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• Art on the Edge: 17 Contemporary American Artists (2004), contrib. by Virginia Shore (PDF at state.gov)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• The American Wing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York: Harrison House, 1987), by Marshall B. Davidson and Elizabeth Stillinger (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• In Pursuit of Beauty: Americans and the Aesthetic Movement (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1986), by Doreen Bolger (page images and PDF with commentary at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google)
• Nineteenth-Century America: Paintings and Sculpture; An Exhibition in Celebration of the Hundredth Anniversary of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, April 16 through September 7, 1970 (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1970), by John K. Howat and Natalie Spassky (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• Art and the Empire City: New York, 1825-1861 (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art; New Haven and London: Yale University Press, c2000), ed. by Catherine Hoover Voorsanger and John K. Howat (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• Elisabet Ney, Sculptor (New York: Devin-Adair, c1916), by Bride Neill Taylor
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  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Complementary Modernisms in China and the United States: Art as Life/Art as Idea (Punctum Books, c2020), by Zhang Jian and Bruce Robertson (PDF at oapen.org)

• New Horizons in American Art; 1985 Exxon National Exhibition (New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1985), by Lisa Dennison (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Young American Artists: 1978 Exxon National Exhibition (New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, 1978), by Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, contrib. by Linda Shearer (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Ten Young Artists: Theodoron Awards (New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, 1971), by Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, contrib. by Thomas M. Messer, Linda Shearer, and Diane Waldman (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Women of the 1913 Armory Show: Their Contributions to the Development of American Modern Art (dissertation; Louisville, KY: University of Louisville, 2014), by Jennifer Pfeifer Shircliff (PDF with commentary at lousville.edu)
• Catalogue of the Annual Exhibition of the Society of Independent Artists, by Society of Independent Artists (New York, N.Y.) (partial serial archives)

• The Wave, ed. by Vincent Starrett (partial serial archives)

• Houston Reflections: Art in the City, 1950s, 60s, and 70s (2007), by Sarah C. Reynolds (without front matter: multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Metropolitan Museum of Art: The United States of America (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1987), contrib. by Oswaldo Rodriguez Roque (page images and PDF at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google)

• The "New Woman" Revised: Painting and Gender Politics on Fourteenth Street (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993), by Ellen Wiley Todd (HTML at UC Press)

• William Rimmer: Champion of Imagination in American Art (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2022), by Dorinda Evans (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• Native Paths: American Indian Art from the Collection of Charles and Valerie Diker (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1998), ed. by Allen Wardwell, contrib. by Janet Catherine Berlo, Bruce Bernstein, Ted J. Brasser, N. Scott Momaday, and W. Richard West (page images and PDF at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google)

• The American Wing: A Guide (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1980), by Marshall B. Davidson (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• The Art Critic (full serial archives)

• Gilcrease Magazine (partial serial archives)

• Decorative Art and Basketry of the Cherokee (Bulletin of the Public Museum of the City of Milwaukee v2 #2; 1920), by Frank G. Speck (bound with #3: page images at HathiTrust)

• Some Protective Designs of the Dakota (Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History v1 part 2; 1907), by Clark Wissler (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• The Graphic Art of the Eskimos (Washington: GPO, 1897), by Walter James Hoffman (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Native Paths: American Indian Art from the Collection of Charles and Valerie Diker (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1998), ed. by Allen Wardwell, contrib. by Janet Catherine Berlo, Bruce Bernstein, Ted J. Brasser, N. Scott Momaday, and W. Richard West (page images and PDF at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google)

• Shuvinai Ashoona: Life and Work (Toronto: Art Canada Institute, c2017), by Nancy Campbell, illust. by Shuvinai Ashoona (illustrated HTML and PDF with commentary at aci-iac.ca)

• Iroquois Crafts (Washington: U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs, 1957), by Carrie A. Lyford, ed. by Willard W. Beatty (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Writing on the Wall: The Work of Joane Cardinal-Schubert (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, c2017), ed. by Lindsey V. Sharman (PDF files with commentary at University of Calgary)

