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: The focus of this text is on a select number of paintings and sculptures by European artists of the Renaissance, Baroque, Neoclassic and Romantic periods, generally dated from the early fifteenth to the early nineteenth centuries...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: César A. Martínez has long been recognized as one of the most important figures of the Chicano art movement in Texas and the United States. Deeply rooted in his native South Texas and its Mexican American culture, Martínez's work also reflects a broad knowledge of the history of art in both Europe and the Americas...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Built to bring Christianity and European civilization to the northern frontier of New Spain in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries...secularized and left to decay in the nineteenth century...and restored in the twentieth century, the Spanish missions still standing in Texas are really only shadows of their original selves...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)