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This 144 page book co-published by SJMA and the Center for American Places features an introduction by cultural critic Lucy Lippard and an essay by exhibition curator Ann Wolfe.
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This 144 page book co-published by SJMA and the Center for American Places features an introduction by cultural critic Lucy Lippard and an essay by exhibition curator Ann Wolfe.
The regular price for this item is $32.50
SJMA member price: $29.25.
This monograph celebrates the pioneering work of Jennifer Steinkamp, and has been co-published by SJMA and Prestel with contributions by Dave Hickey, Dan Cameron, and SJMA Senior Curator JoAnne Northrup. It includes essays tracing Steinkamp’s career and provides an introduction to her unique methods. Other topics discussed in the book are Steinkamp’s work in the context of the burgeoning field of animation and her work in relation to the paintings of Monet and Pollock, showing how her work takes impressionist and expressionist art to the next, inevitable step.
The regular price for this item is $49.95
SJMA member price: $44.95.
This catalog presents the first comprehensive overview of Gustavo Ramos Rivera’s painting, painted constructions, drawings, monotypes and monoprints, and unique and limited-edition artists’ books, as well as of his long career as an artist in San Francisco and Mexico.
The regular price for this item is $65.00
SJMA member price: $58.50.
Art of Engagement takes the first comprehensive look at the key role of California’s art and artists in politics and culture since 1945. Tracing the remarkably fertile confluence of political agitation and passionately engaged art, Peter Selz leads readers on a journey that begins with the Nazi death camps and moves through the Bay Area’s Free Speech Movement of 1964, the birth of Beat and hippie countercultures, the Chicano labor movement in the San Joaquin Valley, the beginning of the Black Panther Party in Oakland, and some of the most radical manifestations of the women’s movement, gay liberation, Red Power, and environmental activism. It also deals with artists’ responses to critical issues such as censorship and capital punishment. Selz follows California’s outpouring of political art into the present with responses to September 11 and the war in Iraq. In the process, Selz considers the work of artists such as Robert Arneson, Hans Burkhardt, Jerome (Caja), Enrique Chagoya, Judy Chicago, Llyn Foulkes, Rupert García, Helen and Newton Harrison, Wally Hedrick, Suzanne Lacy, Hung Liu, Peter Saul, Miriam Schapiro, Allan Sekula, Mark di Suvero, Masami Teraoka, and Carrie Mae Weems. Abundantly illustrated and beautifully produced, Art of Engagement showcases many types of media, including photographs, found objects, drawings and prints, murals, painting, sculpture, ceramics, installations, performance art, and collage. Readers will come away from the book with a historical sense of the significant role California has played in generating political art and also how the state has stimulated politically engaged art throughout the world. Peter Selz is Professor Emeritus of the History of Art at the University of California, Berkeley. Among his many books are Nathan Oliveira (California, 2002), Barbara Chase-Riboud, Sculptor (1999), Beyond the Mainstream (1996), and Art in Our Times (1981). Susan Landauer is Katie and Drew Gibson Chief Curator at the San Jose Museum of Art and the author of many books.
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SJMA member price: $26.95.
A faithful yet totally original contemporary spin on a classic, Dante's Inferno as interpreted by acclaimed artist Sandow Birk and writer Marcus Sanders is a journey through a Hell that bears an eerie semblance to our own world. Birk, hailed by the Los Angeles Times as one of "realism's edgier, more visionary painters," offers extraordinarily nuanced and vivid illustrations inspired by Gustave Dore's famous engravings. This modern interpretation depicts an infernal landscape infested with mini-malls, fast food restaurants, ATMs, and other urban fixtures, and a text that cleverly incorporates urban slang and references to modern events and people (as Dante did in his own time). Previously published in a deluxe, fine-press edition to wide praise, and accompanied by national exhibitions, this striking paperback edition of Dante's Inferno is a genuinely provocative and insightful adaptation for a new generation of readers.
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SJMA member price: $20.65.
