-Includes many never before published photographs -Featured artists include: Edward S. Curtis, Arthur Wesley Dow, Adolf Fassbender, and Alfred Stieglitz This book examines the history of the Pictorialist movement in America through the outstanding collection of photographs, books, and journals in the Two Red Roses Collection. The catalog features artists who were pioneers of early art photography, including Edward S. Curtis, Arthur Wesley Dow, Adolf Fassbender, and Alfred Stieglitz. Evolving from the earlier school of Naturalistic photography, Pictorialism was the first major movement to champion the cause of photography as one of the fine arts, and usually featured soft-focus effects, mimicking the established art of painting. The growing interest in pictorial photography occurred during the Arts and Crafts movement, and shared an emphasis on hand-craftsmanship, merging art, life, and popular appeal. The proliferation of how-to books and periodicals, along with the emergence of numerous camera clubs in cities across the United States, furthered the interest in this type of art from professional artists and amateurs alike.

This book is an investigation of the widely overlooked photographic style of pictorialism in the American West between 1900 and 1950 and argues that western pictorialist photographers were regionalists that had their roots in the formidable photographic heritage of the nineteenth-century American West.

The definitive volume on the leading group of creative photographers working after World War I to midcentury.This book fully examines the Pictorial Photographers of America, the most important organization of artistic camera workers of their time. It covers their beginnings in 1916, under the guiding light of Clarence H. White, and their activities until 1950, when the movement of pictorial photography dissolved. The PPA published handsome annuals during the 1920s and around the same time commenced the first regular series of high-end exhibitions, termed "salons," in New York. It also presented frequent instructional gatherings at its Manhattan headquarters for decades, influencing two generations of ambitious photographers.

Written by one of the twentieth century's leading textile artists, this splendidly illustrated book is a luminous meditation on the art of weaving, its history, its tools and techniques, and its implications for modern design. First published in 1965, 'On Weaving' bridges the transition between handcraft and the machine-made, highlighting the essential importance of material awareness and the creative leaps that can occur when design problems are tackled by hand. With her focus on materials and handlooms, Anni Albers discusses how technology and mass production place limits on creativity and problem solving, and makes the case for a renewed embrace of human ingenuity that is particularly important today. 0Now available for a new generation of readers, this expanded edition of 'On Weaving' updates the book's original black-and-white illustrations with full-color photos, and features an afterword by Nicholas Fox Weber and essays by Manuel Cirauqui and T'ai Smith that shed critical light on Albers and her career.

p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Verdana} At the height of the Arts and Crafts era in Europe and the United States, American ceramics were transformed from industrially produced ornamental works to handcrafted art pottery. Celebrated ceramists such as George E. Ohr, Hugh C. Robertson, and M. Louise McLaughlin, and prize-winning potteries, including Grueby and Rookwood, harnessed the potential of the medium to create an astonishing range of dynamic forms and experimental glazes. Spanning the period from the 1870s to the 1950s, this volume chronicles the history of American art pottery through more than three hundred works in the outstanding collection of Robert A. Ellison Jr. In a series of fascinating chapters, the authors place these works in the context of turn-of-the-century commerce, design, and social history. Driven to innovate and at times fiercely competitive, some ceramists strove to discover and patent new styles and aesthetics, while others pursued more utopian aims, establishing artist communities that promoted education and handwork as therapy. Written by a team of esteemed scholars and copiously illustrated with sumptuous images, this book imparts a full understanding of American art pottery while celebrating the legacy of a visionary collector.

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