Art
Show of Hands
Northwest Women Artists 1880-2010
Highlighting work in all media by women artists from Washington, Oregon, and British Columbia, this book presents an wide-ranging survey fo the personal and communal stories that inspired the legacy of Pacific Northwest art.
Picasso and the Circus
Fin-de-Siecle Paris and the Suite de Saltimbanques
Considers the subject of the circus and the role of entertainment spectacles in the early 1900s, a key phase in Picasso's early career.
Cute and Creepy
Cute & Creepy revels in the genre of the macabre in contemporary art, celebrating dark art and Pop Surrealists.
Creative Subversions
Whiteness, Indigeneity, and the National Imaginary
This book explores how whiteness and Indigeneity are articulated through commonplace symbols of Canadian identity and how the work of contemporary artists is subverting these nostalgic accounts of the past.
Life, Death, and Magic
2000 Years of Southeast Asian Ancestral Art
Life, Death and Magic provides an evocative overview of Southeast Asia's ancestral arts and culture, from prehistoric times to the twenty-first century and across the breadth of Southeast Asia.
Carvings and Commerce
Model Totem Poles, 1880-2010
A group of internationally recognized scholars and artists examine the issues of politics, economics, cultural identity, tradition, and aesthetics that have shaped the evolution of the model totem pole for over a hundred and thirty years.