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	Windows of the World: Store Windows that Dazzle Over the years, shopping has grown from the traditional need to supply and provide subsistence into an everyday habit associated with leisure, social activity, and pleasure. Consequently, designing store windows has become an art form in itself. These settings, whose final objective is always to seduce the possible consumer, are laid out according to different concepts of color, light, materials and disposition. This book shows how successful store windows have become an important mediator betwe...
	Hanging Fire: Contemporary Art from Pakistan (Asia Society) Accompanying the first U.S. museum exhibition devoted to contemporary art from Pakistan, this dynamic catalogue provides a groundbreaking look at recent and current trends in Pakistani art. Hanging Fire covers a fascinating range of subjects and media, from installation and video art to sculpture, drawing, and paintings in the “contemporary miniature” tradition. Essays by distinguished contributors from a variety of fields, including Salima Hashmi, Pakistani-American sociologist and historia...
	California Wine Country: The Most Beautiful Wineries, Vineyards, and Destinations The world-famous wineries of California draw millions of visitors each year (Napa Valley is the second biggest attraction in California), welcoming visitors with a variety of surprises for the senses. From Opus One to Close Pegase, Stag's Leap to the Rhône Rangers, trademark Zinfandels to world-class Chardonnays, California producers consistently create some of the world's most renowned wines. As The Wine Advocate's Robert M. Parker Jr. states, California is on a roll. California Wine Country...
	Color as Field: American Painting, 1950-1975 (American Federation of the Arts) Colour field painting, which emerged in the United States in the 1950s, is based on radiant, uninflected hues. Exemplified by the work of Helen Frankenthaler, Morris Louis, Kenneth Noland, Jules Olitski, Larry Poons and Frank Stella, among others, these stunningly beautiful and impressively scaled paintings constitute one of the crowning achievements of postwar American abstract art. "Color as Field" offers a long-overdue reevaluation of this important aspect of American abstract painting. The a...
	Between the Lines: A Coloring Book of Drawings by Contemporary Artists What if an ordinary little coloring book were to be upgraded with a set of 54 energetic line drawings by some of today's best-known contemporary artists instead of the usual dumbed-down pedagogical renderings? And what if the proceeds from the sale of this high-art coloring book were to go to a worthy charitable organization that seeks to install upbeat, original contemporary artworks in participating hospitals? Well, then you would have Between the Lines, this lively new collection of work by V...
	Institutional Critique and After (SoCCAS Symposia vol. 2) This contemporary reassessment of the Institutional Critique movement, launched in the late 1960s by artists including Michael Asher and Hans Haacke, grew out of a symposium held at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. It looks at Institutional Critique’s central aim, the exposure and ironization of the structures and logic of museums and art galleries, and recent developments that engage with and echo it. IC has been raised again by Andrea Fraser, Renée Green and Fred Wilson, among others, ...
	Mark Rothko: The Works on Canvas This extraordinary book is the first volume of the definitive catalogue raisonn_ of Rothko`s work. It documents his entire output of paintings on canvas and panel, reproducing all the works in color. An introductory text also investigates every essential feature of his art.Published in association with the National Gallery of Art, Washington....
	Unseen Mendieta: The Unpublished Works of Ana Mendieta Among the most compelling and iconic images of art in the1970s are the pioneering investigations of performance andexperimental media by Ana Mendieta. An American artist bornin Cuba, she explored in her work her Caribbean roots throughthe lens of exile. She meticulously documented her ephemeralsite-specific artworks, on beaches and in rivers, across floweryfields, and against walls of rock. Here for the first time, OlgaViso, the leading authority on the artist, presents a beautifullycurated repr...
	Giinaquq--Like a Face: Suqpiaq Masks of the Kodiak Archipelago Masks are an ancient tradition of the Alutiiq people on the southern coast of Alaska. Alutiiq artists carved the masks from wood or bark into images of ancestors, animal spirits, and other mythological forces; these extraordinary creations have been an essential tool for communicating with the spirit world and have played an important role in dances and hunting festivities for centuries. Giinaquq—Like a Face presents thirty-three full-color images of these fantastic and eye-catching masks, whi...