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The pursuit of color has long spurred economic and social contest, and through this deeply researched volume we explore the stories that the materials used to dye cloth tell us about our complex relationship to nature, our troubling ideas about progress and our understanding of power and labor.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eIn Pursuit of Color\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e brings together historic techniques, archive photography, specimens and present-day events to tell the histories of some of the world’s most important dyestuffs. A 32-page supplement accompanies the volume, detailing practical applications and the chemistry behind dyeing processes. The book comes in three different covers (red, yellow and blue) which are shipped randomly as a further happy surprise.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eLauren MacDonald\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (born 1990) is a Canadian-born multidisciplinary artist, designer and founder of the London, UK textiles studio Working Cloth. 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Apsáalooke (Crow) artist Wendy Red Star works across mediums to reconsider and liberate archival photographs and materials from a fixed historical moment. Starting with the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eCrow Peace Delegation\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e series (2014), This publication articulates the connections between Red Star's annotated 19th-century portraits and her more recent works that recontextualize hand-painted illustrations of artifacts in the Denver Art Museum's Indigenous collection. Red Star juxtaposes these with her own photographs of the Crow Nation's annual fair in Montana. Returning to her handwritten notes in the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eBíiluuke\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e series (2023), Red Star also provides a nuanced intervention with Apsáalooke heritage items from several public collections. More than a meditation on the past, Red Star's archival work looks to the future and offers a new perspective on rematriation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eWendy Red Star\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (born 1981) was born in Billings, Montana, and lives and works in Portland, Oregon. She earned her BFA from Montana State University, Bozeman, and her MFA from the University of California, Los Angeles. Red Star's first solo exhibition, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eA Scratch on the Earth\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, opened at the Newark Museum of Art and toured to the San Antonio Museum of Art and the Columbus Museum of Art. 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Emoji, taken from the Japanese \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003ee\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e for picture and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003emoji\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e for character, bring nuance to our online interactions and are a part of the long history of improvements to human communication, from the invention of writing to the arrival of the printing press and the advent of computers.  In this volume of the MoMA \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eOne on One\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e series, collection specialist Paul Galloway traces the development of emoji from the cell phone companies and youth culture of 1990s Japan to its current status as a global phenomenon.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"D.A.P.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47932559065188,"sku":"978-1633451490","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0167\/9500\/9124\/files\/Untitleddesign-2026-02-19T142315.703.png?v=1771539802"},{"product_id":"fabric-of-a-nation-american-quilt-stories","title":"Fabric of a Nation: American Quilt Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eMade by Americans of European, African, Native and Hispanic heritage, these quilts and bedcovers range from family heirlooms to acts of political protest, each with its own story to tell.   \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA mother stitches a few lines of prayer into a bedcover for her son serving in the Union army during the Civil War. A formerly enslaved African American woman creates a quilt populated by Biblical figures alongside celestial events. A quilted Lady Liberty, George Washington and Abraham Lincoln mark the resignation of Richard Nixon. These are just a few of the diverse and sometimes hidden stories of the American experience told by quilts and bedcovers from the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSpanning more than 400 years, the 58 works of textile art in this book express the personal narratives of their makers and owners and connect to broader stories of global trade, immigration, industry, marginalization, and territorial and cultural expansion.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eArtists include\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e: Faith Ringgold, Sanford Biggers, Irene Williams, Bisa Butler, Harry Tyler, Harriet Powers, Marie D. 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At the same time, these nascent technologies led to concerns about authorship, automation and the viability of the businesses that supported various creative industries. During the 1990s, following the release of Photoshop, image-editing software rose to widespread use in multiple fields. As digitally altered imagery has permeated popular culture, aesthetic and ethical debates have played out in mass media, politics, advertising and even the judicial system.\u003cbr\u003eExamining the relationship between software development and artistic practice, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eDigital Witness\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e explores how artists and engineers responded to each others’ innovations. Each new version of Photoshop allowed for increasingly sophisticated edits, from tracing intricate paths to layers to editable type. Some artists found creative potential in these advances, taking analog art forms such as collage to digitally enabled extremes. Others resisted the growing dependence on mainstream commercial software, developing open-source alternatives.\u003cbr\u003ePublished in conjunction with the landmark PST ART exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, this substantial, image-packed volume includes Q\u0026amp;As with noted visual artists, filmmakers and designers such as Copper Frances Giloth, Raqi Syed and April Greiman.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003ePublished with Los Angeles County Museum of Art.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"D.A.P.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47932675129444,"sku":"978-1636811338","price":65.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0167\/9500\/9124\/files\/Untitleddesign-2026-02-19T145601.697.png?v=1771541770"},{"product_id":"routed-west-twentieth-century-african-american-quilts-in-california","title":"Routed West: Twentieth Century African American Quilts in California","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe first publication dedicated to historical African American quilts in California, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eRouted West\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e traces the flow and flourishing of quilts in the context of the Second Great Migration from 1940 to 1970. As millions of African Americans sought greater economic opportunities and freedom outside of the American South, hundreds of thousands initially arrived in the Golden State. Many migrants carried quilts as functional objects and physical reminders of the homes they left behind. 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