Product Description: A New World Imagined proposes a bold new look at the art of the Americas by viewing it through its intersections and relationships with the world at large. Taking the vast geography and staggering cultural diversity of the North and South American continents as its starting point, the book introduces the ways in which American art, broadly defined, has been shaped both by its encounters with cultures around the globe and by its own past--from the ancient and native populations that first inhabited these territories to the European, Asian, Scandinavian and Latino émigrés who settled here...read more

Product Description: A new look at a nationally admired American impressionist painter and teacher. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: A new look at a neglected aspect of Sargent's oeuvre.

Traces the notable American female artist's influences and her role in American art

Released in conjunction with the opening of an exhibition of her work at The Art Institute of Chicago in October, a biography of a notable American female artist traces her influences and her role in American art, and includes numerous reproductions of her paintings. 25,000 first printing. BOMC & QPB. (view table of contents)

Product Description: A close friend of William Dean Howells, John Singer Sargent, and the legendary collector Isabella Stewart Gardner, who became his champion, Dennis Miller Bunker (1861-1890) was one of the most talented painters of late 19th-century America...read more

Presents Sheeler's drawings and paintings, from coolly geometric industrial/paintings to his elegant interiors and delicate still lifes