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Nordic Utopia?
African Americans in the Twentieth Century
Features the experiences of African American artists in Nordic Europe
During the twentieth century, Black Americans visited and lived in Nordic countries, performing, studying, working, and seeking adventure, love, freedom to explore sexuality, and distance from...
ISBN: 9798987929346
more detailsPreoccupied
Indigenizing the Museum
interrogates the colonial underpinnings of museums
Published on the occasion of the “Preoccupied: Indigenizing the Museum” initiative at the Baltimore Museum of Art, this book centers Native artist voices and challenges collective understandings of Native peoples’...
ISBN: 9780912298023
more detailsGlorious Qing
Decorative Arts in China, 1644-1911
A guided tour through centuries of exquisitely crafted objects
With over 250 color illustrations, this companion volume to Claudia Brown's Great Qing: Painting in China, 1644–1911 covers an array of superbly crafted objects of art produced...
ISBN: 9780295751917
more detailsQueer World Making
Contemporary Middle Eastern Diasporic Art
An abundantly illustrated look at how queerness is performed within artistic practice
Premodern archives from the Middle East show rich and diverse homoerotic worlds that were disrupted by the colonial imposition of Western models of sexuality....
ISBN: 9780295752297
more detailsSkidegate House Models
From Haida Gwaii to the Chicago World's Fair and Beyond
Explores the Skidegate model village carved by Haida artists for the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair
In 1892 seventeen Haida artists were commissioned to carve a model of HlGaagilda Llnagaay (the village of Skidegate on Haida Gwaii,...
ISBN: 9780295751047
more detailsDetermined to Be
The Sculpture of John Rhoden
This richly illustrated book celebrates the groundbreaking work of an African American sculptor
Determined to Be explores the work of prizewinning American sculptor John Walter Rhoden (1916–2001). When Rhoden was young, his talent caught the attention...
ISBN: 9798987929322
more detailsBarbara Earl Thomas
The Illuminated Body
Features work across a wide range of artistic mediums including paper, glass, and Tyvek
A talented visual storyteller, Barbara Earl Thomas has drawn from history, literature, folklore, mythology, and biblical stories over her forty-year career to...
ISBN: 9798987929315
more detailsTengautuli Atkuk / The Flying Parka
The Meaning and Making of Parkas in Southwest Alaska
A unique collaboration celebrating the importance of parkas in Yup'ik material culture
Parkas are part of a living tradition in southwest Alaska. Some are ornamented with tassels, beads, and elaborate stitching; others are simpler fur or...
ISBN: 9780295751740
more detailsUnAustralian Art
Ten Essays on Transnational Art History
UnAustralian Art: Ten Essays on Transnational Art History proposes a radical rethinking of Australian art. Rex Butler and ADS Donaldson do not seek to identify a distinctive national sensibility; instead, they demonstrate that Australian art...
ISBN: 9780909952105
more detailsEnds of Painting
Art in the 1960s and 1970s
Contemporary art begins where painting ends, or so goes one of recent art history's most dominant narratives. This book is a postmortem of the supposed death of painting in the period following World War II....
ISBN: 9780909952068
more detailsLife and Afterlife in Ancient China
An epic new history of Ancient China told through the prism of a dozen extraordinary tombs
The three millennia up to the establishment of the first imperial Qin dynasty in 221 BC cemented many of the...
ISBN: 9780295752365
more detailsNot Native American Art
Fakes, Replicas, and Invented Traditions
Explores the making and meaning of so-called Native American art
The faking of Native American art objects has proliferated as their commercial value has increased, but even a century ago experts were warning that the faking...
ISBN: 9780295751368
more detailsChina's Hidden Century
1796-1912
Cultural creativity in China between 1796 and 1912 demonstrated extraordinary resilience in a time of warfare, land shortages, famine, and uprisings. Innovation can be seen in material culture (including print, painting, calligraphy, textiles, jewelry, ceramics,...
ISBN: 9780295751856
more detailsRenegade Edo and Paris
Japanese Prints and Toulouse-Lautrec
A critical look at the renegade spirit that permeates Japanese prints and the posters of fin-de-siècle Paris
Both the Edo period (1603–1868) in Japan and the late nineteenth century in France witnessed a multitude of challenges...
ISBN: 9780932216076
more detailsStitching Love and Loss
A Gee's Bend Quilt
A meditation on suffering, resilience, creativity, and grace
In 1942 Missouri Pettway, newly suffering the loss of her husband, pieced together a quilt out of his old, worn work clothes. Nearly six decades later her daughter...
ISBN: 9780295751603
more detailsSharing Honors and Burdens
Renwick Invitational 2023
Celebrates the groundbreaking work of six contemporary craft artists from Indigenous Nations across the US
This volume features the work of six Indigenous artists whose craft speaks to the responsibility of honoring cultural traditions while shaping...
ISBN: 9780937311882
more detailsThe Brush of Insight
Artists and Agency at the Mughal Court
Sheds light on the art and artists that gave material form to Mughal imperial vision
Over the course of the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, Mughal court painters evolved from illustrators of manuscripts and albums to...
ISBN: 9780295751092
more detailsThe Ghost in the City
Luo Ping and the Craft of Painting in Eighteenth-Century China
A visual and social exploration of early modern Beijing's cultural milieu
In 1771 the artist Luo Ping (1733–99) left his native Yangzhou to relocate to the burgeoning hub of Beijing's Southern City. Over two decades, he...
ISBN: 9780295750958
more detailsOld Stacks, New Leaves
The Arts of the Book in South Asia
A deep dive into the visual forms, material contexts, social lives, and global circulations of books
In the twenty-first century, debates on the future of books and print culture have intensified with the rise of digital...
ISBN: 9780295751115
more detailsPorcelain for the Emperor
Manufacture and Technocracy in Qing China
A new perspective for understanding the technology behind goods “made in China”
The exquisite ceramic ware produced at the Imperial Porcelain Manufactory at Jingdezhen in southern China functioned as a kind of visual propaganda for the...
ISBN: 9780295750828
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