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  • World War I and American Art by Cozzolino, Robert
    Robert Cozzolino

    World War I and American Art

    The first major account of how American artists responded to World War I World War I had a profound impact on American art and culture. Nearly every major artist responded to events, whether as official war artists, impassioned observers, or participants on the battlefields....
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  • David Smith: Collected Writings, Lectures, and Interviews by Smith, David
    David Smith

    David Smith: Collected Writings, Lectures, and Interviews

    This comprehensive sourcebook is destined to become a lasting and definitive reference on the art and aesthetic philosophy of the American artist David Smith (1906-1965). A pioneer of twentieth-century modernism, Smith was renowned for the expansive formal and conceptual ambitions of his broadly diverse...
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  • Elmer Bischoff: The Ethics of Paint by Landauer, Susan
    Susan Landauer

    Elmer Bischoff: The Ethics of Paint

    Elmer Bischoff (1916-1991) is generally regarded as one of the leaders among the artists in the San Francisco Bay Area who, after contributing to the local emergence of Abstract Expressionism during the 1940s and 50s, shifted the terms of their spectacularly sensuous brushwork to...
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  • Hopper's Places, Second Edition by Levin, Gail
    Gail Levin

    Hopper's Places, Second Edition

    In the acclaimed first edition of Hopper's Places, Gail Levin paired paintings by Edward Hopper with her photographs of the subjects of paintings done in New York and environs, Maine, Gloucester, and Cape Cod to demonstrate how Hopper made art of everyday scenes and...
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  • Art as Art: The Selected Writings of Ad Reinhardt by Rose, Barbara
    Barbara Rose

    Art as Art: The Selected Writings of AD Reinhardt

    Ad Reinhardt is probably best known for his black paintings, which aroused as much controversy as admiration in the American art world when they were first exhibited in the 1950s. Although his ideas about art and life were often at odds with those of...
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  • Living Materials: A Sculptor's Handbook by Andrews, Oliver
    Oliver Andrews

    Living Materials: A Sculptor's Handbook

    Every material has an active presence and every material is susceptible to change. The task of the sculptor is to understand the natural properties of a chosen material, to know in the process of creation how best to work with, or against, its characteristics....
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  • Landscapes of Colorado: Mountains and Plains by Daley, Ann Scarlett
    Ann Scarlett Daley

    Landscapes of Colorado: Mountains and Plains

    Landscapes of Colorado features the efforts of artists who have used the state's natural beauty as inspirations for their paintings and photographs. Art curator Ann Daley selected the artists. Some lived in Colorado only briefly, while others have spent their entire careers in the...
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  • Georgia O'Keeffe in New Mexico: Architecture, Katsinam, and the Land by Lynes, Barbara Buhler
    Barbara Buhler Lynes

    Georgia O'Keeffe in New Mexico: Architecture, Katsinam, and the Land

    This book features fifteen drawings and paintings of katsina subjects and thirty-eight additional works that resulted from the artist's deep exploration of the distinctive architecture and cultural objects of northern New Mexico's Hispanic and Native American communities. Also included are numerous landscape paintings.Author: Barbara...
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  • Seed Queen: The Story of Crop Art and Amazing Lillian Colton by Sheehy, Colleen
    Colleen Sheehy

    Seed Queen: The Story of Crop Art and Amazing Lillian Colton

    At the same time Andy Warhol was changing American art in New York City, Lillian Colton, owner of the Cinderella Clip 'n' Curl in Owatonna, Minnesota, launched her own version of pop art. From her patient hands, practiced at embroidering linens and crocheting lace,...
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  • Paintings of the Southwest by Skolnick, Arnold
    Arnold Skolnick

    Paintings of the Southwest

    The Southwest, particularly Arizona and New Mexico, comes alive in this book as a land ablaze with colors and brilliance uniquely its own. Here the deep-blue expanse of sky meets the fiery reds and oranges of breathtaking canyons, deserts, and deep valleys, which stretch...
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  • Tradiciones Nuevomexicanas: Hispano Arts and Culture of New Mexico by Montaño, Mary
    Mary Monta

