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  • The Vanguard: Central European Emigres and American Modern Design, 1910-1940 by Stern, Jewel
    Jewel Stern

    The Vanguard: Central European Emigres and American Modern Design, 1910-1940

    An insightful and beautifully illustrated new perspective on the role of Central European ?migr? artists, architects, and designers on American modernism While the history of modernism in the United States is often seen as having roots in French art moderne, Jewel Stern and Christopher...
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  • Politics and Memory: Civil War Monuments in Gilded Age New York by Reason, Akela
    Akela Reason

    Politics and Memory: Civil War Monuments in Gilded Age New York

    A rich history of Gilded Age partisan politics, aesthetics, and the creation of New York City's Civil War monuments In the decades following the Civil War, New York City built more monuments to the Union cause than any other city in the nation outside...
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  • Monuments of Diverse Heritage in Early America: Placemaking and Preservation by Black, Indigenous, and Jewish Peoples by Stiefel, Barry
    Barry Stiefel

    Monuments of Diverse Heritage in Early America: Placemaking and Preservation by Black, Indigenous, and Jewish Peoples

    Monuments of Diverse Heritage in Early America: Placemaking and Preservation by Black, Indigenous, and Jewish Peoples explores a more inclusive history of the preservation of public historic sites. At a time when some Americans have embraced white nationalism in response to unfolding demographic changes...
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  • Of & about Posters: The Lawrence Weiner Poster Archive (1965-2021) at the Vancouver Art Gallery by Arnold, Grant
    Grant Arnold

    Of & about Posters: The Lawrence Weiner Poster Archive (1965-2021) at the Vancouver Art Gallery

    The first publication to document the 250 posters that comprise the Lawrence Weiner Poster Archive (1965-2021) held in the Vancouver Art Gallery's collection. Featuring an introductory essay by exhibition curator Grant Arnold, who has worked with the Lawrence Weiner Poster Archive since the mid-1990s,...
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  • The Home We Share: Three Social Sculptures for Princeton University by R&r Studios by Behar, Roberto
    Roberto Behar

    The Home We Share: Three Social Sculptures for Princeton University by R&r Studios

    A study of the campus projects designed by R&R Studios to invite community bonding. In 2022, Princeton University inaugurated Yeh College and New College West and introduced a new addition to its extensive collection of site-responsive campus art installations. The Home We Share is...
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  • Fail Better: Reckonings with Artists and Critics by Foster, Hal
    Hal Foster

    Fail Better: Reckonings with Artists and Critics

    From the distinguished art critic and historian, vital essays on key artists and critics, revealing how they redefined art and criticism over the last six decades. "Serious art anticipates the future as much as it reflects the present," Hal Foster remarked in a 2015...
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  • Art In California: A Survey Of American Art With Special Reference To Californian Painting, Sculpture And Architecture Past And Present, by Porter, Bruce
    Bruce Porter

    Art In California: A Survey Of American Art With Special Reference To Californian Painting, Sculpture And Architecture Past And Present,

    This survey of American art, with a particular focus on the art of California, provides an overview of painting, sculpture, and architecture from past to present. The book also discusses the representation of these arts at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, which took place in...
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  • Telfair Museums: Curator's Choice by Critz, Dale C.
    Dale C. Critz

    Telfair Museums: Curator's Choice

    This successful series provides directors with the unique opportunity to reveal their personal insights into highlights from their own collections While serving as an invaluable souvenir for visitors, the books are also published for the international market, thereby promoting each institution on a global...
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  • Mexico and American Modernism by Landau, Ellen G.
    Ellen G. Landau

    Mexico and American Modernism

    A revolutionary look at the profound impact of Mexico and its culture on the development of American modernism In the years between the two world wars, the enormous vogue of "things Mexican" reached its peak. Along with the popular appeal of its folkloric and...
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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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  • John Singer Sargent by Prettejohn, Elizabeth
    Elizabeth Prettejohn

    John Singer Sargent

    An engaging introduction to the life and work of John Singer Sargent, the most accomplished portrait painter of the late 19th and early 20th century John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) is one of the most famous painters of his time. The masterful portraits for which...
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  • Light, Sand, and Sea: Hamptons Artists and Their Studios by Lopez, Jaime
    Jaime Lopez

