Colonial art books

416 books were found.

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
$190.95

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

Outgrowth of the author's thesis (doctoral--University of California, Davis, 2008) under title: History unhoused....  Read More >>

Up Here: The North at the Center of the World

Up Here: The North at the Center of the World

Author: Julie Decker ,  Kirsten J. Anderson
ISBN: 9780295999081
Format: Hardback
$90.95

"The North is a complex place that is beautiful, moody, and anything but untouched. The Arctic, part of the international...  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: 9780822362609
Format: Paperback
$73.79

Focusing on the work of Italian artists Lucio Fontana, Alberto Burri, and Piero Manzoni, Jaleh Mansoor demonstrates...  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
$271.79

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

Quilts of Southwest China

Quilts of Southwest China

Author: Marsha MacDowell (Michigan State University Museum) ,  Lijun Zhang (George Mason University)
ISBN: 9787219098301
Format: Paperback
$118.80

This project is a result of the United States-China Intangible Cultural Heritage Initiative of the American Folklore...  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 tapped the industrial designer and architect Eliot F. Noyes to reinvent the company's corporate 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
$67.95

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
$220.95

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Visiting with the Ancestors: Blackfoot Shirts in Museum Spaces

Visiting with the Ancestors: Blackfoot Shirts in Museum...

Author: Laura Peers ,  Alison K. Brown
ISBN: 9781771990370
Format: Paperback
$100.91

In the pages of this beautifully illustrated volume is the story of aneffort to build a bridge between museums and...  Read More >>

Nelson Sandgren: An Artist's Life

Nelson Sandgren: An Artist's Life

Author: Roger Hull
ISBN: 9781930957756
Format: Hardback
$56.90

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Bhupen Khakhar: You Can't Please All

Bhupen Khakhar: You Can't Please All

Author: Chris Dercon ,  Nada Raza
ISBN: 9780295998121
Format: Hardback
$92.95

Bhupen Khakhar (19342003) was active in India from the late 1960s. A gentle radical, his luminous paintings addressed...  Read More >>

Radical Aesthetics and Modern Black Nationalism

Radical Aesthetics and Modern Black Nationalism

Author: GerShun Avilez
ISBN: 9780252040122
Format: Hardback
$239.00

Radical Aesthetics and Modern Black Nationalism explores the long-overlooked links between black nationalist activism...  Read More >>

Travel & See: Black Diaspora Art Practices since the 1980s

Travel & See: Black Diaspora Art Practices since the...

Author: Kobena Mercer
ISBN: 9780822360940
Format: Paperback
$81.71

In this set of essays that cover the period from 1992 to 2012, Kobena Mercer uses a diasporic model of criticism...  Read More >>

Travel & See: Black Diaspora Art Practices since the 1980s

Travel & See: Black Diaspora Art Practices since the...

Author: Kobena Mercer
ISBN: 9780822360803
Format: Hardback
$303.47

In this set of essays that cover the period from 1992 to 2012, Kobena Mercer uses a diasporic model of criticism...  Read More >>

Following the Barn Quilt Trail

Following the Barn Quilt Trail

Author: Suzi Parron ,  Donna Sue Groves
ISBN: 9780804011693
Format: Paperback
$79.07

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Zhang Hongtu: Expanding Visions of a Shrinking World

Zhang Hongtu: Expanding Visions of a Shrinking World...

Author: Luchia Meihua Lee ,  Jerome Silbergeld
ISBN: 9780822360421
Format: Paperback
$118.80

In this book leading Chinese experts review the life, career, and artistic development of the pioneering Chinese...  Read More >>

Zhang Hongtu: Expanding Visions of a Shrinking World

Zhang Hongtu: Expanding Visions of a Shrinking World...

Author: Luchia Meihua Lee ,  Jerome Silbergeld
ISBN: 9780822360254
Format: Hardback
$171.60

In this book leading Chinese experts review the life, career, and artistic development of the pioneering Chinese...  Read More >>

Zina Saro-Wiwa: Did You Know We Taught Them How to Dance?

Zina Saro-Wiwa: Did You Know We Taught Them How to Dance?...

Author: Amy L. Powell ,  Ebiegberi Joe Alagoa
ISBN: 9781883015480
Format: Hardback
$86.99

Catalog of an exhibition co-organized by Blaffer Art Museum, University of Houston, and Krannert Art Museum and...  Read More >>

Radical Aesthetics and Modern Black Nationalism

Radical Aesthetics and Modern Black Nationalism

Author: GerShun Avilez
ISBN: 9780252081613
Format: Paperback
$60.99

Radical Aesthetics and Modern Black Nationalism explores the long-overlooked links between black nationalist activism...  Read More >>

Performance

Performance

Author: Diana Taylor
ISBN: 9780822359975
Format: Paperback
$71.15

In this invitation to reflect on the power of performance, Diana Taylor explores the multiple and overlapping meanings...  Read More >>

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