Marquand Books is thrilled to announce the publication of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Robie House, published with the Frank Lloyd Wright Preservation Trust. The first book-length publication about Wright’s masterpiece since the 1980s features an introduction by New Yorker architecture critic and Pulitzer Prize winner Paul Goldberger.
For more details and ordering information, click here.
Continue reading: “Frank Lloyd Wright’s Robie House”
The new Mighty Tieton Web site has just been launched. Home to Marquand Editions|Tieton’s growing line of gift products carried in museum and gift shops nationally, fresh businesses and events keep popping up in Tieton.
A new addition everyone at Marquand Books is excited about is the installion of a 1920s vintage Smyth Stitcher to bind short-run editions of hand-printed and digital books.
Have a look around for a few minutes, won’t you?
The celebrated exhibition, Fleeting Beauty: Japanese Woodblock Prints closes July 4 at the Seattle Asian Art Museum. If you’re in the Seattle-area and haven’t been to the show, which includes Hokusai’s Great Wave off Kanagawa, now is the time.
Marquand produced the exhibition catalogue, featuring prints from renowned ukiyo-e artists of the 18th and 19th centuries.
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MFA Houston’s exhibition, Alice Neel: Painted Truths continues to enjoy wide media attention. Marquand Books produced the exhibition’s accompanying catalogue, distributed by Yale University Press.
Neel’s career was profiled in last Sunday’s New York Times:
She focused on the least fashionable of realist genres, portraiture, which had long since been declared dead, bringing to it an electrifying verve.
Continue reading: “Neel Generates Buzz”
Friesen Gallery’s Speak for the Trees book is featured in the March/April 2010 issue of Art Ltd.
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Seattle-based bookstore Wessel and Lieberman recently featured Marquand’s letterpress chapbook series on their blog. On Spines and Memories, the first in the collection, was written by Ed Marquand and printed and hand-bound in Tieton, WA. The occasional series will feature essays contributed by writers, curators, and book publishing professionals.
20 of 500 limited edition copies are available via the W+L website here.
Your Bright Future: 12 Contemporary Artists from Korea opens at LACMA on Sunday. The exhibit features a wide variety of modern art from twelve artists, including video and multimedia, an installation using boxes and bubble wrap, and a piece made up of hundreds of neon plastic bowls and bins.
Continue reading: “Opening at LACMA: Your Bright Future”
Don’t miss the new exhibition “Inventing Marcel Duchamp: The Dynamics of Portraiture” at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery. Here’s some of what the New York Times had to say:
(The exhibit) can be viewed as a fascinating exploration either of the process of self-invention or of the artist as self-promoter. Either way, it should arouse sharp reactions. It includes portraits by Man Ray, Francis Picabia and Alfred Stieglitz, as well as self-portraits by Duchamp. There is also a portrait by Andy Warhol, another artist who knew how to mold his public image.
If you go, be sure to check out the accompanying catalog Inventing Marcel Duchamp: The Dynamics of Portraiture, produced by Marquand Books, also found on-line through MIT Press.
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The November 2008 Artforum includes a feature on Belgian-born video artist Chantal Akerman, who has produced more than fifty video works over the past four decades. The New York Times had this to say on the artist’s catalog:
Not just a formalist, Ms. Akerman also takes on hot-button themes like racism in the American South, illegal immigration in the Southwest and a terrorism in the Mideast. As a political artist she can be heavy-handedly predictable or unexpectedly illuminating.
Currently based in Paris, Akerman’s latest work is featured in her first solo museum exhibition, “Chantal Akerman: Moving Through Time and Space,” which has traveled to the Blaffer Gallery at the Art Museum of the University of Houston and the MIT List Visual Arts Center in Cambridge, MA.
The exhibit of five video installations is currently on view at the Miami Art Museum until January 25, 2009, when it will move to the Contemporary Art Museum of Saint Louis in May of 2009.
The Seattle Art Museum celebrates the Native American art and culture that became a foundation for life in the Pacific Northwest with the opening of a new exhibit, “S’abadeb — The Gifts: Pacific Coast Salish Art and Artists.”
The show and accompanying book highlight art from 39 Salish nations, from basketry and weaving to photographs and paintings. Seattle Times art critic Sheila Farr wrote a nice piece on the exhibit, which opens Friday with a lecture by curator Barbara Brotherton at 7 p.m.
In 2006, we began work on a series of exhibition catalogs highlighting the partnership between the Louvre Museum in Paris and the High Museum in Atlanta, recently featured on CNN travel. We’re pleased to announce that the sixth and final book in the series, The Louvre and the Masterpiece, is now available.
In conjunction with the exhibit at the Baltimore Museum of Art, Marquand Books is pleased to present the book Franz West, To Build a House You Start with the Roof. Designer Beverly Joel has conjured up a bold, surprising design to accompany the Austrian artist’s intellectually singular paintings and sculpture. If you’re in the Baltimore-Washington area, be sure to visit the West retrospective, hanging until January 4, 2009. For more info, check out the Baltimore Sun article here. The exhibit will also be featured at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, March 15-June 7, 2009.
At Marquand Books, we believe in the power of strong images and text, well presented in books about art, art history, architecture, design, photography, and world culture.
In order to share this passion with you, the staff at Marquand Books is pleased to announce the launch of a blog devoted to art and design books—their creation, publication, distribution, and impact on our collective culture.
We want you to know a little bit about the work we do, both in our Seattle office and in our book arts studio in Tieton, Washington. We’d like to engage our readers by posting interviews with designers and editors—our own and those at other publishing firms—and with art directors, bookstore owners, museum publications directors, curators, and production managers to get their take on developments and issues in our shared profession. We’ll also invite architects, artists, photographers, and other creative professionals to discuss which illustrated books have made significant impressions on them and influenced their work.
We urge you to engage with and comment on what you read. Content will be updated frequently, so check back often.
