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  • Women Artists of Color: A Bio-Critical Sourcebook to 20th Century Artists in the Americas by Farris, Phoebe
    Phoebe Farris

    Women Artists of Color: A Bio-Critical Sourcebook to 20th Century Artists in the Americas

    Critical essays on 20th-century female artists of color focus on how these distinguished artists achieved success, what makes their work important both to the art world and to their specific communities, and what influences their work is likely to have in the future. The...
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  • Serious Business: The Art and Commerce of Animation in America from Betty Boop to Toy Story by Kanfer, Stefan
    Stefan Kanfer

    Serious Business: The Art and Commerce of Animation in America from Betty Boop to Toy Story

    As Roger Rosenblatt put it, "What makes Serious Business a special treat is that it is like the best of the cartoons itself" funny, touching, and infused with thoughtful joy. This generously illustrated history of animation looks at the creation and celluloid careers of...
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  • The Transformation of the Avant-Garde: The New York Art World, 1940-1985 by Crane, Diana
    Diana Crane

    The Transformation of the Avant-Garde: The New York Art World, 1940-1985

    With the rise of Abstract Expressionism, New York City became the acknowledged center of the avant-garde. Diana Crane documents the transformation of the New York art world between 1940 and 1985, both in the artistic styles that emerged during this period and the expansion...
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  • Tom Sachs: Spaceships by Crow, Thomas E.
    Thomas E. Crow

    Tom Sachs: Spaceships

    The most recent body of work by the popular American artist to focus on his highly inventive interpretation of space travel, published for the first time. Published to accompany exhibitions simultaneously in New York and Palm Beach, the book follows the interdisciplinary show that...
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  • N. C. Wyeth: A Biography by Michaelis, David
    David Michaelis

    N. C. Wyeth: A Biography

    His name summons up our earliest images of the beloved books we read as children. His illustrations for Scribner's Illustrated Classics (Treasure Island, Kidnapped, The Last of the Mohicans, The Yearling) are etched into the collective memory of generations of readers. He was hailed...
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  • Jack Whitten: Cosmic Soul by Whitten, Jack
    Jack Whitten

    Jack Whitten: Cosmic Soul

    Sixty years of topographical abstractions from the late virtuoso of material experimentationThis comprehensive monograph surveys the work of Black American artist Jack Whitten, known for his swirling, mosaic-like abstractions and his innovative material experimentations, especially with acrylic paint. Resembling topographical maps, Whitten's works rely...
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  • Art of Acadia by Little, David
    David Little

    Art of Acadia

    The Mount Desert Island and Acadia region of Maine has been the subject of artists for hundreds of years and many of America's most celebrated painters have been inspired here. From Thomas Cole to Richard Estes, painters have captured the exquisite beauty of the...
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  • Hanson Puthuff: Paintings by Kvamme, Gary Lee
    Gary Lee Kvamme

    Hanson Puthuff: Paintings

    Hanson Puthuff painted the rolling hills, mountains, plains and valleys of California with an open, broad-stroked style, combining vibrant colors and subtle atmospheric perspective. He remains one of the most popular of the California plein air painters from the 20th Century.The present work showcases...
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  • Komar & Melamid: A Lesson in History by Tulovsky, Julia
    Julia Tulovsky

    Komar & Melamid: A Lesson in History

    Tracing a subversive artistic partnership that lambasted Soviet officialdom and American capitalism. Among the most compelling figures in the history of conceptual art, the Russian-American artists Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid built their reputations by challenging viewers with controversial, witty, and ironic art. Komar...
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  • C.C. Wang: Lines of Abstraction by Chou, Wen-Shing
    Wen-Shing Chou

    C.C. Wang: Lines of Abstraction

    The first retrospective monograph on the artistic experimentations of the renowned artist, collector, and connoisseur C.C. Wang. C.C. Wang (1907-2003) is best known as a preeminent twentieth-century connoisseur and collector of pre-modern Chinese art, a reputation that often overshadows his own art. C.C. Wang:...
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  • Monuments and Myths: The America of Sculptors Augustus Saint-Gaudens and Daniel Chester French by Eschelbacher, Andrew
    Andrew Eschelbacher

    Monuments and Myths: The America of Sculptors Augustus Saint-Gaudens and Daniel Chester French

    Explores the intersecting careers of the Gilded Age's most prominent sculptors to shine new light on some of America's most iconic public monuments. Monuments and Myths is the first publication to trace the intersecting work of Augustus Saint-Gaudens (1848-1907) and Daniel Chester French (1850-1931),...
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  • Layered Landscapes: The Photographic Art of Jenny Okun by Okun, Jenny
    Jenny Okun

