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Product Description: Consuming Surrealism in American Culture: Dissident Modernism argues that Surrealism worked as a powerful agitator to disrupt dominant ideas of modern art in the United States. Unlike standard accounts that focus on Surrealism in the U...read more

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9781472461759 | Ashgate Pub Co, February 4, 2016, cover price $109.95 | About this edition: Consuming Surrealism in American Culture: Dissident Modernism argues that Surrealism worked as a powerful agitator to disrupt dominant ideas of modern art in the United States.

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9780292745421 | Univ of Texas Pr, July 15, 2013, cover price $60.00

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9780292748309 | Univ of Texas Pr, July 15, 2013, cover price $29.95

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Product Description: In this exhilarating book, Anne Middleton Wagner challenges readers to rethink the work of a range of post-World War II artists—Jasper Johns, Andy Warhol, Maya Lin, Bruce Nauman, and Agnes Martin among them—and thus to re-assess the relationship of art to politics and social life...read more

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9780520268470 | Univ of California Pr, February 14, 2012, cover price $85.00 | About this edition: In this exhilarating book, Anne Middleton Wagner challenges readers to rethink the work of a range of post-World War II artists—Jasper Johns, Andy Warhol, Maya Lin, Bruce Nauman, and Agnes Martin among them—and thus to re-assess the relationship of art to politics and social life.

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9780520270978 | Univ of California Pr, February 14, 2012, cover price $36.95 | About this edition: In this exhilarating book, Anne Middleton Wagner challenges readers to rethink the work of a range of post-World War II artists—Jasper Johns, Andy Warhol, Maya Lin, Bruce Nauman, and Agnes Martin among them—and thus to re-assess the relationship of art to politics and social life.

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Product Description: The New Art Examiner was the only successful art magazine ever to come out of Chicago. It had nearly a three-decade long run, and since its founding in 1974 by Jane Addams Allen and Derek Guthrie, no art periodical published in the Windy City has lasted longer or has achieved the critical mass of readers and admirers that it did...read more
By Janet Koplos (editor)

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9780875806624 | Northern Illinois Univ Pr, November 1, 2011, cover price $22.50 | About this edition: The New Art Examiner was the only successful art magazine ever to come out of Chicago.

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An analysis of over one hundred artistic representations of lynching addresses issues of race and racial violence throughout American history.

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9780813534589 | Rutgers Univ Pr, October 25, 2004, cover price $70.00 | About this edition: An analysis of over one hundred artistic representations of lynching addresses issues of race and racial violence throughout American history.

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9780813534596 | Rutgers Univ Pr, October 25, 2004, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: An analysis of over one hundred artistic representations of lynching addresses issues of race and racial violence throughout American history.

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Product Description: Freud wrote that the artist “desires to win honor, power, wealth, fame, and the love of women.” In this engrossing book, Jonathan Weinberg investigates how an artist’s ambition interacts with his or her art, how wealth and celebrity play a role in the artistic process...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780300081879 | Yale Univ Pr, May 1, 2001, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: Freud wrote that the artist “desires to win honor, power, wealth, fame, and the love of women.

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Discusses the significance of the Postmodern Era, exploring not only the artists and their works, but also the impact of such social influences as feminism, multiculturalism, and consumerism

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9780064385091 | Harpercollins, October 1, 1996, cover price $65.00 | About this edition: Discusses the significance of the Postmodern Era, exploring not only the artists and their works, but also the impact of such social influences as feminism, multiculturalism, and consumerism

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9780813334332 | Westview Pr, August 14, 1997, cover price $82.00

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Discusses the avant-garde, pop art, photo-realism, op art, kinetic sculpture, minimal sculpture, process art, earthworks, and conceptual art

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9780064301794 | Reprint edition (Icon, August 1, 1989), cover price $25.95 | About this edition: Discusses the avant-garde, pop art, photo-realism, op art, kinetic sculpture, minimal sculpture, process art, earthworks, and conceptual art

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Product Description: Book by Rose, Barbara

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9781555840761 | Grove Pr, August 1, 1988, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Book by Rose, Barbara

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Product Description: Preface by David A. Ross Endgame provides the first comprehensive discussion of two interrelated groups of artists who have recently emerged amidst brisk critical debate and who all, in various ways, represent a critique of the commodity, or the commodification of art objects...read more
By Yve Alain Bois (contributor)

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9780262521185 | Mit Pr, January 1, 1987, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Preface by David A.

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An extensively illustrated guide to the current American art scene details the diverging trends and regionalized styles that are drawing record crowds in museums nationwide and discusses contemporary issues, trends, and where new movements may lead

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9780688058845 | William Morrow & Co, November 1, 1985, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: An extensively illustrated guide to the current American art scene details the diverging trends and regionalized styles that are drawing record crowds in museums nationwide and discusses contemporary issues, trends, and where new movements may lead

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Product Description: Includes interviews with Carl Andre, David Hockney and Anthony Caro. A provocative collection of essays and articles.

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9780906495346 | Writers & Readers, November 1, 1982, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Includes interviews with Carl Andre, David Hockney and Anthony Caro.

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