496円 The tradition of African-American Folk Art is vast and diverse. With roots that extend overseas, these traditions now flourish and continue to bloom into the twenty-first century. In Contemporary African-American Folk Art, trace the development of such mediums as wood carving, pottery, quilt maki...

3,443円 One of the youngest recipients of a MacArthur “genius” grant, Kara Walker, an African American artist, is best known for her iconic, often life-size, black-and-white silhouetted figures, arranged in unsettling scenes on gallery walls. These visually arresting narratives draw viewers into a dialog...

5,300円 The Art of Transition addresses the problems defined by writers and artists during the postdictatorship years in Argentina and Chile, years in which both countries aggressively adopted neoliberal market-driven economies. Delving into the conflicting efforts of intellectuals to name and speak to w...

2,912円 In this sweeping work of memoir and commentary, leading cultural critic Paul Chaat Smith illustrates with dry wit and brutal honesty the contradictions of life in “the Indian business.” Raised in suburban Maryland and Oklahoma, Smith dove head first into the political radicalism of the 1970s, wor...

4,239円 After Mexico’s revolution of 1910–1920, intellectuals sought to forge a unified cultural nation out of the country’s diverse populace. Their efforts resulted in an “ethnicized” interpretation of Mexicanness that intentionally incorporated elements of folk and indigenous culture. In this rich hist...

496円 A Brief Survey of Caricature and Caricaturists of the 19th Century including Hogarth, Gillray, Cruikshank, Leech, Doyle.

5,812円 From prehistory to the present, the Indigenous peoples of the Andes have used a visual symbol systemーthat is, artーto express their sense of the sacred and its immanence in the natural world. Many visual motifs that originated prior to the Incas still appear in Andean art today, despite the onsl...

4,091円 Known for their beautiful textile art, the Kuna of Panama have been scrutinized by anthropologists for decades. Perhaps surprisingly, this scrutiny has overlooked the magnificent Kuna craft of nuchukanaーwooden anthropomorphic carvingsーwhich play vital roles in curing and other Kuna rituals. Dra...

4,908円 In the decades preceding the Stonewall riotsーin the wake of the 1948 publication of Alfred Kinsey’s controversial report on male sexuality and in the midst of a cold war culture of suspicion and paranoiaーdiscussions of homosexuality within the New York art world necessarily circulated via gossi...

500円 The poems of j.d daniels in Say Yes begin soft and gentle as a breeze from behind, the quietness carried in fields of corn. A world beneath the world of snow-covered branches, each poem opens with a quotation by Rumi, lending a timeless air. By twists and turns, images flicker off the page like t...

6,060円 Critics hailed previous editions of Visionary Film as the most complete work written on the exciting, often puzzling, and always controversial genre of American avant-garde film. This book has remained the standard text on American avant-garde film since the publication of its first edition in 19...

164円 A Brief look at the Pan American Exposition with Illustration by Andre Casaigne and Harry Fenn.