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• Ninth Street Women

  Lee Krasner, Elaine De Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell, and Helen Frankenthaler : Five Painters and the Movement That Changed Modern Art

  Gabriel, Mary, 1955-

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  Five women revolutionize the modern art world in postwar America in this "gratifying, generous, and lush" true story from a National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize finalist (Jennifer Szalai, New York Times). Set amid the most turbulent social and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Ruth Asawa and the Artist-mother at Midcentury

  Troeller, Jordan,

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  How a group of artist-mothers in postwar San Francisco refused the centuries-old belief that a woman could not make art while also raising children. For most of modern history, to be an artist and a mother was to embody a contradiction in terms.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The American Art Book

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  Accessibility is the code word for Phaidon's new 500-page dictionary of American art. The book values images over words, and its longest text is the introduction, which is printed in large, bold face and hardly fills one page. But it does describe…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Citizen Printer

  Kennedy, Amos Paul, Jr.,

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  Celebrating the storied career of a beloved letterpress printer whose posters spread messages of racial justice. Detroit-based letterpress printer Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr. is celebrated for his type-driven messages of social justice and Black power,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Dorothea Lange

  a Life Beyond Limits

  Gordon, Linda

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  Winner of the 2010 Bancroft Prize and finalist for the 2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Biography: The definitive biography of a heroic chronicler of America's Depression and one of the twentieth century's greatest photographers. We all know…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• My Faraway One

  Selected Letters of Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz

  O'Keeffe, Georgia, 1887-1986

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  There are few couples in the history of 20th-century American art and culture more prominent than Georgia O’Keeffe (1887–1986) and Alfred Stieglitz (1864–1946). Between 1915, when they first began to write to each other, and 1946, when Stieglitz…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Jean-Michel Basquiat

  the Iconic Works

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  The artist’s most inspired works in one volume. Jean-Michel Basquiat—artist and art world provocateur—took New York City by storm with his powerful and complex works that relentlessly engaged with charged sociopolitical issues, including race,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Legacy of Maria Poveka Martinez

  Spivey, Richard L

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  Maria, the potter of San Ildefonso (1887–1981), is not only the most famous of Pueblo Indian potters but ranks among the best of international potters. Her work Is collected and exhibited around the world, and more than any other artist, Maria…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Andy Warhol

  Koestenbaum, Wayne

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  An intimate depiction of the visionary who revolutionized the art world. A man who created portraits of the rich and powerful, Andy Warhol was one of the most incendiary figures in American culture, a celebrity whose star shone as brightly as those…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Kehinde Wiley

  An Archaeology of Silence

  Schmuckli, Claudia,

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  Kehinde Wiley: An Archaeology of Silence features a new body of paintings and sculptures by American artist Kehinde Wiley confronting the legacies of colonialism through the visual language of the fallen figure. It expands on a subject the artist…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Dike Blair, Matinee

  Edward Hopper House Museum & Study Center

  Blair, Dike, 1952-

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  Blair’s painterly use of mise-en-scène evokes the influence of Edward Hopper’s cinema-inspired tableaux. Published with Edward Hopper House. This volume builds on a developing body of scholarship linking the American painters Dike Blair (born…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Mark Rothko

  Toward the Light in the Chapel

  Cohen-Solal, Annie, 1948-

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  A fascinating exploration of the life and work of one of America’s most famous and enigmatic postwar visual artists. Mark Rothko, one of the greatest painters of the twentieth century, was born in the Jewish Pale of Settlement in 1903. He…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Robert Rauschenberg

  Hunter, Sam, 1923-2014

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  Throughout his illustrious career, Robert Rauschenberg has consistently challenged the prevailing ideologies and techniques of the art world. One of our greatest American artists, he redefined what materials were suitable for art, boldly rebelling…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Wayne Thiebaud

  Mountains, 1965-2019

  Thiebaud, Wayne,

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  Best known for his paintings of pies and cakes, this beloved West Coast painter explores the theme of mountains, capturing the majesty and strength of the forms. In the 2000s, California-based painter Wayne Thiebaud began focusing on a series of…Read moreRead more of this annotation