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	The Afro-American Tradition in Decorative Arts Covering basketry, musical instruments, wood carving, quilting, pottery, boatbuilding, blacksmithing, architecture, and graveyard decoration, John Vlach seeks to trace and substantiate African influences in the traditional arts and crafts of black Americans. It is a widespread tradition, he observes, readily visible in areas such as the coastal regions of South Carolina and Georgia but discernible as well in places far to the west and north. Vlach not only examines the form and content of the ar...
	Afro-Modernism: Journeys Through the Black Atlantic ...
	After After constitutes a photographic project on how art affects our perception of reality. Visually expanding on the art world s tendency to see the world through the prism of modern and contemporary art, the book depicts some 200 images of found or researched situations taken after an artist s work occupied realities that are, one might say, signed by the artists. After Buren, After Baldessari, After CÃ©zanne, After Warhol, After Bruce Nauman, etc. In this project, the editors were looking for...
	After Art: Rethinking 150 Years of Photography : Selections from the Joseph and Elaine Monsen Collection Published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same name drawn from the remarkable collection of Joseph and Elaine Monsen and organized by the Henry Art Gallery, Seattle. A survey of the development of photography over the last 150 years, revealing its evolution as art....
	After Auschwitz: Responses to the Holocaust in Contemporary Art ...
	After Eden: Garden Varieties in Contemporary Art ...
	After Images (German Edition) ...
	After Lewis & Clark: The Forces of Change, 1806-1871 Between May 1804 and September 1806, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark and their Corps of Discovery explored a new expanse of America known as the Louisiana Purchase. They encountered lands, rivers, and peoples previously unknown Americans east of the Mississippi. During the next sixty-five years, Lewis and Clark's journey was followed by other explorations of the West, from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean and from Canada to Mexico. Artists often accompanied explorers as they enco...
	After Mountains and Sea: Frankenthaler 1956-1959 (Guggenheim Museum Publications) In 1952, at the age of 23, Helen Frankenthaler created her legendary painting Mountains and Sea. She poured thinned-down pigment directly onto unprimed canvas to be absorbed into its fibers. This large painting, the first in which Frankenthaler used her soak-stain technique, synthesized the influences that had informed her work to that point and announces her arrival as a mature artist. Published to accompany a 1998 exhibition at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, this book focuses on M...