The striking landscape of the Pacific Northwest has inspired painters to put brush to canvas ever since the first European explorers sailed into local waters. A continuous, robust, and evolving artistic view of the region is represented in the140 paintings selected for this beautiful book. Never before gathered in a single place, here are Albert Bierstadt, Sydney Laurence, Emily Carr, Mark Tobey, Kenneth Callahan, and George Tsutakawa, among many others-all taking account of the water, sky, mountains, air, and light of the Pacific Northwest. With a probing introduction by Jonathan Raban, this book amounts to a unique and irresistible painted history.
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Kitty Harmon, author of Up to No Good: The Rascally Things Boys Do, was the founding director of Northwest Bookfest. She lives in Seattle.
Jonathan Raban is the author of many award-winning books, most recently Passage to Juneau: A Sea and Its Meanings. He lives in Seattle.
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Katharine Harmon has produced more than a dozen titles such as Blackstocks Collections: The Drawings of an Artistic Savant and is the author of several books, including You Are Here: Personal Geographies and Other Maps of the Imagination. She manages Tributary Books,Ea book development company in Seattle.
Maps can be simple tools, comfortable in their familiar form.
Or they can lead to different destinations: places turned upside down or inside out, territories riddled with marks understood only by their maker, realms connected more to the interior mind than to the exterior world. These are the places of artists' maps, that happy combination of information and illusion that flourishes in basement studios and downtown galleries alike. It is little surprise that, in an era of globalized politics, culture, and ecology, contemporary artists are drawn to maps to express their visions. Using paint, salt, souvenir tea towels, or their own bodies, map artists explore a world free of geographical constraints.
Katharine Harmon knows this territory. As the author of our best-selling book You Are Here, she has inspired legions of new devotees of imaginative maps. In The Map as Art, Harmon collects 360 colorful, map-related artistic visions by well-known artists--such as Ed Ruscha, Julian Schnabel, Olafur Eliasson, Maira Kalman, William Kentridge, and Vik Muniz--and many more less-familiar artists for whom maps are the inspiration for creating art. Essays by Gayle Clemans bring an in-depth look into the artists' maps of Joyce Kozloff, Landon Mackenzie, Ingrid Calame, Guillermo Kuitca, and Maya Lin. Together, the beautiful reproductions and telling commentary make this an essential volume for anyone open to exploring new paths.
Maps can be simple tools, comfortable in their familiar form.
Or they can lead to different destinations: places turned upside down or inside out, territories riddled with marks understood only by their maker, realms connected more to the interior mind than to the exterior world. These are the places of artists' maps, that happy combination of information and illusion that flourishes in basement studios and downtown galleries alike. It is little surprise that, in an era of globalized politics, culture, and ecology, contemporary artists are drawn to maps to express their visions. Using paint, salt, souvenir tea towels, or their own bodies, map artists explore a world free of geographical constraints.
Katharine Harmon knows this territory. As the author of our best-selling book You Are Here, she has inspired legions of new devotees of imaginative maps. In The Map as Art, Harmon collects 360 colorful, map-related artistic visions by well-known artists--such as Ed Ruscha, Julian Schnabel, Olafur Eliasson, Maira Kalman, William Kentridge, and Vik Muniz--and many more less-familiar artists for whom maps are the inspiration for creating art. Essays by Gayle Clemans bring an in-depth look into the artists' maps of Joyce Kozloff, Landon Mackenzie, Ingrid Calame, Guillermo Kuitca, and Maya Lin. Together, the beautiful reproductions and telling commentary make this an essential volume for anyone open to exploring new paths.
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This is one of the finest art books I've ever bought, and believe me, I have a long shelf of them. The editor chose artists both famous and unknown, at least to me. Many are women! I have the book folded open on a table where I can see it as I walk by, and I change the pages every week or so. Wow! One gorgeous image after another.
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This is a very nice compendium of Pacific Northwest artists with a nice range of styles. That said, I was surprised that Canadian artist Tom Thomson didn't merit even one plate or mention in the entire book, however. A glaring omission (hence four stars instead of five). Thomson was a key influence for the Group of Seven and was included a posthumous member. He wasn't only an important figure in Pacific Northwest landscape art, but 20th century art in general. If you are going to feature Emily Carr, you have to include Thomson as well.
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- Kenneth Callahan by Thomas Orton on 5 pages
- The Group of Seven by National Gallery Of Canada in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Thomas Moran by Nancy K. Anderson in Front Matter
- The Civil War (America Goes to War) by Kerry A. Graves in Back Matter
- The Pacific Northwest (America by Mountain Bike) by Laurie Leman in Front Matter
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- The Accidental Collector: Art, Fossils & Friendships by Wesley Wehr on page 87
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