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David Aronson: Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture
Edited by Jeanne Vee Koles
With an Interpretive Essay by Asher D. Biemann
As an immigrant artist of Jewish background, who borrowed freely from Christological, Jewish, mystical, and modernist motifs, David Aronson has been an equally acclaimed and controversial figure in the Boston Expressionist school and beyond. Defying all clear categorization, his highly evocative art moves precariously between the realms of the religious and the secular, between Judaism and humanism, tradition and modernity. This book includes rich reproductions of Aronson's works done in encaustic, pastel, charcoal, and bronze.
9 x 11 1/4, 174 pages, bibliography, catalogue raisonné of sculpture, indexes
Cloth $90.00
| 1-879985-12-8
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A Good Life in Your Eyes: The Art of Gerald Garston
Foreword by Bud Collins
Interpretive Essay by Alicia Currier Kallay
Shows the distinctiveness of Garston’s flat, solid colorful figures—work that is often compared to that of early American folk artists and the pre-Renaissance paintings of Giotto and Duccio.
8 1/2 X 11, 78 pages, 160 full-color plate
Cloth $50.00
| 1-879985-13-6
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Ken Matsuzaki: Burning Tradition
Andrew L. Maske, Ken Matsuzaki, Phil Rogers
Matsuzaki’s work reflects the heritage of traditional Japanese folk pottery while showcasing the artist’s creativity, intuition, and skill. Grounding his pieces in the Mingei pottery tradition, which emphasizes that the beauty of an object is found in its use, Matsuzaki has developed an individual style that honors tradition and builds on it in in new directions.
7 5/8 x 10, 96 pages, 90 color illustrations
Cloth $50.00
| 978-1-879985-20-9
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New Perceptions of Old Appearances in the Art of Samuel Bak
Lawrence L. Langer
Using the pear as a substitute image for the familiar apple of Eden, Bak explores the struggle of modern civilization to wrest from our fragile universe a viable mode of communal existence. Bak’s pears are stoic in their solidity, but vulnerable to decay. In some guises they shine with the beauty of succulent fruit, but in others they fall victim to the violence of history and the decay of time.
8.75 x 11.25, 120 pages, 75 full-color plates
Cloth $50.00
| 1-879985-14-4
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Phil Rogers: Potter
Andrew L. Maske
Phil Rogers understands, as did Bernard Leach, the doyen of British fine art pottery, that the studio potter is an artist who seeks to create beauty through a utilitarian object. This book, with an in-depth interview with the artist, and full-color illustrations throughout, allows the reader to appreciate the historical context and profound beauty of contemporary fine art pottery.
8 1/2 x 11, 120 page, color illustrations throughout
Cloth $50.00
| 978-1-879985-16-2
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Representing the Irreparable:
The Shoah, the Bible, and the Art of Samuel Bak
Edited by Danna Nolan Fewell, Gary A. Phillips, and Yvonne Sherwood
Bak’s pictorial readings invite reconsideration of the Post-Reformation privileging of word over image, and of the Post-Enlightenment privileging of reason over experience. Bak preserves memory of the twentieth century ruination of Jewish life and culture by way of an artistic passion and precision that stubbornly announces the creativity of the human spirit.
8 x 10, 220 pages, color illustrations
Cloth $50.00
| 978-1-879985-18-6
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Return to Vilna: Samuel Bak
Lawrence L. Langer
This book is a tribute to the artist’s return to his birthplace, to the place of his childhood, once filled with happiness; to the streets of his tenuous survival during World War II; and to the memorial for his grandparents and father. Bak’s journey was marked by memories and profound sadness and a great awareness of his responsibility to express the spirits of all who were destroyed during the Holocaust.
8 1/2 x 11, 120 pages, color illustrations throughout
Cloth $50.00
| 978-1-879985-17-9
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This is the Day: Work and Words of Brother Thomas
Brother Thomas Bezanson
Spanning a year’s time, this daybook displays full-color images of Brother Thomas Bezanson’s ceramic vessels, along with his wise and eloquent observations on the nature of art and faith. Praised as "one of the greatest artists in the Western pottery world" by Japanese ceramicist Tatsuzo Shimaoka, Brother Thomas explores his faith and the process of creating the celebrated porcelains that are his life’s work.
7 1/2 x 6, 138 pages, illustrations throughout
Cloth $50.00
| 978-0-8028-6312-6
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Syracuse University Press
