Category: History

A Harmony of the Arts: The Nebraska State Capitol (Great Plains Photography)

Price: $9.98

Publisher: Bison Books : January 1993

Seller ID: 92419

ISBN-13: 9780803279315

Since its completion in 1932, the Nebraska State Capitol has been widely recognized as an architectural masterpiece, one that justifiably inspires pride in the citizens of the state and admiration in people everywhere. Rising four hundred feet from a massive two-story base, domed with gold-glazed tile and topped with a bronze statue of a pioneer sower of grain, it can be seen for miles on the plains. This most striking of statehouses, designed by Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue in 1920 and under construction for a decade, successfully embodies the union of art, architecture, and humanism. A Harmony ...
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Gracious Plenty: American Still-Life Art from Southern Collections

Price: $18.48

Publisher: Morris Museum : January 0001

Seller ID: 39421

ISBN-13: 9780963875358

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

Landscape of Slavery: The Plantation in American Art

Price: $24.98

Publisher: University of South Carolina Press : January 2008

Seller ID: 38000

ISBN-13: 9781570037191

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Bridging art history and social history, Landscape of Slavery undertakes an original study of plantation images from the eighteenth century through the present to unravel the realities and mythology inherent in this complex and often provocative subject. Through eighty-three color plates, nineteen black-and-white illustrations, and six thematic essays, the collection examines depictions of plantation structures, plantation views, and related slave imagery and art in the context of the American landscape tradition, addressing the impact of these works on race relations in the United States. Cre...
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Off the Pedestal: New Women in the Art of Homer, Chase, and Sargeant

Price: $14.98

Publisher: Rutgers University Press : February 2006

Seller ID: 66159

ISBN-13: 9780813536972

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Pictures of women portrayed as professional, athletic, and intellectual seem common to us today, but until the late nineteenth century, such representations of strong, self-reliant women were virtually, if not completely, absent from the visual arts and literature.Off the Pedestal is the first book to explore the radical change that occurred in the representation of women immediately after the Civil War. Three critical essays draw on the visual culture of the period to show how postbellum social changes in the United States brought issues of subordination and autonomy to the surface for women ...
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Rings: Five Passions in World Art

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Harry N Abrams : June 1996

Seller ID: 47860

ISBN-13: 9780939802814

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Seeing Beyond the Word: Visual Arts and the Calvinist Tradition

Price: $32.50

Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company : May 1999

Seller ID: 99900

ISBN-13: 9780802838605

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Reminding readers that starkness is an aesthetic not a lack of aesthetic, surveys the visual arts, including architecture, under the influence of the Protestant Reformation in England, France, Switzerland, Germany, Hungary, the Netherlands, and America. Many of the examples range into the 18th and e
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SPIRIT OF AFRICA: Traditional Art From The Nokes Collection

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Memphis State University Gallery : January 1982

Seller ID: 72771

ISBN: B0015R86DA

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The Faces of Europe

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Phaidon : October 1983

Seller ID: 129764

ISBN-13: 9780714820941

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

The J. Paul Getty Museum Handbook of the Antiquities Collection: Revised Edition

Price: $9.98

Publisher: Getty Publications : June 2010

Seller ID: 78131

ISBN-13: 9780892369980

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The J. Paul Getty Museum's antiquities collection contains more than fifty thousand ancient objects. Spanning thousands of years--from Preclassical times as far back as the third millennium B.C. through the third century A.D.--it encompasses Cycladic, Greek, Etruscan, South Italian, Roman, and Romano-Egyptian cultures. The collection includes one of the finest assemblages of ancient Greek vases in the United States; monumental marble sculptures and diminutive bronzes; Greek and Roman gems; and Hellenistic silverware, jewelry, and glass. In lively prose accompanied by a full-color photograph of...
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An Album of Brandywine [DE/PA] Traditional Artists

By: Anon.,

Price: $15.00

Publisher: : January 1971

Seller ID: 175253

ISBN: B01HC79F2M

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Dictionary of Christian Art

By: Apostolos-Cappadona, Diane

Price: $19.75

Publisher: Continuum International Publishing Group : December 1994

Seller ID: 99902

ISBN-13: 9780826407795

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

The aim of this dictionary is to give the reader access to the pictorial tradition that was once the common visual vocabulary of Christians. In over 1,000 entries from Aaron to Zucchetto, the Dictionary identifies and explains the major signs, symbols, figures, and topics that have emerged in 2
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ArtSpeak : A Guide to Contemporary Ideas, Movements, and Buzzwords, 1945 to the Present (Speak Series)

By: Atkins, Robert

Price: $11.99

Publisher: Abbeville Press : August 1997

Seller ID: 14642

ISBN-13: 9780789203656

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Discusses the terms, movements, and major artists in the modern American and European art world.
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The art in painting

By: Barnes, Albert C

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Harcourt, Brace and Co : January 1937

Seller ID: 64885

ISBN: B00085QBU0

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Like New

Keeping an Eye Open: Essays on Art

By: Barnes, Julian

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Knopf : October 2015

Seller ID: 160582

ISBN-13: 9781101874783

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

An extraordinary collection--hawk-eyed and understanding--from the Man Booker Prize-winning, best-selling author of The Sense of an Ending and Levels of Life. As Julian Barnes notes: "Flaubert believed that it was impossible to explain one art form in terms of another, and that great paintings required no words of explanation. Braque thought the ideal state would be reached when we said nothing at all in front of a painting . . . But it is a rare picture that stuns, or argues, us into silence. And if one does, it is only a short time before we want to explain and understand the very silence i...
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Art for the People: The Rediscovery and Preservation of Progressive and WPA-Era murals in the Chicago Public Schools, 1904-1943

By: Becker, Heather

Price: $14.98

Publisher: Chronicle Books : November 2002

Seller ID: 180025

ISBN-13: 9780811835794

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Rediscovered a few years ago in woeful disrepair by a dedicated high school teacher, the murals of Chicagos public schools had long been painted over, torn down, forgotten. Dating back almost a century, these extraordinary murals, painted by celebrated artists such as Edgar Britton, Mitchell Siporin, Lucille Ward, and Edward Millman, were created during the Progressive (1904-1933) and New Deal (1933-1943) eras. Art for the People tells the inspiring story of their preservation: a project that brought conservators, historians, politicians, educators, and students together in a united cause, and...
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The Boston Raphael: A Mysterious Painting, an Embattled Mueseum in an Era of Change, and a Daughter's Search for the Truth

By: Belinda Rathbone

Price: $14.98

Publisher: David R Godine : October 2014

Seller ID: 87356

ISBN-13: 9781567925227

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

The full, inside story of how the discovery of a previously unknown painting by Raphael, the Italian Renaissance master, went from media sensation to career-destroying scandal. On the eve of its centennial celebrations in December, 1969, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts announced the acquisition of an unknown and uncatalogued painting attributed to Raphael. Boston's coup made headlines around the world. Soon afterward, an Italian art sleuth began investigating the details of the painting's export from Italy, challenged the museum's right to ownership. Simultaneously, experts on both sides of the...
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