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Park Dae Sung

Park Dae Sung

Ink Reimagined

By Sunglim Kim

Contemporary Korean artist Park Dae Sung (b. 1945) works in the traditional medium of ink painting while transforming familiar Korean landscapes with his modern and imaginative interpretations of the natural world. Park, who lost his...

ISBN: 9781737183754

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George Tsutakawa

George Tsutakawa

Early Works on Paper

By David F. Martin

One of the leading Northwest artists of his generation, George Tsutakawa (1910–97) is internationally known for his sculpture and fountain designs. However, a lesser-known aspect of his career was the production of blockprints, watercolors, and...

ISBN: 9780998911243

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Botticelli and Renaissance Florence

Botticelli and Renaissance Florence

Masterworks from the Uffizi

By Cecilia Frosinini, Rachel Mcgarry

This sumptuously illustrated book presents the most recent scholarship in English on Botticelli and Renaissance Florence, featuring essays and entries written by an international team of scholars and experts in the field.
The authors examine both...

ISBN: 9780998587226

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Christina Fernandez

Christina Fernandez

Multiple Exposures

By Rebecca Epstein

Christina Fernandez sees herself as equally artist and storyteller, one who employs photography to explore social and physical isolation and estrangement within marginalized communities while experimenting with composition and form. Her art is shaped by...

ISBN: 9780895512017

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Vivienne Binns

Vivienne Binns

On and through the Surface

By Anneke Jaspers, Hannah Mathews

Vivienne Binns is an important and singular figure in the history of Australian visual art. Her groundbreaking and experimental work has tested the philosophical underpinnings of art itself, both preempting and participating in the most...

ISBN: 9780648152996

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Ends of Painting

Ends of Painting

Art in the 1960s and 1970s

By David Homewood, Paris Lettau

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

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Art Fallen from Heaven

Art Fallen from Heaven

Modern Balinese Sculpture

By Koos van Brakel

Art Fallen from Heaven offers a new perspective on the origin of modern Balinese sculpture in the 1930s and an overview of its evolution from 1932 to 1973. Thoroughly illustrated with photos of traditional and...

ISBN: 9789460220517

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Daniel Boyd

Daniel Boyd

Treasure Island

By Isobel Parker Philip, Erin Vink, Daniel Browning, Léuli Eshraghi, Isobel Parker Philip, Michael Mossman, Nathan ‘Mudyi’ Sentance, Erin Vink

Daniel Boyd (b. 1982) is one of Australia’s most acclaimed artists. His practice is internationally recognized for its engagement with the colonial history of the Australia–Great Ocean (Pacific) region. Drawing upon intermingled discourses of science,...

ISBN: 9781741741599

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Dale Harding

Dale Harding

Through a Lens of Visitation

By Hannah Mathews, Dale Harding, Kate Harding, Deborah Edwards, Nancy Underhill, Ann Stephen, Jacky Huggins, Paul Taçon

Through a Lens of Visitation pays homage to the stories and presence of matrilineal figures in Dale Harding's family. It documents a first-time collaboration with his mother, textile artist Kate Harding. Kate Harding's quilts and...

ISBN: 9780648152989

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Emily Carr

Emily Carr

Life & Work

By Lisa Baldissera

Emily Carr (1871–1945) gained prominence when female painters were not recognized internationally. Her work reveals a fascination with questions inspired by the Canadian sea, landscapes, and people, reflecting a profound commitment to the land she...

ISBN: 9781487102326

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The Exhibitionists

The Exhibitionists

A History of Sydney's Art Gallery of New South Wales

By Steven Miller

In 2021, the Art Gallery of New South Wales celebrated its 150th anniversary. Since its founding as an academy of art in 1871, its evolution into one of Australia’s premier public art museums is testament...

ISBN: 9781741741544

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The Artist as Eyewitness

The Artist as Eyewitness

Antonio Bernal Papers, 1884-2019

By Charlene Villaseñor Black

This first survey of Antonio Bernal’s life and work, The Artist as Eyewitness features essays that assess his murals, situating them within the historical, political, and cultural frameworks of the Chicano movement. It also includes...

ISBN: 9780895511744

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Seattle’s Olympic Sculpture Park

Seattle’s Olympic Sculpture Park

A Place for Art, Environment, and an Open Mind

By Mimi Gardner Gates

The Seattle Art Museum’s Olympic Sculpture Park, where Alexander Calder’s The Eagle soars over Puget Sound, Roxy Paine’s stainless-steel Split glistens in the rain, and Richard Serra’s Wake beckons visitors to walk within its towering...

ISBN: 9780932216809

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Alden Mason

Alden Mason

Paintings

By Roger Hull. with essays by Regina Hackett and Robert Ayers. Foreword by Chuck Close

Born in Everett, Washington, painter Alden Mason (1919–2014) earned his MFA from the University of Washington in 1947, launching what would become an extraordinary career as both artist and teacher. He reinvented his style several...

ISBN: 9780578873114

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Faces from the Interior

Faces from the Interior

The North American Portraits of Karl Bodmer

By Toby Jurovics, Scott Manning Stevens, Lisa Strong, Kristine K. Ronan, and Annika K. Johnson

In the early nineteenth century, Prince Maximilian of Wied traveled the Missouri River to uncover what he called “the natural face of North America”—its landscapes, flora and fauna, and Native inhabitants. Among his small party...

ISBN: 9781735441641

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Shifting Grounds

Shifting Grounds

Landscape in Contemporary Native American Art

By Kate Morris

A distinctly Indigenous form of landscape representation is emerging among contemporary Indigenous artists from North America. For centuries, landscape painting in European art typically used representational strategies such as single-point perspective to lure viewers—and settlers—into...

ISBN: 9780295749167

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Aboriginal Screen-Printed Textiles from Australia’s Top End

Aboriginal Screen-Printed Textiles from Australia’s Top End

By Joanna Barrkman

Aboriginal Screen-Printed Textiles from Australia’s Top End presents the work of contemporary Australian textile artists working at five Aboriginal-owned art centers in the Northern Territory: Tiwi Design, Jilamara Arts and Crafts Association, Injalak Arts and...

ISBN: 9780998044507

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Summoning the Ancestors

Summoning the Ancestors

Southern Nigerian Bronzes

By Nancy Neaher Maas and Philip M. Peek

Summoning the Ancestors explores a collection of 72 ofo (small ritual objects) and 74 bells produced in southern Nigeria by Igala, Igbo, Edo, Yorùbá, and other neighboring peoples, which was gifted to the Fowler Museum...

ISBN: 9780990762683

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Great Bear Wild

Great Bear Wild

Dispatches from a Northern Rainforest

By Ian McAllister. Foreword by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

The fabled Great Bear Rainforest stretches up the rugged Pacific coast from northern Vancouver Island to southern Alaska. A longtime resident of the area, award-winning photographer and conservationist Ian McAllister takes us on a deeply...

ISBN: 9780295749143

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Latinx Photography in the United States

Latinx Photography in the United States

A Visual History

By Elizabeth Ferrer

Whether at UFW picket lines in California’s Central Valley or capturing summertime street life in East Harlem Latinx photographers have documented fights for dignity and justice as well as the daily lives of ordinary people....

ISBN: 9780295747637

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