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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.

The Weir Family, 1820–1920: Expanding the Traditions of American Art. Exh. cat. Lebanon, NH: University Press of New England, 2011. 212 pp.; 76 color ills.; 96 b/w ills. Cloth $49.95 (9781611680218)

Adams, Robert. Sea Stories. Exh. cat. Robert Adams: The Places We Live, A Retrospective Selection of Photographs, 1964–2009. New Haven: Yale University Art Gallery, 2011. 124 pp.; 106 ills. Paper $45.00 (9780300180046)

Adams, Robert. This Day: Photographs from Twenty-Five Years, The Northwest Coast. Exh. cat. Robert Adams: The Places We Live, A Retrospective Selection of Photographs, 1964–2009. New Haven: Yale University Art Gallery, 2011. 106 pp.; 68 ills. Paper $45.00 (9780300180053)

Albrecht, Donald, and Thomas Mellins. The American Style: The Colonial Revival and the Modern Metropolis. Exh. cat. New York: Monacelli Press, 2011. 224 pp.; 180 ills. Cloth $50.00 (9791580932851)

Antin, David. Radical Coherency: Selected Essays on Art and Literature 1966 to 2005. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011. 369 pp. Paper $25.00 (9780226020976)

Auther, Elissa, and Adam Lerner, eds. West of Center: Art and the Counterculture Experiment in America, 1965–1977. Exh. cat. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2011. 448 pp.; 92 color ills. Paper $39.95 (9780816677269 )

Barratt, Carrie Rebora, Lance Mayer, Gay Myers, Eli Wilner, and Suzanne Smeaton. Washington Crossing the Delaware: Restoring an American Masterpiece. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2012. 48 pp.; 55 color ills.; 10 b/w ills. Paper $14.95 (9780300176421)

Barter, Judith A., ed. The Age of American Impressionism: Masterpieces from The Art Institute of Chicago. Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2012. 160 pp.; 117 color ills. Cloth $50.00 (9780300175745)

Bellion, Wendy. Citizen Spectator: Art, Illusion, and Visual Perception in Early National America. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2011. 388 pp.; 12 color ills.; 83 b/w ills.; 95 ills. Cloth $45.00 (9780807833889)

Bird, Jon. Leon Golub: Echoes of the Real. London: Reaktion Books, 2011. 302 pp.; Many color ills. Paper $39.00 (9781861897657)

Bischof, Libby, and Susan Danly. Maine Moderns: Art in Seguinland, 1900–1940. Exh. cat. Portland, ME: Portland Museum of Art, 2011. 184 pp.; 93 color ills.; 3 b/w ills. Cloth $50.00 (9780300169485)

Boylan, Alexis L., ed. Thomas Kinkade: The Artist in the Mall. Durham: Duke University Press, 2011. 320 pp.; 13 color ills.; 22 b/w ills.; 35 ills. Paper $25.95 (9780822348399)

Brower, Matthew. Developing Animals: Wildlife and Early American Photography. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2011. 280 pp.; 42 b/w ills. Paper $25.00 (9780816654796)

Buckberrough, Sherry, and Nancy Noble. Women Artists at New Britain Museum. Exh. cat. New Britain, CT: New Britain Museum of American Art, 2011. 116 pp.; 160 color ills. Paper $25.00 (9780972449724)

Carder, James N. A Home of the Humanities: The Collecting and Patronage of Mildred and Robert Woods Bliss. Dumbarton Oaks Collection, vol. 1. Washington, DC: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 2011. 177 pp.; Many color ills. Cloth $65.00 (9780884023654)

Carder, James N. American Art at Dumbarton Oaks. Dumbarton Oaks Collection, vol. 2. Washington, DC: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 2011. 127 pp.; 24 color ills.; 1 b/w ills.; 25 ills. Paper $20.95 (9780884023661)

Cash, Sarah, ed. Corcoran Gallery of Art: American Paintings to 1945. Washington, D.C.: Corcoran Gallery of Art in association with Hudson Hills Press, 2011. 320 pp.; 136 color ills.; 650 b/w ills. Cloth (978155953614)

Colbert, Charles. Haunted Visions: Spiritualism and American Art. Arts and Intellectual Life in Modern America. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011. 320 pp.; 70 b/w ills. Cloth $49.95 (9780812243253 )

Cooperman, Emily T., and Lea Carson Sherk. William Birch: Picturing the American Scene. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010. 376 pp.; 85 color ills.; 53 b/w ills.; 138 ills. Cloth $75.00 (9780812242485)

