Art - American - General

Performance artist Linda Montano, curious about the influence childhood experience has on adult work, invited other performance artists to consider how early events associated with sex, food, money/fame, or death/ritual resurfaced in their later work. The result is an original and compelling talking performance...

Berkeley-based artist Nancy Genn (born 1930) explores various mediums and techniques, including drawing, painting, sculpture and printmaking in such materials as gouache, casein, mono-printing, collage and ceramics. This monograph presents her practice and her role in the movements of gestural abstraction and abstract expressionism.Author:...

Karen Kilimnik takes pictures with the same gesture she paints with: an unerring sense of the glut of shiny surface beauty, under which lurk the shades of monstrous things unseen and unspoken. She takes pictures with a shrewd, informed eye. She adores kitsch, but...

The Edinburgh Companion to Don DeLillo and the Arts is the first book to provide a comprehensive study of Don DeLillo's career-long engagements with the visual, literary, digital and televisual, performing, filmic, and spatial arts. Gathering original essays from a diverse range of international...

A selection of masterpieces from MFA Boston's preeminent decorative arts collectionAmerican Decorative Arts features over 100 carefully selected masterpieces of furniture, silver, glass, ceramics, base metals, coins and medals, basketry and sculpture from one of the world's preeminent collections. The Museum of Fine Arts,...

In May 2010, New York philanthropist Emily Fisher Landau promised 370 works by more than 85 artists to the Whitney Museum of American Art. This handsome volume highlights each of the artists in the gift, including Carl Andre, Jasper Johns, Willem de Kooning, Ed...

Best remembered as an influential illustrator and teacher, Howard Pyle (1853-1911) produced magnificent artwork and engrossing books and magazine stories about King Arthur, Robin Hood, swashbuckling pirates, and the American Revolution. He also completed public murals and trained many famous artists and illustrators at...

How do we create the new from the old? The Architecture of Influence explores this fundamental question by analyzing a broad swath of twentieth-century architectural works--including some of the best-known examples of the architectural canon, modern and postmodern--through the lens of influence. The book...

An exquisite collection of sketches of original jewelry by Tiffany Studios designer Meta Overbeck.  A facsimile edition of artist Meta Overbeck's notebook of Tiffany & Co jewelry designs, along with a fascinating introductory essay about the significance of the book. This archival treasure...

Alexander Calder (1898-1976) was a radical inventor. This catalogue shows how Calder's work emerged from expectations of change in American popular culture.Author: Anne GraceISBN-10: 887439828XISBN-13: 9788874398287Publisher: 5 Continents EditionsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/28/2019Pages: 256Format: PaperbackWeight: 2.35lbsSize: 10.90h x 9.50w x 0.80dAbout the AuthorAnne Grace is the...

A Volume of Timeless Wisdom for Artists to Consult Like an Oracle Why do young artists struggle to find their voices? Walter Darby Bannard, a renowned teacher, critic, and internationally exhibited painter, contemplated that question for more than two decades. At the urging of...

A comprehensive portrait of the Bauhaus artist's work. Known for his famous expressionist images of architecture, Lyonel Feininger (1871-1956) was a painter, graphic artist, and caricaturist who served as one of the original teachers at the Bauhaus school of design. In 1936 he immigrated...

Americana Insights 2023 presents the latest research and discoveries on traditional American folk art and material culture. Groundbreaking essays by leading scholars provide a wealth of new insights on a wide array of artistic traditions. Covering a broad geographic area--including New England, the mid-Atlantic,...

Coloring Book with architectural and landscape scenes for adults and youth.Author: Mark T. RushISBN-10: 1533124388ISBN-13: 9781533124388Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/05/2016Pages: 50Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.31lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.10d

Reinterprets American art through one institution's iconic collection, spotlighting contributions by Black, women, and LGBTQ+ artists. Making American Artists delves into the extensive historical and modern collections of the first art school and museum in the United States, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine...

"A riveting tale told through personal accounts and sketches along the way--ultimately, a story of success against great odds. I enjoyed it enormously." --Tom Brokaw The first book to tell the full story of how a traveling road show of artists wielding imagination, paint,...

