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Horses in the American West

Portrayals by Twenty-Four Artists

de Heidi Brady, Scott White ...

Series series American Wests, sponsored by West Texas A&M University
Images of working cowhands and their horses loom large in the mind’s eye of many who love the American West. Those same images form the heart and soul of this lavishly illustrated book, which captures the viewpoints, values, and observations of twenty-four respected contemporary artists. The artists’ own words illuminate the painting, sculpture, photography, and drawings of these award-winning, ... Leer más

$7.82 USD

Images of working cowhands and their horses loom large in the mind’s eye of many who love the American West. Those same images form the heart and soul of this lavishly illustrated book, which captures the viewpoints, values, and observations of twenty-four respected contemporary artists. The artists’ own words illuminate the painting, sculpture, photography, and drawings of these award-winning,
... Leer más
Manga Art for Intermediates

A Step-by-Step Guide to Creating Your Own Manga Drawings

de Danica Davidson, Rena Saiya ...

Bring your own manga characters to life!With millions of fans around the world, manga is a beloved art form. Now you, too, can learn how to draw your favorite characters from Japanese comics and anime! Manga Art for Intermediates shows you how to draw detailed clothing, facial expressions, and other features, like hair and accessories. With gradual steps and helpful tips, this book will have you ... Leer más

$14.99 USD

Bring your own manga characters to life!With millions of fans around the world, manga is a beloved art form. Now you, too, can learn how to draw your favorite characters from Japanese comics and anime! Manga Art for Intermediates shows you how to draw detailed clothing, facial expressions, and other features, like hair and accessories. With gradual steps and helpful tips, this book will have you
... Leer más
Indian Basket Weaving

The Navajo School of Indian Basketry

de Navajo Indian ...

Celebrate and preserve the art of Native American basketry using primitive weaving methods employed by Indigenous practitioners of the craft.Members of the Navajo School of Indian Basketry have set down their secrets in clear and simple language, enabling even the beginner to create work that can rival theirs in grace, design, and usefulness.The text begins with basic techniques: choice of ... Leer más

$9.62 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

Celebrate and preserve the art of Native American basketry using primitive weaving methods employed by Indigenous practitioners of the craft.Members of the Navajo School of Indian Basketry have set down their secrets in clear and simple language, enabling even the beginner to create work that can rival theirs in grace, design, and usefulness.The text begins with basic techniques: choice of
... Leer más
In Blue Mountains: An Artist's Return to America's First Wilderness

de Thomas Locker ...

In Blue Mountains is about the love of nature and the importance of beauty. It tells the story of an artist who sets out to explore wilderness and discovers a new way of seeing. Bewildered at first by the profusion of nature There are so many leaves, he could never paint them all! Gradually, he learns to see its wholeness and to trust his feelings. As he does so, he embarks on an adventure of ... Leer más

$5.39 USD

In Blue Mountains is about the love of nature and the importance of beauty. It tells the story of an artist who sets out to explore wilderness and discovers a new way of seeing. Bewildered at first by the profusion of nature There are so many leaves, he could never paint them all! Gradually, he learns to see its wholeness and to trust his feelings. As he does so, he embarks on an adventure of
... Leer más
José Clemente Orozco

An Autobiography

Traducido por Robert C. Stephenson ...

de José Clemente Orozco ...

The artistic eminence of José Clemente Orozco (1883–1949) is such that he has been called “the greatest painter the Americas have produced.” In his Autobiography he also attains literary distinction. He is a writer who recounts the history of his period from a personal point of view and yet scarcely mentions himself. He is an observer who writes about the history of his country and of his country ... Leer más

$6.11 USD

The artistic eminence of José Clemente Orozco (1883–1949) is such that he has been called “the greatest painter the Americas have produced.” In his Autobiography he also attains literary distinction. He is a writer who recounts the history of his period from a personal point of view and yet scarcely mentions himself. He is an observer who writes about the history of his country and of his country
... Leer más
1, 2, 3 Little Indians! Native American Indian Clothing and Entertainment - US History 6th Grade | Children's American History

de Baby Professor ...

