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A Tradition Redefined: Modern and Contemporary Chinese Ink Paintings
In conjunction with the museum's Tradition Redefined Exhibition (Feb 21-May 24, 2009).
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An Eye on Flanders: the graphic art of Jules De Bruycker
Stephen Goddard captures the images of de Bruycker in this pivotal work and provides the reader with contemplative analysis of the prolific Belgian artist. This work by Goddard examines the intersection of art and culture and illustrates, through the work of de Bruycker, the…
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Art & Physics
In conjunction with Wendell Castle's Time Exhibit.
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As the City Sleeps
Children's Book.
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Come Look With Me
American Indian Art
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Conversations: Art and Poetry at the Spencer Museum of Art
Conversations is a collection of poems by Elizabeth Schultz inspired by works of art in the Spencer's permanent collection. Starting in 2002, Schultz began writing about her favorite works of art in which she had regularly visited at the Spencer. These works, along …
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Costa Rica: Gold, Jade, Forests
This catalogue offers an inside look at treasures from Pre-Columbian Costa Rica. The text appears in both English and Spanish.?
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Decade of Transformation
This work is a fascinating and colorful examination of work that stemmed from cultural unrest in the 1960's. Social and political ideas influenced the 'avant-garde' and inspired a generation of artists who transformed the art world. In addition to the catalogue of works, the…
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Delayed Reactions: Roger Shimomura
Delayed Reactions features paintings, prints, performance, and installation art of Roger Shimomura from 1973 to 1996.
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Diane Arbus: Family Albums
Diane Arbus: Family Albums catalogues the work of this renowned photographer and presents valuable insights into the methodology and ideology of Arbus. The combination of photographs and literature in the work brings to light varying concepts of what family is and t…
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Dreaming with Rousseau
Children's Book.
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Dutch Prints of Daily Life
Dutch Prints of Daily Life by Linda Stone-Ferrier examines the significance of 17th century Dutch artwork. Late 19th century scholars thought such works were merely mirrors of daily life, but Stone-Ferrier examines further the relationship between art and daily life…
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Envisioning Architecture
Drawings from The Museum of Modern Art
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Four Artists and the Map: image, process, data, place
This catalogue explores the work of Jasper Johns, Nancy Graves, Roger Welch and Richard Long, and the influence cartography. An introductory essay by Roberta Smith analyzes the uses of maps in society, the depiction of maps within art and how maps have been approached as art…
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Goltzius and The Third Dimension
Goltzius and the Third Dimension explores the work of esteemed Dutch printmaker Hendrick Goltzius and the theory that his celebrated musclemen were influenced by the lesser known bronze statuettes of Delft sculptor Willem Danielsz. van Tetrode. Featuring essays by S…
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Haunting Tales from Japan
This book consists of a collection of Japanese folk tales that evolvd from two diverse systems of belief, Shinto and Buddhism. The art, which goes along with each story, were part of an exhibit titled Japanese Ghosts and Demons: Art of the Supernatural at the Spence…
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How to Reduce Your Carbon Footprint
In conjunction with the museum's Climate Change Exhibition (Jan 24-May 24, 2009).
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I Am Plastic the Designer Toy Explosion
In conjunction with the Korean Toys Exhibit.
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Imagine No Possessions
In conjunction with the museum's exhibition, Reframing Society: Russian Constructivist Photography (Feb. 2-May 18, 2008)
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In the Middle
The Eskimo Today.
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Jacques Bellange
This in-depth exploration of the life and career of Jacques Bellange discusses his role in European printmaking and an analysis of many of his prints. This book includes photographs produced with X-radiography, which provide insight on the chronology of Bellange's work.
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Japanese Quest for a New Vision
The Hutchinson Collection consisting of Japanese art with a Chinese influence is featured in this publication. Some key elements of influence discussed are Buddhism, Zen Buddhism and Neo-Confucianism, all of which came from China in three different waves. Along with differen…
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Les Vingt en de Avant-Garde in Belgie
The catalogue of the exhibition organized by Stephen H. Goddard, Spencer Museum curator of prints and drawings. Explores the exhibition society Les Vingt (The Twenty) and their associates in relation to avant-garde Belgian art in the last decades of the nineteenth century…
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Marius De Zayas
Mexican artist Marius De Zayas is well-known for his social and political caricatures, but he also wrote many articles on art theory and near the end of his career, worked in film. Marius De Zayas: Conjurer of Souls provides a retrospective of the artist's career, i…
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Nineteenth Century Homes
With new text and photographs, this revised edition of Nineteenth Century Houses in Lawrence, Kansas offers readers a look at 27 historic homes.
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Our Fragile World
The Beauty of a Planet Under Pressure.
In conjunction with the Trees Exhibition.
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Patrick Dougherty
In cooperation with The Commons, Patrick Dougherty, SMA artist-in-residence will be working with KU faculty members and students to create a large-scale tree-sapling sculpture outside The Commons @ Spooner Hall.
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Perspectives on the Heritage of the Brush
This symposium offers detailed research on works of art in the Roy and Marily Papp Collection of Chinese Painting which was shown at the Spencer Museum of Art in 1992.
