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| As a young South African woman of about twenty, Saartjie Baartman, the so-called ""Hottentot Venus,"" was brought to London and placed on...
Vignettes of Vietnam & Other Colorful Stories is a nostalgic collage of short stories, fermented and lingering, some for years, waiting... From his New-Hampshire's home Mark O'Keyney finds a job in an NGO based in Port-au-Prince HAITI. This will completely change his life....
More than 400 rock paintings adorn the Canadian Shield from Quebec to Saskatchewan, the legacy of the Algonkian-speaking Cree and Ojibwa. On February 22, 1916, Ralph Albert Blakelock's haunting landscape Brook by Moonlight was sold at auction for $20,000, a record price for...
The publication of Porter's letters marks an occasion for a renewed celebration of his painting and an appreciation of his quirky, indeed... Picturing the City takes an innovative look at the group of urban realists known as the Ashcan School, and at the booming cultures of...
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... Sight Unseen explores how racial identity guides the interpretation of the visual world. Through a nimble analysis of late nineteenth...
James Rosenquist's paintings, with their billboard-sized images of commercial subjects, are utterly emblematic of 1960s Pop Art. Their... In Telling Stories, David Kaufmann focuses on Philip Guston's controversial figurative paintings of the late 1960s and 1970s. He looks at...
The Realisms of Berenice Abbott provides the first in-depth consideration of the work of photographer Berenice Abbott. Though best known... This handsomely illustrated book is a welcome addition to the history of women during America's Gilded Age. Wanda M. Corn takes as her...
American Modern, the beautifully illustrated companion volume to the exhibit of the same name, explores the reinvention of documentary... Gertrude Stein is justly famous for her modernist writings and her patronage of vanguard painters (most notably Matisse and Picasso) in...
In this exhilarating book, Anne Middleton Wagner challenges readers to rethink the work of a range of post-World War II artists-Jasper... Focusing on black Americans' participation in world's fairs, Emancipation expositions, and early black grassroots museums, Negro Building...
A full-color catalog and in-depth examination of the distinctive furniture made by pro-British carpenter and joiner John Shearer, one of... Cultural Democracy explores the crisis of our national cultural vitality, as access to the arts becomes increasingly mediated by a...
"Thank you so much for your excellent research ... Your work on Edmonia Lewis will be used for many years to come by scholars, art... Dynamic artistry celebrating the diverse lives and labors of hardscrabble Southerners
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