Download or read book Squeak Carnwath written by Karen Tsujimoto and published by Pomegranate Communications. This book was released on 2009 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The paintings of Squeak Carnwath (American, b. 1947), often subtly illuminated by meticulously applied layers of glaze, embody complex layers of meaning. "Paintings are not ordinary objects," the artist observes. "Painting is a carrier of meaning, of human touch. Each brush stroke or smear of pigment is freighted with philosophical inquiry." In Carnwath's works, rows of writing are placed to slow the eye, "to put the viewer in real time." Recurring motifs touch on personal and universal themes, from a rabbit tentatively seeking its place in a chaotic world to the seated blue Medicine Buddha, healer of ills and reminder of the latent Buddha nature in each of us. Published in conjunction with the exhibition organized by the Oakland Museum of California, Squeak Carnwath: Painting Is No Ordinary Object celebrates the wonder and spirit embodied in each of Carnwath's works. Over eighty full-color reproductions trace the development of the artist's distinctive style from the 1970s to the present, while essays by curator Karen Tsujimoto and art critic John Yau explore the personal, social, and artistic context of this powerful body of work. SQUEAK CARNWATH is the recipient of numerous awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship and an Individual Artist Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. Carnwath received her MFA from the California College of Arts and Crafts in 1977 and has taught at the University of California since 1982. Carnwath maintains a studio in Oakland, California, where she has lived and worked since 1970.

Download or read book Squeak Carnwath Recent Paintings written by Squeak Carnwath and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Squeak Carnwath Relative written by Squeak Carnwath and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Local Color written by Rene Di Rosa and published by Chronicle Books (CA). This book was released on 1999 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The di Rosa collection reflects the unique aesthetic of California modern art and includes pivotal works by celebrated artists Robert Arneson, Roy De Forest, Robert Hudson, William T. Wiley, and many others." "Local Color presents a sampling of the best of the di Rosa collection, featuring the work of seventy-six California artists. Compelling, amusing, and enlightening pieces, each accompanied by a brief essay about the artist."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Download or read book Miserable Miracle written by Henri Michaux and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2002-04-30 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book is an exploration. By means of words, signs, drawings. Mescaline, the subject explored." In Miserable Miracle, the great French poet and artist Henri Michaux, a confirmed teetotaler, tells of his life-transforming first encounters with a powerful hallucinogenic drug. At once lacerating and weirdly funny, challenging and Chaplinesque, his book is a breathtaking vision of interior space and a piece of stunning writing wrested from the grip of the unspeakable. Includes forty pages of black-and-white drawings.

Download or read book Richard Diebenkorn written by Bart Schneider and published by . This book was released on 2015-01-07 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A hundred still lifes and landscapes from California painter Richard Diebenkorn.

Download or read book The Magnolia Tapestry Project written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Artists of Invention written by California College of the Arts and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents a vivid portrait of the Bay Area art scene over the past century. More than 100 color illustrations of work by a wide range of artists are featured, including the renegade plein-air painters Society of Six, production ceramist Edith Heath, Bay Area figurative painter Richard Diebenkorn, studio ceramist Peter Voulkos, Minimalist John McCracken, conceptualist Dennis Oppenheim, photorealist Robert Bechtle and cultural commentator Squeak Carnwath. The book is further enriched by a contemporary section dedicated to work produced in the last 20 years by Kota Ezawa, Larry Sultan and Liz Cohen, among others. Published in celebration of the centennial anniversary of the California College of the Arts, the book accompanies an exhibition at the Oakland Museum of California. It includes artist biographies, essays by Nancy Boas, Glen Helfand, Tara McDowell and Peter Selz and texts by critic Arthur C. Danto and curator Matthew Higgs, among others.

