Books published by Marquand Books Inc

"Working within a broad and renewed interest in craft practices, Los Angeles-based artist Christy Matson (American, b. 1979) creates woven pictures that explore memory and imagination through the layered history of textile production, while advocating for issues surrounding sustainability. A continuation of the Milwaukee Art Museum's Currents series, which highlights new trends in contemporary art, this publication calls attention to the rise of fiber art and celebrates Matson as a contemporary artist. Bringing together nearly fifty of Matson's most recent works from the last five years, this is the first publication to explore the artist's wide-ranging textile practice"--

Referred to as "the dean of Philadelphia painters," Larry Day (1921-1998) was a dominant force in American art from the 1950s through the 1990s, as well as a dynamic teacher and mentory. Body Language is the first full catalog devoted to the breadth and range of his work.

"Omaskãeko Cree artist Duane Linklater (b. 1976, Treaty 9 territory, Canada) works across a range of mediums to address the contradictions of contemporary Indigenous life within and beyond settler systems of knowledge, representation, and value. Published on the occasion of his first major survey exhibition, this fully color-illustrated catalogue offers a timely assessment of the last decade of the artist's distinctive practice. Interspersed with photographs taken by the artist and his daughter, the catalogue presents an expansive constellation of references and intergenerational relationships that enriches understanding of Linklater's practice and of contemporary art at large"--

"Beginning in 1877 with Vassar College's first commission of a female artist to portray a contemporary female figure, through the ensuing years, the work of an increasing number of women artists was exhibited in various College buildings and discussed in print, including paintings by Lilly Martin Spencer, Cecilia Beaux, and Mary Cassatt. Women Picturing Women traces the history of artists and artists' subjects at the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College"--

"Edward Hicks (1780-1849) has long been considered our foremost folk artist. Many people recognize his name and can visualize his Peaceable Kingdom paintings, with their vision, taken from the Old Testament, of wild, predatory animals coming to an accord with tame, defenseless creatures. But Hicks himself, and especially how he and his work figure in the larger sphere of American culture, remain far from settled topics. It can be questioned whether the painter, who was a widely known Quaker minister and supported his family as a decorator of carriages and other objects, was a folk artist at all. Unlike other such figures, he never stopped developing his art. His Peaceable Kingdoms, worked on continuously for over three decades (and some sixty in number), form in effect a singular ever-changing visual diary. Taking Hicks's measure from different perspectives, Sanford Schwartz looks for the first time at ways in which Hicks is part of all nineteenth-century American art and can also be seen as an outsider artist. Schwartz understands the importance of Quakerism in Hicks's life. Yet he puts a new emphasis on the painter's passionate, contradictory character and on the expressiveness of his animal creations. Volatile, antic, or poignant in demeanor, they are shown to have emotional depths that are rarely felt in American nineteenth-century painting of any stripe"--

Kevin M. Murphy is curator of American art at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art.

When justice is at stake, artists have spearheaded challenging conversations. The work in this book bears witness to stories that challenge dominant paradigms. Among the 50 artists represented here are Carlos Amorales, Loretta Bennett, Mark Bradford, Willie Cole, Abraham Cruzvillegas, Ellen Gallagher, Glenn Ligon, Julie Mehretu and Wangechi Mutu.