Blaffer Gallery

Catalogue of an Exhibition Organized by the Sarah Campbell Blaffer Gallery of the University of Houston, Texas and Held at the Cooper-Hewitt Museum, The Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Design, New York, November 27, 1978-February 4, 1979 and Elsewhere

• Author(s): Sarah Campbell Blaffer Gallery, Cooper-Hewitt Museum

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1978
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• Publisher: Unknown

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Old master paintings from the Blaffer collections

• Categories: Painting, Renaissance

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1976
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• Publisher: Unknown

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James Surls: The Splendora Years, 1977-1997

• Author(s): Terrie Sultan, James Surls, Eleanor Heartney

• Categories: Art

• Type: Book
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• Published: 2005-09-01
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• Publisher: University of Texas Press

A prolific artist with a prodigious gift for stimulating the creativity of others, James Surls is one of the most important sculptors working in America today. His art blends natural forms created of wood, steel, and bronze with sophisticated, sometimes edgy imagery and content to explore fundamental dualities and paradoxes—male and female, joyous optimism and anxious foreboding, conscious rationality and unconscious intuition. Fusing personalized folk idioms with the aesthetics of high modernism, Surls's sculptures are clearly self-expressive, yet freighted with universal meaning. This beautifully illustrated book, which accompanies an exhibition of the same name at the Blaffer Gallery, t...

2008 Houston Area Exhibition

• Author(s): Blaffer Gallery

• Categories: Art, American

• Type: Book
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• Published: 2008-05-01
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• Publisher: Unknown

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Jessica Stockholder

• Author(s): Jessica Stockholder, Nancy Doll, Terrie Sultan, Elspeth Carruthers, Miwon Kwon

• Categories: Art

• Type: Book
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• Published: 2004
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• Publisher: Marquand Books/Blaffer Gallery/Weatherspoon Art Museum

Edited by Nancy Doll and Terrie Sultan. Essays by Elspeth Carruthers and Miwon Kwon.