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  • Mural Painting In America: The Scammon Lectures, Delivered Before The Art Institute Of Chicago, March, 1912, And Since Greatly Enlarged, By Edwin by Blashfield, Edwin Howland
    Edwin Howland Blashfield

    Mural Painting In America: The Scammon Lectures, Delivered Before The Art Institute Of Chicago, March, 1912, And Since Greatly Enlarged, By Edwin

    Edwin H. Blashfield was one of America's foremost muralists, and his lectures on mural painting remain essential reading for anyone interested in the history of American art. Drawing on his extensive experience as a painter and educator, Blashfield offers valuable insights into the technical...
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  • Handbook of Hispanic Cultures in the United States: Literature and Art by Lomeli, Francisco
    Francisco Lomeli

    Handbook of Hispanic Cultures in the United States: Literature and Art

    This four-volume series is edited by noted scholars Nicolas Kanellos (University of Houston) and Claudio Esteva Fabregat (University of Barcelona). Kanellos, literary historian, and Esteva, anthropologist, have assembled a team of outstanding scholars to bring together comprehensive studies on all aspects of U.S. Hispanic...
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  • Beautiful Wild Flowers of America: From Original Watercolor Drawings After Nature (1885) by Sprague, Isaac
    Isaac Sprague

    Beautiful Wild Flowers of America: From Original Watercolor Drawings After Nature (1885)

    ""Beautiful Wild Flowers of America: From Original Watercolor Drawings After Nature"" is a book published in 1885 by Isaac Sprague. The book features a collection of watercolor drawings of various wildflowers found in America. Each illustration is accompanied by a detailed description of the...
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  • The Dance of Life: Figure and Imagination in American Art, 1876-1917 by Mitchell, Mark D.
    Mark D. Mitchell

    The Dance of Life: Figure and Imagination in American Art, 1876-1917

    An exploration of the human figure and artistic imagination in public art of the American Renaissance, from the nation's centennial to World War I In an era of sweeping change following the devastation of the Civil War, an ambitious generation of American artists focused...
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  • Tomas Van Houtryve: 36 Views of Notre Dame by Van Houtryve, Tomas
    Tomas Van Houtryve

    Tomas Van Houtryve: 36 Views of Notre Dame

    Special insider access to the rebuilding process at Notre Dame after the 2019 fire, shot with a historic wet-plate collodion photographic process. In Tomas van Houtryve: 36 Views of Notre Dame, the viewer accompanies the artist on his fourteen-year journey photographing the Paris icon...
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  • A History Of American Art: American Sculpture. The Graphic Arts. American Art In Europe. Latest Phases by Hartmann, Sadakichi
    Sadakichi Hartmann

    A History Of American Art: American Sculpture. The Graphic Arts. American Art In Europe. Latest Phases

    This comprehensive history of American art examines the development of sculpture, graphic arts, and painting from the colonial era to the early 20th century. The author provides in-depth analysis of notable works and artists, as well as discussing the influence of European art movements...
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  • Reinvention Catalog by Of the Western Reserve, Artists Archi
    Artists Archi Of the Western Reserve

    Reinvention Catalog

    The catalog for the reinvention Exhibition which was held at The Artists archives of the Western Reserve from march 10 - May 7, 2016. featuring the works of Kim Bissett, Ruth Bercaw, Terry Klausman, Andrew Reach and PJ Rogers.Author: Artists Archi Of the Western...
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  • In Other Los Angeleses: Multicentric Performance Art by Cheng, Meiling
    Meiling Cheng

    In Other Los Angeleses: Multicentric Performance Art

    Performance art and Los Angeles, two subjects spectacularly resistant to definitions, illuminate each other in this searching study by Meiling Cheng. A marginal artistic pursuit by choice as well as necessity, performance art has flourished in and about "multicentric" Los Angeles for nearly four...
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  • Sketching Splendor: American Natural History, 1750-1850 by Society, American Philosophical
    American Philosophical Society

    Sketching Splendor: American Natural History, 1750-1850

    Sketching Splendor examines the work of three American naturalists, William Bartram, Titian Ramsay Peale, and John James Audubon whose work exemplifies innovation and injustice in equal measure. The exhibition draws on the American Philosophical Society's rich holdings as well as select loans, with many...
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  • Day Jobs by Roberts, Veronica
    Veronica Roberts

