Essays & Stories (page 5)
Highlights of the Collection: Martinez, La Virgin de San Juan
Artist Alfredo Ramos Martinez sought a miracle for his daughter, and this work embodies that search.
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Highlights of the Collection: House of Shango
Samella Lewis’s work often grapples with issues of race in the U.S., and The House of Shango is no exception.
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The Landscape of Injustice: Ansel Adams and Manzanar
Ansel Adams extended his vision of American identity to the interned Japanese-Americans, arguing that they were born free and equal.
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Highlights of the Collection: Vaea Marx, Plate
A member of the French Resistance in WWII and later a cowboy in Australia, Marx studied ceramics in Japan and had a significant impact on the mid-20th century movement to take clay into the arena of fine art.
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Highlights of the Collection: Paul Jacoulet, The Pearls
Jacoulet illustrates the Western interpretation of Eastern life. His style, though beautiful, bears orientalist undertones.
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Highlights of the Collection: Drawing Book of Designs
From the mythical to the concrete, this volume offers a plethora of designs, created during the late 19th century.
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Highlights of the Collection: Kirk Pederson, Central Avenue
Photographer Kirk Pederson uses realism to as a tool to bring his works into the realm of abstraction.
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Ken Gonzales-Day
Ken Gonzales-Day’s Searching for California’s Hang Trees series enriches the viewer’s understanding of the history of racial violence in America.
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Elizabeth Catlett
Though primarily known as a sculptor, Elizabeth Catlett has also created a significant body of work as a printmaker. Madonna (1982) is a lithograph print, a reproduction technique in which the artist first creates an image on fine-grained sandstone (or aluminum plate) with a grease-based implement such as a pencil, crayon or wash. Via a multi-stepped process, the image is fixed to the stone, inked, and transferred to paper by means of a press.
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Highlights of the Collection: Graciela Iturbide, Jaipur, India
Photographer Graciela Iturbide records the surreal and the spiritual in her work.
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