Download or read book Camille Pissarro written by Christophe Duvivier and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2022-01-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new consideration of Pissarro’s work focuses on his strengths as a unifier and champion of other painters, as well as his innovative approach to the Impressionist movement and beyond. As one of the founding figures of Impressionism, Camille Pissarro exerted considerable influence over the movement’s other members, such as Paul Cézanne, Claude Monet, Paul Gauguin, Edgar Degas, and Mary Cassatt. This publication focuses on Pissarro’s collaborations with these and other artists. It also celebrates the avant-garde quality of his painting, particularly in his contributions to Neo-Impressionism. Focusing on his role in the revolutionary Impressionist movement of the 1870s, the book traces Pissarro’s work in dialog with his fellow artists, particularly Cezanne and Gauguin, and also reveals his influence on works by Alfred Sisley, Georges Seurat, Paul Signac and others. In addition to pages of exquisite reproductions of works by Pissarro and his contemporaries, this volume features illuminating essays about his influences on Van Gogh, his approach to the female figure, and the role of synthesis among the early Impressionists. Readers will come away with a new understanding of how Pissarro’s unique talent for collaboration and unity was vital to the development of French painting in the late 19th century.

Download or read book Civil War Stories written by Ambrose Bierce and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sixteen dark and vivid tales by great satirist: "A Horseman in the Sky," "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge," "Chicakamauga," "A Son of the Gods," "What I Saw of Shiloh," more. Note.

Download or read book Raimonds Staprans written by Paul J. Karlstrom and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1947 the young Raimonds Staprans emigrated with his family from Latvia to America, and for the past half century the artist and playwright has lived and worked in the San Francisco Bay Area. In Raimonds Staprans: Art of Tranquility and Turbulence, Paul Karlstrom investigates the realism and abstraction in Staprans's work, focusing on the more edgy and self-revealing paintings by bringing the artist's life experience and personal psychology prominently into the equation. Karlstrom recognizes that the meaning of Staprans's work cannot be understood solely in terms of the painterly skill and aesthetic beauty that characterize the landscapes, marines, and still lifes. Neither can it be fully appreciated in the minimalist abstraction with which Staprans qualifies his realism. Rather, the key to understanding is hidden in the secret life and philosophical preoccupation that emerged in the author's interviews with the artist.Two prominent writers provide brief essays dealing with Staprans as a "trans-Atlanticist": Latvian cultural critic Helena Demakova brings the perspective of the artist's native country to his American émigré story. American art historian Peter Selz examines realism's rich modernist potential in Staprans and other artists who have pushed realism to discover new conceptual and aesthetic truths.Staprans is also a writer, known in Latvia mainly for his work for the stage, and excerpts from his writings provide insight into his painting.

Download or read book Autobiography of Red written by Anne Carson and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2013-03-05 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The award-winning poet reinvents a genre in a stunning work that is both a novel and a poem, both an unconventional re-creation of an ancient Greek myth and a wholly original coming-of-age story set in the present. Geryon, a young boy who is also a winged red monster, reveals the volcanic terrain of his fragile, tormented soul in an autobiography he begins at the age of five. As he grows older, Geryon escapes his abusive brother and affectionate but ineffectual mother, finding solace behind the lens of his camera and in the arms of a young man named Herakles, a cavalier drifter who leaves him at the peak of infatuation. When Herakles reappears years later, Geryon confronts again the pain of his desire and embarks on a journey that will unleash his creative imagination to its fullest extent. By turns whimsical and haunting, erudite and accessible, richly layered and deceptively simple, Autobiography of Red is a profoundly moving portrait of an artist coming to terms with the fantastic accident of who he is. A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist "Anne Carson is, for me, the most exciting poet writing in English today." --Michael Ondaatje "This book is amazing--I haven't discovered any writing in years so marvelously disturbing." --Alice Munro "A profound love story . . . sensuous and funny, poignant, musical and tender." --The New York Times Book Review "A deeply odd and immensely engaging book. . . . [Carson] exposes with passionate force the mythic underlying the explosive everyday." --The Village Voice

Download or read book Not Normal Art in the Age of Trump written by Karen Gutfreund and published by . This book was released on 2020-07-18 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Not Normal: Art in the Age of Trump" is a visual protest of the Trump administration featuring 142 artists with over 350 works. Artists around the United States are raging against Donald Trump in visual protest. Not Normal: Art in the Age of Trump documents this artistic movement in a curated collection that features the work of 142 artists. Their outrage is evidenced in full Technicolor on subjects ranging from racism, the Covid pandemic, xenophobia, immigration, promotion of hatred and violence, mistrust of science and facts, misogyny and of course, a narcissism that puts our entire country and world at great risk. While the subject matter is serious, the art is alive with color and detail and is delivered with an irreverent sense of humor. About the Author: Karen M. Gutfreund is an independent curator and artist. Actively promoting the work of activist and feminist artists with national touring exhibitions, she has produced over thirty-five to date, managing all aspects from curation, artist and project management along with installation. She has worked in the Painting & Sculpture Department at MoMA, the Andre Emmerick Gallery, The Knoll Group, the John Berggruen Gallery, and is an art consultant to both corporations and individuals. Gutfreund served as the National Exhibitions Director for the Women's Caucus for Art, is a member of ArtTable, the Northern California Representative for The Feminist Art Project (TFAP), and curator for UniteWomen.org. She is currently writing a book on DIY Exhibitions.To support artists and creative endeavors, Gutfreund has pledged to donate proceeds of this publication to The Soze Foundation Artist + Activist Relief Fund and the participating artists in the catalog.