American Landscapes: Meditations on Art and Literature in a Changing World is a major contemporary survey of landscapes in art and literature of the United States, especially the American South. Inspired by William Dunlap's extraordinary landscape Meditations on the Origins of Agriculture in America...

Public sculpture is a major draw in today's cities, and nowhere is this more the case than in New York. In the Big Apple, urban art has become synonymous with the municipal "brand," highlighting the metropolis as vibrant, creative, tolerant, orderly, and above all,...

Author: Paul Kingsbury, Jim Sherrarden, Elek HorvathISBN-10: 0811828565ISBN-13: 9780811828567Publisher: Chronicle BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/01/2001Pages: 160Format: HardcoverWeight: 2.46lbsSize: 10.35h x 10.27w x 0.93dReview Citation(s): Publishers Weekly 04/09/2001 pg. 63Booklist 05/15/2001 pg. 1718BookPage 07/01/2001 pg. 22Reference and Research Bk News 08/01/2001 pg. 257Choice 12/01/2001 pg. 673Not available...

For nearly thirty years, Mort K?stler has focused his considerable artistic talent on interpreting the Civil War. In crafting his work to reflect poignant moments or critical instances of the conflict, he has turned to leading historians and scholars, such as Henry Steele Commager,...

Unlike earlier generations, Jewish American artists born between the 1930s and the early 1960s were among the first to overtly embrace and challenge religious themes in their work. These Jewish artists felt comfortable as assimilated Americans yet developed an overwhelming desire to explore their...

Contemporary artists probe the impact of human intervention on the environmentJust as artists of the 19th and 20th centuries participated in forging an American natural history as explorers, cataloguers, collectors, and early environmentalists, contemporary artists continue to incorporate and comment on the natural world...

Oral History and Art: Painting forms part of a series of three books - the other two focus on Photography and Sculpture - drawn from oral history transcripts in the collection of the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. Containing complete transcripts of exclusive...

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...

This beautiful, weather-inspired journal features gorgeous papercut artwork by the popular Pacific Northwest author of Arrow to Alaska, S is for Salmon, and B is for Bear. This beautiful, high-quality lined journal will inspire you to record your thoughts and ideas or even just...

Endlessly pursued but ever elusive, Moby-Dick roams freely throughout the American imagination. A fathomless source for literary exploration, Melville's masterpiece has also inspired a stunning array of book illustrations, prints, comics, paintings, sculptures, mixed media, and even architectural designs. Innovative and lavishly illustrated, Unpainted...

- This beautifully illustrated book offers an overview of Janet Ruttenberg's work, which is rarely shown in public venues The People's Park showcases American artist Janet Ruttenberg's monumental engagement with Central Park, bringing together years of work that combine a wide array of mediums,...

A loose knit cadre of high tech companies overthrow the governments of earth, to clear the way for their technological revolutions. The most powerful of which transforms the very foundation of evolution of life on earth.Do you know that we'll soon be able to...

Jack Wilkinson Smith's paintings are full of poetry-lyrical rather than dramatic. His work impresses the observer as warm and sensitive to nature's beauty in its simplest forms with a consummate perfection of his craftsmanship as well.The present work showcases a fine array of new...

Many of August Gay's oils were painted on cigar box tops and small segments of artboard. His wonderful depictions of the Monterey Wharf, of the Carmel Valley, coastal scenes, and the fishing fleet of Monterey Bay were inspired by the Cubists in form and...

Carl Oscar Borg was one of the greatest artists of the American West. His works are held by the University of California, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Hearst Free Library, Montclair Art Museum, Seattle Art Museum, the Library of Congress, Goteborg Museum in...

Benjamin Chambers Brown is best known for his plein-air Impressionist landscapes of California's Sierra Nevada Mountains and expanses of brilliantly colored poppy fields. His works are in major museums in the United States and Europe, including the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, DC,...

