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  • The Bible in Iron;: Or, the Pictured Stoves and Stove Plates of the Pennsylvania Germans by Mercer, Henry C.
    Henry C. Mercer

    The Bible in Iron;: or, The Pictured Stoves and Stove Plates of The Pennsylvania Germans

    Documents and studies colonial-era cast-iron stoves of Pennsylvania German origin. Originally published in 1914. Author: Henry C. MercerISBN-10: 0271064536ISBN-13: 9780271064536Publisher: Metalmark BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/15/2014Pages: 182Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.71lbsSize: 9.25h x 7.50w x 0.39d
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  • Gyöngy Laky by Grotta, Tom
    Tom Grotta

    Gygy Laky

    The first comprehensive monograph on the work of this exceptional artist An important document that explores the foundations of the Fiber Art movement in America Renowned American textile artist and sculptor Gygy Laky (b. 1944) was once described as a 'wood whisperer.' Her highly...
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  • Eva Hesse: Longing, Belonging and Displacement by Corby, Vanessa
    Vanessa Corby

    Eva Hesse: Longing, Belonging and Displacement

    Here is an important new examination of the work of American German Jewish artist Eva Hesse, one of the most significant figures in twentieth century art. Using exciting new feminist approaches and taking as her starting point two key works, Corby reveals the way...
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  • Moma Goes to Paris in 1938: Building and Politicizing American Art by Riley, Caroline M.
    Caroline M. Riley

    MoMA Goes to Paris in 1938: Building and Politicizing American Art

    Three Centuries of American Art in 1938 was the Museum of Modern Art's first international exhibition. With over 750 artworks on view in Paris ranging from seventeenth-century colonial portraits to Mickey Mouse and spanning architecture, film, folk art, painting, prints, and sculpture, it was...
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  • William Harnett's Curious Objects: Still-Life Painting After the American Civil War by Elder, Nika
    Nika Elder

    William Harnett's Curious Objects: Still-Life Painting After the American Civil War

    Admired for his trompe l'oeil style, American painter William Harnett (1848-1892) was as intellectually ambitious as he was technically skilled. The first scholarly monograph on the artist, William Harnett's Curious Objects details Harnett's career-long effort to position still life as a serious art. Nika...
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  • The Unforgettables: Expanding the History of American Art by Eldredge, Charles C.
    Charles C. Eldredge

    The Unforgettables: Expanding the History of American Art

    Eminent art historian Charles C. Eldredge brings together top scholars to celebrate forgotten artists and create a more inclusive history of American art. Why do some artists become canonical, while others, equally respected in their time, fall into obscurity? This question is central to...
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  • Like a Little Dog: Andy Warhol's Queer Ecologies by Grudin, Anthony E.
    Anthony E. Grudin

    Like a Little Dog: Andy Warhol's Queer Ecologies

    A bold, compelling, and original study of nonhuman life in Warhol. Like a Little Dog examines a dimension of Andy Warhol that has never received critical attention: his lifelong personal and artistic interest in nonhuman life. With this book, Anthony E. Grudin offers an...
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  • Speculative Landscapes: American Art and Real Estate in the Nineteenth Century by Barrett, Ross
    Ross Barrett

    Speculative Landscapes: American Art and Real Estate in the Nineteenth Century

    Speculative Landscapes offers the first comprehensive account of American artists' financial involvements in and creative responses to the nineteenth-century real estate economy. Examining the dealings of five painters who participated actively in this economy--Daniel Huntington, John Quidor, Eastman Johnson, Martin Johnson Heade, and Winslow...
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  • Gordon Matta-Clark: An Archival Sourcebook by Matta-Clark, Gordon
    Gordon Matta-Clark

    Gordon Matta-Clark: An Archival Sourcebook

    An essential reference that provides new understanding of the thought processes of one of the most radical artists of the late twentieth century. Gordon Matta-Clark (1943-1978) has never been an easy artist to categorize or to explain. Although trained as an architect, he has...
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  • State of Mind: New California Art Circa 1970 by Lewallen, Constance M.
    Constance M. Lewallen