    Day Jobs

    Day Jobs examines the overlooked, powerful impact of day jobs on the visual arts.Success for artists is often measured by their ability to quit a day job and focus full time on their practice. Yet these jobs can often spur creative growth by providing...
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  • Art During Wartime: Painting Everyday Life in the Civil War North by Schulman, Vanessa Meikle
    Vanessa Meikle Schulman

    Art During Wartime: Painting Everyday Life in the Civil War North

    While the Civil War raged on, many northern artists depicted everyday life rather than grand battles or landscapes of noble sacrifice. Amidst a conflict that was upending antebellum social norms, these artists created realistic scenes of mundane events, known as genre paintings. While many...
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  • Pictures and the Past: Media, Memory, and the Specter of Fascism in Postmodern Art by Bigman, Alexander
    Alexander Bigman

    Pictures and the Past: Media, Memory, and the Specter of Fascism in Postmodern Art

    A fresh take on the group of artists known as the Pictures Generation, reinterpreting their work as haunted by the history of fascism, the threat of its return, and the effects of its recurring representation in postwar American culture. The artists of the Pictures...
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  • Venetian Drawings: Fourteenth to Seventeenth Centuries by D'Albanella, Graziano
    Graziano D'Albanella

    Venetian Drawings: Fourteenth to Seventeenth Centuries

    ""Venetian Drawings: Fourteenth to Seventeenth Centuries"" is a comprehensive art book written by Graziano D'Albanella. The book explores the history and development of Venetian drawing from the 14th to the 17th centuries. The book features a collection of more than 100 drawings from the...
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  • The Maverick's Museum: Albert Barnes and His American Dream by Gopnik, Blake
    Blake Gopnik

    The Maverick's Museum: Albert Barnes and His American Dream

    A fascinating biography of the drugmaker Albert Barnes, whose pioneering collection of modern art was meant to transform America's soulFrom prominent critic and biographer Blake Gopnik comes a compelling new portrait of America's first great collector of modern art, Albert Coombs Barnes. Raised in...
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  • Legendary Selections from the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts by Barber, Rehema C.
    Rehema C. Barber

    Legendary Selections from the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts

    A handbook to the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts. Delve into a collection a century in the making with Legendary Selections from the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, a handbook highlighting the museum's collection of legendary artworks from the United States and around the world, encompassing...
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  • All in Line by Steinberg, Saul
    Saul Steinberg

    All in Line

    A new edition of Saul Steinberg's memoir-in-drawing of his escape from fascist Europe, staying briefly in the Dominican Republic and then travelling up into America, capturing absurdities, delights, and the grim realities of war along the way. To escape fascist Europe, the artist Saul...
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  • Why I Love Ernest by Lockridge, Ernest
    Ernest Lockridge

    Why I Love Ernest

    This collaboration in words and pictures brings forth a love letter that is culturally and artistically unique. "INTRODUCTORY "In 2008, when Ernest's seventieth birthday was approaching, I wanted to do something special to mark the occasion. I surreptitiously took photos, wrote vignettes, and brought...
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  • The Sculptures Of Michelangelo by Goldscheider, Ludwig
    Ludwig Goldscheider

    The Sculptures Of Michelangelo

    The Sculptures of Michelangelo by Ludwig Goldscheider is a comprehensive exploration of the works of the renowned Italian Renaissance artist Michelangelo. The book delves into the life and career of Michelangelo, providing an in-depth analysis of his sculptures and their significance in the art...
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  • Industry in Art: Pittsburgh, 1812 to 1920 by Youngner, Rina
    Rina Youngner

    Industry in Art: Pittsburgh, 1812 to 1920

    Industry in Art examines the artists, contexts, and societal factors that influenced the depiction of Pittsburgh industry and labor from the early nineteenth century to the early twentieth century through a variety of art forms that include illustration, painting, and graphic art. In the...
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  • American Impressionism: Tiny Folio by Gerdts, William H.
    William H. Gerdts

