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Addison Gallery of American Art 65 Years: A Selective Catalogueby Avis Berman, Jock ReynoldsISBN 1879886421 (1-879886-42-1)
Softcover, Distributed Art Pub Inc
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African American Art: The Long Struggleby Crystal A. BrittonISBN 1880908727 (1-880908-72-7)
Hardcover, New Line Books
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After Whistler: The Artist and His Influence on American Paintingby Marc Simpson, John Siewert, Sylvia Yount, Lee Glazer, Robyn Asleson, Lacey Taylor Jordan, Linda MerrillISBN 0300101252 (0-300-10125-2)
Hardcover, Yale Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'After Whistler: The Artist and His Influence on American Painting'Book summary:James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) left the United States for Europe at the age of 21, never to return, and his style developed independently of American art currents. Nonetheless, he left an indelible mark on the art of his native land, for his modernist aesthetic influenced the work of a generation of American painters. This illustrated book, published to commemorate the centenary of the artist's death, addresses Whistler's extraordinary legacy and establishes his pivotal place in the history of American art. "After Whistler" juxtaposes 14 of the artist's most important works with an array of pictures by 38 other American painters - including Henry Ossawa Tanner, William Merritt Chase, and John Singer Sargent - to demonstrate how Whistler's American contemporaries were affected by his techniques, colour palette, compositions and subject matter. The introduction to the book provides an overview of Whistler's association with American artists and the reception of his work in the United States. The essays that follow discuss Whistler's Venetian sojourn and its effect on the American artists who flocked to that city, his relationship with Philadelphia's art community, the Whistler Memorial Exhibition held in Boston in 1904, and much more. [via]
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Agnes Martin Writingsby Dieter SchwartzISBN 3893223754 (3-89322-375-4)
Softcover, Distributed Art Pub Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Agnes Martin Writings'Book summary:Agnes Martin's abstract works adhere to no catalogue of rules but appear instead as contemplative, intuitive signs. Her "floating abstractions," in which lines and free bands of color emerge almost imperceptibly, can be reproduced only with difficulty. Her writings, on the other hand--although certainly not intended as programmatic statements--offer valuable clarity regarding her own works and poetic insight about art in general. Since its original publication in 1991, this volume of Martin's writings has been a fundamental document for libraries of artists, collectors, and critics. Rather than identifying herself with her Minimalist peers, Martin has aligned herself with the ancient Greeks, Egyptians, and Chinese, asserting that "the function of art work is . . . the renewal of memories of moments of perfection." In combination with illustrations of her works, these texts--including lectures, stories recorded by critic Ann Wilson, passages ostensibly arranged in associative sequences, and "fragmentary ideas"--form an eloquent artist's statement by the creator of "silent paintings." [via]
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Alabama Artby NallISBN 1880216590 (1-880216-59-0)
Hardcover, River City Pub
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The All Night Movieby Mary HeilamnnISBN 3907496000 (3-907496-00-0)
Softcover, Distributed Art Pub Inc
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American Art: A Cultural Historyby David BjelajacISBN 013145580X (0-13-145580-X)
Softcover, Prentice Hall
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› Find signed collectible books: 'American Art: A Cultural History'Book summary:Drawing on socio-economic and political studies as well as histories of religion, science, literature, and popular culture, this book explores the diverse, conflicted history of American art and architecture within the United States from the European voyages of discovery and colonial conquest to the present dawn of a new millennium. Thematically interrelating the visual arts to other material artifacts and cultural practices, it text examines how artists and architects produced artwork that visually expressed various social and political values. Covering the years between 1492 and 2002, chapter titles include The Invention and Mapping of America, Religious Rituals and the Visual Arts in Colonial America, Art and the Consumer Revolution in Colonial America, Revolutionary Icons and the Representation of Republican Virtue, National Identity and Private Interests in Antebellum America, Art and Commerce in the Gilded Age, Modernist Art and Politics, Modernism/Postmodernism and the Survival of a Critical Vision, and Globalization and the Culture Wars. For individuals interested in a survey of American art.
