2,306円 A disciple of Classical sculpture in a time of pervasive abstract modernism, Lawrence M. Ludtke (1929–2007) of Houston imbued his creations with a sense of movement and realism through his attention to detail, anatomy, and proportion. As a skilled athlete who played professional baseball for the ...

1,060円 The Epic Story of Motown and Detroit's Independent Soul Music Scene It's January 1967-and one of the worst snowstorms in decades is blanketing Detroit, Michigan. Berry Gordy, owner of Motown Records, is trapped in his home, unable to do anything about the internal war ravaging his most successful...

9,903円 Since the colonial era, Mexican art has emerged from an ongoing process of negotiation between the local and the global, which frequently involves invention, synthesis, and transformation of diverse discursive and artistic traditions. In this pathfinding book, María Fernández uses the concept of ...

9,950円 Art can be a powerful avenue of resistance to oppressive governments. During the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet in Chile, some of the country’s least powerful citizensーimpoverished women living in Santiago’s shantytownsーspotlighted the government’s failings and use of violence by creating and...

3,310円 As an islandーa geographical space with mutable and porous bordersーCuba has never been a fixed cultural, political, or geographical entity. Migration and exile have always informed the Cuban experience, and loss and displacement have figured as central preoccupations among Cuban artists and inte...

10,765円 Around 1542, descendants of the Aztec rulers of Mexico created accounts of the pre-Hispanic history of the city of Tetzcoco, Mexico, one of the imperial capitals of the Aztec Empire. Painted in iconic script ("picture writing"), the Codex Xolotl, the Quinatzin Map, and the Tlohtzin Map appear to ...

12,379円 Over the course of some two centuries following the conquests and consolidations of Spanish rule in the Americas during the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuriesーthe period designated as the Baroqueーnew cultural forms sprang from the cross-fertilization of Spanish, Amerindian, and Africa...

0円 Paul Carpenter is an artist worth looking at. He has shown at influential galleries on both coasts of America. The book contains fascinating comments not only on Carpenter's work, but the state of modern art in general. Writing about his own work under the pseudonym Olivero del Santos, Carpenter ...

6,500円 As we approach the bicentennial, in 2017, of the birth of Henry David Thoreau, there is considerable debate and confusion as to what he may, or may not have, contributed to American life and culture. Almost every American has heard of Thoreau, but only a few are aware that he was deeply engaged w...

3,740円 Explores how American Indian artists have responded to the pervasive misunderstanding of indigenous peoples as cultural minorities in the United States and Canada Contemporary indigenous peoples in North America confront a unique predicament. While they are reclaiming their historic status as sov...

1,060円 « Je connaissais Diego Rivera, le muraliste mexicain, bien avant de découvrir les nombreux autres « Diego Rivera » qui hantèrent le monde du début du XXe siècle à la fin des années 1950. […] Si ses peintures de chevalet et ses dessins forment une grande part de ses œuvres de jeunesse comme de la ...

6,367円 Throughout the Great Recession American artists and public art endowments have had to fight for government support to keep themselves afloat. It wasn’t always this way. At its height in 1935, the New Deal devoted $27 millionーroughly $461 million todayーto supporting tens of thousands of needy ar...