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Art of the United States

All titles (1998 to the present) in Recent Books in the Arts.

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)

Abramson, Daniel M. Skyscraper Rivals: The AIG Building and the Architecture of Wall Street. Princeton: Princeton Architectural Press, 2000. 207 pp.; 76 color ills.; 100 b/w ills. Cloth $50.00 (1568992445)

Acton, David. 60 Years of North American Prints. Boston: Boston Printmakers, 2009. 200 pp.; Many color ills. Cloth $42.50 (9780615312361)

Adams, Robert. Along Some Rivers: Photographs and Conversations. Aperture Foundation, 2005. 112 pp.; 28 b/w ills. Cloth $24.95 (1597110043)

Adams, Henry. Andrew Wyeth: Master Drawings from the Artist's Collection. Exh. cat. Chadds Ford, Pa.: Brandywine River Museum, 2005. 108 pp.; 52 b/w ills. $29.95 (0295986158)

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. 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)

Adams, Robert. What Can We Believe Where? Photographs of the American West. Exh. cat. New Haven: Yale University Art Gallery, 2010. 128 pp.; 110 b/w ills. Paper $25.00 (9780300162479)

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)

Adrian, Dennis, Richard A. Born, and Michael Rooks. See America First: The Prints of H.C. Westermann. University of Chicago Press, 2000. 200 pp.; 120 color ills.; 20 b/w ills. Paper $35.00 (0935573348)

Agee, William C., and Susan C. Faxon. Coming of Age: American Art, 1850s to 1950s. Exh. cat. American Federation of Arts in association with Yale University Press, 2005. 136 pp.; 78 color ills.; 7 b/w ills. $50.00 (0300115237)

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)

Allara, Pamela. Pictures of People: Alice Neel’s American Portrait Gallery. University Press of New England, 1999. 374 pp.; 18 color ills.; 183 b/w ills. Paper $22.95 (1584650362)

Alofsin, Anthony. The Struggle for Modernism: Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and City Planning at Harvard. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2002. 320 pp.; 20 color ills.; 250 b/w ills.; 270 ills. Cloth $60.00 (0393730484)

Amaki, Amalia K., and Andrea D. Barnwell. Hale Woodruff, Nancy Elizabeth, Prophet, and the Academy. Exh. cat. Atlanta, Ga.: Spelman College Museum of Fine Arts, 2007. 144 pp.; 92 color ills.; 29 b/w ills. Cloth $40.00 (9780295986937)

Amick, Alison B., Linda Chase, Susan P. Casteras, and Hardy S. George. Shining Spirit: Westheimer Family Collection. Oklahoma City: Oklahoma City Museum of Art, 2008. 140 pp.; 87 color ills. Paper $25.00 (9780911919073)

Anderson, Nancy K. George de Forest Brush: The Indian Paintings. Exh. cat. Washington, DC and Burlington, VT: National Gallery of Art in association with Lund Humphries, 2008. 224 pp.; 110 color ills.; 25 b/w ills. Cloth $60.00 (9781848220065)

Andrews, Richard, and John Beardsley. Maya Lin: Systematic Landscapes. Intro. Lawrence Weschler. Exh. cat. Henry Art Gallery in association with Yale University Press, 2005. 112 pp.; 108 color ills.; 4 b/w ills. $40.00 (0300121202)

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)

Anker, Steve, Kathy Geritz, and Steve Seid, eds. Radical Light: Alternative Film and Video in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1945–2000. Exh. cat. Berkeley, CA: Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, 2010. 352 pp.; 47 color ills.; 219 b/w ills. Cloth $29.95 (9780520249110)

Anreus, Alejandro. Orozco in Gringoland: The Years in New York. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2000. 180 pp.; 52 b/w ills. Cloth $32.95 (0826320678)

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)

Antliff, Allan. Anarchist Modernism: Art, Politics, and the First American Avant-Garde. University of Chicago Press, 2000. 292 pp.; 4 color ills.; 84 b/w ills. Cloth $45.00 (0226021033)

