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Art of the United States
All titles added within the past twelve months. For a list of book titles in this category 1998 to the present, click here.
American Glamour and the Evolution of Modern Architecture.
New Haven:
Yale University Press,
2010.
40 color ills.; 125 b/w ills.
Cloth
$65.00
(9780300116540)
Acton, David.
60 Years of North American Prints.
Boston:
Boston Printmakers,
2009.
200 pp.; Many color ills.
Cloth
$42.50
(9780615312361)
Aquin, Stéphane, ed.
Andy Warhol Live.
Exh. cat.
Montreal:
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts,
2010.
272 pp.; 360 color ills.
Cloth
$75.00
(9783791340883)
Arbitman, Kahren Jones, and Susan M. Gallo.
Picturing Florida: From the First Coast to the Space Coast.
Exh. cat.
Albuquerque:
Fresco Fine Art Publications,
2009.
224 pp.; 160 color ills.
Cloth
$75.00
(9781934491096)
Auther, Elissa.
String, Felt, Thread: The Hierarchy of Art and Craft in American Art.
Minneapolis:
University of Minnesota Press,
2010.
280 pp.; 83 color ills.
Paper
$29.95
(9780816656097)
Bader, Graham.
Hall of Mirrors: Roy Lichtenstein and the Face of Painting in the 1960s.
Cambridge, Mass.:
The MIT Press,
2010.
84 b/w ills.
Cloth
$29.95
(9780262026475 )
Balken, Debra Bricker.
After Many Springs: Regionalism, Modernism, and the Midwest.
Intro. Jeff Fleming.
Exh. cat.
Des Moines, Iowa:
Des Moines Art Center,
2009.
208 pp.; 100 color ills.; 25 b/w ills.
Cloth
$45.00
(9780300135862)
Balken, Debra Bricker.
John Storrs: Machine-Age Modernist.
Exh. cat.
Boston:
Athenaeum,
2010.
Many color ills.
Cloth
$50.00
(9780934552783)
Barter, Judith A., Sarah E. Kelly, Denise Mahoney, Ellen E. Roberts, Brandon K. Ruud, and Jennifer M. Downs.
American Modernism at the Art Institute of Chicago: From World War I to 1955.
Chicago:
Art Institute of Chicago,
2010.
368 pp.; 325 color ills.; 64 b/w ills.
Cloth
$75.00
(9780300117387)
Bertellini, Giorgio.
Italy in Early American Cinema.
Bloomington:
Indiana University Press,
2010.
464 pp.; 64 b/w ills.
Paper
$24.95
(9780253221285)
Bonami, Francesco, and Gary Carrion-Murayari, eds.
Whitney Biennial 2010.
Exh. cat.
New York:
Whitney Museum of American Art,
2010.
256 pp.; 150 color ills.
Paper
$45.00
(9780300162424)
Braddock, Alan C., and Christoph Irmscher, eds.
A Keener Perception: Ecocritical Studies in American Art History.
Tuscaloosa:
University of Alabama Press,
2010.
304 pp.; 51 b/w ills.
Paper
$29.95
(9780817355517)
Buick, Kirsten Pai.
Child of the Fire: Mary Edmonia Lewis and the Problem of Art History's Black and Indian Subject.
Durham, NC:
Duke University Press,
2010.
344 pp.; 18 color ills.; 33 b/w ills.
Paper
$24.95
(9780822342663)
Cándida Smith, Richard.
The Modern Moves West: California Artists and Democratic Culture in the Twentieth Century.
Philadelphia:
University of Pennsylvania Press,
2009.
256 pp.; 35 b/w ills.
Cloth
$39.95
(9780812241884)
Clark, Carol.
Charles Deas and 1840s America.
Norman:
University of Oklahoma Press,
2009.
248 pp.; 70 color ills.; 84 b/w ills.
Cloth
$39.95
(9780806140308)
Crump, James.
Walker Evans: Decade by Decade.
Exh. cat.
