Introducing a rich historical and religious context, Gautama V. Vajracharya offers an original study of the iconography of Indian miniature paintings, providing an extended analysis of 129 art works catalogued in this book.

The artistry of sheet music decoration, illustration, and design is revealed, as is the story of America as portrayed by these popular printed covers.
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James Watrous explores the development of the University of Wisconsin s art collections, and the campaign to create its eventual home, the Elvehjem Museum of Art, which opened in 1970 and changed it's name to the Chazen Museum of Art in 2005.
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Even the earliest European explorers to the Americas collected objects made by native people. The ongoing fascination with the artistic and cultural expressions of American Indian people is documented historically, along with a close look at seven midwestern collections. The wide array of art encompassed is handsomely illustrated, and includes pottery, weavings, basketry, beadwork, and carvings.
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The bold protest images from posters and publications of the 1930s and the 1960s, two decades of upheaval and radical ferment for American society, are profiled and contrasted here.

Highlights of the permanent collection.
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A series of essays discussing the Elvehjem Museum of Art's outdoor sculpture, Generations, which opened to the public in 1991. This exhibit was designed as an educational vehicle which would promote an understanding and acceptance of the new sculpture and inspire further interest in public art.

This volume presents on paper the work of Robert Cummings which depicts ordinary objects such as chairs, cups, birdhouses, light bulbs and rulers.

Ghost Pounding the Wall, A Book from the Sky, and Five Series of Repetitions formed Xu Bing's first show in the United States. He has since been named a MacArthur Fellow and had an exhibition at the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution in 2001.

This title presents the work of artist Patrick Ireland.