Posts Tagged ‘reference’

tattoo history museum

Wednesday, September 21st, 2011

tattoo history museum

MATCHA: Japanese Tattoo at Asian Art Museum of San Francisco


Kiki Smith: Prints, Books And Things


Kiki Smith: Prints, Books And Things


$33.99


Well-known as a sculptor, Kiki Smith has also worked extensively as a printmaker–in fact her printed works and other editioned art, including books and multiples, are arguably as important as her sculpture. Smith emerged in the early 1980s as one of a generation of artists who returned to figurative imagery after a period in which American art had leaned to the abstract and conceptual. In Smith’s…

Lua: Art of the Hawaiian Warrior


Lua: Art of the Hawaiian Warrior


$19.95



Adorning the World: Art of the Marquesas Islands (Metropolitan Museum of Art)


Adorning the World: Art of the Marquesas Islands (Metropolitan Museum of Art)


$15.72


Renowned as the final refuge of Paul Gauguin, the Marquesas Islands northeast of Tahiti are home to the Enata, a Polynesian people who developed one of the most extraordinary traditions of sculpture and decorative art in the Pacific. This book features works, including many previously unpublished, from the Metropolitan and other museums and private collections, and it explores the fascinating ways…