    American Impressionism: Tiny Folio

    The concise text--written by Dr. William H. Gerdts, the preeminent scholar in the field--provides a vivid summary, starting with the roots of American Impressionism and its relationship to French Impressionism. This book then recounts how American Impressionism progressed from an avant-garde aesthetic assaulted by...
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  • John Singer Sargent: His Life and Works in 500 Images: An Illustrated Exploration of the Artist, His Life and Context, with a Gallery of 300 Paintings by Hodge, Susie
    Susie Hodge

    John Singer Sargent: His Life and Works in 500 Images: An Illustrated Exploration of the Artist, His Life and Context, with a Gallery of 300 Paintings

    An American who spent most of his life in Europe, a portraitist who painted landscapes, a family man who never married, and an accomplished pianist who often entertained his sitters, John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) was one of the most influential portrait painters of his...
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  • Artists of the Horse: Capturing the Spirit of America's West by Brady, Heidi
    Heidi Brady

    Artists of the Horse: Capturing the Spirit of America's West

    Since the frontiers of the American West were explored and settled, the horse has become its icon, representing freedom, individualism, toughness, determination, and the idiosyncratic way of life inherent to the region. The horse was a vital partner of the cowboy, Native American, and...
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  • Georgia O'Keeffe 2025 Wall Calendar by The Metropolitan Museum of Art
    The Metropolitan Museum of Art

    Georgia O'Keeffe 2025 Wall Calendar

    This 12-month calendar showcases breathtaking, vivid works by Georgia O'Keeffe. Georgia O'Keeffe (American, 1887-1986) was one of the most celebrated and innovative modernists of the twentieth century. Her experimentation with color and composition led to a distinctive, groundbreaking style evident from her early works...
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  • Traverse by Carr, Laurence
    Laurence Carr

    Traverse

    Traverse is a book of images and words by artist Power Boothe and writer Laurence Carr. Based on one of Boothe's sketchbooks of 8-inch by 8-inch paintings and drawings, Carr independently wrote a companion series of 8-line pieces: poems, micro-essays, scientific investigations and translations....
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  • Santa Fe For Art's Sake: (the book) by Grottesco, Theater
    Theater Grottesco

    Santa Fe For Art's Sake: (the book)

    Santa Fe For Art's Sake treats the "survey" as a new form for generating experimental theater and visual art. Bouncing between the absurd and the suddenly profound, questions and answers address topics relevant to the arts and culture of Santa Fe, New Mexico, while...
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  • On the Wall: Four Decades of Community Murals in New York City by Braun-Reinitz, Janet
    Janet Braun-Reinitz

    On the Wall: Four Decades of Community Murals in New York City

    Energizing the visual landscape since 1968, New York City's community murals beautify, educate, protest, celebrate, and often motivate residents to action. Collaborations between artists and neighborhood groups, these painted walls reflect the social, cultural, and political climate of their times. The result of six...
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  • Converging Streams: Art of the Hispanic and Native American Southwest by Wroth, William
    William Wroth

    Converging Streams: Art of the Hispanic and Native American Southwest

    This lushly illustrated book examines the cross-cultural influences and unique artistic dialogue between Hispano and Native American arts in the Southwest over the past four hundred years since Spanish colonisation. Insightful essays by historians, artists, and scholars including Estevan Rael-Galvez, Lane Coulter, Enrique R...
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  • The Art of Being Irish in Hell's Kitchen: A Memoir of the Organizing of the Irish Arts Center in New York City 1972-78 by Olwell, James F.
    James F. Olwell

    The Art of Being Irish in Hell's Kitchen: A Memoir of the Organizing of the Irish Arts Center in New York City 1972-78

    Amid the turmoil of the 1960s and 1970s-an era that included the Black Civil Rights movement, the war in Vietnam, and the Troubles in Northern Ireland-young Irish Americans in New York began to question what it meant to be Irish in America. Led by...
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  • Point Reyes from Chimney Rock 1000 Piece Jigsaw Puzzle by Killion, Tom
    Tom Killion

    Point Reyes from Chimney Rock 1000 Piece Jigsaw Puzzle

    Tom was born and raised in Mill Valley, California, on the slopes of Mt. Tamalpais. The rugged scenery of Marin County and Northern California inspired him from an early age to create landscape prints using linoleum and wood, strongly influenced by the traditional Japanese...
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  • The Farm at Black Mountain College by Silver, David
    David Silver

    The Farm at Black Mountain College

    A record of the rise and fall of the BMC farm that foregrounds the voices of a new cast of characters Black Mountain College (BMC) was a wellspring of 20th-century creative unorthodoxy. From its founding in 1933 and over its celebrated 23-year history, the...
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  • For Freedoms: Where Do We Go from Here? by Thomas, Hank
    Hank Thomas

    For Freedoms: Where Do We Go from Here?

