4,333円 Arriving in New York City in the first decade of the twentieth century, six painters-Robert Henri, John Sloan, Everett Shinn, Glackens, George Luks, and George Bellows, subsequently known as the Ashcan Circle-faced a visual culture that depicted the urban man as a diseased body under assault. Ash...

4,106円 Named a Best Art Book of 2017 by the New York Times and Artforum In South of Pico Kellie Jones explores how the artists in Los Angeles's black communities during the 1960s and 1970s created a vibrant, productive, and engaged activist arts scene in the face of structural racism. Emphasizing the im...

4,230円 Migrating the Black Body explores how visual mediaーfrom painting to photography, from global independent cinema to Hollywood movies, from posters and broadsides to digital media, from public art to graphic novelsーhas shaped diasporic imaginings of the individual and collective self. How is the ...

3,973円 John Singer Sargent’s renowned portrait The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit” is examined in an aesthetic, philosophical, and personal tour de force that has been called thoroughly absorbing” (New York Times Book Review); brilliant and insightful”?(Wall Street Journal); an attractive, well-ill...

6,566円 Winner, National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies Book Award, 2019 The Royal Chicano Air Force produced major works of visual art, poetry, prose, music, and performance during the second half of the twentieth century and first decades of the twenty-first. Materializing in Sacramento, C...

1,326円 #1 Amazon Best Seller! ─ Cubanisms ─ The evolution of Cuban slang, Spanish slang, and Spanglish The history of Spanish slang: Spanish is a unique language. From Argentina to Spain, accents, meanings, connotations and more get lost between borders. Cubanisms by Pedro García-Menocal details the div...

297円 *THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER* **Updated and expanded with new material from the author and new foreword from Rachel Kushner** For many, Kim Gordon is the epitome of cool: vocalist, bassist/guitarist and founding member of Sonic Youthーone of the most successful bands to emerge from the post-pun...

1,892円 "[In] this anthology of well-chosen excerpts by a satisfyingly diverse group of writers....the truth of their lives shines from every beautifully, often courageously composed page."ー Booklist “Packed with superb writing.” ー New York Newsday Modern American Memoirs is a sampling from 35 quintess...

1,793円 The New York Times bestselling author of Bitter Brew chronicles the birth and rise to greatness of the American auto industry through the remarkable life of Harley Earl, an eccentric six-foot-five, stuttering visionary who dropped out of college and went on to invent the profession of automobile ...

4,982円 A lavish, gorgeously designed full-color collection that showcases the designs of Dorothy and Otis Shepard, two groundbreaking giants of early twentieth-century American advertising. Dorothy and Otis Shepard are the unsung heroes of early twentieth-century North American visual culture. Together,...

662円 Learning American history is more effective if done via pictures. Children are attracted to the vibrant colors of meaningful pictures. It's easier to imagine previous events when there are pictures to look at. This educational book also makes it easier to communicate with descriptive words to rel...

9,162円 This nuanced account explores Maya mythology through the lens of art, text, and culture. It offers an important reexamination of the mid-16th-century Popol Vuh, long considered an authoritative text, which is better understood as one among many crucial sources for the interpretation of ancient Ma...