Product Description: For centuries artists have been challenging their intellectsand skills by paying homage to the painters who precededthem. Jenness Cortez has emerged as the twenty-first century's most notable exponent of this facet of art history...read more

Provides an alphabetized and cross-referenced chronology of the history and content of the American Constitution from its creation and ratification, through case-by-case coverage of 200 years of interpretations.

Provides a cross-referenced history of the American Constitution, from its creation and ratification, through a case-by-case coverage of 200 years of interpretation

Product Description: This lavishly illustrated book explores the tremendous scope, richness, toughness sensibility and liveliness of the American realist tradition. Sixteen varied sections discuss and display the finest and most important work of different artists, groups, schools and periods - including American Impressionism, The Ashcan School, Precisionism, American Scene Painting, Edward Hopper, Urban realism, Photorealism and Postmodern realism today - and provide convincing proof that the American realist legacy occupies an unparalleled position in the world art of the past one hundred years...read more

"Art of the Real" presents the work of nine foremost figurative painters: Lennart Anderson, William Bailey, Jack Beal, Jane Freilicher, Alex katz, Louisa Matthiasdottir, Philip Pearlstein, Wayne Thiebaud, and Neil Welliver. These painters, who should perhaps be called the first new realists, began painting in the postwar period when abstract expressionism was on the ascendancy. The book contains 111 full-color paintings and 78 black-and-white drawings, paintings, and pastels illustrate the range, style, method, and importance of the of the figurative movement in American painting.