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ART:

The Arts in Boston: Bernard Taper; In this lively and informed book, Bernard Taper, a writer for the New Yorker, scrutinizes the social and economic characteristics of the arts in Boston, seeking specific answers to the questions: What might be done to foster, strengthen, enrich, and invigorate the arts? What can make them more meaningful to a larger segment of the community?; Hardcover 1970 / Paperback

At Home in the Studio: Laura R. Prieto; This engaging cultural history examines the emergence of a professional identity for American women artists. By focusing on individual sculptors, painters, and illustrators, Prieto gives us a compelling picture of the prospects and constraints faced by women artists in the United States from the late eighteenth century through the 1930s.; Hardcover 2001

Audubon: Early Drawings: John James Audubon; Introduction by Richard Rhodes; Notes by Scott V. Edwards; Foreword by Leslie A. Morris; In 1805, Jean Jacques Audubon fled revolutionary violence in both Haiti and France to take refuge in frontier America. Ten years later, John James Audubon was an American citizen whose desire to “become acquainted with nature” led him to reinvent himself as a naturalist and artist. The drawings he made during this crucial decade, of specimens he collected in France and in America, are published together here for the first time in large format and full color.; Hardcover 2008

Charles Sheeler and Cult of the Machine: Karen Lucic; Charles Sheeler (1886-1965) was one of the most noted American painters and photographers to embrace the iconography of the machine. But was he high priest or heretic in the religion of mass production and technology that dominated his era? Karen Lucic considers this intriguing question while telling us Sheeler's story, and showing us how Sheeler produced images of extraordinary aesthetic power that provocatively confirmed America's technological and industrial prestige in vivid detail.; Paperback

Francis Calley Gray and Art Collecting for America: Marjorie B. Cohn; Hardcover 1986