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Contents: Director's preface / Susan Weber Soros -- Foreword / Jacqueline M. Atkins -- Introduction / J.M. Atkins -- Maps -- Time line 1895-1945: The Asia Pacific War and its precedents, 1895-1945 / Yumiko Yamamori. -- Part I. Setting the context: Ch.1. Setting the context / J.M. Atkins -- Ch.2. Propaganda on the home fronts: clothing and textiles as message / J.M. Atkins -- Ch.3. Propaganda precedents:...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Published for the Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design, and Culture, New York by Yale University Press 2005

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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 940.5488 ATK

Summary: "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 AFR

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

Contents: Essays. Collecting the image of America : Charles Willson Peale's The artist in his museum and Samuel F.B. Morse's Gallery of the Louvre / Judith Russi Kirshner -- Painting the image of America : portraiture and genre in the 19th century / Elizabeth Milroy -- Americans in the landscape / D. Scott Atkinson -- American impressionism / Elizabeth Milroy -- America and the modernist spirit / D....

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Publisher / Publication Date: Terra Museum of American Art 1987

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Smithsonian American Art Museum

Contents: From distant shores -- This other Eden -- Liberty more than life -- Ever westward -- Hand to the plow -- Brother against brother -- The rise of industry -- An eye for beauty -- Seeing the city -- The Harlem renaissance -- South by southwest -- The Great Depression -- Folk traditions -- Americans at midcentury -- The abstract impulse -- Toward the millennium -- Catalogue.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams 2006

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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 709 SLO

Muskegon Museum of Art

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Publisher / Publication Date: 1994

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Neel, 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 NEE

Hennessey, Maureen Hart.

Summary: Essays examining Norman Rockwell's critical place in 20th-century American culture accompany 120 illustrations by the artist, including 80 in full color.

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Publisher / Publication Date: High Museum of Art 1999

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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 750 HEN

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Schroth, Sarah.

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Publisher / Publication Date: MFA Publications 2008

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Evans, Walker

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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Museum of Art in association with Princeton University Press, Princeton 2000

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Conrads, Margaret C.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press in association with the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art 2001

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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 759.13 CON

Summary: 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 GEE

Kaplan, Wendy.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Los Angeles County Museum of Art 2004

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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 745.409 KAP

Kinchin, Juliet

Summary: Drawing on the wealth of automobile-related design, art and architecture in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, Automania takes an in-depth look at an industrial object that changed the world. From its first appearance as a plaything for the rich in the 1890s to its establishment as a utilitarian necessity of modern life, the car has transformed the ways in which we live, work and enjoy...

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Publisher / Publication Date: The Museum of Modern Art 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 704.9 KIN

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Publisher / Publication Date: Konecky & Konecky 2000

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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 758.1 IMP

Contents: 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 Ancient

Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Museum of Art 1989

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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 232.9 LIF

Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)

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Publisher / Publication Date: Abradale Press/H.N. Abrams in association with the Museum of Modern Art, New York 1997

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National Museum of American Art (U.S.)

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Publisher / Publication Date: National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution 1996

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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 779 FOR

Kendall, Richard.

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Publisher / Publication Date: National Gallery of Art 1998

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Summary: The female pharaoh Hatshepsut reigned for nearly twenty years during Egypt's early New Kingdom in the fifteenth century B.C. First acting as regent for her young nephew/stepson Thutmose III, she in time assumed the title of king and exercised the full powers of the throne as senior co-ruler. In accordance with Egyptian tradition, Hatshepsut was often depicted as a male king. After her death,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: The Metropolitan Museum of Art 2005

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Summary: The extraordinary story of a woman who defied tradition, a painter whose work captivated Edgar Degas, and the only American asked to join the French Impressionists. Best remembered for her tender yet unsentimental depictions of mothers and children, Cassatt was also a driving force for women's suffrage and other issues of her day.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Home Vision Entertainment 2003

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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV MAR

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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams, in association with the Detroit Institute of Arts and the Metropolitan Museum of Art 1983

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709 Design

Friis-Hansen, Dana

Summary: "At the invitation of the Grand Rapids Art Museum (GRAM), in 2013, Alexis Rockman began research for the Great Lakes Cycle, an ambitious suite of paintings and works on paper that the artist created over the course of four years. It will debut in Grand Rapids in 2018 and tour throughout the Great Lakes region"--introduction.

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 709 FRI

Junker, Patricia/ Lewis, Audrey/ Adams, Henry (CON)/ Baumgartner, Karen (CON)/ Crosman, Christopher B. (CON)

Summary: "Andrew Wyeth painted the landscapes and people in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, where he grew up, and in mid-coast Maine, where he spent each summer--places that would inspire him for over seven decades. This centennial exhibition is a fitting moment to trace the threads that weave through the art of Andrew Wyeth, which never failed to engage viewers and confound critics through the long...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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