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Traveling the back roads of North Carolina, South Carolina, Kentucky, Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi, Charles R. Mack spent the summer of 1981 talking with the potters who produced the face jugs, mugs, and plates that had skyrocketed in popularity in the late 1970s and collecting examples of their wares. He was, in effect, taking the pulse of a southern folkway on the brink of transition.
With the benefit of a quarter century of hindsight, Mack has now gathered these interviews into Talking with the Turners, a single volume that documents the world of southern pottery as it shifted from the production of utilitarian wares to the aesthetic realm of folk art. In their own words the turners, most of whom are now deceased, explain what it means to be a potter, to be part of a profession that passes from generation to generation, to experiment with new designs while continuing to produce traditional forms of ceramics. Arranged thematically, the interviews emerge as an open dialogue among the participants—the type of backroom shoptalk that collectors and scholars are rarely privileged to share.
In addition to the centerpiece interviews—many of which are also featured on an accompanying audio CD—Mack includes numerous color and black-and-white photographs of the potters, their shops, and their wares. Mack's extensive commentary sets these particular potters in the context of the larger American ceramics tradition, explains pottery techniques, and summarizes recent changes in pottery making.
Talking with the Turners is augmented by an introduction by Lynn Robertson, director of the McKissick Museum at the University of South Carolina, and a foreword by William R. Ferris, the founding director of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi.
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David Sylvester has been called "the best living writer in English about modern art" (Daily Telegraph). With his expertise, sympathy, and provocative style, he is unique in his ability to talk freely with influential artists. This astounding book includes 21 interviews, recorded over the past forty years, with leading American artists. Together they illuminate all the great developments in American art. Here are the views of David Smith, Richard Serra, Willem de Kooning, Barnett Newman, Franz Kline, Philip Guston, Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, Frank Stella, Claes Oldenburg, Roy Lichtenstein, Helen Frankenthaler, Louise Nevelson, and more. Conversations from the 1960s vividly conjure up the New York art scene immediately after the war, when the newly arrived Europeans met the Americans who had worked together in the Depression, their different traditions colliding and fusing as they walked the city, talked and worked together. Others, like those with Carl Andre, Cy Twombly, Alex Katz, and Jeff Koons, speak straight from today. No one but Sylvester could have produced this intricate collage, this chorus of voices that blend to create one of the most revealing and unusual histories of American art in the twentieth century.
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The friend of every artist's.......2007-04-09
Having painters talk about their art is a difficult exercise. Some artists are notoriously reluctant, not because they have nothing to say, but because they think that once the work is out there it is up to the viewer to receive it with an open mind. David Sylvester manages to overcome this obstacle and makes us understand how each artist works, what he means or thinks when his brush meets the canvas or when his hands meet the metal. This is an irreplaceable book for anyone interested in modern American art.
required reading.......2002-05-12
This book is a treasure: a collection of previously unpublished interviews with luminaries of postwar American art, conducted by a sensitive master of the form. David Sylvester interviewed only artists he knew; his familiarity with their work, and his profound understanding of their aesthetic dilemmas, is evident throughout.
Most of the interviews in the volume were conducted between 1960 and 1967, and subsequently broadcast over the BBC. The usual "New York School" suspects are present and accounted for: de Kooning, Kline, Newman, Gottlieb, Johns, Rauschenberg, Motherwell, Frankenthaler, David Smith, et alia ... More recent interviewees include Cy Twombly, Jeff Koons, Carl Andre, and Richard Serra. Conducted over a three-year period, the interviews with Serra concerning his Torqued Ellipses are especially worthwhile. Additional biographical notes by Jonathan Shirland round out the book.
The interviews are characteristically intelligent, focused, and perceptive. One would expect nothing less from David Sylvester, whose probing interviews with Francis Bacon remain a key touchpoint for those interested in that modern artist's process. His slim book on Giacometti is nothing short of brilliant. The lengthier interviews contained herein further demonstrate the breadth of Sylvester's understanding -- and deepen our sense of loss at his recent passing.
