Some error occured while loading the Quick View. Please close the Quick View and try reloading the page.
In the Vanguard: Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, 1950–1969 traces this unique school’s impact on American art during the mid-twentieth century. Accompanying a landmark exhibition, this catalogue documents Haystack’s innovative pedagogy and its role as a major force in the studio craft movement. Anni Albers, Robert Arneson, Dale Chihuly, Arline Fisch, Jack Lenor Larsen, Harvey Littleton, and Toshiko Takaezu are among the artists who helped define the school’s model of communally oriented, process-based learning. With deeply researched essays that detail the school’s founding and first two decades, archival photographs, and images of rarely or never-before published works made at Haystack, In the Vanguard introduces readers to the important legacy of this groundbreaking institution.
Published in association with the Portland Museum of Art.
Exhibition dates:
Portland Museum of Art, Maine: May 24–September 8, 2019
Cranbrook Academy of Art, Michigan: December 13, 2019–March 8, 2020
Published in association with the Portland Museum of Art.
Exhibition dates:
Portland Museum of Art, Maine: May 24–September 8, 2019
Cranbrook Academy of Art, Michigan: December 13, 2019–March 8, 2020
Price: $55.00
Pages: 192
Publisher: University of California Press
Imprint: University of California Press
Publication Date:
21 May 2019
Trim Size: 10.50 X 8.50 in
ISBN: 9780520299696
Format: Hardcover
BISACs:
"Churning out “great art” was not, finally, the school’s main contribution. What was created during those short, sweet summers had more to do with the very conditions of creativity. It was something more mercurial and harder to pin down but — on all the evidence presented by this show and its excellent catalogue — very, very enviable."
Diana Jocelyn Greenwold is the Associate Curator of American Art at the Portland Museum of Art and holds a PhD in the history of art from the University of California, Berkeley.
M. Rachael Arauz holds a PhD in art history from the University of Pennsylvania and has worked as an independent curator of modern and American art since 2002.
M. Rachael Arauz holds a PhD in art history from the University of Pennsylvania and has worked as an independent curator of modern and American art since 2002.
Acknowledgments
M. RACHAEL ARAUZ AND DIANA JOCELYN GREENWOLD
Director’s Foreword
MARK H. C. BESSIRE
Introduction:
The Generosity of an Idea
PAUL SACARIDIZ
Prologue: Mary Beasom Bishop and
Francis and Priscilla Merritt in Flint,
1946–51
STEFFI IBIS DUARTE
The Best Ideals of Socially Useful Living:
Haystack, 1950–60
M. RACHAEL ARAUZ
Inscriptions in History:
Haystack, 1961–69
DIANA JOCELYN GREENWOLD
Plates
Chronology
M. RACHAEL ARAUZ AND DIANA JOCELYN GREENWOLD
WITH SHEA SPILLER
Haystack Instructors, 1951–69
Checklist
Sources and Notes
Index
Lender List
Photography Credits
M. RACHAEL ARAUZ AND DIANA JOCELYN GREENWOLD
Director’s Foreword
MARK H. C. BESSIRE
Introduction:
The Generosity of an Idea
PAUL SACARIDIZ
Prologue: Mary Beasom Bishop and
Francis and Priscilla Merritt in Flint,
1946–51
STEFFI IBIS DUARTE
The Best Ideals of Socially Useful Living:
Haystack, 1950–60
M. RACHAEL ARAUZ
Inscriptions in History:
Haystack, 1961–69
DIANA JOCELYN GREENWOLD
Plates
Chronology
M. RACHAEL ARAUZ AND DIANA JOCELYN GREENWOLD
WITH SHEA SPILLER
Haystack Instructors, 1951–69
Checklist
Sources and Notes
Index
Lender List
Photography Credits