This book significantly advances the study of pioneering black dancers by providing valuable biographical and historical information on a group of artists who worked during the 1920s-1940s to legitimize dance of the African diaspora as a serious art form. Author sets these seminal artists and their innovations in the contexts of African-American culture and American modern dance and explores their creative synthesis of material from European-American, African-American sources

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

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

No other introductory book presents the diversity and complexity of postwar American art from Abstract Expressionism to the present as clearly and succinctly as this groundbreaking survey. D. Joselit traces and analyzes the often contradictory formal, ideological and political conditions during this period that made American art predominant throughout the world

Asian/American/Modern Art: Shifting Currents, 1900–1970 is the first comprehensive survey of Asian American modernism. This exhibition of works by artists of Asian ancestry who lived and worked in the United States seeks to showcase some of the most important individuals contributing to the canon of Asian American art and advance awareness of this under-represented group in American art history. Their art reflects the currents of identity and style that shift between aesthetics of diverse international geographies

As a young filmmaker in Chicago, Wexler made independent documentaries on social and political issues,and the hallmark of his long career in Hollywood

The ballet must be speak for and about itself.As we know every dance is akind of fever chart, a graph of the heart

Elvis had parents grumbling, girls fainting, and boys imitating his style. And his music? It had everyone dancing in the aisles. Everyone listened to Elvis. Everyone danced to Elvis. Everyone had an opinion about Elvis. And then came the fame. The money. The cars. The screaming fans

A dictionary of terms and concepts related to art history and art techniques, including artists and schools of art

Highlights major landmarks in each of the fifty states and the nation