The batik designs of Java's North Coast are particularly varied in both design and colour. With their fanciful, highly imaginative motifs and luminous tints, they are more immediately appealing than the sombre blue and brown batik of Central Java. It was a chance encounter in a Hong Kong antique shop that inspired photojournalist Inger McCabe ...
This survey of the idea California has represented in the American imagination includes more than 400 works of art in a variety of media, including film, fashion, furniture, and photography, as well as painting and sculpture.
This work includes more than 100 masterworks from the collection in Los Angeles. Covering five centuries of European and American drawings in many different mediums and concerning every possible subject matter, the collection is particularly strong in Italian and French old masters and works of the 19th and 20th centuries. Each piece is shown in ...
Drawing extensively from various disciplines including ethnology, geography, geology, and environmental studies, this groundbreaking book addresses shifting concepts of time, history, and landscape in relation to the work of pioneering American artists during the first half of the twentieth century. Paintings, watercolours, and photographs by ...
As critics begin to assess the accomplishments of the postmodern era, the work of Eleanor Antin, one of the period's early innovators and veteran practitioners, has proved seminal. Over the past 30 years, Antin has produced conceptual artworks, mail art, photographic narratives, performances, videotapes, short and feature-length movies, and what ...
This landmark book and its companion volume, The American Discovery of Ancient Egypt: Essays, take an enormous step toward bringing these accomplishments, and the enterprising individuals responsible for them, to light. The essays in this volume focus on changing American perceptions of ancient Egypt, early travelers and collectors, and American ...
The sculpture of Auguste Rodin has become an enduring part of our visual culture and his work has greatly influenced sculptural art since the turn of the century. Its universal appeal springs from its expressiveness, its vitality and its passionate mirroring of the human condition. "Rodin in his Time" presents a major collection of sculpture, the ...
Experimenting with a new technique of painting with enamel on copper, the artists of Limoges in central France founded an industry in the late 15th-century that continues to this day. For nearly 200 years they produced plaques and display pieces that were prized throughout Europe and inspired a full-scale revival of the art in the later 19th ...
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