    Layered Landscapes: The Photographic Art of Jenny Okun

    Layered Landscapes is a collection of essays and photographs of our beautiful world from just outside our homes all the way to the heavens. The book has introductions by Michael Webb (architecture writer) and Craig Krull (gallerist). Craig Krull aptly points out that Okun's...
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  • Sonya Clark: We Are Each Other by Auther, Elissa
    Elissa Auther

    Sonya Clark: We Are Each Other

    Large-scale textile works from a leading contemporary Afro-Caribbean American artist. This is the first volume to document and contextualize Sonya Clark's large-scale, community-centric and collaborative artworks. These projects demonstrate Clark's career-long commitment to addressing the urgent issue of racial inequality in American society and...
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  • Women Reframe American Landscape: Susie Barstow & Her Circle / Contemporary Practices by Siegel, Nancy
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    Nancy Siegel

    Women Reframe American Landscape: Susie Barstow & Her Circle / Contemporary Practices

    Expands the canon of American landscape art to illuminate the contributions of women artists. Illuminating the artistic contributions and perspectives of women, this book reinserts the important 19th-century American artist Susie Barstow into the history of the Hudson River School and presents contemporary artists...
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  • Arthur Hill Gilbert: Paintings by Kvamme, Gary Lee
    Gary Lee Kvamme

    Arthur Hill Gilbert: Paintings

    Arthur Hill Gilbert's paintings of California are a monument to his art and to the lovely land he cherishes. To know his work is to know the man himself-modest, generous and wholly understanding.The present work showcases a fine array of new photographic images of...
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  • Abstract Expressionism--And Beyond: American Painting in the Collection Reinhard Ernst by The Reinhard & Sonja Ernst Stiftung Foun
    The Reinhard & Sonja Ernst Stiftung Foun

    Abstract Expressionism--And Beyond: American Painting in the Collection Reinhard Ernst

    Draws from a new museum collection to trace seventy years of abstract painting in the United States. From the color field paintings of Helen Frankenthaler to the plate-paintings of Julian Schnabel, this catalog showcases an outstanding variety of postwar art in the United States....
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  • The Book of Norman: Norman Sunshine / A Life in Art by Sunshine, Norman
    Norman Sunshine

    The Book of Norman: Norman Sunshine / A Life in Art

    The Book of Norman: Norman Sunshine / A Life in Art, brings together more than seven decades of the American artist Norman Sunshine's painting, sculpture, pencil, charcoal, and digital work, all deftly interwoven into his remarkable life story. Born and raised in Los Angeles,...
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  • Art & Empire: The Politics of Ethnicity in the United States Capitol, 1815-1860 by Fryd, Vivien Green
    Vivien Green Fryd

    Art & Empire: The Politics of Ethnicity in the United States Capitol, 1815-1860

    The subject matter and iconography of much of the art in the U.S. Capitol forms a remarkably coherent program of the early course of North American empire, from discovery and settlement to the national development and westward expansion that necessitated the subjugation of the...
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  • Inventing Acadia: Painting and Place in Louisiana by Pfohl, Katie A.
    Katie A. Pfohl

    Inventing Acadia: Painting and Place in Louisiana

    A wide-ranging study of Louisiana landscape painting that places art from the region into a broader national and global context With its dense forests and swamps, Louisiana captured the imagination of writers and painters who viewed its landscape as a fascinating, untamed wilderness. Starting...
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  • Sol Lewitts Studio Drawings in the Vecchia Torre by Holmboe, Rye Dag
    Rye Dag Holmboe

    Sol Lewitt's Studio Drawings in the Vecchia Torre

    An intimate look at American artist Sol LeWitt's masterpiece of conceptual art, drawn on the walls of a medieval tower in Italy. In 1976, Sol LeWitt made a large group of pencil drawings on the internal walls of the Vecchia Torre, a medieval tower...
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  • Cheyney Thompson: Passages by Schaernack, Christian
    Christian Schaernack

    Cheyney Thompson: Passages

    One of the first book-length publications on contemporary artist Cheyney Thompson, whose work is known for its radically forward-looking intellectualism and formal rigor. Cheyney Thompson's (b. 1975) work responds to a long history of debates about how art depicts the world, and about how...
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  • Up Against the Real: Black Mask from Art to Action by Millner-Larsen, Nadja
    Nadja Millner-Larsen

    Up Against the Real: Black Mask from Art to Action

    A history of 1960s activist art group Black Mask. With Up Against the Real, Nadja Millner-Larsen offers the first comprehensive study of the group Black Mask and its acrimonious relationship to the New York art world of the 1960s. Cited as pioneers of now-common...
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  • Rocks, Paper, Memory: Wendy Artin's Watercolor Paintings of Ancient Sculptures by Ratte, Christopher
    Wendy Artin

