Art - American - General

Frankenthaler completely reimagines John Elderfield's landmark 1989 monograph, making it the most comprehensive book on the artist to date. Helen Frankenthaler (1928-2011) has long been recognized as one of the great American artists of the twentieth century. A member of the second generation of...

Modelmaking meets mythmaking in Boone's life-sized bronzes of toy figurinesAs part of his artistic practice exploring material manifestations of various American obsessions, Will Boone (born 1982) creates bronzes modeled after midcentury hobby kits, scaled to life size and lacquered with garish enamel sign paint...

Caught by Politics recalls the exile of German and European visual artists and film practitioners in the United States. The book traces the paths and aesthetic strategies of Hitler exiles in the United States as ones of productive encounters and ironic cultural masquerades. While...

Robert Craig Bunch has interviewed sixty current Texas artists, focusing on painters, printmakers, sculptors, and others whose work, broadly speaking, is inspired by dreams, visions, myths, and imagined worlds. Working in the tradition of predecessors such as Bror Utter, Ben Culwell, Maudee Carron, Kelly...

A richly illustrated presentation of the latest research on traditional American folk artAmericana Insights 2024 is the second volume of an annual series that presents the latest research and discoveries on traditional American folk art and material culture. This installment explores a diverse range...

Thirty-Six Views of the Moon is a meditative collection of nighttime exposures made with book pages from texts referencing the night sky spanning the last ten centuries.Drink wine and look at the moon and think of all the civilizations the moon has seen passing...

"The History of the United States from 1492 to 1910, Vol. 1" authored by Julian Hawthorne offers a comprehensive overview of the nation's development from its early exploration to the dawn of the 20th century. Hawthorne skillfully navigates through the important events which shaped...

Painted Alive is the first collection of bodypainted images by New Orleans artist Craig Tracy. With his masterful approach to this ancient and ephemeral art, Tracy has found the perfect way to passionately express his creativity. More than sixty transformative and intimately provocative works...

A richly illustrated new exploration of the painting, photography, and illustration of the politically progressive American artist Ben Shahn, On Nonconformity offers a fresh and wide-ranging account of the work of Ben Shahn (1898-1969), a Jewish immigrant from Russian-controlled Lithuania who became one of...

Symbols of freedom, power, and passion in the work of contemporary artist Robert Longo. Robert Longo's work captures moments of tension in nature, politics, and history at their emotional climax. Presented at a monumental scale, the size and virtuoso technique of his photorealistic charcoal...

BOOKMARK - The Warhol Dollar Bill Paper Bookmark is the perfect way to keep your place in your favorite book. Featuring Warhol's iconic Dollar Bill print, this bookmark is double sided and fits perfectly on the page so you can easily find your spot...

BOOKMARK - The Warhol Banana Paper Bookmark is the perfect way to keep your place in your favorite book. Featuring Warhol's iconic Banana print, this bookmark is double sided and fits perfectly on the page so you can easily find your spot without losing...

At the 2023 David B. Warren Symposium, six scholars examined the diverse cultures influencing art in the nineteenth century within a national and international context. The resulting symposium papers published in this volume focus on "Image and Identity," exploring the ways images that were...

Step back in time and look into the future with this fun adult coloring book celebrating the iconic Whataburger brand! WhataWorld features 40 coloring pages celebrating the past, present, and future of Whataburger. With artwork hand-drawn by best-selling Texas-based artist Alli Koch of Alli...

A survey of the work of one of Chicago's most prolific artists. Edgar Miller (1899-1993) arrived in Chicago in 1917 and, over the next fifty years, established a successful career as a multi-hyphenate creative practitioner. He worked as an architect, artist, craftsperson, curator, designer,...

This volume profiles some of the most eminent painters to arise out of the American art world. From the luminous landscapes of Frederick Edwin Church to the enigmatic portraits of John Singer Sargent, this survey provides a rich and varied interpretive history of the...

A favorite artwork can provide you with enjoyment and inspiration, help you recall important events of the past, and help you project a course into the future. Get even more enjoyment from a work of art you love by approaching it with an active...

A celebration of New York City's most treasured public art, now available in a smaller format for a lower price. Whether it's cocktails at the Carlyle, taking in a show at Lincoln Center, traveling via subway, or flying out of LaGuardia's venerable Marine Air...

Intended as a touchstone for all those interested in Nathaniel Mary Quinn's work for years to come, this monograph, dedicated to the artist, encapsulates over ten years of paintings and works on paper, and provides multiple perspectives and insights into Quinn's career to date....

The formation of a remarkable and innovative West Coast art scene in San Francisco, CA between 1930 and 1960. San Francisco: The Golden Age details the extraordinary development of the Bay Area art scene between 1930 to 1960. During that time, a great museum...

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,...

Celebrate the work of forty-seven talented artists who live and work on the Delmarva Peninsula. Discover the fruits of their creativity, what inspires them, and what it means to live the artist's life. This book is for anyone who loves art and for anyone...

When, in his twenties, Philip Barter (b. 1939) discovered Marsden Hartley, he felt a calling: to further the vision of the great American modernist. This was an ambitious undertaking for a brash, self taught artist from Boothbay, Maine, but Barter's passion for Maine and...

While biographers of Andy Warhol have long recognized his mother as a significant influence on his life and art, Julia Warhola's story has not yet been told. As an American immigrant who was born in a small Carpatho-Rusyn village in Austria-Hungary in 1891, Julia...

Discover the art book "America" through the Eyes of the artist Jens KaeumleIn AMERICA, Jens Kaeumle, a celebrated artist with roots in Germany and an international artistic journey, delves into the multifaceted history and identity of America. With a background shaped by studying under...

