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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)