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Navigating the West George Caleb Bingham and the River

Luarca-Shoaf Nenette, Barry Claire, Heugh Nancy, Kornhauser Elizabeth Mankin, Mahon Dorothy, Walker Andrew J, Turk Janeen, Conrads Margaret C., Benjamin Brent R.

ISBN: HB: 9780300206708, Yale University Press, October 2014
200 pp., 26.7x27.9 cm, 174 colour images and 10 black&white illus.

George Caleb Bingham (1811-1879) moved to Missouri as a child and began painting the scenes of Missouri life, for which he is now famous, in the 1840s. "Navigating the West" explores how Bingham's iconic river paintings reveal the cultural and econom...

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History of Art

Ink, Paper, Politics WPA-Era Prints from the Needles Collection

Lincoln Louise

ISBN: PB: 9780978907488, University of Chicago Press, DePaul Art Museum, October 2014
90 pp., 27.9x20.3 cm, 20 colour plates, 45 halftones

The Works Progress Administration gave federal financial support to a wide range of artistic projects during the Depression, from fiction to fine art. Of all these forms, however, the printmaking supported by the WPA is perhaps the one of most enduri...

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Cartoon Art

Painting and Drawing Manuals

Foundations in Comic Book Art Fundamental Tools and Techniques for Sequential Artists

Lowe John Paul

ISBN: PB: 9780770436964, GMC Group, Watson-Guptill, October 2014
160 pp., 27.6x21.6 cm, illus.

Not for sale in selected countries! John Lowe, Dean of the School of Communication Arts at SCAD, presents an in-depth primer on the tools and techniques used by top sequential artists to create comic books, graphic novels and other sequential art f...

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History of Art

John Sloan Drawing on Illustration

Lobel Michael

ISBN: PB: 9780300195552, Yale University Press, May 2014
288 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 25 colour images, 125 black&white illus.

The American realist artist John Sloan (1871-1951) is best known for his portrayals of daily life in early 20th-century New York and as a member of The Eight and the Ashcan School, alongside peers like Robert Henri, Everett Shinn and George Luks. Slo...

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Contemporary Art

Culture Studies

Art & Energy How Culture Changes

Lord Barry

ISBN: PB: 9781933253916, ISBN: HB: 9781933253930, University of Chicago Press, American Alliance of Museums Press, April 2014
320 pp., 24x16.5 cm, 75 colour plates

In "Art & Energy", Barry Lord argues that human creativity is deeply linked to the resources available on earth for our survival. From our ancient mastery of fire through our exploitation of coal, oil, and gas, to the development of today's renewable...

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Photography

Royal Passion Queen Victoria and Photography

Lyden Anne M.

ISBN: HB: 9781606061558, Getty Publications, January 2014
232 pp., 29.9x24.9 cm, 120 colour illus., 43 black&white illus.

This is a richly illustrated exploration of Queen Victoria's portrayal in photography and her role in shaping the medium. In January 1839, photography was announced to the world. Two years prior, a young Queen Victoria ascended to the throne of Great...

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Photography

Lumiere Autochrome History, Technology, and Presentation

Lavedrine Bertrand, Gandolfo Jean-Paul

ISBN: PB: 9781606061251, Getty Publications, December 2013
380 pp., 26.2x22.9 cm, 225 colour illus., 75 black&white photos

This is a thoroughly illustrated guide to the history and technology of autochromes with a practical guide for storage and preservation. Louis Lumiere is perhaps best known for his seminal role in the invention of cinema, but his most important contr...

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History of Art

Kurt Schwitters Space, Image, Exile

Luke Megan R.

ISBN: HB: 9780226085180, University of Chicago Press, December 2013
352 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 22 colour plates, 98 halftones

German artist Kurt Schwitters (1887-1948) is best known for his pioneering work in fusing collage and abstraction, the two most transformative innovations of twentieth-century art. Considered the father of installation art, Schwitters was also a theo...

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History of Art

Liberation of Painting Modernism and Anarchism in Avant-Guerre Paris

Leighten Patricia

ISBN: HB: 9780226471389, University of Chicago Press, September 2013
304 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 99 halftones, 32 colour illus.

The years before World War I were a time of social and political ferment in Europe, which profoundly affected the art world. A major center of this creative tumult was Paris, where many avant-garde artists sought to transform modern art through their...

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Cartoon Art

Painting and Drawing Manuals

Stan Lee's How to Draw Superheroes

Lee Stan

ISBN: PB: 9780823098453, GMC Group, Watson-Guptill, July 2013
224 pp., 26.7x21.6 cm, colour illus., black&white illus.

Not for sale in selected countries! The third installment in comics icon Stan Lee's series showing readers how to draw some of the most exciting and dynamic superheroes of all time. Spider-Man, the X-Men, the Fantastic Four, Iron Man, the Incredibl...

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