Publications
Award-Winning Publications
The Georgia Museum of Art is pleased to offer catalogues that chronicle its exhibition history.These publications effectively incorporate illustrations of remarkable quality, insightful biographies of featured artists, scholarly essays by noted art historians and critics, historical perspectives on exhibited works and checklists of the works as they appeared at the Georgia Museum of Art. The museum also regularly publishes scholarly works unrelated to exhibitions, such as its publication of the papers delivered at the biennial Henry D. Green Symposium of the Decorative Arts.
The museum has won awards for its publications from the American Alliance of Museums, College Art Association, Southeastern Museums Conference, Southeastern College Art Conference, Independent Publishers Book Awards, Eric Hoffer Book Awards, Foreword Book Awards, Costume Society of America and the Southeast Chapter of the Art Libraries Society of North America. It serves as its own imprint.
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List of Publications
Louise Blair Daura: A Virginian in Paris
This book accompanies the exhibition of the same name, on view at the Georgia Museum of Art September 30 December 10, 2017. Louise Blair Daura is an understudied figure whose work and life provide a window into the artistic milieu of her time, especially the challenges faced by women artists. Her career as an exhibiting artist was short (roughly 1928 1932), and this exhibition and book are the first attempt by a museum to examine it. The daughter of banker and manufacturer Lewis Harvie Blair and Martha (Mattie) Ruffin Feild, Louise was born in Richmond, Virginia, in 1905. In Paris in 1928, she married her art teacher, the Catalan painter Pierre Daura, who co-founded the abstractionist group Cercle et Carre. She was a keen and witty observer of her time, and her letters home to family offer insights on everything from the daily life of an American in Paris to the studio practice and personalities of many of her husband s colleagues. This exhibition catalogue features all of her known works of art (reproduced in color), her letters from France to her family between 1928 and 1930, and essays by curator Lynn Boland and Catherine Dossin, associate professor of art history at Purdue University.
Publishing Date: September 2017
364 pages; $60
ISBN: 978-1-946657-02-2
Modern Living: Gio Ponti and the Twentieth-Century Aesthetics of Design
"Modern Living: Gio Ponti and the Twentieth-Century Aesthetics of Design" accompanies the exhibition of the same name, on view at the Georgia Museum of Art June 10 September 17, 2017. Authored by Perri Lee Roberts, University of Miami, who also served as guest curator of the exhibition, it examines the Italian architect and designer's work from the 1920s to the 1950s. It illustrates every object in the exhibition, from Ponti's early work designing Richard-Ginori ceramics to his collaborations with Paolo De Poli and Piero Fornasetti on furniture and decor. In addition, the Ponti Archives supplied many vintage photographs and sketches for the publication. Roberts builds a case for Ponti as a modern renaissance man, who drew on the past at the same time that he pushed for modern manufacturing and always believed in design that balanced equilibrium, harmony, clarity and beauty.
Publishing Date: June 2017
128 pages; $50 (hardcover)
ISBN: 978-1946657015
Expanding Tradition: Selections from the Larry D. and Brenda A. Thompson Collection
This catalogue accompanies the exhibition of the same name, on view at the Georgia Museum of Art January 28 to May 7, 2017. It showcases 58 works in Larry D. and Brenda A. Thompson's collection of art by African Americans, with full-page color images of each work in the exhibition. Dr. Shawnya L. Harris contributes an overview of the Thompsons' commitment to art collecting and discusses the shifting artistic and political landscape for African American artists found in their collection. Artists featured include Amalia Amaki, Kara Walker, Benny Andrews, Elizabeth Catlett, Hale Woodruff, Charles Ethan Porter, Norman Lewis, Stefanie Jackson, Bob Blackburn, Archibald Motley, Howardena Pindell, and Mildred Thompson. The book also includes essays by David C. Driskell and Brenda Thompson, a foreword by director William U. Eiland and artist's biographies.
Publishing Date: January 2017
168 pages; $40 (hardcover)
ISBN: 978-0915977994
Gifts and Prayers: The Romanovs and Their Subjects
Highlighting a private collection on long-term loan that is also a promised gift to the Georgia Museum of Art, this catalogue accompanies the exhibition of the same name, on display at the museum September 3 to December 31, 2016. The House of Romanov ruled imperial Russia for 300 years, until the Russian Revolution, in 1917, which replaced the tsars with a Communist government. The court created elaborate gifts for military leaders, attendants, noble families, and others, as part of a system of patronage that helped it maintain its power. Those gifts make up this display, which includes such treasures as the personal cigar box of Alexander II commemorating his coronation, and diamond-encrusted brooches worn by ladies of the court. The catalogue also includes full-color illustrations of medals, badges and awards of all the Russian Imperial Orders of Chivalry, ceremonial swords, armor, helmets, and an intricately designed silver trophy from the Crimean War, among many other items. Assembled by a single private collector, the collection has been virtually unknown for decades. Curator Asen Kirin, professor of art history at the Lamar Dodd School of Art, has selected nearly 200 objects to introduce the collection and its presence at the museum, which will promote its study in years to come.
