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Art of the United States
All titles added within the past twelve months.
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)
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.
Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London:
University of California,
2008.
97 pp.; 22 b/w ills.
Paper
$19.95
(9780520253322)
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)
Bieze, Michael.
Booker T. Washington and the Art of Self-Representation.
New York:
Peter Lang,
2008.
304 pp.; 4 color ills.; 81 b/w ills.
Paper
$32.95
(9781433100109)
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)
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)
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)
Burns, Ric, and Alan Feuer.
Still New York.
New York:
Harry N. Abrams,
2005.
136 pp.; 80 color ills.
Cloth
$29.95
(9780865651654)
Callahan, Ashley, ed.
Decorative Arts in Georgia: Historic Sites, Historic Contexts.
Athens, Ga.:
2008.
160 pp.; 49 color ills.; Many b/w ills.
Paper
$25.00
(9780915977666)
Calo, Mary Ann.
Distinction and Denial: Race, Nation, and the Critical Construction of the African-American Artist, 1920–40.
Ann Arbor:
University of Michigan Press,
2007.
280 pp.
Paper
$29.95
(9780472032303)
Carlin, John, and Jonathan Fineberg.
Imagining America: Icons of 20th-Century American Art.
New Haven and London:
Yale University Press,
2005.
208 pp.; 400 color ills.
Cloth
$49.95
(9780300109979)
Carr, Gerald L.
Frederic Edwin Church: Romantic Landscapes and Seascapes.
Exh. cat.
New York:
Adelson Galleries,
2008.
136 pp.; 112 color ills.
Cloth
$50.00
(0974162175)
Childs, Adrienne L.
Evolution: Five Decades of Printmaking by David C. Driskell.
Exh. cat.
Petaluma, CA:
Pomegranate,
2007.
128 pp.
Cloth
$30.00
(9780764942044)
Falconi, José Luis, and Gabriela Rangel, eds.
A Principality of Its Own: 40 Years of Visual Arts at the Americas Society.
Cambridge, Mass. and New York:
Harvard University David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies in association with Americas Society,
2007.
304 pp.
Paper
(1879128314)
Colonna, Francesco.
Thomas McKnight's ARCADIA.
New York:
Harry N. Abrams,
2006.
208 pp.; 130 color ills.
Cloth
$50.00
(9780865651555)
Conrads, Margaret C., ed.
American Paintings to 1945: The Collections of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art.
Kansas City, Mo.:
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art,
2007.
768 pp.; 408 color ills.; 115 b/w ills.
Cloth
$125.00
(9780942614374)
Cormack, Malcolm.
Country Pursuits: British, American, and French Sporting Art from the Mellon Collections in the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.
Richmond and Charlottesville:
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and University of Virginia Press,
2007.
492 pp.; 185 color ills.; 40 b/w ills.
Cloth
$75.00
(9780813926018)
Crown, Carol, and Charles Russell, eds.
Sacred and Profane: Voice and Vision in Southern Self-Taught Art.
Jackson:
University Press of Mississippi,
2007.
308 pp.; 32 color ills.; 60 b/w ills.
Cloth
$50.00
(1578069165 )
Cummings, Hildegard.
Charles Ethan Porter: African-American Master of Still Life.
New Britain, Conn.:
New Britain Museum of American Art,
2008.
112 pp.
Paper
$30.00
(0972449760)
Detweiler, Susan Gray.
American Presidential China: The Robert L. McNeil, Jr., Collection at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Intro. David L. Barquist.
Exh. cat.
Philadelphia:
Philadelphia Museum of Art in association with Yale University Press,
2008.
91 pp.; 94 color ills.; 6 b/w ills.
Cloth
$24.95
(9780300135930)
Dow, Jim.
Marking the Land: Jim Dow in North Dakota.
Ed. Laurel Reuter.
Exh. cat.
Sante Fe, Staunton, Va., and Grand Forks:
Center for American Places at Columbia College Chicago and North Dakota Museum of Art,
2007.
224 pp.; 182 color ills.
Cloth
$34.95
(1930066643)
Earenfight, Phillip, ed.
A Kiowa's Odyssey: A Sketchbook from Fort Marion.
