Colonial art books

387 books were found.

Authentically African: Arts and the Transnational Politics of Congolese Culture

Authentically African: Arts and the Transnational Politics...

Author: Sarah Van Beurden ,  Sarah Van Beurden
ISBN: 9780821421901
Format: Hardback
$211.20

Together, the Royal Museum for Central Africa in Tervuren, Belgium, and the Institut des Musées Nationaux du Zaire...  Read More >>

Grand Allusions: Robert Barnes—Late Works 1985-2015

Grand Allusions: Robert Barnes—Late Works 1985-2015...

Author: Michael Rooks ,  Dennis Adrian
ISBN: 9780253019660
Format: Hardback
$66.00

In addition to 18 largescale paintings from his major series--including The Sources of Power, Silkies, Blood and...  Read More >>

Singular Images, Failed Copies: William Henry Fox Talbot and the Early Photograph

Singular Images, Failed Copies: William Henry Fox Talbot...

Author: Vered Maimon
ISBN: 9780816694723
Format: Paperback
$44.99

Vered Maimon shows thatthe perception of the photographic image in early nineteenth-century Englandwas symptomatic...  Read More >>

Barry Le Va: The Aesthetic Aftermath

Barry Le Va: The Aesthetic Aftermath

Author: Michael Maizels
ISBN: 9780816694693
Format: Paperback
$44.99

Conceptual artist BarryLe Va's installations were designed to erode the economic and politicalauthority of the art...  Read More >>

Edgar Heap of Birds

Edgar Heap of Birds

Author: Bill Anthes
ISBN: 9780822359944
Format: Paperback
$97.68

In this first book-length study of contemporary Native American artist Edgar Heap of Birds, Bill Anthes analyzes...  Read More >>

Edgar Heap of Birds

Edgar Heap of Birds

Author: Bill Anthes
ISBN: 9780822359814
Format: Hardback
$298.19

In this first book-length study of contemporary Native American artist Edgar Heap of Birds, Bill Anthes analyzes...  Read More >>

Indian Baskets of Northern California and Oregon

Indian Baskets of Northern California and Oregon

Author: Ralph Shanks ,  Lisa Woo Shanks
ISBN: 9780930268220
Format: Hardback
$105.47

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Aesthetic Revolutions and Twentieth-Century Avant-Garde Movements

Aesthetic Revolutions and Twentieth-Century Avant-Garde...

Author: Aleš Erjavec
ISBN: 9780822358725
Format: Paperback
$92.27

This collection categorizes aesthetic avant-garde art as art that seeks to politically transform society and argues...  Read More >>

Mel Katz: On and Off the Wall

Mel Katz: On and Off the Wall

Author: Barry Johnson
ISBN: 9781930957725
Format: Hardback
$79.07

Mel Katz is a highly regarded Portland sculptor and teacher whose work is firmly rooted in the principles of geometric...  Read More >>

Lunch with a Bigot: The Writer in the World

Lunch with a Bigot: The Writer in the World

Author: Amitava Kumar
ISBN: 9780822359302
Format: Paperback
$84.35

The twenty-six essays in Lunch With a Bigot are examples of how Amitava Kumar turns his observations of the world...  Read More >>

Making Photography Matter: A Viewer's History from the Civil War to the Great Depression

Making Photography Matter: A Viewer's History from the...

Author: Cara A. Finnegan
ISBN: 9780252039263
Format: Hardback
$239.00

Photography became a dominant medium in cultural life starting in the late nineteenth century. As it happened, viewers...  Read More >>

Legions of Boom: Filipino American Mobile DJ Crews in the San Francisco Bay Area

Legions of Boom: Filipino American Mobile DJ Crews in...

Author: Oliver Wang
ISBN: 9780822358909
Format: Paperback
$84.35

Oliver Wang chronicles the history of the San Francisco Bay Area Filipino American mobile DJ scene of the late 1970s...  Read More >>

Legions of Boom: Filipino American Mobile DJ Crews in the San Francisco Bay Area

Legions of Boom: Filipino American Mobile DJ Crews in...

Author: Oliver Wang
ISBN: 9780822359043
Format: Hardback
$337.79

Oliver Wang chronicles the history of the San Francisco Bay Area Filipino American mobile DJ scene of the late 1970s...  Read More >>

Africa in the Market

Africa in the Market

Author: Silvia Forni ,  Christopher B. Steiner
ISBN: 9780888545060
Format: Hardback
$132.00

While many publications focus on the aesthetics and symbolism of African art, few explore the historical dynamics...  Read More >>

Natural Magic: Salted Paper Prints in North America

Natural Magic: Salted Paper Prints in North America...

Author: Jordan Bear ,  Russell Lord
ISBN: 9780295994901
Format: Hardback
$105.47

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A Fluid Tradition: Northwest Watercolor Society...the First 75 Years

A Fluid Tradition: Northwest Watercolor Society...the...

Author: David F. Martin
ISBN: 9780692269954
Format: Hardback
$92.27

During 2014-2015, Northwest Watercolor Society celebrates its 75th anniversary. The society has attracted many of...  Read More >>

Arctic Ambitions: Captain Cook and the Northwest Passage

Arctic Ambitions: Captain Cook and the Northwest Passage...

Author: James K. Barnett ,  David L. Nicandri
ISBN: 9780295993997
Format: Hardback
$66.95

Captain James Cook is justly famous for his explorations of the southern Pacific Ocean, but his contributions to...  Read More >>

American Encounters: The Simple Pleasures of Still Life

American Encounters: The Simple Pleasures of Still Life...

Author: Stephanie Mayer Heydt
ISBN: 9780692291382
Format: Paperback
$65.87

""This book is part of a series published to accompany a sequence of four special installations co-organized by...  Read More >>

Beyond the First Emperor's Mausoleum: New Perspectives on Qin Art

Beyond the First Emperor's Mausoleum: New Perspectives...

Author: Liu Yang
ISBN: 9780989371865
Format: Paperback
$97.95

Our imaginations are sparked by the compelling findings unearthed at Lintong near Xi'an, capital of modern-day Shaanxi...  Read More >>

Impossible Heights: Skyscrapers, Flight, and the Master Builder

Impossible Heights: Skyscrapers, Flight, and the Master...

Author: Adnan Morshed
ISBN: 9780816673193
Format: Paperback
$54.99

Demonstrating how aerial movement and heightintersect with popular ""superman"" discourses of the time, Adnan Morshed...  Read More >>

Impossible Heights: Skyscrapers, Flight, and the Master Builder

Impossible Heights: Skyscrapers, Flight, and the Master...

Author: Adnan Morshed
ISBN: 9780816673186
Format: Hardback
$134.99

Demonstrating how aerial movement and heightintersect with popular ""superman"" discourses of the time, Adnan Morshed...  Read More >>

Scenes of Projection: Recasting the Enlightenment Subject

Scenes of Projection: Recasting the Enlightenment Subject...

Author: Jill H. Casid
ISBN: 9780816646708
Format: Paperback
$39.99

Theorizing vision and power with the histories ofpsychoanalysis, media, scientific method, and colonization, Scenes...  Read More >>

Mechademia 9: Origins

Mechademia 9: Origins

Author: Frenchy Lunning
ISBN: 9780816695355
Format: Paperback
$36.99

The essays brought together in Mechademia 9  Read More >>

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