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Looking Together: Writers on Art96 pages, 8.75 x 10.5 inches, 23 full color illustrations, 2009 $18.95 In Looking Together: Writers on Art, published by the Frye and University of Washington Press, a dozen Pacific Northwest writers working in a range of styles respond to works of art either held in the Frye Founding Collection or to contemporary work exhibited at the Museum. Coedited by Rebecca Brown, writer, and Mary Jane Knecht, Frye manager of adult programs and publications, the collection features work by the following participating writers and artists: Ryan Boudinot / Tim Eitel; Rebecca Brown / Robyn O’Neil; Christine Deavel / Dario Robleto; Adrianne Harun / Henry Darger; Lesley Hazleton / Gabriel von Max; Richard Hugo / John Henry Twachtman; Stacey Levine / Patricia Piccinini; Frances McCue / Franz von Stuck; Melinda Mueller / Sigrid Sandström; Jack Nisbet / Pieter van Veen; Peter Pereira / Willie Cole; and Jonathan Raban / Albert Bierstadt. A forward is contributed by Robin Held, Frye chief curator and director of collections and exhibitions, with an introduction by Rebecca Brown. For more information on this publication, read Northwest artists respond to Frye art in new publication. Read excerpts from this publication on the Excerpts from Looking Together: Writers on Art page. |
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Secession 1892–1914296 pages, 9.5" x 12", 200 color and 50 black-and-white illustrations, 2008 Hardcover $55.00 Secession 1892–1914 is the companion publication to the exhibition The Munich Secession and America, published by the Frye Art Museum and Museum Villa Stuck in Munich and edited by Michael Buhrs, director, Museum Villa Stuck, Munich. This gorgeously illustrated volume presents new scholarship on the Munich Secession and the Munich Künstlergenossenschaft, (the influential artists’ association which preceded it) in essays by specialists in the field: Bettina Best, Jo-Anne Birnie Danzker, Margot Th. Brandlhuber, Horst G. Ludwig, and Clelia Segieth. Frye Foundation Scholar Jo-Anne Birnie Danzker’s essay focuses on the role of Charles and Emma Frye and other Americans in disseminating interest in the art of this period in the United States. The hardcover catalogue features 250 illustrations, including works from the Frye Collection and many European museums. |
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