Toshiko Takaezu: Worlds Within
Regular price $ 65.00An expansive look at the multifaceted American artist Toshiko Takaezu within the history of postwar artmaking.
Toshiko Takaezu (1922–2011) was an American artist whose multidisciplinary work in ceramics, painting, sculpture, weaving, and installation innovatively drew from the natural world, combining expressionist energies with influences from East Asia. The closed ceramic forms for which she is best known are effectively abstract paintings in the round. Her reputation as a ceramic artist, however, has obscured the breadth of her output in other mediums and her role within the larger art movements of the twentieth century. This book provides the first retrospective assessment of Takaezu’s art and life, representing her diverse oeuvre, which spanned six decades, and her hybrid identity as an Asian American woman, artist, and teacher.
This ambitious volume features essays exploring Takaezu’s biography, her background as a Hawai‘i-born artist of Okinawan heritage, the relationship between her abstract work and that of her contemporaries, the role of cultural exchange in her art, her impact as an educator, and more. Beautifully illustrated with nearly 300 images of artworks and archival photographs, and including an updated chronology, exhibition history, and recollections from the artist’s former apprentices, the book offers a compelling and comprehensive account of this singular artist’s career.
Published in association with The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden MuseumPublisher: Yale University Press (October 1, 2002)
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Tree: Exploring the Arboreal World
Regular price $ 64.95NEW - An extraordinary collection of more than 300 images celebrating the beauty and diversity of trees
This exquisite survey presents a breathtaking sequence of full-page images – from landscape paintings and botanical drawings to ancient frescos, vintage book illustrations and contemporary photographs – revealing the tree as a source of inspiration throughout history.
Spanning continents and cultures, Tree reflects the diversity of its subject, depicting giant sequoias, cherry blossoms, palms, poplars, ginkgoes and other species found across Earth’s forest biomes, in a wide-ranging selection of visuals dating from Ancient Greece to the present day. More than 300 images include Roman stone mosaics, illustrated Norse myths, Edo-period woodblock prints and living tree installations, each lavishly reproduced.
Curated by an international panel of botanists, naturalists, art historians and other experts, the images expand the definition of botanical art, together forming a vibrant, vital homage to the natural world.
Featured artists and contributors include: Ansel Adams, Yann Arthus-Bertrand, Ruth Asawa, Paul Cézanne, Agnes Denes, Albrecht Dürer, Caspar David Friedrich; Global Forest Watch, Andy Goldsworthy, Ernst Haeckel, Utagawa Hiroshige, Frida Kahlo, Yayoi Kusama, Sally Mann, Grandma Moses, Marianne North, Pierre-Joseph Redouté, Daniel Roseberry for Schiaparelli, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Sebastião Salgado, and Yokohama Nursery Co., among others.
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Victor Ekpuk: Connecting Lines Across Space and Time
Regular price $ 130.00Edited by Toyin Falola
This book captures the full essence of Victor Ekpuk’s work as an artist of global reputation, a master of mysterious scripts, ancient signs and symbols. His messages, encrypted in nsibidi and other symbols and signs, find expressions in paintings, illustrations, cartoons and murals. In this book, twelve talented authors reflect on the artist, his background, the foundation of his creativity, and the interpretations of his symbolic messages. Essays by: Amanda Carlson Ph.D, Sylvester Ogbechie Ph.D, Smooth Ugochukwu Ph.D, Dele Jegede (Professor Emeritus), Allyson Purpura Ph.D, Andrea Frohne Ph.D, Moyo Okediji Ph.D, Dr. Imo Nse Imeh, Kunle Filani Ph.D, Dr. Ukpong Onoyom, Toyin Falola Ph.D, Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju, Aderonke Adesanya Ph.D, and Dr. Christopher Adejumo. Victor Ekpuk is a Nigerian-American artist. He obtained a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from University, Ife, Nigeria in 1989.
His work explores the human condition, drawing upon a wide spectrum of meaning that is rooted in African and global contemporary art discourses. Ekpuk’s works have been exhibited at Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris, The Tang museum, North Carolina Museum of Art, 12th Havana Biennial, Dakar Biennial, Hood Museum, Krannert Art Museum, Fowler Museum, Museum of Art and Design, Newark Museum, The World Bank, Smithsonian Institution National Museum of African Art, New Museum of Contemporary Art, and the 1st Johannesburg Biennial. His artworks are in collections of the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of African Art, Brooks Museum, The World Bank, Newark Museum, Hood Museum, Krannert Art Museum, United States Art in Embassies Art Collection. In 2016, Ekpuk designed trophies for The Smithsonian Institution National Museum of African Art’s first African Art Awards, one of which was awarded to Yinka Shonibare, MBE. In 2017 he completed a large-scale centerpiece mural at the North Carolina Museum of Art, as well as a mural at the Memphis Brooks Museum.
Publisher : Pan-African University Press; First Edition (January 1, 2018)
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Yearning to Breathe Free - Jews in Gilded Age America, Hardcover Version
Regular price $ 45.00Yearning to Breathe Free - Jews in Gilded Age America is composed of twenty scholarly essays and works as a companion book to "By Dawn's Early Light - Jewish Contributions to American Culture from the Nation's Founding to the Civil War"
Edited by Adam D. Mendelsohn and Jonathan D. Sarna
With a foreword by sponsor Leonard L. Milberg, Class of 1953, Princeton
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Yearning to Breathe Free - Jews in Gilded Age America, Softcover Version
Regular price $ 40.00Yearning to Breathe Free - Jews in Gilded Age America is composed of twenty scholarly essays and works as a companion book to "By Dawn's Early Light - Jewish Contributions to American Culture from the Nation's Founding to the Civil War"
Edited by Adam D. Mendelsohn and Jonathan D. Sarna
With a foreword by sponsor Leonard L. Milberg, Class of 1953, Princeton
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