Publications

Henry Art Gallery publishes an impressive array of monographs, exhibition catalogues, and works on art history at a rate of one to two books per year. The Henry’s publications support the museum’s mission to advance the art, artists, and ideas of our time, while addressing as well significant topics in contemporary art and art history.

Coming in early June:
Paul Laffoley: Premonitions of the Bauharoque

Out [o] Fashion Photography: Embracing Beauty
by Deborah Willis

Out [o] Fashion Photography: Embracing Beauty investigates the transformative experience of the photograph. In this book Deborah Willis explores historical perceptions of beauty and desire through artistic and ethnographic imagery and the role individual photographers play in constructing ways of seeing. Through the themes of idealized beauty, the unfashionable body, the gendered image, and photography as memory, Willis challenges and makes problematic the “reading” of photographic images in the 21st century.

Working from the significant photographic holdings of the University of Washington’s Henry Art Gallery, and the University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections, the author examines shifting gender attitudes that emerged in work by women photographers such as Gertrude Käsebier and Diane Arbus. Willis discusses ethnographic ideologies underpinning the work of Edward Sheriff Curtis and Fred E. Miller who worked with Native American subjects, as well as the framing and reframing of images of black people in the work of Samuel Montague Fassett and Carrie Mae Weems. Additionally, the effects of fashion and desire on the imaging of beauty are examined in the work of such artists as Don Wallen, Janieta Eyre, and Jan Saudek. The book includes full-page illustrations of works by more than fifty internationally recognized photographers including Lisette Model, Imogen Cunningham, Lewis Wickes Hine, Bruce Davidson, Cecil Beaton, Nan Goldin, André Kertész, Lee Friedlander, Lorna Simpson, Cindy Sherman, and Andy Warhol.

Deborah Willis is a professor of photography and imaging at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts.

Hardcover
144 pp.
12.5″ × 9.5″ × .7″
University of Washington Press, 2013.
ISBN: 978-0295992518

Published in conjunction with the exhibit Out [o] Fashion Photography: Embracing Beauty

Like a Valentine: The Art of Jeffry Mitchell
by Sara Krajewski

On the occasion of the exhibition Like a Valentine: The Art of Jeffry Mitchell, the Henry and Marquand Books published the first monograph on the artist’s work. This volume documents Mitchell’s prolific output, trace the evolution of his career, and discuss his work in relationship to greater trends in contemporary art. Furthermore, because many of the artist’s projects were ephemeral or experimental in nature, the monograph will become a crucial reference for understanding work that no longer exists. This publication will become a catalyst for a greater appreciation of Mitchell’s work and his unique contributions to contemporary art beyond the Pacific Northwest.

Hardbound cover with dust jacket
208 pp. 
10.25″ × 10.25″ × 1″
190 color and 39 B&W illustrations
Publisher: Henry Art Gallery, Henry Gallery Association 
ISBN: 978-0-935558-50-0

Price includes shipping and handling.

The Gift Shop by Matthew Offenbacher

Designed by David Knowles

Matthew Offenbacher’s The Gift Shop with orange risograph prints is layered on black and white images of work 2009-2010 multi-artist exhibition at the Henry Art Gallery’s former museum shop. Matthew Offenbacher asks the questions: What can an art exhibition do? How can artists work together? Who is the audience for an art exhibition? What responsibilities do artists have towards their audience? What responsibilites do audiences have? What is the relationship between artists and the institutions who support them? What can we learn from each other?

“Museum gift shops are fabulously liminal places. They sit in the middle of a complex web of transitional space, shifting methods of discourse, utopian and practical considerations, different understandings and misunderstanding of the purpose and function of art.”

The Gift Shop was published by Publication Studio.

