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Masterpieces East and West from
the Collection of the Birmingham Museum of Art
A beautiful full-color,
288-page catalogue of the most distinctive works of art from the permanent
collection of the Birmingham Museum of Art.
Paperback $25
Hardcover $40 |
Asian Art in the Birmingham Museum
of Art
This beautiful 211-page, full-color
catalogue features highlights from the Museum’s renowned Asian Art
collection. Entries written by scholars from across the country. Over 130 masterpieces are featured. Published in 2001. Paperback $25 |
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Chokwe! Art and Initiation Among Chokwe and Related
Peoples A full-color, 191-page
catalogue published on the occasion of the outstanding exhibition
of the same name organized by the BMA. Includes essays by leading
authorities on the life and art of the Chokwe and related peoples
of southern Africa. Paperback $30 |
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The Dwight and Lucille Beeson Wedgwood
Collection
The catalogue to
accompany the Museum’s renowned collection of primarily eighteenth-century
Wedgwood pottery, one of the finest collections outside of England. Paperback $25
Hardcover $40 |
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Echizen: Eight Hundred Years of Japanese Stoneware A catalogue to accompany
the first U.S. exhibition to trace the entire history of this great
traditional kiln site of Japan. Paperback $15 |
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Jonathan Lasker: Selective Identity
“These
hermeneutical puzzles could easily be deadeningly academic.
The amazing thing is that Lasker’s canvases look fresh and
vivid.” -Barry Schwabsky, Review
of Jonathan Lasker: Selective Identity, ARTFORUM, September, 2000 A comprehensive catalogue
that accompanied the first exhibition to travel North American museums
of this important abstract painter’s work.
Contains essays by Michael Auping and David Moos as well as
comprehensive biographical and bibliographic information. With 20 full-color plates of paintings and
12 plates of Lasker’s small, exquisite studies for paintings. Paperback $20 |
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A full-color, 392-page
catalogue published in conjunction with the landmark exhibition of
the same name organized by the BMA.
Includes reproductions of all 326 objects featured in the exhibition,
as well as 10 essays written by noted Alabama authorities on Alabama’s
rich nineteenth-century cultural heritage. Paperback $35 |
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The Nobleman of
Stone: Fifty Years of Collecting Jade in Birmingham
Beautifully printed, this
fully illustrated 32-page catalogue features more than 40 pieces of
the finest Chinese jade carvings from BMA and local private collections. Published in conjunction with the BMA-organized
exhibition of the same name, the catalogue includes an essay and entries
to introduce the development of Chinese jade, its cultural associations,
and the significance of each piece. Paperback $5 |
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Pictured in My
Mind: Contemporary American Self-Taught Art Published in conjunction
with the first public exhibition of folk art from the renowned collection
of Dr. Kurt Gitter and Alice Rae Yelen of New Orleans. This 248-page,
full-color catalogue features 200 color plates and includes conversations
with the collectors as well as historical and biographical information
about the artists. Paperback $20 Hardcover $40 |
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Radcliffe Bailey: The Magic City
The first comprehensive
catalogue of the work of Atlanta-based artist Radcliffe Bailey. This 100-page catalogue contains essays by
David Moos, Terrie Sultan, Manuel Jordán and Shannon Fitzgerald as
well as comprehensive biographical and bibliographical information. Includes 30 color plates of Bailey’s paintings
from throughout the 1990s as well as documentation of a recent room-sized
installation. Paperback $25 |
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Remembered Past
Discovered Future: The Alabama
Architecture of Warren Knight
& Davis, 1906-1961 This
151-page catalogue was published in conjunction with three related
exhibitions of the Alabama architecture of Warren Knight & Davis,
a firm that played an integral role in the evolution of architecture
in Alabama and the South during the first half of the twentieth century. Paperback $20 |
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The South By Its Photographers
Published
to accompany the BMA-organized exhibition by the same name, this 68-page,
full-color catalogue contains photographs and commentary by 48 southern
photographers, as well as biographical information about the artists.
Paperback $15 |
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Yayoi Kusama: Early Drawings from the Collection of Richard Castellane
“…intense,
brilliantly colored poems about the mystery of the universe.” -New York Times, July 21, 2000 in review of exhibition This 48-page catalogue
was published in conjunction with the BMA-organized exhibition of
the same name. Twenty brilliant
works-on-paper, created by Kusama in the early 1950s through the mid-1960s,
are reproduced in full-color. Catalogue
also includes an essay by organizing curator David Moos and an afterword
by collector Richard Castellane – the New York gallery owner who presented
three important Kusama exhibitions in the 1960s. Paperback $15 |
