History of art Books
Seattle Art Museum A Fuller View of China
Book SynopsisFounded in 1933, the Seattle Art Museum is home to a premier collection of Chinese art. Reviewing more than one hundred boxes of museum archives, annual reports, and correspondences, this book provides a nuanced account of Seattle's Chinese art collection, and reconsiders the "golden age" of collecting Chinese art in the early twentieth century.Table of ContentsDirector's Foreword Preface Introduction 1. Richard Fuller: Collector of Chinese Art 2. The Transition from Private to Public Collecting 3. Recognizing New Opportunities 4. The Impact of Richard Fuller's Legacy Appendix References Photography Credits
£30.40
Seattle Art Museum Barbara Earl Thomas
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£19.79
MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin David Klamen Paintings Watercolors and Drawings
Book SynopsisChicago-based artist David Klamen fuses op-art effects with art historical images to create high impact and engaging artworks looking like obsessive crosses between bar codes, puzzles, and old master paintings.
£999.99
The Heard Museum Awa Tsireh Pueblo Painter Metalsmith Pueblo
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£23.39
Robert Hull Fleming Museum The Mating Habits of Lines Sketchbooks and
Book SynopsisThis is a catalogue with full-page colour reproductions of sheets selected from Ree Morton's notebook and sketchbook from 1968 to 1977. Back material includes an exhibition checklist, a 3-page essay by Allen Schwartzman; an afterword by Barbara Zucker, and acknowledgments by Janie Cohen.
£31.35
Robert Hull Fleming Museum Sargent to Basquiat University of Vermont Alumni
Book SynopsisThe catalogue of an exhibition in 2016 at the Fleming Museum of Art, University of Vermont. Includes work by John Singer Sargent, Childe Hassam, Wassily Kandinsky, Jean Dubuffet, Willem de Kooning, Robert Motherwell, Henry Moore, Andy Warhol, Howard Hodgkin, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Pablo Picasso, Cindy Sherman and Nan Goldin.
£31.00
The University of Chicago Press From Blast to Pop
Book SynopsisCharts the course of Modernism in Britain, from the 1914 Vorticist manifesto to the emergence of British Pop art in the late 1950s and early 1960s. The volume is the catalogue for an exhibition shown at the David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago.Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments Kimerly Rorschagn From Blast to Pop Keith Hartley Catalogue of the Exhibition Richard A. Born Early Modernism: Abstraction, Primitivism, and Surrealism, 1915-1945 Academic Traditions: Realism and Figuration, 1920-1955 International Modernist Sculpture: Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth, and Robert Adams, 1930-1965 Postwar British Sculpture and the 1952 Venice Biennale: The "Iconography of Fear" 1950-1960 London-Paris-New York: From Existentialism and "L'Art Brut" to "The Aesthetics of Plenty" and Pop Art, 1945-1960 London-Paris-New York: Gestural Abstraction and Color Field Painting, 1955-1965 Notes Selected Bibliography Color Plates (following page 16)
£999.99
The University of Chicago Press The Place of the Antique in Early Modern Europe
Book SynopsisThe essays in this work explore the influence of antiquity on a broad spectrum of artistic production in Europe, from the 16th to the 18th centuries. It includes investigations of proto-scientific imagery, Ovidian myth, allegorical devices, and the growing influence of Ancient Greece.
£999.99
The University of Chicago Press Heartland
Book SynopsisThroughout the vast interior of the United States, contemporary artists are responding to the world around them and reshaping it in unexpected ways. This title offers an idiosyncratic look at innovative forms of cultural production taking place across the region.
£999.99
The University of Chicago Press Monster Roster
Book SynopsisAccompanying an exhibition at the University of Chicago's Smart Museum of Art, this book is the definitive introduction to Chicago's first artistic movement, the Monster Roster. The volume includes an overview of the artists involved, such as Leon Golub, June Leaf, Seymour Rosofsky, and Nancy Spero; an introduction to the historical context surrounding the group's emergence in the 1950s; and a discussion of Monster Roster prints. In addition, key texts can be found reprinted here, such as Jean Dubuffet's 1951 lecture Anticultural Positions and Franz Schulze's 1972 essay Chicago: The Setting and the Group. Containing full-color reproductions of many Monster Roster works, ephemera, and historical photographs, as well as a detailed chronology and exhibition history, Monster Roster is a long-awaited history of one of the most essential Midwestern contributions to American art.
£999.99
Artists Bookworks 18th Century Colour Palettes
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£11.40
Artists Bookworks 16th Century Colour Palettes
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£11.40
Artists Bookworks 1st Century Colour Palettes
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£11.40
Artists Bookworks 15th Century Colour Palettes
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£11.88
Artists Bookworks 14th Century Colour Palettes Volume 2
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£14.70
Reaktion Books TheArt of Death Visual Culture in the English
Book SynopsisWhereas in our own day the subject of death is usually avoided, in pre-Industrial England the rituals and processes of death were present and immediate. This book explores the meanings behind a range of these artefacts, and describes the attitudes and practices which lay behind their production and use.
