Literary Nonfiction. Art. California Interest. In 1975, the art journal Vision was conceived of and edited by Bay Area Conceptual artist Tom Marioni and published by Crown Point Press. The first volume, Vision #1: California was followed by four mor...
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Literary Nonfiction. Memoir. Art. Kathan Brown's memoir, KNOW THAT YOU ARE LUCKY, is full of stories about art and artists, but it is also an engaging narrative about an adventurous approach to running a small business in the varying economic times ...
Cultural Writing. Art. Includes a DVD. Brian Shure has expanded and revised his popular CHINE COLLE: A PRINTER'S HANDBOOK to create the fourth book in Crown Point's MAGICAL SECRETS series. In this new edition, Shure gives step-by-step instructions f...
Poetry. Art. The dedication page in this book of seven classic children's stories reads "for adults." Tom Marioni, author of BEER. ART AND PHILOSOPHY, has updated The Three Little Pigs, Hansel and Gretel, Jack and the Beanstalk, Rip van Winkle, Cind...
Cultural Writing. Art. Crown Point Press master printer Emily York discusses aquatint, a form of etching used to create delicate washes, velvety blacks, and intricate layers of color impossible in other art media. Using 46 prints by 32 artists, she ...
Cultural Writing. Travel. THE NORTH POLE is a compelling account of a summer trip the author made to the North Pole on a Russian nuclear-powered icebreaker. Brown intersperses her narrative with excerpts from the journal of Fritdjof Nansen, who expl...
Cultural writing. Art. Philosophy. "If you are stumped by contemporary art, have wondered why contemporary artists do the things they do, make the things they make, and think the way they think, this book is for you. Tom Marioni has created a book t...
Cultural Writing. Art. Poetry. In the collection WRITINGS ON ART: TOM MARIONI 1969-1999, one of the early practitioners of conceptual art, Tom Marioni (1970 founder of MOCA, Museum of Conceptual Art in San Francisco), has compiled various essays, le...
Cultural Writing. Art. WHY DRAW A LANDSCAPE talks about the relationship of the self to the real world, and looks at different approaches to landscape by eleven painters and sculptors whose styles ranges from Realist to Conceptual. This book follows...