Seattle Art Museum
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Sharp Edges $22.95 She put her art on the line — and her heart in his hands…. SHARP EDGES Eugenia Swift is a young woman of singular sensibilities, and a connoisseur of beauty. As director of the Leabrook Glass Museum, she’s been asked to travel to Frog Cove Island — an artistic haven near Seattle — to catalog an important collection of art glass. But thanks to unsavory rumors surrounding the collector’s deat… |
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Ancestral Modern: Australian Aboriginal Art (Seattle Art Museum) $31.50 Ancestral Modern explores the extraordinary transformation in Australian Aboriginal art that began in the 1970s. Instead of making art primarily for each other-whether painted or inscribed on rock walls, on the ground, on bark, or on bodies as part of ceremonies-artists began rephrasing their practices to inform outsiders about the complexities of their cultures and the remarkable lands that Abori… |
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Contemporary Chinese Art: Primary Documents (MoMA Primary Documents) $26.18 Despite the liveliness and creativity of avant-garde Chinese art in the post-Mao era and its prominence in the world of international contemporary art, until now there has been no systematic introduction to this important work in any Western language. Moreover, most of the relevant primary documents have existed only in Chinese, scattered in hard-to-find publications. Contemporary Chinese Art reme… |
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