Publications
Functional Sculpture: Furniture from the Upper Midwest
Laurel Bradley: Introduction; Glenn Gordon, essay: “Sculpture Designed to be Used.” Artist biographies.
The Carleton College Art Gallery, 2008
Color photographs
10 1/2" x 8", 18p
$10.00
Featuring the work of 16 contemporary furniture makers, sculptors and industrial designers—asking the question, “When does furniture become art?” Chairs, tables, cabinets, music stands, and other types of furniture in styles that run the gamut from the geometric austerities of Modernism to works that invoke the curves of Art Nouveau, the flair of Art Deco, the strangeness of Surrealism, and the playfulness of Italy’s postmodern Memphis movement of the 1980s.
Kettles: Japanese Artistry and American Artists
William T. Thrasher, essay: “The Japanese Water Kettle: Themes and Variations”; “Process: the Sogata Casting Method with views into Miya Nobuho's Kamasada Studio in Moirioka, Japan.” Artist biographies.
The Carleton College Art Gallery, 2004
Color photographs
9 3/4" x 7 7/8", 32p
$10.00
Celebrating the tea ceremony kettle as a vital living tradition in Japan and as an inspirational form to American artists. The exhibition featured cast iron kama, or kettles, by Eda Kei'ichi, Miya Nobuho, Nagano Retsu and Suzuki Morihisa Shiiko from Japan, and evocative works in copper, bronze, iron, silver and other metals by Americans Timothy Lloyd and Wayne Potratz.
Vantage Points: Campus as Place
Laurel Bradley, essay: “Vantage Points: Campus as Place.” Frank Martin, essay: “Discovering the Familiar: Photography is a Campus-Revealing Act.” Artist biographies, artist statements.
The Carleton College Art Gallery, 2002
Color and black & white illustrations.
10 1/2" x 8", 64p
$15.00
Three interpretations of the Carleton campus by three Minnesota photographers. Alec Soth works large and in color, Beth Dow creates small evocative images using antiquated processes, and Chris Faust makes crisp black and white panoramas which highlight juxtaposition and change.
Claiming Title: Australian Aboriginal Artists and the Land
Laurel Bradley: Introduction, descriptive captions (with Deborah Bird Rose). Doreen Mellor, essay: “Indigenous Australian Art: Title and Claim.”
The Carleton College Art Gallery, 1999.
Color illustrations.
11 7/16" x 8 1/2", 24p
$12.00
An exploration of the cultural, legal and other relationships between art, identity, and traditional lands. From an exhibition featuring over thirty Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists.
Transformations: Painters Examine Change in China
Kathleen M. Ryor, essay: “Reflections on the Recent Past in Contemporary Chinese Art.” Artist biographies.
The Carleton College Art Gallery, 1999
Color illustrations
4 1/2" x 5 7/8", 34p
$5.00
This “little red book” highlights four painters—all born during the Cultural Revolution—who respond in their art to that troubled period of Chinese history.
Warren MacKenzie and the Functional Tradition in Clay
Dale K. Haworth with Karen F. Beall. Essay, Chronological Checklist.
The Carleton College Art Gallery, 1995
Color and black & white illustrations.
10" x 8 1/4", 64p
$15.00
An exploration of the Minnesota master potter's life and art.
To order any of these publications: send name, address & phone number with check or money order (including $2 for shipping & handling) to:
Carleton College Art Gallery
One N. College St.
Northfield, MN 55057