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Author
Publisher
University of California Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"The harvest has traditionally been a productive season, both on American farms and in its artists' studios. Before the early nineteenth century, the ideal of the Jeffersonian yeoman, singly cultivating a subsistence plot for family use, dominated the American imagination; after World War II, the advent of big agribusiness proved less immediately attractive for artists. In We Gather Together, Charles C. Eldredge examines the period in between--when...
Author
Publisher
Rockport Publishers
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
From Chagall to Renoir and from Boston to Paris, kids search famous paintings to complete a checklist of things to find in each. The book also invites children to see what they can discover when they look at art very closely. Following each close-up is an accompanying spread full of fun facts and activities, including write-in and draw-in projects related to the painting and the story it tells.
63) American utopia
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"A joyful collaboration between old friends David Byrne and Maira Kalman, American Utopia offers readers an antidote to cynicism, bursting with pathos, humanism, and hope--featuring his words and lyrics brought to life with more than 150 of her colorful paintings. The text is drawn from David Byrne's American Utopia, which has become a hit Broadway show and is soon to be a documentary from Spike Lee. The four-color artwork, by Maira Kalman, which...
Author
Publisher
Phaidon Press, Limited
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
A collection of the extraordinary private spaces of 250 of the world's most creative people, past and present. "Life Meets Art" is a behind-the-scenes tour of some of the most fascinating, inspirational and unique home interiors in the world. The living spaces of hundreds of the globe's most talented people in the spheres of art, design, fashion, literature, music, and film, here provide inspiration for anyone fascinated by stylish living, creative...
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Writer Tami Lewis Brown and illustrator Keith Negley present a joyful picture book biography of modern art icon Keith Haring, celebrating the ways his life embodied the message: art is for everyone. Keith Haring believed that art should be enjoyed by everyone. When Keith first moved to New York City, he rode the subway and noticed how the crowds were bored and brusque, and that the subways were decayed and dreary. He thought the people of New York...
Publisher
National Gallery of Art
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A sweeping exploration of animals in Japanese art and culture across sixteen centuries0Few countries have devoted as much artistic energy to the depiction of animal life as Japan. Drawing upon the country's unique spiritual heritage, rich literary traditions, and currents in popular culture, Japanese artists have long expressed admiration for animals in sculpture, painting, lacquerwork, ceramics, metalwork, textiles, and woodblock prints. Real and...
71) Masterpiece mix
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Uses works displayed in the National Gallery of Art to introduce common subjects and genres in painting.
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"When Winslow Homer watches the sea, he studies it patiently, making sure to notice every detail before bringing it to life again in his paintings. The fabled painter Winslow Homer always had a deep respect for the elemental power and beauty of the ever-changing ocean. Whenever he set up his easel, he was drawn back to its frothing waves smashing against rocks, gleaming like mirrors in the sunlight. He knew it took patience to get his painting just...
Author
Publisher
Pelican Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Internationally collected artist Woodrow Nash discusses here how he creates his African Nouveau sculptures, whom they represent, and what they mean to him. Full-color photographs of his moving subjects bring them to life in this chapter book. The end of the book is a history lesson on slavery, sculpture, and the context of his figures"-- provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Duke University Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"In Surface Relations Vivian L. Huang traces how Asian and Asian American artists have strategically reworked the pernicious stereotype of inscrutability as a dynamic antiracist, feminist, and queer form of resistance. Following inscrutability in literature, visual culture, and performance art since 1965, Huang articulates how Asian American artists take up aesthetics of Asian inscrutability-such as invisibility, silence, unreliability, flatness,...
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