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  • Nature and Culture

    American Landscape and Painting, 1825-1875, With a New Preface

    by Barbara Novak ...
    In this richly illustrated volume, featuring more than fifty black-and-white illustrations and a beautiful eight-page color insert, Barbara Novak describes how for fifty extraordinary years, American society drew from the idea of Nature its most cherished ideals. Between 1825 and 1875, all kinds of Americans--artists, writers, scientists, as well as everyday citizens--believed that God in Nature ... Read more

    $52.99 CAD

  • American Painting of the Nineteenth Century

    Realism, Idealism, and the American Experience

    by Barbara Novak ...
    In this distinguished work, which Hilton Kramer in The New York Times Book Review called "surely the best book ever written on the subject," Barbara Novak illuminates what is essentially American about American art. She highlights not only those aspects that appear indigenously in our art works, but also those features that consistently reappear over time. Novak examines the paintings of ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Voyages of the Self

    Pairs, Parallels, and Patterns in American Art and Literature

    by Barbara Novak ...
    Barbara Novak is one of America's premier art historians, the author of the seminal books American Painting of the Nineteenth Century and Nature and Culture, the latter of which was named one of the Ten Best Books of the Year by The New York Times and was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award. Now, with Voyages of the Self, this esteemed critic completes the trilogy begun with the two ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

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    The Broken Eye (2 of 3) [Dramatized Adaptation]

    Lightbringer Saga 3

    by Brent Weeks ...
    Narrated by A Full Cast, Richard Rohan, Joe Brack, Yasmin Tuazon, Christopher Scheeren, Karen Novak, Barbara Pinolini, Johann Dettweiler, Bradley Smith, David Coyne, Tracy Olivera, Thomas Penny, Steven Carpenter, Kimberly Gilbert, Elliot Dash, Michael Glenn, Tim Getman, Terence Aselford, Mort Shelby, Rose Elizabeth Supan, Ren Casey, Nick DePinto, Michael John Casey, Jessica Lefkow, Anastasia Wilson, Nora Achrati, Nathanial Perry, Drew Kopas, Colleen Delany, Thomas Keegan, Nanette Savard, Scott McCormick, David Harris, Lily Beacon, Ken Jackson, Evan Casey, Patrick Bussink, Margie Tompros ...
    Series Audiobook 2 - Lightbringer

    Unabridged

    7 hours 44 min

    As the old gods awaken and satrapies splinter, the Chromeria races to find its lost Prism, the only man who may be able to stop catastrophe. But Gavin Guile is enslaved on a pirate galley. Worse, Gavin no longer has the one thing that defined him -- the ability to draft.Without the protection of his father, Kip Guile will have to face a master of shadows alone as his grandfather moves to choose a ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Agnes Martin: Her Life and Art

    by Nancy Princenthal ...
    The first biography of visionary artist Agnes Martin, one of the most original and influential painters of the postwar periodOver the course of a career that spanned fifty years, Agnes Martin’s austere, serene work anticipated and helped to define Minimalism, even as she battled psychological crises and carved out a solitary existence in the American Southwest. Martin identified with the Abstract ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • Ashcan Art, Whiteness, and the Unspectacular Man

    by Dr. Alexis L. Boylan ...
    Arriving in New York City in the first decade of the twentieth century, six painters-Robert Henri, John Sloan, Everett Shinn, Glackens, George Luks, and George Bellows, subsequently known as the Ashcan Circle-faced a visual culture that depicted the urban man as a diseased body under assault. Ashcan artists countered this narrative, manipulating the bodies of construction workers, tramps, ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD

  • Landscape into Eco Art

    Articulations of Nature Since the ’60s

    by Mark Cheetham ...
    Dedicated to an articulation of the earth from broadly ecological perspectives, eco art is a vibrant subset of contemporary art that addresses the widespread public concern with rapid climate change and related environmental issues. In Landscape into Eco Art, Mark Cheetham systematically examines connections and divergences between contemporary eco art, land art of the 1960s and 1970s, and the ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • Wartime Kiss

    Visions of the Moment in the 1940s

    by Alexander Nemerov ...
    Series series Essays in the Arts
    A deeply personal meditation on the haunting power of American photos and films of the 1940sWartime Kiss is a personal meditation on the haunting power of American photographs and films from World War II and the later 1940s. Starting with a stunning reinterpretation of one of the most famous photos of all time, Alfred Eisenstaedt's image of a sailor kissing a nurse in Times Square on V-J Day, ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Critical Shift

    Rereading Jarves, Cook, Stillman, and the Narratives of Nineteenth-Century American Art

    by Karen L. Georgi ...
    American Civil War–era art critics James Jackson Jarves, Clarence Cook, and William J. Stillman classified styles and defined art in terms that have become fundamental to our modern periodization of the art of the nineteenth century. In Critical Shift, Karen Georgi rereads many of their well-known texts, finding certain key discrepancies between their words and our historiography that point to ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • Cold War Modernists

    Art, Literature, and American Cultural Diplomacy

    by Greg Barnhisel ...
    European intellectuals of the 1950s dismissed American culture as nothing more than cowboy movies and the A-bomb. In response, American cultural diplomats tried to show that the United States had something to offer beyond military might and commercial exploitation. Through literary magazines, traveling art exhibits, touring musical shows, radio programs, book translations, and conferences, they ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • Red Brick, Black Mountain, White Clay

    Reflections on Art, Family, and Survival

    by Christopher Benfey ...
    **New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2012"Beautiful, haunted, evocative and so open to where memory takes you. I kept thinking that this is the book that I have waited for: where objects, and poetry intertwine. Just wonderful and completely sui generis." (Edmund de Waal, author of The Hare with Amber Eyes)**An unforgettable voyage across the reaches of America and the depths of memory, Red Brick, ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • The Red Fairy Book

    by Andrew Lang ...
    Andrew Lang's Fairy Books or Andrew Lang's "Coloured" Fairy Books constitute a twelve-book series of fairy tale collections. Although Andrew Lang did not collect the stories himself from the oral tradition, the extent of his sources, who had collected them originally (with the notable exception of Madame d'Aulnoy), made them an immensely influential collection, especially as he used foreign ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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