Download or read book Mapping the Terrain written by Suzanne Lacy and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this wonderfully bold and speculative anthology of writings, artists and critics offer a highly persuasive set of argument and pleas for imaginative, socially responsible, and socially responsive public art.... "--Amazon.

Download or read book Seattle City of Literature written by Ryan Boudinot and published by Sasquatch Books. This book was released on 2015-09-29 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This bookish history of Seattle includes essays, history and personal stories from such literary luminaries as Frances McCue, Tom Robbins, Garth Stein, Rebecca Brown, Jonathan Evison, Tree Swenson, Jim Lynch, and Sonora Jha among many others. Timed with Seattle’s bid to become the second US city to receive the UNESCO designation as a City of Literature, this deeply textured anthology pays homage to the literary riches of Seattle. Strongly grounded in place, funny, moving, and illuminating, it lends itself both to a close reading and to casual browsing, as it tells the story of books, reading, writing, and publishing in one of the nation's most literary cities.

Download or read book A Field Guide to Seattle s Public Art written by Seattle Arts Commission (1971-2002) and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book brings you five self-guided walking and driving tours which highlight 41 of Seattle's most popular public art projects. Included are maps and photographs to accompany each tour, along with essays by well-known writers, artists and historians who offer insight to the development and role of public art in Seattle." -- Amazon.com viewed August 14, 2020.

Download or read book Storm Watch written by Barbara Earl Thomas and published by Jacob Lawrence Series on Ameri. This book was released on 1998 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The granddaughter of southern sharecroppers who migrated to Seattle in the mid 1940s, renowned artist Barbara Earl Thomas expresses in her art a dual heritage, translating southern roots and culture into a Northwestern landscape. STORM WATCH is a radiant book, offering a richly satisfying combination of luminous images and the written word. It includes a color sequence of more than 20 of Thomas's powerful paintings. 28 illustrations. 20 in color.

Download or read book Market Sketchbook written by Victor Steinbrueck and published by . This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new edition of the late Victor Steinbrueck's classic book celebrates the 25th anniversary of the passage of Seattle's Pike Place Market Initiative, which saved the market from the urban renewal wrecking ball. "A monument to an unforgettable and significant part of Seattle. . . . this book should be read by all who would replace history with progress. It creates a mood of love and appreciation for all that the Market has been to so many people in the past--and should continue to be for the future. Steinbrueck captures and brings to the reader the full flavor of the Market--it's like a walk through the wonderful mixing bowl of Seattle's world."--Pacific Search "Seattle's Pike Place Market, a rambling congeries of stores, shops, and stalls, has a history going back to the turn of the century when farmers from all around brought their produce to sell directly to the public. . . . The author is an architect and professor of urban planning, and he has been in love with this market since he was a boy. With more than two hundred pen-and-ink sketches and expertly hand-lettered commentaries, he has caught the flavor and movement of a kind of urban life that is rapidly fading from view." --American Artist

Download or read book Frisson written by Catharina Manchanda and published by . This book was released on 2021-11 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seattle art collectors Richard E. Lang and Jane Lang Davis were frequent visitors to New York City in the 1970s and early 1980s when they collaboratively built their collection, filling their home with singular works of art. Their shared legacy and passion for engaging thoughtfully, deeply, and personally with art--and the frisson of excitement that arises with such a connection--are celebrated and echoed in this special exhibition catalogue. Spanning 1945 through 1976, the paintings, drawings, and sculptures in Frisson serve as significant examples of mature works and pivotal moments of artistic development from some of the most influential American and European artists of the postwar period, including Francis Bacon, Lee Krasner, Clyfford Still, Philip Guston, Joan Mitchell, David Smith, and others. Together they represent an inimitable archive of innovation and a cross-pollination of leading artistic positions in the postwar years. With twenty new scholarly essays written by leading experts, Frisson provides the first opportunity for in-depth research into and new insights about nineteen noteworthy artworks recently acquired by the Seattle Art Museum.

