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Sheep Meadow Press
Vilnius
History
The history of the amazing Lithuanian city written by the great poet most qualified to write about it.
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Venclova, Tomas |
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University Press of New England
Massachusetts Quilts
Our Common Wealth
Decorative Arts & Material Culture / Textiles / Massachusetts
The definitive treasury of Massachusetts’s historic quilts, and a tribute to the creative spirit of their makers
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Bassett, Lynne Zacek, ed. |
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University Press of New England
The Art of Worcester Porcelain, 1751–1788
Masterpieces from the British Museum Collection
Decorative Arts & Material Culture / Antiques & Collectibles - Ceramics
An enlightening introduction to the subject for the non-specialist, and an essential reference for the collector
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Dawson, Aileen |
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University Press of New England
Harbor & Home
Furniture of Southeastern Massachusetts, 1710–1850
Decorative Arts & Material Culture / Furniture / Antiques & Collectibles / Massachusetts
Presented for the first time, the richly illustrated findings of the Southeastern Massachusetts Furniture project at Winterthur Museum
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Jobe, Brock. Gary R. Sullivan, Jack O’Brien |
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University Press of New England
Adirondack Wildlife
A Field Guide
New York / Nature
The first comprehensive field guide to the habitats and wildlife of the Adirondack State Park
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Ryan, James M. |
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University Press of New England
Art Museums PLUS
Cultural Excursions in New England
New England Art / Guidebook
An engaging guide to over 150 art museums and more throughout New England
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Marshall, Traute M. |
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Dartmouth College Press
The Mindful Medical Student
A Psychiatrist’s Guide to Staying Who You Are While Becoming Who You Want to Be
Reference & Bibliography / Medicine & Public Health
The essential primer on surviving the rigors of medical school—and thriving there—through the application of self-knowledge, self-care, and self-control
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Spiegel, Jeremy, MD; Bernie Siegel, M.D., intro. |
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Brandeis University Press
Tempest in the Temple
Jewish Communities and Child Sex Scandals
Sociology / Jewish Studies
A brave collection of essays by rabbis, educators, lawyers, and psychotherapists on sexual abuse within the Jewish clergy
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Neustein, Amy, ed. |
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Brandeis University Press
All-Out for Victory!
Magazine Advertising and the World War II Home Front
American Studies / World War II / Advertising
A lively look at magazine ads during World War II and their roles in sustaining morale and promoting home-front support of the war, with lots of illustrations
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Jones, John Bush |
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Dartmouth College Press
Where the Great River Rises
An Atlas of the Upper Connecticut River Watershed in Vermont and New Hampshire
New England / New Hampshire / Vermont
A lavishly illustrated, comprehensive, interdisciplinary study of the natural and human elements that comprise the Upper Connecticut River watershed
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Brown, Rebecca A., ed. |
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University of New Hampshire Press
The Sustainable Learning Community
One University’s Journey to the Future
Ecology & Environmental Studies / Sustainability
Case studies from the University of New Hampshire explore all the dimensions of sustainability in campus life, combining frugality and creativity
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Aber, John, Tom Kelly, and Bruce Mallory, eds. |
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University Press of New England
Landscape of Industry
An Industrial History of the Blackstone Valley
New England / History - New England
An illustrated history of the cradle of American industrialization
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Worcester Historical Museum; Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, fwd. |
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Salve Regina University
Newport Through Its Architecture
A History of Styles from Postmedieval to Postmodern
New England / Architecture / Rhode Island
A comprehensive architectural history of America’s greatest living architectural laboratory.
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Yarnall, James L. |
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University Press of New England
Cleveland Amory
Media Curmudgeon and Animal Rights Crusader
Biography & Letters
The definitive biography of prominent social historian, television critic, and animal-rights activist Cleveland Amory
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Greenwald, Marilyn |
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Brandeis University Press
Gaby Brimmer
An Autobiography in Three Voices
Biography & Letters / Autobiography / Disability Stu
The remarkable autobiography of Mexican-Jewish disability rights activist and writer Gabriela Brimmer
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Brimmer, Gaby and Elena Poniatowska |
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Brandeis University Press
Gender and American Jews
Patterns in Work, Education, and Family in Contemporary Life
Sociology / Jewish Studies
A much-anticipated sociological analysis of gender components in contemporary American Jewish life based on the most recent population data
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Hartman, Harriet and Moshe Hartman; Sylvia Barack Fishman, pref. |
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Brandeis University Press
Levirate Marriage and the Family in Ancient Judaism
Jewish Studies / Women's Studies
Provocative exploration of levirate marriage in ancient Judaism that sheds new light on the Jewish family in antiquity and the rabbinic reworking of earlier Israelite law
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Weisberg, Dvora E. |
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Brandeis University Press
Philosophical Witnessing
The Holocaust as Presence
Philosophy & Ethics / Jewish Studies
Fascinating philosophical inquiry into post-Holocaust representations of the event in political theory, ethics, and aesthetics, and an assessment of the limitations and promise of philosophical ‘witnessing’ in relation to those issues
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Lang, Berel |
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Brandeis University Press
Learning and Community
Jewish Supplementary Schools in the Twenty-First Century
Education / Jewish Studies
Rich ethnographies of Jewish supplementary schools drawn from every region in the U.S.
