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This book is the first comprehensive study of the lives and artistic production of artists of Asian Ancestry active in the United States before 1970. The publication features original essays by ten scholars, biographies of more than 150 artists, and over 400 reproductions of artwork, ephemera, and images of the artists.
Contemporary Art Monographs
August 2008, Stanford
Asian American art : a history, 1850-1970
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This book is the first comprehensive study of the lives and artistic production of artists of Asian Ancestry active in the United States before 1970. The publication features original essays by ten scholars, biographies of more than 150 artists, and over 400 reproductions of artwork, ephemera, and images of the artists.
Contemporary Art Monographs
Relearning from Las Vegas
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Immediately on its publication in 1972, "Learning from Las Vegas", by Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown, and Steven Izenour, was hailed as a transformative work in the history and theory of architecture, liberating those in architecture who were trying to find a way out of the straitjacket of architectural orthodoxies. Resonating far beyond the professional and(...)
Urban Theory
January 2009, Minneapolis
Relearning from Las Vegas
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Immediately on its publication in 1972, "Learning from Las Vegas", by Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown, and Steven Izenour, was hailed as a transformative work in the history and theory of architecture, liberating those in architecture who were trying to find a way out of the straitjacket of architectural orthodoxies. Resonating far beyond the professional and institutional boundaries of the field, the book contributed to a thorough rethinking of modernism and was subsequently taken up as an early manifestation and progenitor of postmodernism.
Urban Theory