    Rocks, Paper, Memory: Wendy Artin's Watercolor Paintings of Ancient Sculptures

    This catalogue documents an exhibition at the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology of watercolor paintings by American artist Wendy Artin and selected objects from the Museum's permanent collections. Wendy Artin has been working for over a decade on a series of watercolors of ancient Greek...
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  • The Re-identification of Pop Art: its Reception from an Italian Perspective by Addis, Ginevra
    Ginevra Addis

    The Re-identification of Pop Art: its Reception from an Italian Perspective

    The Pop Art phenomenon has been a subject of discussion for art critics, gallerists, collectors and the artists themselves since its first appearance in the '50s. Beginning in the '80s, a strong interest emerged in studying the current retrospectively, intending not only to define...
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  • Lost in America: N.B.K. Ausstellungen Bd. 24 by Babias, Marius
    Marius Babias

    Lost in America: N.B.K. Ausstellungen Bd. 24

    A meditation on the ideological conditions shaping contemporary American artistic and architectural practicesAccompanying an exhibition featuring 37 works by 19 US-based artists, this publication explores the presence of American ideology in art, architecture and design. Artists include John Steuart Curry, Jimmie Durham, Andrea Fraser,...
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  • Richard Serra: Notebooks Vol. 2 by Serra, Richard
    Richard Serra

    Richard Serra: Notebooks Vol. 2

    Throughout his career, the renowned American sculptor Richard Serra has kept a large number of notebooks and sketchbooks which by now fill an entire library in his studio. Contained within them are delicate sketches of his travels, of landscapes, architecture and ideas, some of...
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  • Catching the Moment: Contemporary Art from the Ted L. and Maryanne Ellison Simmons Collection by Wyckoff, Elizabeth
    Elizabeth Wyckoff

    Catching the Moment: Contemporary Art from the Ted L. and Maryanne Ellison Simmons Collection

    A dazzling array of contemporary American art acquired from Hall of Fame baseball catcher Ted Simmons and master printer and fine-art print publisher Maryanne Ellison Simmons. This exhibition catalog showcases the diversity and relevance of the exceptional collection acquired from St. Louis collectors Ted...
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  • Thomas Cole's Studio: Memory and Inspiration by Kelly, Franklin
    Franklin Kelly

    Thomas Cole's Studio: Memory and Inspiration

    An exploration of nineteenth-century American landscape painter Thomas Cole and the influential role of his studio for other artists of the Hudson River School. In December 1846, Thomas Cole excitedly began work in his new studio, but his early death left his great ambitions...
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  • Jean Seidenberg: Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture by Seidenberg, Jean
    Jean Seidenberg

    Jean Seidenberg: Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture

    Born in 1930 in a working-class Brooklyn family, Jean Seidenberg quickly made art his livelihood. As a teenager, he worked in galleries and learned framing and the craft of silkscreen printing. Through those years, Seidenberg educated his eye in New York's museums. His work...
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  • The Andy Warhol Catalogue Raisonné, Paintings and Sculpture 1961-1963: Paintings and Sculptures 1961-1963 by Andy Warhol Foundation
    The Andy Warhol Foundation

    The Andy Warhol Catalogue Raisonné: Paintings and Sculpture 1961-1963 (Volume 1)

    Andy Warhol (1928-1987) is one of the most iconic figures of twentieth-century art, a highly enigmatic personality who not only altered the definition of art but also left in his wake a vast and staggeringly complex record of his daily activities.The Andy Warhol Catalogue...
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  • Serious Play: Design in Midcentury America by Obniski, Monica
    Monica Obniski

    Serious Play: Design in Midcentury America

    A lively exploration of eclecticism, playfulness, and whimsy in American postwar design, including architecture, graphic design, and product design This spirited volume shows how postwar designers embraced whimsy and eclecticism in their work, exploring playfulness as an essential construct of modernity. Following World War...
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  • The Art and Life of Merritt Dana Houghton in the Northern Rockies, 1878-1919 by Amundson, Michael a.
    Michael a. Amundson

    The Art and Life of Merritt Dana Houghton in the Northern Rockies, 1878-1919

    Between 1891 and 1915, pen-and-ink artist Merritt Dana Houghton made over 200 bird's-eye sketches of towns, ranches, mines, businesses, historic sites, and animals in Wyoming, northern Colorado, Montana, Idaho, and Washington state. Historian Michael A. Amundson brings these many views together for the first...
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  • Edward Hopper: An Intimate Biography by Levin, Gail
    Gail Levin

    Edward Hopper: An Intimate Biography

    New York Times Notable Book Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist Wall Street Journal--One of Five Best Artist Biographies Edward Hopper's canvasses are filled with stripped-down spaces and unrelenting light, evocative landscapes, and the lonely aspects of men and women seemingly isolated in their...
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