Publishing Date: December 2016
204 pages; $55 (hardcover)
ISBN: 978-0915977987
Icon of Modernism: Representing the Brooklyn Bridge, 1883-1950
This catalogue accompanies the exhibition of the same name, on view at the Georgia Museum of Art Sept. 17-Dec. 11, 2016. It includes essays by curator of American art Sarah Kate Gillespie on the history of the Brooklyn Bridge as a symbol of modernity and on photography of the bridge, by Janice Simon on images of the bridge in the popular press, by Meredith Ward on John Marin's renderings of the bridge and by Kimberly Orcutt on Joseph Stella's paintings of the structure. All images in the exhibition are reproduced full page in full-color and many supplementary images flesh out the discussions. Full-color images; slipcase; two ribbon markers. Winner of the 2017 Eric Hoffer Book Award for Art.
Publishing Date: September 2016
126 pages; $55 (hardcover)
ISBN: 978-0915977956
Turned and Sculpted: Wood Art from the Collection of Arthur and Jane Mason
This catalogue accompanies the exhibition of the same name, on view at the Georgia Museum of Art May 14 to August 7, 2016. Drawn from the donations of wood art Arthur and Jane Mason have made to the museum's collection, it provides the Masons' insights on the work they have gathered over the years. They have grown close to many artists, and in these pages they share personal anecdotes as well as their thoughts on building a collection and their appreciation for the forms woodturners create. Full-page color illustrations show the beauty and complexity of these objects, labored over by some of the most important names in the field.
Publishing Date: May 2016
64 pages; $15 (softcover)
ISBN: 978-0915977949
Cherokee Basketry: Woven Culture
This catalogue accompanies the exhibition of the same name, on view at the Georgia Museum of Art from January 23 through April 17, 2016, and organized by co-curators Dale L. Couch, Mary C. Scales English, and Janice Simon. All 45 objects in the exhibition (mostly baskets but also a scarf designed by Georgian Frankie Welch that pictures the Cherokee syllabary and a slat-back chair with a woven seat) are illustrated in full color. Essays by Couch, Scales English, Simon and contributor Joseph Litts flesh out different aspects of these baskets, adding anthropological and collecting insights.
Publishing Date: February 2016
48 pages; $12 (softcover)
ISBN: 978-0915977932
Connections: Georgia in the World: The Seventh Henry D. Green Symposium of the Decorative Arts
This volume includes the following papers delivered at the seventh Henry D. Green Symposium of the Decorative Arts, held Jan. 30 through Feb. 1, 2014: "Revealing Georgia: Viewing the Cultural Landscape through Prints and Maps," by Margaret Beck Pritchard; "Utilitarian Earthenware in the Ebenezer Settlement, Effingham County, Georgia," by Daniel T. Elliott; "Worldly Goods for a Chosen People: The Material Culture of Savannah s Colonial Jewish Community," by Daniel Kurt Ackermann; "Considerations of William Verelst s 'The Common Council of Georgia Receiving the Indian Chiefs,' 1734 36," by Kathleen Staples; "Materiality in the Gullah Geechee Culture: The Kitchen in the Heart of the Story," by Althea Sumpter; "Colonial South Carolina Indigo: Red, White, and Black Made Blue," by Andrea Feeser; "Scarf and Dress Designs by Frankie Welch: Highlighting Georgia Through Her Americana," by Ashley Callahan; "Georgia's Textile Connections: Imports, Homespun and Industry," by Madelyn Shaw; "Weaving History: The Yeoman, the Slave, the Coverlet," by Susan Falls and Jessica R. Smith; "Capitalism and Revolution: A Staffordshire Mug and Its Anti-Monarchial Message," by Lauren Word; "Sumptuous Goods: The McKinne-Whitehead-Rowland Collection at the Georgia Museum of Art," by Julia N. Jackson; "Valley View: Reflecting on a Place, Its People, and Its Furnishings," by Maryellen Higginbotham; "Mexican Silver in an Antebellum Georgia Household," by Carolyn Shuler; "From London to Shanghai, 1780 1920: How Five Generations of Yonges and Brownes Brought Their Silver to Columbus, Georgia," by Sandra Strother Hudson; and "Shopping from London to Naples for a Future Country Palace in Macon: William and Anne Tracy Johnston on the Grand Tour, 1851 1854," by Jonathan H. Poston, as well as a foreword by museum director William Underwood Eiland and acknowledgments and a focus on a recent acqusition by Dale L. Couch, curator, Henry D. Green Center for the Study of the Decorative Arts. Full-color illustrations throughout.