    State of Mind: New California Art Circa 1970

    State of Mind, the lavishly illustrated companion book to the exhibition of the same name, investigates California's vital contributions to Conceptual art--in particular, work that emerged in the late 1960s among scattered groups of young artists. The essays reveal connections between the northern and...
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  • Art Workers: Radical Practice in the Vietnam War Era by Bryan-Wilson, Julia
    Julia Bryan-Wilson

    Art Workers: Radical Practice in the Vietnam War Era

    During the late 1960s and early 1970s, in response to the political turbulence generated by the Vietnam War, an important group of American artists and critics sought to expand the definition of creative labor by identifying themselves as "art workers." In the first book...
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  • The Writings of Robert Motherwell by Motherwell, Robert
    Robert Motherwell

    The Writings of Robert Motherwell

    Robert Motherwell (1915-1991), one of the leading American Abstract Expressionist painters, was also a theorist and exponent of the movement. His writing articulated the intent of the New York school -Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Adolph Gottlieb, Franz Kline, Arshile Gorky, and others-during a...
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  • Gordon Matta-Clark: An Archival Sourcebook by Matta-Clark, Gordon
    Gordon Matta-Clark

    Gordon Matta-Clark: An Archival Sourcebook

    An essential reference that provides new understanding of the thought processes of one of the most radical artists of the late twentieth century. Gordon Matta-Clark (1943-1978) has never been an easy artist to categorize or to explain. Although trained as an architect, he has...
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  • Art Subjects: Making Artists in the American University by Singerman, Howard
    Howard Singerman

    Art Subjects: Making Artists in the American University

    Nearly every artist under the age of fifty in the United States today has a Master of Fine Arts degree. Howard Singerman's thoughtful study is the first to place that degree in its proper historical framework and ideological context. Arguing that where artists are...
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  • The New York School: A Cultural Reckoning by Ashton, Dore
    Dore Ashton

    The New York School: A Cultural Reckoning

    With the emergence of Abstract Expressionism after World War II, the attention of the international art world turned from Paris to New York. Dore Ashton captures the vitality of the cultural milieu in which the New York School artists worked and argued and critiqued...
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  • Traveler Artists: Landscapes of Latin America from the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Collection by Manthorne, Katherine
    Katherine Manthorne

    Traveler Artists: Landscapes of Latin America from the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Collection

    In the 19th century, European and North American travelers illustrated narratives of their explorations in the New World that were published in Europe. Europeans imagined the tropics as a site for cultural imperialism and fantasies of self-realization. Traveler artists often authenticated this perception by...
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  • Edward Gorey: His Book Cover Art & Design by Heller, Steven
    Steven Heller

    Edward Gorey: His Book Cover Art & Design

    The master creator of finely crosshatched illustrations and sinisterly amusing tales, Edward Gorey (American, 1925 2000) got his start in publishing by designing book covers for such New York houses as Doubleday, Grosset & Dunlap, Vintage Books, and later Random House. Today, his prodigious...
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  • Arsham-Isms by Arsham, Daniel
    Daniel Arsham

    Arsham-Isms

    A collection of compelling quotations from a rising star in contemporary art, architecture, and design The work of renowned contemporary artist Daniel Arsham blurs the lines between art, architecture, archeology, and design. In his distinctive style, he takes ancient art works and objects from...
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  • The Gibson Girl and Her America: The Best Drawings of Charles Dana Gibson by Gibson, Charles Dana
    Charles Dana Gibson

    The Gibson Girl and Her America: The Best Drawings of Charles Dana Gibson

    At the turn of the twentieth century, Charles Dana Gibson's pen-and-ink drawings of the "American Girl" -- now remembered as the Gibson Girl -- became the national ideal of femininity. This collection of his images of youthful, dynamic women offers an informative and amusing...
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  • The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again by Warhol, Andy
    Andy Warhol

