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Glorious Qing

Glorious Qing

Decorative Arts in China, 1644-1911

By Claudia Brown

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 during China's last dynasty. It features ceramics, metalwork,...

ISBN: 9780295751917

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Queer World Making

Queer World Making

Contemporary Middle Eastern Diasporic Art

By Andrew Gayed

Premodern archives from the Middle East show rich and diverse homoerotic worlds that were disrupted by the colonial imposition of Western models of sexuality. Andrew Gayed traces how contemporary Arab and Middle Eastern diasporic artists...

ISBN: 9780295752297

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Skidegate House Models

Skidegate House Models

From Haida Gwaii to the Chicago World's Fair and Beyond

By Robin K. Wright

In 1892 seventeen Haida artists were commissioned to carve a model of HlGaagilda Llnagaay (the village of Skidegate on Haida Gwaii, British Columbia) for the 1893 World’s Fair in Chicago. The Skidegate model, featuring twenty-nine...

ISBN: 9780295751047

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Hoda Afshar

Hoda Afshar

A Curve is a Broken Line

By Isobel Parker Philip, Behrouz Boochani, Taous Dahmani, Shahram Khosravi, Isobel Parker Philip, Sarah Sentilles, Andrew Brooks, Astrid Lorange, Elyas Alavi, Hala Alyan

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

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Barbara Earl Thomas

Barbara Earl Thomas

The Illuminated Body

By Carolyn Swan Needell

A talented visual storyteller, Barbara Earl Thomas has drawn from history, literature, folklore, mythology, and biblical stories over her forty-year career to reflect the social fabric of our times. Thomas’s figural and narrative imagery has...

ISBN: 9798987929315

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Full Light and Perfect Shadow

Full Light and Perfect Shadow

The Photography of Chao-Chen Yang

By David F. Martin

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, China, Yang received his art training at the...

ISBN: 9780998911250

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<i>Tengautuli Atkuk</i> / The Flying Parka

Tengautuli Atkuk / The Flying Parka

The Meaning and Making of Parkas in Southwest Alaska

By Ann Fienup-Riordan, Alice Rearden, and Marie Meade

Parkas are part of a living tradition in southwest Alaska. Some are ornamented with tassels, beads, and elaborate stitching; others are simpler fur or birdskin garments. Although fewer fancy parkas are sewn today, many people...

ISBN: 9780295751740

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UnAustralian Art

UnAustralian Art

Ten Essays on Transnational Art History

By Rex Butler and A. D. S. Donaldson

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

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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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Not Native American Art

Not Native American Art

Fakes, Replicas, and Invented Traditions

By Janet Catherine Berlo. Foreword by Joe Horse Capture

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 of objects ranging from catlinite pipes to Chumash sculpture...

ISBN: 9780295751368

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Life and Afterlife in Ancient China

Life and Afterlife in Ancient China

By Jessica Rawson

The three millennia up to the establishment of the first imperial Qin dynasty in 221 BC cemented many of the distinctive elements of Chinese civilization still in place today: an extraordinarily challenging geography and environment;...

ISBN: 9780295752365

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Dreamhome

Dreamhome

Stories of Art and Shelter

By Justin Paton

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

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China

China's Hidden Century

1796-1912

By Jessica Harrison-Hall, Julia Lovell

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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Renegade Edo and Paris

Renegade Edo and Paris

Japanese Prints and Toulouse-Lautrec

By Xiaojin Wu. With Contributions by Mary Weaver Chapin

Both the Edo period (1603–1868) in Japan and the late nineteenth century in France witnessed a multitude of challenges to the status quo from the rising middle class. In Edo (present-day Tokyo), townspeople pursued hedonistic...

ISBN: 9780932216076

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Stitching Love and Loss

Stitching Love and Loss

A Gee's Bend Quilt

By Lisa Gail Collins

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 Arlonzia Pettway, approaching eighty at the time...

ISBN: 9780295751603

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Sharing Honors and Burdens

Sharing Honors and Burdens

Renwick Invitational 2023

By Lara M. Evans, Miranda Belarde-Lewis, and Anya Montiel

This volume features the work of six Indigenous artists whose craft speaks to the responsibility of honoring cultural traditions while shaping the future. Joe Feddersen (Arrow Lakes/Okanagan) is a printmaker, glass artist, and basket maker...

ISBN: 9780937311882

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The Brush of Insight

The Brush of Insight

Artists and Agency at the Mughal Court

By Yael Rice

Over the course of the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, Mughal court painters evolved from illustrators of manuscripts and albums to active mediators of imperial visionary experience, cultivating their patrons’ earthly and spiritual authority. Featuring...

ISBN: 9780295751092

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The Ghost in the City

The Ghost in the City

Luo Ping and the Craft of Painting in Eighteenth-Century China

By Michele Matteini

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 became the favored artist of a cosmopolitan community of scholars...

ISBN: 9780295750958

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Old Stacks, New Leaves

Old Stacks, New Leaves

The Arts of the Book in South Asia

By Sonal Khullar

In the twenty-first century, debates on the future of books and print culture have intensified with the rise of digital technologies, and the contemporary art world has witnessed an explosion of interest in the book...

ISBN: 9780295751115

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The Boathouse

The Boathouse

The Artist's Studio of Dale Chihuly

By Leslie Jackson Chihuly, David B. Williams, and William Warmus

This book features an exclusive glimpse into The Boathouse, the private working studio of artist Dale Chihuly, and into the history of its location on the shores of Lake Union in Seattle. Inhabited for thousands...

ISBN: 9781576841198

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