In this first book of interviews with visual artists from across Texas, more than sixty artists reflect on topics from formative influences and inspirations to their common engagement with found materials. Beyond the art itself, no source is more primary to understanding art and artist than the artist s own words. After all, who can speak with more authority about the artist s influences, motivations, methods, philosophies, and creations? Since 2010, Robert Craig Bunch has interviewed sixty-four of Texas finest artists, who have responded with honesty, clarity, and naturally great...
In this first book of interviews with visual artists from across Texas, more than sixty artists reflect on topics from formative influences and inspir...
Walk into any of sixty post offices or federal buildings in the state of Texas and you may be greeted by a surprising sight: magnificent mural art on the lobby walls. In the midst of the Great Depression, a program was born that would not only give work to artists but also create beauty and optimism for a people worn down by hardship and discouragement. This New Deal program commissioned artists to create post office muralsthe people s artto celebrate the lives, history, hopes, and dreams of ordinary Americans. In Texas alone, artists painted ninety-seven artworks for sixty-nine post...
Walk into any of sixty post offices or federal buildings in the state of Texas and you may be greeted by a surprising sight: magnificent mural art on ...
In this first book of interviews with visual artists from across Texas, more than sixty artists reflect on topics from seminal influences and inspirations to their common engagement with found materials. Beyond the art itself, no source is more primary to understanding art and artist than the artist's own words. After all, who can speak with more authority about the artist's influences, motivations, methods, philosophies, and creations? Since 2010, Robert Craig Bunch has interviewed sixty-four of Texas' finest artists, who have responded with honesty, clarity, and--naturally--great...
In this first book of interviews with visual artists from across Texas, more than sixty artists reflect on topics from seminal influences and inspirat...
Outsider artists live and create on the fringes of culture and society. Generally removed from the influence of place, they prefer instead to chart their own, intensely personal, interior landscapes. In Outsider Art in Texas, Jay Wehnert takes readers on a visually stunning excursion through the lives and work of eleven outsider artists from Texas.
Outsider artists live and create on the fringes of culture and society. Generally removed from the influence of place, they prefer instead to chart th...
A collection of Texas paintings and prints hangs throughout the offices, conference rooms, and hallways of Texas A&M University Press. These works comprise the Frank H. Wardlaw Collection of Texas Art. Through interviews with longtime staff and research into the Press's book files and correspondence, William and Linda Reaves have uncovered the captivating history of this unlikely collection.
A collection of Texas paintings and prints hangs throughout the offices, conference rooms, and hallways of Texas A&M University Press. These works com...
Everett Spruce came to Texas in 1925 to study at the Dallas Art Institute. Over the next seven decades, he became one of the most important painters and teachers in the region. Texas Made Modern traces Spruce's artistic evolution from his early experimental work of the 1920s tp the mysterious, surrealist-imbued landscapes of the 1930s.
Everett Spruce came to Texas in 1925 to study at the Dallas Art Institute. Over the next seven decades, he became one of the most important painters a...
