Product Description: Ruth Weisberg Unfurled presents three decades of painting and printmaking by celebrated Los Angeles artist Ruth Weisberg. It features the complete ninety-four-foot long mixed-media drawing The Scroll, in addition to more than thirty works from throughout Weisberg's career...read more

Product Description: In this first book-length study of Jewish art in America, Matthew Baigell explores works from the early settlers of America to the present. It concentrates on exploring and examining Jewish subject matter employed by artists as they illustrated aspects of their religious and ethnic heritage and as they responded to major events over the decades, including the Great Migration, the Great Depression, the Holocaust, and the founding of the State of Israel, as well as the dispersal of Jewish artists around the country and the rise of feminism and spiritualism in the late-twentieth century...read more

Product Description: In the first extended work tracing the Jewish influences of fifteen major American artists, this landmark book chronicles the enormous contribution of Jewish artists to twentieth-century American art. Born over a fifty-year period, the artists in this volume represent several generations of twentieth-century artists...read more

Product Description: Exploring the influence of the local cultural scene as well as events taking place in Europe, Matthew Baigell reexamines the work of Jewish artists inspired to respond to the murders of their fellow Jews during World War II. Because there were only a few authentic instances of visual documentation of events until the war's later stages, artists both used traditional imagery and invented new kinds of imagery to record their responses to the catastrophe taking place...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Matthew Baigell examines the work of Edward Hopper, Ben Shahn, Frank Stella, and other artists, relating their art works to the social contexts in which they were created. Identifying important and recurring themes in this body of art, such as the persistence of Emersonian values, the search for national and regional identity, and aspects of alienation, he also explores the personal and religious identities of artists as revealed in their works...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Matthew Baigell examines the work of Edward Hopper, Ben Shahn, Frank Stella, and other artists, relating their art works to the social contexts in which they were created. Identifying important and recurring themes in this body of art, such as the persistence of Emersonian values, the search for national and regional identity, and aspects of alienation, he also explores the personal and religious identities of artists as revealed in their works...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: American and Israeli scholars examine how 19th and 20th century artists have responded to their jewishness through their art. Complex Identities is a joint effort by American and Israeli scholars who ask challenging questions about art as formed by society and ethnicity...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: The SBC Collection, formed by SBC Communications, Inc (formerly Southwestern Bell), reflects the intellectual and cultural trends that have influenced artists working in the United States during the 20th century. Works by many of the leading names in American art are illustrated in this book, which also contains 13 essays by scholars, critics and curators to offer an understanding of American art for both the general reader and the student of art history...read more

Product Description: This clear, thorough, and reliable survey of American painting and sculpture from colonial times to the present day covers all the major artists and their works, outlines the social and cultural backgrounds of each period, and includes 409 illustrations integrated with the text...read more

Product Description: In the aftermath of World War I and the Great Depression, the artists of the American Scene movement responded to the country's cry for unity and renewal by instilling a sense of nationalism in their works. The Regionalists, a particularly anti-elitist, anti-urban group in the movement, focused, for example, on the hard-working laborers of southern farms...read more

Gathers landscapes by the American painter who helped found the Hudson River School, and includes background information on each work

Gathers landscapes and nature scenes by the nineteenth-century American artist, who captured the immensity and grandeur of the West

Product Description: Papers of the First American Artists' Congress

Alphabetically arranged and crossreferenced entries provide background information on major American painters, sculptors, printmakers, and photographers, plus important topics and movements central to American art from the sixteenth century to the present