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      The Forest

      Alexander Nemerov

      A vivid historical imagining of life in the early United States.

      Set amid the glimmering lakes and disappearing forests of the early United States, The Forest imagines how a wide…

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      Summoning Pearl Harbor

      Alexander Nemerov

      Summoning Pearl Harbor is a mesmerizing display of linguistic force that redefines remembering. How do words make the past appear? In what way does the historian summon bygone events? What…

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      The Body of Raphaelle Peale: Still Life and Selfhood, 1812-1824

      Alexander Nemerov

      The American painter Raphaelle Peale (1774-1825) left a legacy of vibrantly beautiful still lifes depicting objects such as fruit, vegetables, and meat. This book explores the artist, presenting a reading…

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      Icons of Grief: Val Lewton’s Home Front Pictures

      Alexander Nemerov

      Looks at the haunting, melancholy horror films Val Lewton made between 1942 and 1946 and finds them to be powerful commentaries on the American home front during WWII. This study…

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      Acting in the Night: Macbeth and the Places of the Civil War

      Alexander Nemerov

      What can the performance of a single play on one specific night tell us about the world this event inhabited so briefly? This title explores this question.

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      Fierce Poise: Helen Frankenthaler and 1950s New York

      Alexander Nemerov

      A dazzling biography of one of the twentieth century’s most respected painters, Helen Frankenthaler, as she came of age as both an artist and a woman in the vibrant art…

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      The Forest: A Fable of America in the 1830s

      Alexander Nemerov

      A vivid historical imagining of the lives of individuals-from painters, poets, and politicians to enslaved people, artisans, and travelers-in the early United States

      Set amid the glimmering lakes and disappearing…

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      Experience

      In his noteworthy theoretical essay Experience, Ralph Waldo Emerson writes that humans by nature cannot fully grasp life as lived. If this is so, how capable are we of expressing…

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      Cathedral of the Pines

      Gregory Crewdson,Alexander Nemerov

      Using light and color to create newly intimate, psychologically charged imagery, this book marks a time of transition for the artist, including the end of his marriage and a retreat…

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      Manuel Neri and the Assertion of Modern Figurative Sculpture

      Manuel Neri is widely recognized for his life-size figurative sculptures in plaster, bronze, and marble. His work echoed the commitment of earlier artists, such as Alberto Giacometti and Marino Marini…

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      Ralph Eugene Meatyard - American Mystic

      Alexander Nemerov

      Meatyard as self-taught visionary: a portrait of the photographer by acclaimed art historian Alexander Nemerov

      The legendary, mysterious photographer Ralph Eugene Meatyard (1925-72) lived in Lexington, Kentucky, working in a…

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      True Grit - American Prints from 1900 to 1950

      Stephanie Schrader,James Glisson,Alexander Nemerov

      An engaging look at early twentieth-century American printmaking, which frequently focused on the crowded, chaotic, and gritty modern city.

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      Clifford Ross: Sightlines

      Clifford Ross’s photographic and video practices over the past thirty years reveals one of the most incisive and technically sophisticated investigations of the nature of vision in the medium’s history.

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      Adaline Kent: The Click of Authenticity

      Aspara Diquinzio,Jeff Gunderson,Alexander Nemerov,Elaine Y. Yau

      The first major monograph in sixty years on the San Francisco modernist sculptor who developed a unique abstract style rooted in surrealism and inspired by nature.

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      Christopher Rothko,Kate Rothko Prizel,Alexander Nemerov,Hiroshi Sugimoto

      The most definitive monograph covering Mark Rothko’s entire oeuvre, published in close collaboration with the artist’s family and featuring beloved works from major collections as well as never-before-seen canvases and…

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      Grandma Moses: American Modern

      A long-overdue reexamination of beloved American artist Grandma Moses, restoring her rightful place within the canon of mid-century American Art.

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      Sargent to Basquiat

      Anthony E. Grudin,Alexander Nemerov,Charles Russell,Thomas Sullivan,Janie Cohen

      The catalogue of an exhibition in 2016 at the Fleming Museum of Art, University of Vermont. Includes work by John Singer Sargent, Childe Hassam, Wassily Kandinsky, Jean Dubuffet, Willem de…

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      Black Out: Silhouettes Then and Now

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      National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. in association with Princeton University Press, Princeton and Oxford .

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      Hotel Texas: An Art Exhibition for the President and Mrs. John F. Kennedy

      Olivier Meslay,Scott Barker,David M. Lubin,Alexander Nemerov,Nicola Longford

      The story of a bittersweet, impromptu art exhibition for President and Mrs. Kennedy

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      Anne Brigman: A Visionary in Modern Photography

      This is the first major survey on American Pictorialist photographer Anne W. Brigman, a pioneer in the field of 20th-century modern landscape photography and the only West Coast member of…

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      Night Vision: Nocturnes In American Art, 1860-1960

      Joachim Homann

      Spanning a century from the introduction of electric light to the dawn of the Space Age, this first major survey of American night scenes by artists such as Winslow Homer…

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      Rachel Harrison Life Hack

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      Catalog of an exhibition held at Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, October 25, 2019-January 12, 2020.

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      Andrew Wyeth: Life and Death

      Presenting recently rediscovered drawings, Life and Death explores what it means for an artist to picture their own death, in both the context of Wyeth’s late career and contemporary American…

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      Danny Lyon: Message to the Future

      Julian Cox,Elisabeth Sussman,Alexander Nemerov,Danica Willard Sachs,Ed Halter

      The first comprehensive overview of an influential American photographer and filmmaker whose work is known for its intimacy and social engagement

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      World War I and American Art

      World War I had a profound impact on American art and culture. Nearly every major artist responded to events, whether as official war artists, impassioned observers, or participants on the…

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      Fictions of Art History

      Addresses art history’s complex relationships with fiction, poetry, and creative writing. Inspired by a 2010 conference, this volume examines art historians’ viewing practices and modes of writing.

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      Rethinking Andrew Wyeth

      Andrew Wyeth is one of the best loved and most widely recognized artists in American history, yet for much of his career he was reviled by the art world’s critical…

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      For America: Paintings from the National Academy of Design

      A sweeping look at the ways American artists have viewed themselves, their peers, and their painted worlds over two centuries

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      Enrique Martinez Celaya: Sea, Sky, Land: Towards a Map of Everything

      Sea, Sky, Land: Towards a Map of Everything brings together a selection of paintings and sculptures by world renowned artist Enrique Martinez Celaya, from 2005 to the present. Following his…

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      Samuel F. B. Morse’s Gallery of the Louvre and the Art of Invention

      Insightful essays that offer a wide-ranging examination of a 19th-century American masterpiece

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