Published in conjunction with a major exhibition at the San Jose Museum of Art, Blobjects & Beyond is the first comprehensive survey of the new fluidity in contemporary design. Whether hard or soft, cheerful or sinister, practical or conceptual, blobjects represent a decisive turn away from the hard edges and angles of conventional modernism. From the iconic iMac to Karim Rashid's evocative plastics to the ergonomic computer mouse, blobjects are the defining objects of our time, molding our visual vocabulary for years to come. Blobjects & Beyond is a celebration of the global explosion of amorphic, organic, and curvaceous design.
The regular price for this item is $35.00
SJMA member price: $31.50.
This glorious new catalog, Selections, was created in conjunction with the exhibition It's About Time: Celebrating 35 years" . This beautiful new catalog highlighting a collection that is long overdue for recognition is replete with images and essays on works by Ruth Asawa, Elmer Bischoff, Joan Brown, Raimonds Staprans, Wayne Thiebaud, David Gilhooly, Stephen De Staebler, Roland Petersen, Masami Teraoka ,Peter VandenBerge and Jennifer Steinkamp, just to name a few. Read on for more about this exciting new exhibition.
It’s About Time: Celebrating 35 Years is intended to survey the entirety of SJMA’s permanent collection, extending from the nascent days of the institution’s early collecting focus to the most recent contemporary acquisitions. The breadth of the exhibition will demonstrate the Museum’s growth as it has evolved into the South Bay’s premier visual art institution over the last three and one-half decades.
Built as a post-office in 1892 by noted architect Willoughby Edbrooke, the Museum’s Historic Wing was rescued in 1969 from the wrecking ball by a group of civic leaders in San Jose, including Susan Hammer, Charlotte Wendel and Ann Marie Mix. What is now SJMA’s Historic Wing opened its doors to the public as the San Jose Museum of Art in 1971.Twenty years later, in 1991, a 45,000-square foot new wing, designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, was added, tripling the Museum’s exhibition space.
Also available in softcover.
The regular price for this item is $65.00
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This beautiful, full-color book cowritten by SJMA Chief Curator Susan Landauer, explores the work of bay area artist Robert Schwartz.
ROBERT SCHWARTZ (1947-2000) is best known for his meticulously crafted oil paintings and gouaches featuring enigmatic, dream-like narratives, which are often no larger than eight inches square. Rendered in jewel-like colors with astonishing detail, Schwartz painted his miniatures using what critics have described as a "lapidary" skill.
Also available in softcover.
The regular price for this item is $45.00
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To accompany the exhibition of the same name appearing at the San Jose Museum of Art July 24th - October 31st, 2004. Yoshitomo Nara is a brilliant artist based in Tokyo whose depictions of children and animals are both mischevious and beguilng... and sometimes disturbing. A wonderful show, and an exceptional catalog beautifully published by the independent press Perceval. Writing contributors: Kristin Chambers, Billie Joe Armstrong, Dave Eggers, Lars Frederikson, Deborah Harry, Leonard Nimoy, and Others. 96 pages.
The regular price for this item is $30.00
SJMA member price: $27.00.
The Domestic Odyssey exhibit, on view at the San Jose Museum of Art March 6 through July 3, 2004 features work by national and international artists who use household items — appliances and furniture — as touchstones for their work. In this exhibition, everyday objects are transformed into seductive, whimsical, and thought-provoking meditations on cultural, social, and autobiographical issues. This 36 page catalogue features full-color photos of the art work from the exhibit, along with an introductory essay by JoAnne Northrup, the Senior Curator of Domestic Odyssey.
The regular price for this item is $9.95
SJMA member price: $8.95.
The catalogue documents the extraordinary challenges that artists in California have brought to the tradition of the still life as they have transformed and revitalized the genre over the course of the last century. In abundantly illustrated essays, as entertaining as they are informative, The Not-So-Still Life traces the great variety of media and forms these artists have engaged as they have moved the still life not just off the table, but off the wall and into three dimensions. Susan Landauer, William H. Gerdts, and Patricia Trenton investigate a range of forces and influences--whether historical, sociological, economic, psychological, or biographical--that have played into this evolution, from the plein-air Impressionism of the early twentieth century to the Synchromist bouquets of Stanton Macdonald-Wright, the revolving table settings of Charles Ray, and the electronic sculptures of Alan Rath. In doing so they deepen our understanding of American art over the last century. This The Not-So-Still Life: A Century of California Painting and Sculpture exhibition was on view at the San Jose Museum of Art from November 22, 2003 through February 15, 2004.
