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"Ogata Kenzan (1663-1743) is celebrated as Japan's most inventive creator of ceramic decoration and foremost workshop master. His reputation is a product both of his own time -- an eighteenth-century Japanese guidebook noted his work as a "must-buy" -- and of the modern age: the esteem in which he was held in Japan was ignited in the West as critics, art dealers, and collectors vied for his colorfully painted and inscribed work at the turn of the...
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The conventional wisdom of Watergate is turned on its head by Postgate, revealing that the Post did not uncover Watergate as much as it covered it up. The Nixon Administration, itself involved in a coverup, was the victim of a journalistic smoke-screen that prevented mitigation of its criminal guilt. As a result of the paper's successful misdirection, today's strikingly deceptive partisan journalism can be laid at the doorstep of the Washington Post....
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In the 1960s, activist Chicano artists forged a history of printmaking that remains vital today. Many artists came of age during the civil rights, labor, anti-war, feminist and LGBTQ+ movements and channeled the period's social activism into statements that announced a new political and cultural consciousness among people of Mexican descent in the United States. ¡Printing the Revolution! explores the rise of Chicano graphics within these early social...
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"In celebration of the centenary of the Smithsonian's National Museum of Asian Art, this volume explores a range of artistic, historical, and technical exchanges that shaped the arts of Asia and late nineteenth-century America, through the juxtaposition of object-based, localized micro-histories. The richly illustrated volume features approximately 33 short essays, each taking a single object as a starting point to unravel complex, interconnected...
2312) Casino Jack and the United States of money: superlobbyist Jack Abramoff and the buying of Washington
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"A lavish showcase of paleoartist Jay Matternes's spectacular murals and sketches. For half a century, the artwork of Jay Matternes adorned the fossil halls of the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. Most prominent among his work was a set of immense murals documenting the story of mammal evolution over the past 56 million years. Matternes also worked with sculptor Neal Deaton to construct three dioramas showing environments from each...
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Planned to coincide with The Phillips Collection's centennial and exhibition, this volume offers insights and narratives on the Phillips's growing art collection from a range of voices, including artists, critics, and scholars. 'Seeing Differently' features works across wide-ranging media by artists from the 19th to the 21st centuries, including Benny Andrews, Alexander Calder, Edgar Degas, Simone Leigh, and Renee Stout. Includes an opening essay...
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From maps, monuments, and architectural features to stamps and currency, images of Native Americans have been used again and again on visual expressions of American national identity since before the country's founding. In this in-depth study, Cécile R. Ganteaume argues that these representations are not empty symbols but reflect how official and semi-official government institutions -- from the U.S. Army and the Department of the Treasury to the...
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