Alexander Nemerov

Elaine Y. Yau

Apsara DiQuinzio

Jeff Gunderson

The first major monograph in sixty years on the San Francisco modernist sculptor who developed a unique abstract style rooted in surrealism and inspired by nature. This beautifully produced volume celebrates the life and career of Adaline Kent (1900–1957), a member of one of the Bay Area’s most productive and innovative midcentury artistic groups. Kent is linked to modernist artists Ruth Asawa, Mark Rothko, Isamu Noguchi, and Clyfford Still. Texts by a diverse range of scholars cover such subjects as infinity and movement in Kent’s work; the influence of nature; and the diverse artistic milieu at the San Francisco Art Institute and beyond that surrounded Kent and her husband, artist Robert Howard. With an extensive chronology and a wide selection of sculptures, photographs, and rarely seen works on paper and paintings on Hydrocal, the book substantiates Kent’s achievement as one of midcentury America’s most innovative sculptors, re-excavating her work for younger generations.

The Click of Authenticity

Adaline Kent

Deborah Klochko

Stephanie Comer

Incorporating White's never-before-published writings on the teaching of photography, a study of the influential photography department at the California School of Fine Arts features a gallery of some two hundred iconic photographs by the faculty and their students, including works by Edward Weston, Imogen Cunningham, Dorothea Lange, and other luminaries.

Minor White at the California School of Fine Arts

The Moment of Seeing

Jeff Gunderson

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