Rebecca Belmore

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Jacquelyn Days Serwer

American Kaleidoscope: Themes and Perspectives in Recent Art features fourteen contemporary artists who live and work in the United States. The book's three major themes - Spiritual Expressions, Shared Concerns, and Historical Perspectives - are discussed in an insightful introductory essay by Jacquelyn Days Serwer, chief curator at the National Museum of American Art. Building on these themes, brief essays on each of the artists by Serwer and other members of the NMAA curatorial staff illuminate the chosen works in the context of the careers of these artists. Forty-one of their paintings, sculptures, and installations are illustrated in color, supplemented by eighty-six black-and-white reproductions.

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[catalogue rédigé par Nicole Garnier-Pelle

Catalogue de l'exposition Delacroix et l'azube de l'orientalisme, présentée au Jeu de paume du domaine de Chantilly, du 30 septembre au 7 janvier 2013. L'histoire de l'art fixe traditionnellement l'origine de l'orientalisme en 1798 avec la campagne d'Egypte de Bonaparte (1798-1801). Jusque-là, la source d'inspiration privilégiée des artistes était l'Antiquité et l'incontournable voyage d'Italie. Les véritables débuts de l'orientalisme coïncident avec la période romantique, marquée par la guerre d'indépendance grecque qui confronte artistes, écrivains et intellectuels à l'image d'un pays d'une brûlante actualité, très différente de la référence habituelle à l'Antiquité. Le propos de cet ouvrage est de s'intéresser aux débuts de l'orientalisme, sans dépasser le milieu des années 1850, d'explorer la naissance de ce mouvement et de mieux étudier ces premiers artistes qui portèrent leur regard au-delà de l'Europe.

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Matthi Forrer

This volume includes full-color reproductions of drawings and woodblock prints by Japan's most beloved artist. These landscapes-including his famous views of Mount Fuji- portraits of lovers and kabuki actors, nature and animal illustrations, as well as scenes of daily life in eighteenth and nineteenth-century Japan reveal the artist's genius for rendering a wide variety of subjects. Matthi Forrer discusses in his essay Hokusai's life and lasting popularity while placing his work within the context of Japanese society and the work of his contemporaries.

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Steven C. Brown

Masks, bowls, bentwood boxes, and weavings from Native artists of the Northwest Coast grace museums around the world. Northwest Coast art embodies a highly flexible tradition, reinterpreted by individuals in each generation, as is evidenced by artifacts collected from the area over the last two centuries. This richly informative book includes photographs of more than 160 objects from Seattle area private collections and the Seattle Art Museum, grouped chronologically to illustrate evolutionary changes within the Northwest Coast art tradition. This is a tradition of great antiquity which also remains vital and alive today in the work of the best contemporary Northwest Coast Native artists. Among the extraordinary artworks illustrated in Native Visions are archaeological artifacts and the earliest documented Northwest Coast objects, collected in the eighteenth century, along with numerous pieces by the nineteenth-century artist Charles Edenshaw, masks and totem pole models by Willie Seaweed, and an unusual gold sculpture by Bill Reid.