Corn of America

Wanda M. Corn's long-awaited new book proposes a remarkable revisioning of the history of American modern art between the two world wars. Moving away from issues of style and abstraction, she bases her work on a broad examination of culture and on discourses of national identity. Corn argues that the ...more

My name is Tax'a Leon and this book is about my family and my people, the K'iche' Maya. My father was murdered three years ago. I still have my mother and 12 brothers and sisters. Nothing was done to solve the murder of my father or the people that turn ...more

Villa America: American Moderns, 1900-1950 documents for the first time one of the worldís most celebrated private collections of early twentieth-century American art. Curtis Galleries, Inc. founder Myron Kunin has spent much of his life slowly amassing major paintings by key American modernists including Georgia OíKeeffe, Romare Bearden, Stuart Davis, ...more

A Gardner Museum symposium on American cultural leadership. ...more

Combining botany, archaeology, and art history, Corn in Clay provides a novel approach to the study of contact between ancient American cultures. Mary Eubanks integrates evidence from replicas of maize on ancient pottery vessels -- from the Oaxaca region of Mexico and the northern coast of Peru -- with other ...more