Exh. cat.
Carlisle, Penn.:
Trout Gallery,
2007.
256 pp.; 169 color ills.
Paper
$40.00
(9780295987279)
Earle, Susan, ed.
Aaron Douglas: African American Modernist.
Exh. cat.
New Haven and Lawrence, KS:
Yale University Press in association with Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas,
2007.
272 pp.; 139 color ills.; 50 b/w ills.
Cloth
$60.00
(9780300121803)
Eldredge, Charles C.
John Steuart Curry's 'Hoover and the Flood': Painting Modern History.
Chapel Hill, NC:
University of North Carolina Press,
2007.
112 pp.; 8 color ills.; 53 b/w ills.
Cloth
$29.95
(9780807830871)
Entin, Joseph B.
Sensational Modernism: Experimental Fiction and Photography in Thirties America.
Chapel Hill:
University of North Carolina Press,
2007.
344 pp.; 29 b/w ills.
Paper
$22.50
(9780807858349)
Faherty, Duncan.
Remodeling the Nation: The Architecture of American Identity, 1776–1858.
Lebanon, N.H.:
University of New Hampshire Press,
2007.
268 pp.; 15 b/w ills.
Cloth
$50.00
(1584656557)
Fahlman, Betsy.
Chimneys and Towers: Charles Demuth's Late Paintings of Lancaster.
Exh. cat.
University of Pennsylvania Press,
2007.
208 pp.; 60 color ills.; 100 b/w ills.
Paper
$39.95
(9780812220124)
Fairbrother, Trevor.
Ipswich Days: Arthur Wesley Dow and His Hometown.
Exh. cat.
Andover, MA:
Addison Gallery of American Art,
2008.
146 pp.; 67 color ills.; 6 b/w ills.
Cloth
$35.00
(9780300132915)
Fink, Louise Marie.
A History of the Smithsonian American Art Museum: The Intersection of Art, Science, and Bureaucracy.
Amherst, MA:
University of Massachusetts Press,
2007.
248 pp.; 38 b/w ills.
Cloth
$34.95
(9781558496163)
Garrett, Wendell, Virginia M. Mecklenburg, and Carolyn Weekley.
Earl Cunningham's America.
Washington, DC:
Smithsonian American Art Museum,
2008.
144 pp.; 80 color ills.
Cloth
$45.00
(9781588342485)
George-Warren, Holly, and Michelle Freedman.
How the West Was Worn: A History of Western Wear.
New York:
Harry N. Abrams,
2006.
240 pp.; 245 ills.
Paper
$24.95
(9780810992566)
Geske, Norman A.
Beyond Madness: The Art of Ralph Blakelock, 1847–1919.
Lincoln:
University of Nebraska Press,
2007.
180 pp.; 38 color ills.; 101 b/w ills.
Cloth
$70.00
(9780803222076)
Ghahate-Monet, Jenni.
Visions for the Future: A Celebration of Young Native American Artists.
Golden, Colorado:
Fulcrum Publishing in association with Native American Rights Fund,
2008.
90 pp.; 43 color ills.
Paper
$16.95
(9781555916558)
Gonzalez, Rita, Howard N. Fox, and Chon A. Noriega.
Phantom Sightings: Art After the Chicano Movement.
Exh. cat.
Berkeley and Los Angeles:
University of California Press and Los Angeles County Museum of Art,
2008.
240 pp.; 200 color ills.
Cloth
$39.95
(9780520255630)
Greenough, Sarah, and Diane Waggoner.
The Art of the American Snapshot, 1888–1978.
Princeton:
Princeton University Press,
2007.
288 pp.; 278 ills.
Cloth
$55.00
(9780691133683)
Griffin, Randall C.
Winslow Homer: An American Vision.
London:
Phaidon Press,
2006.
240 pp.; 142 color ills.; 49 b/w ills.
Cloth
$69.95
(9780714839929)
Gross, Steve, Sue Daley, John Lawrence, and James Conaway.
Creole Houses: Traditional Homes of Old Louisiana.
New York:
Harry N. Abrams,
2007.
192 pp.
Cloth
$35.00
(9780810954953)
Hallstein McGarry, Susan.
