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The Museum: Conditions & Spaces
Selections from the University of Virginia Art Museum
Edited by Andrea N. Douglas
Published 2004 $35.00 + shipping and handling, non-members membership level discount applies
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Exhibition catalogues
Thomas Jefferson's Academical Village:
The Creation of an Architectural Masterpiece Richard Guy Wilson, editor
Revised edition
University of Virginia Press, September 2009 $24.95 + shipping and handling, non-members membership level discount applies
The catalogue that accompanied the original 1993 exhibition has been updated to reflect new research and the revised edition will be available in September.
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Matisse, Picasso, and Modern Art in Paris: The T. Catesby Jones Collections at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and the University of Virginia Art Museum
Catalogue and exhibition organized by Matthew Affron and John B. Ravenal with Emily Smith
2009, 147 pages, fully illustrated in color
$35 + shipping and handling, members
$40 + shipping and handling, non-members
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William Christenberry: Site/Possession
44 pages, color and black & white illustrations
Paper ISBN 0-9706263-4-7 • $25.00
2007
Companion volume of the traveling exhibition of the same name, Christenberry's art focuses on Hale County, Alabama, a place where the artist spent many summers as a child. It is also the heartland of the Ku Klux Klan. His memory of this place, a combination of natural beauty and primal terror, are explored in many of his works. In addition to approximately 50 drawings, the exhibition also featured paintings, photographs, constructions, and objects from the Klan Room Tableau, many of which are included in this book.
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A Jeffersonian Ideal: Selections from the Dr. and Mrs. Henry C. Landon III Collection of American Fine and Decorative Arts
104 pages, color illustrations
Paper ISBN 0-9706263-2-0 • $40.00
2005
This catalog was published to accompany the 2005 exhibition A Jeffersonian Ideal: Selections from the Dr. and Mrs. Henry C. Landon III Collection of American Fine and Decorative Arts. The catalog includes essays by Richard Guy Wilson, Commonwealth Professor of Architectural History at the University of Virginia, and Dr. Henry C. Landon. More than 100 full-color photographs of the collection are included.
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Les dessins du musee de Beaux-Arts et d'Archeologie de Besancon (Masterpieces of European Drawing)
144 pages, color and black & white illustrations, French
Paper $30.00
Somogy Editions D'Art, 2004
This catalog was published to accompany the 2004 exhibition Les dessins du musee de Beaux-Arts et d'Archeologie de Besancon. The exhibition, created to celebrate the sister-city relationship between Charlottesville and Besancon, France, included 62 drawings from the French museum, a survey of work that spans the 16th thru the 20th century. The catalog, originally published in France, has more than 200 illustrations, both black and white and color, and includes works by Mantegna, Rembrandt, Reubens, Tiepolo, Courbet and Matisse.
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"The Moon Has No Home" Japanese Color Woodblock Prints from the
Collection of the University of Virginia Art Museum
November 22, 2003 - March 7, 2004
The strength of the Museum's collection of Japanese color woodblock prints lies in an area that is still considered controversial by many Ukiyo-e ("pictures of the floating world") connoisseurs—the mid- to late nineteenth century. This period of stress in Japanese society marked the end of the peaceful but extremely authoritarian, reclusive, and feudalistic Tokugawa regime and the turbulent beginnings of a Japan that was opening itself to the West. Natural and social cataclysms were matched by the wild and sometimes anguished creativity of the daring and imaginative generations of Ukiyo-e printmakers who came after Utamaro, an artist renowned for the breathtaking elegance and serenity of his "Classical" restraint.
The title of the exhibition comes from a poem inscribed on a print by Yoshitoshi, who is considered the final and culminating master of Ukiyo-e. From his landmark One Hundred Aspects of the Moon series, the print depicts the poet and nun Lady Chiyo, who is best known for a poem in which she tells of her decision to borrow a bucket of water from a neighbor; her own well bucket has been ensnared overnight by morning glories, whose summer beauty she wishes to leave intact. In Yoshitoshi's print, however, she is shown in autumn, transfixed over her fallen well bucket. The inscribed poem states that the poet has now dropped her bucket and spilled its contents, so that "the moon has no home in the water."
Approximately sixty works (including diptychs and triptychs by Kunisada, Kuniyoshi, and Kuniyoshi's extraordinary pupil Yoshitosh) have been selected for exhibition from a collection of three hundred. A catalogue accompanies the exhibition, which was curated by Sandy Kita, assistant professor of Japanese art history at the University of Maryland, College Park, and Stephen Margulies, curator of works on paper.
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Our View: Charlottesville and Albemarle County, A Teen Photography Competition
108 pages, color and black & white illustrations
Cloth ISBN 0-9745028-0-4 • $25.00
Oakwood Arts, 2003
This book includes the winning selections and honorable mentions in all six categories of the 2003 Charlottesville, Albemarle County Teen Photography Competition/Exhibition. Over 100 photographs by talented young photographers, with more than half in full-color, offering an often unique, and always beautiful, view of the Charlottesville/Albemarle region.
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John Barber, 1893-1965: Selections from the Archive
Edited and Introduced by David B. Lawall
224 pages, color and black & white illustrations
Cloth, ISBN 0-8139-1395-0 • $45.00
1992
First America, then post-World War I Europe offered Romanian-born artist John Barber the visual stimulations of cultures in change. His observations, enthusiasms, and inquiry are recounted in his art, letters, postcards, and writings on art and artists. This publication of selections from his papers, drawings and paintings marks the establishment of his archive in the John Barber Memorial Collection at the University of Virginia Art Museum. Comprehensive in scope, the collection forms a basis for further research of the life and work of an enigmatic, elusive and intriguing painter who found his own voice amid the cacophony of the international art world from the 1920s into the 1960s.
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Delights for the Senses: Dutch and Flemish Still-Life Paintings from Budapest
Ediko Ember
176 pages, color and black & white illustrations
Paper, ISBN 0-945529-01-5 • $24.95
Museum of Fine Art, Budapest & Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum
1989
This catalog documents not only the forty works featured in the exhibition but also the entire collection of Dutch and Flemish still-life paintings in Budapest. Thus this catalog serves as both a record of the exhibition and a significant reference to an important collection.
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Other publications
The Writer's Eye 2008 February 2009, 64 pages, illustrated in color
$10 + shipping and handling
The anthology recognizes the winners of the twenty-second Writer's Eye competition. Their poetry and prose appears alongside color reproductions of the artwork that inspired them. This annual literary competition invites contestants from third graders to university students and beyond to create original works of poetry and prose inspired by art in the Museum's collection and in its special exhibitions.
More than 2300 individuals participated in the tours, and many others sought out the artwork on their own. A total of 1029 entries were received. The contestants submit entries in four age-related categories: Grades 3-5, 6-8, 9-12 and university/adult Teachers from local schools and writers judge entries from children in the younger grades. Published writers, Elizabeth Doyle Solomon and Kristen Staby Rembold, judged those from the high school and university/adult categories.
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The University of Virginia Art Museum exhibits art from around the world dating from ancient times to the present. In addition to its permanent collection, the Museum offers changing exhibitions, accompanied by related programs and publications.