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Morris Graves
Morris Graves is a major American painter with roots in the Pacific Northwest. Morris Graves: Selected Letters draws on a vast cache of the his unpublished correspondence, dating from his teenage years until his death in 2001. Few visual artists of any era have left such a rich and wide-ranging collections of letters, which makes this body of work an unusual and valuable document in American art.
The Graves correspondence is remarkable for its scope, variety, and depth. Written to many correspondents over long periods of time, the letters include the artist's reflections on his art, the art world, philosophy (Zen Buddhism and Vedanta in particular), architecture (Graves designed his homes and gardens), and relationships with family, friends, and lovers. Graves himself preserved most of the letters, or copies of them, and put no restrictions on their use. Other letters come from a wide range of private and institutional sources.
Among the correspondents are Graves's family; Marian Willard, his art dealer; Richard Svare, his companion in the 1950s; and Nancy Wilson Ross, novelist and Buddhist scholar. Other notable figures with whom Graves corresponded are poet Carolyn Kizer, art critic Theodore Wolff, curator Peter Selz, choreographer Merce Cunningham (for whom Graves created a set design), and painter Mark Tobey.
Recurrent themes in the Graves letters are the tensions between sociability and solitude; the desire to be free of the material world versus the need for material comfort; the dismissal of commerce and the desperate need for money; the pleasures and pitfalls of love; and the difficulties of the creative life. The letters are organized topically under the broad categories of people (family, friends, intimates), places (homes and travels), and art (finances and philosophy).
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Choosing craft : the artist's viewpoint
Choosing Craft explores the history and practice of American craft through the words of influential artists whose lives, work, and ideas have shaped the field. Editors Vicki Halper and Diane Douglas construct an anecdotal narrative that examines the post-World War II development of modern craft, which came of age alongside modernist painting and sculpture and was greatly influenced by them as well as by traditional and industrial practices. The anthology is organized according to four activities that ground a professional life in craft--inspiration, training, economics, and philosophy. Halper and Douglas mined a wide variety of sources for their material, including artists' published writings, letters, journal entries, exhibition statements, lecture notes, and oral histories. The detailed record they amassed reveals craft's dynamic relationships with painting, sculpture, design, industry, folk and ethnic traditions, hobby craft, and political and social movements. Collectively, these reflections form a social history of craft. Choosing Craft ultimately offers artists' writings and recollections as vital and vivid data that deserve widespread study as a primary resource for those interested in the American art form.
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INTRODUCTION
Despite his recurring dismay over the demands of letter writing, the painter Morris Graves (1910–2001) was a committed, sometimes obsessive, correspondent. His need to describe, justify, expound, and verbally delight faltered only in his old age. He wrote multiple drafts of even the simplest letters, not only to correct his poor spelling but also to better mold his thoughts. Given his large script, his letters were often over ten pages long. Graves regularly added postscripts to amend or emphasize what he had just penned. He saved his drafts, and many correspondents kept his letters. Perhaps family and friends predicted
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Ann Gardner: She planned to cover the stairway wall with hand-painted ceramic tiles, but she found her finished pieces dull. So she took a hammer to them, smashing them into fragments
Ann Gardner's art career working with ceramic tiles, glass, sculpture and more is profiled. Gardner is best known for her work with randomly broken shards of ceramic tiles.
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Ann Gardner
Profiles the American potter and glass artist Ann Gardner. The author outlines Gardner's career, with reference to her work with Linda Beaumont tiling a bathroom with ceramic tiles and found objects, comments on the ceramic mosaic which she created for a public stairwell in Seattle in 1981, and considers her figurative sculptures. She notes that Gardner's style has become more ordered, describes the works she produced while taking part in artists' residencies, and focuses on a series of clay pots which she created from 1991, decorated with shards from her studio. She considers the clear glass vessels which Gardner produced in 1993, discusses her glass tesserae mosaics, and concludes by analysing her mosaic Danza del Cerchio.
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