Learn more about the Native American Indians in this educational book for 6th graders. This time, you’ll be learning about their clothing and means of entertainment, two topics that will tell you a lot about this people. Feel free to read the contents of the book whenever you have the time. If these topics are discussed in school, then use this book as your additional resource. ... Leer más

$3.59 USD

Learn more about the Native American Indians in this educational book for 6th graders. This time, you’ll be learning about their clothing and means of entertainment, two topics that will tell you a lot about this people. Feel free to read the contents of the book whenever you have the time. If these topics are discussed in school, then use this book as your additional resource.
... Leer más
2nd Grade US History: Native Americans to Early Settlers

Second Grade Books

de Baby Professor ...

Series series Children's American History Books
Why is it important to know who the early settlers were? To trace our culture and traditions, of course! This educational book presents what would otherwise be a boring subject for young children. The use of pictures creates a definite scenario that would stick to the memory well. So if you're looking for a more effective method of teaching history, this book is what you need! ... Leer más

$4.49 USD

Why is it important to know who the early settlers were? To trace our culture and traditions, of course! This educational book presents what would otherwise be a boring subject for young children. The use of pictures creates a definite scenario that would stick to the memory well. So if you're looking for a more effective method of teaching history, this book is what you need!
... Leer más
American Artists at the Paris Exposition of 1889

de Theodore Child ...

Theodore Child explores Americans and American Art at the Paris World's Fair (Exposition Universelle) of 1889. Theodore Child (1846-1892) was a travel writer and discerning Art Critic of the late nineteenth century. ... Leer más

$1.79 USD

Theodore Child explores Americans and American Art at the Paris World's Fair (Exposition Universelle) of 1889. Theodore Child (1846-1892) was a travel writer and discerning Art Critic of the late nineteenth century.
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Collision

The Contemporary Art Scene in Houston, 1972–1985

de Pete Gershon ...

Series Libro 19 - Sara and John Lindsey Series in the Arts and Humanities
Winner, 2019 Ron Tyler Award for Best Illustrated Book, sponsored by the Texas State Historical Association (TSHA)In this expansive and vigorous survey of the Houston art scene of the 1970s and 1980s, author Pete Gershon describes the city’s emergence as a locus for the arts, fueled by a boom in oil prices and by the arrival of several catalyzing figures, including museum director James Harithas ... Leer más

$7.82 USD

Winner, 2019 Ron Tyler Award for Best Illustrated Book, sponsored by the Texas State Historical Association (TSHA)In this expansive and vigorous survey of the Houston art scene of the 1970s and 1980s, author Pete Gershon describes the city’s emergence as a locus for the arts, fueled by a boom in oil prices and by the arrival of several catalyzing figures, including museum director James Harithas
... Leer más
Art Against Dictatorship

Making and Exporting Arpilleras Under Pinochet

de Jacqueline Adams ...

Art can be a powerful avenue of resistance to oppressive governments. During the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet in Chile, some of the country’s least powerful citizens—impoverished women living in Santiago’s shantytowns—spotlighted the government’s failings and use of violence by creating and selling arpilleras, appliquéd pictures in cloth that portrayed the unemployment, poverty, and repression ... Leer más

$48.59 USD

Art can be a powerful avenue of resistance to oppressive governments. During the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet in Chile, some of the country’s least powerful citizens—impoverished women living in Santiago’s shantytowns—spotlighted the government’s failings and use of violence by creating and selling arpilleras, appliquéd pictures in cloth that portrayed the unemployment, poverty, and repression
... Leer más
Into An Indian Tent : Native American Indian Homes - US History Books | Children's American History

de Baby Professor ...

Have you ever been inside an Indian tent? It’s not your traditional home with defined divisions. It lacks architectural depth but it is rich with customs, traditions and history. By learning how the Native American Indian Homes look like, you will get a glimpse into their way of living too. Are you excited to learn about the natives of the US? Then grab a copy today! ... Leer más

$3.59 USD

Have you ever been inside an Indian tent? It’s not your traditional home with defined divisions. It lacks architectural depth but it is rich with customs, traditions and history. By learning how the Native American Indian Homes look like, you will get a glimpse into their way of living too. Are you excited to learn about the natives of the US? Then grab a copy today!
... Leer más
The Red White and Blue Afghan

de Randall M. Rueff ...

