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The Art of Football
"Includes Edward Penfield, J.C. Leyendecker, Frederic Remington, Charles Dana Gibson, George Bellows, and Many Others."
Scrimmage
From the close of the Civil War period to the present, prominent American artists have represented the quintessentially American sport of football and football culture. Significant painters, sculptors, photographers, and graphic designers have regularly depicted various aspects of this sport, reflecting not only its own history, but its broader themes - including heroism, sportsmanship, teamwork, manly virtues, and competition - that embody the history of our country. More recently, football's connection to long-term health impairment as well as its controversial role on our nation's campuses make it an important subject for our society today. Scrimmage critically explores how artists have p...
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Gay Outlaw
Using printmaking, photography and sculpture, San Francisco-based artist Gay Outlaw (born 1959) explores the balance between the organic and the geometric, as well as the relationship of photographic imagery to three-dimensional form. This publication accompanies an exhibition of recent sculpture and photographic assemblage at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art.
Irrigated Eden
Irrigation came to the arid West in a wave of optimism about the power of water to make the desert bloom. Mark Fiege’s fascinating and innovative study of irrigation in southern Idaho’s Snake River valley describes a complex interplay of human and natural systems. Using vast quantities of labor, irrigators built dams, excavated canals, laid out farms, and brought millions of acres into cultivation. But at each step, nature rebounded and compromised the intended agricultural order. The result was a new and richly textured landscape made of layer upon layer of technology and intractable natural forces—one that engineers and farmers did not control with the precision they had anticipated. Irrigated Eden vividly portrays how human actions inadvertently helped to create a strange and sometimes baffling ecology. Winner of the Idaho Library Association Book Award, 1999 Winner of the Charles A. Weyerhaeuser Award, Forest History Society, 1999-2000
The Republic of Nature
In the dramatic narratives that comprise The Republic of Nature, Mark Fiege reframes the canonical account of American history based on the simple but radical premise that nothing in the nation's past can be considered apart from the natural circumstances in which it occurred. Revisiting historical icons so familiar that schoolchildren learn to take them for granted, he makes surprising connections that enable readers to see old stories in a new light. Among the historical moments revisited here, a revolutionary nation arises from its environment and struggles to reconcile the diversity of its people with the claim that nature is the source of liberty. Abraham Lincoln, an unlettered citizen ...
Keith Achepohl
The catalog to accompany the exhibition of the same title. This extensive body of work in painting, drawing, and collage by Eugene, Oregon-based artist Keith Achepohl was inspired by three weeks spent at the Morris Graves Foundation Artist Residency in 2011. In the years since, including a second stay at the residency in 2016, Achepohl produced nine distinct yet interrelated explorations of the plants and trees that he observed at Morris Graves's final home, ¿The Lake¿ in Loleta, California. Achepohl began this work with close studies of his subject matter (including skunk cabbage, water lilies, and pond irises). The finished works are, as he describes, ¿more fantasy than reality," ultimately presenting an intensely personal language of nature that developed from "from careful observation to mnemonic response."
Final Salute
They are the troops that nobody wants to see, carrying a message that no military family ever wants to hear. Since the start of the war in Iraq, Marines like Major Steve Beck found themselves charged with a mission they never asked for and one for which there can be no training: casualty notification. In Final Salute, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jim Sheeler weaves together the stories of the fallen, the broken homes they have left behind, and one man's effort to help heal the wounds of those left grieving. But it is not a book about war, politics, or liberal vs. conservative. Achingly beautiful and honest, it is a book that every American-every human-can embrace.
Warhol in Colorado
Andy Warhol brought people together in ways that fueled their enthusiasm for art. His prowess at networking and finding commonalities inspired curators Dan Jacobs and Rupert Jenkins to create a show enriched by the enduring connections Warhol made when visiting Colorado in the late 70s and early 80s.The Warhol in Colorado catalog features essay by Rupert Jenkins, Denver Art Museum director Christoph Heinrich, and DAM curator of design Darrin Alfred. Full color reproductions of Andy Warhol silkscreens, record covers, exhibition objects, Polaroids and silver prints are included. Photographs by Colorado photographers John Bonath, Valere Harris Shane, and Mark Sink turn the camera on Warhol himself.
