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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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Afternoon nap
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Reproduces paintings, monotypes, lithographs, and 1 linocut by artist Fritz Scholder.
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Fritz Scholder's book of symbols for children
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"Symbolistic thought is believed to have origins in the late Paleolithic Age. Symbols were part of everyday life. Today, people respond to symbols both consciously and unconsciously on a daily basis. While symbols are usually thought of as images, pictures and signs, they can also include natural and man-made objects, animals and even words. Symbols can play an important role in religion, art, literature, folklore, myth, science and commerce. I have chosen both common and uncommon symbols for this book, and have drawn them using a stick and ink, always aware of the power of simplicity. Anyone can make these marks"--From page [5].
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Ōmizuao
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"Omizuao is an accordion-bound 'pillow book'--A collection of landscapes, flowers and female nudes. The artist has used the accordion-bound format to create an installation which measures some 14 feet when fully opened, but which can also be viewed as 45 individual spreads ... hand bound in two clear-lacquered hardwood covers, and presented in a matching wooden box."--Publisher's description.
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Andy Warhol's index (book)
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This book, "published under the aegis of Andy Warhol, [is a] quintessential photobook [a] cornucopia of photographic imagery in which found photographs, snap-shots, photographs by Warhol's associates, photographic reproductions of his 'paintings' (themselves self-screened photographs) and other kinds of imagery are collaged to talk about one basic subject--the gargantuan ego and artistic talent of Andy Warhol. Index (Book) is one of the most important and exuberant pop art objects ever published. From its holographic bubble-wrap cover to the various pop-ups and 'gifts'--the castle, the red accordion, the balloon (nearly always found perished nowadays, or stuck to the pages)--to the stream-of-consciousness photographs by such artists as Billy Name and Nat Finkelstein, it is also one of the ultimate photobooks-as-objects. It is, in addition, the primary Factory photo album, one of the most authoritative biographies of Warhol and a supreme example of the diaristic photographic mode before there was a considered diaristic mode."--The Photobook : A History Volume II / Martin Parr and Gerry Badger. London : Phaidon, 2004.
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Tyrus Wong
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Primarily original artwork by Tyrus Wong, who attended art school with Gilbert Leong in the 1930s and remained a close family friend. Includes items personalized for Gilbert and other Leong family members such as cards, booklets, and posters, as well as some drawings, paintings, and a kite. For Tyrus Wong's Dragon's Den menus, see Box 19.
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