11 x 12", 240 pages, Hardcover, 115 color plates.
Written by Loring W. Coleman, NA, AWS; Edited by Hugh Fortmiller with a Foreword by Henry Adams. Published by Hard Press Editions in association with Hudson Hills Press.
ISBN: 978-1-55595-341-6

Loring W. Coleman, distinguished plein air painter of New England landscapes, recounts amusing and intriguing experiences as a life-long student and teacher of painting. This autobiography, sparked by a dramatic loss of vision in his right eye due to a hemorrhage in 2009, is testament to the artist's on-going creative journey. Thirty anecdotal essays are featured, showcasing his realist paintings representative of his work from the 1950s through the early 21st century.
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11 x 11", 140 pages, 178 photos / illustrations (includes 11 black and white).
Authored by Aliza Edelman with contributions by Michele Cohen, Ron Bishop, Barbara Anderson Hill, Jennifer McGregor and John Driscoll.
Published by Hard Press Editions in association with Hudson Hills Press.
ISBN 978-1-55595-346-1

MARYLYN DINTENFASS PARALLEL PARK is the first book to celebrate this internationally-known artist and her recent artworks that reveals her life-long love affair with automobiles, especially the culturally iconic high-powered, sporty, sexy muscle cars that streamed out of Detroit from the late 1950s to the mid-1970s. The book thoroughly documents Dintenfass’ drawings, monotypes and paintings on automotive themes and critically explores how they are the genesis for the monumental and transformative site-specific installation---the latest in a long series of such works---entitled Parallel Park in Fort Myers, Florida.
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9 x 6”, 220 pages, 15 color plates.
Essays by Amy Goldin, Robert Kushner and others.
ISBN: 978-1-55595-342-3

The first-ever collection of essays by influential art critic, Amy Goldin. Over thirty essays taken from the pages of Artnews, Artforum, Art Journal, New American Review, International Journal for Aesthetics and Art Criticism, Art in America and her personal journals during the 60s and 70s, have been selected by artist Robert Kushner and relayed with insightful accounts from prominent art world writers.

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11 x 12", Hardcover cloth bound; 172 pages; 85 color plates and 85 b/w plates
by James A. Craig, Introduction and Essay by Peter Williams
Deluxe leather bound edition available
Published by Hard Press Editions
ISBN-13: 978-1-55595-329-4

This is the first definitive survey of America’s last true marine artist Frank Vining Smith (1879-1967) perhaps best know for his technically accurate Clipper Ships. This extensive collection is a celebration of Smith’s nostalgia and admiration for the great outdoors, sportsmanship, maritime traditions and the sea. read more
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11 x 12", Hardcover, cloth binding; 208 pages; 240 color plates and photographs
Interview by Carol Diehl, Essay by Lisa Corrin
Hard Press Editions in association
with Hudson Hills Press
ISBN-13: 978-1555953195
Includes limited edition DVD
ISBN 1555952437

With 50 pounds of art supplies on his back, one French easel, a laptop and nine weeks in each location, Mike Glier is a plein-air painter with a modern day twist, traveling along the 70th line of longitude to the Arctic, Ecuador, the Caribbean, and New York City addressing the urgent issue of man's connection to and place in nature.
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JERRY SALTZ
Seeing Out Louder After a decade of serving as Art Critic for the Village Voice, Jerry Saltz, a one time truck driver turned seasoned art critic, has since 2007 held the coveted title of Senior Art Critic at New York Magazine. Picking up in 2003, shortly after the wrenching contested 2000 election, the attacks of September 11, and the ramping-up of the Iraq War, Seeing Out Louder brilliantly reveals the rise of the hyper art market, the capitulation to money, the dark politics that form the background of this bright period, to the collapse and fall of this market and those politics.
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IRVING SANDLER
Abstract Expressionism and the American Experience: A Reevaluation In 1970, Irving Sandler published The Triumph of American Painting: A History of Abstract Expressionism, a book that quickly became the definitive account of the movement. Now, after a 50-year career as one of America's most distinguished and influential critics and art historians, Sandler reassesses his own thoughts on Abstract Expressionism in light of recent scholarship and his own observations. read the introduction (pdf)
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KENNETH SNELSON
Forces Made Visible This full-rounded portrait of the man charged with having “designs on the universe” is comprised of photo essays tracking Snelson’s artistic and personal development and his working process as well as an analytical text by Eleanor Heartney (Art in America) and pages of plates representing his sculptures, three dimensional and digital models of the atom, and panoramic photographs. read more
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