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Albany
Institute of History & Art: 200 Years of Collecting
(Paper, $50 + Tax)
This comprehensive overview of AIHA's American art and decorative-arts
collections, edited by Tammis K. Groft and Mary Alice Mackay, presents
color plates and essays about 130 objects (of a total exceeding 20,000)
dating from the beginning of the seventeenth century to the 1990s, each
chosen for its national significance, artistic merit, and relevance to
the Institute’s mission: collecting and interpreting the art, history,
and culture of New York State’s Upper Hudson Valley through four
centuries.
Matters
of Taste: Food and Drink in Seventeenth Century Dutch Art and Life
(2002; Paper,
$49.95 + Tax)
This 192-page
book illustrated with 60+ full-color reproductions, includes essays on
the history and popularity of Dutch art in America, the symbolism of
food and drink in Dutch paintings, aspects of Dutch and Dutch-American
culinary history and 17th and 19th century Dutch and Dutch American
recipes. A cookbook for the modern kitchen is included.
Richard
Callner: 50 Year Retrospective
(Paper, ($15 + Tax)
This 57-page book, including 30+ full-color reproductions and essays by
The New York Times Art critic Ken Johnson and AIHA Chief Curator Tammis
K. Groft, celebrates the work of one of the upper Hudson Valley's most
significant artists.
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