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The Museum: Conditions & Spaces To purchase, contact Emelia Meckstroth by phone 434.924.3424 or email > Exhibition catalogues
Man Ray, African Art & the Modernist Lens This companion catalog for the special exhibition Man Ray, African Art & the Modernist Lens "is a groundbreaking study in which the confluence of Modernist photography and the 'discovery' of African art by the early twentieth-century avant-garde is closely examined for the first time." The catalog features more than seventy photographs by Man Ray, many never previously published, and includes photographs by many contemporaries of Man Ray, including Alfred Stieglitz, Walker Evans, Andrè Kertesz, and Joseph Sudek. With contributions byYaëlle Biro, Poul Mørk, Rainer Stamm, and Tomáš Winter. To purchase, contact Emelia Meckstroth by phone 434.924.3424 or email >
Treasures Rediscovered: Dr. Arthur M. Sackler was an avid connoisseur of art, who amassed works in enormous quantities. By the early 1970s, he had made many generous donations to Columbia University: nearly three thousand objects, primarily from China, Korea, and the ancient Near East. The stone sculpture from China is a particular strength of the collection. Although a few of these sculptures have been exhibited in the intervening years, Treasures Rediscovered: Chinese Stone Sculpture from the Sackler Collections at Columbia University brings these highlights together for the first time. This companion publication of the exhibition features a group of twenty-two little-known stone devotional objects and architectural fragments that collectively represent major developments in Chinese religion and mortuary culture, from the Han (206 BCE - 220 CE) through the Tang dynasty (618 - 907). The major emphasis of the exhibition is on works from the sixth century, a period of great intellectual ferment and artistic transformation, above all in Buddhist arts. To purchase, contact Emelia Meckstroth by phone 434.924.3424 or email >
Thomas Jefferson's Academical Village: The illustrated catalog Thomas Jefferson's Academical Village: the Creation of an Architectural Masterpiece, which accompanied the original 1993 exhibition, has been updated and includes an expanded essay by exhibition curator Richard Guy Wilson. To purchase, contact Emelia Meckstroth by phone 434.924.3424 or email >
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 The catalogue was published to accompany the exhibition Matisse, Picasso, and Modern Art in Paris: The T. Catesby Jones Collections at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and the University of Virginia. The fully illustrated catalogue presents essays by the co-curators and new research by University of Virginia graduate students. To purchase, contact Emelia Meckstroth by phone 434.924.3424 or email >
William Christenberry: Site/Possession 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. To purchase, contact Emelia Meckstroth by phone 434.924.3424 or email >
Fernand Léger: Contrast of Forms Between 1912 and 1914, Fernand Léger executed a large cycle of works known as the Contrasts of Forms. The series embraces the genres of landscape, still life, and figure, but at its core are numerous arresting compositions that sweep aside observation to focus on formal principles. The common denominator is a complex vocabulary of mingled cones, cylinders, cubes, and planes, vigorously outlined and scrubbed with color (in the paintings) or with black ink and white gouache (in the works on paper). The Contrast of Forms are essential to two great chapters in the history of modern art in the years before the First World War: first, the development of cubism, and second, the emergence of abstract art. Moreover, they cap the initial, pre-1914 phase of Léger's career when, as critic Douglas Cooper wrote, the artist finds his signature pictorial maneuvers and, in effect, becomes Léger. To purchase, contact Emelia Meckstroth by phone 434.924.3424 or email >
A Jeffersonian Ideal: Selections from the Dr. and Mrs. Henry C. Landon III 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. To purchase, contact Emelia Meckstroth by phone 434.924.3424 or email >
Les dessins du musee de Beaux-Arts et d'Archeologie de Besancon 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. To purchase, contact Emelia Meckstroth by phone 434.924.3424 or email >
"The Moon Has No Home" 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. To purchase, contact Emelia Meckstroth by phone 434.924.3424 or email >
Our View: Charlottesville and Albemarle County, 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. To purchase, contact Emelia Meckstroth by phone 434.924.3424 or email >
Siting Jefferson: Contemporary Artists Interpret Thomas Jefferson's Legacy In 2000, the University of Virginia Art Museum featured a collection of artworks inspired by Thomas Jefferson's legacy. The exhibition, called Hindsight/Fore-site: Art for the New Millenium is the subject of this book. Complementing the photographs of works by 24 artists, including Agnes Denes, Ann Hamilton, Martha Jackson-Jarvis, Dennis Oppenheim, Lucio Pozzi, and Todd Murphy, are provocative and enlightening essays about Jefferson and his influence. To purchase, contact Emelia Meckstroth by phone 434.924.3424 or email >
John Barber, 1893-1965: Selections from the Archive 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. To purchase, contact Emelia Meckstroth by phone 434.924.3424 or email >
Masterpieces of Renaissance Baroque Printmaking: A Decade of Collecting This catalog was published to accompany the 1991-92 exhibition of Masterpieces of Renaissance Baroque Printmaking, showcasing works from the collections of the University of Virginia Art Museum and Gertrude Weber. It includes more than 200 illustrations, emphasizing the works of Altdorfer, Dürer, Van Dyck, and Rembrandt. To purchase, contact Emelia Meckstroth by phone 434.924.3424 or email >
Delights for the Senses: Dutch and Flemish Still-Life Paintings from Budapest 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. To purchase, contact Emelia Meckstroth by phone 434.924.3424 or email > Other publications
Writer's Eye 2010 The anthology recognizes the winners of the twenty-fourth 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. Nearly 3.000 individuals participated in the tours, and many others sought out the artwork on their own. A total of 1,226 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, Charlotte Matthews and Jack Trammell, judged entries from the high school and university/adult categories this year. To purchase, contact Emelia Meckstroth by phone 434.924.3424 or email >
Writer's Eye 2009 The anthology recognizes the winners of the twenty-third 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 2,900 individuals participated in the tours, and many others sought out the artwork on their own. A total of 1,140 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, Sarah Collins Honenberger and John Casteen IV, judged entries from the high school and university/adult categories this year. To purchase, contact Emelia Meckstroth by phone 434.924.3424 or email >
The Writer's Eye 2008 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. To purchase, contact Emelia Meckstroth by phone 434.924.3424 or email > |
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