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Plastic Culture
How Japanese Toys Conquered the World.
In conjunction with the Toys Exhibit.
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Quiet Time with Cassatt
Children's Book.
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Register Vol. 7 No. 4-7
This register covers acquisitions and events from July 2001 to June 2005. Featured articles include: Two Neapolitan Renaissance Virtues at the Spencer Museum of Art, by Francesco Caglioti, translated by Sally J. Cornelison, and The Capitals of the Ancient Saint-…
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Remembering the Family Farm: 150 Years of American Prints
Remembering the Family Farm was published in conjuction with the Spencer's 2001 exhibition. The publication features prints depicting rural life in the Midwest from the collection of Steven Schmidt and the Spencer's permanent collection. Stephen Goddard, Spencer cur…
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Ritual and Reality
This publication explores the influence of Post Impressionism, Neo Impressionism, Symbolism and Japanese woodblock prints on Les Nabis, a group of artists in the 1890s.
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Rural America
This publication includes essays and images from the exhibition Rural America, Prints from the Collection of Steven Schmidt. Schmidt grew up in Salina, Kansas and his prints include scenes from New York and New England to the Southwest and the Midwest.
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Sallie Casey Thayer and Her Collection
Sallie Casey Thayer collection, donated to the University of Kansas in 1917, consisted of over seventy-five hundred objects brought to Lawrence in two freight cars. The objects, mostly ceramic and glass, represented almost every era. Some important pieces of this collection …
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Squeaky Green: the method guide to detoxing your home
In conjunction with the museum's Climate Change Exhibition (Jan 24-May 24, 2009).
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Surimono: Privately Published Japanese Prints in the Spencer Museum of Art
The fine art of Surimono became wildly popular among poets and artists in early 19th century Japan. In this publication, Roger Keyes explores the history of this art form and examines the dynamic relationship between poetry and art.
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Terry Evans Note Cards
In conjunction with the SMA Greenland Glacier exhibition with photographs by Terry Evans.
Each notecard box contains 8 cards and 8 envelopes.
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Terry Evans, Earl Iversen: Kansas Photographs
Terry Evans and Earl Iversen each explore the essence of Kansas in their photography. Evans, a photographer living in Salina, "finds the poetry of the prairie landscape" while Iversen, a KU professor of photography, "captures the rich textures of quotidian reality." This cat…
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The Dog in the Picture
"Celebrate America's long love affair with the dog in this beautiful little book."
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The Engravings of Marcantonio Raimondi
The work of Marcantonio Raimondi revolutionized the process of printmaking. This 16th century Italian artist was progressive, adaptive, and is esteemed as one of the greatest early printmakers. In Engravings of Marcantonio Raimondi the history of printmaking is capt…
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The Forest: In Folklore and Mythology
In conjunction with the museum's Trees Exhibition (March 7-May 24).
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The Genius of Leonardo
The life and work of Leonardo da Vinci, as seen through the eyes of his young assistant, Giacomo.
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The Museum Book: A Guide to Strange and Wonderful Collections
Humorous and conversational insights into the history of museums.
Children's Book
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The New Earth From Above: 365 Days
In conjunctioin with the museum's Climate Change Exhibition (Jan. 24-May 24, 2009).
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The Shape of Time
In conjunction with the museum's Time Exhibition (Aug 23-Dec 14, 2008).
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The Tradition of Constructivism
In conjunction with the museum's exhibition Reframing Society: Russian Constructivist Photography (Feb 2-May 18, 2008).
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Tokaido I, Adventures on the Road in Old Japan
An exhibition catalogue edited by Stephen Addiss, of Japanese woodblock prints from several of Hiroshige's series on the Stations of the Tokaido Road. Includes six essays about that historic route from Tokyo to Kyoto. 1980
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Tour America: A Journey Through Poems and Art
Captures the scenic treasures of the United States.
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Treehouses
In conjunction with the museum's Trees Exhibition (March 7-May 24, 2009).
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Treehouses of the World
In conjunction with the museum's Trees Exhibition (March 7-May 24, 2009).
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Ubu's Almanac
Alfred Jarry (1873-1907) is best remembered for his satirical, theatrical farce Ubu Roi (King Ubu) of 1896. This is one of the first expressions of the theater of the absurd, which came to fruition in the 20th century. Ubu became an icon of greed and malice. This characte…
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Unpainted to the Last
Professor of English Elizabeth A. Schultz explores the visual interpretations of Moby-Dick, by Herman Melville. Schultz's analysis includes illustrations, paintings and sculpture depicting the whale, exploring the work of artists such as Robert Motherwell and Frank Ste…
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Vanishing World: the endangered arctic
In conjunction with the museum's Climate Change Exhibition (Jan 24-May 24, 2009).
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Western Waters
Photography by Gregory Conniff, Terry Evans, and Wanda Hammerbeck present the viewer with an image of something so commonplace that we tend to forget about it all together; water. This publication was printed in conju…
Price: $12.95