The Red White and Blue Afghan Created by Randall M. Rueff - K9RMR 6-15-2020 A.D. ... Leer más

$2.32 USD

The Red White and Blue Afghan Created by Randall M. Rueff - K9RMR 6-15-2020 A.D.
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The Stigma

de Sherwyn Besson ...

In The StigMa, Sherwyn Besson maps the role race plays in the continuing disenfranchisement of students of color, and White students that attend the Malville school system, where minority students are the dominant population. His work challenges, parents, educators, administrators, residents, policy makers, and other stakeholders, to engage a student-first, all-in philosophy to move the District ... Leer más

$3.59 USD

In The StigMa, Sherwyn Besson maps the role race plays in the continuing disenfranchisement of students of color, and White students that attend the Malville school system, where minority students are the dominant population. His work challenges, parents, educators, administrators, residents, policy makers, and other stakeholders, to engage a student-first, all-in philosophy to move the District
... Leer más
Killing Men & Dying Women

Imagining Difference in 1950s New York Painting

de Griselda Pollock ...

What did it mean for painter Lee Krasner to be an artist and a woman if, in the culture of 1950s New York, to be an artist was to be Jackson Pollock and to be a woman was to be Marilyn Monroe?With this question, Griselda Pollock begins a transdisciplinary journey across the gendered aesthetics and the politics of difference in New York abstract, gestural painting. Revisiting recent exhibitions of ... Leer más

$19.43 USD

What did it mean for painter Lee Krasner to be an artist and a woman if, in the culture of 1950s New York, to be an artist was to be Jackson Pollock and to be a woman was to be Marilyn Monroe?With this question, Griselda Pollock begins a transdisciplinary journey across the gendered aesthetics and the politics of difference in New York abstract, gestural painting. Revisiting recent exhibitions of
... Leer más
Art and Design in 1960s New York

de Amanda Gluibizzi ...

When Robert Rauschenberg reminisced about Josef Albers teaching students that their art had to do with “the entire visual world,” he was suggesting an inclusive realm of visual expression from which Albers intended his students to draw. Beyond finding inspiration only in fine art objects, Albers pushed them to look outside the confines of their studios and classrooms and onto the streets where ... Leer más

$25.91 USD

When Robert Rauschenberg reminisced about Josef Albers teaching students that their art had to do with “the entire visual world,” he was suggesting an inclusive realm of visual expression from which Albers intended his students to draw. Beyond finding inspiration only in fine art objects, Albers pushed them to look outside the confines of their studios and classrooms and onto the streets where
... Leer más
PALMA SOLA Liborio Mateo, el origen

Palma Sola, de Gabriel Castillo Campusano, es una novela gráfica que, desde diversas fuentes, narra la historia de una masacre de campesinos perpetrada por las autoridades dominicanas en 1962, en Las Matas de Farfán, hecho que, al igual que la Revolución de abril de 1965, marcada con sangre la segunda mitad del siglo XX en la República Dominicana.Los hermanos Ventura Rodríguez, marcados por la ... Leer más

$11.15 USD

Palma Sola, de Gabriel Castillo Campusano, es una novela gráfica que, desde diversas fuentes, narra la historia de una masacre de campesinos perpetrada por las autoridades dominicanas en 1962, en Las Matas de Farfán, hecho que, al igual que la Revolución de abril de 1965, marcada con sangre la segunda mitad del siglo XX en la República Dominicana.Los hermanos Ventura Rodríguez, marcados por la
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My Dirty American Feet

de Randall M. Rueff ...

My Dirty American Feet Created by Randall M. Rueff - K9RMR 7-28-2020 A.D. ... Leer más

$2.32 USD

My Dirty American Feet Created by Randall M. Rueff - K9RMR 7-28-2020 A.D.
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Revolutionary Horizons

Art and Polemics in 1950s Cuba

de Abigail McEwen ...

