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Amaza Lee Meredith Imagines Herself Modern: Architecture and the Black American Middle Class
HardcoverOriginal price $39.95Original price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95Current price $36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /The extraordinary life and work of architect Amaza Lee Meredith, and the role modernism and material culture played in the aspiring Black American ...
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Mike Henderson: Before the Fire, 1965-1985
HardcoverOriginal price $45.00 - Original price $45.00Original price $45.00$47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /The first major exhibition and catalog dedicated to the work of groundbreaking painter and filmmaker Mike Henderson. Mike Henderson (b. 1944) is a...
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Painting Harlem Modern: The Art of Jacob Lawrence
PaperbackOriginal price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /Jacob Lawrence was one of the best-known African American artists of the twentieth century. In Painting Harlem Modern, Patricia Hills renders a vi...
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Congo Style: From Belgian Art Nouveau to African Independence
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /Congo Style presents a postcolonial approach to discussing the visual culture of two now-notorious regimes: King Leopold II's Congo Colony and the ...
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Picasso: Painting the Blue Period
HardcoverOriginal price $50.00Original price $50.00 - Original price $50.00Original price $50.00Current price $43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /New insights into Picasso's Blue Period, through innovative technology that reveals hidden compositions, motifs and alterations, plus hitherto unkn...
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In the Mind's Eye / La Mirada de Quien Contempla: Landscapes of Cuba / Paisajes de Cuba (English/Spanish Bilingual Edition)
HardcoverOriginal price $44.95Original price $44.95 - Original price $44.95Original price $44.95Current price $40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /This English/Spanish bilingual volume explores Cuban and U.S. landscape painters largely active from 1850 to 1910 whose portrayals of Cuba reflect ...
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Empire on Display: San Francisco's Panama-Pacific International Exposition of 1915
HardcoverOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /The world's fair of 1915 celebrated both the completion of the Panama Canal and the rebuilding of San Francisco following the devastating 1906 eart...
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California Mexicana: Missions to Murals, 1820a 1930
HardcoverOriginal price $50.00 - Original price $50.00Original price $50.00$66.99$66.99 - $66.99Current price $66.99| /Following the U.S.-Mexican War (1846-1848), lands that had for centuries belonged to New Spain, and later to Mexico, were transformed into the thir...
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Immanent Vitalities: Meaning and Materiality in Modern and Contemporary Art Volume 4
HardcoverOriginal price $50.00 - Original price $50.00Original price $50.00$66.99$66.99 - $66.99Current price $66.99| /A new reality for the art object has emerged in the world of contemporary art: it is now experienced less as an autonomous, inanimate form and more...
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Young Bloomsbury: The Generation That Redefined Love, Freedom, and Self-Expression in 1920s England
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /An "illuminating" (Daily Mail, London) exploration of the second generation of the iconic Bloomsbury Group who inspired their elders to new heights...
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Frida Kahlo: The Painter and Her Work
HardcoverOriginal price $50.00Original price $50.00 - Original price $50.00Original price $50.00Current price $43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /This definitive appreciation of Kahlo's career features gorgeous full-page reproductions and insightful commentary to illuminate connections betwee...
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Renegade EDO and Paris: Japanese Prints and Toulouse-Lautrec
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Product DetailsISBN-13: 9780932216076 Media Type: Paperback Publisher: Seattle Art Museum Publication Date: 07-04-2023 Pages: 104
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Kahlo
HardcoverOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Feminist icon, symbol of Mexican culture, political activist, groundbreaking artist: discover the many facets of Frida Kahlo, who transformed the...
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Joaquín Torres-García: The Arcadian Modern
HardcoverOriginal price $60.00Original price $60.00 - Original price $60.00Original price $60.00Current price $50.99$50.99 - $50.99Current price $50.99| /"Joaquín Torres-García is one of the most complex and emblematic modern masters from the first half of the 20th century, whose work determined tran...
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Our Bulawayo Scrapbook: Impressions of a City
PaperbackOriginal price $38.95 - Original price $38.95Original price $38.95$44.99$44.99 - $44.99Current price $44.99| /Established in 1893, Bulawayo is Zimbabwe's second largest city. it takes its name from the precolonial Ndebele settlement of Kobuluwayo which was ...
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Meiji Modern: Fifty Years of New Japan
HardcoverOriginal price $60.00Original price $60.00 - Original price $60.00Original price $60.00Current price $50.99$50.99 - $50.99Current price $50.99| /Charting Japan's unique engagement with modernity during the Meiji era, through an extraordinary selection of objects in American collections This...
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The Forgotten Empires: Indian Dynasties Unveiled
PaperbackOriginal price $28.00Original price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /Examples from History - Directing Light for the Present and Future History is in excess of a vault of dusty dates and neglected names; it is a rich...
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Yayoi Kusama: The Journal
HardcoverOriginal price $35.00Original price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /Featuring the vibrant and dynamic work of Yayoi Kusama, this journal is the perfect canvas for creative thought. The Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama's...
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Ruth Asawa: The Journal
HardcoverOriginal price $35.00Original price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /Featuring Ruth Asawa's stunning looped-wire sculptures, this journal is a welcome reminder to find inspiration in the everyday object. The twentiet...
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The Art of Modern China / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $42.95 - Original price $42.95Original price $42.95$58.99$58.99 - $58.99Current price $58.99| /In the early twenty-first century, China occupies a place on center stage in the international art world. But what does it mean to be a Chinese a...
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Forgotten Masters: Indian Painting for the East India Company
HardcoverOriginal price $40.00Original price $40.00 - Original price $40.00Original price $40.00Current price $36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /As the East India Company extended its sway across India in the late eighteenth century, many remarkable artworks were commissioned by Company offi...
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Pictures of Belonging: Miki Hayakawa, Hisako Hibi, and Miné Okubo
HardcoverOriginal price $50.00 - Original price $50.00Original price $50.00$52.99$52.99 - $52.99Current price $52.99| /This unprecedented exhibition reintroduces three trailblazing Japanese American artists of the pre-World War II generation. Pictures of Belonging: ...
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Rivera
HardcoverOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Painter, Marxist activist, and husband of Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera is renowned as much for his active politics as for his monumental mural paint...
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Parallel Modernism: Koga Harue and Avant-Garde Art in Modern Japan
HardcoverOriginal price $70.00 - Original price $70.00Original price $70.00$89.99$89.99 - $89.99Current price $89.99| /This significant historical study recasts modern art in Japan as a "parallel modernism" that was visually similar to Euroamerican modernism, but de...
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