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The longawaited Morris Graves His Houses His Gardens tells the story of the homes of Morris Graves a leading figure in Northwest Art and one of the most important American artists of the twentieth centuryThis highquality book with beautiful duotone photographs concerns itself with four locationsThe Rock Careläden Woodtown Manor and The Lake Author photographer and close Graves friend Richard Svare makes clear that the world Morris Graves inhabited physically was the world he experienced transcendentallyMorris Graves soared from obscurity to fame in 1942 when thirty of his works appeared in New Yorks Museum of Modern Arts exhibition Americans 1942 18 Artists from Nine States A review in ARTnews magazine praised his paintings as the sensation of the showAs a charismatic figure who traveled extensively throughout Europe and Asia Graves developed friendships with artists like John Cage and Merce Cunningham and hobnobbed with celebrities and royalty Throughout his career Gravess work is represented in many public and private collections including The Museum of Modern Art and Whitney Museum Washingtons Phillips Collection and the Los Angeles County Museum of ArtPartly because he chose to live in the Northwest Graves was often said to be reclusive Many of his early paintings were created at The Rock a cabin he built for himself eightyfive miles north of Seattle He built a home in Ireland and spent the last thirtyfive years of his life in Northern California
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This superb hardcover volume upgraded with color plates celebrates the work of three legendary Victorianera artists Edward BurneJones William Morris and Walter Crane Each is spotlighted in separate sections filled with magnificent illustrations and an insightful text that explores their philosophies and methods Additionally the subjects were directly involved in the creation of this rare publication in fact Crane wrote his own profile making his chapter a primary source for research A marvelous survey of creative achievement this influential classic allows the three masters to share their unique visions with aspiring artists and admirers alike
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Morris Graves is a major American painter with roots in the Pacific Northwest Morris Graves Selected Letters draws on a vast cache of the his unpublished correspondence dating from his teenage years until his death in 2001 Few visual artists of any era have left such a rich and wideranging collections of letters which makes this body of work an unusual and valuable document in American artThe Graves correspondence is remarkable for its scope variety and depth Written to many correspondents over long periods of time the letters include the artists reflections on his art the art world philosophy Zen Buddhism and Vedanta in particular architecture Graves designed his homes and gardens and relationships with family friends and lovers Graves himself preserved most of the letters or copies of them and put no restrictions on their use Other letters come from a wide range of private and institutional sourcesAmong the correspondents are Gravess family Marian Willard his art dealer Richard Svare his companion in the 1950s and Nancy Wilson Ross novelist and Buddhist scholar Other notable figures with whom Graves corresponded are poet Carolyn Kizer art critic Theodore Wolff curator Peter Selz choreographer Merce Cunningham for whom Graves created a set design and painter Mark TobeyRecurrent themes in the Graves letters are the tensions between sociability and solitude the desire to be free of the material world versus the need for material comfort the dismissal of commerce and the desperate need for money the pleasures and pitfalls of love and the difficulties of the creative life The letters are organized topically under the broad categories of people family friends intimates places homes and travels and art finances and philosophy
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Morris Graves 1910 2001 was an American painter He was one of the earliest Modern artists from the Pacific Northwest to achieve national and international acclaim His style referred to by some reviewers as Mysticism used the muted tones of the Northwest environment Asian aesthetics and philosophy and a personal iconography of birds flowers chalices and other images to explore the nature of consciousness An article in a 1953 issue of Life magazine cemented Graves reputation as a major figure of the Northwest School of artists This book was published in conjunction with the exhibition MORRIS GRAVES VISION OF THE INNER EYE organized by the Phillips Collection which showed from April 1983 September 1984 at the Greenview County Museum of Art in Greenview South Carolina at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York at the Oakland Museum in Oakland CA and at the San Diego Museum of Art in San Diego Gravess aesthetic combines a romantic love of natural forms with symbols birds chalices snakes that are imbued with religious connotations and executed on delicate paper with the skill of an oriental calligrapher Duncan Phillips one of Gravess most enthusiastic admirers and collectors noted of his art One feels a solicitude for the survival of such precious already crinkled papers In no other medium in no other way could the artist have expressed what he had to say about the brevity and insecurity of life The essay is written by Ray Kass who drew on extensive interviews with Graves and his associates to create a complete biography of the artist This book is the most complete documentation of the artists life and work A full exhibition history and bibliography are provided Includes 40 color plates and 130 black and white illustrations that reproduce all of Graves major paintings with many in print for the first time
