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Norman Lundin
Selections from Three Decades of Drawing and Painting
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...
ISBN: 9780295986784
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Anne Gould Hauberg
Fired by Beauty
This is the first book-length account of the world Anne Gould Hauberg both discovered and helped bring into being. A major figure in Seattle’s cultural life, she has been an instigator of...
ISBN: 9780295985695
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Morris Graves
Flower Paintings
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...
ISBN: 9780295973791
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James Mongrain in the George R. Stroemple Collection
Reinterpreting Venetian Tradition
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...
ISBN: 9780997249231
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No Idols
The Missing Theology of Art
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...
ISBN: 9780909952990
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Paul Havas
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 by...
ISBN: 9780997249248
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James B. Thompson
Fragments in Time
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...
ISBN: 9781930957732
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Sinful Saints and Saintly Sinners at the Margins of the Americas
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...
ISBN: 9780984755073
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James Turrell
A Retrospective
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 on...
ISBN: 9780642334510
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Tradition and Transformation
Chicana/o Art from the 1970s through the 1990s
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...
ISBN: 9780895511553
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American Encounters
The Simple Pleasures of Still Life
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...
ISBN: 9780692291382
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MetaModern
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...
ISBN: 9781883015473
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Mark Tobey / Teng Baiye
Seattle / Shanghai
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...
ISBN: 9780962460265
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American Encounters
Anglo-American Portraiture in an Era of Revolution
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...
ISBN: 9780615912622
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Doris Chase Artist in Motion
From Painting and Sculpture to Video Art
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...
ISBN: 9780295971124
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The Pocho Research Society's Field Guide to Erased and Invisible Histories
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...
ISBN: 9780895511461
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L.A. Xicano
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...
ISBN: 9780895511454
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The Fire of Life
The Robert Legorreta-Cyclona Collection
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...
ISBN: 9780895511201
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