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This book undertakes a critical reappraisal of Minimalism through an examination of three key painters: Robert Mangold, David Novros, and Jo Baer. By establishing their substantive engagements with ……続きを見る

Set in the 1960s, Based on "Les Romanesques." DRAMATIS PERSONAE Bobby Robbins, a boy of 17 Laura Flowers, a girl of 16 Doris Robbins, Bobby's Mother Howard Flowers, Laura's Father Vinnie Barbarosa, ……続きを見る

Behind Frida Kahlo’s portraits, lies the story of both her life and work. It is precisely this combination that draws the reader in. Frida’s work is a record of her life, and rarely can we learn so ……続きを見る

Born in 1912, in a small town in Wyoming, Jackson Pollock embodied the American dream as the country found itself confronted with the realities of a modern era replacing the fading nineteenth centur……続きを見る

In 1905 Georgia travelled to Chicago to study painting at the Art Institute of Chicago. In 1907 she enrolled at the Art Students’ League in New York City, where she studied with William Merritt Chas……続きを見る

This introduction to the art of tribal peoples of North America, Africa, and the South Pacific does not briefly cover the hundreds of artistic traditions in these three vast areas but rather studies……続きを見る

In the late 1920s, a group of young Kiowa artists, pursuing their education at the University of Oklahoma, encountered Swedish-born art professor Oscar Brousse Jacobson (1882–1966). With Jacobson’s ……続きを見る

The Romare Bearden Reader brings together a collection of new essays and canonical writings by novelists, poets, historians, critics, and playwrights. The contributors, who include Toni Morrison, Ra……続きを見る

This collection gathers together the works by Jack London in a single, convenient, high quality, and extremely low priced Kindle volume! This book contains now several HTML tables of contents that w……続きを見る

In this book you'll find a struggle between the dreams and nightmares of the everyday person. I share some of my very own personal expriences along with the experiences of others I've witnessed via ……続きを見る

For centuries indigenous communities of North America have used carriers to keep their babies safe. Among the Indians of the Great Plains, rigid cradles are both practical and symbolic, and many of ……続きを見る

This book reinterprets Wifredo Lam’s work with particular attention to its political implications, focusing on how these implications emerge from the artist’s critical engagement with 20th-century a……続きを見る

Esta obra tiene la virtud de atender un tema esencial en la enseñanza de las Relaciones Internacionales: el análisis teórico desde sus distintas expresiones, plasmado de manera didáctica al relacion……続きを見る

Klee Wyck is Canadian artist Emily Carr's memoir. Through short sketches, the artist tells of her experiences among First Nations people and cultures on British Columbia's west coast. The book won t……続きを見る

This book investigates the Casa de Montejo and considers the role of the building’s Plateresque façade as a form of visual rhetoric that conveyed ideas about the individual and communal cultural ide……続きを見る

seems to me you’ve lost all sense of direction follow me i’m lost too and i don’t think that’s necessarily a bad thing 続きを見る

The poems found in this book show true poetic expression when living in certain condition and different enviornments across our planet. Jason Jones poetry will expand into other genres of literature……続きを見る

An American Art Colony demonstrates the social dimension of American art in the twentieth century, paying special attention to the role of fellow artists, nonartists and the historical context of ar……続きを見る

Shortlisted for the 2020 Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present Book Prize Winner of the 2019 Art Journal Prize from the College Art Association What is the role of pleasure and pain i……続きを見る

The Caribbean has been traditionally associated with externally devised mappings and categories, thus appearing as a passive entity to be consumed and categorized. Challenging these forces and repre……続きを見る

Among the women artists who came to prominence in the postwar era in New York, painter Nell Blaine had a uniquely hard-won career. In her mid-thirties, her horizons seemed limitless. Her shows recei……続きを見る

This book interprets the fiber art and craft-inspired sculpture by eight US and Latin American women artists whose works incite embodied affective experience. Grounded in the work of Gilles Deleuze ……続きを見る

Spanish comics have attracted considerable critical attention internationally: dissertations have been written, monographs have been published, and an array of cultural institutions in Spain (the me……続きを見る

The next century will be the Twenty Second Century. Imagine that? An entire century, over in just twenty seconds. That's what we have to look forward to, so John Blandly painted a lot of paintings a……続きを見る

Guisela Latorre’s Democracy on the Wall: Street Art of the Post-Dictatorship Era in Chile documents and critically deconstructs the explosion of street art that emerged in Chile after the dictatorsh……続きを見る

After the Long Silence offers a ground-breaking, meticulously researched criticism of Brazilian contemporary performance created by its post-dictatorship generation, whose work expresses the consequ……続きを見る

Unlike many other handicrafts in the Mexican state of Oaxaca, which have long cultural and historical trajectories, Oaxacan woodcarving began in the second half of the twentieth century and has alwa……続きを見る

Honorable Mention, 2021 LASA Mexico Humanities Book Prize, Latin American Studies Association, Mexico Section In the sixteenth century, the Franciscan friar Bernardino de Sahagún and a team of indig……続きを見る

The post-civil rights era of the 1970s offered African Americans an all-too-familiar paradox. Material and symbolic gains contended with setbacks fueled by resentment and reaction. African American ……続きを見る

“Will educate and enlighten Canadians for generations to come. It's a must-read for anyone seeking to understand Canada's residential-school saga. Most importantly, it's a touchstone of community fo……続きを見る