Antliff, Allan. Anarchist Modernism: Art, Politics, and the First American Avant-Garde. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. 292 pp.; 4 color ills.; 84 b/w ills. Paper $40.00 (9780226021041)

Apel, Dora, and Shawn Michelle Smith. Lynching Photographs. Ed. Anthony W. Lee. Defining Moments in American Photography. Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California, 2008. 97 pp.; 22 b/w ills. Paper $19.95 (9780520253322)

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)

Arnold, Sara C., and Stephen G. Hoffius, eds. The Life and Art of Alfred Hutty: Woodstock to Charleston. Exh. cat. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 2012. 224 pp.; 96 color ills.; 231 b/w ills. Cloth $49.95 (9781611170412)

Arthur, John. Green Woods and Crystal Waters: The American Landscape Tradition. Tulsa: Philbrook Museum of Art, 1999. 175 pp.; 100 color ills. Paper (1576600327)

Arthurs, Alberta, and Glenn Wallach, eds. Crossroads: Art and Religion in American Life. The New Press, 2000. 304 pp.; 7 color ills. Cloth $25.00 (1565846605)

Aslet, Clive. The American County House. Yale University Press, 2004. 320 pp.; 200 color ills.; 75 b/w ills. Paper $35.00 (0300047576)

Auping, Michael, ed. Philip Guston: Retrospective. Exh. cat. Fort Worth, Tex.: Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth in association with Thames and Hudson, 2005. 272 pp.; 158 color ills.; 39 b/w ills. $29.95 (0500284229)

Ausfeld, Margaret Lynne, Charles C. Eldredge, and Mark M. Johnson. American Paintings from the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts. Montgomery, Ala.: Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, 2005. 264 pp.; 118 color ills. Cloth (0892800488)

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 )

Bacon, Mardges. Le Corbusier in America: Travels in the Land of the Timid. MIT Press, 2000. 406 pp.; 8 color ills.; 187 b/w ills. Cloth $59.95 (0262024799)

Bacot, Parrott H. Marie Adrien Persac: Louisiana Artist. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1999. 135 pp.; many color ills.; few b/w ills. Cloth $24.95 (0807126411)

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)

Baerwaldt, Wayne, and Thelma Golden, eds. Glenn Ligon: Some Changes. Exh. cat. The Power Plant, 2004. 204 pp.; many color ills. (1894212061)

Baigell, Matthew. Artist and Identity in Twentieth-Century America. Cambridge University Press, 2000. 294 pp.; 47 b/w ills. Cloth $74.95 (0521772397)

Baigell, Matthew. Jewish Art in America: An Introduction. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2007. 280 pp.; 76 b/w ills. Paper $29.95 (0742546411)

Bailey, Jennifer A., Lucinda H. Gedeon, and Kevin Sharp. Masters of Light: Selections of American Impressionism from the Manoogian Collection. Exh. cat. Vero Beach, Fla.: Vero Beach Museum of Art, 2005. 136 pp.; 47 color ills. (097763681X)

Baker, Alyson, and Ivana Mestrovic, eds. Socrates Sculpture Park. Yale University Press, 2005. 240 pp.; 204 color ills.; 10 b/w ills. Cloth $50.00 (0300120982)

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)

Bantel, Linda, and Peter H. Hassrick. Forging an American Identity: The Art of William Ranney with a Catalogue of his Works. Ed. Kathleen Luhrs. Exh. cat. Cody, Wyo.: Buffalo Bill Historical Center, 2005. 265 pp.; many color ills.; many b/w ills. $59.95 (0931618614)

Barendsen, Kristin. Tom Kirby: Light Passage. Albuquerque: Fresco Fine Art Publications, 2010. 48 pp.; 24 color ills. Paper $35.00 (9781934491195)

Barker, Scott Grant, and Jane Myers. Intimate Modernism: Forth Worth Circle Artist in the 1940s. Exh. cat. Fort Worth, Tex.: Amon Carter Museum, 2008. 208 pp.; 132 ills. Cloth $39.95 (9780883601037)

Barnwell, Andrea D. The Walter O. Evans Collection of African American Art. University of Washington Press, 1999. 168 pp.; 93 color ills.; 13 b/w ills. Paper $24.95 (0295979224)