Download or read book Insiders Guide to Seattle written by Shelley Seale and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2010-12-07 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A first edition, Insiders' Guide to Seattle is the essential source for in-depth travel and relocation information to this thriving city in the Pacific Northwest. Written by a local (and true insider), this guide offers a personal and practical perspective of Seattle and its surrounding environs.

Download or read book Seattle Public Sculptors written by Fred F. Poyner IV and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2017-05-03 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Seattle's earliest days as a Gold Rush boomtown to its celebration of the future during the 1962 World's Fair, local artists have created public art installations--statuary, reliefs and other sculpture--that have become familiar features of the city's landscape. This comprehensive study of 12 Seattle sculptors and their works examines the motivations of the artists and their benefactors, the development of the city's public art policy, and the political forces behind the pieces that are now part of the city's rich history. Biographical details and historical perspective are provided for such artists as Lorado Taft, Alice Robertson Carr, John Carl Ely, Max P. Nielsen, August Werner and James FitzGerald.

Download or read book Pocket Seattle written by Robert Balkovich and published by Lonely Planet. This book was released on 2023-02 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inside Lonely Planet's Pocket Seattle: Up-to-date information - all businesses were rechecked before publication to ensure they are still open after 2020's COVID-19 outbreak Full-color maps and travel photography throughout Highlightsand itineraries help you tailor a trip to your personal needs and interests Insider tips to save time and money and get around like a local, avoiding crowds and trouble spots Essential infoat your fingertips - hours of operation, phone numbers, websites, transit tips, prices Honest reviews for all budgets - eating, sightseeing, going out, shopping, hidden gems that most guidebooks miss Convenient pull-out Seattle map (included in print version), plus over 21 color neighborhood maps User-friendly layout with helpful icons, and organized by neighborhood to help you pick the best spots to spend your time Covers Downtown Seattle, Pike Place, the Waterfront, Pioneer Square, the International District, SoDo, Belltown, Queen Anne, Lake Union, Capitol Hill, Fremont, Green Lake, Ballard, Georgetown and more The Perfect Choice:Lonely Planet's Pocket Seattle an easy-to-use guide filled with top experiences - neighborhood by neighborhood - that literally fits in your pocket. Make the most of a quick trip to Seattle with trusted travel advice to get you straight to the heart of the city. Looking for a comprehensive guide that recommends both popular and offbeat experiences, and extensively covers all of Seattle's neighborhoods? Check out Lonely Planet's Seattle city guide. Looking for more extensive coverage? Check out Lonely Planet's Western USA guide for a comprehensive look at all that the region has to offer. eBook Features: (Best viewed on tablet devices and smartphones) Downloadable PDF and offline maps prevent roaming and data charges Effortlessly navigate and jump between maps and reviews Add notes to personalize your guidebook experience Seamlessly flip between pages Bookmarksand speedy search capabilities get you to key pages in a flash Embedded links to recommendations' websites Zoom-in maps and images Inbuilt dictionary for quick referencing About Lonely Planet: Lonely Planet is a leading travel media company, providing both inspiring and trustworthy information for every kind of traveler since 1973. Over the past four decades, we've printed over 145 million guidebooks and phrasebooks for 120 languages, and grown a dedicated, passionate global community of travelers. You'll also find our content online, and in mobile apps, videos, 12 international magazines, armchair and lifestyle books, ebooks, and more, enabling you to explore every day. 'Lonely Planet guides are, quite simply, like no other.' – New York Times 'Lonely Planet. It's on everyone's bookshelves; it's in every traveler's hands. It's on mobile phones. It's on the Internet. It's everywhere, and it's telling entire generations of people how to travel the world.' – Fairfax Media (Australia)

Download or read book Map As Art The Contemporary Artists Explore Cartography written by Katharine A. Harmon and published by Princeton Architectural Press. This book was released on 2009-09-23 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work is filled with 350 works by well-known artists such as Joyce Kozloff, Ed Ruscha, Julian Schnabel, and Olafer Eliasson. All are wayfinders, charting the highways and byways of the spirit and the topography of the soul.

