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247 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm
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English
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" The Carved Line is about printmaking and printmakers in New Mexico over a significant period of time from 1890 to present. It features block prints, including new works, by New Mexico's best known printmakers and brings to the forefront little-known artists deserving wide recognition and a place in New Mexico's art historical canon. This volume includes 120 beautifully reproduced prints by internationally known New Mexico artists including Gustave...
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205 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
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English
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"Arthur Wesley Dow (1857-1922) was a leader of the American arts and crafts movement. A prolific artist in a variety of mediums - painting, photography, and printmaking - he influenced generations of artists. In his writings and in the many subjects he taught at Pratt Institute, Columbia University Teachers College, and at his own Ipswich Summer School of Art, Dow stressed the arts and crafts aesthetic of beautifully rendered, well-crafted works that...
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158 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
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English
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Independent, prolific, and influential, Gustave Baumann stands at the center of American woodcut printmaking in the first half of the century. He created vivid, brilliantly colorful nature-inspired scenes of rural American life and Indian cultures. His prints are simple and elegant studies rooted in a landscape that is both delicate and rugged. This award-winning book is the first published collection of his stunning oeuvre.
Starting out as a commercial...
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145 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits (some color) ; 26 cm.
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English
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The work of Robert Rauschenberg has had a profound impact on avant-garde art from the 1950s onwards. A pioneer of multimedia are, this book explores his experimentations from his Combines (works melding painting and sculpture), prints, silkscreen paintings to his use of technology and his collaborations with choreographers such as Merce Cunningham and Trisha Brown. This book explores his work.
Presents a survey of the life and work of Robert Rauschenberg....
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143 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm
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English
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"David Bradley (Minnesota Chippewa) creates narrative paintings that layer and comment ironically upon people, places, events, histories, cultural realities, and the times in which the artist lives. Bradley's art has become a recognized voice from Indian Country, exploring questions of identity, self-determination, and self-portrait, giving vent to issues about which he is passionate. Indian Country compiles the styles and media the artist has worked...
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xii, 225 pages : illustrations ; cm.
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English
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From the Publisher: This is the first book solely dedicated to the history, development, and present-day flowering of Chicana and Chicano visual arts. It offers readers an opportunity to understand and appreciate Chicana/o art from its beginnings in the 1960s, its relationship to the Chicana/o Movement and its leading artists, themes, current directions, and cultural impacts. Although the word "Chicano" once held negative connotations, students-along...
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From the eve of the Great Depression to the onset of World War II, Lynd Ward, America's first great graphic novelist, bore witness to the roiling, dizzying national scene as both a master printmaker and a socially committed storyteller. His medium of expression, the wordless "novel in woodcuts," was his alone in the United States, and he quickly brought it from bold iconic infancy to a still unrivaled richness of drama, characterization, imagery,...
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247 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits (some color) ; 32 cm
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English
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"This is a revelatory reassessment of one of the most influential American artists of the 20th century: Charles White (1918-1979) is best known for bold, large-scale paintings and drawings of African Americans, meticulously executed works that depict human relationships and socioeconomic struggles with a remarkable sensitivity. This comprehensive study offers a much-needed reexamination of the artist's career and legacy. With handsome reproductions...
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