Barquist, David L. Myer Myers: Jewish Silversmith in Colonial New York. Yale University Press, 2000. 336 pp.; 160 color ills.; 135 b/w ills. Cloth $60.00 (0300090579)

Barratt, Carrie Rebora, and Ellen G. Miles. Gilbert Stuart. Exh. cat. Metropolitan Museum of Art in association with Yale University Press, 2003. 352 pp.; 110 color ills.; 176 b/w ills. Cloth $65.00 (0300104952)

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)

Barron, Stephanie, Sheri Bernstein, and Ilene Susan Fort, eds. Reading California: Art, Image, and Identity, 1900-2000. Berkeley: University of California Press in association with Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1999. 350 pp.; 140 b/w ills. Paper $24.95 (0520227670)

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)

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)

Baskind, Samantha. Raphael Soyer and the Search for Modern Jewish Art. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004. 280 pp.; 9 color ills.; 61 b/w ills. Cloth $50.00 (0807828483)

Baumgarten, Linda. What Clothes Reveal: The Language of Clothing in Colonial and Federal America. Williamsburg, VA: Colonial Williamsburg Foundation in association with Yale University Press, 2001. 256 pp.; 355 color ills.; 36 b/w ills. Cloth $65.00 (0300095805)

Bedell, Rebecca. The Anatomy of Nature: Geology & American Landscape Painting, 1825-187511/5. Princeton University Press, 2000. 192 pp.; 26 color ills.; 55 b/w ills. Cloth $45.00 (0691074631)

Behrstock, Barry. The Way of the Artist: Reflections on Creativity and the Life, Home, Art, and Collections of Richard Marquis. Exh. cat. Fullerton: California State University, Fullerton, 2007. 192 pp.; 158 color ills. Cloth $29.95 (978095314700)

Belanger, Pamela J. Maine in America: American Art at the Farnsworth Museum. Exh. cat. University Press of New England, 1999. 256 pp.; 95 color ills.; 150 b/w ills. $55.00 (0918748085)

Bell, Bernard W. Clarence Major and His Art: Portraits of an African American Modernist. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 281 pp.; 16 color ills.; 8 b/w ills. (0807848999)

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)

Bernier, Celeste-Marie. African American Visual Arts: From Slavery to the Present. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008. 320 pp.; 16 color ills. Paper $24.95 (9780807859339)

Berry, Ian, and Bill Arning, eds. America Starts Here: Kate Ericson and Mel Ziegler. Exh. cat. MIT Press, 2005. 216 pp.; 350 color ills. (0262012286)

Bertellini, Giorgio. Italy in Early American Cinema. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2010. 464 pp.; 64 b/w ills. Paper $24.95 (9780253221285)

Bewer, Francesca G. A Laboratory for Art: Harvard's Fogg Museum and the Emergence of Conservation in America, 1900–1950. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Art Museum, 2010. 368 pp.; 34 color ills.; 114 b/w ills. Paper $40.00 (9780300154696)

Bey, Dawoud. Dawoud Bey: The Chicago Project. Exh. cat. David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, 2003. 96 pp.; many color ills.; few b/w ills. Paper $25.00 (0935573380)

Bezner, Lili. Photography and Politics in America: From the New Deal Into the Cold War. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998. 306 pp.; some b/w ills. Cloth $39.95 (081086187X)

Bieze, Michael. Booker T. Washington and the Art of Self-Representation. History of Schools and Schooling. New York: Peter Lang, 2008. 304 pp.; 4 color ills.; 81 b/w ills. Paper $32.95 (9781433100109)

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)

Bjelajac, David. American Art: A Cultural History. Harry N. Abrams, 1999. 416 pp.; 150 color ills.; 250 b/w ills. Cloth $75.00 (0810942143)

Blachowicz, James. From Slate to Marble: Gravestone Carving Traditions in Eastern Massachusetts 1770–1870. Evanston, Ill.: Graver Press, 2008. 440 pp. Cloth $59.95 (9780977203109)

