Author: Keith Cunningham
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Keywords: artists, art, series, folk, mystery, zuni, tale
Number of Pages: 96
Published: 1998-07-01
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 1578060621
ISBN-13: 9781578060627

A revelation of how Zuni art, past and present, is an essential expression of Zuni life and heritage. This book places modern work within the context of Pueblo folk art from prehistoric times to the present. Vintage and contemporary photographs show Zuni art and life as it has developed in recent times. 90 photos, 20 in color.

Author: Andrew Hemingway
Publisher: Yale University Press
Keywords: artists, movement, american, communist
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2002-11-01
List price: $75.00
ISBN-10: 0300092202
ISBN-13: 9780300092202

This remarkable book is the first to examine in abundant detail the relation between visual artists and the American Communist movement during the twentieth century. Andrew Hemingway charts the rise and decline of the Communist Party’s influence on art in the United States from the Party’s dramatic rise in prestige during the Great Depression to its effective demise in the 1950s. Offering a full account of how left-wing artists responded to the Party’s various policy shifts over these years, Hemingway shows that the Communist Party exerted a powerful force in American culture

Author: Elisabeth Roark
Publisher: Greenwood
Keywords: artists, era, colonial, america
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2003-12-30
List price: $69.95
ISBN-10: 0313320233
ISBN-13: 9780313320231

During the Colonial era, artists began to create an American identity in the art world. The drawings of explorer John White; the maps of John Foster, American’s first printmaker; the silverwork of the famous patriot Paul Revere; the creations of America’s first professional woman artist, Henrietta Johnston; and the portraits of John Singleton Copley all helped create a distinct culture in the young colonies. This volume presents narrative chapters on the lives of ten pioneers in Colonial American art.

Author: Susan M. Brackney
Publisher: Dell
Keywords: artists, strategies, heart, strength, hope, soul, companion, lost
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2002-10-01
List price: $11.95
ISBN-10: 044050922X
ISBN-13: 9780440509226

The Lost Soul Companion showed you how to survive…now learn how to thrive! A gift of wit, wisdom, and understanding for writers, musicians, freethinkers, and struggling artists of every stripe!Susan M. Brackney, author of The Lost Soul Companion, keeps the encouragement coming and offers smart solutions for artists, musicians, actors, and writers ready to share their creative talents with the rest of the world. Practical and irreverent, The Not-So-Lost Soul Companion is the wise, whimsical--and indispensable--next step in launching the creative life of your dreams. *How to keep your cool des

Authors:Ralph E. Lerner, Judith Bresler,
Publisher: Practising Law Institute (PLI)
Keywords: artists, dealers, third, volume, investors, art, guide, collectors, law
Number of Pages: 2291
Published: 2005-10-25
List price: $275.00
ISBN-10: 1402406509
ISBN-13: 9781402406508

Long considered the gold standard in legal and tax guidance for visual art professionals and their attorneys, ART LAW is now even more valuable to anyone involved in this complex, interconnected industry. Teeming with new information and analysis and many new sample documents, the three-volume Third Edition of ART LAW is the one resource you must consult to help ensure you formalize rock-solid agreements, maximize tax savings, and minimize legal liabilities.

Author: Barbara McCloskey
Publisher: Greenwood
Keywords: artists, era, world, war
Number of Pages: 248
Published: 2005-05-30
List price: $62.95
ISBN-10: 0313321531
ISBN-13: 9780313321535

The first global survey of art in WWII, this volume features selected biographies of artists and detailed discussions of war-era art worlds in China, France, Italy, Japan, Germany, Great Britain, the Soviet Union, Spain, and the United States. Readers can compare and contrast artists’ experiences of war in these different countries. They will observe the artists’ wide range of responses to war, from producing art works that actively supported the war effort, to criticism of death and destruction.Chapters begin with short synopses of the art worlds in each of these countries leading

Author: Paul Mason
Publisher: Heinemann Library
Keywords: artists, profile, pop
Number of Pages: 64
Published: 2002-10
List price: $34.29
ISBN-10: 1588106462
ISBN-13: 9781588106469

Discusses the characteristics of the pop art movement which began in the 1950s and 1960s and presents biographies of eleven pop artists.