Art:

The Black Book
35th Anniversary Edition
Edited by Middleton A. Harris, Ernest Smith, Morris Levitt and Roger Furman
Foreword by Toni Morrison

Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
On Sale: November 10, 2009
Price: $35.00

Seventeenth-century sketches of Africa as it appeared to marauding European traders. Nineteenth-century slave auction notices. Twentieth-century sheet music for work songs and freedom chants. Photographs of war heroes, regal in uniform. Antebellum reward posters for capturing runaway slaves. An 1856 article titled “A Visit to the Slave Mother Who Killed Her... Read more >

Rogues' Gallery
The Secret History of the Moguls and the Money that Made the Metropolitan Museum
Written by Michael Gross

Format: Hardcover, 560 pages
On Sale: May 5, 2009
Price: $29.95

“Behind almost every painting is a fortune and behind that a sin or a crime.”
With these words as a starting point, Michael Gross, leading chronicler of the American rich, begins the first independent, unauthorized look at the saga of the nation’s greatest museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In this...

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Rogues' Gallery
The Secret History of the Moguls and the Money that Made the Metropolitan Museum
Written by Michael Gross

Format: eBook, 496 pages
On Sale: May 5, 2009
Price: $29.95

“Behind almost every painting is a fortune and behind that a sin or a crime.”
With these words as a starting point, Michael Gross, leading chronicler of the American rich, begins the first independent, unauthorized look at the saga of the nation’s greatest museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In this... Read more >

Painter in a Savage Land
The Strange Saga of the First European Artist in North America
Written by Miles Harvey

Format: eBook
On Sale: June 24, 2008
Price: $27.00

In this vibrantly told, meticulously researched book, Miles Harvey reveals one of the most fascinating and overlooked lives in American history. Like The Island of Lost Maps, his bestselling book about a legendary map thief, Painter in a Savage Land is a compelling search into the mysteries of the past. This... Read more >

Eric Fischl
1970-2007
Written by Arthur C. Danto and Robert Enright
Afterword by Steve Martin

Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
On Sale: May 15, 2008
Price: $85.00

Eric Fischl emerged in the 1980s as one of America's most important figurative painters. His paintings, many of which show a single intense moment, compel the viewer to participate in a world of middle-class suburban ambiguity and drama. In Fischl's engaging distinctly American canvases, narrative, morality, sexuality, and psychology are preeminent... Read more >

Concrete to Canvas
Skateboarders' Art
Written by Jo Waterhouse

Format: Trade Paperback, 128 pages
On Sale: April 1, 2006
Price: $19.95

• Gritty to graceful, skateboard art is the newest hot medium

• Skateboarding is extreme!

• Includes art on boards as well as graffiti, canvas, and computer work



Michelangelo painted ceilings. Diego Rivera painted walls. Today, great artists are drawn to skateboards as both canvas and muse, another outlet for the creativity that has... Read more >

The Desert Southwest
Four Thousand Years of Life and Art
Written by Allan Hayes and Carol Hayes
Photographed by John Blom

Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: March 1, 2006
Price: $24.95

This beautiful art book tells the story of the "other Southwest," tracing the history of centuries of conflict and resolution between Natives, Hispanics, and Anglos, as well as their respective artistic accomplishments. This far-reaching collection of artifacts invites you to explore the achievements and art of cultures that overcame unfathomable obstacles... Read more >

The Desert Southwest
Four Thousand Years of Life and Art
Written by Allan Hayes and Carol Hayes
Photographed by John Blom

Format: Hardcover, 208 pages
On Sale: March 1, 2006
Price: $35.00

This beautiful art book tells the story of the "other Southwest," tracing the history of centuries of conflict and resolution between Natives, Hispanics, and Anglos, as well as their respective artistic accomplishments. This far-reaching collection of artifacts invites you to explore the achievements and art of cultures that overcame unfathomable obstacles... Read more >

Still Looking
Essays on American Art
Written by John Updike

Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: November 8, 2005
Price: $45.00

When, in 1989, a collection of John Updike’s writings on art appeared under the title Just Looking, a reviewer in the San Francisco Chronicle commented, “He refreshes for us the sense of prose opportunity that makes art a sustaining subject to people who write about it.” In the sixteen years since... Read more >

Drawing Cutting Edge Fusion
American Comics with a Manga Influence
Written by Christopher Hart

Format: Trade Paperback, 144 pages
On Sale: October 1, 2005
Price: $19.95

American comics once dominated the world. Now the balance of power is changing, as anime (Japanese animation) and manga (Japanese comics) have exploded into the mainstream of American culture. Drawing Cutting Edge Fusion is the first-ever tutorial that shows how to draw American-style comics with a manga influence. With this book... Read more >

J. Garcia
Paintings, Drawings, and Sketches
Written by Jerry Garcia
Foreword by Roberto Weir

Format: Trade Paperback, 96 pages
On Sale: March 1, 2005
Price: $19.95

Legendary counterculture icon and beloved Grateful Dead guitarist and vocalist Jerry Garcia was also a graphic artist of considerable talent. After attending the San Francisco Art Institute as a young man, he began to focus on music, but his passion for visual art never dimmed and he continued to sketch throughout... Read more >

American Signs
Form and Meaning on Rte. 66
Written by Lisa Mahar-Keplinger

Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: October 14, 2002
Price: $40.00

The roadside sign has become an American icon: a glowing neon symbol of the golden age of the open road. Yet signs are complex pieces of design, serving not only as physical markers but also as cultural, political, and economic ones. In American Signs, Lisa Mahar traces the evolution of motel... Read more >

Sticky Sublime

Edited by Bill Beckley

Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
On Sale: May 1, 2001
Price: $24.95

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Out of the Box
The Reinvention of Art, 1965-1975
Written by Carter Ratcliff

Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: November 1, 2000
Price: $27.50

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