Quick view The Painter's Fire: A Forgotten History of the Artists Who Championed the American Revolution MSRP: Now: $32.95 Was: Told through the lives of three remarkable artists devoted to the pursuit of liberty, an illuminating new history of the ideals that fired the American Revolution. The war that we now call the American Revolution was not only fought in the colonies with... MSRP: Now: $32.95 Was: Quick view
Quick view Flashes of Brilliance: The Genius of Early Photography and How It Transformed Art, Science, and History MSRP: Now: $35.00 Was: The story of the wildest experiments in early photography and the wild people who undertook them. Today it’s routine to take photos from an aeroplane window, use a camera under the sea or gaze at an X-ray. But the innovations more than a century... MSRP: Now: $35.00 Was: Quick view
Quick view About Face: Stonewall, Revolt and New Queer Art MSRP: Now: $65.00 Was: A unique survey of 350 artworks by a global and diverse array of LGBTQ+ artists – many underrecognized and overlooked – from the last 50 years Though the Stonewall Riots might now be shorthand for the start of the gay rights movement, so much of... MSRP: Now: $65.00 Was: Quick view
Quick view From Slave Ship to Harvard MSRP: Now: $26.95 Was: From Slave Ship to Harvard is the true story of an African American family in Maryland over six generations. The author has reconstructed a unique narrative of black struggle and achievement from paintings, photographs, books, diaries, court records,... MSRP: Now: $26.95 Was: Quick view
Quick view Never Broken: Visualizing Lenape Histories MSRP: Now: $29.99 Was: 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... MSRP: Now: $29.99 Was: Quick view
Quick view An Indigenous Present MSRP: Now: $75.00 Was: This landmark volume is a gathering of Native North American contemporary artists, musicians, filmmakers, choreographers, architects, writers, photographers, designers and more. Conceived by Jeffrey Gibson, a renowned artist of... MSRP: Now: $75.00 Was: Quick view
Quick view Kiki Man Ray Art Love and Rivalry in 1920's Paris MSRP: Now: $18.95 Was: In freewheeling 1920s Paris, Kiki de Montparnasse captivated as a nightclub performer, sold out gallery showings of her paintings, starred in Surrealist films, and shared drinks and ideas with the likes of Jean Cocteau and Marcel Duchamp. Her... MSRP: Now: $18.95 Was: Quick view
Quick view Chivalry and Courtesy Medieval Manners for A Modern World MSRP: Now: $24.95 Was: 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... MSRP: Now: $24.95 Was: Quick view
Quick view Art Essentials: History of African Art MSRP: Now: $18.95 Was: 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... MSRP: Now: $18.95 Was: Quick view
Quick view American Indian Stories MSRP: Now: $15.00 Was: 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... MSRP: Now: $15.00 Was: Quick view
Quick view Story of Art Without Men MSRP: Now: $45.00 Was: 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... MSRP: Now: $45.00 Was: Quick view
Quick view Covered with Night MSRP: Now: $20.00 Was: 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... MSRP: Now: $20.00 Was: Quick view
Quick view Cats in Spring Rain MSRP: Now: $12.95 Was: This delightful little book pays homage to the cat through artfully curated Japanese poetry and prints. No one captures the graces and idiosyncrasies of cats quite like the painters, printmakers, and haiku masters of Japan. From the Edo to the Showa... MSRP: Now: $12.95 Was: Quick view
Quick view Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency MSRP: Now: $16.95 Was: 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... MSRP: Now: $16.95 Was: Quick view
Quick view Ways of Seeing MSRP: Now: $17.00 Was: John Berger's Ways of Seeing is one of the most stimulating and the most influential books on art in any language. First published in 1972, it was based on the BBC television series about which the Sunday Times critic commented: "This is an eye-opener in... MSRP: Now: $17.00 Was: Quick view
Quick view Art Essentials: Street Art MSRP: Now: $16.95 Was: 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... MSRP: Now: $16.95 Was: Quick view