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Wertheimer, Jack |
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Northeastern University Press
Women, Violence, and the Media
Readings in Feminist Criminology
Media Studies / Women's Studies / Criminology
Provocative collection of essays designed to give students an understanding of media representations of women’s experience of violence and to educate a new generation to recognize and critique media images of women
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Humphries, Drew, ed. |
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University Press of New England
Transgender Voices
Beyond Women and Men
Gender Studies / Sociology
A revealing look at the lives and perspectives of transgender and gender variant people, based on 150 personal interviews
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Girshick, Lori B., Green, Jamison fwd. |
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University of New Hampshire Press
Maid as Muse
How Servants Changed Emily Dickinson’s Life and Language
Literary Criticism / Women's Studies
A startlingly original work establishing the impact of domestic servants on the life and writings of Emily Dickinson
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Murray, Aífe |
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Dartmouth College Press
Rousseau on Women, Love, and Family
Philosophy & Ethics / Political Science & Government / Women's Studies
An exceptional anthology designed for courses on Rousseau, the history of philosophy, and women’s studies
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Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, Kelly, Christopher and Eve Grace, eds. |
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Dartmouth College Press
The Art of Evolution
Darwin, Darwinisms, and Visual Culture
Art / History - 20th Century / History & Theory
A timely and stimulating collection of essays about the impact of Darwin's ideas on visual culture
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Larson, Barbara, Fae Brauer, eds. |
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Dartmouth College Press
Writing National Cinema
Film Journals and Film Culture in Peru
Media Studies / Film, TV, Visual Culture
A study of Peruvian Cinema and the role of criticism in forming a national cinematic vision
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Middents, Jeffrey |
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University Press of New England
Saber’s Edge
A Combat Medic in Ramadi, Iraq
Memoir
A combat medic reconciles his roles as a soldier, healer, and man of faith in a time of war
October 2010 (new in paper) |
Middleton, Thomas A. |
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University of New Hampshire Press
Slavic Sins of the Flesh
Food, Sex, and Carnal Appetite in Nineteenth-Century Russian Fiction
Literary Criticism / Literature & Language - Slavic
A pathbreaking “gastrocritical” approach to the poetics of Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and their contemporaries
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LeBlanc, Ronald D. |
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University of New Hampshire Press
Newlyweds on Tour
Honeymooning in Nineteenth-Century America
American Studies / Decorative Arts & Material Culture
An original, richly illustrated analysis of American honeymooning, 1820-1900, that offers fresh insights into the intersecting histories of tourism, consumerism, sentiment, sexuality, and conjugality
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Penner, Barbara |
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University of New Hampshire Press
Remodeling the Nation
The Architecture of American Identity, 1776-1858
Architecture / American Studies
A rich analysis of how post Revolutionary Americans conceptualized the early Republic through metaphors of home building
February 2009 (new in paper) |
Faherty, Duncan |
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Dartmouth College Press
Errands into the Metropolis
New England Dissidents in Revolutionary London
History - American / Colonial America
An exploration of the transatlantic character of early-American religious dissent
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Field, Jonathan Beecher |
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The Trinity School
Charity and Merit
Trinity School at 300
Education / History - American / New York City
The fascinating, comprehensive history of a preeminent New York independent educational institution
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Jacobson, Timothy C. |
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International Polar Institute
The Veins of the Heart to the Pinnacle of the Mind
Taqqat uummammut aqqutaannut takorluukkat apuuffiannut
Bi-lingual Edition
Poetry / Arctic Studies
Moving poetic expressions of the very close interrelationships between culture and politics in modern Greenland by a gifted Greenlandic poet
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Lynge, Aqqaluk |
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International Polar Institute
Journals in Greenland
1770-1778
Arctic Studies / Explorations
A firsthand account of previously almost inaccessible eastern Greenland
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Egede, Hans |
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International Polar Institute
Inuit Folk-Tales
Arctic Studies / Explorations
Back in print, “Eskimo” folklore collected by pioneering northern anthropologist Knud Rasmussen
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Rasmussen, Knud, collector; Birgit Kleist Pederson and Jette Rygarrd, intro. |
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Wesleyan University Press
Paris Spleen
little poems in prose
Poetry / Literature & Language-French
A modernist classic translated for the twenty-first century
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Baudelaire, Charles, Waldrop, Keith, tr. |
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Wesleyan University Press
The Place Where You Go to Listen
In Search of an Ecology of Music
Music / Arctic Studies / Ecology & Environmental Studies
A personal journey into the music of the Arctic
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Adams, John Luther |
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Wesleyan University Press
Some Liked It Hot
Jazz Women in Film and Television, 1928–1959
Music / Media Studies / Women's Studies
Investigates the changing representations of jazz women in American culture
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McGee, Kristin A. |
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Wesleyan University Press
The Jewel-Hinged Jaw
Notes on the Language of Science Fiction
Revised Edition
Cultural Studies / Literary Criticism / Science Fiction
An indispensable work of science fiction criticism revised and expanded
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Delany, Samuel R. |
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Wesleyan University Press
Fire in the Stone
Prehistoric Fiction from Charles Darwin to Jean M. Auel
Science Fiction / Literary Criticism / Literary Studies / Science Stu
The first comprehensive study of prehistoric fiction
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Ruddick, Nicholas |
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Wesleyan University Press
On Joanna Russ
Literary Criticism / Science Fiction / Women's Studies / Science Fiction Studies
A multifaceted look at one of science fiction and feminism’s most original voices
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Mendlesohn, Farah, ed. |
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Wesleyan University Press
Stories in Stone
How Geology Influenced Connecticut History and Culture
Geography & Geology / History / Connecticut
Exploring the many facets of Connecticut’s unique geology
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Zeilinga de Boer, Jelle |
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The Acorn Club
Original Discontents
Commentaries on the Creation of Connecticut’s Constitution of 1818
Published in association with the Acorn Club.