Download or read book Legacy written by Paul Dorpat and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of other beneficiaries and on the Foundation's governance. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

Download or read book Figuring History written by Lowery Stokes Sims and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary artists Robert Colescott (1925-2009), Kerry James Marshall (b. 1955), and Mickalene Thomas (b. 1971) are distinguished by their attention to a history of representation, which they re-visit and revise to reflect on individual and collective Black experience. Equally engaged with social and political histories, and the history of art, Colescott, Marshall, and Thomas have created works that at times poignantly and satirically critique dominant narratives and posit alternatives. By considering these artists together, this thought-provoking book expands our understanding of contemporary history painting, a genre first defined during the 17th century and known for didactic paintings that often depicted Biblical or mythological subjects, and expressed the tastes and narratives of a ruling class. Colescott, Marshall, and Thomas marry appreciation of these traditional forms of representation to a deep understanding of contemporary American culture to create insightful works that disrupt historic narratives and read canonic art history against the grain. Published in association with the Seattle Art Museum Exhibition Schedule: Seattle Art Museum (02/15/18-05/13/18)

Download or read book One Place after Another written by Miwon Kwon and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2004-02-27 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A critical history of site-specific art since the late 1960s. Site-specific art emerged in the late 1960s in reaction to the growing commodification of art and the prevailing ideals of art's autonomy and universality. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, as site-specific art intersected with land art, process art, performance art, conceptual art, installation art, institutional critique, community-based art, and public art, its creators insisted on the inseparability of the work and its context. In recent years, however, the presumption of unrepeatability and immobility encapsulated in Richard Serra's famous dictum "to remove the work is to destroy the work" is being challenged by new models of site specificity and changes in institutional and market forces. One Place after Another offers a critical history of site-specific art since the late 1960s and a theoretical framework for examining the rhetoric of aesthetic vanguardism and political progressivism associated with its many permutations. Informed by urban theory, postmodernist criticism in art and architecture, and debates concerning identity politics and the public sphere, the book addresses the siting of art as more than an artistic problem. It examines site specificity as a complex cipher of the unstable relationship between location and identity in the era of late capitalism. The book addresses the work of, among others, John Ahearn, Mark Dion, Andrea Fraser, Donald Judd, Renee Green, Suzanne Lacy, Inigo Manglano-Ovalle, Richard Serra, Mierle Laderman Ukeles, and Fred Wilson.

Download or read book In Public written by Diane Shamash and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In public" was a project involveing public art in Seattle in 1991, many of the works were temporary but some were permanent.

Download or read book The World Atlas of Street Art and Graffiti written by Rafael Schacter and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2013-09-03 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVAn authoritative guide to the most significant artists, schools, and styles of street art and graffiti around the world/div

Download or read book 50 Northwest Artists written by Bruce Guenther and published by Chronicle Books (CA). This book was released on 1983 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Presents portraits and sample works of each painter and sculptor." -- Amazon.com viewed January 11, 2021.

Download or read book Top 10 Seattle written by Eric Amrine and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-08-01 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DK Eyewitness Top 10: Seattle gives you the best information on everything from food to events in Seattle. Whether you wish to experience the dizzying heights of the Seattle Center, find the liveliest nightlife, or shop at the Pike Place Market, this travel guide to Seattle is packed with essential information, whatever your budget. There are dozens of Seattle Top 10 lists including; the Top 10 restaurants, Top 10 liveliest bars and clubs, the Top 10 places to stay in Seattle, and even a Top 10 list of Things to Avoid! The Top 10 Seattle travel guide is packed with beautiful illustrations and detailed cutaways of the greatest attractions the vibrant metropolis of Seattle has to offer, with comprehensive reviews and recommendations of Seattle's best hotels, markets, festivals, shopping, and nightlife to ensure you don't miss a thing! Your guide to the Top 10 best of everything in Seattle.