    The first monograph of the hundreds of billboards by artist-led coalition For Freedoms, the largest public creative collaboration in American historyFounded in 2016 by Hank Willis Thomas, Eric Gottesman, Wyatt Gallery, and Michelle Woo, For Freedoms is an artist-led organization that uses art as...
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  • Judy Tuwaletstiwa: Mapping Water, 2nd Ed. by Tuwaletstiwa, Judy
    Judy Tuwaletstiwa

    Judy Tuwaletstiwa: Mapping Water, 2nd Ed.

    A reprint of the sold-out 2007 first edition with a new introduction, Mapping Water embraces uncharted artistic terrains. Tuwaletstiwa writes, "In this vast desert, a thin membrane separates the daily world and the world of spirit. This elemental landscape holds a deep reservoir of...
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  • David Smith: The Nature of Sculpture by Ramljak, Suzanne
    Suzanne Ramljak

    David Smith: The Nature of Sculpture

    The first book to explore David Smith's deep engagement with the natural world as source, subject, and site for his art. Spanning the full career of the sculptor David Smith (1906-65), this study features some fifty sculptures alongside related paintings, reliefs, and works on...
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  • Money in the Air: Art Dealers and the Making of a Transatlantic Market, 1880-1930 by Feigenbaum, Gail
    Gail Feigenbaum

    Money in the Air: Art Dealers and the Making of a Transatlantic Market, 1880-1930

    This volume explores the crucial role of art dealers in creating a transatlantic art market in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.Author: Gail FeigenbaumISBN-10: 1606068911ISBN-13: 9781606068915Publisher: Getty Research InstituteLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/25/2024Pages: 384Format: PaperbackWeight: 2.35lbsSize: 10.40h x 7.40w x 1.10d
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  • Art During Wartime: Painting Everyday Life in the Civil War North by Schulman, Vanessa Meikle
    Vanessa Meikle Schulman

    Art During Wartime: Painting Everyday Life in the Civil War North

    While the Civil War raged on, many northern artists depicted everyday life rather than grand battles or landscapes of noble sacrifice. Amidst a conflict that was upending antebellum social norms, these artists created realistic scenes of mundane events, known as genre paintings. While many...
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  • New Regionalism: The Art of Bryan Haynes by Haynes, Bryan Dawes
    Bryan Dawes Haynes

    New Regionalism: The Art of Bryan Haynes

    THIS BOOK IS PUBLISHED BY MISSOURI LIFE MAGAZINE AND DISTIBUTED BY THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI PRESS. Historical figures, Native Americans and local characters inhabit the sweeping views of the New Regionalist paintings by Bryan Haynes. Influenced from an early age by American Regionalist painters...
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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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  • The Art of Being Irish in Hell's Kitchen: A Memoir of the Organizing of the Irish Arts Center in New York City 1972-78 by Olwell, James F.
    James F. Olwell

    The Art of Being Irish in Hell's Kitchen: A Memoir of the Organizing of the Irish Arts Center in New York City 1972-78

    Amid the turmoil of the 1960s and 1970s-an era that included the Black Civil Rights movement, the war in Vietnam, and the Troubles in Northern Ireland-young Irish Americans in New York began to question what it meant to be Irish in America. Led by...
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  • John Wesley: A Plain Account of Christian Perfection by Wesley, John
    John Wesley

    John Wesley: A Plain Account of Christian Perfection

    WHAT I purpose in the following pages is to give a plain and distinct account of the steps by which I was led during a course of many years to embrace the doctrine of Christian Perfection. This I owe to the serious part of...
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  • Gas Tank City by Holmes, Andrew
    Andrew Holmes

    Gas Tank City

    - Andrew Holmes is renowned for his hyper-real drawings of gleaming trucks, and the service infrastructure that sustains the city of Los Angeles- Holmes has made it his life's work to capture scenes from this uniquely American landscape in a series of drawings that...
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  • Sam Gilliam by Reed, Ishmael
    Ishmael Reed