Download or read book Daughters of China written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paintings inspired by a 1949 Chinese movie entitled "Daughters of China," which depicts the story of eight female officers of the Chinese Northeastern Resistance Forces who fought against the Japanese invasion and became martyrs in China.

Download or read book Gee s Bend written by William Arnett and published by Tinwood Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2002, Gee’s Bend burst into international prominence through the success of Tinwood’s Quilts of Gee’s Bend exhibition and book, which revealed an important and previously invisible art tradition from the African American South. Critics and popular audiences alike marveled at these quilts that combined the best of contemporary design with a deeply rooted ethnic heritage and compelling human stories about the women. Gee's Bend: The Architecture of the Quilt is a major book and museum exhibition that will premiere at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH), in June 2006 before traveling to seven American museums through 2008. The book's 330 color illustrations and insightful text bring home the exciting experience to readers while displaying all the cultural heritage and craftsmanship that have gone into these remarkable quilts.

Download or read book Epicenter written by Mark Johnstone and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2002-11 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A hotbed of seismic activity, the San Francisco Bay Area is also an epicenter of vital new work by an art community always pushing the bounds of cultural innovation. Epicenter showcases the work of nearly fifty prominent and rising-star artists who have made this region the base of eclectic, cutting-edge art on the West Coast. Each profile captures the essence of the artists work with a gallery of signature work, critical career overview, brief biography, and selected bibliography for further exploration. The artists featured in Epicenter reflect the ethnic diversity, variety of media, and originality of the regional scene. Packaged in a handsome horizontal format with a forward-looking design, Epicenter is a timely look at the leading purveyors of the areas pioneering and ever-shifting panorama of art. Artists featured in Epicenter: Ray Beldner, Christopher Brown, Squeak Carnwath, Enrique Chagoya, Ann Chamberlain, Bruce Conner, Linda Connor, Crane|Winet, Judy Dater, Lewis de Soto, Viola Frey, Rupert Garcia, Carmen Lomas GarzaKen Goldberg, Guillermo Gmez-Pea, Ian Green, Lynn Hershman, Todd Hido, Doug Hollis, Mildred Howard, David Ireland, Paul Kos, Suzanne Lacy, Hung LiuTom Marioni, Richard Misrach, Anna Valentina Murch, Nobuho Nagasawa, Ron Nagle, Deborah Oropallo, Gay Outlaw, Irne Pijoan, Lucy Puls, Alan Rath, Rigo, Raymond Saunders, Richard Shaw, Katherine Sherwood, Silt, Mary Snowden, Larry Sultan, Survival Research Laboratories, Stephanie Syjuco, Mark Thompson, Meredith Tromble, Catherine Wagner, Henry Wessel, Rene Yung

Download or read book Squeak Carnwath written by Squeak Carnwath and published by Chronicle Books (CA). This book was released on 1996 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this first major collection of her work, more than 85 full-color reproductions reveal the inspired world of artist Squeak Carnwath. Her huge, luminous canvases are embellished with numbers, lists of words, and abstract symbols, offering keen reflections on the human experience, nature's rhythms, and the passage of time. As Carnwath puts it, "Art is the antidote that reminds us to breathe, to feel the soles of our feet and the touch of the ground on the bottom of our toes". The universal appeal of her paintings has garnered Carnwath national attention. She is the recipient of numerous awards and grants, and her work has been exhibited across the country. A chronology of exhibitions and insightful essays by Leah Levy and James and Ramsay Breslin complete this impressive survey of an artist with a unique vision.