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Ad Usum: To Be Used: Edited by José Luis Falconi; Edited by Pedro Reyes; Ad Usum is the catalogue of the retrospective exhibit of celebrated Mexican artist Pedro Reyes mounted at the Carpenter Center and organized by the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University. This is the first volume entirely dedicated to the works of Reyes, who is considered to be one of the most innovative and radical young Mexican artists.; Paperback

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

Emancipatory Action: Edited by José Luis Falconi; Edited by Gabriela Rangel; Edited by Nicolau Sevcenko; Paula Trope; This volume is based on the exhibition of Paula Trope at the Americas Society (NYC) made in conjunction with Harvard University's Cultural Agency Initiative. Contemporary Brazilian artist Paula Trope has acquired recent notice for the pin-hole photography she creates together with the "Meninos da Rua" (street children) in Rio de Janeiro, of which she is not really the "author" but its facilitator, instructor, and curator.; Paperback

Francis Bacon and the Loss of Self: Ernst Van Alphen; Since his death in April 12 Francis Bacon has been acclaimed as one of the very greatest of modern painters. Yet most analyses of Bacon actually neutralize his work by discussing it as an existential expression and as the horrifying communication of an isolated individual—which simply transfers the pain in the paintings back to Bacon himself. This study is the first attempt to account for the pain of the viewer.; Paperback / Hardcover

Manet's Silence and the Poetics of Bouquets: James Rubin; A sense of stillness and silence pervades Manet's painting. It is this silence that James Rubin explores in this book. Applying J. L. Austin's notion of the performative, which bridges the gap between language and action or between the painted image and its social effect, Rubin goes beyond past theorists to describe the curious ways in which Manet's paintings act upon us.; Paperback 1995 / Hardcover

Pacing the World: Whitney Davis; This extensively illustrated book is the first full-length study of the Canadian-born sculptor David Rabinowitch. Whitney Davis closely analyzes six groups of works produced by Rabinowitch between 1963 and the present, and explores Rabinowitch's relations to the work of modern painters and sculptors as well as his involvement with the wider history of art.; Paperback 1997 / Hardcover

Toulouse-Lautrec: Peter A. Wick; This catalogue documents a collection of 24 black and white reproductions of book covers and brochures illustrated by Toulouse-Latrec housed in the Department of Printing and Graphic Arts at the Houghton Library. This is a sequel to Philip Hofer's A Bestiary by Toulouse-Lautrec.; Paperback 2005

Working Space: Frank Stella; Here is a rare opportunity to view painting through the discerning eyes of one of the world's foremost abstract painters. Stella uses the crisis of representational art in sixteenth-century Italy to illuminate the crisis of abstraction in our time. Professionals, students, collectors and all lovers of art will find Stella's non-traditional evaluations of the masters' work controversial and his fresh concepts wonderfully provocative.; Hardcover 1986 / Paperback 1986