Ostfildern:
Hatje Cantz Verlag,
2010.
240 color ills.; many b/w ills.
Cloth
$75.00
(9783775724913)
Cullen, Deborah, ed.
Nexus New York: Latin/American Artists in the Modern Metropolis.
Exh. cat.
New York:
El Museo del Barrio in association with Yale University Press,
2009.
288 pp.; 123 color ills.; 29 b/w ills.
Paper
$45.00
(9780300158960)
Master Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago.
The Art Institute of Chicago,
2009.
168 pp.; 150 color ills.
Cloth
$39.95
(9780300151039)
Doss, Erika.
Memorial Mania: Public Feeling in America.
Chicago:
University of Chicago,
2010.
161 b/w ills.
Cloth
$35.00
(9780226159386)
Duganne, Erina.
The Self in Black and White: Race and Subjectivity in Postwar American Photography.
Hanover, NH:
Dartmouth College Press,
2010.
248 pp.; 38 b/w ills.
Paper
$35.00
(9781584658023 )
Eckmann, Sabine.
Sharon Lockhart: Lunch Break.
St. Louis:
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum,
2010.
100 color ills.
Cloth
$40.00
(9780936316291)
Esche, Charles, Kerstin Niemann, and Stephanie Smith, eds.
Heartland.
Exh. cat.
Chicago and Eindhoven, NL:
Smart Museum of Art and Van Abbemuseum,
2010.
192 pp.; 90 color ills.
Paper
$30.00
(9780935573473)
Farebrother, Rachel.
The Collage Aesthetic in the Harlem Renaissance.
Burlington, Vt.:
Ashgate,
2010.
232 pp.; 5 b/w ills.
Cloth
$99.95
(9780754661986)
Feinstein, Roni.
Circa 1958: Breaking Ground in American Art.
Exh. cat.
Chapel Hill:
Ackland Art Museum,
2008.
160 pp.; 61 color ills.
Paper
$30.00
(9780807859490)
Flores, Dan.
Visions of the Big Sky: Painting and Photographing the Northern Rocky Mountain West.
The CHarles M. Russell Center Series on Art and Photography of the American West, Vol. 5. Edited by B. Byron Price.
Norman:
University of Oklahoma Press,
2010.
Cloth
$45.00
(9780806138978)
Foster, Carter E., and Franklin Sirmans.
Steve Wolfe on Paper.
Exh. cat.
New York:
Whitney Museum of American Art,
2009.
102 pp.; 45 color ills.
Cloth
$19.95
(9780300158984)
Grace, Trudie A., and David B. Dearinger.
George Pope Morris: Defining American Culture.
Exh. cat.
Cold Spring, NY:
Putnam Country Historical Society & Foundry School Museum,
2009.
68 pp.; several color ills.; many b/w ills.
Paper
$19.95
(9780972671941)
Groseclose, Barbara, and Jochen Wierich, eds.
Internationalizing the History of American Art: Views.
University Park:
Pennsylvania State University Press,
2009.
256 pp.; 15 b/w ills.
Cloth
$70.00
(9780271032009 )
Hanson, Marin F., and Patricia Cox Crews.
American Quilts in the Modern Age, 1870–1940: The International Quilt Study Center Collections.
Lincoln:
University of Nebraska Press,
2009.
496 pp.; 812 color ills.
Cloth
$90.00
(9780803220546)
Harris, Susan, and Jan Howard.
Pat Steir: Drawing Out of Line.
Exh. cat.
Providence:
Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design,
2010.
116 pp.
$35.00
Heartney, Eleanor.
GSA Art in Architecture: Selected Artworks from 1997–2008.
New York:
U.S. General Services Administration,
2010.
160 pp.; Many color ills.
Paper
$15.00
(9781499829372)
Henderson, Linda Dalrymple.
Reimagining Space: The Park Place Group in 1960s New York.
Exh. cat.
Austin:
Blanton Museum of Art,
2009.
