Art and Art History
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Books
A Little History of Art
Charlotte Mullins brings art to life through the stories of those who created it and, importantly, reframes who is included in the narrative to create a more diverse and exciting landscape of art. This extraordinary journey through 100,000 years celebrates art's crucial place in understanding our collective culture and history.
How to Read Portraits
This latest volume in The Met's acclaimed How to Read series explores the meaning of portraiture across time and cultures. Featuring more than fifty works across time and cultures and in different media, this book expands the notion of what, beyond mere appearance, constitutes a portrait.
Art and Graphic Design
This fascinating study of the role that graphic design played in American art of the 1960s and 1970s focuses on the work of George Maciunas, Ed Ruscha, and Sheila Levrant de Bretteville. This book sheds new light on a period of abundant creativity and cultural transition in American art and the entwinement between art and graphic design.
My Soul Has Grown Deep
My Soul Has Grown Deep considers the art-historical significance of contemporary Black artists working throughout the southeastern United States in the 20th century.
Art History: a Very Short Introduction (eBook)
This clear and concise new introduction examines all the major debates and issues using a wide range of well-known examples within art history.
Origins, Invention, Revision: Studying the History of Art and Architecture
In this collection of essays, Ackerman offers insight into his formation and development as a scholar, as well as reflections on a range of topics. These essays represent a unique, personal journey—from the Italian Renaissance to the classical architecture of India and the work of Frank Gehry at the new museum of the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris.
Elizabeth Catlett
Accomplished printmaker and sculptor, avowed feminist, and lifelong activist Elizabeth Catlett (1915-2012) built a remarkable career around intersecting passions for formal rigor and social justice. This book offers a revelatory look at the artist and her nearly century-long life, highlighting overlooked works alongside iconic masterpieces.
Possessions
This book explores cross-cultural art through the lens of settler societies such as Australia and New Zealand, where Europeans made new nations, displacing and outnumbering but never eclipsing native peoples. Settler artists and designers drew upon Indigenous motifs and styles in their search for distinctive identities. Yet powerful Indigenous art traditions have asserted the presence of First Nations peoples and their claims to place, history and sovereignty.
Museum Resources
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- Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art Library CatalogSearch the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art library catalog to find resources about art and artists.