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hardcover, sewn
2024 · Ann Arbor, MI
by Sures, Lynn and Michelle Samour
Authors/artists Lynn Sures and Michelle Samour introduce and expand this incredibly versatile medium to artists, curators, collectors, art historians, and the broader public through personal and technical essays and full-color images that highlight the dynamic scope and inventiveness of today's leading practitioners.
"Both historically insightful and visually stunning, this work opens wide the door to this art medium. The authors give attention to significant forebears, allow devoted long-time practitioners to present their work and approaches, and provide important focus on key collaborative studios and their master craftspeople. Hundreds of artworks (truncated) by scores of artists complement the textual richness. I found much to revel
in and enjoy in these pages."
-Michael Durgin, Co-Founder and former Editor, Hand Papermaking
342 full-color illustrations
______________________________
A landmark book that profiles an artistic movement that has operated largely outside the mainstream art world, Radical Paper: Art and Invention with Colored Pulp serves as both an overdue history and up-close look at the range, versatility, and brilliance of art created with colored paper pulp.
Although handmade papers have been employed by artists for centuries, the use of handmade paper and colored paper pulp as an integral element in creating art - as opposed to serving only as the surface on which art is created - has seen remarkable development over the last 70 years. As early practitioners like Douglas Morse Howell, Laurence Barker, and Kenneth Tyler mapped out new directions in using colored paper pulp, their work inspired the careers of generations of artists who have taken this medium in fresh and unexpected directions. This foundational book - the first of its kind - features 73 artist innovators whose work, grounded in the common medium of paper and pulp, takes flight through an array of applications, modalities, and techniques, from the pictorial to the structural, representational to abstract, two- and three- dimensional, spanning the meditative to the mercurial.
Radical Paper: Art and Invention with Colored Pulp introduces and expands the medium to artists, curators, collectors, art historians, and the broader public as it highlights the dynamic scope and inventiveness of today's leading practitioners.
About the authors
This book from two of America's finest artists working in colored pulp, Lynn Sures and Michelle Samour, will find a new place on the bookshelves of art libraries, collectors, artists, and the art-interested public.
Lynn Sures creates multi-media works examining the juncture of geology, physics, and the origins of humans. She has been a SARF Fellow in Kenya and a U.S. State Department American Artist Abroad in Sri Lanka. Residencies include Museu Moli Paperer de Capellades, Spain; and the Press at the Palace of the Governors in Santa Fe, NM. Exhibitions include the American University Museum, Washington, D.C.; and Isik University Gallery, Istanbul. Collections include the U.S. Dept. of State; U.S. Library of Congress; Yale University; Schomburg Collection at New York Public Library; Museu della Carta e della Filigrana, Fabriano, Italy; Museum of Art & Photography-MAP, Bangalore, India; and Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Egypt. She was Hand Papermaking guest editor, Winter 2016, on papermaking in Italy; and President of the North American Hand Papermakers, 2018-2020. Sures is Professor Emerita, Corcoran College of Art & Design, GWU, Washington, D.C.
Michelle Samour's work explores the intersections between science, technology and the natural world, and the socio-political repercussions of redefining borders and boundaries. Residencies include Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, ME; The Banff Centre, Canada; P.R.I.N.T. Press, TX; Tufts European Center, Talloires, France. Exhibitions include deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, MA; Kohler Art Center, WI; Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, TX; Fuller Craft Museum, MA. Grants include a Massachusetts Cultural Council 2014 Fellowship in Drawing, a Society of Arts and Crafts NE Artist Award, and grands to study historic papermaking in France and Japan. Her work has been featured in Surface Design Journal, FiberArts, and Hand Papermaking, and is in collections of the International Paper Company and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Watson Library, NYC. Samour is Professor Emerita of the School of the Museum of Fine Arts (SMFA) at Tufts University.
More Praise for Radical Paper....
"Radical Paper: Art and Invention with Colored Pulp discovers a new world, mapping the variety, power and beauty of pulp as an artistic medium. The book explores new possibilities with this humble yet magnificent material."
-Carol Sauvion, Executive Director, Craft in America PBS series
"This book is an extraordinary overview of subject, both the selection of art as well as the clear and thoughtful commentary. The design of the book and the high quality reproductions make it a must for any art library."
-Joann Moser, Senior Curatory Emerita, Smithsonian American Art Museum
"Lynn Sures and Michelle Samour have filled a void in the contemporary art bookshelf. Radical Paper: Art and Invention with Colored Pulp provides historical context, access to the studios of countless working artists, insight into the vast possibilities of colored pulp, and illuminates the collaborative community of papermaking. Sures and Samour have created a valuable resource that is informative and intriguing with clear, concise, and fluid prose. Radical Paper: Art and Invention with Colored Pulp is an enjoyable read and a must have resource for fans of contemporary art, art historians, curators, collectors, artists, and educators."
-Jerushia Graham, Artist & Museum Manager, Robert C. Williams Museum of Papermaking
"Radical Paper captures all of the energy, skill, planning, and range of expression that colored pulp ignites - endless experimentation and achievements. A great resource for established and emerging artists, this is a well-researched volume with informative texts covering artists' work and their processes and the different types of artist studios and collaborations. It documents the many inventive approaches and techniques that have resulted in painting, prints, sculpture, and more - artworks that are wide-ranging in concept and style. Brava!"
-Jane Milosch, former Chief Curator, Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian American Art Museum
"For those like myself who are new to colored pulp as a medium, Radical Paper opens up a vast world of color and possibility. The collaboration that is inherent in material exploration is inspiring."
-Sarah Freeman, Director of Exhibitions, Brattleboro Museum & Art Center
*Due to the weight of this book, there is an additional $0.63USD handling fee.
