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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American painter with roots in the Pacific Northwest Morris Graves Selected Letters draws on a vast cache of the his unpublished correspondence dating from his teenage years until his death in 2001 Few visual artists of any era have left such a rich and wideranging collections of letters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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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Considered by many to be among the most outstanding of living American poets Alice Notley has amassed a body of work that includes intimate lyrics experimental diaries traditional genres the postmodern series the newly invented epic political observation and invective and the poem as novel This chronological selection of her most notable work offers a delineation of her life and creative development Formerly associated with the second generation of the New York School Notley has become a poet with a completely distinctive voice Grave of Light is a progression of changing forms and stylesan extensive panorama held together explicitly by the shape of the poets times Notleys poems challenge their subjects headon suffusing language with radiant truth
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Considered by many to be among the most outstanding of living American poets Alice Notley has amassed a body of work that includes intimate lyrics experimental diaries traditional genres the postmodern series the newly invented epic political observation and invective and the poem as novel This chronological selection of her most notable work offers a delineation of her life and creative development Formerly associated with the second generation of the New York School Notley has become a poet with a completely distinctive voice Grave of Light is a progression of changing forms and stylesan extensive panorama held together explicitly by the shape of the poets times Notleys poems challenge their subjects headon suffusing language with radiant truth
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Mimi Khalvatis Selected Poems 199197 draws on her three Carcanet collections In White Ink 1991 Mirrorwork 1995 and Entries on Light 1997 It provides us with the essential Khalvati from the ambitiously wrought formal poems full of unusual personal shadows through to the visual meditations in the long sequence Entries on Light She brings into English poetry new formal and tonal elements the dramtic interplay of form and syntax is impassioned
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The Master Architect series III Michael Graves Selected and Current Works Buildings designed by Michael Graves have been in the news for several decades now and have increasingly become paret of the public consciousness as they start to mark skylines acrosss the globe What Graves has done which assures him a place in the history of architecture has been to take largescale building design out of a tried pattern of latae Modeornism and recharage it with color figure pattern and a sense of formal play that has made his buildings more recognizable from a distance and more accessible to the individual all the while furthering his own development as an artist
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The laconic LA private investigator Mike Faraday is employed to find a missing croupier from a gambling club The simple assignment turns out to be one of Mikes most hairraising adventures with murder and mayhem only a step away Involved are club manager Larry Keppler two inept killers Fat Fred and Friend a murderous doctor and an undertaker whose men arrive to pick up the corpse while the victim is still in the air
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A collection of short stories by an acclaimed contemporary Greek writer reminiscent of Lydia Davis and Jenny Offill This collection assembles sixteen of Maria Mitsoras short stories in what adds up to be a retrospective of the authors work spanning forty years Moving across the urban netherworld of Athens to imagined Latin American towns and sciencefiction dystopias Mitsora animates the alternatingly dark and revelatory aspects of the human psyche depicting a world in which her protagonists are caught between reality and myth predestination and chance rationality and twisted dreams Mitsora led a generation of writers whose work articulated major transitions in the Greek literary scene from 1970s historical and political sensibilities shaped in response to the military Junta to a contemporary focus on a fragmented multicultural world Her consistent experimentation with the short story forma dominant genre in Greek prose writing since the nineteenth centuryranges from psychologically dark surrealist work to more recent reflective and poetic writings nbsp
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