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The American Century: Art & Culture, 1900-1950 by Barbara Haskell Publisher Comments 'Recognized for his remarkable synthesis of Expressionist and Cubist techniques, Lyonel Feininger (1871-1956) has long been considered a leading modern artist in Germany. In his native United States, he is less well known. This comprehensive survey... (read more) List Price $60.00 Your price: $15.98 Sale - Hardcover 
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Modern American Realism: The Sara Roby Foundation Collection by Virgini Mecklenburg Synopsis Illustrating 113 works by 101 artists that span more than 60 years of American art after World War I, Modern American Realism includes outstanding examples of many kinds of realism -- psychological, socio-political, spiritual, and satirical, with... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Journey of the Highwaymen by Catherine M Enns Publisher Comments The widely collected paintings and inspiring tale of Florida's Highwaymen is now fully revealed in this book which includes, for the first time, works by all 26 artists. Illustrated with 204 full-color plates, The Journey of the Highwaymen traces these... (read more) List Price $42.00 Your price: $13.97 Sale - Hardcover
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The Fate of a Gesture: Jackson Pollock and Postwar American Art by Carter Ratcliff Publisher Comments Flipping his colors onto the canvas, pouring and dripping his paints in a quintessentially American gesture, Jackson Pollock redefined the art of painting. It was the fate of Pollock’s gesture, which reflected America’s largest, most... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Modern West: American Landscapes, 1890-1950 by Emily Ballew Neff Publisher Comments Drawing extensively from various disciplines including ethnology, geography, geology, and environmental studies, this groundbreaking book addresses shifting concepts of time, history, and landscape in relation to the work of pioneering American artists... (read more) List Price $65.00 Your price: $28.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Nothing and Everything - The Influence of Buddhism on the American Avant Garde: 1942 - 1962 by Ellen Pearlman Publisher Comments In America in the late 1950s and early 60s, the world—and life itself—became a legitimate artist’s tool, aligning with Zen Buddhism’s emphasis on “enlightenment at any moment” and living in the now. Simultaneously and... (read more) Your price: $21.95 New - Trade Paper
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Artisans in the North Carolina Backcountry by Johanna Miller Lewis Publisher Comments During the quarter of a century before the thirteen colonies became a nation, the northwest quadrant of North Carolina had just begun to attract permanent settlers. This seemingly primitive area may not appear to be a likely source for attractive pottery... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price: $31.02 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Inspiring Reform: Boston's Arts and Crafts Movement by Marilee Boyd Meyer Publisher Comments Fine craftsmanship and handiwork originality in design, aesthetic purity, and honest use of materials in both decorative and utilitarian objects were the ideals embraced by Boston's Society of Arts and Crafts -- the nation's fist such organization... (read more) List Price $75.00 Your price: $13.95 Used - Hardcover
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Albert Bierstadt: Puget Sound on the Pacific Coast: A Superb Vision of Dreamland by Patricia A. Junker Publisher Comments In 1870, Albert Bierstadt painted one of the most novel subjects of his career: Puget Sound on the Pacific Coast. The canvas resulted from newly reawakened interest in a region the artist had visited only briefly seven years before. Although Bierstadt... (read more) Your price: $19.95 New - Trade Paper
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American Pin Up (25) by Charles Martignette Publisher Comments Pictures from an age when eroticism was still innocent They've been exciting generations of men, on calendars and covers, as centrefolds or even on playing cards: pin-ups. What started as an exercise in oils was soon taken up in various media - pin-up... (read more) Your price: $19.99 Sale - Hardcover
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Paintings of Maine by Arnold Skolnick Synopsis Nearly every prominent U.S. landscape artist has painted Maine's rugged coast, soaring mountains, primeval forests, and seaside towns. Paintings of Maine collects 89 of the most memorable of these masterpieces. Excerpts from famous authors illuminate... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Voyages of the Self: Pairs, Parallels, and Patterns in American Art and Literature by Barbara Novak Publisher Comments 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... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $10.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Oxford Dictionary of American Art and Artists by Ann Lee Morgan Publisher Comments With the advent of abstract expressionism in the 1940s, America became the white hot center of the artistic universe. Now, inThe Oxford Dictionary of American Art and Artists, the first such volume to appear in three decades, Ann Lee Morgan offers an... (read more) List Price $34.00 Your price: $31.45 Google eBooks - Electronic
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A Sense of Place: The Artist and the American Land by Alan Gussow Publisher Comments Originally published in 1972 by Friends of the Earth, A Sense of Place is a remarkable look at the American continent over the past four centuries. Award-winning artist Alan Gussow presents a powerful collection of paintings that range from the earliest... (read more) List Price $55.00 Your price: $30.00 Used - Hardcover
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Artist and Identity in Twentieth-Century America (Contemporary Artists and Their Critics) by Matthew Baigell Publisher Comments Matthew Baigell examines the work of Edward Hopper, Ben Shahn, Frank Stella, and other artists, relating their art works to the social contexts in which they were created. Identifying important and recurring themes in this body of art, such as the... (read more) List Price $48.00 Your price: $3.98 Used - Trade Paper
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The Last Folk Hero: A True Story of Race and Art, Power and Profit by Andrew Dietz Publisher Comments The lives and works of blue-collar, African American artists Thornton Dial and Lonnie Holley are documented in this true story of outsider art, ego, exploitation, and race. Following the interaction between Dial, an illiterate factory worker with... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $12.50 Used - Hardcover
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This Tranquil Land: Hudson River Paintings from the Hersen Collection by William Kloss Synopsis Nineteenth-century Americans responded to landscape paintings because the subject existed all around them. Unlike paintings of ancient kings or mythic goddesses that in Europe were regarded as the highest achievement but in America were considered... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $16.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Painters of the Ashcan School: The Immortal Eight by Bennard B Perlman Publisher Comments Lively, scholarly, beautifully illustrated study of the 8 artists who brought a compelling new realism to American painting, 1870 to 1913. Henri, Glackens, Sloan, Luks, 4 more. 142 black-and-white illustrations. Bibliography. Introduction.... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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American Art Book Mini Edition by Phaidon Publisher Comments Published in a mini-format, this A-to-Z guide offers an unparalleled view of the most influential and best-loved American artists from colonial times to the present. 500 illustration, 446 in color.... (read more) List Price $11.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Across Frontiers: Hispanic Crafts of New Mexico by Dexter Cirillo Publisher Comments At last, a beautiful, authoritative survey of the thriving Hispanic craft movement of the Southwest. Tracing the roots and revival of arts brought to Mexico and the US by Spanish settlers, this book includes over 150 photographs representing the work of... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $3.25 Used - Trade Paper
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