Know that you are lucky
Subtitle: a memoir
By: by Kathan Brown ; Judith Dunham, editor
Contributors: Dunham, Judith, editor
Publisher: Crown Point Press; Distributed by Small Press Distribution
Published: 2012
Place of publication: San Francisco, Calif; Berkeley, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 376
ISBN-13: 9781891300240
Subjects: Crown Point Press (Oakland, Calif.); Etching; Artists; Women publishers; History; Businesswomen; Biography; Printmakers
Description: "This book provides a riveting overview of the development of a small business in San Francisco that is now one of the preeminent fine art print publishers of our time. Kathan Brown is an artist by training, a graceful writer, and a self-trained business woman, whose restless imagination marks every chapter. Her unlikely story takes through the ups and downs of fifty years at Crown Point Press, which stimulated renewed attention to the art of etching at a time when other print media were holding center stage...Her approach is direct and personal as she describes Crown Point press's multi-faceted undertakings, which have included not only published etchings and woodcuts, but books as well, along with holding educational workshops and running an in-house gallery" --
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 370-372) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : hold on lightly; title: The family story : go as far as you can see; title: John Cage : no dawdling; title: The fifties and sixties : do it right; title: Wayne Thiebaud; title: The early seventies; title: Pat Steir and Agnes Martin : no pretensions; title: Tom Marioni : know where you are and what is going on; title: The middle seventies : construct a life; title: The late seventies : attempt what is not certain; title: Crossing into the eighties : escape now and again; title: The early eighties : don't try it alone; title: Richard Diebenkorn : search for something else; title: The middle eighties : tell the truth; title: The earthquake : know that you are lucky; title: The building : beware delusions of grandeur; title: The nineties : make sense of what you are doing; title: Robert Bechtle and Ed Ruscha : do the things you want to do; title: The new century : keep searching for what you need to know; title: Sol LeWitt : leap to conclusions that logic cannot reach.