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Lisa Maruca
Work of Print: Authorship and the English Text Trades, 1660-1760
The
Work of Print traces a shift in the very definition of literature, from
one that encompasses the material conditions of the production and
distribution of books to the more familiar emphasis on the solitary
author's ownership of an abstract text. Drawing on contemporary
accounts of those involved in the trade -- printers, booksellers,
publishers, and distributors -- Lisa Maruca examines attitudes about
the creative process and approaches to the commodification of writing.
The "work of print" describes the labors through which literature was
produced: both the physical labor of making books and the underlying
cultural work performed by a set of ideologies about who counted as a
maker of texts.
Simpson Center
University of Washington, Seattle campus
Communications 202
Thursday, March 13
6 p.m.
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Jeffrey Ochsner
Lionel H. Pries, Architect, Artist, Educator: From Arts and Crafts to Modern Architecture
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Lionel
Pries (1897-1968) was one of the most influential teachers of
architecture and design at the University of Washington. Many prominent
twentieth-century architects were trained by Pries, whose highly
artistic style of design helped shape the development of American
Modernism in architecture.
Ochsner offers an erudite celebration of Pries's professional legacy,
tracing his evolution as a designer, architect, teacher, and artist. He
shows how Pries absorbed and synthesized disparate influences and
movements in design -- California Arts and Crafts and Spanish Colonial
Revival, the Ecole des Beaux-Arts tradition, Art Deco, Mexican and
Japanese motifs, and various strains of the Modern movement.
Tacoma Public Library with University Book Store, Tacoma
1102 Tacoma Ave S
Thursday, March 13
7 p.m.
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Joyce Brodsky and artist Li-lan
Experiences of Passage: The Paintings of Yun Gee & Li-lan
Yun Gee
(1906-1963) was born in China, emigrated as a young man to San
Francisco, and after living there and in Paris, spent the latter part
of his life in New York City. Li-lan was born in New York to Yun Gee
and Helen Wimmer Gee. She still lives and works in and near the city of
her birth but has also spent long periods in Japan and more recently in
China. Father and daughter alike exemplify the desire to live and work
in freedom from the restrictions of national identity, a choice that
permits openness to different cultures. For Yun Gee and Li-lan, this
openness was never a reflection of trends in the art world but was an
element of life itself, fully embraced and therefore embodied in each
artist's paintings.
Joyce Brodsky is
professor emeritus of art and theory at the University of California,
Santa Cruz. She is the author of the first major exhibition catalog of
Yun Gee's paintings.
Join the author and artist Li-lan at an opening of Li-lan's new exhibition and book launch at Jason McCoy Gallery.
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Jason McCoy Inc.
41 E 57th St
New York, NY 10022
Monday, March 17
5 p.m.
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 Andrew Duffin
Plowed Under: Agriculture and Environment in the Palouse
In
Plowed Under, Andrew Duffin traces the transformation of the Palouse
region of Washington and Idaho from land thought unusable and
unproductive to a wealth-generating agricultural paradise, weighing the
consequences of what this progress had wrought. During the twentieth
century, the Palouse became synonymous with wheat, and the landscape
was irrevocably altered. At the dawn of the twenty-first century,
native vegetation is almost nonexistent, stream water is so dirty that
it is often unfit for even livestock, and 94 percent of all land has
been coverted to agriculture.
Dahmen Barn
Uniontown, WA
Monday, March 17
7:30 p.m.
Auntie's Books
Spokane, WA
Tuesday, March 18
7 p.m.
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Maureen Elenga
Seattle Architecture:
A Walking Guide
to Downtown
(Distributed for Seattle Architecture Foundation)
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Seattle
Architecture opens with an historical overview and timeline featuring
the people and events that have shaped the Seattle that we know today.
The guidebook is divided into nine tours beginning where Seattle did,
at Pioneer Square, and ending at Seattle Center, the location of the
futuristic-themed 1962 Century 21 World's Fair. The front flap folds
out, providing a map of the areas covered in the book.
See Seattle Architecture Foundation's website.
University Book Store
4326 University Way NE
Seattle, WA
Thursday, March 20
7 p.m.
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Linda Chalker-Scott
The Informed Gardener
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In
this introduction to sustainable landscaping practices, Linda
Chalker-Scott addresses the most common myths and misconceptions that
plague home gardeners. Chalker-Scott offers invaluable advice to
gardeners who have wondered:
*Are native plants the best choice for sustainable landscaping?
*Are organic products better or safer than synthetic ones?
*Are compost teas effective in controlling diseases?
*If you pay more, do you get a higher quality plant?
*How can you differentiate between good advice and bad advice?
The answers will surprise you! Join WSU horticulturist Linda
Chalker-Scott for advice on how to garden smarter, cheaper, and better.
Wight's Home and Garden
5026 196th St SW
Lynnwood, WA
Saturday,
March 22
3 p.m.
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Looking to April's Happenings:
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 The
University of Washington Press has joined with the Washington
State Historical Society and the John W. Barringer III National
Railroad Library at the St. Louis Mercantile Library - University of
Missouri to produce The West the Railroads Made.
Looking at the influence the railroads had in creating urban centers in
the West, renowned historians Carlos Schwantes and James Ronda bring
us a new look at the iron road. The book has been lavishly illustrated
with images from an exhibition of the same name that will be at the
Washington State Historical Society April 12, 2008,through January 24,
2009.
Black Womanhood, a new University of Washington Press title co-published with the Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College, will be available in April.
Explorations of contemporary art have focused on issues of identity and
race for some time. Few, however, have sought to investigate these
themes by juxtaposing historical and contemporary frameworks. Black Womanhood examines
an especially charged icon -- the black female body -- and contemporary
artists' interventions upon historical images of black women.
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