Ackland Publications
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Ackland Publications
The Ackland Art Museum
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Campus Box 3400
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3400
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Fashioning the Divine South Asian Sculpture at the Ackland Art Museum
A 167-page full-color catalogue published on the occasion of the exhibition of the same name. The catalogue presents the scholarship of UNC-Chapel Hill art historian, Pika Ghosh and three nationally recognized scholars in the field of Asian art and religion: Janice Leoshko, Darielle Mason, and Padma Kaimal. Each of the twenty-four objects in the exhibition is photographed with extensive detail images to allow the reader to examine specific aspects of each object. Object entries and extensive footnotes, researched and drafted by UNC-Chapel Hill graduate students, provide readers with material to contextualize the object within various disciplines. In addition, four scholarly essays place the objects within the larger field of Asian art history and include contextual images that suggest the original location, use, and significance of the objects. Softcover. $30 ($25 non-members), plus shipping.
Family Legacies: The Art of Betye, Lezley, and Alison Saar
This 50 page catalogue was published in conjuncture with the 2006 exhibition Family Legacies: The Art of Betye, Lezley, and Alison Saar, an exploration of how a mother and two of her daughters share a passion for transforming found objects and materials into personal artworks that reflect contemporary social issues. Through the lens of their mixed ancestry, the three artists interpret aspects of family and identity, race, and gender. The individual style and approach of each artist finds inspiration in music, popular culture, nature, and world faith traditions. By Jessica Dallow and Barbara Matilsky with an essay by Tracye Saar-Cavanaugh. Softcover. 50 full color prints; 132 pages $24.95 $19.95 (members)
Dark Jewels:Chinese Black and Brown Ceramics from the Shatzman Collection
An 80-page full-color catalogue published on the occasion of the exhibition of the same name. The catalogue explores the subtle and rich beauty of tea bowls, jars, bottles and other ceramics created during the Northern Song, Southern Song, Jin and Yuan dynasties of China. During each of these periods, patronage by the ruling class, the educated elite and the population-at-large had an impact on the development of distinctive aesthetics in ceramics. Dark Jewels features seventy promised gifts to the Ackland from a 408-year period (960 to 1368 C.E.) when such wares reached their peak in variety, quality and popularity. 97 full-color illustrations. Text by Ellen Avril, chief curator and curator of Asian art at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University and Timothy Riggs, Ackland assistant director for collections. Introductions by Sherman E. Lee, Eunice and Herbert Shatzman, and Ackland Director Jerry Bolas. $25 ($20 members) plus shipping.
European Drawings from the Collection of the Ackland Art Museum
This handsome volume presents 267 European drawings and watercolors dating from the 16th through the early 20th centuries. Color reproductions of 73 of the Ackland's most important Italian, Netherlandish, French, British and German drawings are accompanied by 194 reproductions (also in color) and 35 supplemental images. Many of the works are quite well known, including works by Luca Cambiaso, Pietro da Cortona, Egene Delacroix, Jean-Honore Fragonard, William Blake, Guilio Romano, Henry Fuseli and Egon Schiele. Beginning with an overview of the history of the Ackland's drawings collection, the book examines the most significant works with full-page reproductions and essays that detail the scholarly issues relevant to each drawing, including questions of attribution, date, subject matter and relationship to other studies or to known projects. In addition, 194 works are presented with thumbnail reproductions and brief commentary. Distributed by University of Washington Press. Softcover: $40 ($35 members) plus shipping.
Space, Abstraction and Freedom: Twentieth-Century Art from the Collection of Mary and Jim Patton
An 84-page full-color catalogue has been published on the occasion of the exhibition Space, Abstraction and Freedom. It documents twenty-four works of art created from 1940 through 2000, a portion of the Patton collection. With a broad sweep through the second half of the twentieth century, the artists in this catalogue explore major themes of postwar art. An interview with Jim and Mary Patton by guest curator Charles Millard and an essay by art historian Irving Sandler convey the deep reverence the collectors have for the art and its future. It is a story not of ownership, but stewardship - patrons who wish to share the pleasure brought to them as collectors with students, faculty and friends of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 27 full color illustrations. Printed in the United States of America. Hardcover: $35 ($30 members) plus shipping. Softcover: $30 ($25 members) plus shipping.
