Lapp Princess Press : A Small Press and Artist Books from the late 1970s (Exhibition : 2007)
Aycock's book is the most ambitious production of the Lapp Princess publications. A highly complex melding of found and descriptive text, archaeological photography, and images of Aycock's sculptural creation, this was the first of her false cities...
Lapp Princess Press : A Small Press and Artist Books from the late 1970s (Exhibition : 2007)
This work requires the active participation of the reader. An eighteen-by-twenty-four-inch piece of paper is folded at the requisite six-inch-square format, with the text of Shapiro's poem and Pozzi's illustration buried in the inside. A note...
Lapp Princess Press : A Small Press and Artist Books from the late 1970s (Exhibition : 2007)
Burgin used the format of a child's primer to produce a commentary on the role of the family in an industrial environment. Facing each brief statement is a page with a photograph, the letter of the first word in the statement in both upper and...
Lapp Princess Press : A Small Press and Artist Books from the late 1970s (Exhibition : 2007)
Rosenquist's book gives the impression of a stream of consciousness look at the creative process. He created drafts for twelve hypothetical projects, complete with explanatory text, which he supposedly came up with while "waiting for an idea" for...
Lapp Princess Press : A Small Press and Artist Books from the late 1970s (Exhibition : 2007)
The delicate sketches in this book recall Plimack Mangold's landscape painting and her trompe l'oeil tape frames. The work includes handwritten notes about her art. Much of the book is explained in her comment, "In my mind these works are as much...
Lapp Princess Press : A Small Press and Artist Books from the late 1970s (Exhibition : 2007)
Minimalist painter and printmaker Renouf describes the images in this book in three simple lines: FROM ONE TO MANY, FROM SHORT TO LONG, AND VICE VERSA. As the book progresses, the lines on the left page decrease in size and they increase in number....
Lapp Princess Press : A Small Press and Artist Books from the late 1970s (Exhibition : 2007)
Fred Sandback, who would marry Amy Baker, was the first artist asked to create a project for Lapp Princess Press. As with many minimalist works, the title is also a description of the work itself. In this case, ten isometric drawings are...
Lapp Princess Press : A Small Press and Artist Books from the late 1970s (Exhibition : 2007)
In this project, Humphrey prefaces his drawn images with a page of ten adjectives--raw, robust, ripe, somber, erotic, joyous, tender, strong, intimate, harsh. The images themselves, each enclosed in a drawn frame, bring to mind the thickly applied...
Lapp Princess Press : A Small Press and Artist Books from the late 1970s (Exhibition : 2007)
Ferrara is known primarily as a sculptor, creating exterior spaces or wooden maquettes with an architectural idiom. Here, strict bird's-eye and elevation drawings of intricate projects create geometrically abstract patterns.
Lapp Princess Press : A Small Press and Artist Books from the late 1970s (Exhibition : 2007)
The images Gastini created for Parete or Walls recall his eponymous room-sized installations of markings applied to walls. Gastini began creating artist books in 1971. He saw the book as having a distinct role in both the creative process and in...
Lapp Princess Press : A Small Press and Artist Books from the late 1970s (Exhibition : 2007)
The title of minimalist artist Mangold’s book accurately describes the contents. Inside are six line drawings of arcs that originate and terminate in various locations on the page as described on the front cover.
Lapp Princess Press : A Small Press and Artist Books from the late 1970s (Exhibition : 2007)
Chuck Close chose a leparello format for his Lapp Princess project. Here, he juxtaposes six completed printed portraits of his friend and frequent model Keith Hollingworth with actual size details showing his grid process. Close used a different...
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Banner; Ephemera; Invitations; Leaflets; Pamphlets; Printed ephemera Williamstown (Mass.) Art museums -- Exhibitions; Art museums -- Public relations; Museum publications
This series contains ephemera such as invitations, pamphlets, and guides published between 1950 and the present by the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute.
This series contains the Publications Office records regarding the publication of several books and exhibition catalogues by the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute from 1973-1998.
Williams College; Courtauld Institute of Art; Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute; Questor Systems Wees, J. Dustin, 1944-; Kieffer, Elizabeth; Anderson, Bob Art museums; Art museums -- Employees; Art libraries; Art libraries -- Collection...
This series contains the records of the Photograph and Slide Librarian at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, both from J. Dustin Wees, who held the position from the 1970s-2000 and from his successor, Elizabeth Kieffer.
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute; American Association of Museums; Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art; Williams College. Museum of Art; Massachusetts Arts Lottery Council; National Endowment for the Arts; Berkshire Arts Alliance;...
This series contains the files of Mary Jo Carpenter, former Director of the Office of Public Relations.
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute; Architects Collaborative, Inc.; Aaron Ashley, Inc.; Acoustiguide Corporation; American Association of Museums; Art Institute of Chicago; Artistic Picture Publishing Company, Inc.; Art News; Arts Council of...
These are the papers of John H. Brooks, Associate Director of the Clark from 1968 - 1976.
Williams College. Graduate Program in the History of Art -- Newsletters; Williams College. Graduate Program in the History of Art -- Periodicals; Art -- History -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- Massachusetts -- Williamstown -- Periodicals;...
Williams Graduate Program in the History of Art, Offered in Collaboration with the Clark, Academic Years 2007-8, 2008-9, Newsletter contains Marc Gotlieb: A letter from the Director; essay entitled Marc Haxthausen: 2009 CAA Distinguished Teaching...
Williams College. Graduate Program in the History of Art -- Newsletters; Williams College. Graduate Program in the History of Art -- Periodicals; Art -- History -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- Massachusetts -- Williamstown -- Periodicals;...
Graduate Program in the History of Art, Williams College/Clark Art Institute, Fall 2004 Newsletter contains Charles W. (Mark) Haxthausen: Letter from the Director; George Heard Hamilton; Faculty News; Robert Sterling Clark Visiting Professors in...
Williams College. Graduate Program in the History of Art -- Newsletters; Williams College. Graduate Program in the History of Art -- Periodicals; Art -- History -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- Massachusetts -- Williamstown -- Periodicals;...
Graduate Program in the History of Art, Williams College/Clark Art Institute, Summer 2003 Newsletter contains Charles W. (Mark) Haxthausen: Letter from the Director; Faculty News; Memorial Tributes; Robert Sterling Clark Visiting Professors in the...