    Light, Sand, and Sea: Hamptons Artists and Their Studios

    A close-up look at 50 artists--their work, their studios, their style--creating a wide variety of art in the Hamptons It's one thing to admire an artist's work; it's another to get a real feel of the person behind the work. In these pages you'll...
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  • Judy Pfaff: New Prints and Drawings, February 10-April 7, 2007 by Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art
    Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art

    Judy Pfaff: New Prints and Drawings, February 10-April 7, 2007

    With an introductory essay by curator Brain Wallace, this illustrated exhibition catalogue explores the recent print work created at Tandem Press in Madison, Wisconsin, by Judy Pfaff, one of America's leading sculptors, printmakers, installation artists, and set designers. Also featured in this publication is...
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  • Einar and Jamex de la Torre: Intersecting Time and Place by Oldknow, Constantina
    Constantina Oldknow

    Einar and Jamex de la Torre: Intersecting Time and Place

    The de la Torre brothers combine exquisitely ornate blown and flame-worked glass works with cheap, mass-produced knickknacks, plastic flowers, fake fur, painted coins, and other found objects. Their art is a skillful combination of disparate elements, appropriating content, meaning, and materials from both high...
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  • Zigi Ben-Haim: A Journey of Discovery by Kotik, Charlotta
    Charlotta Kotik

    Zigi Ben-Haim: A Journey of Discovery

    A look at an artist whose work crosses the boundaries between painting and sculpture and walks the sensitive line between abstract and representation. Zigi Ben-Haim is a painter and sculptor who works with aluminum, wire mesh, burlap, newsprint, and unconventional materials. His constant reinvention...
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  • Monumental: The Art of David Adickes by Henderson, Michael H.
    Michael H. Henderson

    Monumental: The Art of David Adickes

    As the creator of the 67-foot-tall "Big Sam" statue of Sam Houston that overlooks Interstate 45 just south of Huntsville, Texas, David Adickes is a pivotal, if sometimes enigmatic, figure in Texas art. Though he made many contributions to the early development of the...
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  • Ruth Duckworth by Duckworth, Ruth
    Ruth Duckworth

    Ruth Duckworth

    Ruth Duckworth delivers an extensive, thoughtful monograph on the artist's entire body of work with new scholarship, exquisite reproductions, and the complete cooperation of the Duckworth Estate.This book firmly establishes the artist in the pantheon of twentieth-century sculptors, in a class with Barbara Hepworth...
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  • In the Company of Artists: A History of Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture by Hirsch, Faye
    Faye Hirsch

    In the Company of Artists: A History of Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture

    A first glimpse into a celebrated art school that explores its artistic contributions and history. In the Company of Artists is the first major study of the Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, founded in 1946. It explores the institution's history, philosophy, and impact,...
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  • Disblair, 1634-1884: Or An Old Oak Panel And Something Thereon (1884) by Walker, Alexander
    Alexander Walker

    Disblair, 1634-1884: Or An Old Oak Panel And Something Thereon (1884)

    Disblair, 1634-1884: Or An Old Oak Panel And Something Thereon is a historical book written by Alexander Walker in 1884. The book tells the story of Disblair, a Scottish estate that has been in the same family for over 250 years. The author focuses...
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  • American Letters, 1927-1947: 1927-1947 by Pollock, Jackson
    Jackson Pollock

    American Letters, 1927-1947: 1927-1947

    Jackson Pollock, the towering American artist who was to revolutionize twentieth-century art with his "dripping" painting technique, grew up between the late 1920s and the late 1940s, the youngest of five boys born in the American West. Though often apart, whether they were traveling...
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  • Chrysler Museum of Art: 40 Works by Castro, Mark A.
    Mark A. Castro

    Chrysler Museum of Art: 40 Works

    An accessible, lightweight, and affordable guide showing the breadth of the Chrysler's collections through forty masterworks that are consistently on view in the museum's galleries. The Chrysler Museum of Art's expansive collection contains more than 30,000 objects across history and the globe. This compelling...
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  • Georgia O'Keeffe: The Late Work by Griffin, Randall C.
    Randall C. Griffin

