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	Tomma Abts This volume on Tomma Abts (b. 1967) will be published in conjuction with the exhibition of the same name that will be on display at New York's New Museum of Contemporary Art from 9 April to 29 June 2008. It explores how the artist creates forms that delight the eye and challenge the mind. While working within strict parameters, Abts has reinvented abstraction for the twenty-first century.This is the first monograph on Abts, providing an extensive overview of more than ten years of work. It inclu...
	George Rodrigue Prints: A Catalogue Raisonne 1970-2007 Born in 1944 and raised in the heart of French Louisiana, George Rodrigue is best known for his Blue Dog paintings and prints, which catapulted him to worldwide fame in the mid-1980s. This long-awaited catalogue Raisonné of his prints contains over six hundred lithographs and silkscreens, many of which are previously unpublished. A foreword by E. John Bullard, the director of the New Orleans Museum of Art; an introduction by Rodrigue’s archivist and wife, Wendy Wolfe Rodrigue; and explanatory...
	Frida Kahlo Few artists have captured the public's imagination with the force of Mexican painter Frida Kahlo. During her lifetime, she was best known as the flamboyant wife of celebrated muralist Diego Rivera. Theirs was a tumultuous relationship: Rivera declared himself to be "unfit for fidelity." As if to assuage her pain, Kahlo recorded the vicissitudes of her marriage in paint. She also recorded the misery of her deteriorating health--the orthopedic corsets that she was forced to wear, the numerous spin...
	Picturing New York: Photographs from the Collection of The Museum of Modern Art ...
	A Room of Their Own: The Bloomsbury Artists in American Collections (Distributed for the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornel) Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina, Dartmouth College Nancy E. Green, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University Benjamin Harvey, Mississippi State University Mark Hussey, Pace University Christopher Reed, The Pennsylvania State University Although of another place and time, the Bloomsbury group confronted issues that are remarkably current: international crises, war, the value of craft in an industrialized world, women's rights, environmental protection, and the search for the true, the g...
	Edvard Munch: Signs of Modern Art Though he is more often viewed as a semi-lunatic Symbolist or proto-Expressionist, the great Norwegian artist Edvard Munch (1863-1944) was in fact a forerunner of much Modern art. His works concentrate on the human dramas of love and death, and on contemporary conditions of claustrophobia and alienation--or what he called "the modern life of the soul"--frequently deploying contemporary effects to depict this condition. He worked in paint, printmaking and photography (though he once wrote that "t...
	Master Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago This revised, expanded, and redesigned edition of a best-selling book from the Art Institute of Chicago features many favorite paintings from the collection—approximately 150 works from Europe and the Americas, ranging from the 15th to the early 21st century. Twenty-three images from the previous edition have been replaced with other key or recently acquired works, and the majority of the text entries have been updated. Celebrated artwork by Impressionists and Post-Impressionists like Renoir a...
	A Year in Art: A Masterpiece a Day (Year in Art) (Year in Art) (Year in Art) Imagine 365 masterpieces of art from around the world at yourfingertips. That s what readers will find as they turn the pagesday after day to discover a full-page exquisitely reproducedpainting, artifact, photograph, drawing, print, or sculpturefrom every culture and epoch imaginable. Further enhancingthese pages are suitable quotations to ponder, surprise, anddelight. Opposite the color illustrations, this generouslyproportioned volume offers plenty of space to recordbirthdays, anniversaries, a...
	I Never Saw Another Butterfly: Children's Drawings & Poems from Terezin Concentration Camp,1942-44 A total of 15,000 children under the age of 15 passed through Terezin from 1942 to 1944; less than 100 survived. In these poems and pictures (60 color illustrations) we see their daily misery, courage, hopes and fears....