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Published in separate German Kunsthalle Bremen and English editions to accompany a 2002 exhibition appearing at the Kunsthalle Bremen Bremen Germany and the Museum of Glass Tacoma Washington this catalog includes the artists works as well as interpretive and biographical essays The three artists were friends and collaborators linked by their connections with the Pacific Northwest their appellation as Northwest Mystics and more deeply by their shared artistic concerns John Cage composer philosopher writer and visual artist wrote extensively about Tobey and Graves and his writings are included here as well Annotation c Book News Inc Portland OR booknewscom
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The longawaited Morris Graves His Houses His Gardens tells the story of the homes of Morris Graves a leading figure in Northwest Art and one of the most important American artists of the twentieth centuryThis highquality book with beautiful duotone photographs concerns itself with four locationsThe Rock Careläden Woodtown Manor and The Lake Author photographer and close Graves friend Richard Svare makes clear that the world Morris Graves inhabited physically was the world he experienced transcendentallyMorris Graves soared from obscurity to fame in 1942 when thirty of his works appeared in New Yorks Museum of Modern Arts exhibition Americans 1942 18 Artists from Nine States A review in ARTnews magazine praised his paintings as the sensation of the showAs a charismatic figure who traveled extensively throughout Europe and Asia Graves developed friendships with artists like John Cage and Merce Cunningham and hobnobbed with celebrities and royalty Throughout his career Gravess work is represented in many public and private collections including The Museum of Modern Art and Whitney Museum Washingtons Phillips Collection and the Los Angeles County Museum of ArtPartly because he chose to live in the Northwest Graves was often said to be reclusive Many of his early paintings were created at The Rock a cabin he built for himself eightyfive miles north of Seattle He built a home in Ireland and spent the last thirtyfive years of his life in Northern California
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Published in conjunction with a 2003 exhibition organized by the Tacoma Art Museum this catalog offers two extensive essays by curators Conkelton and Landau who draw on letters interviews and new analyses of the artists works to investigate how these mystic painters of the Northwest influenced one another The four painters were friends and colleagues for only a few years around the time of World War II and their styles are entirely individual and distinctive yet they are linked by their association with the Pacific Northwest and by underlying philosophical interests A section of plates is followed by a timeline exhibition checklist and bibliography Slightly oversize 95x1125ltgt Annotation c Book News Inc Portland OR booknewscom
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American painter Morris Graves 1910 2001 was one of the earliest Modern painters He adopted certain elements of Chinese and Japanese art including the use of thin paper and ink drawing Throughout his life Morris Graves lived in remote settings drawing inspiration from the close observation of nature and imbuing his subjects
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Oversized book in immaculate black cloth boards with bright gilt lettering on spine and debossed facsimile of Graves signature on front board 57 illustrations plus frontispiece Full color dustjacket in mylar is bright and fresh in appearance with minor isolated soil on rear
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Published in separate German Kunsthalle Bremen and English editions to accompany a 2002 exhibition appearing at the Kunsthalle Bremen Bremen Germany and the Museum of Glass Tacoma Washington this catalog includes the artists works as well as interpretive and biographical essays The three artists were friends and collaborators linked by their connections with the Pacific Northwest their appellation as Northwest Mystics and more deeply by their shared artistic concerns John Cage composer philosopher writer and visual artist wrote extensively about Tobey and Graves and his writings are included here as well Annotation c Book News Inc Portland OR booknewscom
