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For Disturbing the Peace
Born in Riverside, California in 1937 and profoundly affected by World War II, Ed Bereal made significant contributions to assemblage and performance arts in Los Angeles during the early 1960s through...
ISBN: 9780578486932
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Three Caribbean Artists
Jose Maria Capricorne, Nelson Carrilho, Philippe Zanolino
Caribbean art is strong, passionate and filled with contradictions, as are the lives of the three men profiled inThree Caribbean Artists. A rare glimpse is offered into the lives of three...
ISBN: 9789460224911
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The Way Home
David Neel was an infant when his father, a Kwakwa̱ka̱’wakw artist, died, triggering events that would separate him from the traditions of his homeland. When the aspiring photographer saw a mask...
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"Something Over Something Else"
Romare Bearden's Profile Series
In November 1977, The New Yorker published a feature-length biography of artist Romare Bearden by Calvin Tomkins as part of its “Profiles” series. The essay, titled Profile: Putting Something...
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The Art of Collecting
East Indies Paintings
Painters were fascinated by the tropical landscapes, picturesque villages and markets, and especially the diverse inhabitants of the Dutch East Indies. In the first half of the 20th century a large...
ISBN: 9789460225123
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Apparitions
Photography and Dissemination
An engaging and provocative account of photography’s first commercial applications in England and their global implications. This book addresses a persistent gap in the study of photography’s...
ISBN: 9780909952808
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Empire of Style
Silk and Fashion in Tang China
Tang dynasty (618–907) China hummed with cosmopolitan trends. Its capital at Chang’an was the most populous city in the world and was connected via the Silk Road with the critical markets and...
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Shifting Grounds
Landscape in Contemporary Native American Art
A distinctly Indigenous form of landscape representation is emerging in the creations of contemporary Indigenous artists from North America. For centuries, landscape painting in European art typically...
ISBN: 9780295745367
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Art AIDS America / Art AIDS America Chicago Boxed Set
This slipcased boxed set contains the two volumes: Art AIDS America, published in 2015 to coincide with the original exhibit at the Tacoma Art Museum, and the new book Art AIDS America...
ISBN: 9780295744636
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Inside Killjoy's Kastle
Dykey Ghosts, Feminist Monsters, and other Lesbian Hauntings
Hundreds of years of ridicule, persecution, erasure, misunderstanding, and institutionalization could put anyone in a bad mood. Killjoy invites you into her Kastle for a queer exorcism of the...
ISBN: 9780774861571
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Concrete Mama
Prison Profiles from Walla Walla
Journalists John McCoy and Ethan Hoffman spent four months inside the walls of the Washington State Penitentiary at Walla Walla in 1978, just as Washington, once a leader in prison reform, abandoned...
ISBN: 9780295743981
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Art in Seattle’s Public Spaces
From SoDo to South Lake Union
From cedar totem poles to high-tech video installations, downtown Seattle sparkles with hundreds of artworks adorning plazas, lobbies, parks, and waterfront piers and paths. This impressive collection,...
ISBN: 9780295744087
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Order of Imagination
The Photographs of Olivia Parker
For more than forty years, Olivia Parker’s poetic and alluring photographs have transformed the everyday and made the familiar strange. In deceptively simple still lives and complex, dreamlike...
ISBN: 9780875772400
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Indonesian Splendour / Indische pracht
Four Centuries of Fascination for the Flora of Indonesia / Vier eeuwen fascinatie voor de flora van Indonesie
Bilingual English / DutchIndonesia’s flora—with more than 45,000 plant varieties—is one of the most abundant in the world. Photographer Dennis A-Tjak has been making a name for himself...
ISBN: 9789460224935
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Tony Tuckson
Tony Tuckson’s story is not a simple one. He was an artist, arguably Australia’s most significant abstract expressionist painter, but he also played a crucial role in shaping the modern art museum...
ISBN: 9781741741414
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Art AIDS America Chicago
The groundbreaking 2015 exhibition Art AIDS America, and the accompanying book, revealed the deep and unforgettable impact that HIV/AIDS had on American art from the early 1980s to the present....
ISBN: 9780999652251
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Metaphor into Form
The Rebecca and Jack Benaroya Collection
This book celebrates the generous promised gift of over three hundred works from the collection of Rebecca and Jack Benaroya to the Tacoma Art Museum. Rebecca and Jack built their collection over...
ISBN: 9780924335464
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Up Here
The North at the Center of the World
The North is a complex place that is beautiful, moody, and anything but untouched. The Arctic, part of the international North that is pivotal to the world because of climate change, is no longer...
ISBN: 9780295999081
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Menadelook
An Inupiat Teacher's Photographs of Alaska Village Life, 1907-1932
Menadelook showcases nearly one hundred photographs taken by the Inupiat photographer Charles Menadelook that document life in Wales in the Bering Strait between Alaska and Russia, in the...
ISBN: 9780295999333
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Sun, Shadows, Stone
The Photography of Terry Toedtemeier
Photographer and curator Terry Toedtemeier (1947–2008) began his career in the 1970s with extensive photographic experiments to capture his close circle of friends and colleagues. Largely self-taught,...
ISBN: 9780924335457
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