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American Art a Cultural History: A Cultural Historyby David BjelajacISBN 0130838160 (0-13-083816-0)
Softcover, Prentice Hall
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The American Art BookISBN 0714838454 (0-7148-3845-4)
Hardcover, Phaidon Inc Ltd
Find This BookBook summary:Accessibility is the code word for Phaidon's new 500-page dictionary of American art. The book values images over words, and its longest text is the introduction, which is printed in large, bold face and hardly fills one page. But it does describe the book's mission well: "Each artist is represented by a full-page color plate of a significant work, accompanied by an informative and engaging text that places the artist in the context of contemporary movements and preceding traditions...."--concise and informative. By arranging the artists alphabetically, the editors set up some odd and amusing juxtapositions. For example, the suited subject of an Alice Neel painting appears to speak and gesticulate excitedly about the overstacked cornucopia of Louise Nevelson's crates found on the opposing page. The caption over each work includes four artists' names in bold print that function as hyperlinks of a sort, allowing readers to skip, for example, from Willem de Kooning's Woman I to Jean Michel Basquiat's Skull to Alfred Maurer's cubist-like painting Woman with Curlers. This way, with each visit to the American Art Book, readers can discover and follow countless narratives throughout the three centuries of American art.
Filled with large, expertly reproduced images, The American Art Book is, like its cousins The Photo Book and The 20th Century Art Book, a high-quality and surprisingly inexpensive volume that would be a worthy addition to any art lover's library. --Loren E. Baldwin [via]
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The American Art Bookby Phaidon PressISBN 0714841196 (0-7148-4119-6)
Softcover, Phaidon Inc Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The American Art Book'Book summary:Accessibility is the code word for Phaidon's new 500-page dictionary of American art. The book values images over words, and its longest text is the introduction, which is printed in large, bold face and hardly fills one page. But it does describe the book's mission well: "Each artist is represented by a full-page color plate of a significant work, accompanied by an informative and engaging text that places the artist in the context of contemporary movements and preceding traditions...."--concise and informative. By arranging the artists alphabetically, the editors set up some odd and amusing juxtapositions. For example, the suited subject of an Alice Neel painting appears to speak and gesticulate excitedly about the overstacked cornucopia of Louise Nevelson's crates found on the opposing page. The caption over each work includes four artists' names in bold print that function as hyperlinks of a sort, allowing readers to skip, for example, from Willem de Kooning's Woman I to Jean Michel Basquiat's Skull to Alfred Maurer's cubist-like painting Woman with Curlers. This way, with each visit to the American Art Book, readers can discover and follow countless narratives throughout the three centuries of American art.
Filled with large, expertly reproduced images, The American Art Book is, like its cousins The Photo Book and The 20th Century Art Book, a high-quality and surprisingly inexpensive volume that would be a worthy addition to any art lover's library. --Loren E. Baldwin [via]
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American Art: History and Cultureby Wayne CravenISBN 0071415246 (0-07-141524-6)
Hardcover, McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing
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Wayne Craven presents art and artists within the context of their times, including insights into the intellectual, spiritual, and political environment. Along the way Craven charts the growth of a distinctly American art culture. The resulting book is as much a history of American culture as of American art. [via]
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Hardcover, Harry N Abrams Inc - American Art: History and Culture: ISBN 0071415246 (0-07-141524-6)
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American Art, 1700-1960: Sources and Documentsby John W. McCoubreyISBN 0130245216 (0-13-024521-6)
Softcover, Prentice Hall
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[via]Letters, newspaper and magazine articles, excerpts from diaries and books, and critical reviews reveal what is derivative in American art, and describe past culture. More editions of American Art, 1700-1960: Sources and Documents:
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An American Artist in the South Seasby John LafargeISBN 0710302568 (0-7103-0256-8)
Softcover, Kegan Paul Intl
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The American Century: Art & Culture 1950-2000by Barbara Haskell, Lisa PhillipsISBN 0874271231 (0-87427-123-1)
Softcover, Whitney Museum of Art
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The American Century : Art and Culture, 1950-2000by Lisa PhillipsISBN 0393048152 (0-393-04815-2)
Hardcover, Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.