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"This is a most absorbing book, for the authors interviewed here perform as live and also quite lively voices, inviting the reader to sample their art.... The book succeeds in defining the achievement of a significant literary generation."
—Herbert S. Lindenberger, Avalon Foundation Professor of Humanities in Comparative Literature and English, Emeritus, Stanford University
"Aldama has effectively rewritten the standard for conducting interviews. While all his authors are deeply interesting, what's wonderful is how each interview develops in its own unique way. It's quite clear that Aldama is asking the questions, but he's also responding to the answers. As a result, all the interviews make for great reading."
—José F. Aranda Jr., Associate Professor of English, Rice University
Since the 1980s, a prolific "second wave" of Chicano/a writers and artists has tremendously expanded the range of genres and subject matter in Chicano/a literature and art. Building on the pioneering work of their predecessors, whose artistic creations were often tied to political activism and the civil rights struggle, today's Chicano/a writers and artists feel free to focus as much on the aesthetic quality of their work as on its social content. They use novels, short stories, poetry, drama, documentary films, and comic books to shape the raw materials of life into art objects that cause us to participate empathetically in an increasingly complex Chicano/a identity and experience.
This book presents far-ranging interviews with twenty-one "second wave" Chicano/a poets, fiction writers, dramatists, documentary filmmakers, and playwrights. Some are mainstream, widely recognized creators, while others work from the margins because of their sexual orientations or their controversial positions. Frederick Luis Aldama draws out the artists and authors on both the aesthetic and the sociopolitical concerns that animate their work. Their conversations delve into such areas as how the artists' or writers' life experiences have molded their work, why they choose to work in certain genres and how they have transformed them, what it means to be Chicano/a in today's pluralistic society, and how Chicano/a identity influences and is influenced by contact with ethnic and racial identities from around the world.
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Revealing interviews-copiously illustrated-with 17 of the century's most influential artists, including Alexander Calder, Marcel Duchamp, Edward Hopper, and Georgia O'Keeffe
To quote Robert Hughes, "All critics concerned with American painting will be Kuh's debtors from now on." Interviewed in the 1960s, the painters and sculptors Katharine Kuh spoke with provide insights into their work that remain illuminating and relevant. The author allows the artists to comment-in their own words-on their inspirations, philosophies, and creative processes and to debunk common myths about their work. Sometimes the results are surprising: abstract painter Josef Albers confesses to being a realist, while realist painter Ivan Albright firmly denies the charge...Marcel Duchamp professes surprise over the controversy stirred by his Nude Descending a Staircase, and Edward Hopper insists that his supposed themes of loneliness and nostalgia are entirely unintentional.
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Creativity: Conversations With 28 Who Excel
Susan Charlotte ,
Tom Ferguson , and
Bruce Felton
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More than two dozen widely diverse talents disclose how some of this century's brilliant works of art were created--or almost scuttled. Some of the nation's top creative geniuses open long-closed doors and tell of their personal experiences and viewpoints about creativity.
Sharing stories of grand triumphs and bitter travails are people like novelist Elmore Leonard, composer Philip Glass, caricaturist Al Hirschfeld, inventor Dr. Paul MacCready, feminist and author Gloria Steinem, dancer and choreographer Judith Jamison, actor Morgan Freeman, and artists Eric Fischl and April Gornik.
Author Susan Charlotte probes the subconscious and trancelike states: artistic turning points; moods and circumstances that foster creativity; creative blocks; and how discipline fuels creative magic. What she finds sheds new light on the creative process and for the first time reveals what happened behind the scenes in the creation of great plays, films, novels and other creative productions.
Screenwriter Frank Pierson explains why he almost struck from his Cool Hand Luke script his classic line "What we have here is a failure to communicate."
Actor E.G. Marshall tells how he disagreed with Woody Allen's direction on one scene in the film Interiors and what happened when he went ahead and did it Woody's way.
Inventor Dr. Paul MacCready explains how he created machines and devices that Leonardo da Vinci could only dream of, inventions that are profoundly changing the world.
