Books by WSU faculty

Art and Design

1. 

   Adorning the World: Art of the Marquesas Islands

   By Eric Kjellgren and Carol Ivory, Professor, Fine Arts

    

   From the publisher: The imagery of Marquesan art is testament to the myriad beings and creatures who inhabited the Marquesan universe—gods, ancestors, humans, lizards, turtles, fish—and to the islands' complex social and political organization. These art forms are explored in the present volume, published in conjunction with the exhibition "Adorning the World: Art of the Marquesas Islands," held at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

   

   

    

2. 

   Art of the Aloha Shirt

   By Linda Arthur, Professor, Apparel, Merchandising, Design and Textiles, and DeSoto Brown

    

   From the publisher: What is an aloha shirt? Here is its story from the beginnings in the 1930s to the glory days of the 1950s and beyond. Information was gathered through interviews, historic publications and photos, and the collecting and examination of various garments.

   

   

    

3. Contemporary Hawaiian Quilting

   By Linda Arthur, Professor, Apparel, Merchandising, Design and Textiles

    

   From the publisher: With vivid colors and breathtaking designs, the Hawaiian quilt captures the exotic beauty of the Islands and celebrates Hawaiian culture. The quilt is a tangible reminder of the aloha with which it was made.

   

   

    

4. 

   Roy Lichtenstein: Prints from the Jordan D. Schnitzer Collection

   By Chris Bruce, Director, WSU Museum of Art; Dave Hickey; Elizabeth Brown

    

   From the publisher: Think "Roy Lichtenstein" and you probably conjure up comic strip-based paintings and the colorful dots that comprise them. Lichtenstein intended his now iconic depictions of characters in tense, dramatic situations as commentaries on modern man's plight, in which the media—magazines, television, and advertisements—shapes everything, including our emotions. Many of the same concepts behind the artist's paintings apply to the significant number of prints he produced in the latter part of this life. Focused on works created from the mid-50s until his death in 1997, this exhibition catalogue gives a full overview of Lichtenstein's printmaking accomplishments. Accompanying reproductions of the artist's works are essays by three outstanding scholars: Chris Bruce,  directir, Washington State University Museum of Art; Dave Hickey, a MacArthur Award-winning writer on art and culture; and Elizabeth Brown, who wrote her thesis on Lichtenstein at Columbia University, under the tutelage of the late Kirk Varnedoe. Approximately 40 prints are illustrated in this elegant, intimately-scaled book, which highlights a specific body of work from one of the most innovative forces in post-World War II art.