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Rex Ray
Everything She Touched: Life of Ruth Asawa
Shaping the World: Sculpture from Prehistory to Now
Frida in America
Horace Pippin: An American Modern
Islamic Art: Past, present, future
The Poster: A Visual History
Rethinking America's Past: Voices from the Kinsey African American Art and History Collection
The Power of Color: Five centuries of European painting
Restless enterprise: The art and life of Eliza Pratt Greatorex
Becoming America: Highlights from the Jonathan and Karin Fielding collection of folk art
Architecture of the Islamic west: North Africa , Iberian Peninsula, 700-1800-
Energy: Charles McGee at eighty-five
How Design Makes Us Think and Feel and Do Things
Warhol - a definitive biography
Abstract Art: a global history
Bauhaus Dessau Architecture
Gerhard Richter: Painting after all
The Jean-Michel Basquiat reader: Writings, interviews, and critical responses
Modern architecture: a critical history
Yinka Shonibare MBE
John Craxton: a life of gifts
Ai Weiwei: Good fences make good neighbors
Mid-century modern design: a complete sourcebook
Practical handbook for the emerging artist
Prints and their makers
We are here: visionaries of color transforming the art world
Modernism for the masses
Themes of contemporary art: Visual art after 1980 ed.2022
Matisse and decoration
Ceramic, Art and Civilisation
Making History: IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts
Latinx Art: Artists, Markets, and Politics
How Artifacts Afford: The Power and Politics of Everyday Things
Cubism in color: The still lifes of Juan Gris
Industry and Intelligence: Contemporary Art Since 1820
Since '45: America and the Making of Contemporary Art
Art Incorporated: The Story of Contemporary Art
After Modern Art: 1945-2017
The Story of Contemporary Art
Pewabic Pottery: A History Handcrafted in Detroit
Art Deco in Detroit
Michelangelo, God's Architect: The Story of his final years and greatest masterpiece
Hearts of our people: Native Women artists
A History of Art History
Mid-Michigan Modern
Leonardo da Vinci: A closer look
Essential Modernism: Design between the world wars
Outliers and American vanguard art
Chalk: The art and erasure of Cy Twombly
Between worlds: The art of Bill Traylor
Art in Chicago: a history from the fire to now
Art of Native America: The Charles and Valerie Diker collection
Vitamin T: Threads and textiles in contemporary art
Classical art: a life history from antiquity to the present
Chicano and Chicana art: a critical anthology
The American Pre-Raphaelites: Radical realists
Verrocchio: Sculptor and painter of Renaissance Florence
Conversations by Ai, Weiwei
A mile and a half of lines: The art of James Thurber
Building America: The life of Benjamin Henry Latrobe