Colonial art books

387 books were found.

The Social Life of Inkstones: Artisans and Scholars in Early Qing China

The Social Life of Inkstones: Artisans and Scholars...

Author: Dorothy Ko
ISBN: 9780295999180
Format: Hardback
$198.00

An inkstone, a piece of polished stone no bigger than an outstretched hand, is an instrument for grinding ink, an...  Read More >>

Culture Jamming: Activism and the Art of Cultural Resistance

Culture Jamming: Activism and the Art of Cultural Resistance...

Author: Marilyn DeLaure ,  Moritz Fink
ISBN: 9781479806201
Format: Paperback
$64.99

A collaboration of political activism and participatory culture seeking to upend consumer capitalism, including...  Read More >>

Culture Jamming: Activism and the Art of Cultural Resistance

Culture Jamming: Activism and the Art of Cultural Resistance...

Author: Marilyn DeLaure ,  Moritz Fink
ISBN: 9781479870967
Format: Hardback
$193.00

A collaboration of political activism and participatory culture seeking to upend consumer capitalism, including...  Read More >>

Asking the Audience: Participatory Art in 1980s New York

Asking the Audience: Participatory Art in 1980s New...

Author: Adair Rounthwaite
ISBN: 9780816698738
Format: Paperback
$39.99

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Asking the Audience: Participatory Art in 1980s New York

Asking the Audience: Participatory Art in 1980s New...

Author: Adair Rounthwaite
ISBN: 9780816698721
Format: Hardback
$161.99

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Breathless Days, 1959-1960

Breathless Days, 1959-1960

Author: Serge Guilbaut ,  John O'Brian
ISBN: 9780822360414
Format: Paperback
$76.43

Providing heterogeneous accounts of the intersections between the fine art world with literature, jazz, film, and...  Read More >>

Breathless Days, 1959-1960

Breathless Days, 1959-1960

Author: Serge Guilbaut ,  John O'Brian
ISBN: 9780822360230
Format: Hardback
$277.07

Providing heterogeneous accounts of the intersections between the fine art world with literature, jazz, film, and...  Read More >>

Masterworks from India and Southeast Asia

Masterworks from India and Southeast Asia

Author: Kimberly Masteller
ISBN: 9780997249293
Format: Hardback
$75.01

Spanning two millennia and the breadth of southern Asia, the thirty-seven masterworks presented here introduce the...  Read More >>

Humor and Violence: Seeing Europeans in Central African Art

Humor and Violence: Seeing Europeans in Central African...

Author: Z. S. Strother
ISBN: 9780253022677
Format: Paperback
$73.92

By restoring the dialectic of humor, it reveals the complicated psychological codependency of Africans and Europeans...  Read More >>

Mirror Affect: Seeing Self, Observing Others in Contemporary Art

Mirror Affect: Seeing Self, Observing Others in Contemporary...

Author: Cristina Albu
ISBN: 9781517900069
Format: Paperback
$44.99

From sculpture andperformance to art and technology projects, video art, and installation art,Cristina Albu charts...  Read More >>

Mirror Affect: Seeing Self, Observing Others in Contemporary Art

Mirror Affect: Seeing Self, Observing Others in Contemporary...

Author: Cristina Albu
ISBN: 9781517900052
Format: Hardback
$225.11

From sculpture and performance to art and technology projects, video art, and installation art, Cristina Albu charts...  Read More >>

Fugitive Testimony: On the Visual Logic of Slave Narratives

Fugitive Testimony: On the Visual Logic of Slave Narratives...

Author: Janet Neary
ISBN: 9780823272907
Format: Paperback
$79.20

Fugitive Testimony examines African American slave narratives in light of contemporary artists’ use of the genre...  Read More >>

Fugitive Testimony: On the Visual Logic of Slave Narratives

Fugitive Testimony: On the Visual Logic of Slave Narratives...

Author: Janet Neary
ISBN: 9780823272891
Format: Hardback
$250.80

Fugitive Testimony examines African American slave narratives in light of contemporary artists’ use of the genre...  Read More >>

Living Cargo: How Black Britain Performs Its Past

Living Cargo: How Black Britain Performs Its Past

Author: Steven Blevins
ISBN: 9780816697168
Format: Paperback
$44.99

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Marshall Plan Modernism: Italian Postwar Abstraction and the Beginnings of Autonomia

Marshall Plan Modernism: Italian Postwar Abstraction...

Author: Jaleh Mansoor
ISBN: 9780822362609
Format: Paperback
$105.60

Focusing on the work of Italian artists Lucio Fontana, Alberto Burri, and Piero Manzoni, Jaleh Mansoor demonstrates...  Read More >>

Paul Havas

Paul Havas

Author: Matthew Kangas
ISBN: 9780997249248
Format: Hardback
$105.60

The art of Paul Havas (1940-2012) is one of natural beauty, formal control, and unusual colors. Havas settled in...  Read More >>

A Revolutionary Artist of Tibet: Khyentse Chenmo of Gongkar

A Revolutionary Artist of Tibet: Khyentse Chenmo of...

Author: David P. Jackson
ISBN: 9780991224111
Format: Hardback
$198.00

In A Revolutionary Artist of Tibet author David Jackson focuses on the Khyenri style, the least known among the...  Read More >>

Marshall Plan Modernism: Italian Postwar Abstraction and the Beginnings of Autonomia

Marshall Plan Modernism: Italian Postwar Abstraction...

Author: Jaleh Mansoor
ISBN: 9780822362456
Format: Hardback
$422.40

Focusing on the work of Italian artists Lucio Fontana, Alberto Burri, and Piero Manzoni, Jaleh Mansoor demonstrates...  Read More >>

The Interface: IBM and the Transformation of Corporate Design, 1945–1976

The Interface: IBM and the Transformation of Corporate...

Author: John Harwood
ISBN: 9780816674527
Format: Paperback
$44.99

In 1956, IBM tappedthe industrial designer and architect Eliot F. Noyes to reinvent the company'scorporate image,...  Read More >>

Southern Accent: Seeking the American South in Contemporary Art

Southern Accent: Seeking the American South in Contemporary...

Author: Miranda Lash ,  Trevor Schoonmaker
ISBN: 9780938989387
Format: Paperback
$131.87

Featuring the work of sixty artists and including 300 illustrations, the catalog Southern Accent accompanies a major...  Read More >>

Jose Montoya's Abundant Harvest: Works on Paper / Works on Life

Jose Montoya's Abundant Harvest: Works on Paper / Works...

Author: Richard Montoya ,  Selene Preciado
ISBN: 9780990762621
Format: Paperback
$52.80

Chicano activist, poet, artist, intellectual, professor, and musician, Jose Montoya (1932-2013) was a veritable...  Read More >>

Constellations of a Contemporary Romanticism

Constellations of a Contemporary Romanticism

Author: Jacques Khalip ,  Forest Pyle
ISBN: 9780823271047
Format: Paperback
$102.96

This collection takes its point of departure from Walter Benjamin’s concept of the historical constellation, a concept...  Read More >>

Constellations of a Contemporary Romanticism

Constellations of a Contemporary Romanticism

Author: Jacques Khalip ,  Forest Pyle
ISBN: 9780823271030
Format: Hardback
$290.40

This collection takes its point of departure from Walter Benjamin’s concept of the historical constellation, a concept...  Read More >>

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