The Shaping of America: A Geographical Perspective on 500 Years of History - Volume 4: Global America, 1915-2000
Yale University Press, 2004. More
New Arrivals
Poetry, Place, and Gender: Studies in Medieval Culture in Honor of Helen Damico
Medieval Institute Publications, 2010. The essays in this collection honor Helen Damico's extensive interests in Old Norse and later medieval literatures as well as her primary focus on Anglo-Saxon studies, embracing Old English poetry, archaeology, art history, paleography, liturgy, landscape, and gender. Each of the essays contributes new interpretations, new..... More
Protestantism and the American Founding
University of Notre Dame, 2004. “This important collection of essays will help all Americans to consider anew the relationship between the ‘spirit of liberty’ and the ‘spirit of religion’ at work in the American Founding. Michael Zuckert’s masterful response establishes him as one of the leading scholars of the period.”..... More
Tradition and the Black Atlantic: Critical Theory in the African Diaspora
Civitas Books, 2010. Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s Tradition and the Black Atlantic is both a vibrant romp down the rabbit hole of cultural studies and an examination of the discipline's roots and role in contemporary thought. In this conversational tour through the halls of theory, Gates leaps from Richard Wright..... More
Glimmering Gone: Ingalena Klenell and Beth Lipman
Museum of Glass, 2011. Hardcover with Slipcase. Glimmering Gone focuses on the work of two artists who live on different continents - Europe and North America. Ingalena Klenell is recognized for her intricate, lacelike kiln-formed compositions, while Beth Lipman is best known for her European-inspired glass still lifes. Both use..... More
Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory : The Life of Rosa Parks
Phoenix Press, 2001. On 1 December 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama, a quiet and dignified 42-year-old black seamstress refused to give up her seat to a white passenger. Her arrest led to a 381-day boycott of the city's bus system, led by Martin Luther King, which is now considered the beginning..... More
The Fact of Blackness: Frantz Fanon and Visual Representation
Bay, 1996. The Fact of Blackness: Frantz Fanon and Visual Representation is a collection of essays that create a far-reaching and original dialogue between cultural theory and visual practice. The rich insights which emerge from this collection explain why Frantz Fanon's seminal texts of the 1950s and 60s, Black Skin..... More
Barbara Chase-Riboud: The Malcolm X Steles
Yale University Press, 2013. Born in Philadelphia and living and working between Paris and Rome, Barbara Chase-Riboud is an internationally celebrated visual artist, novelist, and poet. This important publication focuses on her monumental series of sculptures dedicated to the assassinated civil rights leader Malcolm X. Begun in 1969, Chase-Riboud's series..... More
The Gift of Spiderwoman: Southwestern Textiles
University of Pennsylvania Press, 1984. An introduction to the textile weavings of southwestern Native Americans, the narrative history and color illustrations trace the development of weaving among the Pueblo, Navajo, and Hopi, and the Spanish colonists who settled in the Rio Grande. The reproductions of sarapes, blankets, and clothing will..... More
History of Chinese Daoism, Volume 1
University Press of America, 2000. Hardcover. History of Chinese Daoism- Volume I employs a historical-descriptive method to trace the evolution of Chinese Daoism. This study assumes that Daoism as a religion is atavistic in the Chinese soil; it assimilated the myths and legends of ancient China and has continued to..... More
The Body as Protest
Hatje Cantz, 2012. "Body as Protest" highlights the photographic representation of the human body as a radical expression of protest against social, political and aesthetic norms. Centering on a series by John Coplans, it also includes works by Hannah Wilke, Ketty La Rocca, Hannah Villiger, Bruce Nauman, Robert Mapplethorpe and..... More
The Architecture of Life and Death in Borneo
University of Hawaii Press, 2004. Present-day travelers visiting Borneo to see the marvelous buildings pictured in books are liable to wonder if they somehow ended up in the wrong place. Much of the architecture of Borneo and other areas of the humid tropics was never intended to last and, built..... More
In Her Hands: Craftswomen Changing the World
Monacelli Press, 2000. All over the world, women in developing economies improve the lives of their families by creating and selling exquisite, indigenous crafts. The Ndebele beaders of South Africa, the weavers of Guatemala, the flower painters of Poland, the doll makers of Turkey, the mirror embroiderers of India, the..... More
The Human Face of Climate Change
Hatje Cantz, 2011. Galvanized by the continued failure of world governments to act on the deterioration of our planet, and further spurred by surviving a near-fatal car crash, Swiss artists Mathias Braschler (born 1969) and Monika Fischer (born 1971) decided to make a tangible record of ecological collapse--of photographs to..... More
Cai Guo-Qiang: Ladder to the Sky
Prestel, 2012. Produced in close collaboration with the artist, this volume documents new projects commissioned for The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, alongside Cai Guo-Qiang’s own survey of his artistic journey and the personal cosmology that informs his work. It features a rich sampling of Cai’s wonderfully diverse oeuvre..... More
An American Body | Politic: A Deleuzian Approach (Re-Mapping the Transnational: A Dartmouth Series in American Studies)
Dartmouth College Press, 2010. Bernd Herzogenrath’s An American Body|Politic is a study of the intersection between the material, biological body and body as political and cultural metaphor in American politics, religion, literature, and popular culture. Deeply influenced by the thought of Gilles Deleuze, Herzogenrath’s approach to American culture encompasses endless..... More
The Shanghai Papers
Hatje Cantz, 2008. Focusing on issues of migration, identity and globalization, the 2008 Shanghai Biennial features 612 international artists, including Rainer Ganahl, Lawrence Weiner, Mike Kelley and Liu Ming. This volume contains thematic texts by the curators, a selection of images and statements from each participating artist. More
Allegorical Architecture: Living Myth and Architectonics in Southern China
University of Hawaii Press, 2007. "This may seem a specialized study of a minority group in Southeast China--whose partially transcribed language he learnt while studying their buildings--yet Xing Ruan has used this marvelous miniature to illuminate the complex relation between many other societies, their daily life, their rituals and ceremonies..... More
2020 Chinese Arts Auction Records
2020. The contents of the "Auction Yearbook" are divided into nine major items: ceramics, jade, bronzes, sculptures, Tibetan cultural relics, classical furniture, study in the room, snuff bottles, rare books of ancient books . The new edition of the "Auction Yearbook" in 2020 will arrange all the TOP 10 lots..... More
影像水陆庵 Images of Shuilu’an
Cultural Relics Press, 2009. Jointly produced by the Xi'an Center for the Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Relices and Northwestern University Information Technologies Department of Academic & Research Technologies Advanced Media Production Studio. More
Yuan yang qi zhi zhai cang shi (Shanxi jin shi wen xian hui ji) 鸳鸯七志斋藏石
Qinshan Publishing House. More
Nikuhitsu Ukiyoe 肉筆浮世絵 (1976年) 出光美術館選書〈9〉
1976. Hardcover Nikuhitsu Ukiyoe book with slipcase. More
Nanjing Museum Relics 故都神韵 (南京市博物馆文物精华)
Cultural Relics Press, 2013. More