The second coloring book in the Northwest Native Arts Series. Learn about some of the real and legendary creatures revered by the natives of the we...

This is the second volume of a series of ten books that discuss the collections of the Tropenmuseum and the histories and stories that accompany th...

Text in English, German & Spanish. Octavio Ocampo is one of Mexico‘s most prolific artists. Octavio was born on 28 February 1943 in Celaya, Gua...

This book conveys the artistic genius of T C Cannon (1946–1978) through his best and most iconic paintings and essays that offer a fresh and inclus...

This engaging biography brings light to the life, art, and extraordinary contributions of Olive Rush (1873-1966), artist, illustrator, muralist, Na...

This is an introduction to the classical arts and crafts of the Ottoman period. Being both an academic and artist, Kuşoğlu discovers the subtle sec...

Painted Alive is the first collection of bodypainted images by New Orleans artist Craig Tracy. With his masterful approach to this ancient and ephe...

The works of 106 contemporary artists provide a fresh look at the artistic vibrancy of the Rocky Mountain West region of the United States. More th...

Paisley textile designs are organized into a sweeping visual survey, from orderly foulard patterns to elaborate borders, from experimental media to...

A treasury of textures, this beautiful book and its accompanying Mac and PC Compatible CDs are filled with 114 colorful images of handmade papers, ...

In May 2006 some fifteen artists from New Zealand took over the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology in Cambridge (UK) as part of Pasifika Styles...

In 2015, the Dutch collector Hans van Berkel, granted his Inuit (and Chukchi) art and handicraft collection to the National Museum of Ethnology, no...

Passion. Reason. Opposites attract.It is no secret that Tom Thomson (1877-1917) and Joyce Wieland (1930-1998) never met. Their art could not be fur...

Text in German. The title of Paul Wegener's film Hans Trutz im Schlaraffenland, dating from 1917, alludes to Pieter Bruegel's well-known picture Co...

Machines called Mutoscopes offered quick shows for a penny from 1895 until as late as the 1970s, flipping cards to create the impression of a "movi...

There has never been a book like this intertwining the arts and artifacts of both the traditional and the evolving worlds. The Pennsylvania Germans...

In Denmark there has been a tendency to view expatriate art not as part of current global developments, but as expressions of ethnic cultures of li...

The most comprehensive review of the Provincetown Artist Colony to date, this two-volume set is complete with conversations with many artists, incl...

From Montana award-winning author Jill Trevelyan comes the first biography of Peter McLeavey, the charismatic, pioneering art dealer who since the ...

Photo: to do with light. Phyto: plants and flowers. Proto: the first, the original. Nitro: it blows up. From Troy to Hiroshima, Crimea to the nucle...

Literacy is broadly understood to refer to the ability to read and write. But the term is heavily value-laden and is often used to elevate print at...

Pop-art connoisseurs are treated to a mind-bending journey through the blistering paintings of San Francisco artist Dirty Donny Gillies. Take a vis...

When Samuel Beckett’s work first appeared, it was routinely described, by Adorno amongst others, as a clear example of European high culture. Howev...

When Vincent van Gogh picked up his pencil and set out on his artistic career, it was not with the intention of becoming a leader of the avant-gard...

One hundred years worth of quality Mexican popular art, including pottery, clay figures, marionettes, straw mosaics, Talavera, clay banks, coconut ...

The voice of a younger generation of visionary and psychedelic artists rings loud and clear in this compilation of Chris Dyer's works from 1979 to ...

This title is complimentary to Hancock House's first Mildred Valley Thornton book released in 2000, Buffalo People: Portraits of a Vanishing Nation...

The pottery of Acoma Pueblo stands at the height of ceramics among the Pueblo Indian pottery traditions. This exhaustively researched book traces t...

Collecting pretty handkerchiefs has become a wide-spread and popular hobby for many people. This entertaining and comprehensive identification and ...

Brilliant colors, eye-popping designs, luxurious fabrics--all these and more characterize the unforgettable fashion trends of the late 1960s and ea...

Featuring more than 500 public art installations, this is the essential guide for anyone interested in Vancouver, its people and its artists.The ch...

This special pottery combines the traditions of Pueblo and Navajo artists with daring new interpretations by the modern generation. In 280 beautifu...

The bead played a vital role in Pueblo Indian jewelry design, and its influence continues today in modernist American design. In these pages, featu...

Entertaining and informative, Quimper Pottery: A Guide to Origins, Styles, and Values provides a comprehensive look at this centuries-old French fo...

R.G. Smith began his career as an engineer for Douglas Aircraft Company in the 1930s, and played a key role in the design of many successful tactic...

This book explores porcelain wares produced by the Reinhold Schlegelmilch Porcelain Factory [marked R. S. Prussia], of Suhl, Germany, and sold to A...

Facing the monumental issues of our time.In a 2012 performance piece, Rebecca Belmore transformed an oak tree surrounded by monuments to colonialis...

The latest volume of Acta Hyperborea, which appeared in the late fall of 2003, includes articles, which are the revised versions of papers presente...

This collection of essays by 26 Renaissance scholars from Europe and the United States represents the outcome of an international conference which ...

What can a collection of drawings reveal about their makers? Crayon drawings collected by anthropologists provide an illuminating prism through whi...

Russian painter Olga Suvorova is internationally known for her brilliant reinterpretations of English Pre-Rafaelite art, described by critic Viktor...

In the interwar period art revealed itself as part of the social and ideological order. The work of art became a point of intersection for the mode...

This book offers an in-depth insight into the largely unexplored topic of artistic practices in the 1940s and 1950s in Europe which until recently ...

This facsimile edition of a 1922 children’s book features seventy-three dynamic and whimsical woodcut illustrations—the first woodcuts that the fam...

Critically acclaimed Rita Letendre is one of the most eminent living abstract artists. Her painting career began in Montreal in the 1950s, when she...

Winner, Design Edge Regional Design AwardIn October 2001, paint was spilled on the streets of Montreal. A stark, primitive bike symbol, looking sus...