£999.99
Wheelwright Museum of American Indian Clay People
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£999.99
Wheelwright Museum of American Indian Zuni Fetish Carvers of the 1970s A Bridge from
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£999.99
Wheelwright Museum of American Indian The Native American Curio Trade in New Mexico
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£999.99
Wheelwright Museum of American Indian Through Their Eyes Indian Painting in Santa Fe
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£999.99
Wheelwright Museum of American Indian Through Their Eyes Indian Painting in Santa Fe
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£999.99
John Wiley & Sons Bunmei Kaika
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£31.96
Spanish Colonial Arts Society, Inc Conexiones
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£46.79
Mesaros Galleries Blanche Lazzell The Hofmann Drawings
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£999.99
West Virginia University Press Richard Kidwell Miller
Book SynopsisWith striking contrasts, bold colors, and powerful textures and lines, Richard Kidwell Miller's art is abstract, yet integrated and powerful, while sensuous. In 2004, Richard Kidwell Miller's work was displayed at West Virginia University. This lushly illustrated book encompasses that exhibit, as curator John A. Cuthbert narrates Miller's development as a student, artist, and teacher.Trade Review“This is the first book to describe Miller’s oeuvre and it does so handsomely.”E.H. Teague, University of OregonTable of Contents•Foreword •Richard Kidwell Miller: "What's Next?" •Catalogue of he Exhibition •Artist's Statment •Appendices • Selected Exhibitions • Selected Collections • Awards •Bibliography •Acknowledgements
£999.99
Vero Beach Museum of Art Masters of Light
Book SynopsisFeatures 30 examples of American Impressionist painting by the artists who redefined the movement for American audiences. This work also includes an essay that examines the unintentional circumstances and deliberate efforts that transformed Impressionism from an expression of the French vanguard into a peculiarly American enterprise.Trade Review"An exquisite collection [that] captures the essence of the American movement. . . . Recommended." * Choice *Table of ContentsForeword and Acknowledgments / Lucinda H. Gedeon The Americanization of Impressionism / Kevin Sharp Contributors to the Catalogue Catalogue Notes Selected Bibliography
£33.92
Ancient Egypt Research Associates A Manual of Egyptian Pottery
Book SynopsisThe first comprehensive guide to Egyptian pottery from earliest (Fayum A) to modern day. Invaluable to students and experienced field archaeologists. In paperback, and in spiral-bound versions that are designed especially for the field and lab. Quick identification guides, extensive introductions, reading lists, bibliography. Col. Illus.
£999.99
Square Halo Books The Art of Guy Chase
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£18.99
DePaul University Art Museum Re Chicago
Book SynopsisFor over a century the Chicago art community has struggled to define itself in relation to other urban art centers. This book and the exhibition on which it is based reframe Chicago as an artistic center in its own right, with a perspective and community as distinctive as its geography, economy, and politics.
£999.99
DePaul University Art Museum The Nature Drawings of Peter Karklins
Book SynopsisThe German-born, Chicago-based artist Peter Karklins creates small pencil-and-paper drawings that capture the processes and energies just below the surface of all human life. This title shows Karklins' work to be a fertile topic for discussion and a vibrant example of intuitive art.
£999.99
DePaul University Art Museum Ink Paper Politics WPAEra Printmaking from the
Book SynopsisThe Works Progress Administration gave federal financial support to a wide range of artistic projects during the Depression, from fiction to fine art. This book accompanies an exhibition at the DePaul Art Museum in celebration of the generous gift to the museum of one hundred WPA-era prints from the collection of Belverd and Marian Needles.
£30.00
Ancient Egypt Research Associates A Manual of Egyptian Pottery
Book SynopsisThe first comprehensive guide to Egyptian pottery from earliest (Fayum A) to modern day. Invaluable to students and experienced field archaeologists. In paperback, and in spiral-bound versions that are designed especially for the field and lab. Quick identification guides, extensive introductions, reading lists, bibliography. Col. Illus.
£47.23
Chipstone Foundation Ceramics in America 2015
Book SynopsisNow in its fifteenth year of publication, Ceramics in America is considered the journal of record for historical ceramics scholarship in the American context and is intended for collectors, historical archaeologists, curators, decorative arts students, social historians, and contemporary potters.
£54.90
Chipstone Foundation American Furniture 2015
Book SynopsisAcknowledged as the journal of record in its field, American Furniture presents new research on furniture design, use, production, and appreciation. Begun in 1993, this award-winning annual provides a comprehensive forum on furniture history, technology, connoisseurship, and conservation by the foremost scholars in the field.
