Although the introduction is in Chinese, the descriptions of the color plates are in Chinese and English.  North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, ND, "Frontiers in Fiber: The Americans," Summer 1989.  A traveling exhibit in Asia for two years sponsored by the United States Information Agency and The China International Arts Exhibition Agency.  Draws attention to textile and fiber art.  A beautiful catalog with color plates and descriptive information of what was being shown at the exhibition.

Frontiers in fiber: The Americans

Mildred Constantine

Laurel Reuter

North Dakota Museum of Art

In Quest of the Spirit: The Painting of Jerome Tupa. Excellent condition.

In Quest of the Spirit; The Painting of Jerome Tupa, O.S.B.

Zoran Mojsilov

North Dakota Museum of Art Staff

North Dakota Museum

<p>Lynn Geesaman spent two decades creating some of the most timeless and beautiful images ever made of the natural world as it brushes against and mingles with human creations. Formal gardens of the Western tradition became her ostensible subject matter, but she ultimately zeroed in on the margin between artifice and nature. Not interested in documenting reality, she mastered a diffusion technique to suppress detail in her black and white photographs. Her goal was to make photographs that stepped further and further away from the literal, resulting in rich fields of black that call to mind the opulent darkness of drypoint, a method invented for tonal printmaking. Geesaman studied physics and mathematics, which schooled her to instinctively organize pictorial space through geometric principles. In her haunting black-and-white photographs, Geesaman strove for three-dimensionality through chiaroscuro, pictorial representation that focused on light and shade. It was Geesaman’s response to the Bernheim Arboretum in 1992 that led her into color. She found that particular landscape unsuitable to her black-and-white aesthetic. Challenged, she took up color film and taught herself chromogenic printing—pushing the boundaries of this process. As her color work progressed, it became more and more abstract; her colors more surreal, more imagined, and closer to painting than traditional color photography. In 2007 she took her last black-and-white photographs, and in 2009 her last color. Published in conjunction with Geesaman’s first retrospective exhibition organized by the North Dakota Museum of Art, and her first to include both her black and white and her color photographs, the book was designed by Eleanor Caponigro and printed by Trifolio in Verona, Italy. The black and white photos were printed in tri-tone with varnish and the color photos were printed with Trifolio’s unique AreaW4, a high-performance unique offset process that is used for superior art reproduction.</p>

Lynn Geesaman: Images

Arts & Photography

Photography & Video

<p>Illustrated with over 200 examples drawn from artists practicing around the world, this comprehensive resource thoroughly documents the history of cloth in art. Among the extraordinary roster of international artists--in many disciplines, with diverse philosophies--are James Bassler, Christo, Eva Hesse, Faith Ringgold, and Andy Warhol. 240 illustrations, 120 in color.</p>

Whole Cloth

History & Criticism

The Monacelli Press

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