Book Description
Tour the private homes of three of the most esteemed wood artist/craftsmen of the modern era.
Author : Tina Skinner
Publisher : Schiffer Craft
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 22,81 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9780764332029
Tour the private homes of three of the most esteemed wood artist/craftsmen of the modern era.
Author : Glenn Adamson
Publisher : The Monacelli Press, LLC
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 40,58 MB
Release : 2020-10-27
Category : Art
ISBN : 1580935737
Objects: USA 2020 hails a new generation of artist-craftspeople by revisiting a groundbreaking event that redefined American art. In 1969, an exhibition opened at the Smithsonian Institution that redefined American art. Objects: USA united a cohort of artists inventing new approaches to art-making by way of craft media. Subsequently touring to twenty-two museums across the country, where it was viewed by over half a million Americans, and then to eleven cities in Europe, the exhibition canonized such artists as Anni Albers, Sheila Hicks, Wharton Esherick, Wendell Castle, and George Nakashima, and introduced others who would go on to achieve widespread art-world acclaim, including Dale Chihuly, Michele Oka Doner, J. B. Blunk, and Ron Nagle. Objects: USA 2020 revisits this revolutionary exhibition and its accompanying catalog--which has become a bible of sorts to curators, gallerists, dealers, craftspeople, and artists--by pairing fifty participants from the original exhibition with fifty contemporary artists representing the next generation of practitioners to use--and upend--the traditional methods and materials of craft to create new forms of art. Published to coincide with an exhibition of the same title at the renowned gallery R & Company, and featuring essays by some of the foremost authorities on craft at the intersection of art, including Glenn Adamson, curator and former director of the Museum of Arts & Design; James Zemaitis, curator and former head of twentieth-century design at Sotheby's; and Lena Vigna, curator of exhibitions at the Racine Art Musuem; an interview with Paul J. Smith, the cocurator of Objects: USA; archival photographs of the original exhibition and important historical works; and lush full-color images of contemporary works, Objects: USA 2020 is an essential art historical reference that traces how craft was elevated to the status of museum-quality art, and sets its trajectory forward.
Author : Wharton Esherick
Publisher : Schiffer Pub Limited
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 30,67 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780764337888
An exploration of Wharton Esherick's artistic evolution during the early decades of the twentieth century. Based on the exhibition in the Kamin and Kroiz Galleries of the University of Pennsylvania, this work expands upon the exhibition's themes with well over 300 vibrant images and current research, including an essay by Paul Eisenhauer, Curator of the Wharton Esherick Museum. Esherick experimented with woodcarving and printmaking, laying the foundations for his emergence as an artist of remarkable range. He produced paintings and woodblock prints, set designs, sculpture, furniture, and architecture. He and his community of friends created an artistic circle in which arts and crafts were joined, and in which radical new ideas flourished, helping to shape the course of American Modernism. This book will be a treasure for all who appreciate twentieth-century modernism.
Author : Mira Nakashima
Publisher : Harry N. Abrams
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 47,85 MB
Release : 2003-12-01
Category : Design
ISBN : 9780810945364
A richly illustrated retrospective of the life and work of noted furniture designer Geoge Nakashima examines the original furniture creations of the acclaimed artist, his influence on contemporary design, his work as an architect, and his remarkable craftsmanship and emphasis on the organic use of the natural lines and grain of wood.
Author : Walt Whitman
Publisher :
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 27,30 MB
Release : 1924
Category : American poetry
ISBN :
Complete set of the thirteen woodcut illustrations used in the 1924 edition of Song of the Broad-axe by Walt Whitman, published by Centaur Press in Philadelphia. Each woodcut is titled and numbered "16". The titles are (as they appear in the book): No.I, Ship struck in storm, Beauty of woodmen, building, the forger, hell of war, The great city, of the best-bodied mothers, the hammers-men, the headsman, solid forest, the liquor-bar, and No.II.
Author : Sam Maloof
Publisher :
Page : 1060 pages
File Size : 22,34 MB
Release : 1988
Category :
ISBN : 9784770014108
Author : Renwick Gallery
Publisher :
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 44,2 MB
Release : 1972
Category : Furniture
ISBN :
Author : The Wharton Esherick Museum
Publisher : Schiffer Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 37,89 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780764336775
Harold Mason, owner of the Centaur Bookshop in Philadelphia asked Wharton Esherick to illustrate Walt Whitman's "Song of the broad-axe", which Mason published in a limited edtion in 1924. Esherick created a hand-bound prototype book of Whitman's poem, using prints made directly from his blocks and hand-lettering it in Esherick's own calligraphic style. Illuminated letters were used to begin paragraphs, and spaces at the end of lines were filled with blue and yellow drawings that reflect the content of the verses. The result was a work of art, 17 x 12 inches, with pages of handmade paper, folded and uncut. This book is a reproduction of Esherick's prototype, authorized by the Wharton Esherick Museum in Paoli, Pennsylvania. Though this edition is smaller than the prototype book, the original was carefully scanned and printed to provide as true a reproduction as possible. It faithfully captures the artist's vision and skill and, for the first time, makes this work available to the general public.
Author : Michael Gotkin
Publisher : Harry N. Abrams
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,98 MB
Release : 2011-05-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780810995840
'Artists' handmade houses' examines the homes and studios crafted by a diverse group of artists from New York to California, including such greats as George Nakashima, Henry Varnum Poor, Sam Maloof, Wharton Esherick, Henry Mercer, Frederic Church, Paolo Santi and Russel Wright, among others.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 45,47 MB
Release : 1972
Category : Furniture, American
ISBN :