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Over the course of a distinguished career critic Leo Bersani has tackled a range of issues in his writing and this collection gathers together some of his finest work Beginning with one of the foundations of queer theoryhis famous meditation on how sex leads to a shattering of the self Is the Rectum a Gravethis volume charts the inspired connections Bersani has made between sexuality psychoanalysis and aesthetics Over the course of these essays Bersani grapples with thinkers ranging from Plato to Descartes to Georg Simmel Foucault and Freud recur as key figures and although Foucault rejected psychoanalysis Bersani contends that by considering his ideas alongside Freuds one gains a clearer understanding of human identity and how we relate to one another For Bersani art represents a crucial guide for conceiving new ways of connecting to the world and so in many of these essays he stresses the importance of aesthetics analyzing works by Genet Caravaggio Proust Almodóvar and Godard Documenting over two decades in the life of one of the best minds working in the humanities today Is the Rectum a Grave and Other Essays is a unique opportunity to explore the fruitful career of a formidable intellect
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Blood and Steel 3 The Wehrmacht Archive The Ardennes Offensive December 1944 to January 1945 is an extensive and colorful collection of translated German military documents private letters and diaries relating to one of the most hardfought battles of the Second World War This rare material was gathered by the intelligence section of the American British and Canadian armies and ranges from orders issued by Feldmarschall von Rundstedt down to jokes told by the ordinary German soldier often at the expense of his superiors The infamous use by the Germans of troops disguised as Americans driving captured US vehicles to sow confusion behind enemy lines is described as it happened including a desperate plea by two Germans captured in US uniforms to be spared executionThis unique collection gives an unparalleled insight into German tactics organization morale and attitudes to their opponents during the Battle of the Bulge the last desperate gamble by Hitler to defeat the Allied offensive in the West and is required reading for all historians and enthusiasts of the period
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Richard Corben follows up 2014s Spirits of the Dead with a new collection of original short stories ranging from gothic tales worthy of Poe to Twilight Zonestyle encounters with the weird to a fulllength fantasy epic featuring a barbarian reminiscent of Corbens most notorious creation Den immortalized in the 1981 animated film Heavy Metal Corben rose to prominence with short horror and science fiction stories in the early 1970s in Creepy and Eerie which were later collected in Creepy Presents Richard Corben He remains one of the most important voices in horror comics In 2009 he won the Eisner for Best Miniseries as well as being named Spectrums Grand Master one of illustrations most prominent awards In 2011 he won the Eisner for Best Oneshot and the following year he was inducted in the Will Eisner Hall of Fame
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Book is in UsedVeryGood condition Pages and cover are clean and intact Used items may not include supplementary materials such as CDs or access codes May show signs of minor shelf wear and contain very limited notes and highlighting 115
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The Victoria and Albert Museum London is the worlds greatest museum of art and design with a vast collection that been an unparalleled resource for designers for 150 yearsThis new series of pattern books presents the range of the VampAs superb collections Beautifully designed accessible and informative these little books are a repository of ideas and inspiration for designers of all kinds Included in each volume is a CD of all the images shown withinto be redrawn reworked or even licensed for further usenbspnbspThe books are available individually or in a beautiful decorative slipcasenbspWilliam MorrisWilliam Morriss worldfamous designs possess a timeless quality and appeal that is surprising in work created over 120 years ago He began designing patterns in the 1860s for his own use and as part of an effort to improve the general standards of decorative design
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LeRoy Anderson in 1981 first published under the title For Christ Will Come Tomorrow his definitive study of a charismatic millenarian prophet and the Church of Jesus Christ of the Most High He told there of a Mormon posses 1862 attack on the Morrisite compound killing Joseph Morris and of the continuing Morrisite movement which survived into the midtwentieth century In this newly revised edition Anderson revisits his subject by referring to more recently discovered documents considering other scholars continuing work on Morriss sect and related subjects and examining a 1980s messianic sect that claimed a direct connection to the Morrisites New documentary sources include a holograph History of George Morris written by Joseph Morriss brother which Anderson quotes at length What was once a littlestudied subject has since received attention from a number of scholars Anderson references such current work on Mormon schismatic movements and broader subjects much of which drew on his work Perhaps the books most interesting and unintended influence was on that obscure 1980s messianic sect in Montana which learned of Morris through Joseph Morris and the Saga of the Morrisites
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