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American Impressionismby William H. GerdtsISBN 1558598014 (1-55859-801-4)
Softcover, Abbeville Press, Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'American Impressionism'Book summary:This exquisitely produced volume contains masterpieces by artists such as John Singer Sargent, William Merritt Chase, and Helen Turner. The paintings, reproduced in full color, are accompanied by text exploring the genesis of American impressionist painting. William H. Gerdts examines the relationship of American impressionism to French impressionism, and then follows the Americans as they developed distinctive regional styles. Gerdts covers some of these stylistic approaches in depth, including the Pennsylvania and Midwestern schools, and pays close attention to 10 different painters and their work. The words and the images in this tiny book combine to give readers a grand view of American impressionism. [via]
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Softcover, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington - American Impressionism: ISBN 0896594513 (0-89659-451-3)
Hardcover, Abbeville Press - American Impressionism: ISBN 0896595072 (0-89659-507-2)
Hardcover, Client Distribution Services - American Impressionism: ISBN 0896600017 (0-89660-001-7)
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American Realismby Edward Lucie-SmithISBN 0500283567 (0-500-28356-7)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'American Realism'Book summary:American Realism is Edward Lucie-Smith's eloquent and interesting discourse tracing the progress of American realist art from the colonial period through postmodernism. It features a generous 250 illustrations and 115 gorgeous, full-color plates. Lucie-Smith's underlying argument seems to be that realism more accurately reveals the American character than does abstract expressionism or minimalism. This premise is developed by examining specific paintings and placing them in a cultural and historical context. Of particular interest are the sections on Thomas Eakins, Thomas Hart Benton, Ben Shahn, Philip Pearlstein, Andy Warhol, and Eric Fischl. --Madeline Crowley [via]
American Sublime: Landscape Painting in the United States, 1820-1880by Andrew Wilton, Tim J. BarringerISBN 0691115567 (0-691-11556-7)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'American Sublime: Landscape Painting in the United States, 1820-1880'Book summary:The painters who came to be known as the Hudson River School--Thomas Cole, Asher B. Durand, Frederic Edwin Church, Jasper Cropsey, Sanford Robinson Gifford, and others--found inspiration in our young country's natural wonders and were the first to paint many of its still-wild vistas. As America was settled and the wilderness receded, their successors--most notably Albert Bierstadt and Thomas Moran--carried their quest for the sublime to the Far West, communicating its breathtaking grandeur in brilliant views of Rocky Mountain peaks, roaring waterfalls, and vast canyons. Within a single generation these artists established the dramatic approach to American landscape painting that is celebrated in this stirringly beautiful book. The freshness of their vision, the intensity of their invention, and the energy of their execution were all born of the urgency these artists sensed in the life of America itself.
Published to accompany a major transatlantic exhibition, American Sublime rejoices in America the Beautiful as seen in some of the country's most glorious landscape paintings. It contains a fully illustrated catalogue of all the paintings in the exhibition, with more than one hundred color plates, including three gatefolds. Biographies of the artists are included, and thoughtful and elegantly written essays cast new light on their ambitions and achievements. The lucid text places American landscape painting in the context of the international art world and of the European landscape tradition. And it explores ideas of national identity and empire in America, looking in particular at how these landscapes, whether real or imagined, reflect Americans' hopes and fears for their country.
As a tribute to some of our most important American artists and the land that inspired them, this stunningly illustrated book will have a deep and wide appeal.