Renowned attorney Martin Garbus reveals why preparing for the courtroom is like writing a play.
Master chef Jimmy Schmidt tells us how even the most astute gourmet's aesthetic judgment is clouded by childhood experiences at the dinner table.
Hall of Fame baseball announcer Ernie Harwell confides that a Southern tradition of story-telling helped him become a painter of vivid word pictures for millions of radio listeners.
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What is Indian art? There have been many attempts to define it, but the so-called Santa Fe style of the 1930s--placid, two-dimensional depictions of traditional scenes--set the standard by which subsequent art by Native Americans would be judged. Art that radically challenged the stereotype--the work of Joe Herrera, Fritz Scholder, and T. C. Cannon, for example--met with resistance; questions were raised about its authenticity as Indian art.
Today's Indian art has resoundingly overturned old preconceptions: here are cartoon figures in throbbing neon colors, "decorated" grocery bags, messages to America on the Spectacolor billboard in Times Square, delicate abstractions and cubist images, work that ranges from monotype and photography to mixed media and clay, from humor and biting commentary to quiet introspection.
I Stand in the Center of Good, the first book of its kind, offers a forum for seventeen contemporary Native American artists to speak about the development of their art, their creative processes, how they define their art, and how it relates to their Indianness. The interviews are handsomely illustrated with works by the artists, who include Rick Glazer-Danay, Shan Goshorn, Hachivi Edgar Heap of Birds, Rick Hill, G. Peter Jemison, Michael Kabotie, Frank LaPena, Carm Little Turtle, Linda Lomahaftewa, George Longfish, Mario Martinez, Nora Naranjo-Morse, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Susan Stewart, Frank Tuttle, Kay WalkingStick, and Emmi Whitehorse.
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Essential Foundation Reading for Native American Fine Art.......2005-08-27
This is a great survey of Native American contemporary fine art, with an excellent range of views in the artists' word. The issues raised by the artists are still very much in play today.
I is for Indian, A is for Art.......1998-09-26
Lawrence Abbott's I Stand in the Center of the Good is described on the book flyleaf as a forum of interviews that aims to address "what is Indian art?" Through the words of American Indian artists who challenge the public's conceptions of contemporary Native American art, Abbott's interviews attempt to cover several topics -- with mixed results. This collection of brief interviews dates from 1991-1992 when most of the artists were preparing works for Quincentennary exhibitions. Abbott has included interviews with seventeen personalities who have established themselves over the last twenty-five to thirty years as primary forces in the Native art scene; but except for Canadian-born George Longfish, the omission of Canada's First Nations artists is a serious problem to any book that purports to address contemporary Indian arts. Most members of this group have served as spokespersons for thematic Indian art since the early -1970s. A second serious problem is the absence of artists such as James Luna, Gerald McMaster, and the late Carl Beam who should not be omitted from any general survey of contemporary Indian art.
I wished the author had broadened the range of artists to include the "contemporary-traditionalists," -- those artists whose work is a direct link to older tribal based art traditions. Disappointed, I wondered if the editor inadvertently narrowed his list of artists too closely, losing a clear perspective on the variety and breadth of Indian arts produced today. One problem arising from a limited view point is the mistaken notion that American Indian "Fine Arts" exists as a singular category. The idea originated from older concepts surrounding Euro-Western art traditions and is limited to artists working in easel painting, sculpture, and graphic arts. I wished the editor had pursued the point of art training of the artists selected. The misperception persists that Native American artists create from an untrained, instinctual base articulated by the cult of the artist. Artists represented in Abbott's collection have clearly benefited from formal western art education and from training in prestigious arts academies and university art programs in this country, England, and Italy. A closer examination of this common ground could be useful to consideration of their work.
