Background
Kangas, Matthew Arvid was born on September 18, 1949 in Seattle, Washington, United States. Son of Arvid Rudolph and Violet Loraine (Friedline) Kangas.
(This first book-length discussion of Jim Leedy reveals hi...)
This first book-length discussion of Jim Leedy reveals him as a pioneer of post-war American art, the first to bring the gospel of abstract expressionism to American ceramics. His career constantly crosses the boundaries of materials, genres, subject matter, and themes and adds an important chapter to American art history at a time when boundaries between traditional craft materials and fine art media are already being blurredThe book traces Leedy's progress from his student days in Virginia and New York City, where he met artists Willem de Kooning and Franz Kline, through his controversial stay at the University of Montana and his long sojourn in Kansas City, where, as a widely influential and sympathetic teacher at the Kansas City Art Institute, he has had an impact on American art that until now has not been fully acknowledged. Kangas also discusses Leedy's extensive travels abroad, especially in Japan, Finland, and Norway, where Leedy has exposed students and fellow artists not only to new approaches in ceramic sculpture but also to ideas of the radical avant-garde in installation art and performance.With over 190 full-color plates and illustrations of paintings, ceramics, prints, photographs, public art projects and proposals, and the airborne nylon Sky Art sculptures, Jim Leedy: Artist Across Boundaries explores the influences on and discoveries of this highly original and provocative artist.
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(Among the many Japanese ceramic artists working today, Ry...)
Among the many Japanese ceramic artists working today, Ryoji Koie is the one at the most critical interface with contemporary art. Whether teabowl, vase, open-mouthed cylinder, tray, or bottle, Koie's chosen shapes are instantly identifiable as pottery yet they become departure-points for an extraordinary range of surface treatments from the indulgent to the austere.This volume illustrates and considers a body of work created by Koie during a residency in Seattle at the University of Washington. He located natural deposits of clay in a variety of local sites. Vases, vessels, trays, footed plates, and "stretched" plates were created in profusion, each subject to the artist's free-wheeling imagination in altering, throwing, ripping and tearing, and applying glaze and liquid clay or "slip".
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(The art of William Ingham demonstrates how the modernist ...)
The art of William Ingham demonstrates how the modernist tradition, specifically Abstract Expressionism, has flourished in the Pacific Northwest. This lavishly illustrated volume brings to a wider audience the Seattle-born artist’s highly gestural and vividly colored abstract paintings. Exploring gesture, form, scale, color, touch, and texture, Ingham’s paintings are exuberant statements. Tracing the artist’s evolution through detailed analyses of individual works, distinguished art critic Matthew Kangas builds the case for Ingham’s significance and, in so doing, broadens the literature on Pacific Northwest art to include nonregional influences on artists of the area, drawing Northwest art closer to other modernist traditions and innovations in American art.
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(Glass artist Robert Willson (1912-2000) was one of the mo...)
Glass artist Robert Willson (1912-2000) was one of the most complex and contradictory American artists of the past century. He was at once regional and international, steeped in Pre-Columbian art as well as Texas folklore. Educated in the Southwest and 1930s Mexico, he discovered the glass studios of Murano, Italy, and became one of the first American sculptors to use solid glass in a small factory setting. This lavishly illustrated monograph, with examples from American and Italian art museums, brings the expatriate Texan's story home to America. Diarist, correspondent, art magazine contributor, museum catalog author, and loquacious television interview subject, Willson is heard here in his own words. As a young man, Willson was swept up in the Mexican Revolution; his photographs of his friends Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo, Jose Clemente Orozco, David Alfaro Siqueiros, and Rufino Tamayo are published here for the first time. Throughout his career, his art blended ancient Maya imagery with ancient Venetian glassmaking techniques.
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(Preface by Judy Chicago. Hardback 13 1/2 by 11 1/2". 144 ...)
Preface by Judy Chicago. Hardback 13 1/2 by 11 1/2". 144 pages -130 full color illustrations (52 full color plates, 7 black and white figures and 1 full colored gate-fold), chronology and bibliography.
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Kangas, Matthew Arvid was born on September 18, 1949 in Seattle, Washington, United States. Son of Arvid Rudolph and Violet Loraine (Friedline) Kangas.
Bachelor, Reed College, 1971. Bachelor, Master of Arts, Oxford (England) University, 1974.
Editorial assistant Praeger Publications, New York City, 1971-1972, Vineyard Books, New York City, 1974-1975. Adjunct instructor University Puget Sound, Seattle, 1976-1985. North America commissioner World Ceramics Biennale, Republic of Korea, 2003.
Contributor, contributing editor Art in America, Washington District of Columbia, since 1979, Sculpture, New York, since 1991, Glass, since 2000. Member adjunct faculty School Visual Concepts, Seattle, 1984-1985.
(This first book-length discussion of Jim Leedy reveals hi...)
(A unique collection of 42 essays with a broad purview of ...)
(The art of William Ingham demonstrates how the modernist ...)
(Among the many Japanese ceramic artists working today, Ry...)
(Glass artist Robert Willson (1912-2000) was one of the mo...)
(Preface by Judy Chicago. Hardback 13 1/2 by 11 1/2". 144 ...)
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Member Ballard High School Foundation, since 1997. Member College Art Association, International Association Art Critics, American Craft Council, Glass Art Society.