Art - American - General

An arresting and visually rich monograph of the work of contemporary artist Sanya Kantarovsky. Forlorn and spiritually bankrupt, tender or abject--the subjects in the figurative paintings of Sanya Kantarovsky (b. 1982) convey an uneasy, dark humor. They seem trapped in a precarious inner monologue,...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our...

The novelists of the Harlem Renaissance began writing at a point in America's literary history when the romantic tradition was being set aside for the gutsy truth-telling of realist literature. Modern criticism seems to take the flowery, nineteenth century prose found in the works...

George R. Anthonisen: Meditations on the Human Condition is a comprehensive volume documenting the arc of Anthonisen's artistic career spanning 65 years as a figurative sculptor. Well versed in history and current events, Anthonisen (b. 1936) creates visual dialogues, primarily in bronze, that investigate...

Landscape and Architecture Coloring book for kids and adults using colored pencils or other mediums.Author: Mark T. RushISBN-10: 1530791634ISBN-13: 9781530791637Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/12/2016Pages: 50Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.31lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.10d

Most of the books in the Enjoying Great Art series are topical - on a variety of topics ranging from horses to nobility, and from necklaces to maps. But occasionally, the need arises to focus on a particular artist. Leonardo da Vinci was the...

Andrea Mantegna as Illuminator: An Episode in Renaissance Art, Humanism and Diplomacy is a book written by Millard Meiss that explores the lesser-known aspect of the renowned Italian Renaissance painter Andrea Mantegna's career as an illuminator. The book delves into Mantegna's involvement in illuminating...

Sweetie Ladd was Fort Worth's own "Grandma" Moses, a folk artist who captured the city's history in watercolor and lithograph. In her sixties when she began painting, Ladd once told a fellow artist she didn't know how she achieved her distinctive style. "Just paint...

Tongue-Cut Sparrows presents a body of work inspired by the artist's ongoing interest in the social dynamics of borderlands, offering a meditation on love, loss, and a desperate need to communicate. James Drake's multi-disciplinary art practice centers around the human condition and systems of...

The first comprehensive monograph on this leading American contemporary figurative painterSpinneret draws inspiration from the eponymous silk-producing organ that spiders use to weave their webs. Anthony Cudahy's figurative paintings tenderly piece together enigmatic scenes of specific objects and equivocal environments from interwoven references drawn...

Author: The Metropolitan Museum of ArtISBN-10: 1419773062ISBN-13: 9781419773068Publisher: ABRAMSLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/09/2024Pages: 124Format: DeskNot available to be shipped via Media Mail

Dive Into the Unconscious Mind with "Surrealism Coloring Book: A Dream-like Voyage Through Fantastic Landscapes and Creatures with Over 40 Illustrations Perfect for Relaxing"Unlock your imagination and immerse yourself in the fantastical world of Surrealism! This unique coloring book pays homage to the creative...

A companion to the Whitney's signature exhibition, featuring artists who are shaping the conversation about contemporary art in the United States today Author: Chrissie Iles, Meg OnliISBN-10: 0300275870ISBN-13: 9780300275872Publisher: Whitney Museum of American ArtLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/02/2024Pages: 256Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.85lbsSize: 9.50h x 7.00w x 0.80d

Travelers to Wisconsin discover a tremendous heritage of art traditions including sacred grottoes, yard environments, and enticing pri-vate spaces. In the land of the cheesehead, a giant fiberglass muskie, a statue of E.T., and scrap metal dinosaurs beckon from the roadside. From 1991 to...

With his virtuosic prints of rolling California hills, classically inspired nudes, and natural and manmade forms--from a seashell to his own printing press--Paul Landacre elevated wood engraving to a high art form in twentieth-century America. Landacre's ceaseless stylistic innovation placed his work in dialogue...

This beautifully illustrated book showcases 104 of America's greatest painters, including iconic figures such as John Singer Sargent, Winslow Homer, and Mary Cassatt. With insightful commentary and stunning reproductions of their work, this book is sure to delight art lovers of all ages.This work...

Coming of age in the 1920s, Stella, as she was known to her friends, cast off societal expectations of a working-class immigrant family in New England and moved through the studios, galleries, and nightclubs of New York. Following an unprecedented 18,000 km bicycle trip...

This beautifully illustrated book showcases 104 of America's greatest painters, including iconic figures such as John Singer Sargent, Winslow Homer, and Mary Cassatt. With insightful commentary and stunning reproductions of their work, this book is sure to delight art lovers of all ages.This work...

Daniel Hodermarsky (1924-1999) was the son of Slovak immigrants who emigrated from Hačava to settle and work in the coal fields of Pennsylvania and later in the auto-manufacturing industries of Ohio. He served in World War II on the Western front and was awarded...

The Wind moves the Waves, the Waves move the Light, and the Light moves us all.-- George SherwoodGeorge Sherwood's kinetic sculptures invite us to observe, experience, contemplate and engage more fully in the natural world around us. His intricate and innovatively designed works explore...

Commemorating the unconventional gallerist, featuring interviews with collaborators and friends such as Dennis Cooper, Charles Ray, Kay Rosen, Tony Tasset and David SedarisNeither a comprehensive oral history nor a biography, this reader is an intimate collection of anecdotes, reflections and musings that cohere to...

Like challenges? Test your skills and knowledge with word and picture puzzles-unique, exciting puzzles incorporating common, everyday expressions, vintage phrases, social messages, personalities, movies, TV shows, and old standards of thought. These puzzles are not only fun-they'll also help develop critical thinking skills and...

