The work of artist Kara Walker is examined in detail, presenting an overview of the artistÆs life and work, while discussing her place in art history and capturing her provocative black paper cutout silhouettes. (Fine Arts).

Product Description: Williams College (estab. in 1793, Williamstown, MA) Museum holds an exceptional collection of American art, filled with masterpieces by major artists as well as such special treasures as large holdings of work by Thomas Nast, Rube Goldberg, and Charles and Maurice Prendergast.

Product Description: Introjection marks the first mid-career survey of the internationally recognized video artist Tony Oursler. Plumbing popular and punk culture for the twisted icons that structure our collective unconscious, Oursler creates fragmentary images and scenes that might belong to the hallucinations of a delinquent adolescent on a bad trip...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Drawing on a spectacular private collection of twentieth-century posters, ads, photomontages, and graphic ephemera, this book showcases more than two hundred examples of progressive graphic design from the 1920s and 1930s. The selections represent the work of Soviet, European, and American avant- garde designers and artists who used the new technologies of mass production and distribution to market everything from salad oil to communism to the avant-garde itself...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Catalogue of the exhibition at Williams College Museum of Art (entitled "Beauties . . . of a Quiet Kind"), August 1993-January 1994. Foreword by Linda Shearer; additional essay by Marion M. Goethals; catalogue entries by Vivian Patterson and others.