Indiana Art and Music
Masterworks from the Indiana University Art Museum
Linda J. Baden, Ed.
Richly illustrated with more than 10 full-color plates, this book presents a selection of the finest works from one of the world's best university art museums. Included are examples from the full range of world cultures collected by the museum: Africa, the Ancient Western World, Asia, the Ancient Americas, the South Pacific, and the West before and after 1800.
362 pp. 2007/ISBN 978-0-253-21956-5
paper/$39.95 Order No. 2685
cloth/$64.95 Order No. 2688
Old-Time Music and Dance: Community and Folk Revival
John Bealle
In the summer of 1972, a group of young people in Bloomington, Indiana, began a weekly gathering with the purpose of reviving traditional American old-time music and dance. In time, the group became a kind of accidental utopia, a community bound by celebration and deliberately void of structure and authority. In this joyful and engaging book, John Bealle tells the lively history of the Bloomington Old–Time Music and Dance Group—how it was formed, how it evolved its unique culture, and how it grew to shape and influence new waves of traditional music and dance. Broader questions about the folk revival movement, social resistance, counter culture, authenticity, and identity intersect this delightful history. More than a story about the people who forged the group or an extraordinary convergence of talent and creativity, Old-Time Music and Dance follows the threads of American folk culture and the social experience generated by this living tradition of music and dance.
paper 369 pp. 2005 / ISBN 0-253-34638-x / $24.95
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A Simple and Vital Design: The Story of the Indiana Post Office Murals
John C. Carlisle and Darryl Jones
Beautifully reproduced in color photographs, are thirty-six murals by artists commissioned to paint celebrations of American life for New Deal era post offices.
paper 110 pp. 1995 / ISBN 0-87195-110-X / $19.95
Order No. 2162
The Art of Healing: The Wishard Art Collection
Cinnamon Catlin-Legutko
This book describes the unprecedented collection of mural paintings at Wishard Hospital in Indianapolis. The murals originally adorned the walls of patient care wards. A total of 16 prominent Indiana artists contributed to this mammoth 1914 project. Artists include T. C. Steele, Clifton Wheeler, Simon Baus, Wayman Adams, and William Forsyth.
cloth 106 pp. 2004 / ISBN 0-87195-171-1 / $24.95
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Moonlight in Duneland: The Illustrated Story of the Chicago South Shore and South Bend Railroad
Ronald D. Cohen and Stephen G. McShane
Reproductions of more than 40 surviving posters of the poster campaign of the South Shore Line Interurban in the Calumet region. Advertising items from the 1920s and 1970s are also shown.
paper 139 pp. 1998 / ISBN 0-253-21738-5 / $35.00
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Indians and a Changing Frontier: The Art of George Winter
Sarah E. Cooke and Rachel B. Ramadhyani
Illustrated volume of the watercolors and drawings of the Potawatomi Indians in northern Indiana by the artist (b.1809). Also contains two essays on Winter's life and work.
cloth 269 pp. 1993 / ISBN 0-87195-097-9 / $24.95
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The Indiana Dunes Revealed: The Art of Frank V. Dudley
Edited by James R. Dabbert
Frank Dudley dedicated forty years of his professional life as a landscape painter to the promotion and preservation of the Indiana Dunes along the southern shores of Lake Michigan. Today, the Indiana Dunes State Park and the encompassing Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore provide state and federal protection for a unique geographical region that served as a living laboratory for the new science of ecology at the turn of the twentieth century. University of Chicago botanist Henry Chandler Cowles declared that "Nowhere perhaps in the entire world of plants does the struggle for life take on such dramatic and spectacular phases as in the Dunes."
Art historian William H. Gerdts names Frank Dudley as "one of the finest painters working in the Midwest in the first decades of the twentieth century." Dudley, a native of Wisconsin and a Midwesterner through and through, studied at the Art Institute of Chicago before establishing a long exhibition record there beginning in 1902. Dudley's devotion to the Indiana Dunes country was part of a movement to establish a national dunes park during the progressive era in midwestern political life centered in Chicago. Though the First World War effectively disrupted this movement, Dudley's 1918 Art Institute exhibition of thirty dunes paintings briefly brought national attention to the plight of the Dunes. In the following years, he exhibited dunes paintings at museums around the country, including the National Academy of Design in New York City, the Corcoran Gallery in Washington D.C., and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia.
In Chicago, Dudley flourished and his paintings sold well, attracting admirers at the Hoosier Salon and the Chicago Galleries Association and a buying public that included nontraditional art collectors. Today, the largest collection of his paintings is held by Indiana State Museum in Indianapolis. The Brauer Museum of Art at Valparaiso University, now present the largest ever exhibition of sevety of his works of art.