The regular price for this item is $65.00
SJMA member price: $58.50.
This softcover catalogue documents the extraordinary challenges that artists in California have brought to the tradition of the still life as they have transformed and revitalized the genre over the course of the last century. In abundantly illustrated essays, as entertaining as they are informative, The Not-So-Still Life traces the great variety of media and forms these artists have engaged as they have moved the still life not just off the table, but off the wall and into three dimensions. Susan Landauer, William H. Gerdts, and Patricia Trenton investigate a range of forces and influences--whether historical, sociological, economic, psychological, or biographical--that have played into this evolution, from the plein-air Impressionism of the early twentieth century to the Synchromist bouquets of Stanton Macdonald-Wright, the revolving table settings of Charles Ray, and the electronic sculptures of Alan Rath. In doing so they deepen our understanding of American art over the last century. This The Not-So-Still Life: A Century of California Painting and Sculpture exhibition was on view at the San Jose Museum of Art from November 22, 2003 through February 15, 2004.
The regular price for this item is $35.00
SJMA member price: $31.50.
Tales of Yellow Skin: The Art of Long Nguyen is a 56-page, full-color catalogue, with an essay by SJMA Senior Curator JoAnne Northrup and contributions by Elaine H. Kim, Professor of Comparative Ethnic Studies and Associate Dean of the Graduate Division, University of California, Berkeley; Laura Elisa Pérez, Associate Professor in the Department of Comparative Ethnic Studies, University of California, Berkeley; and Peter Frank, art critic for the L.A.Weekly in Los Angeles. This exhibition was on view from April 12 through July 27, 2003.
The regular price for this item is $19.95
SJMA member price: $17.95.
This four-color, beautifully illustrated catalogue includes an essay by SJMA Chief Curator Susan Landauer. The catalogue accompanied the Tino Rodríguez: The Darkening Garden/El Jardin al Anochecer exhibition featured at the San Jose Museum of Art from March 1 through July 13, 2003.
The regular price for this item is $16.95
SJMA member price: $15.25.
This 350-page book with full-color reproductions, accompanied the "Art/Women/California, 1950-2000: Parallels and Intersection" exhibition at the San Jose Museum of Art and is published by the University of California Press in association with SJMA. The publication includes essays by Angela Davis, Whitney Chadwick, Rosa Fregoso, Jennifer Gonzalez, Karin Higa, Phyllis Jackson, Amelia Jones, Pamela Lee, Amalia Mesa-Bains, Joline Rickard, Tere Romo, Moira Roth, Allucquere Rosanne Stone, Judith Wilson, and others. Exhibition on view from June 1 through November 3, 2002.
The regular price for this item is $65.00
SJMA member price: $58.50.
This 350-page softcover book with full-color reproductions, accompanied the "Art/Women/California, 1950-2000: Parallels and Intersection" exhibition at the San Jose Museum of Art and is published by the University of California Press in association with SJMA. The publication includes essays by Angela Davis, Whitney Chadwick, Rosa Fregoso, Jennifer Gonzalez, Karin Higa, Phyllis Jackson, Amelia Jones, Pamela Lee, Amalia Mesa-Bains, Joline Rickard, Tere Romo, Moira Roth, Allucquere Rosanne Stone, Judith Wilson, and others. Exhibition on view from June 1 through November 3, 2002.
The regular price for this item is $35.00
SJMA member price: $31.50.
This stunning hardcover catalogue accompanies Nathan Oliveira, a retrospective exhibition of the works of one of the Bay Area's most distinguished and respected artists. The exhibition was on view at the San Jose Museum of Art from February 9 through May 12, 2002, before embarking on a national tour. Born in Oakland of Portuguese heritage, Oliveira is internationally known as a painter and master printmaker. Guest curated by noted art historian and curator Peter Selz, Professor Emeritus, University of California, Berkeley, the exhibition is comprised of nearly 70 works. Combined, the exhibition and catalogue are the most comprehensive assessment to date of the artist's paintings, monoprints, and sculpture.