Modernism in Havana reached its climax during the turbulent years of the 1950s as a generation of artists took up abstraction as a means to advance artistic and political goals in the name of Cuba Libre. During a decade of insurrection and, ultimately, revolution, abstract art signaled the country’s cultural worldliness and its purchase within the international avant-garde. This pioneering book ... Leer más

$60.74 USD

Modernism in Havana reached its climax during the turbulent years of the 1950s as a generation of artists took up abstraction as a means to advance artistic and political goals in the name of Cuba Libre. During a decade of insurrection and, ultimately, revolution, abstract art signaled the country’s cultural worldliness and its purchase within the international avant-garde. This pioneering book
... Leer más
I Move My Hand But The Pen Writes It Down

de Randall M. Rueff ...

I Move My Hand But The Pen Writes It Down Created by Randall M. Rueff - K9RMR 9-17-2020 A.D. ... Leer más

$2.70 USD

I Move My Hand But The Pen Writes It Down Created by Randall M. Rueff - K9RMR 9-17-2020 A.D.
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Ruins

de Anna Audette, Suzanne Nothnagle ...

In earlier civilizations ruins were remainders and reminders of the glory of long passed times. People pondered what could still be seen of the palaces, great public buildings and places of worship. The everyday working world was left without any record to commemorate its importance. Ruins now occupy a special place in our contemporary landscape. Nearly everywhere there are vestiges of commercial ... Leer más

$12.86 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

In earlier civilizations ruins were remainders and reminders of the glory of long passed times. People pondered what could still be seen of the palaces, great public buildings and places of worship. The everyday working world was left without any record to commemorate its importance. Ruins now occupy a special place in our contemporary landscape. Nearly everywhere there are vestiges of commercial
... Leer más
Sinsation

de Klara Coku ...

seems to meyou’ve lost all sense of directionfollow mei’m lost tooand i don’t think that’s necessarilya bad thing ... Leer más

$3.59 USD

seems to meyou’ve lost all sense of directionfollow mei’m lost tooand i don’t think that’s necessarilya bad thing
... Leer más
Seeing Nebraska The Prairie Landscapes of Ben Darling

de Terry Barkley, Ann Darling ...

This work is a look at the challenge of painting the constantly changing colors and textures of the Great Plains. The images depict the dynamic interaction between the land and sky. There is the peace of quiet evenings hot afternoons, or brisk winter days, the tension of approaching fronts or storms.In addition to biographical information, author Terry Barkley chronicles the development of works ... Leer más

$8.99 USD

This work is a look at the challenge of painting the constantly changing colors and textures of the Great Plains. The images depict the dynamic interaction between the land and sky. There is the peace of quiet evenings hot afternoons, or brisk winter days, the tension of approaching fronts or storms.In addition to biographical information, author Terry Barkley chronicles the development of works
... Leer más
The Spirit Within / El espíritu inherente

The Walters Art Museum

de Ellen Hoobler, Patricia Lagarde ...

Series Libro 2 - The Walters Art Museum Collection Focus
This volume, coinciding with the opening of permanent Art of the Americas galleries at the Walters Art Museum in 2025, examines how, for people in the Indigenous Americas, materials had and continue to have a life of their own.Ancient and modern craftspeople shaped jade, gold, feathers, and clay into exquisite artworks, but the meanings of those objects are intertwined with the living essence of ... Leer más

$7.28 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

This volume, coinciding with the opening of permanent Art of the Americas galleries at the Walters Art Museum in 2025, examines how, for people in the Indigenous Americas, materials had and continue to have a life of their own.Ancient and modern craftspeople shaped jade, gold, feathers, and clay into exquisite artworks, but the meanings of those objects are intertwined with the living essence of
... Leer más
The Aboriginal Population of the North Coast of California

de S. F. COOK ...

"The Aboriginal Population of the North Coast of California" is an enlightening paintings authored via S. F. Cook, offering a profound exploration of the indigenous communities inhabiting the North Coast of California. Cook's complete studies and evaluation make this e-book a sizeable contribution to the know-how of the native populations and their history. S. F. Cook delves deeply into the rich ... Leer más

$0.89 USD

"The Aboriginal Population of the North Coast of California" is an enlightening paintings authored via S. F. Cook, offering a profound exploration of the indigenous communities inhabiting the North Coast of California. Cook's complete studies and evaluation make this e-book a sizeable contribution to the know-how of the native populations and their history. S. F. Cook delves deeply into the rich
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