139 pp.; many color ills.; few b/w ills.
Paper
$24.95
(9780981573809)
Hills, Patricia.
Painting Harlem Modern: The Art of Jacob Lawrence.
Berkeley:
University of California Press,
2010.
368 pp.; 112 color ills.; 205 b/w ills.
Cloth
$49.95
(9780520252417)
Hogan, Erin.
Spiral Jetty: A Road Trip through the Land Art of the American West.
Chicago:
University of Chicago Press,
2009.
192 pp.; 26 b/w ills.
Paper
$15.00
(9780226348469)
Indych-López, Anna.
Muralism without Walls: Rivera, Orozco, and Siqueiros in the United States, 1927–1940.
Pittsburgh:
University of Pittsburgh Press,
2010.
264 pp.; 104 ills.
Cloth
$45.00
(9780822943846)
Kangas, Matthew.
Relocations: Selected Art Essays and Interviews.
New York:
Midmarch Arts Press,
2010.
480 pp.; Many b/w ills.
Paper
$28.00
(9781877675690)
Kennedy, Roger G.
When Art Worked: The New Deal, Art, and Democracy.
Ed. David Larkin.
New York:
Rizzoli,
2009.
368 pp.; 450 ills.
Cloth
$75.00
(9780847830893)
Khandekar, Narayan, ed.
John Singer Sargent's "Triumph of Religion" at the Boston Public Library: Creation and Restoration.
New Haven and Cambridge, MA:
Yale University Press and The Harvard Art Museum,
2010.
300 color ills.
Cloth
$65.00
(9780300122909)
Levine, Philip.
Detroit Disassembled: Photographs by Andrew Moore.
Exh. cat.
Akron, OH and Bologna:
Akron Art Museum in association with Damiani,
2010.
127 pp.; Many color ills.
Cloth
$50.00
(9788862081184)
Loughran, Trish.
The Republic in Print: Print Culture in the Age of U.S. Nation Building, 1770–1870.
New York:
Columbia University Press,
2007.
568 pp.; 26 b/w ills.
Paper
$24.50
(9780231139090)
Lovenheim, Barbara, ed.
Breaking Ground : A Century of Craft Art in Western New York.
Rochester, NY:
Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester,
2010.
Many color ills.; Many b/w ills.
Cloth
$50.00
(9781555953546)
Mecklenburg, Virginia.
Telling Stories: Norman Rockwell from the Collections of George Lucas and Steven Spielberg.
Exh. cat.
New York:
Abrams,
2010.
252 pp.; 118 color ills.; 25 b/w ills.
Cloth
$65.00
(9780810996519)
Merwood-Salisbury, Joanna.
Chicago 1890: The Skyscraper and the Modern City.
Chicago:
University of Chicago Press,
2009.
208 pp.; 89 b/w ills.
Cloth
$45.00
(9780226520780)
Moffatt, Frederick C.
The Life, Art, and Times of Joseph Delany, 1904–1991.
Knoxville:
University of Tennessee Press,
2009.
96 ills.
Cloth
$44.95
(9781572336766)
Morello, Paolo.
La fotografia in Italia 1945-1975.
Milan:
Contrasto,
2010.
832 pp.; 221 ills.
Cloth
€120.00
(9788869652196)
Morgan, Ann Lee.
Oxford Dictionary of American Art and Artists.
Oxford:
Oxford University Press,
2009.
537 pp.
Paper
$17.95
(9780195373219)
Nawrocki, Dennis Alan.
Art in Detroit Public Places: Third Edition.
Series: Great Lakes Books.
Detroit:
Wayne State University Press,
2010.
256 pp.; 177 ills.
Paper
$24.95
(9780814333785)
Patterson, David W., ed.
John Cage: Music, Philosophy, and Intention, 1933–1950.
New York:
Routledge,
2009.
288 pp.
Paper
$37.95
(9780415996679)
Perry, Eve.
From Amazing Stories to Weird Tales: Covering Pulp Fiction.
