Michael Brenson

The Art and Life of a Transformational Sculptor

David Smith

David Levi Strauss

Peter Lamborn Wilson

Gilbert Vicario

Daniel Joseph Martinez

A Life of Disobedience

Gillian Jagger

Gillian Jagger’s complex and moving sculptures are documented in the Elvehjem’s (now Chazen's) catalogue of the first museum-organized exhibition of her work. Installation pieces and works on paper are featured, including Jagger’s Matrice—a deer carcass found on the road near her studio, stabilized by resin, and suspended with dairy cow stanchions and metal rigging, all hanging above broken stones from a New York quarry. In Rift, suspended fragments of weathered board, coiling barbed wire, rusted cutting tools, bones of a deer, a horse skull, and a mummified cat represented the artist’s protest against animal abuse. Jagger incorporated sections of a large tree trunk, cast rocks, a grid, chains, hooks, and pulleys in her major recent work, Spiral. Distributed for the Chasen Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin–Madison

The Art of Gillian Jagger

From his unique vantage point as the dean of Dallas sports writers, Bob St. John brings us a soul-stirring portrait of one of America's most loved heroes-Tom Landry-who was, for twenty-nine years, the Dallas Cowboys' only head coach.Recounting Landry's phenomenal rise to coaching fame, St. John gives us glimpses of Landry as the intramural champion in light heavyweight boxing at the University of Texas, the decorated military veteran, the rugged college halfback, and the dedicated husband and father of a family that mattered more to him than any of his legendary football teams.For years St. John covered the Cowboys for the Dallas Morning News. So he brings to these pages a wealth of inside tales and touching vignettes of the coach who made them "America's team." As he traces the Cowboys' illustrious history to show us Tom Landry in action, St. John chronicles Those first agonizing years when the talent-poor Cowboys got pulverized by tough NFL teams The incredible ten-year coaching contract Murchison awarded to Landry after his first four humiliating seasons The first glimmerings of glory when Don Meredith, Bob Lilly, Mel Renfro, Lee Roy Jordan, and Walt Garrision became household names The Glory years-the Staubach years-with back-to-back Super Bowl contending teams The dog-days at the end of Landry's coaching career when the NFL's parity rules depleted the Cowboy's arsenal once more The seismic shock in Dallas when the team's new owner fired the world's favorite coachThousands gathered to honor "the man in the hat" shortly before he died. Former President George Bush said to him, "You're an inspiration to all who have ever watched or played the game of football." St. John recalls that moment: "As Landry walked off the speaker's stand it would be the last time most people would ever see him. That familiar face that seemed to be chiseled in stone with deep-set, pale eyes that could almost become slits when he smiled or deeply concentrated the chine that jutted out would become a fading memory. And then Landry walked away and was gone."But he has not been forgotten.

Writings on Art, Criticism, and Institutions, 1993-2002

Acts of Engagement

Philip Jodidio

Dava Sobel

Paul Goldberger

Lisa Phillips

William L. Fox

Maya Lin

Ever since her design for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial and her subsequent best-selling book Boundaries, architects, designers, landscape architects, feminists, and environmentalists have embraced the work of artist and architect Maya Lin. This is her first book in 15 years and summarizes her work to date. Maya Lin is the first complete retrospective on the artist and architect Maya Lin. This important volume highlights 50 projects that demonstrate the expanding scope of Lin's creative process from 1980 to the present.

Michael Brenson

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