Cultural Writing. Great routes, great writing. It was a special time, this Golden Age of Yosemite climbing. Virgin walls soared 3,000 feet. Immense pinnacles had golden eagles atop them, but no cairns. The phrase "kids in a candy store" springs to mind. Excited by such possibilities, climbers who barely knew what they were up against swarmed up new routes, and then, as if to further savor their adventures, put pen to paper. Steve Roper presents fifty-four selections that represent the most interesting and significant literary output about Yosemite climbing from its beginnings, in 1933, until 1974. Sixty-seven photographs and illustrations.

Ordeal by Piton: Writings from the Golden Age of Yosemite Climbing

Science & Math

Nature & Ecology

Stanford University Libraries

Cultural Writing. Latina/Latino Studies. Art. A catalog from an exhibition on the work of Felipe Ehrenberg (b.1943, Mexico City), artist, publisher, essayist, teacher, and activist. The Ehrenberg Archive at Stanford University represents over 35 years of his career (1964-2000) and includes correspondence with major artists, curators, and art critics from around the world, mail art, multimedia images, and ephemera.

FELIPE EHRENBERG: A NEOLOGIST'S ART & ARCHIVE

Kam, Vanessa D.

Arts & Photography

A lavishly illustrated exhibition catalogue, featuring thirty-one folio volumes from the Stanford Libraries’ Department of Special Collections. With a full-page description of each book written by John Mustain, Rare Book Librarian and Classics Bibliographer at the Stanford University Libraries.

In Folio: Rare Volumes in the Stanford University Libraries

John E. Mustain

Published in conjunction with the exhibition Herbert Matter: Modernist Photography & Graphic Design, Peterson Gallery, Cecil H. Green Library, Stanford University, October 20, 2005 through February 11, 2006. Design and typsetting by John Hill.

Herbert Matter: Modernist Photography and Graphic Design

Head, Jeffrey

Frank Lloyd Wright's Hanna House: The Clients' Report 3rd Editon

Paul R. and Jean S. Hanna

Catalogue of an exhibition in the Stanford University Libraries (January 7 April 16, 2008) of Japanese woodblock-printed books of design ideas for kimono. Generously illustrated in full color with images demonstrating the changes in surface design for kimono in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries (ca. 1890-1940), from a painterly style to a graphic approach characterized by kinetic lines, geometric shapes, and abstraction of traditional Japanese themes drawn from nature.

Zuancho in Kyoto: Textile Design Books for the Kimono Trade

Kenichiro Yokoya

Graphic Design

The Enlightenment, the age of intellectual inquiry and discovery that stretched from roughly 1680 to 1820, drew fundamentally from the European colonization of the Americas. This exhibition tells the story of how New World discoveries and ideas contributed to the Enlightenment and illustrates the transatlantic debates over issues of government, science, religion, and individual rights that shaped it. On display are books that were owned, written, dissected, or annotated by notable mid-eighteenth-century British Americans and one African American, and books about peculiarly North American topics.

The American Enlightenment: Treasures From the Stanford University Libraries

Frank Shuffelton

No dj. Cover has very mild edge wear, three tiny spots on back. Pages are pristine. Ships fast from Northern California.

The Art of the Book in California: Five Contemporary Presses

Bringhurst, Robert and Peter Koch, essay

Catalogue published in conjunction with the exhibition of Goldyne's work on display in Stanford's Green Library September 14, 2015 through January 31, 2016.

Joseph Goldyne : catalogue raisonné of books, portfolios, and calligraphic sheets

Joseph Goldyne

Bringhurst, Robert

Peter Rutledge Koch

"Sometimes I sit down on a big flat rock, which abuts a garden pool, and listen to the drip-drip of the water as it falls with quiet measured cadence into the pool. I think of the great back-to-nature movement, which has, under the name of Taoism, for so many centuries fascinated and motivated the classic Chinese lifestyle. And I think that 'fishing' in nature for serenity is no monopoly of the Chinese, nor indeed of any century, and that it is my prerogative, as well, to be a 'fisherman.'" So says Mary Mayer Tanenbaum in one of the many outstanding articles she wrote on the relationship among Chinese art, nature, and philosophy. Between 1974 and 1985 she contributed over sixty of them to the Christian Science Monitor, some forty-five of which are included in Fishing on the Terrace. Tanenbaum's ability to fuse her twentieth-century perceptions of nature seamlessly with the nature invoked by Chinese landscape paintings encourages the reader of the articles to become a "fisherman" as well. Her writing's powerful ideas can easily overtake a quiet afternoon spent in the mountains or even a morning meditation in one's own garden. The distinct wisdom that Tanenbaum imparts in each of her reflections is accentuated here by the accompanying illustrations. Alongside the articles, one will find beautiful color reproductions of the Chinese paintings and objects that inspired them. Today more than ever―with our twenty-first-century predisposition toward environmentalism, Eastern thought, and a return to nature―Tanenbaum's writings echo with the clear tone of inescapable truths. They are available for the first time as a collection, to be enjoyed for years to come.

Fishing on the Terrace

Tanenbaum, Mary Mayer

History & Criticism

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