Catalogues category: 882 books
Photography on the Color Line
W. E. B. Du Bois, Race, and Visual Culture
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2004
Through a rich interpretation of the remarkable photographs W. E. B. Du Bois compiled for the American Negro Exhibit at the 1900 Paris Exposition, Shawn Michelle Smith reveals the visual dimension of the color line that Du Bois famously called “the problem of the twentieth century.” Du Bois’s...
Painting the Town Orange
The Stories behind Houston's Visionary Art Environments
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2014
Houston's sprawl has come with controversy, but it has created a blank canvas for the public art community. It all started in the Telephone Road Place subdivision, where retired mail carrier Jefferson Davis McKissack built the Orange Show, an extraordinary and eccentric monument to self-reliance, hard...
Guide to Photographs in the Western History Collections of the University of Oklahoma
Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2014
Begun in 1927 by University of Oklahoma history professor Edward Everett Dale, the Western History Collections gathers and preserves rare research materials for scholars in anthropology, Native American studies, Oklahoma history, and the history of the American West. This guide has been compiled to...
Forgotten Colorado Silver
Joseph Lesher’s Defiant Coins
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2017
At the turn of the last century, miner Joseph Lesher attempted to raise the price of silver by privately minting octagonal "Referendum souvenir medal" coins with values of $1.25 or $1. They were common in Victor, Cripple Creek, Denver and other places in Colorado in the days after William...
by benoit dubuisson
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2014
1) Leadership: The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. - Dwight D. Eisenhower
2) Go to the people. Learn from them. Live with them. Start with what they know. Build with what they have. The best of leaders when the job is done, when the task...
The Best iPhone Apps Ever
The Ultimate Guide to All the Apps Every iPhone User Needs
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2013
With over 700,000 iPhone apps there, it’s easy for anyone to get a little lost. Everyone knows about Angry Birds and Cut the Rope, but with so many apps to pick from, it’s safe to assume you’ve probably missed a few! That’s where this book comes in; inside you’ll find my review of all the best apps every iPhone owner needs!
Vivian Maier
A Photographer Found
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014
The definitive monograph of American photographer Vivian Maier, exploring the full range and brilliance of her work and the mystery of her life, written and edited by noted photography curator and writer Marvin Heiferman; featuring 250 black-and-white images, color work, and other materials never...
by Alexander Barabanov
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2012
Alexander Barabanov, a key figure in the Russian dance world, has sifted through many thousands of photographs of dance to accumulate an extraordinary collection of pictures, ranging from historical ballet photographs to shocking avant-garde imagery.
This work has been collected and edited...
Mexican Painters
Rivera, Orozco, Siqueiros, and Other Artists of the Social Realist School
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
From the monumental public frescoes of Diego Rivera, José Clemente Orozco, and David Álfaro Siqueiros, to the canvasses and drawings of younger artists like Galván, Cantú, Meza, Tamayo, and Orozco Romero, Mexican painting since the First World War has developed into a strong, influential artistic...
Modern Artists on Art
Second Enlarged Edition
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2012
This rich, readable anthology contains 17 unabridged essays by some of the 20th century's leading artistic innovators. Chosen for their intrinsic quality and documentary value by editor Robert L. Herbert — Andrew W. Mellon Professor Emeritus of Humanities at Mount Holyoke College — the essays are...
In Search of the Laughing Place
A Book of Poems & Paintings Glorso
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2016
The poems and paintings presented by Dean Glorso in “In Search of the Laughing Place” arise from yearnings and recollections, some nostalgic and harking back to childhood, others connecting to history and the circumstances of a veteran’s homecoming. Together the poems and iconic paintings are...
Collecting and Displaying China's “Summer Palace” in the West
The Yuanmingyuan in Britain and France
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2017
In October 1860, at the culmination of the Second Opium War, British and French troops looted and destroyed one of the most important palace complexes in imperial China—the Yuanmingyuan. Known in the West as the "Summer Palace," this site consisted of thousands of buildings housing a vast...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2017
In Of Texas Rivers and Texas Art, Andrew Sansom, a leading Texas conservationist, and William E. Reaves, an influential Texas art collector and historian, have teamed up to showcase some of the finest contemporary river art detailing the gorgeous traits of Texas landscapes. The featured artwork comes...
by Deanna L. Taber
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2014
Dog Parks Unleashed is a directory of local dog parks located throughout the entire United States.