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A is for Art
An alphabet book illustrated with works of art from the Milwaukee Art Museum.
Nineteenth-century German Prints and Drawings from the Milwaukee Art Museum
In the 1990s The Milwaukee Art Museum sought to strengthen its already extensive collection of the works of 19th Century German artists. Collecting works on paper—prints and drawings—became the most effective way of doing so, and the expansion of the collection and its significance are documented by this catalog to a 2002 exhibition. Distributed for the Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
An-My Lê on Contested Terrain (Signed Edition)
An-My Lê On Contested Terrain is the first comprehensive survey of the Vietnamese American artist, published on the occasion of a major exhibition organized by Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh. Drawing, in part, from her own experiences of the Vietnam War, Lê has created a body of work committed to expanding and complicating our understanding of the activities and motivations behind conflict and war. Throughout her thirty-year career, Lê has photographed noncombatant roles of active-duty service members, often on the sites of former battlefields, including those reserved for training or the reenactment of war, and those created as film sets. This publication includes selections from her...
Santiago Calatrava
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American Fancy
Between 1790 and 1840, millions of middle-class Americans throughout the nation encountered "Fancy": they rode in a Fancy sleigh, dressed up in Fancy clothes, blew their noses in Fancy handkerchiefs, bought goods at Fancy shops, ate at Fancy tables on Fancy dishes, and slept under Fancy coverlets. Not just fancy but Fancy: an early nineteenth-century cultural phenomenon born out of new and enlightened ways of seeing, understanding, and responding to the surrounding world. Fancy expressed itself in just about everything that pleased the senses; generally colorful and boldly patterned, it elicited delight, awe, surprise, whim, and caprice. Whether experienced in the form of painted surfaces, k...
Milwaukee Art Museum
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Common Ground/uncommon Vision
The Milwaukee Art Museum's collection of American folk art reflects the art worlds' increasing interest in the genre. A major part of the collection comes from Michael and Julie Hall's extensive collection, acquired by the museum in the early 1990s. Parts of the collection went on nation-wide tour during 1993-1995, with this volume clearly explaining the importance of the genre, the vision of the collectors, and the beauty of the pieces of art, all produced by self-taught artists. Distributed for the Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Building a Masterpiece
This spectacular volume celebrates the reopening of the Milwaukee Art Museum with its new additiion designed by world-famous Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava, joining the original builing by Eero Saarinen.
On Site
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