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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 detailsNorman Maclean
A Life of Letters and Rivers
The first biography of one of Montana’s most celebrated writers
A River Runs Through It and Other Stories turned Norman Maclean into a late-in-life literary phenomenon and then a household name after the success of the...
ISBN: 9780295752488
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 detailsOut of Site
Survey Science and the Hidden West
Out of Site explores the invisible landscapes of the American West through the interwoven forces of art and technology over the past 170 years. This interdisciplinary project features an array of visual media, including historical, modern,...
ISBN: 9798987929339
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 detailsLouise Bourgeois
Has the Day Invaded the Night or Has the Night Invaded the Day?
Louise Bourgeois (1911–2010) was one of the most influential artists of the past century. Louise Bourgeois: Has the Day Invaded the Night or Has the Night Invaded the Day? explores the powerful emotional and formal...
ISBN: 9781741741681
more detailsCalder: In Motion
The Shirley Family Collection
Showcases a collection that reflects the extraordinary variety and inventiveness of Calder’s oeuvre
In spring 2023 the Seattle Art Museum announced that patrons Jon and Kim Shirley had generously gifted the Shirley Family Collection to the...
ISBN: 9780932216632
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 detailsHoda Afshar
A Curve Is a Broken Line
Through her photographs, Hoda Afshar examines the politics of image making. Deeply researched yet emotionally sensitive, her bodies of work are a form of activism as much as an artistic inquiry. Alert to the duplicity...
ISBN: 9781741741674
more detailsFull Light and Perfect Shadow
The Photography of Chao-Chen Yang
Celebrates the work of an influential Asian American photographer
This is the first study of the work of Chao-Chen Yang (1909–1969), an important Seattle photographer who gained national prominence in the mid-twentieth century.
Born in Hangzhou,...
ISBN: 9780998911250
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 detailsDreamhome
Stories of Art and Shelter
This unique and engagingly written book reveals how some of today's most exciting artists are reimagining the idea of home for our unsettled times. In his evocative style, Justin Paton investigates a place we all...
ISBN: 9781741741612
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
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