Category: Art History

Art and the City–Now Available

Art and the City: Civic Imagination and Cultural Authority in Los Angeles Sarah Schrank 224 pages | 6 x 9 | 42 illus. Cloth  2008 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4117-4 | $39.95… READ MORE

Public Culture — Now Available

Public Culture: Diversity, Democracy, and Community in the United States Edited by Marguerite S. Shaffer 392 pages | 6 x 9 | 34 illus. Cloth 2008 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4081-8 |… READ MORE

Art Work–Now Available

Art Work: Women Artists and Democracy in Mid-Nineteenth-Century New York April F. Masten 312 pages | 6 x 9 | 55 illus. Cloth 2008 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4071-9 | $59.95 |… READ MORE

Judith S. Schwartz Receives NCECA Honors Award

Judith S. Schwartz, author of the forthcoming Penn Press release Confrontational Ceramics, recently received an Honors Award from the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts (NCECA). The award… READ MORE

“Do not miss ‘Chimneys and Towers'”

In the April 7 Critic’s Notebook section of The New Yorker, Peter Schjedahl writes: Do not miss "Chimneys and Towers: Charles Demuth’s Late Paintings of Lancaster," at the Whitney, a small,… READ MORE