Seth Randal is an American artist internationally recognized for his bold, vibrantly hued sculptural works in glass. 
Over the course of more than two decades he has developed a distinctive visual language based on the vessel form. He has infused elements derived from classical aesthetics with personal inspiration drawn from cultures around the globe and throughout the history of art. His intensive study of the varied technology of glassmaking has allowed him to adapt the rigorous lost wax procedure and the p’te de verre technique to the creation of cast-glass sculptural series possessing stylistic resonance as well as inner affinities with the Art Nouveau movement, Greco-Roman culture, and Egyptian mythology. This volume intimately follows Randalís journey of discovery. The detailed text and stunning full-color photographs offer the reader an illuminating view of his artistic process as he taps ever-new sources of imagination and accepts the challenges of their design and execution.

Seth Randal: Myth and Majesty

Arts & Photography

Lauria, Jo

Individual Artists

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Ninety-some extraordinary images created by photographer Acebes (now in his eighties and living in Colombia) are richly reproduced in duotone--full-page, in an oversize format, 10x13". Published in conjunction with an exhibition opening in Atlanta in 2004 (and scheduled to travel for two years), the volume includes an essay by Isolde Brielmaier (Vassar College), who sets his work in the context of other photographers shooting in Africa at the time, and a biographical essay by Ed Marquand, who directs the Hector Acebes Archive. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Hector Acebes: Portraits in Africa, 1948-1953

Marquand, Ed

Brielmaier, Isolde

Acebes, Hector

Text by Klaus Kertess, Peter Plagens.

The Martin Z. Margulies Collection

Martin Z. Margulies

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

Ted Lindberg offers a lively yet thoughtful sketch of Currier's evolution as an artist. He also takes the reader into the artist's studio, where, in the course of painting, Currier discusses his tools, techniques, and gratification found within the process of artmaking. The plates in this book represent works created by Alfred Currier between 1992 and 2002--the time of his professional coming-of-age, which saw the crystallization of his personal style and technique.

Alfred Currier: Impasto

Lindberg, Ted

The Oklahoma Publishing Company's First Century: The Gaylord Family History

History

Dary, David

Americas

Seattle artist Jaq Chartier creates sensuous abstract paintings that are a compelling mix of art and science, the visceral and the cerebral, and painstaking trials and fugitive pleasures. Her minimalist compositions of blurred ovoids and inky lines chart the interaction of stains and dyes as they leach, bloom, bleed, merge, and mutate. The surfaces, composed of painted stains, milky films, and translucent layers, are visually seductive; they are also archives of the artist's rigorous testing and analysis of her materials.

Testing: Jaq Chartier

Held, Robin

Frederic Whitaker and Eileen Monaghan Whitaker contributed with equal force and distinction to their field. The couple's watercolors are a delight of parallel and counterpoint, tension, and interplay. Frederic's watercolors fascinate with their intricate detail and highly structured composition; Eileen's work focuses on quietly startling and mysteriously poignant images. Eileen emphasizes individual expression and abstract elusiveness, while Frederic was devoted to accessibility and ready communication with the viewer. This volume collects an astonishing selection of still lifes, landscapes, figures, travel sketches, and atmospheric renderings. A close and personal biography opens up and contextualizes the artwork, while essays by noted art historians provide critical commentary.

Contrasts That Complement: Eileen Monaghan Whitaker And Frederic Whitaker

Wolff, Theodore F.

HOOPES, Donelson F.

Pincus, Robert L.

Jennings, Jan Noreus

History & Criticism

Lavishly illustrated with 126 color and 109 b&w illustrations and 9 maps, The Price of Freedom captures the glory and the heartache of America's wartime history from the American Revolution through the wars of our own era.

The Price of Freedom: Americans at War

"The first time I saw William Morris's idols I felt an electric thrill, not only because of the incredible artistic prowess each of them represents, but also because I recognized them. It was like finally finding myself before the intangible beings I had been looking for all my life, that I had glimpsed in dreams and evoked in my writing."--from the Foreword by Isabelle Allende For more than twenty years, William Morris has captivated and intrigued the art community with hauntingly evocative and beautiful glass sculptures. He has captured the imagination time and again by creating objects that appear to be ancient stone or wood carvings, not the modern glass sculptures they actually are. His art speaks of human origins, myth, ancestry, and ancient civilizations. It symbolizes a harmony between humanity and nature and provides a ghost-like bond to the world around us--a world that is often forgotten, ignored, and abused. Morris gathers much of his inspiration from ancient cultures from around the world--Egyptian, Asian, Native American--all peoples who respected and admired the land they inhabited. Because of this, Morris's artwork has become something all its own: culturally distinct and yet familiar to all cultures. His pieces embody a spiritual quality that sharply contrasts old beliefs with those of the modern world. These objects speak to our senses and continuously beg us to explore them further. William Morris: Mazorca, Objects of Common Ceremony does just that, exhibiting MorrisÕs most recent collections in detailed images that seemingly come to life on the page, just as his sculptures come to life in the studio. James Yood teaches modern and contem-porary art history and theory at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and writes regularly for Artforum, American Craft, and Glass magazines. Among his books are William Morris: Animal/Artifact and William Morris: Man Adorned. Isabel Allende is one of Latin America's foremost writers.

Mazorca: Objects Of Common Ceremony

MORRIS, WILLIAM

Yood, James

ALLENDE,ISABEL

On August 10, 2006, Marquand Books launched the publication of Transfigurations: North Pacific Coast Art, a limited edition book of important Native American masterpieces.Known internationally for collecting and placing North Pacific Coast artwork and artifacts of the highest caliber, George Terasaki stands among the preeminent individuals in the field. Of the many thousands of artworks that have passed through his hands over the years, he has retained only a few of the most remarkable objects for his private collection. Few of these have ever been published before now.Less well known than the objects themselves are Terasaki's photographs of them-images that reveal his deep appreciation and emotional connection with each piece. At 12 × 13½ inches, this luxurious 248-page hardcover book illuminates these spectacular artworks in a deluxe presentation worthy of their quality.Noted scholar Steven Clay Brown provides insight and new scholarship on each of these prime examples of Native American art. A foreword by Edmund Carpenter introduces the collection.Privately published by Marquand Books, this sumptuous volume is printed in full color on 200 gsm GardaPat 13 stock and is bound in Brillianta cloth.Transfigurations is limited to 450 copies of the standard edition, and 50 copies of a special slipcase edition, which includes a signed Terasaki photograph in a separate print folder, also bound in Brillianta cloth. Each book is shipped in a tailored mailing carton.

Transfigurations: North Pacific Coast Art

Brown, Steven Clay

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