Reflections: The American Collection of the Columbus Museum of Art adds a novel and provocative element to the library of art museum collection catalogs. In the traditional manner, Reflections features selected works—more than 125—from the museum’s collection, accompanied by concise essays by scholars of art who reflect on and respond to the distinctive aspects of each work.
To this customary approach, the editors have added what they term intersections essays: an examination of a well-known work of art from the differing perspectives of two authors—most of whom are not art historians. For instance, acclaimed writer Joyce Carol Oates provides her perspective on George Bellows and is joined by Laurie Bellows Booth, an objects conservator and the painter’s granddaughter. The book includes ten of these compelling essays, including contributions by such authors as Adam Gopnik and Alan Trachtenberg.

Reflections: The American Collection of the Columbus Museum of Art

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

Ohio University Press Distributed Titles

When she was just three years old, Brenda Lynn Robinson knew she wanted to be an artist. Even though her parents didn’t call themselves “artists,” they were. Her father taught her how to make paper pulp from scraps, stomp out the water, dry the sheets in the sun, and sew the pages together to make books. Her mother taught her to do needlework and make colorful tablecloths by sewing hundreds of buttons on pieces of cloth. When—later in life—she received the name “Aminah” from a holy man in Egypt, she added that to her given name, becoming Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson. Fittingly, much of Aminah’s artwork was about adding and attaching, creating unique new things by combination. Aminah’s World: An Activity Book and Children’s Guide is designed to introduce children to the life and prolific artwork of Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson (1940–2015). Numerous examples of Aminah’s artwork are featured along with ideas for crafts, letters, and other activities. Foldouts expand to reveal stunning and vibrant murals, and a one-page glossary is also included in this inspirational, full-color book.

Aminah’s World: An Activity Book and Children’s Guide about Artist Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson

Children's Books

Genshaft, Carole Miller

Biographies

The 20th century was the defining era of high school football, and during that time a select group of programs across the country solidified their reputations as the nation’s greatest. These programs—with legendary coaches like Paul Brown, Wright Bazemore, Gerry Faust, and Bob Ladouceur—produced national championship teams at schools with names like Massillon, Valdosta, Moeller, and De La Salle. But which of these teams was the greatest? All the Way to #1 is the first book to thoroughly document the nation’s top high school football teams from the 20th century. Identifying seventeen legendary programs, football historian Timothy Hudak tells the exciting and entertaining stories of how these teams came to prominence on the national stage. Fans will be particularly interested in Hudak’s conclusion about which of these teams was the best. Filled with 330 black and white photos, statistics, and the most comprehensive listing of the 20th century’s high school football champions found anywhere, All the Way to #1 is a one-of-a-kind book that will be perfect for fans across the country.

All the Way to #1: The Story of the Greatest High School Football National Championship Teams of the 20th Century

Sports & Outdoors

Hudak, Timothy L.

Pflug Jr., John R.

Football (American)

Now in its eighth printing, Frank X Walker's pathbreaking book of poems Affrilachia is a classic of Appalachian and African-American literature. Walker created the word "Affrilachia" to help make visible the experience of African-Americans living in the rural and Appalachian South. The book is widely used in classrooms and is one of the foundational works of the Affrilachian Poets, a community of writers offering fresh ways to think about diversity in the Appalachian region and beyond.

Affrilachia: Poems by Frank X Walker

Literature & Fiction

Walker, Frank X.

Poetry

This powerful collection of poems from award-winning poet Frank X Walker continues the autobiograhical, political and literary journey of Affrilachia, his groundbreaking book of poems about growing up black in the Appalachian south (Old Cove Press, 2000). In Black Box he offers the reader 68 new poems -- written with passion, clarity and emotional honesty -- that illuminate experiences of race, love, social justice, family, identity and place.

Black Box

<div> A collection of stories twenty years in the making from celebrated Kentucky author Gurney Norman. Told in the first person, this autobiographical collection of linked stories follows a young man, Wilgus Collier, through his struggles to understand his working-class Appalachian childhood and, later, to navigate midlife alcoholism and depression. The book's epilogue features a selection of Norman's nonfiction essays. Published by Old Cove Press </div>

Allegiance: Stories

Norman, Gurney

Short Stories & Anthologies

<div> A new collection of stories from celebrated Kentucky author Gurney Norman "A beautiful book" ... "A remarkable, eye-opening set of stories" ... "Brilliantly arranged" ... "An exhilarating mirroring of consciousness itself" ... "Grand and important, funny and heartbreaking" ... "An act of grace" Allegiance is a brilliant and original set of stories by former Kentucky Poet Laureate Gurney Norman. Spanning forty years of work, Allegiance is an autobiography told through stories--a rich personal journey into Norman's life, place, and consciousness. In classic short stories, lyrical meditations, folktales, dreamscapes, and stream-of-consciousness writing, Norman imaginatively weaves together the threads of his life. Each story builds on what has come before, "prisms enlarging the effect of the whole ..." The stories are humorous and heartbreaking, told mainly in the voice of Norman's fictional narrator, Wilgus Collier. From his working-class childhood in the coalfields of Appalachia to the center of the 1960s counterculture and back again to Kentucky, Norman's journey has been a life of many movements. This is a jacketed hardcover edition of Allegiance, featuring a foreword by poet Leatha Kendrick, an author's note, and an original cover painting by Appalachian artist Pam Oldfield Meade. A selection of nonfiction pieces comprises the book's epilogue. Published by Old Cove Press </div>

United States

A new collection of stories from celebrated Kentucky author Gurney Norman “A beautiful book” … “A remarkable, eye-opening set of stories” … “Brilliantly arranged” … “An exhilarating mirroring of consciousness itself” … “Grand and important, funny and heartbreaking” … “An act of grace” Allegiance is a brilliant and original set of stories by former Kentucky Poet Laureate Gurney Norman. Spanning forty years of work, Allegiance is an autobiography told through stories―a rich personal journey into Norman’s life, place, and consciousness. In classic short stories, lyrical meditations, folktales, dreamscapes, and stream-of-consciousness writing, Norman imaginatively weaves together the threads of his life. Each story builds on what has come before, “prisms enlarging the effect of the whole …” The stories are humorous and heartbreaking, told mainly in the voice of Norman’s fictional narrator, Wilgus Collier. From his working-class childhood in the coalfields of Appalachia to the center of the 1960s counterculture and back again to Kentucky, Norman’s journey has been a life of many movements. This is a jacketed hardcover edition of Allegiance, featuring a foreword by poet Leatha Kendrick, an author’s note, and an original cover painting by Appalachian artist Pam Oldfield Meade. A selection of nonfiction pieces comprises the book’s epilogue. Published by Old Cove Press

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Reflections: The American Collection of the Columbus Museum of Art

Aminah’s World: An Activity Book and Children’s Guide about Artist Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson

All the Way to #1: The Story of the Greatest High School Football National Championship Teams of the 20th Century

Affrilachia: Poems by Frank X Walker

Black Box

Allegiance: Stories

Allegiance: Stories

Allegiance: Stories