Coyle, Heather Campbell, ed. Howard Pyle: American Master Rediscovered. Exh. cat. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011. 192 pp.; 129 color ills. Paper $45.00 (9780977164431)

Davis, Keith F., and Jane L. Aspinwall. Timothy H. O'Sullivan: The King Survey Photographs. Exh. cat. Kansas City, MO: Hall Family Foundation and Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2011. 260 pp.; 345 ills. Cloth $60.00 (9780300179842)

de Grandis, Oddo, Stefania Fabri, and Maria Ida Gaeta, eds. America Illustrata. Exh. cat. Rome: Gangemi Editore, 2006. 272 pp.; 230 color ills. Paper (9788849200188)

Dennis, James M. The Strike: The Improbable Story of an Iconic 1886 Painting of Labor Protest. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 2011. 238 pp.; 8 color ills.; 68 b/w ills.; 76 ills. Paper $24.95 (9780299251345)

Dubin, Lois Sherr. Grand Procession: Contemporary Artistic Visions of American Indians. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2011. 64 pp.; 67 color ills.; 1 b/w ills.; 68 ills. Cloth $19.95 (9780914738671)

Duncan, Alice Levi, Thayer Tolles, Peter Hassrick, and Andrew Walker. Shaping the West: American Sculptors of the 19th Century. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2011. 96 pp.; 95 color ills. Paper $10.95 (9780914738664)

Eckhardt, Joseph P. So Bravely and So Well: The Life and Art of William T. Trego. Exh. cat. Doylestown, PA: James A. Michener Art Museum, 2011. 208 pp.; 76 color ills.; 52 b/w ills. Cloth $39.95 (9781879636309)

Ewers, John C. Plains Indian Art: The Pioneering Work of John C. Ewers. Ed. Jane Ewers Robinson. Charles M. Russell Center Series on Art and Photoraphy of the American West, vol. 8. University of Oklahoma Press, 2011. 224 pp.; 41 color ills.; 99 b/w ills. Cloth $39.95 (9780806130613)

Falino, Jeannine, and Jennifer Scanlan, eds. Crafting Modernism: Midcentury American Art and Design. Exh. cat. New York: Museum of Arts and Design, 2011. 368 pp.; 250 color ills. Cloth $65.00 (0810984806)

Fields, Jill, ed. Entering the Picture: Judy Chicago, The Fresno Feminist Art Program, and the Collective Visions of Women Artists. New Directions in American History. New York: Routledge, 2011. 345 pp.; 38 ills. Paper $42.95 (9780415887694)

Fleetwood, Nicole R. Troubling Vision: Performance, Visuality, and Blackness. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011. 276 pp.; 38 b/w ills. Paper $25.00 (9780226253039)

Francis, Jacqueline. Making Race: Modernism and "Racial Art" in America. A McLellan Book. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2011. 256 pp.; 12 color ills.; 47 b/w ills. Paper $40.00 (9780295991450)

Gidley, Mick. Photography and the USA. London: Reaktion Books, 2011. 184 pp.; 60 color ills.; 50 b/w ills.; 110 ills. Paper $29.95 (9781861897701)

Hildebrand, Grant. Suyama: A Complex Serenity. Seattle: Marquand Books, 2011. 176 pp.; 122 color ills.; 32 b/w ills.; 154 ills. Cloth $75.00 (9780295990811)

Hull, Roger. Henk Pander: Memory and Modern Life. Exh. cat. Salem, OR: Hallie Ford Museum of Art, 2011. 136 pp.; 112 color ills. Paper $29.95 (9781930957633)

Johns, Barbara. Signs of Home: The Paintings and Wartime Diary of Kamekichi Tokita. The Scott and Laurie Oki Series in Asian American Studies Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press, 2011. 272 pp.; 40 color ills.; 40 b/w ills. Cloth $50.00 (9780295991009)

Junker, Patricia. Albert Bierstadt: Puget Sound on the Pacific Coast. Exh. cat. Seattle: Seattle Art Museum, 2011. 72 pp.; 52 color ills. Paper $19.95 (9780295991245)

Katcher, Jane, David A. Schorsch, and Ruth Wolfe, eds. Expressions of Innocence and Eloquence: Selections from the Jane Katcher Collection of Americana, Volume II. Seattle, WA: Marquand Books, 2011. 452 pp.; 417 color ills. Cloth $95.00 (9780300175806)

Kenny, Peter M., Michael K. Brown, Frances F. Bretter, and Matthew A. Thurlow. Duncan Phyfe: Master Cabinetmaker in New York. Exh. cat. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2012. 312 pp.; 350 color ills. Cloth $65.00 (9780300155112)