Abbott's intention to provide a forum for the artist's voice is neither new nor novel and the time has come for Native American artists to take a serious, critical approach to other germane issues. Have ideological theme museums, galleries, and patrons who have continued to define Native arts as qualifiers of difference effectively manipulated development of the arts? And, what of Native American artists who perceptively see advantages to maintaining the idea of "otherness" as profitable? Abbott skims perplexing, complex and politically charged issues that have merged into the study of Indian arts. This book is another well-intentioned but a non-critical look for those interested in the field of Indian art making. It is a general reader to be catalogued under 'I' for Indian, not 'A' for art.
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Chronicles of Courage: Very Special Artists
Jean Kennedy Smith
Manufacturer: Random House
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Dreaming the Dawn: Conversations with Native Artists and Activists (American Indian Lives)
E. K. Caldwell
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Fresh, informative, and provocative, this collection of interviews showcases twelve leading Native artists and activists who have challenged and helped reshape prevailing expectations about Native cultures and identities during the late twentieth century: writers Sherman Alexie and James Welch, singer-songwriter and educator Buffy Sainte-Marie, poet Elizabeth Woody, activist and AIM member Dino Butler, musician and activist John Trudell, writer and activist Winona LaDuke, actor and musician Litefoot, the late aids activist Bonnie Blackwolf, and visual artists Rick Bartow, Jesse Hummingbird, and Norman Guardipee.
Engaging in their own right and offering substantive insights into individual careers and personalities, these interviews also explore a number of significant and often controversial intellectual, cultural, and political issues affecting Native peoples today. Among the topics discussed are the effects of the New Age movement and other forms of cultural appropriation, current conflicts and disagreements within Native communities, connections to the environment, alcohol and drug addiction, the American Indian Movement, the blood-quantum debate, religious freedom, the value of elders, and obligations to past cultural traditions.
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Slightly Dated interviews, limited scope.......2006-01-18
This book has interviews of about 5-15 pages each with various people from Native American communities, such as:
- John Trudell, poet, activist, writer
- Elizabeth Woody, poet
- Norman Guardipee, visual artist, writer
- Rick Bartow, artist
- Bonnie Blackwolf, HIV/AIDs activist
- Sherman Alexie, author of many books including Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven
- Litefoot, rapper/musician, anti-gang activist
- Jesse Hummingbird, storyteller
- James Welch, historian, author
- Winona LaDuke, environmentalist, women's rights and Native activist
- Dino Butler, AIM activist, youth activist
- Buffy Sainte-Marie, musician, artist
While these interviews are helpful for anyone studying Native Studies or studying these people, the scope of the book is limited. There are no representatives for scientists, business people, inventors, athletes, mathematicians, theorists, military leaders, government (US) leaders, mainstream entertainment (with the slight exception of Litefoot) or many other fields. It seemed to focus on poets/writers/songwriters, artists and political activists. While these are essential and clearly important to many communities, it's not the limit of Native groups. This is why I say that the book must be a companion and not a primary source for a classroom, or the student must have a background in Native Studies prior to this book.
In addition, the interviews were conducted between 1993 and 1997, so while many of these people are still prominent in modern Native & global communities, some are deceased or have changed their focus. This isn't to say the book is useless, but it's not a fair assessment of Indian influence and power in the year 2006.
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The Portraits Speak: Chuck Close in Conversation With 27 of His Subjects
Chuck Close ,
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ASIN: 0923183183 |
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Chuck Close's frighteningly intimate, deceptively straightforward portraits have become an indelible part of American art iconography. In The Portraits Speak, Close applies his close-range approach to interviews with artists he has painted over the years, including Kiki Smith, Philip Glass, William Wegman, Cindy Sherman. Each word portrait offers another candid glimpse into the minds of three generations of American artists and the world of contemporary art, giving an insider's view of the creative process. Dimension: 8¾ x 12¾, b&w reproductions.
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Per Barclay
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Scandinavian artist Per Barclay's work deals in daily tensions, in those anxieties that we experience due to the discrepancies and contrasts between beauty and comfort, between the great possibilities of our time and the extreme precariousness of the contemporary political situation. A retrospective monograph, this book features selections of the artist's work since 1984 alongside critical essays and a bibliography.
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