Art History

Updated September 12, 2025
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Visual shock : a history of art controversies in American culture
Kammen, Michael G.
Paper Book
From the early years of the American Republic to the present, art and architecture have consistently aroused major disputes among artists, critics, scholars, politicians, and ordinary citizens. Now one of our most respected cultural historians chronicles these clamorous debates about the public...
Women and art : contested territory
Chicago, Judy
Paper Book
In this groundbreaking new book, pioneering feminist artist Judy Chicago joins forces with art historian Edward Lucie-Smith in selecting and analyzing images of women by both male and female artists from the whole of art history. 200 color illustrations.
Famous works of art--and how they got that way
Nici, John B.
Ebook
In a world filled with great museums and great paintings, Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa is the reigning queen. Her portrait rules over a carefully designed salon, one that was made especially for her in a museum that may seem intended for no other purpose than to showcase her virtues. What has made...
The art of East Asia
Fahr-Becker, Gabriele
Paper Book
The Chinese art book
Mackenzie, Colin
Paper Book
The Chinese Art Book is a beautifully presented, authoritative and unprecedented overview of Chinese art. The book examines the art of the oldest continuous civilization on Earth through 300 works, from the (earliest dynasties) Neolithic period to the new generation of contemporary artists...
Thirteen Ways of Looking at Latino Art
Stavans, Ilan.
Ebook
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Art in the streets
Deitch, Jeffrey.
Paper Book
The first large-scale American museum exhibition to survey the colorful history of graffiti and street art movements internationally. Highlighting the connection between graffiti and street art and other vibrant subcultures, such as those that developed around Hip Hop in the Bronx and...
American visions : the epic history of art in America
Hughes, Robert
Paper Book
Writing with all the brilliance, authority, and pungent wit that have distinguished his art criticism for Time magazine and his greatly acclaimed study of modern art, The Shock of the New, Robert Hughes now addresses his largest subject: the history of art in America. The intense relationship...
A people's art history of the United States : 250 years of activist art and artists working in social justice movements
Lampert, Nicolas
Ebook
Most people outside of the art world view art as something that is foreign to their experiences and everyday lives. A People’s Art History of the United States places art history squarely in the rough#150;and#150;tumble of politics, social struggles, and the fight for justice from...
Pop art and the contest over American culture
Doris, Sara
Paper Book
Pop Art and the Contest over American Culture examines the socially and aesthetically subversive character of pop art. Providing a historically contextualized reading of American pop art, Sara Doris locates the movement within the larger framework of the social, cultural and political...
Art of the gold rush
Driesbach, Janice Tolhurst.
Ebook
The California Gold Rush captured the get-rich dreams of people around the world more completely than almost any event in American history. This catalog, published in celebration of the sesquicentennial of the 1848 discovery of gold at Sutter's Mill, shows the vitality of the arts in the Golden...

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