Partners in Art: Gene and Rebecca Tobey.
Santa Fe, NM:
Fresco Fine Art Publications,
2008.
360 pp.; 243 color ills.; 12 b/w ills.
Cloth
$75.00
(9781934491027)
Hartigan, Lynda Roscoe.
Joseph Cornell: Navigating the Imagination.
Exh. cat.
Salem, Washington, DC, and New Haven:
Peabody Essex Museum and Smithsonian American Art Museum in association with Yale University Press,
2007.
392 pp.; 183 color ills.; 114 b/w ills.
Cloth
$65.00
(9780300111620)
Haw, Richard.
Art of the Brooklyn Bridge: A Visual History.
New York:
Routledge,
2008.
288 pp.; Many color ills.; many b/w ills.
Cloth
$50.00
(9780415953863)
Kalil, Susie.
Melissa Miller.
Austin:
University of Texas Press,
2007.
180 pp.; 117 color ills.
Cloth
$45.00
(9780292714229)
Kernan, Nathan.
Joseph Goldberg: Jeweled Earth.
Seattle and London:
University of Washington Press,
2007.
104 pp.; 89 color ills.
Cloth
$29.95
(9780295987675)
Lacey, Barbara E.
From Sacred to Secular: Visual Images in Early American Publications.
Newark, Del.:
University of Delaware Press,
2007.
220 pp.; many b/w ills.
Cloth
$69.50
(9780874139617)
Landau, Ellen G., and Claude Cermuschi, eds.
Pollock Matters.
Exh. cat.
Boston:
McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College,
2007.
181 pp.; Many color ills.
Paper
$60.00
(9781892850133)
Laufer, Marilyn, ed.
Real Western Wear: Beaded Gauntlets from the William P. Healey Collection.
Exh. cat.
Athens, GA:
Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia,
2007.
136 pp.; 73 color ills.
Cloth
$40.00
(9780915977659)
MacAdam, Barbara J.
American Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art.
Exh. cat.
Hanover, NH:
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College,
2007.
256 pp.; 250 ills.
Paper
$40.00
(9781584656685)
MacAdam, Barbara J.
American Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art.
Lebanon, N.H. and Hanover, N.H.:
University of New England Press and Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College,
2007.
256 pp.
Paperback
(1584656689)
Mack, Angela D., and Stephen G. Hoffius, eds.
Landscape of Slavery: The Plantation in American Art.
Exh. cat.
Columbia, SC:
The University of South Carolina Press,
2008.
240 pp.; 83 color ills.; 19 b/w ills.
Cloth
$49.95
(9781570037191)
Mark, Lisa Gabrielle, ed.
WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution.
Exh. cat.
Los Angeles and Cambridge, MA:
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles in association with MIT Press,
2007.
512 pp.; 475 color ills.
Cloth
$59.95
(9780914357995)
McDonell, Patricia.
Marsden Hartley: An American Modern.
Exh. cat.
Minneapolis:
Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum,
2006.
84 pp.; 103 ills.
Paper
$27.95
(9781885116123)
Megraw, Richard.
Confronting Modernity: Art and Society in Louisiana.
Jackson:
University Press of Mississippi,
2008.
304 pp.; 77 b/w ills.
Cloth
$55.00
(9781578064175)
Miller, Angela, Janet Berlo, Bryan Wolf, and Jennifer Roberts.
American Encounters: Art, History, and Cultural Identity.
Upper Saddle River, N.J.:
Pearson Prentice Hall,
2008.
704 pp.; many color ills.; many b/w ills.
Paper
$100.00
(9780130300041)
Mooney, Barbara Burlison.
Prodigy Houses of Virginia: Architecture of the native Elite.
Charlottesville:
University of Virginia Press,
2008.
400 pp.; 147 b/w ills.
Cloth
$65.00
(9780813926780)
Morgan, William.
American Country Churches.
New York:
Harry N. Abrams,
2006.
240 pp.; 250 color ills.
Cloth
$19.98
(9780810982543)
Morris, Robert.
Have I Reasons: Work and Writings, 1993–2007.
Ed. Nena Tsouti-Schillinger; intro. Nena Tsouti-Schillinger.
Durham, N.C.:
Duke University Press,
2008.