    Georgia O'Keeffe: The Late Work

    An unprecedented examination of the underexplored late work of the iconic American modernist Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986) has long been celebrated for her paintings, photographs, and contributions to American modernism in the 1930s and early 1940s, yet her work from the end of World War...
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  • Art In America; Volume 1 by Sherman, Frederick Fairchild
    Frederick Fairchild Sherman

    Art In America; Volume 1

    This book is a comprehensive survey of American art from the colonial period to the present day, written by the renowned art historian Frederick Fairchild Sherman. It examines the major artistic movements and styles that have emerged in America, and their relationship to the...
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  • Steel Shadows by Cooper, Douglas
    Douglas Cooper

    Steel Shadows

    With Steel Shadows, you don\u2019t have to visit exhibition halls at Carnegie Mellon University or the John Heinz History Center to enjoy Douglas Cooper\u2019s unique, realistic and highly personal images of Pittsburgh. Steel Shadows brings his large charcoal and paper art home to you....
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  • In Quiet Places: Selected Landscape Paintings of GC Myers 2003-2008 by Myers, Gc
    Gc Myers

    In Quiet Places: Selected Landscape Paintings of GC Myers 2003-2008

    A book brimming with the colorful and emotion-filled paintings of artist GC Myers. Containing his iconic images such as the Red Tree and his acclaimed Archaeology series, this book covers the years 2003 through 2008.Author: Gc MyersISBN-10: 1500832235ISBN-13: 9781500832230Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished:...
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  • In Art: The Last Supper by Jaime, Catherine McGrew
    Catherine McGrew Jaime

    In Art: The Last Supper

    When we think of the Last Supper and art, we often think immediately of Leonardo da Vinci. But the Last Supper has actually been the subject of paintings by artists for many centuries. Here is a collection of more than three dozen versions of...
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  • The Basilica Of St. Peter In The Vatican: The Architecture, The Monuments And The Works Of Art by Anonymous
    Anonymous

    The Basilica Of St. Peter In The Vatican: The Architecture, The Monuments And The Works Of Art

    The Basilica of St. Peter in the Vatican is a comprehensive book that provides an in-depth analysis of the iconic church's architecture, monuments, and works of art. Written by an anonymous author, the book delves into the history and significance of the Basilica, exploring...
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  • Philip Guston: Collected Writings, Lectures, and Conversations by Guston, Philip
    Philip Guston

    Philip Guston: Collected Writings, Lectures, and Conversations

    This is the premier collection of dialogues, talks, and writings by Philip Guston (1913-1980), one of the most intellectually adventurous and poetically gifted of modern painters. Over the course of his life, Guston's wide reading in literature and philosophy deepened his commitment to his...
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  • The Scenery of the Catskill Mountains as Described by Irving, Cooper, Bryant, Willis Gaylord Clark, N.P. Willis, Miss Martineau, Tyrone Power, Park Be by Irving, Washington 1783-1859
    Washington 1783-1859 Irving

    The Scenery of the Catskill Mountains as Described by Irving, Cooper, Bryant, Willis Gaylord Clark, N.P. Willis, Miss Martineau, Tyrone Power, Park Be

    This beautiful volume brings together the writings of some of America's most celebrated authors and artists, all of whom were inspired by the stunning natural beauty of the Catskill Mountains. The book includes descriptions, sketches, and paintings of the region by luminaries such as...
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  • Life, Art, And Letters Of George Inness; Volume 3 by Inness, George
    George Inness

    Life, Art, And Letters Of George Inness; Volume 3

    George Inness was one of America's greatest landscape painters of the 19th century. This book, compiled and edited by his son, collects Inness's letters, essays, and other writings, providing insight into his artistic vision and technique. With dozens of full-color reproductions of Inness's paintings,...
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  • The Living Line Dynamic Gesture: The figurative sense of"active, potent, energetic" is from 1856.Related: Dynamically. by Frances, Tracey Ellen
    Tracey Ellen Frances

    The Living Line Dynamic Gesture: The figurative sense of"active, potent, energetic" is from 1856.Related: Dynamically.

