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  • Voyages of the Self

    Pairs, Parallels, and Patterns in American Art and Literature

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD

  • Nature and Culture

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

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $46.79 USD

  • American Painting of the Nineteenth Century

    Realism, Idealism, and the American Experience

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $32.99 USD

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  • Agnes Martin: Her Life and Art

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $15.99 USD

  • Ashcan Art, Whiteness, and the Unspectacular Man

    de 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, ... Leer más

    $32.99 USD

  • Landscape into Eco Art

    Articulations of Nature Since the ’60s

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $29.99 USD

  • Wartime Kiss

    Visions of the Moment in the 1940s

    de 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, ... Leer más

    $28.09 USD

  • Critical Shift

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

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • Cold War Modernists

    Art, Literature, and American Cultural Diplomacy

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $31.99 USD

  • Red Brick, Black Mountain, White Clay

    Reflections on Art, Family, and Survival

    de 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, ... Leer más

    Antes $14.99 USD Ahora $11.99 USD

  • The Red Fairy Book

    de Andrew Lang ...
    The Red Fairy Book appeared at Christmas 1890 in a first printing of 10,000 copies. Sources include French, Russian, Danish, and Romanian tales as well as Norse mythology. ... Leer más

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  • Nineteenth Century Caricature and Caricaturists, Illustrated

    de Richard Grant White ...
    A Brief Survey of Caricature and Caricaturists of the 19th Century including Hogarth, Gillray, Cruikshank, Leech, Doyle. ... Leer más

    $2.99 USD