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American Visions: The Epic History of Art in Americaby Robert HughesISBN 1860465331 (1-86046-533-1)
Softcover, Harvill Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'American Visions: The Epic History of Art in America'Book summary:Australian-born art critic Robert Hughes, author of the highly acclaimed study of modern art, The Shock of the New has made his home in the United States for the last 20 years. His latest undertaking, which he calls "a love letter to America," is his most massive: a 350-year history of art in America. Published in association with an eight-part PBS series of the same name, this is no scholarly text. With the same voracious wit and opinionated brilliance that have characterized his criticism for Time magazine, this tour-de-force spans three centuries of events, movements, and personalities that have shaped American society and its art. The reproductions are outstanding; 323 out of 365 are in rich, vivid color. Infinitely entertaining and perceptive, this superb book makes readers feel as if they have discovered a truer, hidden America. It seems certain to become one of the most important works in the art-historical canon. [via]
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Americans in Paris, 1860-1900by Kathleen Adler, H. Barbara Weinberg, Erica E. Hirshler, Rodolphe Rapetti, Christopher Riopelle, David Park CurryISBN 1857093011 (1-85709-301-1)
Hardcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Americans: Paintings and Photographs from the National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C.by National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian Institution), Carolyn Kinder Carr, National Portrait Gallery (Great Britain)ISBN 1855145006 (1-85514-500-6)
Hardcover, National Portrait Gallery
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Andy Warhol: Retrospectiveby Andy Warhol, Heiner Bastian, Neue Nationalgalerie (Germany), Tate Modern (Gallery)ISBN 1854374109 (1-85437-410-9)
Softcover, Tate Pub
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Andy Warhol: Series and Singlesby Georg FreiISBN 3775711635 (3-7757-1163-5)
Softcover, Hatje Cantz Pub
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Art & Empire: The Politics of Ethnicity in the United States Capitol, 1815-1860by Vivien Green FrydISBN 0300051573 (0-300-05157-3)
Hardcover, Yale Univ Pr
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The Art Spirit: Notes, Articles, Fragments of Letters and Talks to Students, Bearing on the Concept and Technique of Picture Making, the Study of Arby Robert HenriISBN 0064301389 (0-06-430138-9)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Art Spirit: Notes, Articles, Fragments of Letters and Talks to Students, Bearing on the Concept and Technique of Picture Making, the Study of Ar'Book summary:In this book are the essential beliefs and theories of a great teacher and American artist, Robert Henri. While it embodies the entire system of his teaching, with much technical advice and critical comment for the student, it also contains inspiration for those to whom the happiness to be found through all the arts is important.No other American painter attracted such a large, intensely personal group of followers as Henri, whose death in 1929 brought to an end a life that has been completely devoted to art. He was an inspired artist and teacher who believed that everyone is vitally concerned in the happiness and wisdom to be found through the arts. Many of his paintings have been acquired by museums and private collectors. Among them are the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Gallery of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Wichita Art Museum, and Yale University Art Gallery.[via]More editions of The Art Spirit: Notes, Articles, Fragments of Letters and Talks to Students, Bearing on the Concept and Technique of Picture Making, the Study of Ar:
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The Art Spirit: Notes, Articles, Fragments of Letters and Talks to Students, Bearing on the Concept and Technique of Picture Making, the Study of Art Generally, and on Appreciationby Robert Henri, Paul Avrich Collection (Library of Congress), Margery RyersonISBN 0397001215 (0-397-00121-5)
Hardcover, Lippincott
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The Artist & the American Landscapeby John DriscollISBN 1885440375 (1-885440-37-5)
Hardcover, First Glance Books
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Basquiatby Kellie Jones, Franklin Sirmans, Fred HoffmanISBN 185894287X (1-85894-287-X)
Hardcover, Merrell Publishers Limited
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Birdsby Blance Evans DeanISBN 3882432403 (3-88243-240-3)
Hardcover, Distributed Art Pub Inc
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Children of the Gilded Era: Portraits of Sargent, Renoir, Cassatt and Their Contemporariesby Barbara GallatiISBN 1858942721 (1-85894-272-1)
Hardcover, Perseus Distribution Services
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de Kooning: An American Masterby Mark Stevens, Annalyn SwanISBN 1400041759 (1-4000-4175-9)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'de Kooning: An American Master'Book summary:Willem de Kooning is one of the most important artists of the twentieth century, a true painters painter whose protean work continues to inspire many artists. In the thirties and forties, along with Arshile Gorky and Jackson Pollock, he became a key figure in the revolutionary American movement of abstract expressionism. Of all the painters in that group, he worked the longest and was the most prolific, creating powerful, startling images well into the 1980s.
