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On the heels of Kendrick Lamar’s Pulitzer Prize, as the world begins to recognize the creative side of Hip-Hop, comes a writing guide from a musician and "The greatest MC of all time," Rakim. The mu……続きを見る

“One of the great American memoirs, a heartbreaking, hilarious story of what it means to make things up, including yourself. A wild tale of lack and lies, galling humiliations and majestic reinventi……続きを見る

Winner, 2019 Ron Tyler Award for Best Illustrated Book, sponsored by the Texas State Historical Association (TSHA) In this expansive and vigorous survey of the Houston art scene of the 1970s and 198……続きを見る

自从中国打开国门以来，每一年都有成千上万的中国人以各种理由来美国定居。他们怀揣着各自的梦想，在美国这片神奇的土地上，用自己斑斓多彩的生活演绎着生命的张力。《错位》的作者用短篇小说的形式，将他们的故事……続きを見る

This edited volume examines the history of abstract art across Latin America after 1945. This form of art grew in popularity across the Americas in the postwar period, often serving to affirm a sens……続きを見る

The ancient city of Teotihuacan, North America’s first metropolis, flourished for nearly eight centuries in central Mexico until its demise in 650 C.E. Known primarily for its massive architecture a……続きを見る

Sandy Einstein aus Kalifornien erinnert sich: Als ich aufwuchs, sprach mein Vater kaum über seine Vergangenheit und ich hatte auch kein Interesse daran, ihn danach zu fragen. Er sagte, dass er währe……続きを見る

Growing up my father rarely talked about his past and I really did not have much interest in asking him about it. He did say he was ransomed out of Germany during the Nazi reign of terror in the 193……続きを見る

Felrath Hines (1913–1993), the first African American man to become a professional conservator for the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, was born and raised in the segregated Midwest. Leaving t……続きを見る

Winner, Roland H. Bainton Book Prize, The Sixteenth Century Society and Conference, 2019 Some sixty years after the Spanish conquest of Mexico, a group of Nahua intellectuals in Mexico City set abou……続きを見る

During the period of Aztec expansion and empire (ca. 1325–1525), scribes of high social standing used a pictographic writing system to paint hundreds of manuscripts detailing myriad aspects of life,……続きを見る

Mapping Modernisms brings together scholars working around the world to address the modern arts produced by indigenous and colonized artists. Expanding the contours of modernity and its visual produ……続きを見る

Jasper Cropsey was educated as architect, but initially trained in painting, then studied at the National Academy of Design. After traveling through Europe (1847-1849), including France, Italy and S……続きを見る

In the first volume to collect the paintings and drawings of Clarence Major, readers are offered six decades of unique, colorful, and compelling canvases and works on paperーworks of singular beauty……続きを見る

Self-taught photographer Hugh Mangum was born in 1877 in Durham, North Carolina, as its burgeoning tobacco economy put the frontier-like boomtown on the map. As an itinerant portraitist working prim……続きを見る

The years following Mexican independence in 1821 were critical to the development of social, racial, and national identities. The visual arts played a decisive role in this process of self-definitio……続きを見る

The red hot poetry is erotic poetry combine with erotic art sketch. This book is about my personal experience that has been formatted to blogs (erotic poetry). Also this book has a touch of sense of……続きを見る

Oscar De La Hoya, uno de los luchadores más celebrados en la historia del boxeo, nos brinda su historia franca y conmovedora sobre cómo logró el Sueño Americano: su ascenso al éxito, el poder de una……続きを見る

Uno de los signos definitorios de las vanguardias es su radical ruptura de fronteras entre las artes. Los artífices del movimiento se entregaron al diálogo interartístico en colaboraciones memorable……続きを見る

First published in 1977. The purpose of this study is to locate the sources for the American style of painting characterised by measure and design – the representation of the specific and familiar a……続きを見る

The Routledge Companion to African American Theatre and Performance is an outstanding collection of specially written essays that charts the emergence, development, and diversity of African American……続きを見る

Art for a New Understanding, an exhibition from Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art that opened in October 2018, seeks to radically expand and reposition the narrative of American art since 1950 ……続きを見る

Received the 2018 Honorable Mention for the Joe A. Callaway Prize for the Best Book on Drama or Theatre Black Movements analyzes how artists and activists of recent decades reference earlier freedom……続きを見る

TOSH: Selling and Marketing Points: Candid, funny, name-dropping, page-turning memoir by Tosh Berman, the son of Wallace Berman. Wallace Berman is one of the most significant artists of American cul……続きを見る

Fragments of culture often become commodities when the tourism and heritage business showcases local artistic and cultural practice. And frequently, this industry develops without the consent of tho……続きを見る

This book examines a range of visual expressions of Black Power across American art and popular culture from 1965 through 1972. It begins with case studies of artist groups, including Spiral, OBAC a……続きを見る

Among Southeast Alaska’s best-known tourist attractions are its totem parks, showcases for monumental wood sculptures by Tlingit and Haida artists. Although the art form is centuries old, the parks ……続きを見る

A legendary fashion designer for Barbie shares the story of her adventures working behind-the-scenes at Mattel, and spotlights the creations that transformed the world’s most famous doll into a styl……続きを見る

This anthology provides an overview of the history and theory of Chicano/a art from the 1960s to the present, emphasizing the debates and vocabularies that have played key roles in its conceptualiza……続きを見る

Past severe winters experienced in the United States, combined with escalated fuel prices and other unattractive conditions such as higher taxes, inflation, crime, urban decay, etc., have forced num……続きを見る