• Bigger Than You: Big Data and Obesity (Goleta, CA: Punctum Books, c2016), by Katherine Behar (PDF with commentary at Punctum Books)
• Chinese Surplus: Biopolitical Aesthetics and the Medically Commodified Body (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 2018), by Ari Larissa Heinrich (PDF files at Project MUSE)

• The Folklore Muse: Poetry, Fiction, and Other Reflections by Folklorists (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2008), by F. A. De Caro (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)

• Blood Prism (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2011), by Edward Haworth Hoeppner (PDF at Ohio State)
• Men as Trees Walking (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2010), by Kevin Honold (PDF at Ohio State)

• The Durban Diaries: What Really Happened at the UN Conference Against Racism in Durban (2001) (New York: American Jewish Committee; Brussels: European Union of Jewish Students, 2008), by Joëlle Fiss (PDF at bjpa.org)

• On Literature and Philosophy (The Non-Fiction Writing of Naguib Mahfouz v1; London: Gingko Library, c2016), by Najīb Maḥfūẓ, trans. by Aran Byrne, contrib. by Rasheed El-Enany (page images at JSTOR)

• The Gateway to Modern Arabic Poetry (English language version, 2007), ed. by Abdul-Settar Al-Assady, trans. by Munir Mezyed (multiple formats at archive.org)

• An Architecture for Our Time: The New Classicism (2008), by Charles Siegel (illustrated HTML at Wayback Machine)

• INTRA! INTRA! Towards an INTRA SPACE (Pub. series of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, v25; Berlin: Sternberg Press, c2021), ed. by Christina Jauernik and Wolfgang Tschapeller (PDF with commentary in Austria)

• Art on the Edge: 17 Contemporary American Artists (2004), contrib. by Virginia Shore (PDF at state.gov)

• The Future of Austria: Opportunities and Dangers in the Age of Nanotechnology (2006), ed. by Ernst Eugen Veselsky, trans. by Hedwig D. Thimig, contrib. by Robert B. Textor (PDF at Stanford)

• Redefining Russian Literary Diaspora, 1920-2020 (London: UCL Press, c2021), ed. by Marii︠a︡ Rubins (PDF files at UCL and JSTOR)

• The Way Ahead: Meeting Canada's Productivity Challenge (2008), by T. A. Brzustowski (PDF with commentary at Ottawa)

• Hot Thespian Action! Ten Premiere Plays from Walterdale Playhouse (Edmonton: AU Press, c2008), ed. by Robin Whittaker (PDF with commentary at AU Press)

• China's Political Worldview and Chinese Exceptionalism: International Order and Global Leadership (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, c2021), by Benjamin Tze Ern Ho (PDF with commentary at OAPEN)
• Diaspora and Trust: Cuba, Mexico, and the Rise of China (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, c2016), by Adrian H. Hearn (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pacific Currents: The Responses of U.S. Allies and Security Partners in East Asia to China's Rise (2008), by Evan S. Medeiros, Keith Crane, Eric Heginbotham, Norman D. Levin, Julia Lowell, Angel Rabasa, and So-mi Song (PDF with commentary at rand.org)

• The Battle for China's Spirit: Religious Revival, Repression, and Resistance under Xi Jinping (New York: Freedom House, 2017), by Sarah G. Cook (PDF with commentary at freedomhouse.org)

• Annunciations: Sacred Music for the Twenty-First Century (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2019), ed. by George Corbett (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• Spaces of Commoning: Artistic Research and the Utopia of the Everyday (Pub. series of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, v18; Berlin: Sternberg Press, c2016), ed. by Anette Baldauf, Stefan Gruber, Moira Hille, Annette Krauss, Vladimir Miller, Mara Verlič, Hong-Kai Wang, and Julia Wieger (PDF with commentary in Austria)

• With Liberty to Monitor All: How Large-Scale US Surveillance is Harming Journalism, Law, and American Democracy (New York: Human Rights Watch, 2014), by G. Alex Sinha (HTML and PDF with commentary at hrw.org)

• Protest and Democracy (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, c2019), ed. by Moisés Arce and Roberta Rice (PDF files with commentary at Calgary)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.