The first major biography of de Kooning captures both the life and work of this complex, romantic figure in American culture. Ten years in the making, and based on previously unseen letters and documents as well as on hundreds of interviews, this is a fresh, richly detailed, and masterful portrait. The young de Kooning overcame an unstable, impoverished, and often violent early family life to enter the Academie in Rotterdam, where he learned both classic art and guild techniques. Arriving in New York as a stowaway from Holland in 1926, he underwent a long struggle to become a painter and an American, developing a passionate friendship with his fellow immigrant Arshile Gorky, who was both a mentor and an inspiration. During the Depression, de Kooning emerged as a central figure in the bohemian world of downtown New York, surviving by doing commercial work and painting murals for the WPA. His first show at the Egan Gallery in 1948 was a revelation. Soon, the critics Harold Rosenberg and Thomas Hess were championing his work, and de Kooning took his place as the charismatic leader of the New York schooljust as American art began to dominate the international scene.
Dashingly handsome and treated like a movie star on the streets of downtown New York, de Kooning had a tumultuous marriage to Elaine de Kooning, herself a fascinating character of the period. At the height of his fame, he spent his days painting powerful abstractions and intense, disturbing pictures of the female figureand his nights living on the edge, drinking, womanizing, and talking at the Cedar bar with such friends as Franz Kline and Frank OHara. By the 1960s, exhausted by the feverish art world, he retreated to the Springs on Long Island, where he painted an extraordinary series of lush pastorals. In the 1980s, as he slowly declined into what was almost certainly Alzheimers, he created a vast body of haunting and ethereal late work.
This is an authoritative and brilliant exploration of the art, life, and world of an American master.
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Debating American Modernism: Stieglitz, Duchamp, and the New York Avant-Gardeby Georgia O'Keeffe, Alfred Stieglitz, Jay Bochner, Marcel Duchamp, Debra Bricker Balken, Terra Museum of American Art, Des Moines Art CenterISBN 1885444249 (1-885444-24-9)
Softcover, Amer Federation of Arts
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Definitive Statements: American Art, 1964-66by David W. BellISBN 093351901X (0-933519-01-X)
Softcover, Brown Univ
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Fairfield Porter: A Life in Artby Justin SpringISBN 0300076371 (0-300-07637-1)
Hardcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Framing America: A Social History of American Artby Frances K. PohlISBN 0500283346 (0-500-28334-6)
Softcover, Thames & Hudson
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Framing America: A Social History of American Art'Book summary:For more than a generation, critics and scholars have been revising and expanding the customary definition of American art. A tradition once assumed to be mainly European and oriented towards painting and sculpture has been enriched by the inclusion of other media such as ceramics, needlework, and illustration, and the work of previously marginalized groups such as Native Americans, African Americans, Latinos, and Asian Americans. Now, in a brilliant combination of original scholarship and synthesis, Frances Pohl's Framing America provides the first comprehensive survey of this new, enlarged vision of American art. Here are the many strands of North America's history and visual culture: the first contacts of the Spanish with the Aztecs and other Native Americans; the post-Revolutionary definition of nationhood; the visionary feeling for landscape and nature; the images of social and military conflict of the nineteenth century; and the tempering of the twentieth century's heady plunge into modernism by the Depression, World War II, the Cold War, and the culture wars. Framing America's consistent presentation of the resonance between art and history offers a coherent sense of the evolution of a new, generously defined conception of American art. Pohl's account is an adroitly inclusive fusion of many themes. Her discussion of the