In this richly illustrated volume, featuring more than fifty black-and-white illustrations and a beautiful eight-page color insert, Barbara Novak describes how for fifty extraordinary years, American society drew from the idea of Nature its most cherished ideals. Between 1825 and 1875, all kinds of Americans--artists, writers, scientists, as well as everyday citizens--believed that God in Nature ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Painting Katrina

    by Phil Sandusky ...
    In seventy-six breathtaking artworks, a New Orleans-based painter explores his city before and after the devastation of Hurricane Katrina.Phil Sandusky is renowned for his plein-air cityscapes, particularly those done in his hometown of New Orleans. In the immediate aftermath of Katrina, Sandusky returned to New Orleans, postponing repairs to his own badly damaged house to begin recording the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • William Aiken Walker

    Southern Genre Painter

    A study of the South Carolina native’s life as an artist and as a man, with 157 color illustrations and fifty-eight black-and-white paintings and drawings.Born in South Carolina in 1838, William Aiken Walker remains one of the South’s most gifted and treasured artists. Though mostly known for his breathtaking depictions of Black Southerners following the Civil War, he is also recognized for his ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus