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11) Winslow Homer
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420 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 32 cm
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English
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331 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 30 cm
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English
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"For more than 40 years, Sally Mann has made experimental, elegiac, and hauntingly beautiful photographs that explore the overarching themes of existence: memory, desire, death, the bonds of family, and nature's magisterial indifference to human endeavor. What unites this broad body of work -- portraits, still lifes, landscapes, and other studies -- is that it is all "bred of a place," the American South. Mann, who is a native of Lexington, Virginia,...
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368 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm
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English
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This book takes readers inside the public displays as well as private cabinets, storerooms, and vaults to learn the stories of its most fascinating and significant pieces. Curators from thirteen Smithsonian museums and archives crafted this immersive exploration to illuminate the full scope of the political, military, social, and cultural climate of the era. In 150 entries to honor the 150th anniversary of the war, each curator tells a truly unique...
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247 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits ; 29 cm
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English
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"For generations, the visual drama of the Rocky Mountains has seduced artists. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, painters, photographers, and sculptors who visited or settled in northern New Mexico created evocative visions that came to represent the West for audiences across America. During the 1920s and 1930s, Santa Fe and Taos were recognized as two of the nation's--and world's--most important art communities. The cosmopolitan denizens...
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255 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 30 cm
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English
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From famous locations to the simplest home vegetable garden, from worlds imagined by artists to vintage family snapshots, 'The Photographer in the Garden' traces the garden's rich history in photography and delights readers with spectacular images. Picture commentaries by Sarah Anne McNear and an informative essay from curator Jamie M. Allen broaden our understanding of photography and how it has been used to record the glory of the garden. The book...
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