    The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again

    In The Philosophy of Andy Warhol, the enigmatic, legendary Warhol makes the reader his confidant on love, sex, food, beauty, fame, work, money, success, and much more.Andy Warhol claimed that he loved being outside a party--so that he could get in. But more often...
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  • Sketchbook by Arsham, Daniel
    Daniel Arsham

    Sketchbook

    Featuring never-before-seen drawings by the renowned contemporary artist, a beautiful facsimile edition that reveals the working process of an extraordinary creative mind Sketchbook reproduces original working drawings and sketches by the contemporary American artist and designer Daniel Arsham, whose work freely crosses the boundaries...
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  • Richard Rezac: Address by Rezac, Richard
    Richard Rezac

    Richard Rezac: Address

    The title of Richard Rezac's Renaissance Society exhibition, Address, plays on the multivalent quality of the word. As a noun, it refers to a unique identifier of a precise location. As a verb, it refers to a form of communication crafted for a specific...
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  • Dreaming in Clay on the Coast of Mississippi: Love and Art at Shearwater by Maurer, Christopher
    Christopher Maurer

    Dreaming in Clay on the Coast of Mississippi: Love and Art at Shearwater

    Almost a century ago, Annette McConnell Anderson, a New Orleans society woman, vowed that her three sons would become artists. Turning her back on bourgeois life and abetted by her skeptical husband--a grain merchant--she bought twenty-eight acres of woodland on the Mississippi Sound. Beside...
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  • American Masters of the Mississippi Gulf Coast: George Ohr, Dusti Bonge, Walter Anderson, Richmond Barthe by Black, Patti Carr
    Patti Carr Black

    American Masters of the Mississippi Gulf Coast: George Ohr, Dusti Bonge, Walter Anderson, Richmond Barthe

    The four artists featured in American Masters of the Mississippi Gulf Coast: George Ohr, Dusti Bongé, Walter Anderson, Richmond Barthé are linked as pioneers of modernism in the South. In this catalog to one of the American Masters Series exhibits funded by the National...
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  • The Grove Encyclopedia of American Art by Marter, Joan
    Joan Marter

    The Grove Encyclopedia of American Art

    The Grove Encyclopedia of American Art is an ambitious publishing endeavor, unparalleled in its comprehensive approach to the study of art in the United States. Edited by Joan Marter, Distinguished Professor of Art History at Rutgers University, the five-volume Encyclopedia reconceptualizes American Art from...
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  • Going Through the Storm: The Influence of African American Art in History by Stuckey, Sterling
    Sterling Stuckey

    Going Through the Storm: The Influence of African American Art in History

    Upon his arrival in the North, Frederick Douglass found, to his utter astonishment, "persons who could speak of the singing among slaves as the evidence of their contentment and happiness." As late as 1903, W.E.B. Du Bois observed that African American spirituals had led...
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  • Grand Illusions: American Art and the First World War by Lubin, David M.
    David M. Lubin

    Grand Illusions: American Art and the First World War

    A vivid, engaging account of the artists and artworks that sought to make sense of America's first total war, Grand Illusions takes readers on a compelling journey through the major historical events leading up to and beyond US involvement in WWI to discover the...
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  • American Arcadia: California and the Classical Tradition by Holliday, Peter J.
    Peter J. Holliday

    American Arcadia: California and the Classical Tradition

    A vivid and engaging exploration of California's debt to the ancient world Discussing the influence of the classics on America is nothing new; indeed, classical antiquity could be considered second only to Christianity as a force in modeling America's national identity. What has never...
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  • Matter and Spirit: Stephen de Staebler by Burgard, Timothy Anglin
    Timothy Anglin Burgard

