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African American quiltmakers Alabama Wilcox County Exhibitions African American quilts Alabama Wilcox County Exhibitions African American women Alabama Wilcox County Exhibitions Pennsylvania Genealogy Bibliography Catalogs Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission. Division of Archives and Manuscripts Catalogs Pennsylvania History, Local Sources Bibliography Catalogs Photography, Artistic Exhibitions Primitivism in art United States Exhibitions Schilderijen Tinwood Alliance ExhibitionsSummary: "Afro-Atlantic Histories" brings together a selection of more than 400 works and documents by more than 200 artists from the 16th to the 21st centuries that express and analyze the ebbs and flows between Africa, the Americas, the Caribbean, and Europe. The book is motivated by the desire and need to draw parallels, frictions, and dialogues around the visual cultures of Afro-Atlantic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: DelMonico Books, ARTBOOK/D.A.P. 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 704.03 AFRBareau, Juliet Wilson.
Summary: "Surveys the small-scale works painted by Goya throughout his career. It includes all surviving sketches for his tapestry cartoons ... Sketches for his major altarpieces ... The little cabinet pictures of 1793-4 ... The book also discusses and reproduces Goya's tragicomic paintings of witchcraft, the more sombre scenes of violence and resistance ... his celebrated small portraits, and the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Museo del Prado 1994
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 759.6 GOYNagy, Clinton
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Utah Press 2009
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 973.04 SPLContents: Principles and themes -- Introduction: landscape and symbol / Richard F. Townsend -- Pre-Columbian images of time / Anthony F. Aveni -- The persistence of Maya tradition in Zinacantan / Evon Z. Vogt -- Mankind and the earth in America and Europe / Vincent Scully -- The Southwest -- Mimbres art: form and imagery / J.J. Brody -- The architecture of the ancient Southwest / Stephen H. Lekson --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Art Institute of Chicago 1992
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709 AncientEvans, Walker
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Museum of Art in association with Princeton University Press, Princeton 2000
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 779.092 EVASummary: The Middle Kingdom was a time of unprecedented splendor, as regional potentates were lavished with rewards and buried in a style befitting royalty. Tomb 10A was prepared for one such potentate, and its treasures survived World War I, a ship's fires, and nearly a century of basement storage.
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Publisher / Publication Date: MFA Publications 2009
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 709 SECSchroth, Sarah.
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Publisher / Publication Date: MFA Publications 2008
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 709.46 SCHSummary: Since the 19th century, the women of Gee's Bend in southern Alabama have created stunning, vibrant quilts. Beautifully illustrated with 350 color illustrations, 30 black-and-white illustrations, and charts, Gee's Bend to Rehoboth is being·released in conjunction with a national exhibition tour including The Museum of Fine Art, Houston, and the Whitney Museum of American Art.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tinwood Books 2003
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 746.46 GEENeel, Alice
Summary: "Explores the themes and stylistic developments of the art of Alice Neel, one of the greatest American painters of the twentieth century, with works spanning nearly seven decades, four essays and additional texts addressing themes and specific works, three artists' appreciations, and a chronology and bibliography"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Museum of Fine Arts 2010
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 759.13 NEEContents: Introduction : the quilts of Gee's Bend / Alvia Wardlaw -- River Island / John Beardsley -- On the map / William Arnett and Paul Arnett -- Reflections on the art of Gee's Bend / Jane Livingston -- (Quilt portfolios) Work clothes -- My way -- Annie Mae Young -- Housetop -- Family -- Triangles -- Patterns -- Sears corduroy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tinwood Books in Association with the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston 2002
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 746.46 QUIKeaton, Eleanor
Summary: Known for his legendary stone face and physical gags, Buster Keaton was a genius of silent-film comedy. Decades after their release, his movies remain unsurpassed marvels of comic invention and mechanical timing. In Buster Keaton remembered, an illustrated survey of Keaton's career, Eleanor Keaton, his wife of 26 years, and film historian Jeffrey Vance provide a personal account of this icon of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: H.N. Abrams 2001
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 791.43 KEADetroit Institute of Arts
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Publisher / Publication Date: Published for the Detroit Institute of Arts by the Smithsonian Institution Press 1995
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 730.09 AFRPennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission
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Publisher / Publication Date: Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission 1976
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: GEN 929.3748 SimJunker, Patricia A.
Summary: As counterpoint to all his other work, especially in the 1880s, they serve to underscore Homer's passion for and dedication to fly-fishing. Examines Homer's lifelong devotion to fishing as it related to his connection to the American landscape, and his extraordinary ability to evoke the atmosphere of pastoral locales. Over 180 color and b/w figures, plates and photographs.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thames & Hudson 2003
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: 702 HOMER JUNNerjordet, Arne
Summary: Traditional embroidery, tapestry, and knitting motifs from Setesdal, in the south of Norway, are brilliantly reconceived in this fabulously fresh collection of knitting projects from Arne and Carlos. Through experience gained from working alongside Scandinavia's most respected knitters, Arne and Carlos seek to preserve tradition with their own creative twist. Over 30 patterns promise endless...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Trafalgar Square 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 746.432 NERKallir, Jane.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Art Services International 2001
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 759.13 KAIPennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission
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Publisher / Publication Date: Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission 1980