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New Deal Art in the Northwest

The WPA and Beyond

By Margaret E. Bullock

From December 1933 to February 1943, as part of a sprawling economic stimulus package, four federal programs hired artists to create public artworks and provide art-making opportunities to millions of Americans. When this initiative abruptly...

Norman Lundin

Selections from Three Decades of Drawing and Painting

By Bruce Guenther and David Brody

At first glance, a casual observer might assume that Norman Lundin's recent paintings are about things. That would be a mistake. Instead, silence and space form a void that is shaped and manipulated by the...

Morris Graves

Flower Paintings

By Theodore F. Wolff. Introduction by John Yau

This visually stunning book will be a revelation to admirers of Northwest visionary artist Morris Graves (b. 1910) who know him chiefly through his profoundly original, metaphysically charged paintings of chalices, birds, snakes, and other...

James Mongrain in the George R. Stroemple Collection

Reinterpreting Venetian Tradition

By Sheldon Barr and Linda Tesner

The Stroemple Collection boasts more than five hundred vintage Venetian vessels that illustrate the height of Venetian glassblowing during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. In 2012, George Stroemple commissioned James Mongrain—Dale Chihuly’s current gaffer and...

No Idols

The Missing Theology of Art

By Thomas Crow

The first in the new Power Polemics series, Thomas Crow’s No Idols: The Missing Theology of Art turns away from contemporary cultural theories to face a pervading blindspot in today’s art-historical inquiry: religion. Crow pursues...

Paul Havas

By Matthew Kangas

The art of Paul Havas (1940–2012) is one of natural beauty, formal control, and unusual colors. Havas settled in the Puget Sound region in 1965 and went on to create a body of work dominated...

James B. Thompson

Fragments in Time

By Bob Hicks

James B. Thompson: Fragments in Time explores the development of Thompson’s work over the past two decades, from his Certain Situations series of the mid-1990s to his more recent Forgotten Biography of Tools series from...

Sinful Saints and Saintly Sinners at the Margins of the Americas

By Patrick A. Polk

The margins of the Americas―borders that are at once physical and societal―engender sacred figures who walk the fine line between sinfulness and sanctity. In worship and artistic representation alike, these entities reflect and impact the...

James Turrell

A Retrospective

By National Gallery of Australia

To encounter a work by American artist James Turrell is to enter another world—a realm where eye and mind meet. The artist engages us, the viewers, in order to make us witnesses of his focus...

Tradition and Transformation

Chicana/o Art from the 1970s through the 1990s

By Shifra Goldman. Edited by Charlene Villasenor Black. Preface by Chon A. Noriega

Pioneering art historian Shifra Goldman brought the study of Chicana/o and contemporary Latin American art to the notice of art history. She was determined to correct the stereotypes that had distorted the critical reception of...

American Encounters

The Simple Pleasures of Still Life

By Stephanie Mayer Heydt

Still life celebrates the commonplace. But in these simple objects we invest meaning—meaning that can be culturally specific but also universal. From the seventeenth century onward in Europe, a shared visual language developed around the...

Mark Tobey / Teng Baiye

Seattle / Shanghai

By Jo-Anne Birnie Danzker, Scott Lawrimore

Mark Tobey and Teng Baiye: Seattle / Shanghai is the first book to explore artistic and intellectual exchanges between Chinese artist Teng Baiye (1900–1980) and his American contemporary Mark Tobey (1890–1976). Essays by Jo-Anne Birnie...

MetaModern

By Ginger Gregg Duggan and Judith Hoos Fox

Modernist design, that radical and iconoclastic break with the past, is now itself a thing of the past. Perhaps sufficiently so that over the last few years, artists have been treating modernist designs as icons...

American Encounters

Anglo-American Portraiture in an Era of Revolution

By Kevin M. Murphy

This iteration of the American Encounters series addresses artists’ conceptions of political and military authority through portraiture during and after North American and European revolutionary upheavals in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The...

Doris Chase Artist in Motion

From Painting and Sculpture to Video Art

By Patricia Failing

Doris Chase has achieved international stature as a pioneer in the field of video art since she moved from Seattle to New York City in 1972. An artist of remarkable and continuous creativity, Chase now...

The Pocho Research Society's Field Guide to Erased and Invisible Histories

By Sandra de la Loza

Visual and performance artist Sandra de la Loza presents a wry commentary on the Chicano history of Los Angeles in this field guide to Downtown and East Los Angeles. Using the format of the photographic...

L.A. Xicano

By Chon A. Noriega, Terezita Romo, Pilar Tompkins Rivas

L.A. Xicano accompanies four interrelated exhibitions that explore the diverse artistic contributions of Mexican American and Chicano artists to American art and to Los Angeles's artistic development since 1945. The volume's six illustrated essays examine...

The Fire of Life

The Robert Legorreta-Cyclona Collection

By Robb Hernandez

The Fire of Life, the collection of performance artist Robert Legorreta, is a fascinating and eclectic archive. Correspondence, artwork, photographs, and other materials document Legorreta’s artistic career and trace the development of the East L.A....