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Homer | Remington

Adler Margaret C., Henneman Jennifer R., Greenwold Diana, Barry Claire M., Van de Moortel Peter, Gopnik Adam, Smith Thomas

ISBN: HB: 9780300246100, Yale University Press, April 2020
224 pp., 27.9x24.1 cm, 150 colour illus.

Winslow Homer (1836-1910) and Frederic Remington (1861-1909) represent a distinct artistic strain of the American mythos: both were celebrated in their day as homegrown, self-taught artists whose work offered a vision of American identity rooted in s...

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Sanford Biggers Codeswitch

Andersson Andrea, Bessa Antonio Sergio

ISBN: HB: 9780300248647, Yale University Press, April 2020
192 pp., 26x24.1 cm, 129 colour illus.

Sanford Biggers (b. 1970) is a Harlem-based artist working in various media including painting, sculpture, video, and performance. He describes his practice as "code-switching" – mixing disparate elements to create layers of meaning – to account for...

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Mark Bradford End Papers

Auping Michael

ISBN: HB: 9783791359724, Prestel Publishing, March 2020
132 pp., 32x29 cm, 50 illus.

Drawing on the diverse cultural and geographic makeup of his South Los Angeles community, Mark Bradford is known for his wall-size collages and installations from scavenged materials. These artworks are responses to the impromptu networks – undergrou...

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Elias Sime Tightrope

Adler Tracy L.

ISBN: HB: 9783791358819, Prestel Publishing, February 2020
192 pp., 28.5x26.6 cm, 100 colour and black&white illus.

Sime's brightly-colored sculptural tableaus feature found objects including thread, buttons, electrical wires, and computer detritus. This book highlights the artist's work from the last decade, much of which comprises the series entitled "Tightrope"...

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Caspar David Friedrich Nature and the Self

Amstutz Nina

ISBN: HB: 9780300246162, Yale University Press, February 2020
280 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 82 colour illus., 36 black&white illus.

Best known for his atmospheric landscapes featuring contemplative figures silhouetted against night skies and morning mists, Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840) came of age alongside a German Romantic philosophical movement that saw nature as an organ...

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Metropolitan Museum Journal, Volume 54, 2019

Allon Niv, D'Alessandro Stephanie, Graff Sarah, Najat Haidar Navina, Holcomb Melanie, Leona Marco, Mahon Dorothy, McDonald Mark

ISBN: PB: 9780226676968, University of Chicago Press, February 2020
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

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Jan Hendrix Landfall

Adria Miquel, Brotton Jerry, Heaney Seamus, Lopez Colome Pura, Medina Cuauhtemoc

ISBN: PB: 9788417047948, Prestel Publishing, Editorial RM, November 2019
288 pp., 22x16 cm, 250 colour and black&white illus.

Since Dutch artist Jan Hendrix (born 1949) moved to Mexico in 1975, he has been a key figure in that country's art scene, building a bridge between Mexican and Dutch traditions of thinking about nature. This first retrospective covers Hendrix's two-...

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Photography

Golden Prospects Daguerreotypes of the California Gold Rush

Aspinwall Jane L., Davis Keith F.

ISBN: HB: 9780300246216, Yale University Press, November 2019
168 pp., 27.9x27.9 cm, 172 colour and black&white illus.

The California gold rush was the first major event in American history to be documented in depth by photography. This fascinating volume offers a fresh, comprehensive, and critical look at the people, places, and culture of that historical episode as...

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Gay and Lesbian Studies

Cruising the Dead River David Wojnarowicz and New York's Ruined Waterfront

Anderson Fiona

ISBN: PB: 9780226603759, ISBN: HB: 9780226603612, University of Chicago Press, November 2019
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 50 halftones

In the 1970s, Manhattan's west side waterfront was a forgotten zone of abandoned warehouses and piers. Though many saw only blight, the derelict neighborhood was alive with queer people forging new intimacies through cruising. Alongside the piers' se...

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Lucian Freud Herbarium

Aloi Giovanni

ISBN: HB: 9783791385334, Prestel Publishing, October 2019
176 pp., 30.5x25 cm, 100 colour and black&white illus.

Lucian Freud's portraits are known for their spectacular detail and unflinching gaze. Although Freud brought the same qualities to his paintings and drawings of plants, flowers, and landscapes, these are largely unknown. This elegant book shows how w...

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