Deborah Willis

Kellie Jones

Richard Cándida Smith

James Christen Steward

Lowery Stokes Sims

Extending the Frozen Moment

Betye Saar

Katharine Derosier Weiss

Sean Ulmer

An illustrated collection of mixed-media collages by early twentieth-century African-American artist Betye Saar that blends spiritual, political, and cultural iconography to create complex works.

Published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same name organized by the University Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, California, and slated for several destinations during 1995 and 1996. Curator Steward, a specialist in 18th- and 19th- century art, explores the visual representation of children at a time when childhood first came to be valued as a special and distinct phase of human life. Through the work of artists such as Hogarth, Reynolds, Gainsborough, Blake, and Lawrence, he examines the complex relationship between the visual arts and social values. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

British Art and the Origins of Modern Childhood, 1730-1830

The New Child

Walker Art Gallery

Exciting art has indeed been produced in Ireland during the last hundred years, but its full range has seldom been appreciated and there has been little attempt to take stock. This book offers both a broad survey and some brilliant samples of Irish painting, discussing not only style but content, particularly where it has a bearing on national identity. This book is richly illustrated with 80 colour and a further 100 black-and-white reproduction of a fascinating range of art, from decorative, melancholy or robust to uncomfortable, sardonic and humorous.

Figurative Painting from Twentieth-century Ireland

When Time Began to Rant and Rage

Bruce Arnold

Gosudarstvennyĭ Ėrmitazh (Russia)

Sergueï Olegovitch Androsov

"The Collections of the Romanovs celebrates the 300th anniversary of the founding of St. Petersburg by exploring the role of the Romanov dynasty as collectors of fine and decorative arts. The book investigates in particular the historic role of St. Petersburg as Russia's window to the West, and features the great masterworks of Western European art collected and prized by Romanov tsars, from Peter the Great (who ruled from 1721-25) to the last of the dynasty, Nicholas II (who ruled from 1874-1918). Included are masterpieces of painting, drawing, printmaking, porcelain, silver, and tapestry over one hundred works in all, drawn exclusively from the extraordinary collection of the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

James Christen Steward

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