early definition of nationhood includes the traditional painters of the grand manner, West, Copley, Trumbell, and Stuart. But Stuart's portraits of George Washington, for instance, are also viewed in relation to portrayals of Washington in wood carvings, embroidery, and the vogue for "mourning pictures" after Washington's death, which create a domestic counterpoint to the more institutional portrayals. Pohl's description of the great landscape tradition of Cole, Durand, and Church shows how the optimistic assertion of a sublime sense of the American nation was accompanied by a sense of loss as the nation expanded westward. As our appreciation of the rich cultural diversity of American life has grown, our sense of American artits sources, its motives, its possibilitieshas become more varied too. Fresh and contemporary, Framing America embraces what our history can tell us about our art and what our art can tell us about our past and present. 665 illustrations, 337 in color. [via]
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Gari Melchers: A Retrospective Exhibitionby Diane Lesko, Esther Persson, Gari Melchers, Museum of Fine Arts (Saint Petersburg, Fla.)ISBN 1878390007 (1-878390-00-7)
Softcover, Univ of Washington Pr
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Georgia O'Keefe: American and Modernby Charles C. EldredgeISBN 0300055811 (0-300-05581-1)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Georgia O'Keeffe 1887-1986: Flowers in the Desertby Georgia O'Keeffe, Britta BenkeISBN 3822888869 (3-8228-8886-9)
Softcover, Taschen America Llc
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Hans Hofmannby Cynthia GoodmanISBN 3791310542 (3-7913-1054-2)
Hardcover, Prestel Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hans Hofmann'Book summary:With more than 100 illustrations -- approximately 48 in full color -- this innovative series offers a fresh look at the most creative and influential artists of the postwar era. Modern Masters form a perfect reference set for home, school, or library. Each handsomely designed volume presents:
- A thorough survey of the artist's life and work
- Statements by the artist
- An illustrated chapter on technique
- Chronology
- Lists of exhibitions and public collections
- Annotated bibliography
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Harlem Renaissance: Art of Black Americaby Deborah Willis, David L. Lewis, David C. DriskellISBN 0810910993 (0-8109-1099-3)
Hardcover, The Studio Museum in Harlem
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Harlem Renaissance : Art of Black Americaby Mary Campbell, David Driskell, David Levering Lewis, Deborah W. RyanISBN 0810981289 (0-8109-8128-9)
Hardcover, Abrams , Incorporated, Harry N.
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Hopperby Ivo KranzfelderISBN 3822820490 (3-8228-2049-0)
Hardcover, Taschen America, LLC
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The Hudson River Schoolby Louise MinksISBN 1577150414 (1-57715-041-4)
Softcover, Book Sales
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I Bought Andy Warholby Richard PolskyISBN 1582345244 (1-58234-524-4)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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The Image of the Indian and the Black Man in American Art, 1590-1900by Ellwood ParryISBN 0807607061 (0-8076-0706-1)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Impressionism Abroad: Boston And French Paintingby Erica Hirschler, Maryanne StevensISBN 1903973775 (1-903973-77-5)
Hardcover, Harry N Abrams Inc
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Impressionism Abroad: Boston And French Paintingby Maryanne Stevens, Erica HirschlerISBN 1903973600 (1-903973-60-0)
Hardcover, Harry N Abrams Inc
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In the American Grain: Arthur Dove, Marsden Hartley, John Marin, Georgia O'Keeffe, and Alfred Stieglitz The Stieglitz Circle at the Phillips Collectionby Georgia O'Keeffe, Alfred Stieglitz, John Marin, Marsden Hartley, Elizabeth Hutton Turner, Phillips Collection, Arthur DoveISBN 1887178260 (1-887178-26-0)
Softcover, Counterpoint
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Jean Michel Basquiatby Richard MarshallISBN 0810968142 (0-8109-6814-2)
Hardcover, Abrams , Incorporated, Harry N.
