Examines the sculptor's feminist and subversive works that often mingle human and animal forms

Product Description: The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington's oldest and largest private art museum, is recognized nationally and internationally for its outstanding collection of American art. Its founder, William Wilson Corcoran, was among the first American collectors to seriously appreciate contemporary art of this country, at a time when most of his peers favored European works...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Presents an introduction to the works of the painter, photographer, printmaker, and installation artist. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Chuck Close--a man who describes himself as "an artist looking for trouble"--has for three decades consistently but variously challenged the accepted boundaries of the printmaking tradition. Published to accompany a retrospective of his prints opening at Blaffer Gallery and traveling to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and several additional museums around the country, this is the first comprehensive survey of Close's revolutionary prints...read more

Product Description: Through her use of color and assemblage, Jessica Stockholder challenges familiar generic boundaries between painting and sculpture, while de-familiarizing the experience of the exhibition space--not to mention giving the impression of a K-Mart store that's been bulldozed by a group of feminist abstract expressionists...read more

Product Description: "[Dugout] starts to be about us . . . not just about one Texas family. It's about how do we do this, deal with the darker sides of ourselves and our own histories--histories both national and personal. How do we face the repulsive rotten festering things that live inside us and somehow emerge as functioning, and maybe even better, human beings? These pieces are Terry's way of getting down to this, little by little, bit by bit...read more

Product Description: A prolific artist with a prodigious gift for stimulating the creativity of others, James Surls is one of the most important sculptors working in America today. His art blends natural forms created of wood, steel, and bronze with sophisticated, sometimes edgy imagery and content to explore fundamental dualities and paradoxes-male and female, joyous optimism and anxious foreboding, conscious rationality and unconscious intuition...read more

Product Description: Damaged Romanticism features 15 internationally recognized contemporary artists whose work is linked by visual representations of a refusal to be resigned to daily adversity.

Product Description:  “It’s a peculiar and supremely deliberate technique, honed over three decades, and it results in some of the most sumptuous and fresh photographs I’ve ever seen.” –Time Out New YorkSince 1976, French photographer Jean-Luc Mylayne has travelled the world in search of birds to photograph...read more