288 pp.; 128 b/w ills.
Paper
$23.95
(9780822342922)
Niewyk, Ellen Buie.
Jerry Bywaters: Lone Star Printmaker.
Exh. cat.
Dallas:
Southern Methodist University Press,
2007.
208 pp.; 5 color ills.; 34 b/w ills.
Cloth
$35.00
(9780870745195)
Nottage, James H., ed.
Diversity and Dialogue: The Eiteljorg Fellowship for Native American Fine Art 2007.
Exh. cat.
Indianapolis, Seattle, and London:
University of Washington Press and Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art,
2007.
120 pp.
Paper
(9780295987811)
Ochsner, Jeffrey Karl.
Lionel H. Preis, Architect, Artist, Educator: From Arts and Crafts to Modern Architecture.
Seattle and London:
University of Washington Press,
2007.
384 pp.; 175 color ills.; 150 b/w ills.
Cloth
$60.00
(9780295986982)
Onians, John, ed.
The Art Atlas.
New York and New York:
Abbeville Press,
2008.
352 pp.; 600 color ills.
Cloth and CD
$55.00
(9780789209610)
Randlett, Mary.
Mary Randlett Landscapes.
Intro. Ted D'Arms.
Seattle, London, and Tacoma:
University of Washington Press in association with Tacoma Art Museum,
2007.
128 pp.; 80 b/w ills.
Cloth
$29.95
(9780295987200)
Ratcliffe, Sam Deshong, ed.
Jerry Bywaters: Interpreter of the Southwest.
Exh. cat.
College Station, TX:
Texas A & M University Press,
2007.
120 pp.; 42 color ills.; 35 b/w ills.
Cloth
$30.00
(9781585445912)
Rinaldi, Thomas, and Robert J. Yasinsac.
Hudson Valley Ruins: Forgotten Landmarks of an American Landscape.
Lebanon, N.H.:
University Press of New England,
2006.
356 pp.
Cloth
(1584655984)
Rudolph, William.
Julian Onderdonk: American Impressionist.
Exh. cat.
Dallas:
Dallas Museum of Art,
2008.
160 pp.; 132 color ills.; 8 b/w ills.
Cloth
$45.00
(9780300118018)
Rybczynski, Witold, and Laurie Olin.
Vizcaya: An American Villa and Its Makers.
Philadelphia:
University of Pennsylvania Press,
2006.
296 pp.; 70 color ills.; 96 b/w ills.
Cloth
$34.95
(0812239512)
Saar, Bob.
Conversations in Paint Language: The Art of Roseta Santiago.
Albuquerque, NM:
Fresco Fine Art Publications,
2007.
144 pp.; 65 color ills.
Cloth
$75.00
(9781934491034)
Safford, Frances Gruber.
American Furniture in The Metropolitan Museum of Art: I. Early Colonial Period; The Seventeenth-Century and William and Mary Styles.
New York and New Haven:
Metropolitan Museum of Art and Yale University Press,
2007.
464 pp.; 159 color ills.; 162 b/w ills.
Cloth
$90.00
(9780300116472)
Salmon, Robin, and Tuck Langford.
Rosie Sandifer: Language of Art.
Albuquerque, NM:
Fresco Fine Art Publications,
2007.
184 pp.; 150 color ills.
Cloth
$75.00
(9780967903439)
Sanger, Martha Frick Symington.
Helen Clay Frick: Bittersweet Heiress.
Pittsburgh, PA:
University of Pittsburgh Press,
2007.
408 pp.; 260 ills.
Cloth
$40.00
(9780822943419)
Schiller, Joyce K., Heather Campbell Coyle, Molly S. Hutton, Susan Fillin-Yeh, Katherine E. Manthorne, and Alexis L. Boylan.
John Sloan's New York.
Exh. cat.
Wilmington, DE:
Delaware Art Museum in association with Yale University Press,
2007.
208 pp.; 126 color ills.; 21 b/w ills.
Cloth
$50.00
(9780300126198)
Schimmelman, Janice G.
Books on Art in Early America.
New Castle, Del.:
Oak Knoll Press,
2007.
292 pp.
