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Smithsonian American Art Museum

Contents: From distant shores -- This other Eden -- Liberty more than life -- Ever westward -- Hand to the plow -- Brother against brother -- The rise of industry -- An eye for beauty -- Seeing the city -- The Harlem renaissance -- South by southwest -- The Great Depression -- Folk traditions -- Americans at midcentury -- The abstract impulse -- Toward the millennium -- Catalogue.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams 2006

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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 709 SLO

Friis-Hansen, Dana

Summary: "At the invitation of the Grand Rapids Art Museum (GRAM), in 2013, Alexis Rockman began research for the Great Lakes Cycle, an ambitious suite of paintings and works on paper that the artist created over the course of four years. It will debut in Grand Rapids in 2018 and tour throughout the Great Lakes region"--introduction.

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 709 FRI

Conrads, Margaret C.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press in association with the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art 2001

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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 759.13 CON

Kaplan, Wendy.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Los Angeles County Museum of Art 2004

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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 745.409 KAP

Junker, Patricia/ Lewis, Audrey/ Adams, Henry (CON)/ Baumgartner, Karen (CON)/ Crosman, Christopher B. (CON)

Summary: "Andrew Wyeth painted the landscapes and people in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, where he grew up, and in mid-coast Maine, where he spent each summer--places that would inspire him for over seven decades. This centennial exhibition is a fitting moment to trace the threads that weave through the art of Andrew Wyeth, which never failed to engage viewers and confound critics through the long...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 702 WYETH AND

Muskegon Museum of Art

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Publisher / Publication Date: 1994

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 759.13 LOS

Summary: "Afro-Atlantic Histories" brings together a selection of more than 400 works and documents by more than 200 artists from the 16th to the 21st centuries that express and analyze the ebbs and flows between Africa, the Americas, the Caribbean, and Europe. The book is motivated by the desire and need to draw parallels, frictions, and dialogues around the visual cultures of Afro-Atlantic...

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Publisher / Publication Date: DelMonico Books, ARTBOOK/D.A.P. 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 704.03 AFR

Evans, Walker

1 hold on 1 copy

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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Museum of Art in association with Princeton University Press, Princeton 2000

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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 779.092 EVA

Moore, Andrew

Summary: No longer the Motor City of boom-time industry, the city of Detroit has fallen into an incredible state of dilapidation since the decline of the American auto industry after the Second World War. Today, whole sections of the city resemble a war zone, its once-spectacular architectural grandeur reduced to vacant ruins. In Detroit Disassembled, photographer Andrew Moore records a territory in...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Damiani Editore 2010

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Wardwell, Allen.

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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Washington Press in association with the Detroit Institute of Arts 1994

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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 709.01 WAR

Warren, Elizabeth V.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Studio in association with Museum of American Folk Art 1996

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 746.46 WAR

Summary: Set against the backdrop of Japanese occupied Shanghai in 1942, a young woman finds herself swept up in a radical plot to assassinate a ruthless and secretive intelligence agent. As she immerses herself in her role as a cosmopolitan seductress, she becomes entangled in a dangerous game of emotional intrigue, love and betrayal.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2008

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN LUS

Panzer, Mary.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Smithsonian Institution Press for the National Portrait Gallery 1997

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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 770.92 PAN

Contents: Director's preface / Susan Weber Soros -- Foreword / Jacqueline M. Atkins -- Introduction / J.M. Atkins -- Maps -- Time line 1895-1945: The Asia Pacific War and its precedents, 1895-1945 / Yumiko Yamamori. -- Part I. Setting the context: Ch.1. Setting the context / J.M. Atkins -- Ch.2. Propaganda on the home fronts: clothing and textiles as message / J.M. Atkins -- Ch.3. Propaganda precedents:...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Published for the Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design, and Culture, New York by Yale University Press 2005

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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 940.5488 ATK

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Publisher / Publication Date: H.N. Abrams in association with Mary and Leigh Block Gallery, Northwestern University 1995

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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 769.973 HAN

Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Museum of Art 1989

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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 232.9 LIF

Hennessey, Maureen Hart.

Summary: Essays examining Norman Rockwell's critical place in 20th-century American culture accompany 120 illustrations by the artist, including 80 in full color.

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Publisher / Publication Date: High Museum of Art 1999

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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 750 HEN

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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 759.13 HEN

Sewell, Darrel

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Publisher / Publication Date: Philadelphia Museum of Art in association with Yale University Press 2001

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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 759.13 Sew

Summary: In 2020 the Metropolitan Museum of Art celebrated its 150th anniversary. This three-part program looks at the uncertainty the Met faced at this time as it faced an indefinite closure due to COVID-19 and calls for social justice following the murder of George Floyd at the hands of the police.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV INS

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Publisher / Publication Date: Muskegon Museum of Art 1987

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709 ART
1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: NEL RM 759.05 ART

Summary: In the period of radical change that was 1963-1983, young black artists at the beginning of their careers in the USA confronted key questions and pressures. How could they make art that would stand as innovative, original, formally and materially complex, while also making work that reflected their concerns and experience as black Americans? This significant new publication, accompanying an...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Tate Publishing 2017

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709 SOU

Summary: Since the 19th century, the women of Gee's Bend in southern Alabama have created stunning, vibrant quilts. Beautifully illustrated with 350 color illustrations, 30 black-and-white illustrations, and charts, Gee's Bend to Rehoboth is being·released in conjunction with a national exhibition tour including The Museum of Fine Art, Houston, and the Whitney Museum of American Art.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Tinwood Books 2003

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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 746.46 GEE

Kinchin, Juliet

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Summary: Drawing on the wealth of automobile-related design, art and architecture in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, Automania takes an in-depth look at an industrial object that changed the world. From its first appearance as a plaything for the rich in the 1890s to its establishment as a utilitarian necessity of modern life, the car has transformed the ways in which we live, work and enjoy...

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Publisher / Publication Date: The Museum of Modern Art 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 704.9 KIN

Ives, Colta Feller.

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Publisher / Publication Date: The Museum 1995

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 760.092 IVE

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