Publishing Date: February 2016
224 pages; $30
ISBN: 978-0-915977-92-5
Georgia's Girlhood Embroidery: "Crowned with Glory and Immortality"
This fully illustrated catalogue by independent scholar and guest curator Kathleen Staples accompanies the exhibition of the same name at the Georgia Museum of Art from October 31, 2015 to February 28, 2016. Georgia's Girlhood Embroidery: "Crowned with Glory and Immortality" is the first comprehensive exhibition to focus on colonial and antebellum girlhood embroideries created either in Georgia or by Georgians. These embroideries, also known as samplers, include rows of alphabets, quotations in prose and verse, images of architecture and embellished floral borders. Needlework took place in many different settings: public and private, elective and required, urban and rural. In Georgia's Girlhood Embroidery, Staples takes readers into the lives of the young sampler makers and brings to light the history of feminine skills and girlhood education in the state. The catalogue includes twenty-two samplers from public and private collections, including those of the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts (MESDA), the Midway Museum, the Charleston Museum, Telfair Museums, St. Vincent's Academy of Savannah, Georgia, and the President James K. Polk Home and Museum.
Publishing Date: December 2015
182 pages; $20 (softcover)
ISBN: 978-0915977918
El Taller de Gráfica Popular: Vida y Arte
This catalogue accompanies the exhibition of the same name, on view at the Georgia Museum of Art June 13-Sept. 13, 2015. It includes full-color images of every work in the exhibition and many supplementary works produced by the Mexican printmaking workshop, as well as essays by Deborah Caplow, Elizabeth Kathleen Mitchell, Helga Prignitz-Poda, collector Michael T. Ricker, Arturo García Bustos and Pablo Méndez, each addressing a different aspect of the workshop. Catalogue entries provide more information on the individual works. It is the most comprehensive and most completely illustrated publication on the workshop and is an essential reference work as well as a handsome publication for the layperson.
Publishing Date: June 2015
476 pages; $85 (hardcover)
ISBN: 978-0-915977-89-5
Chaos & Metamorphosis: The Art of Piero Lerda
This exhibition catalogue, with an extensive essay by curator Laura Valeri that makes use of the artist's papers and archival materials, focuses on the work of Italian artist Piero Lerda (1927-2007), in conjunction with the exhibition of the same name (Feb. 14-May 10, 2015) at the Georgia Museum of Art. Working meticulously in a variety of media such as India ink and wax, acrylic paint and innumerable collage materials from candy wrappers to corrugated cardboard, Lerda created abstract works that are at once playful and cerebral. Valeri investigates his symbolic language (e.g., kites, merry-go-round cities), lays out his biography and contextualizes his work. This is the first catalogue in English on Lerda's work and reproduces in full-page color all 38 works in the exhibition.
Publishing Date: February 2015
96 pages; $15 (softcover)
ISBN: 978-0915977888
A Year on the Hill: Work by Jim Fiscus and Chris Bilheimer
This catalogue documents the collaborative exhibition of work by photographer Jim Fiscus and graphic designer Chris Bilheimer, on view at the Georgia Museum of Art Dec. 13, 2014 - March 8, 2015. In addition to their large scale, the photographs it includes are distinguished by various overlay treatments. All the work on this project took place on the Hill, a neighborhood in Athens, Ga., between the end of 2009 and fall 2010. Fiscus is an award-winning advertising and editorial photographer whose clients include Levis, Guinness, HBO, Nike, Coca-Cola and ESPN. Bilheimer is a Grammy-nominated graphic artist who has designed packaging for R.E.M, Green Day and Nirvana, among many others. This collaboration is the result of their personal friendship and time together in Athens. Asen Kirin, guest curator, supplied an essay analyzing the work for the catalogue, which reproduces all the works in color and was designed by Bilheimer.
