Product Description: Widely recognized as one of the West Coast's most important and critically acclaimed practitioners of conceptual and installation art, David Ireland (born 1930) has taken the concept of art itself as one of his subjects. A self-described "post-discipline" artist, guided by Zen thought and postmodern aesthetics, Ireland moves fluidly from making small drawings to creating sculptures as large as houses...read more

Product Description: This book offers the first comprehensive survey of the art of Richard Stankiewicz (1922-1983) and reassesses its place in the art of his time. Stankiewicz's welded sculpture of rusted iron and cast-off steel played an important role in the redefinition of art in New York during the 1950s...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The Addison Gallery of American Art, located at Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, is recognized nationally and internationally for its outstanding collection of paintings, sculpture, prints, drawings and photography. When its founder, Thomas Cochran, opened the Addison to the public in 1931, it was only the second museum in the country, after the Whitney, devoted solely to American art...read more

Explores the connection between dance and visual arts in the work of choreographer and dancer Trisha Brown.

Product Description: New York artist Alex Katz is best known for his eye-catching, large-scale portraits, figures, and landscapes, but in the mid-1950s he painted intimate works, originating the style that would become the hallmark of his mature work...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Many of this nation's Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) have amassed significant collections of American art and founded galleries and museums on their campuses. These collections provide a rich resource for the study of African American art, yet many also possess a diverse array of nineteenth- and twentieth-century American art...read more

Amazon.com Review: For years it seemed that the American abstractionist Arthur Dove was nearly forgotten. This book, compiled to accompany the first major exhibition of his work since the early 1970s, is a worthy tribute to his legacy. Dove's small, vibrant, enigmatic abstractions, like those of his good friend Georgia O'Keeffe, were tied to his observations of the world around him...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Raised by wolves Kurzinfo: Goldbergs now famous book about Runaways in the US. Portraits, bed stuff, objects, letters (all that in pictures) plus interviews and facsimile writing by youngsters who do not write much. It's not Weegee and not Larry Clark

Product Description: Focuses on drawings that grew out of Guston's (1912-1980) interactions and collaborations with poets during the last decade of his life. Long associated with the New York School of painters, in the late 1960s Guston turned from abstract work and began integrating lines, passages and, in some cases...read more