    Tradiciones Nuevomexicanas: Hispano Arts and Culture of New Mexico

    Tradiciones Nuevomexicanas is the first comprehensive overview of the folk arts of New Mexico from the sixteenth century to the present. Both religious and secular art are covered, and the author discusses festivals, music, and dance; theater, poetry, and storytelling; and foodways and the...
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  • Utopian Vistas: The Mabel Dodge Luhan House and the American Counterculture by Rudnick, Lois Palken
    Lois Palken Rudnick

    Utopian Vistas: The Mabel Dodge Luhan House and the American Counterculture

    Mabel Dodge Luhan, hostess and visionary, made Taos, New Mexico, a center for artists and utopians when she moved there in 1917 and began inviting friends to visit her. Now available in paperback, Utopian Vistas is a chronicle of the house Luhan built in...
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  • Gustav Stickley's Craftsman Farms: The Quest for an Arts and Crafts Utopia by Hewitt, Mark
    Mark Hewitt

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

    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...
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  • Black&White: Geometric Abstractions of Edwin Mieczkowski by Hansgen, Lauren
    Lauren Hansgen

    Black&White: Geometric Abstractions of Edwin Mieczkowski

    Mieczkowski, Ernst Benkert, and Francis Hewitt formed the Anonima Group in the 1960s, and together they developed strict methods of creation and exploration of visual perception that continued to inform Mieczkowski's work long after the group dissolved. The exhibition will focus on the black...
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  • The Filipino Primitive: Accumulation and Resistance in the American Museum by See, Sarita Echavez
    Sarita Echavez See

    The Filipino Primitive: Accumulation and Resistance in the American Museum

    How museums' visual culture contributes to knowledge accumulation Sarita See argues that collections of stolen artifacts form the foundation of American knowledge production. Nowhere can we appreciate more easily the triple forces of knowledge accumulation--capitalist, colonial, and racial--than in the imperial museum, where the...
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  • Martha's Vineyard: An Affectionate Memoir by Ellis, Ray G.
    Ray G. Ellis

    Martha's Vineyard: An Affectionate Memoir

    Martha's Vineyard is a celebrated vacation haven equally captivating summer residents and daytrippers. Among the Island's ardent admirers was Ray Ellis, whose paintings created over a 25-year period depict his love of the Vineyard, and Ralph Graves, whose lively, affectionate history spans 400 years.Offering...
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  • Frederic Remington: 113 Colour Plates by Kirov, Blago
    Blago Kirov

    Frederic Remington: 113 Colour Plates

    Frederic Sackrider Remington was an American painter, illustrator, sculptor, and writer who specialized in depictions of the Old American West, specifically concentrating on the last quarter of the 19th-century American West and images of cowboys, American Indians, and the U. S. Cavalry. His style...
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  • Michael Dormer and the Legend of Hot Curl by Dormer, Michael
    Michael Dormer

    Michael Dormer and the Legend of Hot Curl

    Michael Dormer is synonymous with the California surf counterculture in the 1960s and 1970s. This is the first-ever retrospective of the artist, culled from his own archives. It collects all of his character Hot Curl's comic strips for the magazine SurfToons, his designs for...
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  • Down Bohicket Road: An Artist's Journey. Paintings and Sketches by Mary Whyte, with Excerpts from Alfreda's World. by Whyte, Mary
    Mary Whyte

    Down Bohicket Road: An Artist's Journey. Paintings and Sketches by Mary Whyte, with Excerpts from Alfreda's World.

    Artist Mary Whyte's Down Bohicket Road includes two decades worth of watercolors--depicting a select group of Gullah women of Johns Island, South Carolina, and their stories. In 1991, following Whyte's recovery from a year of treatment for cancer, she and her husband moved to...
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  • Carving a Niche for Himself: The Untold Story of Luigi del Bianco and Mount Rushmore by Gladstone, Douglas J.
    Douglas J. Gladstone

    Carving a Niche for Himself: The Untold Story of Luigi del Bianco and Mount Rushmore

    This book provides a history of Luigi Del Bianco's role as master carver of America's Mount Rushmore. Without Gutzon Borglum, Mount Rushmore would not exist. Douglas J. Gladstone rightfully places Luigi on center stage. Without Luigi Del Bianco's exceptional talent and determination, Mount Rushmore...
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  • Madness in Crowds: The Teeming Mind of Harrison Cady by Kitchen, Denis
    Denis Kitchen

