Westward the Course of Empire
Hardcover, 180 pp., 72 tritone illus.
Mark Ruwedel, with an essay by Jock Reynolds

Mark Ruwedel has photographed the American West for the past twenty-five years, revealing the narratives—both geological and human—contained within the landscape. The first major monograph on Ruwedel's work, this stunning book presents more than seventy prints from Ruwedel’s ongoing series Westward the Course of Empire, an inventory of the residual landforms created by the scores of railroads built in the American and Canadian West since 1869.

Item# 144
Price $65; Members $58.50
ISBN 978-30014-134-4
ISBN-10 0-30014-134-3

Wood Turning in North America since 1930
Paper, 192 pp., 134 color illus.
Catalogue for the exhibition, organized by Patricia E. Kane, presented at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts (October 21–December 30, 2001); Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum (March 15–July 21, 2002); Yale University Art Gallery (September 10–December 1, 2002), with essays by Kane, Edward S. Cooke, Jr., Glenn Adamson, Albert LeCoff, Graeme P. Berlyn, and Andrew D. Richardson. Biographies by Mary Cheek Mills and glossary by Susan Hagen.

This joint production of the Gallery and Philadelphia’s Wood Turning Center presents the varied and colorful work of seventy artists, along with artist portraits. Ranging from the utilitarian to the whimsical, their creations are celebrated in the context of wood turning’s history in America, technical innovations that have arisen, and the physical properties that lend themselves to a seemingly unlimited array of shapes and patterns.

Item# 3732
Price $35; Members $31.50
ISBN 0-89467-094-8

Words for Images: A Gallery of Poems
Edited by John Hollander and Joanna Weber
Hardcover, 194 pp., color illus.
Catalogue for the exhibition at the Yale University Art Gallery (August 21–November 4, 2001).

Both a literary celebration of the Gallery’s collections and a field guide of literary inspiration, this handsome volume features twenty-two specially commissioned poems written by Yale-trained poets and the twentieth-century art that inspired them—works by Salvador Dalí, Alberto Giacometti, Pierre Bonnard, and more. Contributors include J. D. McClatchy (on Walker Evans’s Lexington Avenue Subway), Jonathan Aaron (on Kurt Schwitters’s Merzz. 19), Rika Lesser (on Sylvia Plimack Mangold’s Opposite Corners). Each poem is printed alongside a reproduction of the inspiration, followed by commentary by curator Weber and English professor and poet Hollander.

Item# 2160
Price $35; Members $31.50
ISBN 0-89467-096-4