Kinkel, Marianne. Races of Mankind: The Sculptures of Malvina Hoffman. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2011. 292 pp.; 1 color ills.; 70 b/w ills. Cloth $40.00 (9780252036248)

Lee Clark, Robin. Phenomenal: California Light, Space, Surface. Exh. cat. San Diego and Berkeley: Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego and University of California Press, 2011. 240 pp.; 100 color ills.; 75 b/w ills. Cloth $39.95 (9780520270602)

Lehmbeck, Leah, ed. Proof: The Rise of Printmaking in Southern California. Exh. cat. Pasadena, CA and Los Angeles: Norton Simon Museum and Getty Publications, 2011. 256 pp.; 200 color ills. Cloth $60.00 (9781606060933)

Lewallen, Constance M., and Karen Moss. State of Mind: New California Art Circa 1970. Exh. cat. Berkeley and Newport Beach, CA: University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive and Orange County Museum of Art, 2011. 296 pp.; 64 color ills.; 123 b/w ills. Cloth $39.95 (9780520270619)

Lincoln, Louise, ed. Re: Chicago. Exh. cat. Chicago: DePaul Art Museum, 2012. 86 pp.; 41 color ills. Paper $30.00 (9780978907433)

Little, Carl. Eric Hopkins: Above and Beyond. Camden, ME: Down East Books, 2011. 136 pp.; 100 color ills. Cloth $50.00 (9780892729555)

Lynes, Barbara Buhler, and Jonathon Weinberg, eds. Shared Intelligence: American Painting and the Photograph. Exh. cat. Berkeley: University of California, 2011. 240 pp.; 70 color ills.; 150 b/w ills.; 230 ills. Cloth $39.95 (9780520269064)

Marley, Anna O., ed. Henry Ossawa Tanner: Modern Spirit. A George Gund Foundation Book in African American Studies. Berkeley, CA and Philadelphia: University of California Press and Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, 2012. 304 pp.; 106 color ills.; 107 b/w ills. Paper $39.95 (9780520270756)

Matilsky, Barbara. Lesley Dill's Poetic Visions: From Shimmer to Sister Gertrude Morgan. Exh. cat. Bellingham, WA: Whatcom Museum, 2011. 48 pp.; 30 color ills. Paper $20.00 (9780295991566)

Mauro, Hayes Peter. The Art of Americanization at the Carlisle Indian School. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2011. 184 pp.; 99 b/w ills. Cloth $45.00 (9780826349200)

May, Jill P., and Robert E. May. Howard Pyle: Imagining an American School of Art. Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2011. 288 pp.; 8 color ills.; 22 b/w ills. Cloth $45.00 (9780252036262)

Mayer, Lance, and Gay Myers. American Painters on Technique: The Colonial Period to 1860. Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2011. 260 pp.; 19 color ills. Cloth $50.00 (9781606060773)

Mazow, Leo G., and Kevin M. Murphy. Taxing Visions: Financial Episodes in Late Nineteenth-Century American Art. Exh. cat. San Marino, CA: The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, 2011. 80 pp.; 58 color ills.; 6 b/w ills. Paper $24.95 (9780911209686)

Miller, Dana, ed. Legacy: The Emily Fisher Landau Collection. Exh. cat. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 2011. 388 pp.; 392 color ills. Cloth $75.00 (9780300171082)

Mitchell, Mark D. George Inness in Italy. Exh. cat. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2011. 60 pp.; 40 color ills.; 12 b/w ills.; 52 ills. Paper $18.00 (9780300171167)

Montgomery, Susan J. In the Moment: The Life and Art of Schomer Lichtner. West Bend: Museum of Wisconsin Art, 2011. 216 pp.; 350 ills. Paper $29.95 (9780978601928)

Nemerov, Alexander. To Make a World: George Ault and 1940s America. Exh. cat. Washington, DC: Smithsonian American Art Museum, 2011. 152 pp.; 63 color ills.; 24 b/w ills. Cloth $45.00 (9780300172393)

Patterson, Cynthia Lee. Art for the Middle Classes: America's Illustrated Magazines of the 1840s. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2010. 210 pp.; 8 color ills.; Few b/w ills. Cloth $50.00 (9781604737363)

Peabody, Rebecca, Andrew Perchuk, Glenn Phillips, Rani Singh, and Lucy Bradnock, eds. Pacific Standard Time: Los Angeles Art, 1945–1980. Exh. cat. Los Angeles: Getty Publications, 2011. 352 pp.; 218 color ills.; 160 b/w ills. Cloth $59.95 (9781606060728)