    Sam Gilliam

    The definitive monograph of Sam Gilliam one of the great innovators in post-war American painting An African American artist in the nation's capital at the height of the Civil Rights movement, Sam Gilliam blazed a trail with his singular artistic vision. Gilliam emerged from...
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  • Midnight Moment: A Decade of Artists in Times Square by Cooney, Jean
    Jean Cooney

    Midnight Moment: A Decade of Artists in Times Square

    The first and only book on Times Square's iconic Midnight Moment series, the world's largest and longest-running digital public art programPresented nightly to millions of viewers each year, Midnight Moment showcases the work of contemporary artists on one of the world's most iconic canvases...
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  • Storm Cloud: Picturing the Origins of Our Climate Crisis by McCurdy, Melinda
    Melinda McCurdy

    Storm Cloud: Picturing the Origins of Our Climate Crisis

    A revealing exploration of how prescient nineteenth-century artists, writers, and scientists began to sound the alarm on climate crisis Against a backdrop of industrialization and scientific development that reshaped humanity's relationship to the planet, nineteenth-century artists and writers began to express a novel perception...
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  • Nowville: The Untold History of Nashville's Contemporary Art Scene by Nolan, Joe
    Joe Nolan

    Nowville: The Untold History of Nashville's Contemporary Art Scene

    This is the origin story of Nashville's surging contemporary art scene told by the ones who were there before anyone else. Not a story about commercial spaces or official institutions--this is the story of moldy warehouse studios and improvised galleries, happy-kegger after-parties and front...
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  • The Shape of Power: Stories of Race and American Sculpture by Lemmey, Karen
    Karen Lemmey

    The Shape of Power: Stories of Race and American Sculpture

    A major new survey of American sculpture, exploring how it both reflects and redefines concepts of race and identity in the United States When viewing a sculpture, how quickly do we tend to assign race to the subject? The three-dimensional qualities of sculpture give...
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  • Brooklyn Storefronts: Illustrations of the Iconic NYC Borough's Best-Loved Spots by Holland, Joel
    Joel Holland

    Brooklyn Storefronts: Illustrations of the Iconic NYC Borough's Best-Loved Spots

    From the authors of NYC Storefronts comes a sprawling collection of intimately rendered shops that line the streets and sidewalks of the Big Apple's most populous borough Nowadays, Brooklyn is both destination and home to so many New Yorkers that shopping, eating out, doing...
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  • Project 270: 50 States, 70 Voices, 1 Message by Mana Public Arts
    Mana Public Arts

    Project 270: 50 States, 70 Voices, 1 Message

    With the intention of empowering young voters aged 18-36 ahead of the 2020 US presidential election, Project 270 enlisted nearly 70 established and emerging street artists to create posters encouraging viewers to "Get Out the Vote." Every discrete poster was impressed with a "postmark,"...
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  • Painting Us Empire: Nineteenth-Century Art and Its Legacies by Cao, Maggie M.
    Maggie M. Cao

    Painting Us Empire: Nineteenth-Century Art and Its Legacies

    A fresh look at the global dimensions of US painting from the 1850s to 1898. Painting US Empire is the first book to offer a synthetic account of art and US imperialism around the globe in the nineteenth century. In this work, art historian...
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  • Bertrand Meniel by Meisel, Louis
    Louis Meisel

    Bertrand Meniel

    Photorealism, and it's twenty-first-century advancement, Hyperrealism, comprise a genre of painting that developed in the United States and Europe using high-resolution photograph as its primary source material. Embracing digital photography perhaps more than any other artist working in this genre, French-born Bertrand Meniel (1961-)...
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  • Earth Diplomacy: Indigenous American Art, Ecological Crisis, and the Cold War by Horton, Jessica L.
    Jessica L. Horton

    Earth Diplomacy: Indigenous American Art, Ecological Crisis, and the Cold War

    In Earth Diplomacy, Jessica L. Horton reveals how Native American art in the mid-twentieth-century mobilized Indigenous cultures of diplomacy to place the earth itself at the center of international relations. She focuses on a group of artists including Pablita Velarde, Darryl Blackman, and Oscar...
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