The development of the movie poster shares a parallel history with the evolution of film, from its beginnings in the 1900s to the present day. This book charts 100 years in the visual development of the movie poster and brings together a unique collection of posters from around the world

The book looks at the works and lives of artists from the 18th century to the present, it continues to reveal the rich legacy of work by African American artists, whose art is now included in the permanent collections of national and international museums as well as in major private collections

This is the first comprehensive study of the lives and artistic production of artists of Asian ancestry active in the United States before 1970. The publication features original essays by 10 leading scholars, biographies of more than 150 artists, and over 400 reproductions of artwork, ephemera, and images of the artists

This book by Lea Vergine, which discusses seventeen different art movements in separate chapters, offers, within the panorama of contemporary art criticism books, a blend between a handy art - history manual and an assessment of a cultural adventure that has passed through and overturned the parameters of taste of the last forty years

Mary Gray's A Guide to Chicago's Murals is the first definitive handbook to the treasures that can be found all over the city. With full-color illustrations of nearly two hundred Chicago murals and accompanying entries that describe their history—who commissioned them and why, how artists collaborated with architects, the subjects of the murals and their contexts—A Guide to Chicago`s Murals serves both a general and a specific audience. From post offices to libraries, fieldhouses to banks, and private clubs to street corners, Gray chronicles the amazing works of artists who have sought to make public declarations in this most social of art forms

The Metropolitan Museum of Art's collection of American Quilts and Coverlets is extremely diverse, encompassing excellent representative examples of most types of bedcoverings from many regions of the United States. This Book provides greater access to the Museum's outstanding collection and enables all who are interested to discover the beauty and historical significance of American quilts and coverlets

American Art Deco features descriptions - and over 450 color photographs - of 75 lavish and innovative buildings across the country. The buildings herein represent those that have maximum architectural integrity, thereby giving us the full scope of this much admired and exciting style

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

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

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