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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.
Acton, David.
60 Years of North American Prints.
Boston:
Boston Printmakers,
2009.
200 pp.; Many color ills.
Cloth
$42.50
(9780615312361)
Adams, Robert.
Denver: A Photographic Survey of the Metropolitan Area.
New Haven:
Yale University Art Gallery,
2009.
136 pp.; 117 b/w ills.
Cloth
$50.00
(9780300141368)
Adams, Robert.
What We Bought: The New World: Scenes from the Denver Metropolitan Area, 1970–1974.
New Haven:
Yale University Art Gallery,
2009.
208 pp.; 193 b/w ills.
Cloth
(9780300149630)
Alexander, Leslie M., and Angel David Nieves, eds.
We Shall Independent Be: African American Place-Making and the Struggle to Claim Space in the United States.
Boulder:
University Press of Colorado,
2009.
544 pp.; 15 b/w ills.
Cloth
$45.00
(9780870819063)
Andrzejewski, Anna Vemer.
Building Power: Architecture and Surveillance in Victorian America.
Knoxville:
University of Texas Press,
2009.
256 pp.; many b/w ills.
Cloth
$39.00
(9781572336315)
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)
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)
Bertellini, Giorgio.
Italy in Early American Cinema.
Bloomington:
Indiana University Press,
2010.
464 pp.; 64 b/w ills.
Paper
$24.95
(9780253221285)
Booth, Stanley, Donna De Salvo, Tina Kukielski, Elizabeth Sussman, and Thomas Weski.
William Eggleston: Democratic Camera–Photographs and Video, 1961–2008.
Exh. cat.
New York and Munich:
Whitney Museum of American Art and Haus Der Kunst,
2008.
320 pp.
Cloth
$65.00
(9780300126211)
Boyle, Richard.
Double Lives: American Painters as Illustrators, 1850–1950.
Exh. cat.
New Britain, Conn.:
New Britain Museum of American Art,
2009.
84 pp.; 34 color ills.; 13 b/w ills.
Paper
$20.00
(9780972449779 )
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)
Brennan, Marcia.
Flowering Light: Kabbalistic Mysticism and the Art of Elliot R. Wolfson.
Houston:
Rice University Press,
2009.
138 pp.; 23 color ills.
Paper
$32.70
(9780892630097)
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)
Burns, Sarah, and John Davis.
American Art to 1900: A Documentary History.
Berkeley:
University of California Press,
2009.
1104 pp.; 14 b/w ills.
Paper
$34.95
(9780520257566)
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, Robert L.
Minnesota Prints and Printmakers, 1900–1945.
Exh. cat.
St. Paul:
Minnesota Historical Society Press,
2009.
208 pp.; 30 color ills.; 240 b/w ills.
Cloth
$49.95
(9780873516358)
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)
Danly, Susan, Thomas Denenberg, and Amy Kurtz Lansing.
Call of the Coast: Art Colonies of New England.
Exh. cat.
Portland, Maine and Old Lyme, Conn.:
Portland Museum of Art and Florence Griswold Museum,
2009.
128 pp.; 63 color ills.
Paper
$29.95
(978030015162)
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 )
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)
Fitzpatrick, Tracy.
Art and the Subway: New York Underground.
New Brunswick, N.J.:
Rutgers University Press,
2009.
269 pp.; 17 color ills.; 80 b/w ills.
Cloth
$29.95
(9780813544526)
Foerstner, Abigail, and John Rohrbach.
Barbara Crane: Challenging Vision.
Exh. cat.
Chicago:
Chicago Cultural Center,
2009.
252 pp.; 115 color ills.; 178 b/w ills.; 293 ills.
Cloth
$75.00
(9780938903420)
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)
Greene, Alison de Lima.
Amy Blakemore: Photographs 1998–2008.
Exh. cat.
Houston:
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston,
2009.
112 pp.; 35 color ills.; 13 b/w ills.
Paper
$29.95
(9780300146998)
Grissom, Carol A.
Zinc Sculpture in America, 1850–1950.
Newark:
University of Delaware Press,
2009.
706 pp.; 354 color ills.; 200 b/w ills.
Cloth
$65.00
(9780874130317)
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 )
Halasz, Piri.
A Memoir of Creativity: Abstract painting, politics & the media, 1956–2008.
New York and Bloomington:
iUniverse, Inc.,
2009.
524 pp.; 5 b/w ills.
Cloth
$40.95
(9781440123221)
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)
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)
Hood Museum of Art.
Immanence and Revelation: The Art of Ben Frank Moss.
Exh. cat.
Hanover, N.H.:
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College,
2009.
112 pp.; 90 color ills.
Paper
$24.95
(9780944722350 )
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)
Jordan, Chris.
Running the Numbers: An American Self-Portrait.
New York:
Prestel,
2009.
112 pp.; 60 color ills.
Paper
$3995.00
(9783791342832)
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, Brian.
