Celebrating American Poetry: An Exhibition of Contemporary Letter Arts / Frye Art Museum

Identifier:REF.GEC4.0904

Dimensions:32 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 28 cm.

Publication dates:1998

Library of Congress Subject Headings:Words in art, Calligraphy Exhibition, Visual poetry, American poetry, Lettering

Description:Catalog published in association with the exhibition "Celebrating American Poetry: An Exhibition of Contemporary Letter Arts" at the Frye Art Museum in Seattle, from March 27 to May 10, 1998. It was a museum show dedicated to calligraphy, and one of the few of its kind in America. Texts by renowned poets were illuminated through the art of contemporary book artists. Poets included: Emily Dickenson, Allen Ginsberg, Anne Stevenson, W.H. Auden, Walt Whitman, Frederico Lorca, Georgia O'Keefe, Langston Hughes, e.e. cummings, Anne Bradstreet, Ezra Pound, Allison Funk, Adrienne Rich, and William Carlos Williams.