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Fritz Scholder's book of symbols for children
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00/01
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"A 'box for the new millennium,' '00/01' includes an accordion-bound booklet entitled 'Things to Do' and a series of cards featuring a mix of verse and paintings by the Artist. All of this is housed inside a custom-made red acrylic box. Scholder's paintings, which have been exhibited widely and are part of the permanent collection at New York’s Museum of Modern Art, combine the work of Jackson Pollock and other pop artists with Native American art. Born in 1937, Scholder formed the Institute of American Indian Arts in 1965, hoping to break free from the clichés of traditional Indian artwork designed and marketed mostly for tourists"--Publisher's description.
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Flirting with possessions
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"For over forty years, artist Fritz Scholder has investigated the imagery and concepts of widely diverse subjects: Mystery Women, Native Americans, Vampires, Apparitions, Fallen Angels, Death, and The Millennium. His resulting paintings, sculpture, and works on paper have been exhibited throughout the world. An avid traveller, Scholder acquires new possessions wherever he goes, believing collecting to be 'one of the great thrills of living.' 'Flirting with possessions' is a fascinating account of Fritz Scholder's life as an artist, traveller and collector. David S. Rubin, Curator of 20th Century Art at the Phoenix Art Museum, provides an introduction to Scholder's personal history. The artist shares his thoughts and memories of his travels and the building of his immense collection of artifacts, which includes everything from voodoo dolls and Egyptian mummies to crosses and incunables"--Back cover.
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[Federbild : an album of bird portraits executed using plumage from the subjects]
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"A charming highly-accomplished collection of ornithological portraits, made with feathers. The unknown creator of these very fine mixed-media works has taken enormous care to represent the subjects as accurately as possible. The feathers are all chosen and placed individually in a process that would have taken many days of painstaking work to complete. The backgrounds have a naïve simplicity. ... The method of working, although almost unknown today, belonged to a well-established tradition. Sixteenth century natural historian Ulisse Aldrovandi described the art form as a 'threshold between art and science.' In the 18th century, ornithologist George Edwards (1694-1773) gave detailed instructions 'for making Pictures of Birds, with their Natural Feathers,' published within his History of Uncommon Birds and Gleanings of Natural History. German featherwork, or federbild, was a major craft art and export of the Egerland region, introduced at the end of the eighteenth century by the Dominican monk Hieronymus Trötscher. An ingenious combination of watercolor with paper and feather collage, this technique is associated with the sentimental, folksy style of the Biedermeier period. While there is a clear line of influence from the Naturselbstdruck (nature-printing) tradition of the previous century. Trötscher may also have ... been inspired by the intricate featherwork mosaics created by Mexican artists in the New World. Mexican featherwork had enjoyed an earlier popularity in Renaissance Europe, adopted for cabinets of curiosities and the luxury book arts"--From bookseller's description (Donald A. Heald).
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Page from Harry Chandler tribute book "In your leadership..."
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Black and white photograph of a tribute page of the Harry Chandler book of appreciation from the Times employees on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the newspaper. It begins "In your leadership we have found simplicity and strength... " A shield shape is embossed on the page around the text. May Goodan Collection.
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Loom
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Looms provide the blank canvases for weaving stories, a basic structure of utility and grace that connects the threads of our inner world with those of the natural world in countless and ever enduring forms. This project began when the California printmaker and book artist Richard Wagener asked simple question - how many threads does it take to make a weaving? From this journey (undertaken over several months on the surface of endgrain wood blocks, with a wood engraver's burin as walking stick) have come sixteen extraordinary engravings, artwork which evokes the mystery and beauty of connection and disconnection, while honoring the elegant simplicity and frailty of the loom and all it represents. New Zealand-born, Australian-resident poet Alan Loney, long-time weaver of words, was asked to respond to this series of engravings, and produced a poem, asking deep questions of connection and exploring "the thread of life itself."--Adapted from the prospectus.
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Little Miss Lacqueret's Drawing Book for Children
Visual Materials
One drawing book/manufacturer's advertisement entitled Little Miss Lacqueret's Drawing Book for Children, published by Standard Varnish Works, New York, ca. 1900. This promotional booklet is an 8-page illustrated advertisement for Lacqueret household lacquer. Each page is illustrated and has rhyming text. Each of the pages is also covered by a sheet of tracing paper. The chromolithograph front cover pictures a little girl in a floor-length purple dress who is holding a can of Lacqueret and a paintbrush. The back cover is blank. Some of the images have been traced.
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