Publishing Date: December 2014
48 pages; $10 (softcover)
ISBN: 978-0915977871
Pierre Daura (1896-1987): Picturing Attachments
This catalogue accompanies the first exhibition devoted to the many works that the Catalan-American painter Pierre Daura created throughout his career in response to his personal relationships. His courtship, his marriage to an American, the birth of his daughter Martha, his family's home life in St. Cirq-La-Popie, his service in the Spanish Civil War, his exile to the United States during World War II and his wife's illness and death represent events to which Daura responded with deeply personal images that can be counted among his most beautiful, original and moving works, whether on paper, canvas or wood. The text was written by Dr. Adelheid Gealt, director of the Indiana University Art Museum and professor of fine arts at Indiana University, and the catalogue is published by the Georgia Museum of Art. Research was supported by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, the Daura Foundation and IU's New Frontiers grant program. This exhibition and the accompanying catalogue are dedicated to Thomas W. Mapp and Andrew W. Ladis.
Publishing Date: October 2014
136 pages; $50 (hardcover)
ISBN: 978-0915977864
Homecoming: The Sixth Henry D. Green Symposium of the Decorative Arts
This volume comprises papers from the Georgia Museum of Art's sixth Henry D. Green Symposium for the Decorative Arts, held February 2 - 4, 2012. The theme marked the museum's return to its expanded building and the return of the symposium to Georgia topics. The publication includes the following essays: Deanne Deavours, Reminiscences of a Professional Life on the Forefront of American Decorative Arts; Daniel Kurt Ackermann, New Stories from Familiar Objects: Discovering the African American Imprint on Southern Decorative Arts at MESDA; William S. Burdell, Images of the Geechee People and Their Culture; Ashley Callahan Modern Antiques by Henry Eugene Thomas: Images of and Comments on the Georgia Bellflowers Exhibition; Treadwell Rice Crown, Known and Grown: Plants and Plantings of Cedar Lane Farm; Fred and Beth Mercier, Restoration, Revelation, and Reunion: The General John Floyd House; John Charles Knowlton Jr., Small and Gracious: A Planter's Home in Talbot County; Michelle Miller, Painted Porcelain of the Lycett Studios of Atlanta; Tania June Sammons, Supplied by England: The Thomas Gibbons Silver Collection; Samuel N. Thomas Jr., Mechanics of Time: Clock Peddlers of the Southern Piedmont and the Clocks They Peddled; Chris Schleier, By Eye and Feel; William Dunn Wansley, Cobbham's Dunn Jug; Kathleen Staples, The Butler-Downer Coverlet: A Masterpiece of Embroidered Histories; and Paul Manoguerra, The Billups Portraits; as well as four notes delivered by students, an introduction by Dale L. Couch and a foreword by museum director William Underwood Eiland.
Publishing Date: January 2014
200 pages; $30 (softcover)
ISBN: 978-0915977833
The Material of Culture: Renaissance Medals and Textiles from the Ulrich A. Middeldorf Collection
This catalogue by Perri Lee Roberts accompanies the exhibition of the same name, on view at the Georgia Museum of Art Oct. 26, 2013-Jan. 12, 2014, and consisting primarily of medals, plaquettes and textiles from Indiana University Art Museum. Both catalogue and exhibition present a historical overview of Ulrich A. Middeldorf's career as an art historian, teacher and curator. Contextual material provides insight into how these luxury artifacts were utilized in the Renaissance and the various ways in which they convey the desire for personal recognition, taste for public display and a sense of general pride and enjoyment so prevalent in 16th-century Italian urban society. Includes full-color images of almost every work in the exhibition.
Publishing Date: October 2013
96 pages; $20 (hardcover)
ISBN: 978-0915977826
Exuberance of Meaning: The Art Patronage of Catherine the Great (1762-1796)
"Exuberance of Meaning: The Art Patronage of Catherine the Great (1762-1796)," organized by Dr. Asen Kirin at the University of Georgia s Lamar Dodd School of Art, is an exceptional exhibition for the Georgia Museum of Art. Not only are the objects on which it focuses remarkable achievements of European decorative arts, but the scholarship its accompanying catalogue contains adds immeasurably to the field. Kirin examines Catherine s use of art patronage as a tool to solidify her grasp on power through her evocation of both the classical past and Byzantine heritage. In essays that focus in depth on the Orlov vase, the Buch chalice and the Green Frog Service, he takes a close look at the intricate symbolism each object evokes and the exuberance of meaning each was meant to convey. Scott Ruby, Liana Paredes, and Kristen Regina, of Hillwood Estate, Museum & Gardens, contribute essays and catalogue entries that further add to the body of knowledge on this singular and fascinating ruler. The catalogue stands as a record of the exhibition, with full-page color images of nearly every object it includes, but goes beyond that to serve as a resource for scholars and the general public.
