This authoritative catalogue of the Corcoran Gallery of Art's renowned collection of pre-1945 American paintings will greatly enhance scholarly and public understanding of one of the finest and most important collections of historic ...
This "bible of graphic design" is known as the definitive reference on the history of graphic design. It is one of the most comprehensive, exhaustive, and informative resources on the...
This notion may have been helped along by the popular story of how Admiral Nelson's body was shipped back to England from Trafalgar perfectly preserved in a cask of fortified sherry. A dead house on 18th Street in the Gashouse District ...
Such complexity is what historical geographer Richard Francaviglia unravels in this book. Since the publication of Edward Said’s book, Orientalism, the term has come to signify something one-dimensionally negative.
If necessity is indeed the mother of invention, then the individuals profiled in this volume should be considered the most laudable of all midwives.
Describes the mansion's history, its architectural significance, and its contents.
Austin: University of Texas, I970. ... 3 I I—2.o. Cooper-Hewitt Museum Cooper-Hewitt Museum, Smithsonian lnstitution's National Museum of Design, New York City ... Ferber and Gerdts I 9 8 5 Linda S. Ferber and William H. Gerdts.
Great Events from History: The 20th Century (1901-1940) organizes coverage of world events chronologically for in-depth understanding in historical context. Continuing the series Great Events from History, these volumes bring...
During the 1970s, the National Endowment for the Arts Photography Surveys granted money to photograph American cities at the bicentennial and years that followed. In Through the Lens of the...
This new edition of a favorite volume presents 149 of the Art Institute’s treasured European and American paintings, from the Renaissance to the 1990s, with each work reproduced in full...