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Life, Liberty, And The Pursuit Of Happiness : American Art From The Yale University Art Gallery

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introduction by David McCullough ; essays by Jon Butler … [et al.] ; exhibition and catalogue organized by Helen A. Cooper … [et al.]Publication Details
BookYale University Art Gallery in association with Yale University Press2008Links
Description
This richly illustrated book explores works from the renowned collections of American paintings, decorative arts, prints, and photographs at the Yale University Art Gallery and creates a vivid portrait of a young country defining itself culturally, politically, and geographically. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS OVERSIZE (UPPER) N6505 .Y35 2008 AVAILABLE
Young Chinese Artists : The Next Generation

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[editors] : Christoph Noe, Xenia Piëch, Cordelia SteinerPublication Details
BookPrestel2008Description
This book also gives voice to other representatives of this generation outside the art world, which puts the artists presented here and their works in a broader cultural context. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) N7348 .Y68 2008 AVAILABLE
Dutch Cityscapes Of The Golden Age

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Ariane van Suchtelen and Arthur K. Wheelock Jr. ; essays by Bodewijn Bakker and Arthur K. Wheelock Jr. ; and contributions by Henriette de Bruyn Kops … [et al.]Publication Details
BookRoyal Picture Gallery Mauritshuis2008Description
Surveys the genre of cityscape paintings from the 17th century. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS OVERSIZE (UPPER) ND1359.3 .S83 2008 AVAILABLE
Slavery, Sugar, And The Culture Of Refinement : Picturing The British West Indies, 1700-1840

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Kay Dian KrizPublication Details
BookYale University Press2008Description
This highly original book asks new questions about paintings and prints associated with the British West Indies between 1700 and 1840, when the trade in sugar and slaves was most active and profitable. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) N8214.5.W38 K75 2008 AVAILABLE
Beyond Wilderness : The Group Of Seven, Canadian Identity And Contemporary Art

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edited by John O’Brian and Peter WhitePublication Details
BookMcGill-Queen’s University Press2007Description
‘The great purpose of landscape art is to make us at home in our own country’ was the nationalist maxim motivating the Group of Seven’s artistic project. “Beyond Wilderness” expands the public understanding of Canadian landscape representation, tracing debates about the place of landscape in Canadian art and the national imagination through the twentieth century to the present. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) ND1352.C36 B49 2007 AVAILABLE
George De Forest Brush : The Indian Paintings

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Nancy K. Anderson ; with contributions by James C. Boyles … [et al.]Publication Details
BookNational Gallery of Art2008Description
Completed during the 1880s, many of these works were quickly acquired by major American collectors and have remained in private hands through several generations.This beautiful book, the first scholarly study of Brush’s Indian paintings, features detailed discussions of individual paintings, interpretative essays exploring the historical and cultural context in which the paintings were produced, a comprehensive chronology, and lavish colour reproductions of numerous paintings not shown publicly since the nineteenth century. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS OVERSIZE (UPPER) ND237.B88 A4 2008 AVAILABLE
Painting The Wild Frontier : The Art And Adventures Of George Catlin

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Susanna ReichPublication Details
BookClarion Books2008Description
George Catlin is one of America’s best-known painters, famous for his iconic portraits of Native Americans. Generously illustrated with archival prints and photos and Catlin’s own magnificent paintings, here is a rollicking, accessible biography that weaves meticulously researched history into a fascinating frontier and jungle adventure story. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS CHILD LIT (LOWER) 920 C357r 2008 AVAILABLE
Washed With Sun : Landscape And The Making Of White South Africa

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Jeremy FosterPublication Details
BookUniversity of Pittsburgh Press2008Links
Description
Washed with Sun achieves this conjunction in its multidisciplinary study of South Africa as a space at once natural and constructed. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) NX653.S66 F67 2008 AVAILABLE
Redrawing Boundaries : Perspectives On Western American Art

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[introduction, Peter H. Hassrick ; essays, Brian W. Dippie ...et al.]Publication Details
BookInstitute of Western American Art, Denver Art Museum2007Description
Six writers on art and popular culture survey the terrain of western art in the twenty-first century, tracing and refining its boundaries in the areas of aesthetics and national identity. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS OVERSIZE (UPPER) N8214.5.W4 R43 2007 AVAILABLE
Sentimental Journey : The Art Of Alfred Jacob Miller

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Lisa StrongPublication Details
BookAmon Carter Museum2008Description
Over the past two decades, much valuable scholarship has emerged on how western American art has reflected American nationalist or expansionist ideologies. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS OVERSIZE (UPPER) N6537.M54 S76 2008 AVAILABLE
The West Of The Imagination

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William H. Goetzmann and William N. GoetzmannPublication Details
Book2nd edUniversity of Oklahoma Press2009Description
The artists who made the West known to the rest of the country, and then to the world, have been America’s myth makers. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) NX653.W47 G6 2009 AVAILABLE
Intrepid Women : Victorian Artists Travel

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edited by Jordana PomeroyPublication Details
BookAshgate2005Links
Description
Despite the increased visibility of Victorian women artists in museum exhibitions and historical studies, the art produced by Victorian women has been viewed through a restrictive lens. Drawing upon sketches, paintings, and photographs, “Intrepid Women: Victorian Artists Travel” is a groundbreaking study that examines the art that women produced whilst traveling, as well as the circumstances that took these artists - both amateurs and professionals - far beyond the reaches of the traditional Grand Tour. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) N6767.5.V52 I57 2005 AVAILABLE
Visions Of Savage Paradise : Albert Eckhout, Court Painter In Colonial Dutch Brazil

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Rebecca Parker BrienenPublication Details
BookAmsterdam University Press2006Links
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Visions of Savage Paradise is the first major book-length study of seventeenth-century Dutch artist Albert Eckhout to be published in nearly seventy years. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) ND653.E3 B75 2006 AVAILABLE
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