2,789円 “One of the great American memoirs, a heartbreaking, hilarious story of what it means to make things up, including yourself. A wild tale of lack and lies, galling humiliations and majestic reinventions, this touching, coruscating joy of a book is an answer to that perennial question: how should a...

1,326円 Winner, 2019 Ron Tyler Award for Best Illustrated Book, sponsored by the Texas State Historical Association (TSHA) In this expansive and vigorous survey of the Houston art scene of the 1970s and 1980s, author Pete Gershon describes the city’s emergence as a locus for the arts, fueled by a boom in...

3,649円 Public sculpture is a major draw in today’s cities, and nowhere is this more the case than in New York. In the Big Apple, urban art has become synonymous with the municipal “brand,” highlighting the metropolis as vibrant, creative, tolerant, orderly, and above all, safe. Sculpture in Gotham tells...

124円 自从中国打开国门以来，每一年都有成千上万的中国人以各种理由来美国定居。他们怀揣着各自的梦想，在美国这片神奇的土地上，用自己斑斓多彩的生活演绎着生命的张力。《错位》的作者用短篇小说的形式，将他们的故事细腻深情地展现出来，用心与心碰撞的语言，坦诚地探索生命的意义。 在这本短篇小说中，你将会遇到许多新生...

10,280円 This edited volume examines the history of abstract art across Latin America after 1945. This form of art grew in popularity across the Americas in the postwar period, often serving to affirm a sense of being modern and the right of Latin America to assume the leading role Europe had played befor...

5,300円 The ancient city of Teotihuacan, North America’s first metropolis, flourished for nearly eight centuries in central Mexico until its demise in 650 C.E. Known primarily for its massive architecture and monumental wall paintings, the cityーand its dazzling artworkーinspired awe in its time, and con...

1,044円 Sandy Einstein aus Kalifornien erinnert sich: Als ich aufwuchs, sprach mein Vater kaum über seine Vergangenheit und ich hatte auch kein Interesse daran, ihn danach zu fragen. Er sagte, dass er während des nationalsozialistischen Terrorregimes in den 1930ern durch einen Produzenten in Hollywood fr...

1,044円 Growing up my father rarely talked about his past and I really did not have much interest in asking him about it. He did say he was ransomed out of Germany during the Nazi reign of terror in the 1930's by a Hollywood producer and was a tutor to the producer's son teaching him Hebrew since in Germ...

2,677円 Felrath Hines (1913–1993), the first African American man to become a professional conservator for the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, was born and raised in the segregated Midwest. Leaving their home in the South, Hines's parents migrated to Indianapolis with hopes for a better life. Whil...

9,150円 Winner, Roland H. Bainton Book Prize, The Sixteenth Century Society and Conference, 2019 Some sixty years after the Spanish conquest of Mexico, a group of Nahua intellectuals in Mexico City set about compiling an extensive book of miscellanea, which was recorded in pictorial form with alphabetic ...

4,951円 During the period of Aztec expansion and empire (ca. 1325–1525), scribes of high social standing used a pictographic writing system to paint hundreds of manuscripts detailing myriad aspects of life, including historical, calendric, and religious information. Following the Spanish conquest, native...

5,300円 Mapping Modernisms brings together scholars working around the world to address the modern arts produced by indigenous and colonized artists. Expanding the contours of modernity and its visual products, the contributors illustrate how these artists engaged with ideas of Primitivism through visual...