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From Lascaux to Brooklyn
One of the world's leading graphic designers, Paul Rand has had a profound influence on the design profession: his pioneering work in the field of advertising design and typography has helped elevate "commercial art" to one of the...
The Origins of Graphic Design in America, 1870-1920
By the time the phrase "graphic design" first appeared in print in 1922, design professionals in America had already created a discipline combining visual art with mass communication. In this book, Ellen Mazur Thomson...
Reinventing Africa
Museums, Material Culture and Popular Imagination in Late Victorian and Edwardian England
Between 1890 and 1918, British colonial expansion in Africa led to the removal of many African artifacts that were subsequently brought to Britain and displayed. Annie Coombes argues that this activity had profound...
Thomas Eakins
The Rowing Pictures
During the 1870s rowing became a tremendously popular sport in the United States. An enthusiastic rower, the young Thomas Eakins painted, sketched, and drew an extraordinary series of rowing pictures that were the most...
The Brilliance of Swedish Glass, 1918-1939
An Alliance of Art and Industry
Since the mid-1920s Swedish glass has been synonymous with excellence in design and craftsmanship, the most highly acclaimed product of the Swedish applied arts industries in the international marketplace. Its development and...
Reframing Abstract Expressionism
Subjectivity and Painting in the 1940s
In the wake of World War II, the paintings of Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Barnett Newman, Willem de Kooning, and other New York School artists participated in a culture-wide initiative to reimagine the self. At a time when...
The Frederick Douglass Papers
Series Two: Autobiographical Writings, Volume 1: Narrative
This volume contains the first and most famous of Frederick Douglass’s three autobiographies, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass. First published in Boston in 1845, only seven years after Douglass’s escape...
The Language of Twentieth-Century Art
A Conceptual History
Recent theory has tended to understand the meaning of art primarily as a function of original contexts of production and reception or in its relation to fashionable notions of gender, multiculturalism, and "scopic regimes."...
A.A.E. Disderi and the Carte de Visite Portrait Photograph
The Painted Face
Portraits of Women in France, 1814-1914
The meaning of a painted portrait and even its subject may be far more complex than expected, Tamar Garb reveals in this book. She charts for the first time the history of French female portraiture from its heyday in the early...