Art:

Remembering 9/11

Written by Martha Cooper

Format: Trade Paperback, 80 pages
On Sale: July 26, 2011
Price: $10.95

The tenth anniversary of the September 11, 2001, attacks on New York City is a sobering one, marking a fundamental shift in how Americans viewed the world and how the world viewed America. But, in the wake of devastation and loss, the true spirit of New York City dusted off the... Read more >

Past Objects

Written by Scott Jordan
Photographed by J.K. Putnam

Format: Hardcover, 128 pages
On Sale: November 30, 2010
Price: $27.95

In the space between archaeology and history stand men like Scott Jordan, a New Yorker who has been digging around in the city's soil for the better part of four decades. What began as a childhood hobby searching for treasure evolved into a lifestyle that has resulted in Jordan haunting building... Read more >

Migraine Art
The Migraine Experience from Within
Written by Klaus Podoll and Derek Robinson
Foreword by Oliver Sacks

Format: Hardcover, 400 pages
On Sale: February 24, 2009
Price: $35.00

Migraine Art includes more than 300 powerful illustrations and paintings created by migraine sufferers from around the world. It provides a thoroughly unique window into the subjective world of the migraine sufferer. The idea of collecting migraine art started with a number of public competitions in the 1980s, which encouraged artists... Read more >

Art Psalms

Written by Alex Grey

Format: Hardcover, 204 pages
On Sale: December 2, 2008
Price: $24.95

The power of art as a transformative path is the theme of this inspiring collection from internationally known artist Alex Grey. Art Psalms combines poems, artwork, and "mystic rants" that fuse imagination, creativity, and spirituality. Grey’s oracular poetry declares that art, both its creation and its observation, can be a spiritual... Read more >

Earl Cunningham's America

Written by Wendell Garrett, Virgina Mecklenburg and Carolyn Weekley

Format: Hardcover, 160 pages
On Sale: October 1, 2007
Price: $45.00

The official companion to the Smithsonian American Art Museum's exhibition of the same name, this beautifully illustrated volume presents Earl Cunningham (1893-1997) as a folk modernist who used the flat space and brilliant color typical of Matisse and Van Gogh to create sophisticated compositions. A creative, eccentric, and restless young man... Read more >

Listening to Our Ancestors
The Art of Native Life Along the Pacific Northwest Coast
Written by Smithsonian American Indian
Edited by Peter Macnair, Jay Stewart, Robert Joseph and Mary Jane Lenz

Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: November 1, 2005
Price: $24.00

Illustrated with never-before-published artifacts from the unique treasures in the museum's Northwest Coast collections, Listening to Our Ancestors profiles native communities of the Pacific Northwest and showcases the region's rich cultural history and artwork.

Sophisticated in conception and execution and rich with symbolism, the totem poles, painted housefronts, masks, dance regalia, feast... Read more >

Canal Arts and Crafts

Written by Avril Lansdell

Format: Trade Paperback, 56 pages
On Sale: March 1, 2004
Price: $12.95

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