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Art & Photography
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Sudden and Solitary: Mount Shasta and Its Artistic Legacy, 1841–2008
William C. Miesse with Robyn G. Peterson
Paperback, ISBN: 978-1-59714-088-1, $35.00
Generations of artistic tributes to California’s mythic giant |
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Yosemite Meditations
Photographs by Michael Frye
Foreword by Michael Tollefson
Hardcover, ISBN: 978-1-59714-094-2, $9.95
Yosemite Valley is a source of inspiration in this inspirational photo gift book |
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Luminous Mountains: The Sierra Nevada of California
Photographs and text by Tim Palmer
Paperback, ISBN: 978-1-59714-077-5, $19.95
Breathtaking new photography and ideas explore the Range of Light |
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All the Saints of the City of the Angels:
Seeking the Soul of L.A. on Its Streets
J. Michael Walker
Paperback with flaps, ISBN: 978-1-59714-075-1, $35.00
An artist’s homage to everyday Angelenos |
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A Seed of Modernism:
The Art Students League of Los Angeles, 1906–1953
Will South, Marian Yoshiki-Kovinick, and Julia Armstrong-Totten
Paperback, ISBN: 978-1-59714-076-8, $24.95
Artwork from the early days of L.A.’s modern art scene. |
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Impressions of the East:
Treasures from the C. V. Starr East Asian Library, University of California, Berkeley
Deborah Rudolph
Hardcover, ISBN: 978-1-59714-060-7, $39.95
An opulent look at East Asia’s printed and handwritten treasures |
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First Families:
A Photographic History of California Indians
L. Frank and Kim Hogeland
Paperback, ISBN: 978-1-59714-013-3, $23.95
Family photo albums provide an intimate look at Native American life |
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Under the Dragon: California’s New Culture
Lonny Shavelson and Fred Setterberg
Paperback, ISBN: 978-1-59714-045-4, $24.95
What’s next after multiculturalism? California forges new frontiers. |
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Gables and Fables:
A Portrait of San Francisco’s Pacific Heights
Anne Bloomfield and Arthur Bloomfield, Illustrated by Kit Haskell
Cloth, ISBN: 978-1-59714-055-3, $30.00
Trade Paper, ISBN: 978-1-59714-056-0, $19.95
An architectural and social history of one of San Francisco’s most attractive neighborhoods |
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Our People, Our Land, Our Images: International Indigenous Photography
Edited by Hulleah J. Tsinhnahjinnie and Veronica Passalacqua
Trade Paper, ISBN: 978-1-59714-057-7, $27.95
Over 100 years of indigenous art photography |
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Theodore Wores in the Southwest
Edited by Stephen Becker, Foreword by David Turner, Afterword by Tessie Naranjo, Preface by Bill Gerdts
Trade Paper, ISBN: 978-1-59714-047-8, $24.95
An exploration of the artist’s paintings of Native Americans in the Southwest |
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The Architecture of Ratcliff
Woodruff Minor
Cloth, ISBN: 978-1-59714-042-3, $39.95
232 pages (9 x 9)
The story of an architecture firm that has shaped the Bay Area for over one hundred years |
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Ira Nowinski's San Francsico: Poets, Politics, and Divas
Ira Nowinski, Foreword by Rebecca Solnit
Trade paper, ISBN: 1-59714-040-6, $27.95
112 pages (10.5 x 12), with 85 duotone photographs
A beautifully printed collection of unforgettable faces across three decades |
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Dark Metropolis: Irving Norman's Social Surrealism
Crocker Art Museum and Irving Norman Trust
Edited by Ray Day and Scott A. Shields
Trade paper, ISBN 1-59714-041-4, $35.00
224 pages (9 x 12), with 154 color plates
Colorful and provocative art with a social concience |
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Past Tents: The Way We Camped
Susan Snyder
Trade Paper, ISBN: 1-59714-039-2, $17.95
128 pp (9 x 8), with 108 b&w images
A gift book for camping enthusiasts and those who enjoy quirky old photographs |
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El Corazón de la Muerte:
Altars and Offerings for Days of the Dead
The Oakland Museum of California
Trade Paper, ISBN: 1-59714-008-2, $24.95
A sumptuous tribute to a remarkable cultural feat. More… |
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The High Sierra of California
Poems and Journals by Gary Snyder, Woodcuts by Tom Killion
Trade Paper, ISBN: 1-890771-99-6, $24.95
Now available in paperback! |
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Deeper Than Gold:
A Guide to Indian Life in the Sierra Region
Brian Bibby, Photographs by Dugan Aguilar
Trade Paper, ISBN: 0-930588-96-7, $18.95
Part guide, part literary tribute, part photo album, this beautifully designed book features the memories and knowledge of Gold Countrys first peoplesthe Native Americans who know the area best. |
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The Front Lines of Social Change:
Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade
Richard Bermack
Trade Paper, ISBN: 1-59714-000-7, $19.95
This book presents a moving portrait of the Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, a brave group of people who over the last sixty years have participated in virtually every progressive social movement in America. Though they rarely win, they are never defeated. |