    I have been told to write a book since I first started drawing. Now, with years of gesture experience, both teaching and doing, I have compiled enough examples for several books. This is the first. With basic explanations about how and why gesture is...
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  • Maori Symbolism by Rout, Ettie A.
    Ettie A. Rout

    Maori Symbolism

    Maori Symbolism by Ettie A. Rout is a comprehensive guide to understanding the rich cultural heritage and symbolism of the Maori people of New Zealand. The book delves into the intricate meanings behind the traditional Maori symbols, including the koru, manaia, tiki, and many...
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  • Georgia O'Keeffe: One Hundred Flowers by O'Keeffe, Georgia
    Georgia O'Keeffe

    Georgia O'Keeffe: One Hundred Flowers

    When Georgia O'Keeffe: One Hundred Flowers was first published in 1987, it caused a sensation in the worlds of art and publishing. With its giant scale, unprecedented quality of reproduction fidelity, and hitherto unseen masterpieces of O'Keeffe's flower paintings, it became one of the...
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  • Vintage Alabama Signs by Hollis, Tim
    Tim Hollis

    Vintage Alabama Signs

    Many Alabamians may not realize how many of their fond memories involve advertising signs. Although these neon spectaculars, billboards and even signs painted directly onto brick walls were created expressly to persuade customers or tourists to patronize businesses, many such signs remained in place...
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  • Cases of Citation: On Literature in Art by Julius, Chlo?
    Chlo? Julius

    Cases of Citation: On Literature in Art

    Cases of citation presents a history of artists who incorporated literary references into their work from the 1960s onwards. Through a series of object-focused chapters that each take up a singular 'case of citation', the collection considers how literary citation emerged as a viable...
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  • Responding to Site: The Performance Work of Marilyn Arsem by Klein, Jennie
    Jennie Klein

    Responding to Site: The Performance Work of Marilyn Arsem

    This book focuses on the performance art of Marilyn Arsem, an internationally acclaimed performance artist known for her innovative and experimental work. Arsem's work addresses women's history and myth-making capacities, the potency of site and geography, the idea of the audience as witnesses, and...
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  • Suspended Worlds: An Illustrated History of New England Theater Scenery by Hadsel, Christine
    Christine Hadsel

    Suspended Worlds: An Illustrated History of New England Theater Scenery

    A unique look at an overlooked element of the American fabric -- the ambitious murals that served as the backdrops for entertainment in small-town New England.Long before television and the internet, entertainment was often a performance at the local grange or Town Hall. Since...
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  • Beth Van Hoesen: Fauna & Flora by Hicks, Bob
    Bob Hicks

    Beth Van Hoesen: Fauna & Flora

    Beth Van Hoesen: Fauna & Flora devotes two essays to the dutiful renderings of flowers and animals for which Van Hoesen is best known. Using curator, artist, and printer interviews alongside quotations from Van Hoesen's unpublished 1981 journal, Bob Hicks examines her work within...
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  • Taos Society of Artists: Volume 39 by Hassrick, Peter H.
    Peter H. Hassrick

    Taos Society of Artists: Volume 39

    Author: Peter H. HassrickISBN-10: 0806194944ISBN-13: 9780806194943Publisher: University of Oklahoma PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/24/2025Pages: 800Format: Hardcover
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  • Society Is Nix: Gleeful Anarchy at the Dawn of the American Comic Strip 1895-1915 Revised Edition by Maresca, Peter
    Peter Maresca

    Society Is Nix: Gleeful Anarchy at the Dawn of the American Comic Strip 1895-1915 Revised Edition

    "Mit Dose Kids, SOCIETY IS NIX!" So said The Inspector about the Katzenjammer Kids. But he could have been speaking of all comic strips in their formative years in the early 1900s. From the very first color Sunday supplement, comics were a driving force...
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  • Hot Art, Cold War - Southern and Eastern European Writing on American Art 1945-1990 by Hopkins, Claudia
    Claudia Hopkins

    Hot Art, Cold War - Southern and Eastern European Writing on American Art 1945-1990