$25 soft cover; $10 DRM-free ebook
92 pp.
8/5″ × 8.5″ × 0.25″
ISBN: 9781935662730

Buy now from Publication Studio, or free reading commons

Marks and Angles by Lucy Pullen

Designed by Jayme Yen

With visual art, philosophy, quantum physics, and the help of engineers and astrophysicists Lucy Pullen created The Cloud Chamber and The Spark Chamber. When a cosmic ray enters The Cloud Chamber a contrail is created and when a cosmic ray enters The Spark Chamber a spark is ignited. Marks and Angles is Lucy Pullen’s book created in conjunction with her 2009 exhibition The Cloud Chamber and Related Works published by Publication Studio. It is bound in reflective mirror dust paper and there is a hole punched through the entire book.

$40 soft cover; $10 DRM-free ebook
130 pp.
9″ × 7.75″ × 0.25″
ISBN: 9781935662686

Buy now from Publication Studio, Portand, or free reading commons

After Art: Rethinking 150 Years of Photography
by Richard Andrews, Chris Bruce and Andy Grundberg

A look back at the history of photography from 19th-century landscape through contemporary abstraction, including works by Roger Fenton, Walker Evans, Richard Misrach, and Cindy Sherman

Published in conjunction with the exhibition After Art: Rethinking 150 Years of Photography: Selections from the Joseph and Elaine Monsen Collection

120 pp.
11.75″ × 11.75″ × 0.5″
41 color and 105 B&W illustrations
Publisher: Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington Press
ISBN: 0-295-97415-X

An Historical Anecdote About Fashion
by Josiah McElheny

Presenting textiles and costumes from the Henry’s extensive permanent collection alongside his own glass sculpture, artist Josiah McElheny explores the notion of the abstract body in relation to high fashion and the history of glass blowing.

Published in conjunction with the exhibition An Historical Anecdote About Fashion

24 pp.
10″ × 6.5″ × 0.125″
1 color and 5 B&W illustrations
Publisher: Henry Art Gallery, Henry Gallery Association
ISBN: 0-935558-35-7

Ann Lislegaard: 2062
by Elizabeth A. Brown

59 pp. and Audio CD
8.5″ × 8.5″ × 0.125″
20 color and 25 B&W illustrations
Publisher: Henry Art Gallery, Henry Gallery Association
ISBN: 0-935558-48-9

Published in conjunction with the exhibition Ann Lislegaard: 2062

The Art and Films of Lynn Hershman Leeson: Secret Agents, Private I
by Meredith Tromble and Robin Held

229 pp. and DVD
8.5″ × 7″ × 0.75″
17 color and 66 B&W illustrations
Publisher: University of California Press and Henry Art Gallery
ISBN: 0-520-23971-7

Published in conjunction with the exhibition Hershmanlandia

Courtyard, Bazaar, Temple: Traditions of Textile Expression in India
by Katherine F. Hacker and Krista Jensen Turnbull

64 pp.
10″ × 8″ × 0.125″
64 halftone illustrations, 3 maps
Publisher: Henry Art Gallery, Henry Gallery Association
ISBN: 0-295-95966-5

Published in conjunction with the exhibition Courtyard, Bazaar, Temple: Traditions of Textile Expression in India

Elusive Signs: Bruce Nauman Works with Light
by Joseph D. Ketner II

96 pp.
11.5″ × 9.5″ × 0.25″
66 color and 5 B&W illustrations
Publisher: Milwaukee Art Museum
ISBN: 0-944-110-83-5

Published in conjunction with the exhibition Elusive Signs: Bruce Nauman Works with Light

Genesis: Contemporary Art Explores Human Genomics
by Robin Held

CD-ROM
7.5″ × 5.25″ × 0.5″
Produced and published by the Henry Art Gallery
ISBN: 0-935558-41-1

Published in conjunction with the exhibition Gene(sis): Contemporary Art Explores Human Genomics, curated by Robin Held and featuring works by Barbara Bloom, Maira Kalman, and Critical Art Ensemble. This CD-ROM catalogue documents the exhibition in an interactive manner with video interviews and installation tours, color reproductions, artist biographies, and essays by leading scholars and scientists.