The catalogue is the first in-depth publication examining Oliveira's work, and was co-published with the University of California Press. The full-color, 250-page monograph by Peter Selz, features an essay on the artist's graphic work by Joann Moser, Senior Curator of the Smithsonian American Art Museum (formerly the National Museum of American Art) and an introduction by Susan Landauer, Katie and Drew Gibson Chief Curator at the San Jose Museum of Art.
The regular price for this item is $65.00
SJMA member price: $58.50.
This stunning softcover catalogue accompanies Nathan Oliveira, a retrospective exhibition of the works of one of the Bay Area's most distinguished and respected artists. The exhibition was on view at the San Jose Museum of Art from February 9 through May 12, 2002, before embarking on a national tour. Born in Oakland of Portuguese heritage, Oliveira is internationally known as a painter and master printmaker. Guest curated by noted art historian and curator Peter Selz, Professor Emeritus, University of California, Berkeley, the exhibition is comprised of nearly 70 works. Combined, the exhibition and catalogue are the most comprehensive assessment to date of the artist's paintings, monoprints, and sculpture.
The catalogue is the first in-depth publication examining Oliveira's work, and was co-published with the University of California Press. The full-color, 250-page monograph by Peter Selz, features an essay on the artist's graphic work by Joann Moser, Senior Curator of the Smithsonian American Art Museum (formerly the National Museum of American Art) and an introduction by Susan Landauer, Katie and Drew Gibson Chief Curator at the San Jose Museum of Art.
The regular price for this item is $35.00
SJMA member price: $31.50.
This 120-page, four-color, softcover catalogue was published in conjunction with the SJMA exhibition How-To: The Paintings of Deborah Oropallo. The exhibition was a mid-career survey that highlighted the work of one of the Bay Area's most influential painters. Oropallo has achieved national renown for her ability to transform mundane objects into striking images of poetic resonance. The catalogue includes an introduction and interview with the artist by former SJMA associate curator Merrill Falkenberg, and an essay by Jeff Kelley, professor of English at the University of California at Berkeley. Kelley has been widely published in nearly 20 exhibition catalogues and numerous periodicals, including Artforum and Art in America. The exhibition was on view at SJMA October 13, 2001 through February 10, 2002.
The regular price for this item is $19.95
SJMA member price: $17.95.
This striking, hardcover catalogue was published in conjunction with the exhibition Catherine Wagner: Cross Sections. This was the first exhibition to present Wagners most recent body of work in its entirety, representing an important stage in this internationally recognized artists career-long examination of the building blocks of life. In Cross Sections, Wagner incorporated state-of-the-art Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) technology and medical research findings to produce beautiful and provocative black-and-white images that examine life from the inside out. Designed by Martin Venezky of Appetite Engineers in San Francisco, CA, and published by Twin Palms Publishers. 96 pages with many black-and-white reproductions. The exhibition was on view at SJMA November 3, 2001 through January 20, 2002.
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SJMA member price: $22.50.
This clever, reversible exhibition catalogue celebrates the work of the two artists that were featured in the SJMA exhibition Urban Invasion: Chester Arnold and James Doolin. Read the book from front to back, and learn about Chester Arnold, whose richly colored paintings caution of man's destructive relationship with humanity and his intrusion on the natural environment. Flip the book over, and read about James Doolin, who turns the concrete freeways and car-congested city of Los Angeles into visions of unexpected beauty. 56-page, paperback, four-color catalog published by the San Jose Museum of Art with essays by former Associate Curator Patricia Hickson and former Assistant Curator Karen Kienzle. The exhibition was on view July 28 through October 14, 2001.
The regular price for this item is $19.95
SJMA member price: $17.95.
This 41-page, four-color catalogue accompanied the exhibition The Eureka Fellowship Awards: 1999 - 2001. The exhibition featured the works of Jim Campbell, Geoffrey Chadsey, De La Torre.Morales + Nuno, Lewis deSoto, Frederick Hayes, Todd Hido, Terry Hoff, Joyce Hsu, Jason Jagel, Young Kim, Lisa Kokin, and Stephanie Syjuco. The catalogue includes a Guest Curator's Statement and artist essays by Cathy Kimball, Executive Director of the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art and former SJMA curator. Paperback. The exhibition was on view at SJMA December 15, 2000 through February 11, 2001.
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SJMA member price: $13.50.
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