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	Gifts from the Ancestors: Ancient Ivories of Bering Strait (Princeton University Art Museum Series) The appearance during the first millennium A.D. of small, exquisitely carved artifacts of walrus ivory in the Bering Strait region marks the beginning of an extraordinary florescence in the art and culture of North America. The discovery in the 1930s and 1940s of world-class carvings of animals, mythical beasts, shape-shifting creatures, masks, and human figurines astounded scholars and excited collectors. Nevertheless, the extraordinary objects that belong to this fascinating, sometimes frighte...
	Van Gogh's Van Goghs The brilliantly colored paintings of Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) are loved around the world. This stunning volume accompanies the largest exhibition of the artist's works outside the Netherlands in more than 25 years. The show opens at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., in October 1998 and at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in January 1999. This unique group of paintings is from the extraordinary collection of the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, home to the single greates...
	Andy Warhol: The Record Covers 1949-1987, Catalogue Raisonne Count Basie, Tchaikovsky, Aretha Franklin, Lou Reed, DianaRoss, John Lennon, and the Rolling Stones all had their musicpromoted by Andy Warhol s record covers. This catalogueraisonnÃƒÂƒÃ‚Â© reproduces the fifty covers, front and back, designedover four decades that bear Warhol s unmistakable imprint. Italso includes over 100 additional illustrations, featuring relatedworks by Warhol, photographs of performances as well asdocumentary images identifying his visual sources. PaulMarÃƒÂƒ...
	UltraModern: Samuel Marx Architect, Designer, Art Collector Although Samuel Abraham Marx was born at the end of the 19th century, he had the eye of a modernist - as an architect, furniture designer, connoisseur and collector. His vision was neither ostentatious or grandiose, but subtle and quietly magnificent. Ultra-Modern, Samuel Marx, Architect, Furniture Designer, Connoisseur is the first monograph on this lesser-known but increasingly influential American designer. In more than 200 photographs, Marx expert and decorative arts dealer, Liz O Brien, ...
	S'abadeb, The Gifts: Pacific Coast Salish Art and Artists S'abadeb, The Gifts captures the essence of Coast Salish culture through its artistry, oral traditions, and history. Developed in conjunction with the first extensive exhibition of the art and culture of the Coast Salish peoples of Washington State and British Columbia, the book traces the development of Salish art from prehistory to the present. Sculpture in wood, stone, and bone-including monumental house posts-as well as expertly crafted basketry, woven regalia, and contemporary works in glas...
	Man Ray Photographs "I paint what cannot be photographed, I photograph the things I don't want to paint....I would photograph an idea rather than an object, and a dream rather than an idea." Man Ray's own words suggest the essence of his brilliant, original, and deeply influential photographic oeuvre. Taking up photography in 1915 for the purpose of reproducing his paintings, he earned money doing the same thing for others when he went to live and work in Paris in 1921. This led to one of the most versatile ...
	Beyond Golden Clouds: Japanese Screens from the Art Institute of Chicago and the Saint Louis Art Museum Folding screens, known as byôbu in Japanese, are treasures within any museum’s collection and are beloved by the general public. This beautiful publication brings together the very finest screens from the world-renowned collections of the Art Institute of Chicago and the Saint Louis Art Museum. The featured works range from an extraordinary pair of landscapes by Sesson Shukei, a Zen-Buddhist monk-painter of the late 16th century, to daring contemporary works from the late 20th century. The f...
	History of the Poster History of the Poster, co-written by Josef and Shizuko Müller-Brockmann, is a landmark account of one of the most prolific visual traditions of our culture. Originally published in 1971, this seminal study is clearly written and richly illustrated. Now reprinted by Phaidon Press, History of the Poster is an essential read for anyone intrigued by this most modern medium....
	Collecting Stories: 400 Paintings. 400 Stories. A Collection of American Paintings Challenged by his son Kristian Davies, the award winning author of Laynfaroh's first book, The Orientalists , to write the story of a forty-year passion for collecting American paintings, Tom Davies quickly found himself not only recalling events surrounding their acquisition but also recounting how the 'art gene' was passed from his father to him and onto his two sons. This Collecting Stories is unlike any other book focusing on a family's lifelong pursuit of its passion. It is written enti...