A fascinating look at John Singer Sargent's formative years as a young painter in Paris, a city that helped forge his artistic identity and sparked his rise to the pinnacle of the nineteenth-century art world In 1874, eighteen-year-old American artist John Singer Sargent went...

Seven contemporary artists build upon Mike Kelley's titular concept, producing works that comment on lived experience within built environmentsNonmemory brings together works by Mike Kelley and a group of artists--Kelly Akashi, Meriem Bennani, Beatriz Cortez, Raúl de Nieves, Olivia Erlanger, Lauren Halsey and Max...

An investigation of seven emerging artists who use supernatural color and uncanny luminescence to challenge the boundaries of traditional figuration. Color is flexible and amorphous. It lends itself to infinite perceptions and refuses to be definitive. Overflow, Afterglow: New Work in Chromatic Figuration discusses...

This spectacular panoramic painting was created in 1889 to commemorate the Battle of the Little Bighorn, a key event in the Indian Wars of the late 19th century. The painting, which measures 50 feet high and 400 feet in circumference, is accompanied by a...

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""George Inness: An American Landscape Painter, 1825-1894"" is a comprehensive biography of one of the most important American landscape painters of the 19th century. Written by Elizabeth McCausland, a renowned art historian and critic, the book delves into the life and work of George...

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...

A giant of 20th century art criticism, Clement Greenberg (1909-1994) set the terms of critical discourse from the moment he burst onto the scene with his seminal essays "Avant-Garde and Kitsch" (1939) and "Towards a Newer Laocoon" (1940). In this work, which gathers previously...

""Fictitious And Symbolic Creatures In Art With Special Reference To Their Use In British Heraldry"" by John Vinycomb is a comprehensive guide to the use of mythical creatures in art and heraldry. The book explores the origins and meanings of various mythical creatures, such...

"Dashcam Trucker: America through the Eyes of a Truck Driver" is an iconic vision of America in the late Twenty-Teens, as well as a stunning portrayal of the life of a truck driver, one that spans six months and over 75,000 miles. From Mussel...

The classic study of gravestone artIn Puritan New England, with its abiding concern for things not of this world and its distrust of forms and ceremonies, one art flourished: the symbolic art of mortuary monument stonecarvers. This carefully researched, beautifully illustrated work was the...

The New York City subway, considered an engineering feat and a work of art, has kindled the imagination of millions. Art and the Subway explores artistic production surrounding the world's most famous public transportation system, from just before its opening in 1904 to the...

Portraits. We know what they are, but why do we make them? Americans have been celebrating themselves in portraits since the arrival of the first itinerant portrait painters to the colonies. They created images to commemorate loved ones, glorify the famous, establish our national...

The power of art has always been found in those uncanny spaces between formal abstraction and the narratives of representation. Inseparable parts of a more complex whole, they are the collaborative symbiotic conditions that have created the most compelling works of art since antiquity....

In the summer of 1970, the artist Les Levine arrived at the University of Toronto to take part in the installation of site-specific work on the quadrangle in front of the University's Hart House. The intended piece--construction materials hung from high-tension rope between campus...

Principles of Light and Color is a comprehensive book written by Edwin D. Babbitt that delves into the fundamental principles of light and color. The book provides a thorough understanding of the scientific principles behind the perception of light and color, and how they...

An in-depth look at one of the richest collections of American art, assembled by Electra Havemeyer Webb, renowned collector and founder of Shelburne Museum. Electra Havemeyer Webb assembled Shelburne Museum's trove of American paintings in the late 1950s, creating a renowned and rich survey...

"Here lyes Buried the Body of MARTHA PERONNEAU...Departed This Life December Ye 14th 1746 Aged 13 Years." Such an inscription was typical of 18th century grave markers in Charleston, South Carolina. Many epitaphs went on to reveal much more about the deceased: personality, religious...

An expansive look at the significant role of Hungarian immigrants in shaping American photographic culture and practice in the twentieth century This beautifully illustrated book explores the cultural conditions for photography in Hungary in the first half of the twentieth century and the exodus...

Wer sind die wichtigen Künstler/-innen der 1980er-Jahre? Dieses Buch fordert eine Revision dieser Frage angesichts der Bedeutung des Digitalen in der Gegenwart. Die betrachteten Künstler/-innen nahmen in ihrem Umgang mit neuer Technologie Vieles vorweg, was uns heute beschäftigt. Joseph Nechvatal schuf ausdrucksstarke digitale Bilder...

Hilary Harkness: Everything For You is the first comprehensive monograph on the artist's work. Known for her irreverent, provocative and meticulously crafted paintings, Harkness employs historic world events and art history as jumping off points from which to explore power dynamics and struggles through...

This exhibition catalog showcases the work of two important American artists of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Davies was a prominent figure in the American modernist movement and is best known for his colorful, abstract paintings. Newman was a self-taught visionary artist...

The Color Teil chronicles Teil Duncan's artistic journey, displaying over three hundred full-color images of her work, including her most well-known pieces as well as those that are lesser known. Her studies range from figure drawings and animals to beach and pool scenes. Inspiration...

The celebrated survey of female Abstract Expressionist artists revealing the richness and lasting influence of their work The artists Jay DeFeo, Helen Frankenthaler, Grace Hartigan, Elaine de Kooning, Lee Krasner, Joan Mitchell, and many other women played major roles in the development of Abstract...

Carmen Cicero (b. 1926) is now in the midst of his seventh decade at the cutting edge of contemporary art. His works of the 1950s--collected by the Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim, the Whitney, and other major museums--combined the gestures of Abstract Expressionism...