Ann Arbor, MI: The Legacy Press, 2024; 12 x 9 inches, hardcover, sewn; 440 pages. ISBN 9781940965260. Book #141101 (Inventory #: 141101)
"Both historically insightful and visually stunning, this work opens wide the door to this art medium. The authors give attention to significant forebears, allow devoted long-time practitioners to present their work and approaches, and provide important focus on key collaborative studios and their master craftspeople. Hundreds of artworks (truncated) by scores of artists complement the textual richness. I found much to revel
in and enjoy in these pages."
-Michael Durgin, Co-Founder and former Editor, Hand Papermaking
342 full-color illustrations
______________________________
A landmark book that profiles an artistic movement that has operated largely outside the mainstream art world, Radical Paper: Art and Invention with Colored Pulp serves as both an overdue history and up-close look at the range, versatility, and brilliance of art created with colored paper pulp.
Although handmade papers have been employed by artists for centuries, the use of handmade paper and colored paper pulp as an integral element in creating art - as opposed to serving only as the surface on which art is created - has seen remarkable development over the last 70 years. As early practitioners like Douglas Morse Howell, Laurence Barker, and Kenneth Tyler mapped out new directions in using colored paper pulp, their work inspired the careers of generations of artists who have taken this medium in fresh and unexpected directions. This foundational book - the first of its kind - features 73 artist innovators whose work, grounded in the common medium of paper and pulp, takes flight through an array of applications, modalities, and techniques, from the pictorial to the structural, representational to abstract, two- and three- dimensional, spanning the meditative to the mercurial.
Radical Paper: Art and Invention with Colored Pulp introduces and expands the medium to artists, curators, collectors, art historians, and the broader public as it highlights the dynamic scope and inventiveness of today's leading practitioners.
About the authors
This book from two of America's finest artists working in colored pulp, Lynn Sures and Michelle Samour, will find a new place on the bookshelves of art libraries, collectors, artists, and the art-interested public.
Lynn Sures creates multi-media works examining the juncture of geology, physics, and the origins of humans. She has been a SARF Fellow in Kenya and a U.S. State Department American Artist Abroad in Sri Lanka. Residencies include Museu Moli Paperer de Capellades, Spain; and the Press at the Palace of the Governors in Santa Fe, NM. Exhibitions include the American University Museum, Washington, D.C.; and Isik University Gallery, Istanbul. Collections include the U.S. Dept. of State; U.S. Library of Congress; Yale University; Schomburg Collection at New York Public Library; Museu della Carta e della Filigrana, Fabriano, Italy; Museum of Art & Photography-MAP, Bangalore, India; and Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Egypt. She was Hand Papermaking guest editor, Winter 2016, on papermaking in Italy; and President of the North American Hand Papermakers, 2018-2020. Sures is Professor Emerita, Corcoran College of Art & Design, GWU, Washington, D.C.
Michelle Samour's work explores the intersections between science, technology and the natural world, and the socio-political repercussions of redefining borders and boundaries. Residencies include Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, ME; The Banff Centre, Canada; P.R.I.N.T. Press, TX; Tufts European Center, Talloires, France. Exhibitions include deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, MA; Kohler Art Center, WI; Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, TX; Fuller Craft Museum, MA. Grants include a Massachusetts Cultural Council 2014 Fellowship in Drawing, a Society of Arts and Crafts NE Artist Award, and grands to study historic papermaking in France and Japan. Her work has been featured in Surface Design Journal, FiberArts, and Hand Papermaking, and is in collections of the International Paper Company and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Watson Library, NYC. Samour is Professor Emerita of the School of the Museum of Fine Arts (SMFA) at Tufts University.
More Praise for Radical Paper....
"Radical Paper: Art and Invention with Colored Pulp discovers a new world, mapping the variety, power and beauty of pulp as an artistic medium. The book explores new possibilities with this humble yet magnificent material."
-Carol Sauvion, Executive Director, Craft in America PBS series
"This book is an extraordinary overview of subject, both the selection of art as well as the clear and thoughtful commentary. The design of the book and the high quality reproductions make it a must for any art library."
-Joann Moser, Senior Curatory Emerita, Smithsonian American Art Museum
"Lynn Sures and Michelle Samour have filled a void in the contemporary art bookshelf. Radical Paper: Art and Invention with Colored Pulp provides historical context, access to the studios of countless working artists, insight into the vast possibilities of colored pulp, and illuminates the collaborative community of papermaking. Sures and Samour have created a valuable resource that is informative and intriguing with clear, concise, and fluid prose. Radical Paper: Art and Invention with Colored Pulp is an enjoyable read and a must have resource for fans of contemporary art, art historians, curators, collectors, artists, and educators."
-Jerushia Graham, Artist & Museum Manager, Robert C. Williams Museum of Papermaking
"Radical Paper captures all of the energy, skill, planning, and range of expression that colored pulp ignites - endless experimentation and achievements. A great resource for established and emerging artists, this is a well-researched volume with informative texts covering artists' work and their processes and the different types of artist studios and collaborations. It documents the many inventive approaches and techniques that have resulted in painting, prints, sculpture, and more - artworks that are wide-ranging in concept and style. Brava!"
-Jane Milosch, former Chief Curator, Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian American Art Museum
"For those like myself who are new to colored pulp as a medium, Radical Paper opens up a vast world of color and possibility. The collaboration that is inherent in material exploration is inspiring."
-Sarah Freeman, Director of Exhibitions, Brattleboro Museum & Art Center
*Due to the weight of this book, there is an additional $0.63USD handling fee.
Ann Arbor, MI: The Legacy Press, 2024; 12 x 9 inches, hardcover, sewn; 440 pages. ISBN 9781940965260. Book #141101 (Inventory #: 141101)