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Body Objects, page spread

Body Objects

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Whether through direct influences or broader affinities, African, Pre-Columbian, and Indigenous American objects undoubtedly informed the practice of Western artists throughout the 20th century. This catalog, from the inaugural show at New York’s Pace Primitive Gallery, juxtaposes body objects from...Read More
Book cover of Bog-Trotting for Orchids

Bog-Trotting for Orchids

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Grace Greylock Niles was a botanist, teacher, collector, photographer, free spirit, swamp-explorer, writer, and nature enthusiast. This fascinating and beautifully illustrated book opens the readers' eyes and mind to a world of natural beauty that few would dare to explore. A native of...Read More
Box of Smile Y.O '71 and enclosure

A Box of Smile

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This multiple was created by George Maciunas, ostensible leader of the avant-garde movement Fluxus, in conjunction with Yoko Ono’s 1971 retrospective This is Not Here at the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse, NY. Yoko Ono, artist, peace activist, and widow of John Lennon has used smiles as a...Read More
British mineralogy or coloured figures intended to elucidate the mineralogy of Great Britain.

British Mineralogy

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James Sowerby's British Mineralogy is the first comprehensive illustrated work on mineralogy. Though more than 200 years old, in many ways it has never been superceded. It was issued in parts over 15 years and ultimately contained 550 plates meticulously drawn from actual specimens, engraved and...Read More
Cover of Brown Gold

Brown Gold

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Brown Gold traces the development of African American children’s literature from the 1870s to the 2000s. The book includes literary criticism and pedagogy, as well as literary history and cultural analysis. The author discusses the use and impact of racial terms such as Afro, Negro, African...Read More
Sammlung der wichtigsten europäischen Nutzhölzer in characterischen Schnitten

Burkart's Sammlung der Wichtigsten Europäischen Nutzhölzer in Characterischen Schnitten

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Burkart's Sammlung contains a brief text on European species of trees, including pines, firs, yews, oaks, willows, fruit woods, and others, but its glory is the 40 plates — one per species — consisting of actual wood samples in thin transverse, radial, and tangential cross-sections, held between...Read More
Catalog and self-guided walking tour itinerary of Immovable Objects I

Catalog and Self-Guided Walking Tour Itinerary of Immovable Objects I

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Immovable Objects I was the first of a series of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum exhibitions to showcase architecture and urban design beyond the walls of its home at the Carnegie Mansion on East 91st Street. Project director Dorothy Twining Globus and museum director Lisa Taylor produced...Read More
Catalogue of an exhibition of paintings and sculpture by American Negro Artists at the National Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution, 1929

Catalogue of an Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture by American Negro Artists

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The American Negro Artists show (1929 and 1930) was part of a traveling exhibition of African American art sponsored by the Harmon Foundation and the Federal Council of Churches (FCC) staged in the Smithsonian’s National Museum building (known today as the Arts and Industries Building). Most of the...Read More
Catalogue de la collection archéologique provenant des fouilles et explorations

Catalogue de la Collection Archéologique Provenant des Fouilles et Explorations

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This rare catalogue of an exhibition in Paris in 1883 – held by only six libraries in the U.S. – provides descriptions and brief historical explanations of 102 antiquities from Mexico and the Yucatan that famed French archaeologist Désiré Charnay (1828-1915) acquired during an expedition of...Read More
Catalogue d'une tres-belle collection des objets de troise regnes de la nature...

Catalogue d'une tres-belle collection des objets de troise regnes de la nature...

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This is the auction catalogue of one of the most impressive private collections of natural-history specimens ever formed. Pasquay (1719-77) was a physician in Frankfurt and privy councilor of Anhalt-Dessau; he formed the collection over many years, assembling more than 9000 specimens of minerals,...Read More

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