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|  | Edward Hopper by Edward Hopper, Margaret Lynne Ausfeld, Virginia M. Mecklenburg, Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts Staff, National Museum of American Art Staff
In addition to his realistically rendered, powerful images of everyday life in America, Edward Hopper also painted a number of watercolors along the East Coast and in the Southwest. This book contains over 100 of these works, assembled for an exhibition at the National Museum of American Art. AUTHOR: Edward Hopper, Margaret Lynne Ausfeld, Virginia M. Mecklenburg, Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts Staff, National Museum of American Art Staff
PUBLISHER: Norton, W. W. & Company, Incorporated
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture 
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 | Art in Modern Culture by Francis Frascina, Jonathan Harris
The traditional discipline of art history has been expanded and challenged by new insights and alternative perspectives, resulting in a series of wide-ranging debates on the status of art and its role in culture and history. This reader for the Open University's course, 'Modern Art: Practices and Debates', presents a radical selection of key texts. These include classic works from the 1930s to the 1960s alongside contemporary writings, introducing the reader to the whole range of issues on which critics and art historians have focused. AUTHOR: Francis Frascina, Jonathan Harris
PUBLISHER: Phaidon Press, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture
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 | Easy Riders Raging Bulls by Peter Biskind
An account of the Hollywood filmmaking scene of the 1970s. In the era before blockbusters like Jaws and Star Wars made Hollywood studios focus on making huge movies with wide appeal, directors were treated like superstars, and given free reign to indulge themselves, creatively and otherwise. Directors like Peter Bogdanovich, William Friedkin, and Hal Ashby thrived during this era, but their careers suffered greatly due to an excess of drugs, sex, money, and hubris. Only Martin Scorcese and Francis Ford Coppola were able to continue their success in subsequent decades. AUTHOR: Peter Biskind
PUBLISHER: Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture
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 | Nancy Spero by Jon Bird
American artist Nancy Spero concentrates on the depiction of women: mythological women, movie women, tortured women. Inspired by classical and modern sources, she collages and imprints her contemporary goddesses onto long, papyrus-like friezes that scroll around museum walls. Her subjectmatter, which has ranged from the writings of Artaud to the Vietnam War, mirrors her life; working in Paris in the cultural ferment of the 1960s, she moved to New York in the 1970s to co-establish the feminist gallery A.I.R. and to join with artists and critics such as Leon Golub, Robert Morris and Lucy R Lippard in forming the Art Workers' Coalition. Since the 1980s she has attracted international acclaim, her exquisite works giving form to feminist issues and new critical discourses. AUTHOR: Jon Bird
PUBLISHER: Phaidon Press, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture
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 | Emma by Adela Pinch, C. E. Brock, Carroll Moulton, H. M. Daleski, James Kinsley
First published in 1816, EMMA is about an unconventional heroine who possesses beauty, power, confidence, and wealth. She is also opinionated and judgmental, scheming and cunning. She attempts to match an orphaned young woman, Harriet Smith, with someone of a higher-born class, instead of the farmer Harriet prefers. The novel follows the two women as they weave in and out of love relationships that mirror the social climb. Denied any other way to advance, the women in Austen`s novels must marry to get ahead. AUTHOR: Adela Pinch, C. E. Brock, Carroll Moulton, H. M. Daleski, James Kinsley
PUBLISHER: Viking Penguin
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture
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 | Stuart Davis in Gloucester by Judith McCulloch, Karen Wilkin, Sharon Worley
Stuart Davis in Gloucester Karen Wilkin A beautifully designed book exposing the influence of Gloucester, Massachusetts on the art of Stuart Davis, one of the most accomplished painters in American history. Printed in conjunction with a traveling exposition of Davis` work spanning 3 decades. Features an introduction by Judith McColloch from the Cape Ann Historical Society and an essay by renowned art critic and scholar Karen Wilken. AUTHOR: Judith McCulloch, Karen Wilkin, Sharon Worley
PUBLISHER: Hard Press, Incorporated
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture
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