In 1906 a Los Angeles Times critic noted, "Elmer Wachtel knows Southern California perhaps more intimately than any other artist. He paints her directly, simply, truthfully, and yet never with topographic hardness and realism..." Today, Wachtel is considered one of Southern California's most important...

Arthur Grover Rider is known as a supreme colorist with an extraordinary ability to illuminate his canvases. He excelled in painting landscapes, florals, seascapes, animals, and figures. His works feature loose brushstrokes and close attention to lighting and atmospheric effects. During his last years,...

Critic Michael Ennis stated twenty-five years ago that there has never been more than a cursory overview of Texas art from the nineteenth century to the present. The Art of Texas: 250 Years now tells a deeper story, beginning with Spanish colonial paintings and...

This book has long satisfied the ever-growing passion for American Impressionism. It is the definitive study of the subject, filled with information and insight garnered through many years of far-ranging research. All the masterworks are here, from Childe Hassam's sun-drenched gardens to John Twachtman's...

Charley Harper and Edie McKee met on the first day of school at the Art Academy of Cincinnati in 1940. They studied together, fell in love, survived World War II, married, and embarked on successful careers in art. Today, Charley's work is iconic, known...

An egg has a hen's way to produce another egg. This essay has no intention of reducing all the facets of human knowledge to a metaphor of one very common item. Instead the egg is used as a focus because of its apparent simplicity,...

Marking the artist's first major publication in his 30-year-plus career, Mel Kendrick: Woodblocks presents a collection of the American artist's wood block prints and water drawings. Produced over a period from the early 1990s to the present day, Kendrick's prints explore bold yet complex...

A box of beautifully designed foldout posters featuring acclaimed artist Jenny Holzer's celebrated Truisms Holzer-isms: Artist's Edition presents a selection of artist Jenny Holzer's Truisms (1977-79)--subtly subversive declarations such as ABUSE OF POWER COMES AS NO SURPRISE--on six foldout posters designed by the artist....

Often seen as backward-looking and convention-bound, genre painting representing scenes of everyday life was central to the work of twentieth-century artists such as John Sloan, Norman Rockwell, Jacob Lawrence, and others, who adapted such subjects to an era of rapid urbanization, mass media, and...

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 tip...

The early American West has been depicted in art as a land of harsh struggles, a place of heavenly miracles, and everything in between. Different Travellers, Different Eyes records impressions of life on the nineteenth-and early twentieth-century American frontier by twenty-one artists better known...

Those who know Kurt Vonnegut as one of America's most beloved and influential writers will be surprised and delighted to discover that he was also a gifted graphic artist. This book brings together the finest examples of his funny, strange, and moving drawings.Author: Nanette...

The Civilian Conservation Corps (1933 - 1942) was a labor force meant to help those hardest hit by the staggering unemployment caused by the Great Depression. The CCC was the first and most successful of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal work programs. With...

This landmark book features 200 privately commissioned and rarely seen bookplates from a signature American artist, with information about the origin and design of each. 120 illustrations.Author: Don RobertsISBN-10: 0965881121ISBN-13: 9780965881128Publisher: Fair Oaks PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/25/2015Pages: 100Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.43lbsSize: 10.28h x 7.28w x 0.84dReview...

A social and cultural history of Los Angeles and its emerging art scene in the 1950s, 60s, and 70sThe history of modern art typically begins in Paris and ends in New York. Los Angeles was out of sight and out of mind, viewed as...

Norman Rockwell's Models: In and out of the Studio is the first book to detail the lives of Norman Rockwell's rural Vermont models and their experiences posing in his studio. The author grew up in West Arlington with the models in the same setting...

Nineteenth-century Victorian-era mourning rituals--long and elaborate public funerals, the wearing of lavishly somber mourning clothes, and families posing for portraits with deceased loved ones--are often depicted as bizarre or scary. But behind many such customs were rational or spiritual meanings. This book offers an...

The collectable coffee table book of fine arts includes numerous artists of Michigan; one of the Great Lake states. From the Northern Seas to the call of the wild, each artist represents their love of nature and this wondrous state. Known as the "Mitten"...