Tamarind

Tamarind
Author: Marjorie Devon
Publisher: UNM Press
Total Pages: 222
Release: 2000
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780826320735

An essential addition to the library of anyone concerned with contemporary printmaking.

June Wayne, the Art of Everything

June Wayne, the Art of Everything
Author: Robert P. Conway
Publisher:
Total Pages: 486
Release: 2007
Genre:
ISBN:

Since her first solo exhibition in 1935 at the age of seventeen, June Wayne has achieved legendary status among twentieth-century American artists. Best known today for her work in and influence on printmaking and fine-art lithography, one of her most renowned achievements was the founding of the Tamarind Lithography Workshop in 1959. Under her direction, this workshop became one of the most important focal points of a general revival of printmaking in the United States - a revival that gave many other famous artists, including Willem de Kooning, Louise Nevelson, and Ed Ruscha, an opportunity to experiment in this format. Her own spectacular prints earned her the estimable title the incontestable pioneer of contemporary lithography. But Wayne's artistic accomplishments are even richer than that. Throughout her career, she boldly explored a variety of media and aesthetic concepts.

The Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American West

The Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American West
Author: Patricia Nelson Limerick
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 404
Release: 2011-02-07
Genre: History
ISBN: 0393078809

"Limerick is one of the most engaging historians writing today." --Richard White The "settling" of the American West has been perceived throughout the world as a series of quaint, violent, and romantic adventures. But in fact, Patricia Nelson Limerick argues, the West has a history grounded primarily in economic reality; in hardheaded questions of profit, loss, competition, and consolidation. Here she interprets the stories and the characters in a new way: the trappers, traders, Indians, farmers, oilmen, cowboys, and sheriffs of the Old West "meant business" in more ways than one, and their descendents mean business today.