    Matter and Spirit: Stephen de Staebler

    "Clay can be a metaphor for many things. I made it a metaphor for flesh and earth."--Stephen De StaeblerOver the course of a fifty-year career, Stephen De Staebler (1933-2011) created powerful, elegiac figurative sculptures in clay and bronze. Extending and assimilating an artistic lineage...
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  • Emily Mason: The Light in Spring by Ebony, David
    David Ebony

    Emily Mason: The Light in Spring

    With exquisite full-page color reproductions, Emily Mason: The Light in Spring reveals sixty-eight recent canvases along with thirty-two prints, covering Mason's work with five master printers. David Ebony continues where he left off in his 2006 volume, Emily Mason: The Fifth Element, elaborating on...
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  • Kill for Peace: American Artists Against the Vietnam War by Israel, Matthew
    Matthew Israel

    Kill for Peace: American Artists Against the Vietnam War

    The Vietnam War (1964-1975) divided American society like no other war of the twentieth century, and some of the most memorable American art and art-related activism of the last fifty years protested U.S. involvement. At a time when Pop Art, Minimalism, and Conceptual Art...
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  • Norman Rockwell's Faith of America by Bauer, Fred
    Fred Bauer

    Norman Rockwell's Faith of America

    Fred Bauer writes about Rockwell's message of optimism and the artist's faith in America and its people in a forthright and sympathetic text complemented by numerous Rockwell favorites in all their warmth and color. Bauer visits Stockbridge, Massachusetts, and Arlington, Vermont, talking to the...
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  • Pollock by Emmerling, Leonhard
    Leonhard Emmerling

    Pollock

    The rebel hero of Abstract Expressionism, Jackson Pollock (1912-1956) careened through his life like a firework across the American art landscape. Channeling ideas from sources as diverse as Picasso and Mexican surrealism, he rejected convention to develop his own way of seeing, interpreting, and...
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  • African-American Art by Patton, Sharon F.
    Sharon F. Patton

    African-American Art

    From its origins in early eighteenth century slave communities to the end of the twentieth century, African-American art has made a vital contribution to the art of the United States. African-American Art provides a major reassessment of the subject, setting the art in the...
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  • Georgia O'Keeffe and New Mexico: A Sense of Place by Lynes, Barbara Buhler
    Barbara Buhler Lynes

    Georgia O'Keeffe and New Mexico: A Sense of Place

    When Georgia O'Keeffe first visited New Mexico in 1917, she was instantly drawn to the stark beauty of its unusual architectural and landscape forms. In 1929, she began spending part of almost every year painting there, first in Taos, and subsequently in and around...
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  • Hopper by Renner, Rolf G.
    Rolf G. Renner

    Hopper

    Edward Hopper (1882-1967) is something of an American success story, if only his success had come swifter. At the age of 40, he was a failing artist who struggled to sell a single painting. As he approached 80, Time magazine featured him on its...
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  • Keith Haring Journals: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Haring, Keith
    Keith Haring

    Keith Haring Journals: (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...
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  • What's So Funny?: A Cartoonist's Memoir by Sipress, David
    David Sipress

    What's So Funny?: A Cartoonist's Memoir

    "David Sipress's engaging, illuminating, and hilarious memoir will perhaps clarify what dark forces are at work when it comes to becoming a cartoonist rather than a podiatrist, a billionaire tech mogul, or someone who is deeply into collecting owl figurines. And if it doesn't,...
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  • Warhol by Honnef, Klaus
    Klaus Honnef

    Warhol

    Andy Warhol (1928-1987) is hailed as the most important proponent of the Pop art movement. A critical and creative observer of American society, he explored key themes of consumerism, materialism, media, and celebrity. Drawing on contemporary advertisements, comic strips, consumer products, and Hollywood's most...
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  • The Drawings of Al Taylor by Dervaux, Isabelle
    Isabelle Dervaux

    The Drawings of Al Taylor

    Featuring nearly eighty drawings and pages from a dozen sketchbooks that span Al Taylor's entire career, this book documents the artist's important achievements as a draftsman. This book investigates important and illuminating aspects of Al Taylor's drawings, which numbered over five thousand at the...
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  • 100 Best Paintings in New York by Smith, Geoffrey
    Geoffrey Smith