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Drawn West: Selections from the Robert B. Honeyman Jr. Collection of Early Californian and Western Art and Americana
Jack von Euw and Genoa Shepley
Cloth, 228 pages (11 x 11), ISBN: 1-890771-92-9, $39.95
Co-published with the Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley
California and the West in the days of exploration and settlement was a region full of adventure, danger, and wonders. And before there were cameras, artists depicted all of it. |
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Peaceful Painter: Memoirs of an Issei Woman Artist
Hisako Hibi
Trade paper, ISBN: 1-890771-90-2, $20.00
Hisako Hibi's paintings offer an insight into the daily life of a woman who would not abandon her art or betray her spirit. |
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Dream Songs and Ceremony: Reflections on Traditional California Indian Dance
Frank LaPena
Cloth, 48 pages (8 x 10), ISBN: 1-890771-79-1, $25.00
With 16 full-color plates
A Great Valley Book
This collection of paintings by acclaimed artist Frank LaPena draws upon the symbols of California Indian dancessacred events that cannot be photographed or videotaped. Himself a Nomtipom Wintu dancer, singer, and ceremonial leader, LaPena complements his vibrant paintings and poetry with an introduction and commentary. |
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At Work: The Art of California Labor
Edited by Mark Dean Johnson
Foreword by Gray Brechin, Afterword by Tillie Olsen
Trade paper, ISBN: 1-890771-67-8, $35.00
This powerful visual journey follows early events and conditions, from the rise of statewide organized labor to the changing demographics of the wartime workforce; from the zenith of the California Labor School to the farm workers movement; from the disenfranchisement of workers in the service economy to the potent effects of globalization felt at the end of the twentieth century. More... |
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Structures of Utility
David Stark Wilson
Cloth, ISBN: 1-890771-62-7, $45.00
This daringly designed book reflects upon the functionality, allure, and extraordinary presence of these often unobserved and overlooked buildings. |
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River of Words: Images and Poetry in Praise of Water
Edited by Pamela Michael, Introductions by Robert Hass and Thacher Hurd
Trade paper, ISBN: 1-890771-65-1, $12.00
Culled from the annual River of Words art and poetry contest, here is an exceptional selection of creative work from young people (ages 519) across America and around the world. |
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Quizzical Eye: The Photography of Rondal Partridge
Elizabeth Partridge and Sally Stein
Trade paper, ISBN: 1-890771-57-0, $21.95
Intimately associated with the great photographers of his time, Partridge creates his own breathtakingly intimate portraits, devastating environmental statements, compositional wonders, and telling moments from six decades of American history |
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The Dirt Is Red Here:
Art and Poetry from Native California
Edited by Margaret Dubin
Trade paper, ISBN: 1-890771-546, $16.95
The Dirt is Red Here brings together works by many of todays finest artists and poets of Californias Indian communities. |
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Shades of California: The Hidden Beauty of Ordinary Life
California's Family Album
Edited by Kimi Kodani Hill
Trade paper, ISBN: 1-890771-44-9 , $18.95
Shades of California brings together the most arresting, humorous, poignant, and memorable images from California's personal family albums. Collected throughout the state at local libraries, these photos are a reflection of ourselves and our place in this state we call home. |
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Courthouses of California: An Illustrated History
Edited with an Introduction by Ray McDevitt
Foreword by Ronald M. George, Chief Justice of California
Cloth, ISBN: 1-890771-49-X , $50.00
With elegant photographs and informative text, Courthouses of California reveals how the role of the courthouse has evolved from a small building dedicated to trial and study into a full service administration building. |
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Henry Sugimoto: Painting an American Experience
Kristine Kim with an introduction by Karin Higa
Trade paper, ISBN: 1-890771-43-0, $24.95
From his early years in California, Paris, and Mexico to the transformative impact of the World War II incarceration of Japanese Americans, Sugimoto's art became a vivid expression of the American immigrant experience. |
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Topaz Moon: Chiura Obata's Art of the Internment
Edited by Kimi Kodani Hill
Trade paper, ISBN: 1-890771-26-0, $22.50
A great artist bears witness to the Japanese American internment, in this beautifully illustrated book accompanied by a text which draws heavily upon family letters and documents and interviews. |
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The Fine Art of California Indian Basketry
Edited by Brian Bibby
Trade paper, ISBN:0-930588-87-8, $22.50
California Indian baskets are considered by many to be among the world's most beautiful, sophisticated, and cherished art objects. |
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Picturing California's Other Landscape:
The Great Central Valley
Edited by Heath Schenker
Trade paper, ISBN: 1-890771-25-2, $35.00
A full-color look at the art and legacy of California's Great Central Valley. |
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