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Tutankhamun and the golden age of the pharaohs

2005
Provides a detailed analysis of Egyptian King Tutankhamun's life and historical significance. Includes information on the archeological efforts to analyze the king's tomb and coffin. Contains several photographs and diagrams.

Birth of the cool

California art, design, and culture at midcentury
2007
Explores the design innovations of mid-twentieth-century Los Angeles, in architecture, painting, graphic arts, film, and music, which helped establish the area as a cultural center for the rest of the century.

Baghdad journal

an artist in occupied Iraq
2005
Contains nearly two hundred watercolors and drawings of life in Baghdad from May 2003 to October 2004, depicting American soldiers and Iraqi civilians, and includes written observations by the artist.

Tutankhamun

the golden king and the great pharaohs
2008
A companion to the 2008-2009 traveling museum exhibit, providing a survey of ancient Egyptian history, focusing on the lives and lifestyle of the major pharaohs, and including photographs of over 120 artifacts in the tour.

Hudson River school

masterworks from the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
2003
Features fifty-seven major Hudson River School paintings from the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art's collection.

Yosemite

art of an American icon
2006
A collection of essays accompanied by two hundred works of art that explore the intersection of art and nature in Yosemite National Park.

Mathew Brady and the image of history

1997
Photographs and text help describe how Civil War photographer Mathew Brady used the documentary medium of photography to portray a stable, purposeful, patriotic nation during the years before, during, and after the war.

When the pyramids were built

Egyptian art of the Old Kingdom
1999

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