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American Dreams
The Warner Collection--one of the finest and most comprehensive collections of American art still in private hands--addresses themes central to America's past and present. The works selected for this book range from an 18th century protrait of George Washington to a 1995 image of Thomas Jefferson, from landscapes of the Hudson River School to views of the American West, and from American Impressionism to 20th century Realism. All touch upon dreams that have shaped the American experience. --cover.
Hidden in Plain Sight
In the decades leading up to the Civil War, abolitionists crafted a variety of visual messages about the plight of enslaved people, portraying the violence, familial separation, and dehumanization that they faced. In response, proslavery southerners attempted to counter these messages either through idealization or outright erasure of enslaved life. In Hidden in Plain Sight: Concealing Enslavement in American Visual Culture, Rachel Stephens addresses an enormous body of material by tracing themes of concealment and silence through paintings, photographs, and ephemera, connecting long overlooked artworks with both the abolitionist materials to which they were responding and archival research ...
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Capturing Beauty
Eugenia Errazuriz, one of the beauties of the late ninteenth century, attests to the collectors' own love of the beautiful in American art.
A Covenant of Seasons
This exquisite book marries the work and imagery of two artists, a landscape painter working in the medium of monotype and a writer working in the medium of poetry, both expressing their personal responses to nature passing through the metamorphoses of the four seasons.
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American Furniture 1998
An annual publication forging a link between social history, American studies, and the decorative arts.