Exh. cat.
Storrs:
William Benton Museum of Art, University of Connecticut,
2010.
42 pp.; 80 color ills.
Paper
(9780918386465)
Reason, Akela.
Thomas Eakins and the Uses of History.
Philadelphia:
University of Pennsylvania,
2010.
74 b/w ills.
Cloth
$55.00
(9780812241983)
Ross, Novelene, and Stephen Gleissner.
The Wichita Art Museum: 75 Years of American Art.
Wichita, Kans.:
Wichita Art Museum,
2009.
244 pp.
Cloth
$34.95
(9780939324545)
Gavin, Robin Farwell, Lois Rudnick, and Sharyn R. Udall.
Cady Wells and Southwestern Modernism.
Ed. Lois Rudnick.
Santa Fe:
Museum of New Mexico Press,
2010.
160 pp.; 74 color ills.; 15 b/w ills.
Cloth
$39.95
(9780890135587)
Savage, Kirk.
Monument Wars: Washington, D.C., the National Mall, and the Transformation of the Memorial Landscape.
Berkeley:
University of California Press,
2009.
408 pp.; 126 b/w ills.
Cloth
$34.95
(9780520256545)
Scharff, Virginia, and Carolyn Brucken.
Home Lands: How Women Made the West.
Exh. cat.
Berkeley:
University of California Press,
2010.
22 color ills.; 46 b/w ills.
Cloth
(9780520262195)
Schulman, Daniel.
A Force for Change: African American Art and the Julius Rosenwald Fund.
Exh. cat.
Evanston, IL:
Northwestern University Press,
2010.
176 pp.
Paper
$39.95
(9780810125889)
Schwartz, Alexandra.
Ed Ruscha's Los Angeles.
Cambridge, MA:
MIT Press,
2010.
326 pp.; 74 b/w ills.
Cloth
$29.95
(9780262013642)
Sloan, Kim, ed.
European Visions: American Voices.
London:
British Museum,
2009.
150 pp.; 100 color ills.
Paper
$80.00
(9780861591725)
Stott, Annette, and Holly Koons McCullough.
Dutch Utopia: American Artists in Holland, 1880-1914.
Savannah, Ga.:
Telfair Museum of Art,
2009.
288 pp.
Cloth
$59.95
(9780933075115)
Tatum, Stephen.
In the Remington Moment.
Lincoln:
University of Nebraska,
2010.
280 pp.; 8 color ills.; 34 b/w ills.
Cloth
$55.00
(9780803225282)
Tejada, Roberto.
Celia Alvarez Muñoz.
Los Angeles:
UCLA Chicano Studies Resource Center,
2009.
128 pp.; many color ills.
Paper
$24.95
(9780895511126)
Trebilcock, Evelyn D., and Valerie A. Balint.
Glories of the Hudson: Frederic Edwin Church's Views from Olana.
Exh. cat.
Ithaca, NY:
Cornell University Press,
2009.
96 pp.; 83 color ills.
Cloth
$24.95
(9780801448430)
Vinegar, Aron.
I Am A Monument: On Learning from Las Vegas.
Cambridge, MA:
MIT Press,
2010.
208 pp.; 82 b/w ills.
Cloth
$29.95
(9780262220828)
Whitney Museum of American Art.
Whitney Museum of American Art at Altria: 25 Years.
Intro. Shamim M. Momin.
New York:
Whitney Museum of American Art,
2009.
192 pp.; 200 color ills.
Cloth
$45.00
(9780300139334)
Widener, Daniel.
Black Arts West: Culture and Struggle in Postwar Los Angeles.
Durham, NC:
Duke University Press,
2010.
384 pp.; 48 ills.
Paper
$24.95
(9780822346791)
Wolf, Eric M.
American Art Museum Architecture: Documents and Design.
New York:
W.W. Norton and Company,
2010.
Many color ills.; Many b/w ills.
Cloth
$75.00
(9780393732801)