Author: Willis, Deborah Publisher: Temple University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: As a young South African woman of about twenty, Saartjie Baartman, the so-called ""Hottentot Venus,"" was brought to London and placed on exhibit in 1810. Clad in the Victorian equivalent of a body st...
Author: Ward, David C. Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Son of a convicted felon whose early death left the family impoverished, Charles Willson Peale (1741-1827) went on to lead a staggeringly full and successful life. A portrait painter who produced an u...
Author: N/A Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Rarely is an artist so closely associated with a single work as is Jay DeFeo with her monumental painting The Rose. Begun in the late 1950s, when DeFeo, a central figure of the Beat generation of San ...
Author: N/A Publisher: University of Michigan Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The publication of Porter's letters marks an occasion for a renewed celebration of his painting and an appreciation of his quirky, indeed ornery, personality. Porter was a feisty correspondent, who fe...
Description: The tradition of African-American Folk Art is vast and diverse. With roots that extend overseas, these traditions now flourish and continue to bloom into the twenty-first century. In Contemporary Afri...
Author: Zurier, Rebecca Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Picturing the City takes an innovative look at the group of urban realists known as the Ashcan School, and at the booming cultures of vision and representation in early twentieth-century New York. Off...
Author: Whiting, Cecile Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Andy Warhol said about his road trip to Los Angeles in 1963: "The farther West we drove, the more Pop everything looked on the highways." In this original and engaging book, Cécile Whiting examines w...
Author: Betancourt, Michael Publisher: Wildside Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: A book of theory and critical writing on art in Miami, Florida, including Charles Recher, Roxy Paine, Jens Diercks, Frederico Uribe, Normal Leibman, Salvador Dali, Guy Richards Smit, Diego Machado, an...
Author: Kaufmann, David Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In Telling Stories, David Kaufmann focuses on Philip Guston's controversial figurative paintings of the late 1960s and 1970s. He looks at the early critical reception of these works to see what the ar...
Author: Weissman, Terri Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: The Realisms of Berenice Abbott provides the first in-depth consideration of the work of photographer Berenice Abbott. Though best known for her 1930s documentary images of New York City, this book ex...
Author: Wagner, Anne Middleton Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In this exhilarating book, Anne Middleton Wagner challenges readers to rethink the work of a range of post-World War II artists-Jasper Johns, Andy Warhol, Maya Lin, Bruce Nauman, and Agnes Martin amo...
Author: Hartley, Marsden Publisher: Hol Art Books Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Working at a pivotal time in art history, artist Marsden Hartley was in the center of it all. In his classic collection of essays, Adventures in the Arts, he offers curious readers a friendly tour of ...
Author: Crilley, Mark Publisher: Impact Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: It's THE book on manga from YouTube's most popular art instruction Guru! There's more to manga than big, shiny eyes and funky hair. In these action-packed pages, graphic novelist Mark Crilley shows...
Author: Lazar, Caron Publisher: The Lazar Group, Incorporated Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The tradition of African-American Folk Art is vast and diverse. With roots that extend overseas, these traditions now flourish and continue to bloom into the twenty-first century. In Contemporary Afri...
Author: Welsh, Liz / Welsh, Peter Publisher: Wilderness Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The who, what, where, when, and how of rock-art. This richly illustrated book will guide you to 28 outstanding rock-art sites in seven states, and teach you about art styles and the cultural groups th...
Author: Corn, Wanda M. / Latimer, Tirza True Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Gertrude Stein is justly famous for her modernist writings and her patronage of vanguard painters (most notably Matisse and Picasso) in Paris before the First World War. Seeing Gertrude Stein, the com...
Author: Weissman, Terri Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The Realisms of Berenice Abbott provides the first in-depth consideration of the work of photographer Berenice Abbott. Though best known for her 1930s documentary images of New York City, this book ex...
Author: Corn, Wanda M. Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This handsomely illustrated book is a welcome addition to the history of women during America's Gilded Age. Wanda M. Corn takes as her topic the grand neo-classical Woman's Building at the 1893 Columb...