Artists of Utah [Hardcover]

Vern G. Swanson (Author), William C. Seifrit (Author), Robert S. Olpin (Author)

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Publication Date: October 23, 1999

"Utah is the coming together of peoples and individuals in a unique vastness that promotes both mystery and the creative impulse. That is, from the tribe or the congregation-community, artists have emerged through time into a tremendous kind of timeless space and beauty in order to do what they have had to do." --Robert S. Olpin

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From Aagard to Zwara with artists in between, Robert S. Olpin, William C. Seifrit, and Vern G. Swanson have collected and detailed the lives of the many and varied artists, photographers, sculptors, architects, and craftspeople who have inhabited Utah at one time or another. Artists of Utah brings the reader up to date on the expanding face of Utah and its native, adopted, and itinerant artists--new and fold, motion picture and high tech, designers and crafts specialists it is a more comprehensive listing than contained in the original Dictionary of Utah Art, compiled by Dr. Olpin in 1980, and offers briefly pertinent information on the artists, including their work and life histories, their birth and death dates, and their particular and varied mediums of expression. Drs. Olpin, Seifert, and Swanson also contributed the important, informative, and well-documented text found in Utah Art (1991) and in its revised edition Utah Painting and Sculpture (1997), both published by Gibbs Smith, Publisher. With more than 150 color and black-and-white images, Artists of Utah is an ideal companion piece to both of these beautiful publications.

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"Utah is the coming together of peoples and individuals in a unique vastness that promotes both mystery and the creative impulse. That is, from the tribe or the congregation-community, artists have emerged through time into a tremendous kind of timeless space and beauty in order to do what they have had to do." --Robert S. Olpin

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 320 pages
• Publisher: Gibbs Smith; 1st edition (October 23, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0879059052
• ISBN-13: 978-0879059057
• Product Dimensions: 12.1 x 10.9 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,519,214 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Not What I Expected, August 29, 2001

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This review is from: Artists of Utah (Hardcover)

Granted, I was fooled. I had hoped this book would be a collection of Utah produced fine art. Instead it is mostly a listing of Utah's artists, interspersed with a disappointingly small number of examples of their work. The major figures in Utah art do get larger bios (at least some of them), but many of the "bios" are little more than one sentence long. Apparently, every kid who ever scribbed on his schooldesk is included here, too.

5.0 out of 5 stars Great book., November 13, 2007

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This review is from: Artists of Utah (Hardcover)

Are you kidding? This is great book. For anyone wanting to keep track of Utah artists, this is wonderful reference. For anyone serious about art, and art history this is a must have book. I'm an artist from Utah and I wouldn't feel like I had a complete art book collection without this book.