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Suzanne McClelland
STrAY
Found Poems from a Lost Time

This publication accompanies the exhibition STrAY: Found Poems from a Lost Time on view at The Fralin Museum of Art from January 25 through May 26, 2013. In this installation, the contemporary artist Suzanne McClelland responds to Found Poems from a Lost Time: A Short History of the Civil War (2006), twelve epistolary poems by George Garrett (1929-2008), the renowned poet and esteemed professor of creative writing at U.Va. Garrett's poems, which describe the physical and psychological horrors of war, inspired visual "portfolios," which comprise drawings, printed matter, and photographs. The exhibition also features works from The Fralin's collection in dialogue with McClelland's art. This visually compelling installation inspires fresh consideration of the role of language, perception, conflict, and both one's own history and history more broadly considered.

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Ancient Masters in Modern Styles:
Chinese Ink Paintings from the 16th - 21st Centuries

The publication accompanies the exhibition Ancient Masters in Modern Styles: Chinese Ink Paintings from the 16th - 21st Centuries on view at Museum on view at Museum from August 31 through December 16, 2012 and traveling in 2013 to Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota. The exhibition from The Fralin Museum of Art and Lijin Collection examines the influence of the honored tradition of Chinese ink paintings on later artists and how they sought to balance reverence for the art of old masters with their own impulses for artistic expression. Ancient Masters explores this tension through an investigation of style, subject matter, and inscriptions on paintings from the early modern period up until the present, while examining the social and historical context of their production.

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The Valley of the Shadow:
American Landscapes in the Time of the Civil War

The publication accompanies the exhibition The Valley of the Shadow: American Landscapes in the Time of the Civil War on view at Museum from August 31 through December 16, 2012. The exhibition addresses a central problem faced by artists who depicted the American landscape during this period: how to represent a nation that was ruthlessly divided by political tensions and, by the 1860s, a site of unprecedented violence and trauma. The exhibition considers the myriad ways in which artists of the period grappled with the vexing problem of representing a nation at war. Images by Frederic Church, Thomas Cole, Sanford Robinson Gifford, David Johnson, John Frederick Kensett, Aaron Draper Shattuck, and others contextualize the questions and challenges faced by American landscapists in these years.

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Bartolo di Fredi:
The Adoration of the Magi, A Masterpiece Reconstructed

The publication accompanies the exhibition The Adoration of The Magi by Bartolo di Fredi: A Masterpiece Reconstructed on view at UVaM, and traveling to the Museum of Biblical Art. The exhibition was the fruit of several years' collaboration between the University of Virginia, the Italian Ministry for Cultural Heritage and Activities, and the Superintendency for Historic, Artistic, and Ethno-anthropological Heritage of the Provinces of Siena and Grosseto. Long, scrupulous studies and discussion of conservation issues have now led to the reuniting of the three known portions of Bartolo di Fredi's masterpiece, the Adoration of the Magi, which was painted between 1375-85 and is divided between the Pinacoteca Nazionale of Siena, the Lindenau-Museum of Altenburg, Germany, and the University of Virginia Art Museum in Charlottesville. Catalogue entries are by Bruce Boucher, Francesca Fiorani, Wolfgang Loseries, Ana Maria Guiducci.

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Man Ray, African Art & the Modernist Lens

This companion catalogue 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 catalogue 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.

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Treasures Rediscovered:
Chinese Stone Sculptures form the Sackler Collections at Columbia University

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.

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Thomas Jefferson's Academical Village:
The Creation of an Architectural Masterpiece,

The illustrated catalogue 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.

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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

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.

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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.

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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.

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A Jeffersonian Ideal: Selections from the Dr. and Mrs. Henry C. Landon III
Collection of American Fine and Decorative Arts

This catalogue 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 catalogue 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)

This catalogue 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 catalogue, 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

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

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

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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Masterpieces of Renaissance Baroque Printmaking: A Decade of Collecting

This catalogue 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.

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Delights for the Senses: Dutch and Flemish Still-Life Paintings from Budapest

This catalogue 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 catalogue serves as both a record of the exhibition and a significant reference to an important collection.

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