    Madness in Crowds: The Teeming Mind of Harrison Cady

    An oversized hardcover monograph on the cartoonist and graphic artist Harrison Cady, the master of creatures, contraptions and crowd scenes.Author: Denis Kitchen, Violet KitchenISBN-10: 1948886049ISBN-13: 9781948886048Publisher: Beehive BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/06/2020Pages: 192Format: HardcoverWeight: 4.50lbsSize: 16.00h x 12.10w x 1.50d
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  • Peter Halley: Paintings of the 1980s: The Catalogue Raisonné by Halley, Peter
    Peter Halley

    Peter Halley: Paintings of the 1980s: The Catalogue Raisonné

    New York-based Peter Halley (born 1953) is a prominent figure in contemporary art. A protagonist of the dynamic New York art scene of the 1980s, and founder of the seminal Index magazine, he gained recognition as one of the main champions of the neo-geo...
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  • Fatales: The Art of Ryan Heshka by Heshka, Ryan
    Ryan Heshka

    Fatales: The Art of Ryan Heshka

    The first complete monograph of the singular work of Ryan Heshka Inspired by nostalgia for the old science fiction and superheroes of the golden-age, Ryan Heshka is recognized in the US and internationally for building an impressive singular work where giant robots compete mean...
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  • Remodern America: How the Renewal of the Arts Will Change the Course of Western Civilization by Bledsoe, Richard
    Richard Bledsoe

    Remodern America: How the Renewal of the Arts Will Change the Course of Western Civilization

    Postmodernism is dead.Discover Remodernism, a new art movement of the people, by the people, for the peopleRemodern AmericaHow the Renewal of the ArtsWill Change the Course of Western CivilizationArt reminds us of who we are, and shows what we can be. But the visual...
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  • Imaginationally: Michael's Lovable Fun of Dictionaries by Loggins, Michael Bernard
    Michael Bernard Loggins

    Imaginationally: Michael's Lovable Fun of Dictionaries

    Praise for Fears of Your Life: "Written in a lively, lucid, meticulous hand...reminiscent of early Matt Groening, not only in spirit and subject matter, but in style."--The San Francisco Bay GuardianHave you ever felt terrifical? Are you in the habit of uncluding things you...
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  • Maurice Sendak and the Art of Children's Book Illustration by Poole, L. M.
    L. M. Poole

    Maurice Sendak and the Art of Children's Book Illustration

    MAURICE SENDAK Maurice Sendak is the widely acclaimed American children's book author and illustrator. This critical study focusses on his famous trilogy, Where the Wild Things Are, In the Night Kitchen and Outside Over There, as well as the early works and Sendak's superb...
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  • Dorothea Tanning: Transformations by Carruthers, Victoria
    Victoria Carruthers

    Dorothea Tanning: Transformations

    This is the definitive study of American artist Dorothea Tanning (1910-2012), positioning her as one of the most fascinating and significant creative forces to emerge during the 20th century. It provides a framework within which to consider the range and depth of Tanning's work,...
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  • Art, Ireland and the Irish Diaspora: Chicago, Dublin, New York, 1893-1939 Culture, Connections, Controversies by O'Connor, Éimear
    ﾉimear O'Connor

    Art, Ireland and the Irish Diaspora: Chicago, Dublin, New York, 1893-1939 Culture, Connections, Controversies

    Art, Ireland and the Irish Diaspora reveals a labyrinth of social and cultural connections that conspired to create and sustain an image of Ireland for the nation and for the Irish diaspora between 1893 and 1939. This era saw an upsurge of interest among...
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  • Oxford Dictionary of American Art and Artists by Morgan, Anne Lee
    Anne Lee Morgan

    Oxford Dictionary of American Art and Artists

    Hailed by Choice as "concise, clear, and very informative," The Oxford Dictionary of American Art and Artists--the first such dictionary to appear in three decades--offers an informative, insightful, and long overdue resource on our nation's artistic heritage. Featuring 945 alphabetically arranged entries, here is...
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  • Domesticating the Invisible: Form and Environmental Anxiety in Postwar America by Ragain, Melissa S.
    Melissa S. Ragain

    Domesticating the Invisible: Form and Environmental Anxiety in Postwar America

    Domesticating the Invisible examines how postwar notions of form developed in response to newly perceived environmental threats, in turn inspiring artists to model plastic composition on natural systems often invisible to the human eye. Melissa S. Ragain focuses on the history of art education...
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  • Robert Motherwell, Abstraction, and Philosophy by Hobbs, Robert
    Robert Hobbs

