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Personal Recollections of Vincent Van Gogh
Rejected in their day by painters, critics, and collectors, the visions of Vincent Van Gogh now rank among the most beloved and influential works in the history of Western art. The artist sold only a single painting in his lifetime, despite an abundant oeuvre of more than 2,000 artworks. Today his paintings fetch tens of millions at auction, and visitors from around the world flock to Amsterdam…
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Visitors to the House of MemoryIdentity and Political Education at the Jewish…
As one of the most visited museums in Germany's capital city, the Jewish Museum Berlin is a key site for understanding not only German-Jewish history, but also German identity in an era of unprecedented ethnic and religious diversity. Visitors to the House of Memory is an intimate exploration of how young Berliners experience the Museum. How do modern students relate to the museum's evocative a…
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- 9781785336409
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- 1 online resource (174 pages)
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Austere Luminosity of Chinese Classical Furniture
Chinese classical furniture is esteemed throughout the world for its beauty, functionalism, and influence on contemporary design aesthetics. Sarah Handler's stunningly illustrated volume traces Chinese hardwood furniture from its earliest origins in the Shang dynasty (c. 1500 to c. 1050 B.C.) to the present. She offers a fascinating and poetic view of Chinese furniture as functional sculpture, …
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- 9780520921351
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AkianeHer Life, Her Art, Her Poetry
Experience the wonder of child prodigy Akiane Kramarik’s divinely inspired artwork firsthand. Akiane’s nonreligious parents were bewildered when their four-year-old daughter started sharing her dreams of angels, heaven, and Jesus. Her spiritual insight quickly expressed itself through impressive sketches, drawings with oil crayons, paintings, and eventually poetry, and her artwork …
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Bright FieldsThe Mastery of Marie Hull
Bright Fields is a comprehensive and deeply intimate exploration of the life and work of Mississippi-born artist Marie Hull (1890–1980). Her paintings reflect a nine-decade journey of search, thought, and growth. She produced some of the most memorable and iconic works ever created by a southern artist. This elegant and exquisitely detailed book contains over two hundred newly photographed re…
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- 9781496803443
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Riding with DeathVodou Art and Urban Ecology in the Streets of Port-au-Prince
On the southern end of the Grand Rue, a major thoroughfare that runs through the center of Port-au-Prince, waits the Haitian capital's automobile repair district. This veritable junkyard of steel and rubber, recycled parts, old tires, and scrap metal might seem an unlikely foundry for art. Yet, on the street's opposite end thrives the Grand Rue Galerie, a working studio of assembled art and scu…
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- 9781496812759
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- 1 online resource (276 pages)
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Wolf TracksPopular Art and Re-Africanization in Twentieth-Century Panama
How did a country whose past is intertwined with African slavery ignore its cultural legacies through much of history? And how did Blackness recently break through this amnesia so that nearly a third of Panamanians now self-identify as Afro-descendants? Wolf Tracks explores these and other related questions through the lens of Panamanian street culture. Popular art is a masculine and working-c…
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At the Lightning Field
Walter De Maria's "Lightning Field" is 400 stainless steel poles, positioned 220 feet apart, in the desert of central New Mexico. Over the course of several visits, it becomes, for Raicovich, a site for confounding and revealing perceptions of time, space, duration, and light; how changeable they are, while staying the same.
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- 9781566894753
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- 1 online resource (104 pages)
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The Art of ConversionChristian Visual Culture in the Kingdom of Kongo
Between the sixteenth and the nineteenth centuries, the west central African kingdom of Kongo practiced Christianity and actively participated in the Atlantic world as an independent, cosmopolitan realm. Drawing on an expansive and largely unpublished set of objects, images, and documents, Cécile Fromont examines the advent of Kongo Christian visual culture and traces its development acros…
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Down Bohicket RoadAn Artist's Journey. Paintings and Sketches by Mary Whyte, …
A collection of poignant recollections celebrating the lives, friendships, and faith of Gullah women from Johns Island Artist Mary Whyte's Down Bohicket Road includes two decades worth of watercolors—depicting a select group of Gullah women of Johns Island, South Carolina, and their stories. In 1991, following Whyte's recovery from a year of treatment for cancer, she and her husband moved to…
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- 9781611171853
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