Author: Craig VolkISBN-10: 1941813496ISBN-13: 9781941813492Publisher: South Dakota Historical Society PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/19/2024Pages: 80Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.85lbsSize: 8.43h x 7.48w x 0.55d

A compelling look at Jackson Pollock's vibrant, quintessentially American art and the turbulent life that gave rise to it Jackson Pollock (1912-1956) not only put American art on the map with his famous "drip paintings," he also served as an inspiration for the character...

Southwestern ceramics have always been admired for their variety and aesthetic beauty. Although ceramics are most often used for placing the peoples who produced them in time, they can also provide important clues to past economic organization. This volume covers nearly 1000 years of...

New large-scale paintings by Alex Katz capture impressions of fall in all its radiant gloryFor his new series painted in 2022 and 2023, American artist Alex Katz pushes his palette to an intense range of high-key blues, deep reds and pinks, and golden yellows...

Wonder City of the World: New York City Travel Posters is a century-spanning visual journey through the world's most fascinating city as promoted by the top advertisers and artists of poster history. From the Statue of Liberty to Times Square, Harlem to Coney Island,...

The Shakers are known for self-denial and austerity in everyday living and their material world, as embodied by the heavenly simplicity and purity of their chairs and blanket chests. Yet the believers also enjoyed a diversity of visual pleasures, from flowers, sunsets, rainbows, and...

The purpose of this book is to provide an overview of the great variety of styles, materials and techniques employed in the arts of the different American areas, from prehistory to the sixteenth century, by presenting some of the most significant works that were...

Photorealistic wildlife artists face a problem in depicting fleeting moments such as facial expressions and postures. They are such fleeting moments that they cannot be fully remembered. This book is designed to overcome these problems and get every scale "just right". Snakes and Lizards...

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...

An essential archive of a progressive public art program, spotlighting over 50 artworks commissioned for one of New York City's most iconic parksThis publication chronicles the vibrant history of public art in Madison Square Park, presenting two decades' worth of celebrated artworks that have...

Employing an interdisciplinary approach, this book breaks new ground by considering how Robert Motherwell's abstract expressionist art is indebted to Alfred North Whitehead's highly original process metaphysics. Motherwell first encountered Whitehead and his work as a philosophy graduate student at Harvard University, and he...

Nationally recognized maritime artist Loretta Krupinski's meticulously rendered oil paintings show fascinating details of Maine's waterfront towns in their heyday, when fishing, quarrying, and the cargo trade were the backbone of the coastal economy. Historic photographs and text about how Maine people made their...

Travelers in Kansas in search of fine art needn't restrict themselves to the state's many excellent museums. They need look no further than the walls of their own communities to discover a remarkable array of murals--artistic creations that are striking, democratic, and easily accessible....

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...

""The Florentine Painters of the Renaissance"" is a comprehensive art history book written by the renowned art historian Bernhard Berenson. The book explores the works and lives of the most important painters from the Renaissance period in Florence, Italy. Berenson provides detailed analysis and...

Co-Creative Placekeeping in Los Angeles is a novel examination of Los Angeles-based socially engaged art (SEA) practitioners' equitable placekeeping efforts.Author: Brettany Shannon, David C. Sloane, Anne BrayISBN-10: 1032461993ISBN-13: 9781032461991Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/05/2023Pages: 214Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.11lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.56d

Three generations of women artists create a new visual vernacular inspired by Maine's scenic landscapeThis catalog unites the work of three women artists of different generations whose work responds to the unique environs of Maine. Spanning oil paintings, fused-glass works and ceramics, these pieces...

Since TASCHEN released The Great American Pin-up, international interest in this distinctly American art form has increased exponentially. Paintings by leading artists such as Alberto Vargas, George Petty, and Gil Elvgren that sold for $ 2,000 in 1996 are going for $ 200,000 and...

Tastemakers, Collectors, and Patrons explores the dynamic landscape of American art collecting in the United States from the late eighteenth through the early twentieth centuries. The geographic range of collecting histories presented in this publication spans the country, including the Eastern Seaboard, the Old...

The Mastery Of Oil Painting is a comprehensive guide to the techniques and principles of oil painting written by Frederic Taubes. The book covers everything from selecting materials and preparing surfaces to creating a finished painting. Taubes provides detailed instructions on how to mix...

Filled with meticulously constructed photographs that blur the boundaries between reality and imagination, this sumptuously produced retrospective features more than thirty years of work by one of America's most influential photographers. For more than three decades, Gregory Crewdson has been luring viewers into the...

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...

A facsimile of the Just Above Midtown 1978 exhibition catalog that disrupted the white-dominated canon of postwar abstract artOriginally published in 1978 alongside an exhibition at the legendary Just Above Midtown gallery, Contextures was the first of its kind. More textbook than traditional catalog,...

This book investigates how and why women pictured the landscape in their needlework. It explores the ways their embroidered landscapes address the tumultuous environmental history of the period; how their depictions of nature differ from those made by men; and what women's choices of...

Out of Site explores the invisible landscapes of the American West through the interwoven forces of art and technology over the past 170 years. This interdisciplinary project features an array of visual media, including historical, modern, and contemporary photography, that punctuate a series of...

A special selection of Judd's minimalist works curated by his son, Flavin JuddThis catalog follows the first solo exhibition of Donald Judd's work in South Korea for nearly 10 years. Judd (1928-94) had a personal connection to Korea, having been stationed in Seoul in...

Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986), one of the most significant artists of the twentieth century, was a painter who took an independent and visionary road. Her paintings evoke varied interpretations yet maintain their beauty and simplicity. O'Keeffe's life is woven together with that of her husband,...

A paean to Baltimore's creative spirit, penned by its resident authors and visual artistsBaltimore has fostered literary and artistic excellence for over a century. City of Artists chronicles this cultural legacy, collectively exploring why "Charm City" remains a verdant site for significant creative production....