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Continuity, Innovation, and Connoisseurship
Continuity, Innovation, and Connoisseurship brings together revised versions of papers first presented at an international symposium of the same name held at The Pennsylvania State University in 1995. Noted Old Master experts were invited to discuss and contextualize key sixteenth- and seventeenth-century paintings in the collection of the Palmer Museum of Art. The papers shed new light on these works, connecting them to important issues in the thematic and stylistic development of Old Master paintings. This richly illustrated volume also provides an informative introduction to the Palmer Museum's Renaissance and Baroque collections.
Palmer Museum of Art
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A Gift from the Heart
A Gift from the Heart documents in its entirety what is arguably one of the finest private collections of American art in the country. Much of the book comprises thematic essays written by invited scholars who consider the broader sociohistorical context of American art and culture as they delve into the particulars of the collection.
Manet and Friends
Manet and Friends accompanies an exhibition of the same name organized by the Palmer Museum of Art in memory of the Manet scholar and Penn State distinguished professor of art history George Mauner, who passed away in 2004. The catalogue focuses on the printmaking milieu of Paris during the 1860s and early 1870s, when Édouard Manet produced the majority of his graphic works. Seventeen of Manet's etchings and lithographs are discussed, as are an equal number of prints by several of his colleagues and associates, including Félix Bracquemond, Alphonse Legros, and Marcellin Desboutin. Nancy Locke's feature essay examines Manet's prints in light of the French concept of les moeurs--customs, habits, or manners, but also ethics--about which mid-nineteenth-century writers and artists were deeply concerned. In discussing the confrontational manner in which Manet regularly posed his subjects, Locke speculates on how the viewer might have been expected to respond to such portrayals. The catalogue entries were written by Patrick McGrady.
Realist Watercolors
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Through the Looking Glass
Through the Looking Glass provides readers with an informative record of the exhibition of self-portraits by Ana Mendieta, Carrie Mae Weems, and other leading women artists, held in 2003 at the Palmer Museum of Art as part of the Women's Self-Representation Project at The Pennsylvania State University. Fully illustrated, this catalogue enables readers to revisit the provocative juxtaposition of Yayoi Kusama's Multi-Fabrics and Alba d'Urbano's Couture, or Martha Rosler's Semiotics of the Kitchen and several of Cindy Sherman's famed Film Stills. An essay by Sarah Rich addresses important questions about women's use of self-portraiture. How, for example, does self-representation by women engage with narcissism, a long-time trait long ascribed to the stereotypical &"woman&"? To what extent is gender a necessary element in women's self-portraiture?
Bellefonte Collects
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Taxing Visions
Published on the occasion of an exhibition held at the Palmer Museum of Art, the Pennsylvania State University, Sept. 25-Dec. 10, 2010 and the Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens, Jan. 29-May 30, 2011.
