0295972823 University of Washington Press,[publisher: Craft Alliance, Saint Louis MO] Accompanied an exhibition of the Craft Alliance in St. Louis, which documented the rich narrative and figurative traditions of contemporary craft artists in the U.S. 94 pages

Tales and Traditions: Storytelling in Twentieth-Century American Craft

Arts & Photography

Kangas, Matthew

Herman, Lloyd E.

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

Univ of Washington Pr

Richard Fairbanks: American Potter

Biographies & Memoirs

Fairbanks, Richard

Arts & Literature

This first book-length discussion of Jim Leedy reveals him as a pioneer of post-war American art, the first to bring the gospel of abstract expressionism to American ceramics. His career constantly crosses the boundaries of materials, genres, subject matter, and themes and adds an important chapter to American art history at a time when boundaries between traditional craft materials and fine art media are already being blurred
The book traces Leedy's progress from his student days in Virginia and New York City, where he met artists Willem de Kooning and Franz Kline, through his controversial stay at the University of Montana and his long sojourn in Kansas City, where, as a widely influential and sympathetic teacher at the Kansas City Art Institute, he has had an impact on American art that until now has not been fully acknowledged. Kangas also discusses Leedy's extensive travels abroad, especially in Japan, Finland, and Norway, where Leedy has exposed students and fellow artists not only to new approaches in ceramic sculpture but also to ideas of the radical avant-garde in installation art and performance.
With over 190 full-color plates and illustrations of paintings, ceramics, prints, photographs, public art projects and proposals, and the airborne nylon Sky Art sculptures, Jim Leedy: Artist Across Boundaries explores the influences on and discoveries of this highly original and provocative artist.

Jim Leedy: Artist Across Boundaries

Leedy, Jim

Individual Artists

Robert Willson (1912-2000) was one of the most complex and contradictory American artists of the past century. Among the first American sculptors to use solid glass in a small factory setting, he was at once regional and international, steeped in pre-Columbian art as well as Texas folklore. Educated in the Southwest and Mexico, he discovered the glass studios of Murano, Italy, at the age of forty-four and never looked back. In Robert Willson: Image-Maker, author Matthew Kangas fills in a gaping niche in American art history, the tale of the gangly fellow who sounded like actor James Stweart, fell in love with Venice, and spent the next thirty-seven summers there making solid glass sculptures.

Robert Willson: Image Maker

WILSON, Robert

In this richly-illustrated monograph, the art of Julie Speidel is seen as one of myth and materiality, encompassing the creation over more than four decades of numerous objects that inhabit a variety of locales and fulfill a wide variety of purposes. She has created sculpture in many different media and a variety of scale, as well as an impressive body of prints. Achieved by an indomitable creative will, Speidel's accomplishments are inspired by an affinity for mythology, and allude to ancient cultures while also being deeply informed by extensive personal travel from childhood to the present. Although the collected signs and imagery of her work are steeped in earlier cultures, the working vocabulary is uniquely hers. This aspect of her art anchors her in a more recent tradition, that of twentieth-century modernism: abstracted, suggestive, and referential.

Julie Speidel: The Center Holds

Speidel Studio Llc.

Book by Ward, Gerald W.R.; Kangas, Matthew;Museum of Fine Arts Boston;Gadsden, Nonie; L'

Shy Boy, She Devil, and Isis: The Art of Conceptual Craft

Ward, Gerald W.R.

Museum Of Fine Arts, Boston

Gadsden, Nonie

History & Criticism

MFA Publications

Selections from the Herb and Lucy Pruzan collection

Creating the New Northwest: Selections from the Herb and Lucy Pruzan Collection

Hushka, Rock

Tacoma Art Museum

Robert Sperry: A Retrospective

Bellevue Art Museum

Dale Chihuly became fascinated with Michael Lawson's paintings in the 1960s. Lawson's cartoonish figurative style, bright colors, and strong narrative made his work distinctive and challenging. This volume tells the story of Lawson's art and the challenges he has faced to maintain his creative lifestyle.

Michael Lawson

Chihuly Workshop

Robert Sperry: Bright Abyss

Amer Museum of Ceramic Art

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