    Hot Art, Cold War - Southern and Eastern European Writing on American Art 1945-1990 is one of two text anthologies that trace the reception of American art in Europe during the Cold War era through primary sources. Translated into English for the first time...
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  • Toward Joy: New Frameworks for American Art by Sparling Williams, Stephanie
    Stephanie Sparling Williams

    Toward Joy: New Frameworks for American Art

    Offering a new approach seen through a variety of frameworks, this groundbreaking publication reframes the narrative of American Art through the collection of the Brooklyn Museum. How might American art be experienced at this moment? Disrupting traditional presentations and offering a new approach seen...
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  • Thomas Sully's Philadelphians: Painting the Athens of America by Conn, Peter
    Peter Conn

    Thomas Sully's Philadelphians: Painting the Athens of America

    Philadelphia's early national history represented in Thomas Sully's portraits Thomas Sully is widely regarded as perhaps the most important portrait painter of the antebellum years. Using those portraits, Thomas Sully's Philadelphians: Painting the Athens of America reconstructs many of the people, institutions, and events...
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  • Imaginary Wilds: Architectural Interventions for the Thomas Cole National Historic Site by Dayem, Adam
    Adam Dayem

    Imaginary Wilds: Architectural Interventions for the Thomas Cole National Historic Site

    The myth of a wild, untouched landscape is persistent in American history. Imaginary wilds helped define an American identity in the early nineteenth century when Thomas Cole produced a series of masterwork paintings of American landscapes. And today the myth of imaginary wilds continues...
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  • American Landscapes: Treasures from the Parrish Art Museum by Longwell, Alicia G.
    Alicia G. Longwell

    American Landscapes: Treasures from the Parrish Art Museum

    This vibrant book displays 42 color plates ranging from majestic views to intimate glimpses, all of which contribute to what we have come to think of as a distinctly American vision. Works by some of the most important figures in the history of American...
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  • The Winds and Words of War: World War I Posters and Prints from the San Antonio Public Library Collection by Lane, Allison Hays
    Allison Hays Lane

    The Winds and Words of War: World War I Posters and Prints from the San Antonio Public Library Collection

    Commissioned by the U.S. Committee on Public Information, more than 300 of America's most famous illustrators, cartoonists, designers, and fine artists donated their services to create more than 700 posters in an effort to build patriotism, raise funds for war bonds, encourage enlistment, and...
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  • The Romance Of Leonardo Da Vinci: The Forerunner (1903) by Merejkowski, Dimitri
    Dimitri Merejkowski

    The Romance Of Leonardo Da Vinci: The Forerunner (1903)

    ""The Romance of Leonardo da Vinci: The Forerunner"" is a historical novel written by Dimitri Merejkowski and originally published in 1903. The book is a fictionalized account of the life of Leonardo da Vinci, the famous Italian Renaissance artist, inventor, and polymath. The novel...
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  • The Ars Moriendi, Editio Princeps, Circa 1450 (1881) by Rylands, William Harry
    William Harry Rylands

    The Ars Moriendi, Editio Princeps, Circa 1450 (1881)

    The Ars Moriendi, Editio Princeps, Circa 1450 (1881) by William Harry Rylands is a book that contains the first printed edition of the Ars Moriendi, a medieval guidebook on the art of dying. The book was originally written in the 15th century and was...
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  • Telling Stories: Philip Guston's Later Works by Kaufmann, David
    David Kaufmann

    Telling Stories: Philip Guston's Later Works

    In Telling Stories, David Kaufmann focuses on Philip Guston's controversial figurative paintings of the late 1960s and 1970s. He looks at the early critical reception of these works to see what the artist was actually doing and, at another level, to investigate the odd...
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  • The Body of Raphaelle Peale: Still Life and Selfhood, 1812-1824 by Nemerov, Alexander
    Alexander Nemerov

    The Body of Raphaelle Peale: Still Life and Selfhood, 1812-1824

    The American painter Raphaelle Peale (1774-1825) left a legacy of vibrantly beautiful still lifes depicting objects such as fruit, vegetables, and meat. In this lively and literate study, the first book-length exploration of the artist, Alexander Nemerov presents a radical new reading of these...
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