VISIONS OF FAITH: Photographs by Wendy Ewald and Children

This catalogue was published in conjunction with the Ackland’s Five Faiths Project, which is rooted in the museum’s collection of religious objects originally used in the practice of Hinduism, Judaism, Buddhism, Christianity and Islam. The Visions of Faith exhibition and catalogue feature photographs made by children in five different faith communities in North Carolina. Wendy Ewald, a photographer and teacher who has worked with children in India, Morocco, and Columbia, served as project curator.

PHOTOGRAPHY
1999, 8.5 x 10.5 inches, 60 pp, b&w images
Softcover, ISBN 0-9653805-2-1
code: ack vis L-6
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Buddhist Art and Ritual from Nepal and Tibet

Curator Barbara Malitsky presents the traditional Buddhist altar with a context-oriented approach, with descriptions of artifacts used in Buddhist worship in terms of history, meaning, and ritual.

RELIGIOUS ART
PB, 40 pp., illus.
2001, ISBN 0-9653805-4-8
code: ack bud L-6

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Ketav: Flesh and Word in Israeli Art

Gerald Boras, Director of the Ackland, reveals how "ketav," an ancient Hebrew word meaning both "writing" and "inscription," influences contemporary Israeli artists. The use of text on the surface of paintings and sculpture continues the tradition of the search for meaning and understanding in art.

PAINTING
1996, 80 pp., illus.
Softcover, ISBN 09653805-0-5
code: ack ket L-6

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Screens & Scrolls: Japanese Art from the Collection of the Ackland Art Museum

The accomplished use of painting in Japanenes culture dates as far back as 550 C.E. with the introduction of Buddhism from neighboring China. "Screens & Scrolls" depicts the art that has since flourished in Japan with insightful descriptions that accompany each elegant work.

JAPANESE ART
PB, 36 pp., illus.
1997"
code: ack scr L-6

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Seeking the Spiritual: The Paintings of Marsden Hartley

Born in Maine and raised on the work of Whitman, Emerson and Thoreau, Marsden Hartley grew up deeply connected to New England landscape. Inspired by Europeans, such as Matisse, Picasso, and C?©zanne and the American artists Stieglitz and O'Keefe, Hartley evolved into one of Modernism most prominent painters of landscapes, still-lifes, and seascapes, which articulated his sense of wonder and intimacy with nature.

PAINTING
HC, 80 pp., illus.
1988, ISBN 0-8014-3553-6
code: ack see

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Space, Abstraction and Freedom: Twentieth-Century Art from the Collection of Mary and Jim Patton

Mary and Jim Patton never considered themselves as owners, but rather as custodians, of post-war American artwork for future exhibition at a public institution. Their dream finally came true when the Pattons donated their vast collection, which includes work by Richard Diebenkorn, Adolph Gottlieb, Ellsworth Kelly, and Robert Motherwell, to their alma mater, University of North Carolina.

CONTEMPORARY ART
2001, 84 pp, color illus.
Hardcover, ISBN 0-9653805-6-4
code: ack spa L-6

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Plum, Pine and Bamboo: Seasonal and Spiritual Paths in Japanese Art

One of the few remaining screens attributed to Sesshu Toyo, Japan's most renowned Zen Buddhist painter, "Flowers and Birds" was restored and then displayed for the first time in 500 years as the centerpiece of an exhibit of Japanese Art at Ackland Museum of Art. This catalogue traces the iconography of Japanese Buddhist artistic tradition and documents the extensive efforts of the museum's talented conservation team to save the centuries-old masterpiece from the ravages of time and neglect .

JAPANESE ART
PB, 14 pp., illus.
2003
code: ack plu B-7

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Fresh Woods and Pastures New

Dutch society in the 17th Century was unusually dynamic with an atmosphere of creative expression in which art and everyday life were inextricably intertwined. Even the most modest, unpretentious subjects— animals, flowers, and peasants dancing, come to life in these bucolic landscape drawings.

DRAWING
PB, 143 pp., illus
1999, ISBN 0-9653805-7-2
code: ack fre B-7

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TRANSATLANTIC DIALOGUE: Contemporary Art In and Out of Africa

This exhibition catalogue offers the unique opportunity to discover an exciting cultural dialogue at the crossroads where the influences of Western and African art traditions intersect. Despite diversity of media, technique, and form, these African and African American artworks and the artists who created them are united by a rich network of connections, exchanges, and associations generated from both shores of the Middle Passage. Collected in this book are 24 color reproductions of the art of seven African and seven African American artists.

CONTEMPORARY ART
2000, 10 x 10 inches, 80 pp., color and b&w illus.
Softcover, ISBN 978-0295979335
code: ack tra L-6

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Fashioning the Divine: South Asian Sculpture at the Ackland Art Museum

This 167 page full-color catalogue was published on the occasion of the exhibition Fashioning the Divine: South Asian Scuplture at the Ackland Art Museum. The catalogue presents the scholarship of UNC-Chapel Hill art historian, Pika Ghosh, and three nationally recognized scholars in the field of Asian art and religion: Janice Leoshko, Darielle Mason, and Padma Kaimal. Each of the twenty-four objects in the exhibition is photographed in color with extensive detail images to allow the reader to examine specific aspects of each object. Object entries and extensive footnotes, researched and drafted by UNC-Chapel Hill graduate students, provide readers with material to contextualize the object within various disciplines. In addition, four scholarly essays place the objects within the larger field of Asian art history and include contextual images that suggest the original location, use, and significance of the objects.

SCULPTURE
2006, 9 x 11 inches, 167 pp, color illustrations
Softcover, ISBN: 0974365629, ISBN-13: 9780974365626
code: ack fas H-2

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Family Legacies: The Art of Betye, Lezley, and Alison Saar

This 132 page catalogue was published in conjunction with the 2006 exhibition Family Legacies: The Art of Betye, Lezley, and Alison Saar, an exploration of how a mother and two of her daughters share a passion for transforming found objects and materials into personal artworks that reflect contemporary social issues. Through the lens of their mixed ancestry, the three artists interpret aspects of family and identity, race, and gender. The individual style and approach of each artist finds inspiration in music, popular culture, nature, and world faith traditions. The exhibition catalogue was produced by Jessica Dallow and Barbara Matilsky with an essay by Tracye Saar-Cavanaugh.

SCULPTURE/COLLAGE
2005, 9 x 11 inches, 132 pp, 50 color prints
Softcover, ISBN: 029598564x
code: ack fam H-2