    Robert Motherwell, Abstraction, and Philosophy

    Employing an interdisciplinary approach, this book breaks new ground by considering how Robert Motherwell's abstract expressionist art is indebted to Alfred North Whitehead's highly original process metaphysics. Motherwell first encountered Whitehead and his work as a philosophy graduate student at Harvard University, and he...
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  • With Pen And Pencil On The Frontier In 1851: The Diary And Sketches Of Frank Blackwell Mayer by Mayer, Frank Blackwell
    Frank Blackwell Mayer

    With Pen And Pencil On The Frontier In 1851: The Diary And Sketches Of Frank Blackwell Mayer

    In 1851 Frank Blackwell Mayer, a talented young artist from Baltimore, traveled to Minnesota Territory to attend the signing of the Treaty of Traverse des Sioux between the Dakota Indians and the United States government. "He went," notes Bertha Heilbron in the introduction, "not...
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  • Dreamscapes of Los Angeles by Tuck, Geoff
    Geoff Tuck

    Dreamscapes of Los Angeles

    Dreamscapes of Los Angeles is a compilation of writing from the Los Angeles art blog, Notes on Looking, which was founded in 2009 by artist and writer Geoff Tuck, and which over the years has published writing and image posts by Tuck and more...
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  • The Povey Bros. Stained Glass Windows of Central Christian Church in Walla Walla by Beito, Barbara
    Barbara Beito

    The Povey Bros. Stained Glass Windows of Central Christian Church in Walla Walla

    At the beginning of the 20th century the Povey Brothers of Portland, Oregon were designing and producing beautiful stained glass windows in the Northwestern United States. This book takes a look at those installed in Central Christian Church in Walla Walla, Washington.Author: Barbara BeitoISBN-10:...
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  • Plantations by the River: Watercolor Paintings from St. Charles Parish, Louisiana, by Father Joseph M. Paret, 1859 by Boyer, Marcel
    Marcel Boyer

    Plantations by the River: Watercolor Paintings from St. Charles Parish, Louisiana, by Father Joseph M. Paret, 1859

    French priest Joseph M. Paret (1807-1872) served in the missions of Louisiana from 1847 to 1869 as pastor of the Little Red Church, located upstream from New Orleans on the east bank of the Mississippi River. During his somewhat lonely tenure, Paret sketched landscapes,...
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  • Colorado: The Artist's Muse by Brandstatter, Natasha
    Natasha Brandstatter

    Colorado: The Artist's Muse

    With its vast prairies and impressive mountains, Colorado has been a mecca for painters since the beginning of the nineteenth century. This latest volume in the Denver Art Museum's Western Passages series celebrates a diverse group of painters who found special allegiance to the...
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  • Thomas Sully: George Washington and the Passage of the Delaware by Sully, Thomas
    Thomas Sully

    Thomas Sully: George Washington and the Passage of the Delaware

    On the night of December 25, 1776, George Washington led his ragged Continental Army through a snowstorm across the Delaware River, on the way to a surprise attack in New Jersey that would turn the tide of the American Revolution. More than 40 years...
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  • Paul Revere: Sons of Liberty Bowl by Ward, Gerald W. R.
    Gerald W. R. Ward

    Paul Revere: Sons of Liberty Bowl

    American patriot Paul Revere is wrapped in the swirling mixture of myth and poetry through which history often descends, but as a craftsman and artist, he left behind more tangible traces as well. In this volume, esteemed art historian Gerald W.R. Ward tells the...
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  • Creative Collectives: Chicana Painters Working in Community by Ochoa, Maria
    Maria Ochoa

    Creative Collectives: Chicana Painters Working in Community

    A compelling blend of art history, social analysis, and personal testimony, Creative Collectives presents a new paradigm for understanding Chicana/o studies. By following the artistic and ideological journeys of two groups of northern California Chicana artists, Mar? Ochoa argues that the women involved in...
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  • Quaker Aesthetics: Reflections on a Quaker Ethic in American Design and Consumption, 172-192 by Lapsansky, Emma Jones
    Emma Jones Lapsansky

    Quaker Aesthetics: Reflections on a Quaker Ethic in American Design and Consumption, 172-192