Image Transfer: Pictures in a Remix Culture
by Sara Krajewski

102 pp.
10″ × 7.5″ × 0.25″
40 color and 9 B&W illustrations
Publisher: Henry Art Gallery, Henry Gallery Association
ISBN: 978-0-935558-49-4

Published in conjunction with the exhibition Image Transfer: Pictures in a Remix Culture, curated by Sara Krajewski and featuring works by Matt Keegan, Kelley Walker, and Marlo Pascual.

Liz Magor: The Mouth and other storage facilities
by Sara Krajewski and Bill Jeffries

64 pp.
10″ × 8″ × 0.25″
31 color illustrations
Publisher: Henry Art Gallery, Henry Gallery Association
ISBN: 0-935558-47-0

Published in conjunction with the exhibition Liz Magor: The Mouth and other storage facilities

Mouth Open, Teeth Showing: works from the True Collection
by Elizabeth A. Brown and Eric Fredericksen

48 pp.
8″ × 5″ × 0.25″
Publisher: Henry Art Gallery, Henry Gallery Association
ISBN: 0-935558-45-4

Published in conjunction with the exhibition Mouth Open, Teeth Showing: Major Works from the True Collection, curated by Elizabeth A. Brown and featuring works by Ann Hamilton, Zoe Leonard, and Doug Aitken.

Shifting Ground: Transformed Views of the American Landscape
by Richard Andrews and Rhonda Lane Howard

80 pp.
9.5″ × 7.5″ × 0.25″
Publisher: Henry Art Gallery, Henry Gallery Association
ISBN: 0-935558-36-5

Published in conjunction with the exhibition Shifting Ground: Transformed Views of the American Landscape, curated by Rhonda Howard and featuring works by Winslow Homer, Richard Diebenkorn, and Jessica Bronson.

Short Stories on Photography: The Joseph and Elaine Monsen Collection at the Henry Art Gallery
by Richard Andrews and Elizabeth A. Brown

88 pp.
11.75″ × 11.75″ × 0.5″
Publisher: Henry Art Gallery, Henry Gallery Association
ISBN: 0-935558-40-3

Published in conjunction with the exhibition Short Stories: Contemporary Selections, curated by Sara Krajewski and featuring works by William Eggleston, Nan Goldin, Kiki Smith and Vik Muniz.

Tall Ships: Gary Hill’s Projective Installations—Number 2
by George Quasha and Charles Stein

A meditation on Gary Hill’s large scale video projections by two of the artist’s long time collaborators. Features thorough experiential descriptions of the early interactive video installation Tall Ships, part of the Henry’s permanent collection, as well as an interview with the artist.

72 pp.
7″ × 6″ × 0.25″
Publisher: Station Hill Arts/ Barrytown, LTD.
ISBN: 1-886449-54-6

Viewfinder
by Richard Andrews and Sara Krajewski

40 pp.
9″ × 7.25″ × 0.125″
Publisher: Henry Art Gallery, Henry Gallery Association
ISBN: 0-935558-46-2

Published in conjunction with the exhibition Viewfinder, curated by Sara Krajewski and featuring works by Sharon Lockhart, Wolfgang Tillmans, James Welling, and Uta Barth.

What it Meant to be Modern: Seattle Art at Mid-Century
by Sheryl Conkleton

48 pp.
9.5″ × 7.5″ × 0.25″
Publisher: Henry Art Gallery, Henry Gallery Association
ISBN: 0-935558-38-1

Published in conjunction with the exhibition What It Meant to Be Modern: Seattle Art at Mid-Century, curated by Sheryl Conkelton and featuring works by Mark Tobey, Kenneth Callahan, and Helmi Juvonen.

WOW: The Work of the Work
by Elizabeth A. Brown

62 pp.
11″ × 8.25″ × 0.25″
Publisher: Henry Art Gallery, Henry Gallery Association
ISBN: 0-935558-42-X

Published in conjunction with the exhibition WOW: The Work of the Work, curated by Elizabeth A. Brown and featuring works by Gary Hill, Mike Kelley, Steve McQueen, and Olafur Eliasson.