Buddhist Art and Ritual from Nepal and Tibet
Published in 2001, this 40-page catalogue accompanies the Ackland's two year exhibition of the same name. Includes 28 images -- including reproductions of objects from the installation. Text by curator Barbara Matilsky. $10 plus shipping.
Apocalypse Then: Images of Destruction, Prophecy and Judgment from Dürer to the Twentieth Century
Published in 2000, this 32-page catalogue accompanies the Ackland exhibition of the same name. Includes 21 black and white reproductions. Text by curators Timothy Riggs and Jennifer Bauer. $3 plus shipping.
From the Molecular to the Galactic: The Art of Max Ernst and Alfonso Ossorio
Published in 2000, this 32-page catalogue accompanies the Ackland's exhibition of the same name. Curated by Barbara Matilsky, Ackland curator of exhibitions, with text by Jessica Dallow and Colleen Thomas. $3 plus shipping.
Fresh Woods and Pastures New: Seventeenth-Century Dutch Drawings from the Peck Collection
Published in 1999, this 144-page catalogue accompanies the Ackland's traveling exhibition of the same name. Includes 40 digital reproductions of drawings by 26 artists including Rembrandt van Rijn. With introductions by Franklin W. Robinson and Sheldon Peck and contributions by Theo Laurentius and Dan Kushel. $25 plus shipping ($20 for members of the Museum).
Transatlantic Dialogue: Contemporary Art In and Out of Africa
Published in 1999, this 80-page catalogue accompanies the Ackland's traveling exhibition of the same name. Includes 48 illustrations (24 in color) by seven African artists: Skunder Boghossian, Sokari Douglas Camp, Rashid Diab, Amir Nour, Moyo Ogundipe, Moyo Okediji and Ouattara--and seven African American artists: Jean-Michel Basquiat, John Biggers, Jeff Donaldson, Yvonne Edwards-Tucker, Winnie Owens-Hart, Charles Searles and Al Smith. American artist and UNC-CH professor Michael D. Harris and Nigerian artist and scholar Moyo Okediji construct a dialogue in companion essays that explore departures and arrivals, connections and distinctions between contemporary African and African American artists. Although the influence of African art on African American artists has received considerable attention, this book is among the first to discuss the influence of African American art on African artists, an exchange that continues to produce art that is both culturally unique and aesthetically rich. $25 plus shipping ($20 for members of the Museum).
Visions of Faith: Photographs by Wendy Ewald and Children
Published in 1999, this publication accompanies a traveling Ackland exhibition of the same name curated by Wendy Ewald and former Ackland Curator of Education Ray Williams. This 60-page catalogue includes 41 images and text by Ray Williams. $25 plus shipping.
Seeking the Spiritual: The Paintings of Marsden Hartley
Published in 1998 with the cooperation of Babcock Galleries, New York and Cornell University Press. This 80-page catalogue includes 27 images and text by Townsend Ludington, professor of English and American studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. $20 plus shipping.
The Spirit of Place: Art , Environment , Community
Published in 1998, this publication accompanied an Ackland exhibition of the same name. This 20-page catalogue documents the proposals of five artists (Elizabeth Conner, Adam Kuby, Andrew Leicester, Winifred Lutz, Ritsuko Taho) to create a site-integrated, environmental artwork for the front of the Museum. $5 plus shipping.
Screens & Scrolls: Japanese Art from the Collection of the Ackland Art Museum
Published in 1997, this publication accompanies a traveling Ackland exhibition of the same name. This 36-page catalogue includes 15 images and text by Sherman E. Lee. $10 plus shipping.
Ketav: Flesh and Word in Israeli Art
Published in 1996, this publication accompanied an Ackland exhibition of the same name and was organized in conjunction with the Israel/North Carolina Cultural Exchange. This 80-page catalogue includes 51 images and text by Gideon Ofrat, Michael Sgan-Cohen and Ackland Director Gerald D. Bolas. $25 plus shipping.