Drawing extensively from various disciplines including ethnology, geography, geology, and environmental studies, this groundbreaking book addresses shifting concepts of time, history, and landscape in relation to the work of pioneering American artists during the first half of the 20th century

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

While technology and urban sprawl have transformed much of America in the last half of the twentieth century, Jack Leigh has been quietly documenting the people and the landscape of the Southeastern coast, a region steeped in history and tradition. The Land I'm Bound To is the photographer's tribute to the richly diverse culture of his native region. Here, Leigh is both inclusive and expansive, offering some of his most memorable images as well as recent work that synthesizes the beauty and emotional grip the South has on many of us. 200 duotone photographs

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

The Light of New York, a stunning photographic essay by Jean-Michel Berts, features black-and-white photographs taken before sunrise and after sundown. 128 pages, 70 images

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

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 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

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

The book demonstrates the resurgence of interest in streamlining among international vanguard designers from the 1980 to the present. It celebrates streamlining as epitomized by the work of Raymond Loewy, Donald Deskey, Henri Dreyfuss, Russel Wright, and Norman Bel Geddes, and introduces other industrial designers