Pells, Richard. Modernist America: Art, Music, and the Globalization of American Culture. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011. 512 pp. Cloth $35.00 (9780300115048)

Pennington, Estill Curtis. Lessons in Likeness: Portrait Painters in Kentucky and the Ohio River Valley, 1802–1920. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2010. 276 pp.; Many color ills. Cloth $50.00 (9780813126128)

Perry, Claire. The Great American Hall of Wonders: Art, Science, and Invention in the Nineteenth Century. Exh. cat. Washington, DC: Smithsonian American Art Museum, 2011. 256 pp.; 74 color ills.; 53 b/w ills. Paper $45.00 (9780979067891)

Peterson, Stephen. Andy Warhol: Behind the Camera. Exh. cat. Newark, DE: University of Delaware Press, 2011. Many color ills. $20.00 (9780615420424)

Pinney, Melissa. Girl Ascending. Intro. David Travis. Exh. cat. Chicago: Center for American Places at Columbia College Chicago, 2010. 124 pp.; Many color ills. Cloth $50.00 (9781935195115)

Roblin, Kimberly, Amanda Lett, Eric Singleton, and Randy Ramer. Forging a Nation: The American History Collection at Gilcrease Museum. Exh. cat. Tulsa, OK: Gilcrease Museum, 2011. 250 pp.; 300 ills. Paper $24.95 (9780972565783)

Romo, Terezita. Malaquias Montoya. A Ver: Revisioning Art History, vol. 6. Los Angeles: UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center, 2011. 200 pp.; 95 color ills. Paper $24.95 (9780895511072)

Rothkopf, Scott. Glenn Ligon: America. Exh. cat. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 2011. 304 pp.; 196 color ills. Cloth $65.00 (9780300168471)

Schreiber, Rachel. Gender and Activism in a Little Magazine: The Modern Figures of the Masses. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2011. 182 pp.; Few b/w ills. Cloth $104.95 (97814094009458)

Sheehan, Tanya. Doctored: The Medicine of Photography in Nineteenth-Century America. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2011. 216 pp.; 44 b/w ills. Cloth $74.95 (9780271037929)

Shiff, Richard. Between Sense and de Kooning. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011. 256 pp.; 100 color ills.; 15 b/w ills. Cloth $49.00 (9781861898531)

Siegel, Katy. Since '45: America and the Making of Contemporary Art. London: Reaktion Books, 2011. 254 pp.; Few b/w ills. Cloth $29.00 (9781861897732)

Simpson, James. Under the Hammer: Iconoclasm in the Anglo-American Tradition. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. 222 pp.; Few b/w ills. Cloth $45.00 (9780199591657)

Strekow, Alan J. Cyril Colnik: Man of Iron. Milwaukee, WI: Friends of the Villa Terrace Decorative Arts Museum, 2011. 200 pp.; 269 color ills.; 77 b/w ills. Cloth $45.00 (9780615481418)

Tedeschi, Martha, and Kristi Dahm. John Marin's Watercolors: A Medium for Modernism. Exh. cat. Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2011. 192 pp.; 214 color ills.; 37 b/w ills.; 251 ills. Cloth $50.00 (9780300166378)

Thomas Perich, Shannon. The Changing Face of Portrait Photography: From Daguerreotype to Digital. National Museum of American History and Smithsonian Institute Scholarly Press, 2011. 176 pp.; 150 ills. Cloth $35.00 (9781588342744)

Walker, Andrew. Joe Jones: Radical Painter of the American Scene. Exh. cat. St. Louis: Saint Louis Art Museum, 2010. 224 pp.; 80 color ills.; 75 b/w ills.; 155 ills. Cloth $60.00 (9780891780946)

Wang, ShiPu. Becoming American? The Art and Identity Crisis of Yasuo Kuniyoshi. Honolulu: University Of Hawai'i Press, 2011. 208 pp.; 38 ills. Cloth $56.00 (9780824834180)

Weisberg, Gabriel P., ed. The Orient Expressed: Japan's Influence on Western Art, 1854–1918. Jackson: Mississippi Museum of Art, 2011. 192 pp.; 178 color ills. Cloth $34.95 (9781887422192)

Weissman, Terri. The Realisms of Berenice Abbott: Documentary Photography and Political Action. Berkeley: University of California, 2011. 264 pp.; 80 ills. Cloth $60.00 (9780520266759)

Wolff, Justin. Thomas Hart Benton: A Life. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011. 416 pp.; 16 color ills. Paper $19.99 (9780374199876)