The Indiana Dunes Revealed: The Art of Frank V. Dudley serves as an accompanying catalogue for the exhibition...
cloth 237 pp. 2006 / ISBN 0-252-03139-3 / $29.95
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Rememberance, Faith & Fancy: Outdoor Public Sculpture in Indiana
Glory-June Greiff
The wealth of outdoor public sculpture in the nineteenth state is highlighted in an authoritative examination of the art by noted public historian Glory-June Greiff. Featuring approximately 1500 pieces of outdoor sculpture in the state categorized as commemorative, religious, aesthetic, whimsical, and abstract/comtemporary. A county-by-county directory of the location of each outdoor sculpture and more then 200 photographs.
cloth 331 pp. 2005 / ISBN 0-87195-180-0 / $39.95
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Bringing the World to Our Neighborhood: The Lotus World Music and Arts Festival
LuAnne Holladay
Each September, the Lotus World Music and Arts Festival, a celebration of music, song, dance, and art transforms a southern Indiana college town into an international oasis, featuring a dazzling array of talent, high spirits, and bonhomie. The vibrant images in this book provide an intimate look at the festival, highlighting the variety that has drawn crowds from within and beyond Bloomington since 1994. From the downtown stages to the street parades, free performance booths, and vendors: from the exhilaration of live performances to the bustle behind the scenes, the spirit of Lotus is show cased here, captured in more than a hundred photographs. It’s the next best thing to being there!
paper 172 pp. 2005 / ISBN 0-253-34633-9 / $29.95
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Painting Indiana
Indiana Plein Air Painters Association, Inc
Contemporary Hoosier painters capture the beauty and diversity of Indiana's 92 counties, with a brief commentary on their work and a short history of each county.
paper 216 pp. 2005 / ISBN 0-253-21790-3 / $35.00
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Painting Indiana II: The Changing Face of Agriculture
Indiana Plein Air Painters Association, Inc. and Center for Agricultural Science & Heritage, Inc.
Over the past hundred years, Indiana agriculture has evolved from family farming to a global industry using biotechnology and satellite positioning. This magnificent collection of more than one hundred works of art by ten outstanding Indiana painters tells the story of that amazing transformation, the forces that brought it about, and the impact it has had on the people, the culture, and the economy of the state. These gifted artists, selected through a competition, tackled subjects as diverse as livestock farms, lumber harvesting, meat packing, farmers' markets, and huge automated dairy operations.
cloth 201 pp. 2006 / ISBN 0-253-34819-6 / $39.95
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Whispers to Shouts: Indiana Women Who Create Art
Indiana State Museum
Catalog for the Indiana State Museum 2005 exhibit of the same name. The book lists all of the artists, including photographs of many, and their art.
paper 56 pp. 2005 / ISBN 0-972879-3-5 / $12.95
Order No. 2530
Jelly Roll, Bix, & Hoagy: Gennett Studios and the Birth of Recorded Jazz
Rick Kennedy
History of 1920s Gennett Records in Richmond, Indiana. Earliest recordings of Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton, King Oliver, Gene Autry, Bix Beiderbecke, and Hoagy Carmichael.
cloth 233 pp. 1994 / ISBN 0-253-33136-6 / $24.95
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paper 233 pp. 1994 / ISBN 0-253-21315-0 / $15.95
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The Artists of Brown County
Lyn Letsinger-Miller
From the early 1900s through the 1940s, the scenic hill country of Brown County, Indiana, was home to a flourishing colony of artists who migrated there from urban areas of the Midwest. The Artists of Brown County is the classic book on the history of this remarkable art colony.
cloth 223 pp.1994 / ISBN 978-0-253-33354-4 / $49.95
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The Artists of Brown County (DVD)
Lyn Letsinger-Miller, production
Clyde Lee, narration
Jon Kay, music
As a companion to her classic book, The Artists of Brown County, Lyn Letsinger-Miller has produced a 30-minute DVD recounting the story of the remarkable Brown County art colony.
In addition to full-color reproductions of paintings and graphic work by 15 artists, the DVD features photographs by Frank Hohenberger, live footage of the artists from a 1947 film, and scenes of Brown County today. Musical selections by Jon Kay and narration by Clyde Lee enhance this vibrant multimedia tour of an important aspect of Indiana's artistic heritage.
