This catalogue is published to coincide with an exhibition in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum, at the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC. The five sections cover: early America, high style rococo, East meets West, Pennsylvania German and classical style. Approximately 300 examples of decorative arts made or used in America between 1640 and 1840 - including furniture, textiles, paintings, ceramics, glass and metalwork - form the collection at the museum

More than a hundred wonderful and sensitive duotone portraits of American major novelists, poets, and playwrights. Paired with the photographs are fascinating texts from each writer on writing-thoughts on the craft, recollections of significant moments from their personal history, meditations on the civic importance of writing, and so forth. Some of the photographs in this treasure trove are already well known - Bellow, Mailer, Cheever, Wolfe, Singer, and Capote, to name a few. Others have never before been published

A handsomely illustrated tribute to the Library of Congress building, published to coincide with its one hundredth anniversary. The Library of Congress is today the world's largest library and research institution. Its collection of more than 115 million items are comprehensive in scope, including maps, manuscripts, music, photographs, motion pictures and research materials in more than 450 languages. Thomas Jefferson Building, the first Library of Congress building, is a unique and dazzling expression of American Art, architecture, and self-confidence

В монографии представлены материалы по истории архитектуры Китая, на примере которых рассмотрены основные закономерности развития этой важнейшей сферы традиционной культуры. Выявлены принципы планировки и конструктивные особенности зданий, их связь с использованием новых строительных материалов, а также взаимовлияние архитектурных традиций Китая и сопредельных стран

Modern Women explores how history might account for the women missing from the familar narrative of modernism; how women variously fit into, redefine or upend the usual categories of art and art-making; and the role of the Museum of Modern Art as a site of both patronage and protest. This book offers a lively discourse around gender and the production of meaning in art, one absolutely necessary for a more complex understanding of the art of our time

Along Route 66 describes the architectural styles found along the highway from Chicago, Illinois, to Santa Monica, California, and pairs photos with stories of the buildings and of the people who built them, lived in them, and made a living from them

The author describes a trip to see his uncle, the soon-to-be-famous artist Andy Warhol, and the fun that he and his family had on the visit

A beautiful exhibition catalog for a landmark collection of works on paper, An American Focus: The Anderson Graphic Arts Collection, reproduces the complete exhibition including works by Diebenkorn, Stella, Lichtenstein, and Rauschenberg, in addition to a checklist and essays on American collecting prints and printmaking

This is a great book for fans of the art of Winslow Homer; the book contains reproductions of many of his great watercolors related to the theme of fishing - and fishing was one of Homer's passions. Anyone with a slight familiarity with Homer's work who would like to see a more in-depth analysis of this paintings that relate to a single theme - fishing - will likely enjoy this book. It accompanies an exhibition of splendid paintings.... kaleidoscopic views of trout ponds, brilliantly colored trophy fish, and evocative transcriptions of a sportsman`s days on teeming rivers and lazy creeks

Art Deco 1910-1939 surveys the sources and development of the popular style with more than 400 color illustrations and 40 chapters by numerous design specialists. The book's broad focus encompasses industrial artifacts (the Hindenburg blimp, the Burlington Zephyr locomotive), as well as architecture, furniture, accessories, fashion, jewelry, typography and poster design