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Jean-Michel Basquiatby Glenn O'BrienISBN 1891475142 (1-891475-14-2)
Hardcover, Distributed Art Pub Inc
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Jean-Michel Basquiat: 1960-1988by Leonhard EmmerlingISBN 382281637X (3-8228-1637-X)
Softcover, Taschen America Llc
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Jessica Stockholderby Jessica Stockholder, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen (Germany), Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum DuisburgISBN 3926154608 (3-926154-60-8)
Hardcover, K20 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen
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Kenneth Noland: Paintings 1958-1989by Not AvailableISBN 1588210529 (1-58821-052-9)
Softcover, Salander Oreilly Pub
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LA Artland: Contemporary Art From Los Angelesby Jan Tumlir, Jane McFadden, Chris KrausISBN 1904772307 (1-904772-30-7)
Softcover, Black Dog Pub Ltd
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Laura Owensby Anne Hawley, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Pieranna Cavalchini, Laura OwensISBN 8881583283 (88-8158-328-3)
Hardcover, Distributed Art Pub Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Laura Owens'Book summary:American Laura Owens is among a select group of artists credited with the rebirth of painting. She has developed a style all her own, moving from landscape to abstraction with energetic thick brushstrokes, fanciful childlike doodles, or sophisticated fine line drawings. "Each painting can act as a question," she says, and, demonstrating a wide and imaginative range, she's constantly experimenting and changing her work. "Ultimately, you want to make the painting that you want to be with, not one that is constantly telling you everything it knows. Who wants to be with something or someone like that? It's more fun to be with someone who is willing to go out on a limb." This book is being designed by Owens herself to accompany an exhibition at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, and will include, along with paintings from the show, new drawings made exclusively for the publication, as well as several textile works from the museum's collection that inspired her while she served as artist-in-residence in the Spring of 2000. [via]
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Louise Bourgeoisby Marie-Laure Bernadac, Louise BourgeoisISBN 2080121847 (2-08-012184-7)
Hardcover, Flammarion
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Louise Bourgeois'Book summary:Louise Bourgeois' work defies classification, oscillating continually between abstract geometry and organic reality. She uses a range of materials from wood and plaster to marble and latex to explore universal themes-the body, childhood, maternity, and sexuality-from a deeply personal perspective, imbuing them with extraordinary emotional intensity. This comprehensive and richly illustrated monograph is chronological in approach, and brings together her works from early sketches and paintings to later sculptures and installations with which she has astonished the art world. Author Marie-Laure Bernadac skillfully weaves her insightful text with Bourgeois' own words from articles, films, and interviews to provide a unique and highly accessible study of this fascinating and complex artist.[via] 
Louise Bourgeois: Aller-retour Zeichnungen Und Skulpturen / Drawings And Sculpturesby Louise BourgeoisISBN 3938821191 (3-938821-19-1)
Hardcover, Verlag Fur Moderne Kunst
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Louise Bourgeois: Blue Days and Pink Daysby Louise Bourgeois, Jerry Gorovoy, Pandora Tabatabai AsbaghiISBN 8887029040 (88-87029-04-0)
Softcover, Distributed Art Pub Inc
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Mary Cassatt: Printsby Kathleen AdlerISBN 1857093127 (1-85709-312-7)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Nancy Spero: The War Series 1966-1970by Robert Storr, Leon Golub, Nancy SperoISBN 8881584573 (88-8158-457-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Nancy Spero: The War Series 1966-1970'Book summary:Galvanized by the political events of the Vietnam War, Nancy Spero dedicated herself for five years to creating a group of gouache paintings on paper, entitled The War Series. In these works, Spero not only expressed her rage at the violence and oppression of the war, but also introduced many of the images and themes that would continue to find their place in her work, and anticipated the post-modern aesthetic of fracture, dissonance, and collage. This volume is the first to analyze The War Series in depth, and its publication could not, unfortunately, be more timely. [via]