Connecticut / History - American / Legal History
Primary documents illuminate the second Hartford Convention
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Buel, Richard, Jr. and George J. Willauer, eds. |
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Wesleyan University Press
Gilgamesh
A Verse Play
Poetry / Theater & Performing Arts
The first dramatic adaptation of Gilgamesh
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Komunyakaa, Yusef and Chad Garcia |
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Wesleyan University Press
The Sights Along the Harbor
New and Collected Poems
Poetry
The comprehensive collection of a master of the American modern form
February 2009 (new in paper) |
Shapiro, Harvey |
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Cavankerry Press
We Mad Climb Shaky Ladders
Poetry
A strange and paranoid journey through the poet's schizophrenia
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Wagner, Pamela Spiro |
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La Presse Books
Heliotropes
La Presse is an imprint of Fence Books
Poetry / Literature & Language-French
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Sekiguchi, Ryoko, O’Brien, Sarah, translator |
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La Presse Books
It
La Presse is an imprint of Fence Books
Poetry
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Fourcade, Dominique, Consenstein, Peter, translator |
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Four Way Books
And So
Poetry
Poetry that frames and zooms close-up on lovers and strangers as they couple and recoil
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Brouwer, Joel |
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Four Way Books
Rising
Poetry
New Southern poetry in which Field lets loose a Calamity Jane-like voice loaded with screwball humor
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Field, Farrah |
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Wesleyan University Press
Versed
Poetry
Winner of the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
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Armantrout, Rae |
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Saturnalia Books
Polytheogamy
Poetry
Explore themes of sexuality, marriage, monogamy, and fidelity through a series of 64 lyric poems and 24 painting/sculptures
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Liu, TImothy |
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Saturnalia Books
To the Bone
Poetry
Winner of the 2008 Saturnalia Books Poetry Prize, selected by Mark Doty
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Agudelo, Sebastian |
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The Grolier Club
This Perpetual Fight
Love and Loss in Virginia Woolf’s Intimate Circle
Books on Books / Women's Studies
An exhibition catalogue at the Grolier Club, September 16-November 22, 2008
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Funke, Sarah, Beekman, William |
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The Grolier Club
Vivat Rex!
An Exhibition Commemorating the 500th Anniversary of the Accession of Henry VIII
History - British & European
This catalogue to the Grolier Club exhibition Vivat Rex! brings the real Henry VIII, his life, reign, and time, to life through books, manuscripts, handwritten letters, and prints
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Schwarz, Arthur L., Guy, John; Hoak, Dale; Wabuda, Susan essayists |
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Robert Hull Fleming Museum
Architectural Improvisation
A History of Vermont’s Design/Build Movement 1964-1977
Architecture / Vermont
Documents a small but seminal architectural movement that sought to create a radical, new architecture characterized by organic forms, improvisational processes, hands-on methods, and use of natural materials
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Cohen, Janie, editor; Sagan, Danny; Dann, Kevin, essayists |
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New Britain Museum of American Art
Double Lives
American Art
A compelling catalogue documenting the work of American illustrators and painters who practiced painting as an art unto itself and as a means to tell a story
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Boyle, Richard |
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Norman Rockwell Museum at Stockbridge, MA
American Chronicles
The Art of Norman Rockwell
American Art
A must-have for all lovers of America’s favorite storyteller
March 2009 |
Pero, Linda Szekely |
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Hood Museum of Art
Immanence and Revelation
The Art of Ben Frank Moss
American Art
Offers the most comprehensive scholarly examination of Ben Frank Moss’s artistic inspirations and achievements to date
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Hood Museum of Art. Chuang, Joshua, essayist |
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Hood Museum of Art
Coastline to Skyline
The Philip H. Greene Gift of California Watercolors, 1930-1960
American Art
California-style watercolors are examined within the artistic and cultural context of their day
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MacAdam, Barbara J. |
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Hood Museum of Art
Sean Scully
The Art of the Stripe
American Art
A career retrospective centered on the signature stripe motif of one of the most esteemed abstract painters working today
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Kennedy, Brian |
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