Art of the Japanese Postcard: The Leonard A. Lauder Collection at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston more books like this

by Anne Nishimura Morse, Professor J Thomas Rimer, Kendall H Brown, Ph.D.

Highlights the design, development, and cultural function of some 300 postcards, all ingenious examples of graphic art. "UK rights sold to Ashgate/Land Humphries.

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American Folk more books like this

by Gerald W R Ward

From the Boston Museum of Folk Art's collection, this is a choice sampling of toys, paintings, quilts, and much more.

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Eight Dynasties of Chinese Painting: The Collections of the Nelson Gallery-Atkins Museum, Kansas City, and the Cleveland Museum of Art more books like this

by Laurence Sickman (Designed by), Wai-Kam Ho, William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art a

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Writers on Artists more books like this

by Daniel Halpern (Editor)

'Proust on Chardin, Sartre on Tintoretto, Huxley on El Greco, Hemingway on Miro--writers discussing painters hold the irresistible promise of insight beyond formal analysis, interpretation beyond conventional art history....The essays...form a strong history of art...a pointillist history of stories and apercus and ruminations.' --New York Times ...

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The Right to Dream more books like this

by Gaston Bachelard

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Postmodernism and Its Discontents: Theories, Practices more books like this

by E Ann Kaplan (Editor)

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Postmodern Currents: Art and Artists in the Age of Electronic Media more books like this

by Margot Lovejoy

Written by a well-known multimedia artist, this cross-disciplinary survey examines the impact of today's high-level computer and video technologies upon contemporary art. It draws connections between the production, dissemination, value and creation of art-past and present-serving as a frame-of-reference for the future.

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Art After Modernism more books like this

by Brian Wallis (Editor), Marica Tucker (Foreword by)

The waning of the century-old modernist movement in the arts has called forth an array of artistic and critical responses. The 25 essays in this text provide a survey of the most provocative directions taken by art and criticism in the postmodern age. Recent directions in paintings, film, video and photograhy are explored, alongside visual artists ...

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When Was Modernism: Essays on Contemporary Cultural Practice in India more books like this

by Geeta Kapur

A commitment to modernity is the underlying theme of this volume. The essays range from interpretive prose pieces to theoretical expositions the authors seeks to situate the modern and contemporary cultural practice. The essays here formalize polemic options that emerge from concerns developed across the book.

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Artists' Books: A Critical Anthology & Sourcebook more books like this

by Joan Lyons (Editor)

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Video Culture: A Critical Investigation more books like this

by John G Hanhardt (Editor)

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Cycles, a Decade of Photographs more books like this

by David Featherstone (Editor), Judith Golden

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Robert Motherwell & Black more books like this

by Stephanie Terenzio, Robert Motherwell, William Benton Museum of Art

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The Elephant and the Lotus: Vietnamese Ceramics in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston more books like this

by Philippe Truong, John Stevenson (Introduction by)

Introduction by John Stevenson. Text by Philippe Truong.

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Mummies and Magic: The Funerary Arts of Ancient Egypt more books like this

by Sue D'Auria, Catharine H Roehrig, Peter Lacovara

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The Colossus of Roads: Myth and Symbol Along the American Highway more books like this

by Karal Ann Marling

Where can one find the world's largest prairie chicken, a restaurant shaped like a fish, a massive Paul Bunyan, or an enormous ear of corn? Roadside sculpture is a uniquely American phenomenon and these strange and wonderful figures can be found scattered along highways and standing in small-town squares, particularly in the Midwest. These odd and ...

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Exhibitionism: Art in the Era of Intolerance more books like this

by Lynne Munson

This investigation identifies a sickness of ideas that overtook the art world in the postmodern era. Exploring the personalities and workings of institutions like the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and Harvard University's Department of Fine Arts, Munson shows the effects of a new dogmatism.

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An American Focus: The Anderson Graphic Arts Collection more books like this

by Karin Breuer, Jacqueline Brody

"An American Focus" celebrates the exceptional and extensive Anderson Graphic Arts Collection of prints, multiples, and monotypes by major contemporary American artists. The collection spans more than thirty years of print production from 1962 to 1998, surveying the American printmaking renaissance with outstanding examples of print processes - ...

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Artistry, the Work of Artists more books like this

by Israel Scheffler (Designer), V. A. Howard

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Treasures of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston more books like this

by Malcolm Rogers

This little volume gathers together the finest treasures of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, one of the oldest museums in America and one of the greatest encyclopedic museums in the world.

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Art in Chicago, 1945-1995 more books like this

by Lynne Warren (Editor)

This survey examines the work of 150 artists who have either lived or worked in Chicago, and ranges from painting, sculpture, photography and drawing to film, video and performance art. Essays by a range of art critics and historians consider the institutions, movements, attitudes and ideas that have shaped Chicago over the past 50 years, while ...

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Mfa: A Guide to the Collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Entries by Gilian Shallcross Wohlauer; Introduction by Malcolm Rogers more books like this

by Museum of Fine Arts

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Singular Multiples: The Peter Blum Edition Archive, 1980-1994 more books like this

by Barry Walker, Museum of Fine Arts

Peter Blum was the first print publisher in the United States to introduce and to promote a new generation of European, Asian, and American artists to a larger public. "Singular Multiples" presents all of the extraordinary works from the Blum Edition Archive, which contains completed portfolios, single editions, books, preparatory drawings, ...

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Festival of India in the United States, 1985-1986 more books like this

by Pupul Jayakar, Harry N Abrams

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Masterworks of European Painting in the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston more books like this

by Edgar Peters Bowron, Museum of Fine Arts, Mary G Morton

Published to coincide with the opening of the Audrey Jones Beck building in March of 2000, this lavishly illustrated catalogue - the first single volume dedicated to this extraordinary collection - features one hundred of the most important European paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. The works, which range in date from the early ...

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