    100 Best Paintings in New York

    100 Best Paintings in New York combines art history, commentary, and tourists' guide to provide you with a deeper understanding and appreciation of New York's greatest works of art. The descriptions draw attention to fascinating details in each work and look at why, where,...
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  • Fitz H. Lane: An Artist's Voyage Through Nineteenth-Century America by Craig, James A.
    James A. Craig

    Fitz H. Lane: An Artist's Voyage Through Nineteenth-Century America

    Fitz H. Lane s maritime masterpieces are known throughout the world, but the man himself has eluded both historians and art critics for over a century. The Luminist painter s successful career began in his early childhood in picturesque Gloucester, Massachusetts and his talents...
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  • Charley Harper: An Illustrated Life by Oldham, Todd
    Todd Oldham

    Charley Harper: An Illustrated Life

    Charley Harper was an American original. For more than six decades he painted colorful and graphic illustrations of nature, animals, insects and people alike, from his home studio in Cincinnati, Ohio, until he passed away in 2007, at the age of 84. Renowned New...
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  • Beguiled by the Wild: The Art of Charley Harper by Harper, Charley
    Charley Harper

    Beguiled by the Wild: The Art of Charley Harper

    Presenting more than 110 serigraphs accompanied by intriguing, pun-filled captions, this new, revised edition of Beguiled by the Wild pays homage to one of America's most beloved artists. Charley Harper (1922 2007), with his masterly use of simple geometric shapes, patterns, and vivid colors,...
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  • How To Weld Silverware Animals: Metal Art Welding Projects For Fun and Profit by Barbie the Welder
    Barbie the Welder

    How To Weld Silverware Animals: Metal Art Welding Projects For Fun and Profit

    Let's weld together Join me as I walk you step by step through the creation of 30 different animals from land, sea, and air using silverware. Each step is pictured to make the creation process straight forward and easy to follow for the beginner...
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  • American Art Since 1945 by Joselit, David
    David Joselit

    American Art Since 1945

    David Joselit traces and analyzes the contradictory formal, ideological, and political conditions during this period that made American art predominant throughout the world. Social and cultural transformations rooted in mass media technologies--photography, television, video, and the Internet--elevated consumer commodities to the status of legitimate...
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  • Simple Pleasures: The Art of Doris Lee by Wolfe, Melissa
    Melissa Wolfe

    Simple Pleasures: The Art of Doris Lee

    Simple Pleasures presents the first major critical assessment of works by the artist Doris Lee (1904-1983). Lee was one of the most recognized artists in America during the 1930s and 40s, and was a leading figure in the Woodstock Artist's Colony. Her oeuvre reveals...
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  • Florine Stettheimer: A Biography by Bloemink, Barbara
    Barbara Bloemink

    Florine Stettheimer: A Biography

    Lauded by the New Yorker as one of "The Best Books of 2022 So Far," this comprehensive biography establishes Florine Stettheimer as one of the most innovative artists of the early twentieth century. Florine Stettheimer was a feminist, multi-media artist who documented New York...
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  • Scenes of New York: The Elie and Sarah Hirschfeld Collection by
    Roberta J. M. Olson

    Scenes of New York City: The Elie and Sarah Hirschfeld Collection

    Scenes of New York City celebrates the promised gift of 130 works from the Elie and Sarah Hirschfeld Collection to the New York Historical Society. The Hirschfeld promised gift is at once a collection of individual works by talented artists from the nineteenth and...
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  • Blade: King of Graffiti by Gastman, Roger
    Roger Gastman

    Blade: King of Graffiti

    BLADE has already told his life story through graffiti. Now, more than forty years into his career and armed with an incredible memory, BLADE sits down with Chris Pape to reflect on growing up in the Bronx in the turbulent 1970s, and recounts the...
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