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Culture & Society

Culture & Society

  • Any Day Now: Toward a Black Aesthetic - Ekphrasis Series Any Day Now: Toward a Black Aesthetic - Ekphrasis Series

    Any Day Now: Toward a Black Aesthetic - Ekphrasis Series

    $15.00
    Larry Neal, a poet, dramatist, and critic, was a founding figure of the Black Arts Movement in the 1960s and 1970s in New York. Writing as the arts editor for Liberator magazine, a radical journal published in Harlem, Neal called for Black artists to...
    $15.00
  • Never Broken: Visualizing Lenape Histories Never Broken: Visualizing Lenape Histories

    Never Broken: Visualizing Lenape Histories

    $29.99
    Through a focus on Lenape art, culture, and history and a critical examination of historical visualizations of Native and European American relationships, Never Broken explores the ways in which art can create, challenge, and rewrite history. This richly...
    $29.99
  • Chivalry and Courtesy Medieval Manners for A Modern World Chivalry and Courtesy Medieval Manners for A Modern World

    Chivalry and Courtesy Medieval Manners for A Modern World

    $24.95
    Medieval people are often portrayed as having poor hygiene and table manners—licking their knives or throwing chicken bones on the floor. In the Middle Ages, however, such behavior was not tolerated. Medieval society cherished order in nearly every facet...
    $24.95
  • Art Essentials: History of African Art Art Essentials: History of African Art

    Art Essentials: History of African Art

    $18.95
    This indispensable introductory guide explores the art of the African continent from its early origins over 75,000 years ago to the contemporary, set in the context of postcolonial debates, the restitution of cultural objects and artifacts, and the...
    $18.95
  • American Indian Stories American Indian Stories

    American Indian Stories

    $15.00
    Bright and carefree, Zitkála-Šá grows up on the Yankton Sioux reservation in South Dakota with her mother until Quaker missionaries arrive, offering the reservation’s children a free education. The catch: They must leave their...
    $15.00
  • Story of Art Without Men Story of Art Without Men

    Story of Art Without Men

    $45.00
    The story of art as it’s never been told before, from the Renaissance to the present day, with more than 300 works of art. How many women artists do you know? Who makes art history? Did women even work as artists before the twentieth century? And what...
    $45.00
  •  Hidden Language of Symbols  Hidden Language of Symbols

    Hidden Language of Symbols

    $45.00
    The Hidden Language of Symbols covers a wide-ranging selection of visual culture and art under one unified theme: symbols. Often not immediately apparent, our day-to-day lives abound with symbols of various kinds, from national emblems to emojis,...
    $45.00
  • Covered with Night Covered with Night

    Covered with Night

    $20.00
    The Pulitzer Prize-winning history that transforms a single event in 1722 into an unparalleled portrait of early America.  In the winter of 1722, on the eve of a major conference between the Five Nations of the Haudenosaunee (also known as the...
    $20.00
  • Philadelphia Museum of Art Funny Weather Art in an Emergency Philadelphia Museum of Art Funny Weather Art in an Emergency

    Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency

    $16.95
    In this remarkable, inspiring collection of essays, acclaimed writer and critic Olivia Laing makes a brilliant case for why art matters, especially in the turbulent political weather of the twenty-first century. Funny Weather brings together a career’s...
    $16.95
  •  Art Essentials: Street Art  Art Essentials: Street Art

    Art Essentials: Street Art

    $16.95
    Street art is a phenomenon and subculture movement that reaches from the darkest urban backstreets to the most glamorous international art  fairs. Despite having earned a place in the canon of twentieth-century  art history, its qualifications...
    $16.95
  •  Drawn With Spirit: Pennsylvania German Fraktur  Drawn With Spirit: Pennsylvania German Fraktur

    Drawn With Spirit: Pennsylvania German Fraktur

    $54.00
    By Lisa Minardi, with an interview by Ann Percy Among the most beloved forms of American folk art, fraktur is a Germanic tradition of decorated manuscripts and printed documents noted for its use of bold colors and whimsical motifs. This publication...
    $54.00