Art - American - General

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"...

A unique and playful hand-drawn exploration of the Chicago River's landscape, documented on an eleven-foot-long foldout. In March 2020, architect Ryan Chester began drawing the Chicago River for at least one hour every day. Using only a pen, he moved methodically along a single...

Reveals how American art in the 1930s--intertwined with the political, social, and economic tumult of an era not so unlike our own--engaged with the public amid global upheaval This publication examines the search for artistic identity in the United States from the stock market...

A Usable Past brings together paintings, sculptures and works on paper by self-trained artists working in the eastern part of the US during the 19th century. Produced and originally circulated outside the sphere of fine art, these objects emerged from vernacular traditions that favored...

Why have some great modern artists--including Picasso--produced their most important work early in their careers while others--like C騷anne--have done theirs late in life? In a work that brings new insights, and new dimensions, to the history of modern art, David Galenson examines the careers...

A tour through the Yale University Art Gallery's holdings of American art, one of the most exceptional museum collections of its kindAuthor: Yale University Art GalleryISBN-10: 0300269714ISBN-13: 9780300269710Publisher: Yale University Art GalleryLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/27/2023Pages: 272Format: HardcoverWeight: 2.82lbsSize: 10.79h x 7.56w x 1.02dReview Citation(s): Choice...

New York School Painters & Poets charts the collaborative milieu of New York City poets and artists in the mid-twentieth century. This unprecedented volume comprehensively reproduces rare ephemera, collecting and reprinting collaborations, paintings, drawings, poetry, letters, art reviews, photographs, dialogues, manifestos, and memories. Jenni...

Breaking Ground: Art Modernisms 1920-1950 reveals exciting new perspectives on the history of modernist art criticism in the United States. The first essays examine critics who embraced formalism in the 1920s under the impact of the English theorists Roger Fry and Clive Bell. Next...

A thoughtful selection of works which celebrates the opening of the new Buffalo AKG Art Museum, and provides a flavor of one of the world's most extraordinary collections of modern and contemporary art.With nearly 400 pages, this entirely new collection handbook presents over 330...

"An essential account of America's greatest sculptor . . . [A] magnum opus." --Marjorie Perloff, The Times Literary SupplementThe landmark biography of the inscrutable and brilliant David Smith, the greatest American sculptor of the twentieth century. David Smith, a pioneer of Abstract Expressionism, did...

Western Traditions is a new book on the art of the American West, an art that attracts not only great artists but passionate collectors, not only nostalgia buffs who revel in the history of the frontier but pragmatists who know that the life of...

Highlights the ecological concerns shared by two closely allied artists. Contemporary artists Mark Dion and Alexis Rockman are widely recognized for work that engages issues of natural history, scientific practice, and the imperiled environment. This catalog, which accompanies the first two-person survey exhibition of...

James Howard Kunstler (born October 19, 1948) is an American author, social critic, public speaker, artist, and blogger. James created these oil paintings of the landscape around Washington and Saratoga counties of New York. All were painted sur le motif. James Howard Kunstler is...

New York's Harlem Valley, with the last stops on the Metro-North train line from Manhattan, has an incredibly eclectic history for a predominantly agricultural region. A Victorian utopian community claiming to see fairies settled in Wassaic, attracting Japanese samurai and remaking the townscape of...

Revisiting the artistic legacy of a pioneering figure in hard-edge abstractionFrom today's perspective, the dynamic, geometric abstractions of Leon Polk Smith (1906-96) stand out as a missing link in art history. His work connects the European avant-garde with American Abstract Expressionism via his transformations...

A catalog for an exhibition of the latest chapter in Miriem Bennani's CAPS film project. Meriem Bennani is a Moroccan artist who lives and works in New York. Life on the CAPS is the final chapter in her film trilogy of the same name....

The grit and grandeur of New Orleans helped give rise to an icon of French Impressionism. Edgar Degas's mother was from New Orleans and from the time he buried her, he pined for Louisiana. In 1872, when he arrived, he found New Orleans wracked...

"This coloring book is a delight!" -- Sharing Craft IdeasThirty-one ready-to-color cover illustrations by some of The Saturday Evening Post's most famous artists celebrate the nostalgic appeal of American life in the first half of the 20th century. Iconic images include adaptations of timeless...

Published to accompany an exhibition at Fondation Louis Vuitton from 5 April to 28 August 2023 The collaboration between the two artists, legends of the New York avant-garde, through more than a hundred of their joint works In the spring of 2023, Fondation Louis...

This eloquent examination of Inness' most important paintings illuminates the artist's philosophical and religious preoccupations. It provides an overview of his life and situates Inness within the contexts of key issues in American history, such as the Hudson River School, Transcendentalism, Swedenborgianism, and the...

The sacredness of life is a gift from God. We may celebrate this gift through various losses and births. Take a colorful journey through the poetic inner thoughts and prayers of an author who knows this concept well. The beauty lies in breakthrough, as...

A epic painterly panorama of an alternate American 21st centuryNew York-based painter Keith Mayerson (born 1966) is inspired by symbols of American history and pop culture. He depicts familiar figures who have affected the country's consciousness--in addition to personal scenes and his abstract "iconscapes"--through...

The scaredness of life is a gift from God. We may celebrate this gift through various losses and births. Take a colorful journey through the poetic inner thoughts and prayers of an author who knows this concept well. The beauty lies in breakthrough, as...