    The notion of a uniquely Quaker style in architecture, dress, and domestic interiors is a subject with which scholars have long grappled, since Quakers have traditionally held both an appreciation for high-quality workmanship and a distrust of ostentation. Early Quakers, or members of the...
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  • Makers: A History of American Studio Craft by Koplos, Janet
    Janet Koplos

    Makers: A History of American Studio Craft

    Here is the first comprehensive survey of modern craft in the United States. Makers follows the development of studio craft--objects in fiber, clay, glass, wood, and metal--from its roots in nineteenth-century reform movements to the rich diversity of expression at the end of the...
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  • Citizen Spectator: Art, Illusion, and Visual Perception in Early National America by Bellion, Wendy
    Wendy Bellion

    Citizen Spectator: Art, Illusion, and Visual Perception in Early National America

    In this richly illustrated study, the first book-length exploration of illusionistic art in the early United States, Wendy Bellion investigates Americans' experiences with material forms of visual deception and argues that encounters with illusory art shaped their understanding of knowledge, representation, and subjectivity between...
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  • Enduring Ideals: Rockwell, Roosevelt & the Four Freedoms by Plunkett, Stephanie Haboush
    Stephanie Haboush Plunkett

    Enduring Ideals: Rockwell, Roosevelt & the Four Freedoms

    Enduring Ideals illuminates both the historic context in which FDR articulated the Four Freedoms--Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Worship, Freedom from Want, and Freedom from Fear--and the role of Rockwell's paintings in bringing them to life for millions of people, rallying the public behind...
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  • Santa Fe Art and Architecture by Bleiler, Lyn
    Lyn Bleiler

    Santa Fe Art and Architecture

    The oldest capital city in the United States is Santa Fe, which has a rich and varied cultural history as well as the oldest public building still in use. Ancestral Puebloan Indians inhabited the area as early as 500 AD, and Spanish explorers arrived...
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  • The Paris Letters of Thomas Eakins by Eakins, Thomas
    Thomas Eakins

    The Paris Letters of Thomas Eakins

    The young Thomas Eakins's most revealing letters--published here for the first time The most revealing and interesting writings of American artist Thomas Eakins are the letters he sent to family and friends while he was a student in Paris between 1866 and 1870. This...
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  • In the Vanguard: Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, 1950-1969 by Greenwold, Diana Jocelyn
    Diana Jocelyn Greenwold

    In the Vanguard: Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, 1950-1969

    In the Vanguard: Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, 1950-1969 traces this unique school's impact on American art during the mid-twentieth century. Accompanying a landmark exhibition, this catalogue documents Haystack's innovative pedagogy and its role as a major force in the studio craft movement. Anni...
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  • Minimal Conditions: Light, Space, and Subjectivity by Schuld, Dawna L.
    Dawna L. Schuld

    Minimal Conditions: Light, Space, and Subjectivity

    Minimal Conditions explores the expansion of sculpture into phenomenal and perception-based practices in and around the Los Angeles area in the 1970s, a time when California Light and Space art played a key role in the evolution of minimal art toward dematerialization. Focusing on...
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  • The End of Landscape in Nineteenth-Century America by Cao, Maggie M.
    Maggie M. Cao

    The End of Landscape in Nineteenth-Century America

    The End of Landscape in Nineteenth-Century America examines the dissolution of landscape painting in the late nineteenth-century United States. Maggie M. Cao explores the pictorial practices that challenged, mourned, or revised the conventions of landscape painting, a major cultural project for nineteenth-century Americans. Through...
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  • 500 Capp Street: David Ireland's House by Lewallen, Constance M.
    Constance M. Lewallen

    500 Capp Street: David Ireland's House

    500 Capp Street tells the story of David Ireland's house, a rundown Victorian in the Mission District of San Francisco that the artist transformed into an environmental artwork, taking the detritus of his restoration labors as well as objects left behind by previous owners...
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  • Conversation Pieces: Community and Communication in Modern Art by Kester, Grant H.
    Grant H. Kester

    Conversation Pieces: Community and Communication in Modern Art

    Some of the most innovative art of the past decade has been created far outside conventional galleries and museums. In a parking garage in Oakland, California; on a pleasure boat on the Lake of Zurich in Switzerland; at a public market in Chiang Mai,...
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