Cloth
$65.00
(9781584562146)
Schoonmaker, Trevor, ed.
Barkley L. Hendricks: Birth of the Cool.
Exh. cat.
Durham, N.C.:
Duke University Press,
2008.
140 pp.; 146 color ills.; 17 b/w ills.
Paper
$39.95
(9780938989318)
Schwain, Kristin.
Signs of Grace: Religion and American Art in the Gilded Age.
Ithaca, NY and London:
Cornell University Press,
2008.
225 pp.; 4 color ills.; 41 b/w ills.
Cloth
$29.95
(9780801445774)
Serwer, Jacquelyn Days.
Art Meets Life: The New Work of David Bates.
Exh. cat.
New York:
DC Moore Gallery,
2006.
40 pp.
Paper
(097749652X)
Smith, Jessica Todd, and Kevin M. Murphy.
Pressed in Time: American Prints 1905–1950.
Exh. cat.
San Marino, Calif.:
Huntington Library Press,
2008.
88 pp.; 70 color ills.
Paper
$19.95
(9780873282345)
Stula, Nancy, and David M. Robinson.
At Home and Abroad: The Transcendental Landscapes of Christopher Pearce Cranch (1813–1892).
Exh. cat.
New London, Conn.:
Lyman Allyn Art Museum,
2007.
196 pp.; 55 ills.
Paper
$35.00
(1878541102)
Suggs, Don.
Don Suggs: One Man Group Show.
Exh. cat.
Los Angeles:
Ben Maltz Gallery,
2007.
96 pp.; Many color ills.
Paper
(9780930209397)
Swartz, Anne, ed.
Pattern and Decoration: An Ideal Vision in American Art, 1975–1985.
Exh. cat.
Yonkers, NY:
Hudson River Museum,
2007.
120 pp.; 37 color ills.
Paper
$19.99
(9780943651354)
Traugott, Joseph.
The Art of New Mexico: How the West Is One.
Santa Fe:
Museum of New Mexico Press,
2007.
288 pp.; 228 color ills.
Cloth
$55.00
(9780890134979)
Vaughan, Virginia Mason, and Alden T. Vaughan, eds.
Shakespeare in American Life.
Exh. cat.
Washington D.C.:
Folger Shakespeare Library,
2007.
192 pp.; 88 color ills.
Paper
$29.95
(9780295987156)
Waldman, Diane.
Joseph Cornell: Master of Dreams.
New York:
Harry N. Abrams,
2006.
152 pp.; 116 ills.
Paper
$27.50
(9780810992528)
Wallace, David.
Dream Palaces of Hollywood's Golden Age.
New York:
Harry N. Abrams,
2006.
240 pp.; 200 color ills.; 35 b/w ills.
Cloth
$50.00
(9780810955431)
Wardlaw, Alvia J.
Charles Alston.
Petaluma, Calif.:
Pomegranate Communications, Inc.,
2007.
128 pp.; 70 ills.
Cloth
$35.00
(9780764937668)
Werbel, Amy.
Thomas Eakins: Art, Medicine, and Sexuality in Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia.
New Haven and London:
Yale University Press,
2007.
208 pp.; 16 color ills.; 53 b/w ills.
Cloth
$55.00
(9780300116557)
Wilkin, Karen.
Color as Field: American Painting 1950–1975.
Exh. cat.
New York:
American Federation of Arts in association with Yale University Press,
2007.
128 pp.; 53 color ills.; 16 b/w ills.
Cloth
$45.00
(9780300120233)
Williams, Lynn Barstis.
Imprinting the South: Southern Printmakers and Their Images of the Region, 1920–1940s.
Tuscaloosa, AL:
University of Alabama Press,
2007.
232 pp.; 73 ills.
Cloth
$39.95
(9780817315603)
Wiseman, Carter.
A Place for the Arts: The MacDowell Colony, 1907–2007.
Peterborough, N.H.:
The MacDowell Colony,
2007.
244 pp.
Cloth
(1584656093)
Yanni, Carla.
The Architecture of Madness: Insane Asylums in the United States.
Minneapolis:
University of Minnesota Press,
2007.
256 pp.; 120 b/w ills.
Paper
$27.50
(9780816649402)