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Norman Rockwellby Elizabeth Miles MontgomeryISBN 0831764090 (0-8317-6409-0)
Hardcover, Smithmark Pub
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Originals: American Women Artistsby Eleanor MunroISBN 0306809559 (0-306-80955-9)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Originals: American Women Artists'Book summary:At the end of the 1970s, Eleanor Munro embarked upon a series of interviews with some of the leading visual artists in the nation, including Georgia O'Keeffe, Alice Neel, Helen Frankenthaler, Louise Bourgeois, and Jennifer Bartlett. The resulting portraits led to a book as significant and exciting as the artists within it. Now Munro has added a new generation of women-including Kiki Smith and Julie Taymor-and a new introduction to her landmark entry in the literature of visual art, ensuring its status as an invaluable resource well into the twenty-first century. [via]
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Over the Line: The Art and Life of Jacob Lawrenceby Peter T. Nesbett, Michelle DuboisISBN 0295979658 (0-295-97965-8)
Softcover, Univ of Washington Pr
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The Painted Sketch: American Impressions of Nature, 1830-1880by Eleanor Jones HarveyISBN 0936227249 (0-936227-24-9)
Softcover, Dallas Museum of Art
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Painting Summer in New Englandby Trevor FairbrotherISBN 0300116926 (0-300-11692-6)
Hardcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Peaceful Painter: Memoirs Of An Issei Woman Artistby Hisako Hibi, Ibuki H. LeeISBN 1890771902 (1-890771-90-2)
Softcover, Heyday Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Peaceful Painter: Memoirs Of An Issei Woman Artist'Book summary:Insight into the daily life of a woman who would not abandon her art or betray her spirit
Born in Japan, Hisako Hibi came to America with her parents as a teenager. When she and her husband were relocated in 1942 to the Topaz internment camp in Utah they became teachers at the art school founded by Chiura Obata. In 1945 they moved to New York, where she found work as an apprentice seamstress. Hisako Hibi continued painting for the next forty years and, after she returned to San Francisco in 1954, she exhibited her work in numerous shows including several one-person events.
Her art, and the informal journals and notes that she kept during those years, are the basis for this book. Hibi's work while interned largely reflected her life as a young woman, wife, and mother, and her later work reflects the same keen sense of clarity about different subjects. Taken together, her paintings offer an insight into the daily life of a woman who would not abandon her art or betray her spirit.
Published in conjunction with the Japanese American National Museum [via]
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Petroglyph National Monumentby Susan Lamb, Tom Bean, Ron Foreman, Southwest Parks and Monuments AssociationISBN 1877856223 (1-877856-22-3)
Hardcover, Southwest Parks and Monuments Association
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Printmaking In New Orleansby Jessie J. PoeschISBN 1578067685 (1-57806-768-5)
Hardcover, Univ Pr of Mississippi
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Rothkoby Jacob Baal-TeshuvaISBN 3822818208 (3-8228-1820-8)
Softcover, Taschen America Llc
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Sam Francis: The Shadow of Colorsby Sam Francis, Peter Iden, Ingrid Mossinger, Louisiana (Museum : Humlebk, Denmark), Kunstverein Ludwigsburg, Stadtische Kunstsammlungen ChemnitzISBN 3905514850 (3-905514-85-0)
Hardcover, Edition Stemmle
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Sister Wendy's American Masterpieces: Beckett's Selection of the Greatest American Paintingsby Wendy Beckett, Maxine LewisISBN 0789459582 (0-7894-5958-2)
Hardcover, Dorling Kindersley Publishing, Incorporated
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The Story of American Paintingby Abraham A. DavidsonISBN 0810904985 (0-8109-0498-5)
Hardcover, H. N. Abrams
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Wayne Thiebaud: A Paintings Retrospectiveby Steven A. Nash, Adam GopnikISBN 0500092923 (0-500-09292-3)
Hardcover, Thames & Hudson
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Basquiatby Jean Michel BasquiatISBN 8881582392 (88-8158-239-2)
Softcover, Distributed Art Pub Inc
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Georgia O'Keeffe : 1887-1986: Flowers in the Desertby Britta BenkeISBN 3822858617 (3-8228-5861-7)
Hardcover, Taschen America, LLC
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