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This catalogue accompanies "the first exhibition to explore the [guitar's] symbolism in American art from the early nineteenth century to the present day. Featuring approximately 130 works of art and 35 musical instruments, the exhibition demonstrates that guitars figure prominently in the visual stories Americans tell themselves about themselves: their histories, identities, and aspirations. The ... catalogue positions the guitar within a nex...

This exhibition catalog to the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts’ The Dirty South: Contemporary Art, Material Culture, and the Sonic Impulse chronicles the pervasive visual and sonic parallels in the work of Black artists from the southern United States.

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Li Jian is E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Curator of East Asian Art at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. He Li is associate curator of Chinese art at the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco. Houmei Sung is curator of Asian art at the Cincinnati Museum of Art. Ma Shengnan is associate researcher at the Palace Museum.

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In commemoration of its fiftieth anniversary, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Council has created a beautiful cookbook,

Containing 114 reproductions of works ranging from Jackson Pollock's dynamic 1948 drip painting to Kehinde Wiley's 2006 hip-hop-meets-Old-Master portrait, Modern and Contemporary Art at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts is a handsome collection that offers art enthusiasts a chance to recall old favorites and discover hidden treasures and new acquisitions. Taken from the nationally recognized collection of the same name at the VMFA, the works pr...

Sheds new light on a common but often overlooked contribution of British art: the sporting print. Highly sought after during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, these prints endure today as vivid, direct, and even witty symbols of English culture. Catching Sight features more than eighty prints and three essays that go beyond the symbolism to examine these works from both art-historical and social perspectives.

A New York lawyer with Virginia roots, T. Catesby Jones acquiredan extraordinary collection of paintings, drawings, prints, and sculptures by somesixty artists working in Paris during the early twentieth century. Jones'scollection of almost three hundred works, divided between two Virginia institutionsafter his death, is reunited here in an illustrated catalogue with a full-colorchecklist accompanied by entries on twenty-four of the artists. S...

Explores the rich artistic culture of Elizabethan and Stuart England and the artists who forged their reputations in the alternately violent and decadent circles of some of the last exponents of absolute monarchy.