Sean Scully: The Art of the Stripe.
Exh. cat.
Hanover, N.H.:
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College,
2009.
144 pp.; 145 color ills.
Cloth
$45.00
(9780944722343)
Kennedy, Elizabeth, ed.
The Eight and American Modernisms.
Exh. cat.
Chicago:
Terra Foundation for American Art in association with University of Chicago Press,
2009.
144 pp.; 135 color ills.; 5 b/w ills.
Cloth
$29.95
(9780932171566)
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)
Latorre, Guisela.
Walls of Empowerment: Chicana/o Indigenist Murals of California.
Austin:
University of Texas Press,
2009.
326 pp.; 20 color ills.; 60 b/w ills.
Paper
$27.95
(9780292719064)
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)
Marsden-Atlass, Lynn, ed.
Thirteen Miles from Paradise: John Moore.
Exh. cat.
Philadelphia:
University of Pennsylvania Press,
2009.
48 pp.; 24 color ills.
Paper
$29.95
(9780812220728)
Martineau, Paul.
Paul Outerbridge: Command Performance.
Exh. cat.
Los Angeles:
J. Paul Getty Museum,
2009.
164 pp.; 59 color ills.; 61 b/w ills.
Cloth
$39.95
(9780892369614)
Meecham, Pam, and Julie Sheldon.
Making American Art.
London and New York:
Routledge,
2009.
280 pp.; 12 color ills.; 5 b/w ills.
Paper
$39.95
(9780415420709)
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)
Munroe, Alexandra.
The Third Mind: American Artists Contemplate Asia, 1860–1989.
Exh. cat.
New York:
Guggenheim Museum,
2009.
440 pp.; 355 color ills.
Cloth
$85.00
(9780892073832)
Naef, Weston.
Carleton Watkins in Yosemite.
Exh. cat.
Los Angeles:
J. Paul Getty Museum,
2008.
88 pp.; 60 b/w ills.
Cloth
$29.95
(9780892369454)
O'Gorman, James F.
Henry Austin: In Every Variety of Architectural Style.
Middletown, Conn.:
Wesleyan University Press,
2009.
252 pp.; 39 color ills.; 92 b/w ills.
Cloth
$35.00
(9780819568960)
Patterson, David W., ed.
John Cage: Music, Philosophy, and Intention, 1933–1950.
New York:
Routledge,
2009.
288 pp.
Paper
$37.95
(9780415996679)
Peck, Amelia.
American Quilts & Coverlets in The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
New York and New Haven:
Metropolitan Museum of Art in association with Yale University Press,
2009.
320 pp.; 300 color ills.; 50 b/w ills.
Cloth
$29.95
(9780300159035)
Pennington, Estill Curtis.
Kentucky: The Master Painters from the Frontier Era to the Great Depression.
Paris, Ky.:
Cane Ridge Publishing House,
2009.
240 pp.; 139 color ills.; 1 b/w ills.
Cloth
$44.95
(9780615242156)
Powell, Richard J.
Cutting a Figure: Fashioning Black Portraiture.
Chicago:
University of Chicago Press,
2009.
396 pp.; 40 color ills.; 76 b/w ills.
Cloth
$55.00
(9780226677279)
Price, Richard, and Cindy Sherman.
Robert Longo: Men in Cities; Photographs.
Munich:
Schirmer/Mosel,
2009.
128 pp.; 94 ills.
Cloth
$49.95
(9783829604116)
Ross, Novelene, and Stephen Gleissner.
The Wichita Art Museum: 75 Years of American Art.
Wichita, Kans.:
Wichita Art Museum,
2009.
244 pp.
Cloth
$24.99
(9780939324545)
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)
Schor, Mira, ed.
The Extreme of the Middle: Writings of Jack Tworkov.
New Haven:
Yale University Press,
2009.
480 pp.; 15 color ills.; 47 b/w ills.
Paper
$45.00
(9780300141023)
Shoemaker, Innis Howe.
Adventures in Modern Art: The Charles K. Williams II Collection.
New Haven:
Yale University Press in association with Philadelphia Museum of Art,
2009.
336 pp.; 153 color ills.; 2 b/w ills.
Cloth
$60.00
(9780300149784)
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)
Tejada, Roberto.
Celia Alvarez Muñoz.
Los Angeles:
UCLA Chicano Studies Resource Center,
2009.
128 pp.; many color ills.
Paper
$24.95
(9780895511126)
Thierlolf, Corinna, and Johannes Vogt.
Dan Flavin: Icons.
Munich:
Schirmer/Mosel,
2009.
80 pp.; 39 color ills.; 28 b/w ills.
Cloth
€49.80
(9783829604055)
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)
Vendryes, Margaret Rose.
Barthé: A Life in Sculpture.
Jackson:
University Press of Mississippi,
2009.
256 pp.; 56 color ills.; 85 b/w ills.
Cloth
$40.00
(9781604730920)
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)