Published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same name drawn from the remarkable collection of Joseph and Elaine Monsen and organized by the Henry Art Gallery, Seattle. A survey of the development of photography over the last 150 years, revealing its evolution as art and drawing attention to some great individual exemplars. Includes essays by Chris Bruce and Andy Grundberg. 11.75x11.75". Distributed by the U. of Washington Press. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

After Art: Rethinking 150 Years of Photography : Selections from the Joseph and Elaine Monsen Collection

Arts & Photography

Grundberg, Andy

Bruce, Chris

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

Henry Art Gallery

Alden Mason: A Selective Survey, October 14-December 6, 1987

Mason, Alden

Hackett, Regina

Published to document two installations: 1) "parallel lines" at the 21st International São Paulo Bienal, and 2) "accountings" at the Henry Art Gallery, Seattle.

Ann Hamilton: Sao Paulo/Seattle : A Document of Two Installations

Solnit, Rebecca

Spector, Buzz

James Turrell: Sensing Space

Andrews, Richard

Turrell, James

Individual Artists

#Catalog of an exhibition held at the Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, Wash.; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Ill.; Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Tex.#Includes bibliographical references.

Sculpture

Knight, Christopher

Bruden, Chris

Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago, Ill.)

Contemporary Arts Museum

Features the work of artists who won the 1994 Western States Art Federation/National Endowment for the Arts Regional Fellowships for Visual Artists. Bruce, senior curator at the Henry Art Gallery, U. of Washington, provides an overview essay; writer/curator Shields has written the critical commentaries on each artist. Distributed by the U. of Washington Press. 9.5x9.5" Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Withinsight: Visual Territories of Thirty Artists

Shields, Kathleen

History & Criticism

Western States Art Foundation

Prior to the 1960s, art objects were viewed as wholly distinct from non-art. But by mid-decade, that perspective was being challenged by artists such as Andy Warhol, whose Brillo Boxes looked exactly like the real ones; Roy Lichtenstein, whose paintings imitated comic book pages; and Carl Andre, whose floor sculptures were, in fact, slabs of industrial metal. Art and Context examines how these pieces, and others like them, relate to a society bombarded by advertising while also in the midst of a cultural revolution--as evidenced by the growing acceptance of civil rights, feminism, drug use, and sexual freedom--and offers a solid basis for understanding the art of the past half century.

Art and Context: The '50s and '60s

Van Dyke, Nella

Wells, Keith A

History

Museum of Art/Washington State University

This book brings together forty-two works spanning nearly three decades of Seattle artist Sherry Markovitz's remarkable development. It traces the evolution of her work from the obsessively beaded and extravagantly patterned taxidermy heads to the more subdued and haunting figurative paintings and doll sculptures. The work is intensely alive and transformative, its sources rooted in personal experience set in conversation with diverse cultural paradigms. Throughout more than a quarter century of work, Markovitz has shown a remarkable consistency of vision, intensity of focus, and absolute acceptance of beauty, which she extends regularly to opulence. Through highly informative and engaging essays by Chris Bruce and Josine Ianco-Starrels as well as the artist's own commentaries, Sherry Markovitz: Shimmer provides the defining statement on this unique artist and her captivating work. Chris Bruce is director of the Museum of Art, Washington State University, Pullman. Josine Ianco-Starrels is the curator at the Schneider Museum of Art, Southern Oregon University, Ashland.

Sherry Markovitz: Shimmer, Paintings and Sculptures, 1979-2006

Ianco-starrels, Josin

Markovitz, Sherry

Museum of Art Washington State univ

The Artist's Hand celebrates two complementary and necessary aspects of the art world, the hand of the artist and the role of art institutions, through the Washington Art Consortium's collection of American prints and drawings. The book chronicles the history of the Consortium--founded in 1975 as a group of institutions throughout Washington State who would share a collection of work by contemporary artists.The Artist's Hand illustrates the original collection of ninety-seven works accompanied by biographies of the fifty-two artists--among them Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Jo Baer, Myron S. Stout, Jim Dine, Roy Lichtenstein, Agnes Martin, Robert Rauschenberg, Richard Serra, and Andy Warhol.

The Artist's Hand: American Works on Paper 1945-1975

Wright, Virginia

Museum Of Art Wash St Univ

For four decades, Roger Shimomura’s paintings, prints, and theatre pieces have addressed sociopolitical issues of Asian America. He does this through a style that combines his childhood interest in comic books, American Pop Art, and traditions of Japanese woodblock prints, thereby evoking his Japanese ancestry while locating him firmly within modern American artistic developments. Through this artistic device, he is able to bring together a wild mixture of compositions that offer up patterns of criticism within visually compelling works of sumptuous color and lighthearted Pop directness. In his recent work, under the banner, An American Knockoff (2009 to the present), Shimomura has taken on the long tradition of self-portraiture through the radical lens of cultural conflict. Two thematic directions – assimilation and resistance – are often fused together as the artist inserts himself as an aging Asian Everyman in various guises and situations, both funny and poignant.

Roger Shimomura: An American Knockoff

Goodyear, Anne

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