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Lebasque, 1865-1937
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Pioneer Photographers of the Far West
This extraordinarily comprehensive, well-documented, biographical dictionary of some 1,500 photographers (and workers engaged in photographically related pursuits) active in western North America before 1865 is enriched by some 250 illustrations. Far from being simply a reference tool, the book provides a rich trove of fascinating narratives that cover both the professional and personal lives of a colorful cast of characters.
Ascending Chaos
Ascending Chaos is the first major retrospective of Japanese-American artist Masami Teraoka's prolific and acclaimed work thus far. In Teraoka's paintings—which have evolved from his wry mimicry of Japanese woodblock prints to much larger and complex canvasses reminiscent of Bosch and Brueghel—the political and the personal collide in a riot of sexually frank tableaux. Populated by geishas and goddesses, priests, and politicians, and prominent contemporary figures, these paintings are the spectacular next phase of a wildly inventive career. With essays by renowned art critics who discuss how Teraoka's work inventively marries east and west, sex and religion, Ascending Chaos is a critical overview of this cultural trickster.
Views of the Sea
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Frank Lobdell
The first comprehensive overview of Frank Lobdell's paintings, drawings, prints, and sketchbooks, and his long career as artist and teacher in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Worldviews
Over the past two decades, British artist Tony Foster has trekked across the world, capturing its changing faces in a series of heroic watercolors. Painting on-site, often under difficult circumstances, Foster creates works that are part artistic vision and part naturalist observation. The rain forests of Costa Rica, the volcanic island of Montserrat, Bolivia's mile-high lakes, the slopes of the Sierra Nevada and the Cascade mountain ranges, and the scorching desert of Death Valley have all been subjects of his explorations. Foster's work is a mix of landscape painting and written notation, often enlivened with sketches of flora and fauna or the occasional found object.
Facing Eden
The San Francisco Bay Area boasts one of the richest and most continuous traditions of landscape art in the entire country. Looking back over the past one hundred years, the contributors to this in-depth survey consider the diverse range of artists who have been influenced by the region's compelling union of water and land, peaks and valleys, and fog and sunlight. Paintings, sculpture, graphic arts, photography, landscape architecture, earthworks, conceptual art, and designs in city planning and architecture are all represented. The diversity reflects not just the glories of nature but also an exploration of what constitutes "landscape" in its broadest, most complete sense. Among the more th...
Conversations with Elmer Bischoff
In the first interview, Bischoff discusses the UC Berkeley Dept. of Art, 1960s, 1970s; Hans Hofmann influence; thoughts on the Breakfast Group and studio critiques; "Figure with Tree," 1972; thoughts on problems and pitfalls in painting. The second interview was conducted in 1977 by Paul J. Karlstrom of the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