Publishing Date: September 2013
232 pages; $50 (hardcover)
ISBN: 978-0915977819
Cercle et Carré and the International Spirit of Abstract Art
This catalogue accompanies the first major exhibition devoted to the art and activities of Cercle et Carré (Circle and Square), the artistic group cofounded in 1929 by Pierre Daura (1896 1976), Joaquín Torres-García (1874 1949) and Michel Seuphor (1901 1999). It includes essays by Pierre Daura Curator of European Art Lynn Boland, Laura Valeri, Catherine Dossin and Filip Lipinski, artists' biographies by Caroline Barratt and translations into English of the group's three journal issues for the first time (by Laura Valeri). The book includes a section of 126 color plates, including not only works included in the Georgia Museum of Art's exhibition but also works that appeared in Cercle et Carré's original 1930 exhibition in Paris and that were published in its journal. Artists represented include Daura, Torres-García, Seuphor, Hans Arp, Marcelle Cahn, Franciska Clausen, Le Corbusier, Wassily Kandinsky, Fernand Léger, Piet Mondrian, Antoine Pevsner, Kurt Schwitters, Joseph Stella, Sophie Taeuber-Arp and H.N. Werkman. A black-and-white section of images reproduces photographs from that original exhibition, of both its installation and the artists involved. Complementing the primary-source materials in the Georgia Museum of Art's Pierre Daura Center's archives, this exhibition and its catalogue make an important contribution to understanding international abstract art in the period between the wars.
Publishing Date: September 2013
320 pages; $40 (hardcover)
ISBN: 978-0915977802
The Kress Project
This small, gilt-edged book includes works by winners of the Georgia Museum of Art's Kress Project, part of a two-year initiative by the museum to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of its Kress Study Collection, a small but important group of Italian Renaissance and Baroque paintings. Artists of all types were invited to respond to the paintings, and a panel of three judges--visual artist Didi Dunphy, English professor Jed Rasula, and Kate Pierson, founding member of The B-52s--chose the winning entries. The volume includes 62 black-and-white or color photos and a companion DVD.
Publishing Date: July 2013
227 pages; $20 (softcover)
ISBN: 978-0915977796
Art Interrupted: Advancing American Art and the Politics of Cultural Diplomacy
In 1946, J. LeRoy Davidson began assembling a collection of contemporary American paintings to show the world what his countrymen could do in modern art. By 1948, those works had been auctioned off to buyers across the nation, Davidson forced to resign, his position abolished and the entire project a laughingstock in the media. Art Interrupted: Advancing American Art and the Politics of Cultural Diplomacy reunites nearly all of the paintings Davidson purchased, recreating his original proposed exhibition and investigating the U.S. State Department's use of fine art as a valuable tool in the Cold War. Organized by the Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art at Auburn University, the Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia, and the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art at the University of Oklahoma and supported by grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Henry Luce Foundation, this exhibition draws from the permanent collections of ten museums, private collectors, and other public institutions and includes many of the images from Advancing American Art. Representing works by artists from Romare Bearden to Ben Shahn, Stuart Davis, Georgia O'Keeffe, Edward Hopper, Loren MacIver, Jacob Lawrence, Marsden Hartley, and Arthur Dove, Art Interrupted includes many important figures in the development of American modernism. Although his plan to promote the vitality of American art abroad failed, Davidson's project had a second life as the works were dispersed across the nation. In the collections of, primarily, university museums and galleries, including the three organizing institutions, they exemplified the principles for which he had intended them and reached countless Americans in their formative years.
Publishing Date: July 2012
280 pages; $65 (hardcover)
ISBN: 978-0915977789
Georgia Bellflowers: The Furniture of Henry Eugene Thomas
This exhibition catalogue chronicles the life and work of Henry Eugene Thomas, a prominent figure in the first generation of collectors from Georgia who operated during the first recovery of furniture from Piedmont Georgia. Not only did Thomas discover many of the masterpieces that are now icons of early Georgia furniture, he also restored many of them. Thomas also was a significant craftsman in his own right, who created a recognizable Colonial Revival style from the 1920s through the 1950s and provided furnishings for many prominent homes in Athens. This small attractive catalogue includes more than 40 illustrations, a previously unpublished manuscript by Thomas' son Jack and a checklist of the exhibition.
Publishing Date: January 2012
107 pages; $16 (hardcover)
ISBN: 978-0915977772
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