Blanchard, Mary Warner. Oscar Wilde’s America: Counterculture in the Gilded Age. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997. 320 pp.; 221 b/w ills. Cloth $45.00 (0300074603)

Bloom, Lisa E. Jewish Identities in American Feminist Art: Ghosts of Ethnicity. New York and London: Routledge, 2005. 194 pp.; 66 b/w ills. Cloth $105.00 (9780415232203)

Bohan, Ruth L. Looking into Walt Whitman: American Art, 1850–1920. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2005. 280 pp.; 22 color ills.; 82 b/w ills. Cloth $50.00 (0271027029)

Bois, Yve-Alain. Ellsworth Kelly: The Early Drawings, 1948–1955. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998. 263 pp.; 185 color ills.; 12 b/w ills. Paper $45.00 (1891771078)

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)

Bookbinder, Judith. Boston Modern: Figurative Expressionism as Alternative Modernism. University of New Hampshire Press, 2005. 384 pp.; 17 color ills. Cloth $39.95 (1584654880)

Boone, M. Elizabeth. Vistas de España: American Views of Art and Life in Spain, 1860–1914. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2007. 280 pp.; 31 color ills.; 107 b/w ills. Cloth $60.00 (9780300116533)

Boris, Staci. The New Authentics: Artists of the Post-Jewish Generation. Exh. cat. Chicago: Spertus Museum, 2008. 144 pp.; 144 color ills.; 4 b/w ills. Paper $29.95 (0935982655)

Bowe, Stephen, and Peter Richmond. Selling Shaker: The Promotion of Shaker Design in the Twentieth Century. Liverpool, UK: Liverpool University Press, 2007. 320 pp.; 40 b/w ills. Paper $40.00 (1846310091)

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)

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)

Braddock, Alan C. Thomas Eakins and the Cultures of Modernity. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009. 304 pp.; 10 color ills.; 90 b/w ills. Cloth $49.95 (9780520255203)

Braden, Susan R. The Architecture of Leisure: The Florida Resort Hotels of Henry Flagler and Henry Plant. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2001. 440 pp.; 27 color ills.; 133 b/w ills. Cloth $34.95 (0813025567)

Breisch, Ken. Henry Hobson Richardson and the Small Public Library in America. MIT Press, 1996. 354 pp. Cloth (0262523469)

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)

Brennan, Marcia. Painting Gender, Constructing Theory: The Alfred Stieglitz Circle and American Formalist Aesthetics. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2000. 377 pp.; 8 color ills.; 48 b/w ills. Cloth $35.00 (0262024888)

Breuer, Karin. An American Focus: The Anderson Graphic Arts Collection. San Francisco: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco in association with University of California Press, 1999. 194 pp.; 202 color ills.; 5 b/w ills. Paper $29.95 (0520227638)

Brock, Charles. Charles Sheeler: Across Media. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006. 240 pp.; 55 color ills.; 80 b/w ills. Cloth $45.00 (0520248724)

Brodsky, Joyce. Experiences of Passage: The Paintings of Yun Gee and Li-lan. Exh. cat. Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 2008. 248 pp.; 45 color ills.; 25 b/w ills. Cloth $40.00 (9780295987750)

Brooks, H. Allen. The Prairie School: Frank Lloyd Wright and His Midwest Contemporaries. W.W. Norton & Company, 2005. 400 pp.; 250 b/w ills. Paper $25.00 (039373191X)

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)

Brown, Julie K. Making Culture Visible: The Public Display of Photography at Fairs, Expositions, and Exhibitions in the United States, 1847–1900. New York: Routledge, 2000. 192 pp. Cloth $54.00 (9058231399)

Buchloh, Benjamin. Neo-Avantgarde and Culture Industry: Essays on European and American Art from 1955 to 1975. MIT Press, 2000. 576 pp.; 122 b/w ills. Cloth (0262024543)

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)

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)

Buick, Kirsten. Child of the Fire: Mary Edmonia Lewis and the Problem of Art History’s Black and Indian Subject. Durham, NC: Duke University Press Books, 2010. 344 pp.; 18 color ills.; 33 b/w ills. Cloth $89.95 (9780822342472)