DVD 30 min. ISBN 978-0-253-35044-2 / $14.95
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The Indiana University School of Music: a History
George M. Logan
An institutional history, with anecdotes and photographs, of one of the foremost American schools of music and a major world cultural institution.
cloth 318 pp. 2000 / ISBN 0-253-338920-4 / $29.95
Order No. 2249
Stone, Steel and Spirit: Indiana State Museum
Steve Mannheimer and Bill Browne, Jr.
The Indiana State Museum designed and built as homage to the citizens and spirit of Indiana, is one of the great buildings constructed in the state in the last half century. “An informed celebration” of vision, tenacity and teamwork, this book chronicles the events that turned a dream into the showcase structure that welcomes millions of visitors every year.
paper 96 pp. 2004 / ISBN 1-57860-162-2 / $25.00
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The Lotus Dickey Songbook
Nancy C. McEntire and Grey Larsen
The Paoli, Indiana, bluegrass musician Lotus Dickey (1911-1989) is world renowned for his singing, songwriting, and fiddling. Dickey's unfulfilled desire to publish a book of his songs became a reality when a group of good friends and fellow musicians compiled the first edition of this book after his death.
By the 1980s, when his artistry was at its peak, Dickey's active repertoire was very close to what is represented here—more than 100 country and folk songs, both Dickey originals and some of his favorite traditional tunes. The spirit of sharing, so deep a part of Lotus Dickey's personal philosophy, inspired this songbook. Long out of print, the new volume improves on the original with a CD in place of cassette tapes.
paper 282 pp. 1995, reprint 2005 / ISBN 0-253-21808-x / $39.95
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Skirting the Issue: Stories of Indiana’s Historical Women Artists
Judith Vale Newton and Carol Ann Weiss
The authors include a biographical dictionary detailing the lives of one hundred of the state’s historical women artist, and they single out nearly forty of them for further examination in detailed essays. While this first-of-a-kind book focuses on Indiana women specifically, its stories offer excellent insights into the culture and values of the greater Midwest, and the nation at large, in the decades before and after the turn of the twentieth century.
cloth 406 pp.2004 / ISBN 0-87195-177-0 / $59.95
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Matter Mind Spirit
Jean Robertson
The work of 12 contemporary Indiana women artists whose works blend physical, intellectual, and emotional intensity. Featured are 16 black and white illustrations and 23 color plates.
paper 60 pp. 1999 / ISBN 0-253-21322-3 / $19.95
Order No. 2221
The Jazz State of Indiana
Duncan Schiedt
Interviews, oral history narratives on tape, and the opening of old scrapbooks that held visual memories of long-gone days were unselfishly shared to create this history of jazz and dance music.
paper 249 pp. reprint 1999 (1977) Lib of Congress 77-79202 / $24.95
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The House of the Singing Winds: The Life and Work of T. C. Steele
Selma N. Steele and Theodore L. Steele
T. C. Steele's life and his American Impressionism landscapes and regional art. 10 full color plates.
paper 209 pp. 1989 / ISBN 0-87195-055-3 / $18.95
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A Shared Heritage: Art by Four African Americans
William E. Taylor and Harriet G. Warkel
The work of four African American artists with shared Indiana roots, is shown in work ranging from impressionism and social realism to cubism and abstract expressionism.
cloth 195 pp. 1996 / ISBN 0-253-33079-3 / $49.95
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paper 195 pp. 1996 / ISBN 0-936260-62-9 / $29.95
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The Herron Chronicle
Harriet G. Warkel, Martin F. Krause, and S. L. Berry
The first comprehensive, illustrated record of the 100-year history of the Herron School of Art in Indianapolis including a list of students and faculty -an unbroken and shining thread of the most familiar names of Indiana painters, sculptors, graphic artists, and teachers who created the cultural fabric of Indiana in the 20th century.
cloth 301 pp. 2003 / ISBN 0-253-34237-6 / $39.95
Order No. 2389
Christian Schrader Sketches
Selected Christian Schrader drawings have been grouped in sets. Black ink on ivory paper, folded over, 5.5" x 4.5".
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$3.50/Order No. 6065
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paper / ISSN 1071-3301 / $1.00 (1-19 copies); $.30 (20 or more copies)
Strike Up the Band
Band music was everywhere in the later part of the nineteenth century; many military, town, social, ethnic, and commerical organizations formed bands.
12 pp. 1992
Order No. 7005
SOS! Save Outdoor Sculpture in Indiana
SOS! Save Outdoor Sculpture in Indiana
The theme of the 1994 National Historic Preservation Week was Save Outdoor Sculpture! Details statewide surcey of outdoor sculpture.
16 pp. 1994
Order No. 7026
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