A Joy to See is a collection of ekphrastic poems written in response to artwork by Kay Levine. Twenty-seven renowned poets from around the world responded to the artwork, pastels, watercolors and oil paintings with prescient poems. A Joy to See is a tribute...

New mixed-media works between sculpture and painting from the ever-inventive Pop maestroWith its fairy-tale yet matter-of-fact title, Grace and Beauty reveals Jim Dine's (born 1935) unquenchable enthusiasm for reimagining his iconic personal motifs--here, the classical torso, hearts and tools--in experimental combinations of mediums. The...

"Phantasmagoria" is a retrospective look at the enigmatic artwork of Jim Sohr, a New Orleans artist who learned to paint while imprisoned at Louisiana State Penitentiary for selling marijuana. Ironically, lockdown offered unlimited time and freedom to explore his inner workings. Sequestered in the...

In his famous series of four paintings, the great American "father" of the Hudson River School of art, Thomas Cole (1801-1848), depicted the life of a single representative human Soul as a voyage from birth to death-each painting illustrating a further bend in the...

"In the heart of Central Park there is an angel. It is the Angel of the Waters statue, which appeared on the Bethesda Fountain on May 31, 1873. It has since earned a place among the city's icons-a deserved place for its classical beauty,...

Spirit in the Land, which accompanies the art exhibition of the same name, examines today's urgent ecological concerns from a fresh perspective. Through their artwork and writing, the artists show how cultural identity and traditions are deeply rooted in our relationship with the land,...

In the late 19th and early 20th century, the most capitalistic era in American history, it was considered normal that the immense popularity of Augustus Saint Gaudens, Frederick MacMonnies and Maxfield Parrish should earn them substantial wealth. Saint Gaudens was (and still is) regarded...

This is the untold story of a group of artists whose interest in fostering art in their community made an authentic contribution to the history of art in America. Taking for their subjects the local people, flora, and landscapes, they developed a distinctive impressionistic...

In his famous series of four paintings, the great American "father" of the Hudson River School of art, Thomas Cole (1801-1848), depicted the life of a single representative human Soul as a voyage from birth to death-each painting illustrating a further bend in the...

William Rimmer (1816-1879) is arguably the first modernist American sculptor, although his inventive originality has not been fully acknowledged. Rimmer cultivated an art of ideas and personal expression whilst supporting himself as a physician and, later, as a teacher of art anatomy at the...

A study of Ben Shahn's New Deal murals (1933-43) in the context of American Jewish history, labor history, and public discourse. Lithuanian-born artist Ben Shahn learned fresco painting as an assistant to Diego Rivera in the 1930s and created his own visually powerful, technically...

Explore the guitar as visual subject, enduring symbol, and storyteller's companion. Strummed everywhere from parlors and front porches to protest rallies and rock arenas, the guitar also appears far and wide in American art. Its depictions enable artists and their human subjects to address...

William Rimmer (1816-1879) is arguably the first modernist American sculptor, although his inventive originality has not been fully acknowledged. Rimmer cultivated an art of ideas and personal expression whilst supporting himself as a physician and, later, as a teacher of art anatomy at the...

The New Press is proud to publish a new paperback edition of Mixed Blessings, the first book to discuss the cross-cultural process taking place in the work of contemporary Latino, Native, African, and Asian American artists. Rich with illustrations of artworks in many different...

Fremont F. Ellis, a famous landscape painter, was born in Virginia City, Montana in 1897. His father was a nomadic dentist and theater operator who traveled from the bustling gold towns of the American West to the metropolitan cities of the east. Ellis began...

My inspiration for this book was generated by memories of my travels over the years to exciting places and meeting with great folks. America has been both good and kind to me. After arriving at the Chicago airport, and then staying with generous friends...

At the beginning of the decade, America was at war. Patriotism was an integral part of everyday life, with the sentiment mirrored in advertising. As America emerged victorious out of the darkness of World War II in 1945, the economic boom of the era...

For nearly thirty years, Mort Kunstler has focused his considerable artistic talent on interpreting the Civil War through his paintings. In doing so, he has turned to leading historians and scholars for information that he has then translated on canvas to create an indelible...

The Harwood Museum of Art in Taos houses among the finest collections of New Mexican and Southwest art. In celebration of the hundredth anniversary of the museum, this publication highlights one hundred works drawn from more than 6,500 objects collected since its establishment. The...

Marion Kavanaugh Wachtel was a plein air painter in watercolors and oils who lived and worked with her artist husband Elmer Wachtel in the Arroyo Seco near Pasadena, California, in the early 20th century. She painted primarily landscapes of the dramatic Californian and Southwestern...

A brief, poignant memoir of artist Casy Deiss, known as Casio, one of the renowned Positano artists of the 1960s. The memoir, written by the artist's sister, focuses primarily on Casio's work and his life in Italy, ended abruptly in 1969 by a "colpo...

Anna Althea Hills was an exceptional California impressionist. She was a daring and able painter, and valued member of the Laguna Beach Art Association. Her paintings hang in the Laguna Art Museum and the Irvine Museum, the Fleisher Museum, and the Orange County Museum.The...

What a prominent contemporary artist reveals about painting in the digital age--an era characterized by simulation and hyperreality. At the height of postmodernism, just as the digital world was becoming a reality, Peter Halley revitalized painting by affiliating his work with sociology and science...