Chicago-based artist David Klamen fuses op-art effects with art historical images to create high impact and engaging artworks. Looking like obsessive crosses between bar codes, puzzles, and old master paintings, these works plead to be interpreted through a dizzying kaleidoscope of colors and shapes.
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The history of contemporary American metalsmithing is inextricably linked with the academy. Since the 1950s, nearly every significant artist working in metals has trained at a university or art school--fertile ground for innovation and exploration in metalsmithing and jewelry making. The University of Wisconsin-Madison's metals program is among the best in the nation, founded on the teaching legacy of Fred Fenster and Eleanor Moty, who instilled in their students a profound respect for craftsmanship, technical innovation, formal integrity, and thoughtful design. The work in this catalogue...

Highlights of the permanent collection.
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The Van Vleck collection of Japanese woodblock prints is one of the Elvehjem Museum of Art s (now the Chazen Museum of Art) most important collections of more than 3700 prints collected by Van Vleck between 1910 and 1943, including the prints that Frank Lloyd Wright collected in Japan in the 1920s. This copiously illustrated catalog is the culmination of several years of intensive study and documentation, and is the first step in making this impressive collection accessible to museum visitors and scholars.
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Here, 34 poets use art in the Elvehjem galleries as their inspiration. Each artwork is shown on a page facing the poem.

A critical review of Peter Gourfain's career and his politically charged art. Though he showed minimalist sculpture in the 1960s, since the 1980s his work - in terracotta reliefs, cast bronzes, woodcarvings, prints and paintings - has become figurative, expressionist, personal and socially engaged.

This catalog contains 288 prints from the Edward Burr Van Vleck collection by Ukiyo-e master artist Utagawa Hiroshige and essay in Japanese by Yamaguchi Keisaburo.