£54.90
Fowler Museum of Cultural History,U.S. Textiles of Timor Island in the Woven Sea
Book SynopsisTimor has been a divided island at least since the seventeenth century when Dutch and Portuguese colonial empires competed for its control. Despite this fragmentation, the weaving of cloth has remained intimately linked to the cultural history of the Timorese peoples as a whole. Handwoven cotton garments serve as markers of identity and nurture social relationships when they are exchanged. Women in Timor weave an impressive variety of cloth, routinely combining more weaving techniques than any other region of Southeast Asia. This technical prowess and diversity of design make weaving the most important form of artistic expression in Timor and allow groups as small as individual families to proclaim their unique heritage. Independence for Timor-Leste (East Timor) in 2002 - following invasion by Indonesia and years of violent warfare (19751999) - brought with it more stable conditions and improved access for researchers. Textiles of Timor, Island in the Woven Sea brings together for thTrade Review"Individuals seeking an introduction to the textiles of Timor as well as serious researchers in a variety of fields, in and out of textiles, will have plenty to explore in this well-researched and well-documented book." * Choice *Table of ContentsForeword / Marla C. Berns Acknowledgments / Roy W. Hamilton and Joanna Barrkman Notes on Nomenclature / Roy W. Hamilton 1. Culture, History, and Weaving in Timor / Roy W. Hamilton 2. Textile Style Ares in Timor / Roy W. Hamilton and Joanna Barrkman with a contribution by Rosalia Elisa Madeira Soares 3. Plants as the Pivot: The Ethnobotany of Timorese Textiles / Anthony B. Cunningham, Willy Doas Kadati, Jose Ximenes, Jean Howe, I Made Maduarta, and William Ingram 4. Early Textiles from Timor / Ruth Barnes 5. Textiles of Oecusse: A Personal Account / Willy Daos Kadati with Anne Finch 6. "She Comes with a Spindle in Her Hand": Biboki Textiles / Joanna Barrkman 7. Malaka Regency: Cloth of the Plain, Cloth of the Hills / Roy W. Hamilton and Yahannes Nahak Taromi 8. Textiles of Suai Loro and Camenaca / Joanna Barrkman 9. Continuity and Change in the Kemak Textiles of Marobo / Joanna Barrkman 10. Alfred Buhler's Collection from Baguia at the Museum der Kulturen, Basel / Marie-Louise Nabholz-Kartaschoff 11. Loss and Return: Personal Stories of Fataluku Weavers / Jill Forshee Notes to the Text References Cited Index Exhibition List Contributors
£37.05
Rinaldi Studio Press Sm.03 Sazabi Custom
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£21.60
Art Guild Press Lloyd Kiva New A New Century
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£36.89
Brepols Publishers Take This Ring Medieval and Renaissance Rings
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£90.25
Power Publications Jacky Redgate
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£28.50
Power Publications Floating Time
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£28.00
Urbanomic Cold WarCold World Knowledge Representation and
Book SynopsisA multidisciplinary collection of essays reflecting on Cold War cultural tropes in film, fiction, and contemporary art, and the models of knowledge that they imply.If the term “Cold World” describes a world of infinite complexity, algorithmic capital, and the technological sublime, in many ways the dread experienced during the Cold War, when clear oppositions were laid out between nation states, is echoed in the hall of mirrors of Cold World globalization, where our collective consciousness is overtaken by a flood of difference, uncertainty, and the dread of the incomputability of this alien yet constructed world.But what is the crime scene of the Cold World? How is it to be decrypted? Where are its discontinuities, what is the nature of its violence? This is to say, what is our place in this alien world and how do we even compute the “we” that we describe ourselves to be?Given the existential uncertainty unleashed for those who lived thr
£10.79
DePaul University Art Museum Beverly Fresh Really Somethin Else
Book SynopsisAn experimental expanded catalog chronicling the recent work and 2018 solo exhibition of artist Beverly Fresh, Really Somethin Else not only documents and contextualizes the work in the exhibition, but also includes research, sketches, production stills, inspirations, and other works not on view in the exhibition. In these works, artist, musician, and back-road drifter Beverly Fresh takes on the incongruities, social rituals, and archetypes of the rural Midwest. Drawing from age-old performance traditions, juvenile graffiti, backyard debauchery, adult social clubs, amateur living room theater, and pig wrestling, the exhibition is a keyed-up regurgitation of rural Midwestern symbols, behaviors, and vernacular. Plentiful color images are accompanied by essays from Julie Rodrigues Widholm, H. Peter Steeves, and Greg Scott. The catalog, designed by Beverly Fresh himself, carries the distinct personality and aesthetic sensibility of the exhibition.
£999.99
Wheelwright Museum of American Indian Lit The Work of Rose B Simpson The Work of Rose B
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£999.99
Marquand Books Inc Art AIDS America Chicago
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£38.25
BookBaby Daniel Robert Hoy Tabletop Book
£6.64
BookBaby Black Is
£18.39
BookBaby Happy Friday Doodles
£32.24
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Monet
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£29.46
