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MIRA LEHR
Arc of Nature
11x12”, 200 pages, hardcover, 115 color plates; 25 black and white. Authored by Eleanor Heartney; Essays by Thom Collins and Irving Sandler. Co-published by Hard Press Editions in Association with Hudson Hills Press. ISBN: 978-1-55595-391-1

Mira Lehr has been called "the mistress of light" by 60 Minutes correspondent, Morley Safer, "the spiritual heir to O'Keeffe," in the London Times Literary Supplement and "a painter not of this world" by Oxford poet, Kelley Grovier. Mira Lehr, Arc of Nature presents Lehr's work and career as an artist continuing over five decades.
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AVAILABLE MARCH 2015
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EVENTS

Rosenbaum Contemporary: Mapping Nature
Solo shows of my new works about the sea.
St. Regis Bal Harbour, FL & Boca Raton, FL
January-February 2015

Fairchild Botanical Gardens: Science Village
Ocean Vegetata by Mira Lehr
Ongoing

Watson MacRae Gallery
Florida Contemporary - sculptures and paintings
February 3-28, 2015

Aqualina Sunrise Installation
Commission
March 2015

Flomenhaft Gallery
Retrospective: Four decades of paintings, prints, gunpowder works, sculpture, wall-hangings, and writings.
May-June 2015

J. Johnson Gallery
The Garden Show
Date TBA

Mira Lehr, Diel Migration, 12’ x 12’, jute, keystone, copper mesh, Japanese paper, ink, copper emulsion, 2013

MOSTLY MODERN
Edited by Joseph Mashek
6x9”, 220 pages, paperback, 50 color illustrations; Edited by Joseph Masheck; Symposium organized by Aleksandr Naymark. Co-published by Hard Press Editions in Association with Hudson Hills Press. ISBN: 978-1-55595-392-8

Renowned art historian/critic of modern art, Joseph Masheck was so encouraged to be a generalist by his mentor, the great architectural historian Rudolf Wittkower, that he answers to a specialty of "mostly modern." This book, a compilation of essays by colleagues near and far, has grown out of a symposium organized at Hofstra University for his seventieth birthday.
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AVAILABLE FEBRUARY 2015
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FEATURING ESSAYS ON:

Critical Thought
Andrew Ballantyne
Brian Winkenweder
Steven Henry Madoff

Architecture in Cultural Space
Ian Campbell
Deborah Gans
František Lesák

Central and European Modernism
S. A. Mansbach
Charles W. Haxthausen
Christine Poggi

Postwar Modernism
David Ryan
Alan Johnston
Marjorie Welish

Style and Habitus
Martha Hollander
Margaret Stewart
Joseph Masheck

Life & Work of
ENRICO GLICENSTEIN
12 x 11", 224 pages, hard cover, 50 color plates and 400 black and white images.
Authored by Charlotte Sholod with contributions by Tamara Sztmya.
Published by Hard Press Editions in association with Hudson Hills Press.
ISBN: 978-1-55595-384-3

Enrico Glicenstein belonged to a pioneering vanguard of independent European Sculptors of the early to mid 20th century who were credited with reviving the traditional art of direct carving—with a modern sensibility. At a time when most other sculptors had turned away from a more 'humanistic' tradition, Glicenstein remained uncompromising in his commitment to the human figure. Over 250 sculpted works celebrating the universality of human endeavor are detailed fully for the first time in this volume.
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Sleep (Helena Glicenstein), Marble relief, 1897-1899 – Rome (app. 55 x 45 x 20 cm).

INTO THE LIGHT:
The Healing Art
of Kalman Aron
10 x 11", 224 pages
Hardcover with dust jacket,
210 color plates and 30 black and white images.
By Susan Beilby Magee.
Co-published by Hard Press Editions and Posterity Press, Inc. in association with Hudson Hills Press.
ISBN: 978-1-55595-385-0

A six-year-old girl sits for a pastel portrait by an unknown immigrant artist. Fifty years later, he asks her to write his story. INTO THE LIGHT is a profound, visual narrative of hope, courage and healing in the face of evil. It relates the epic life journey of artist Kalman Aron as he emerges from the ashes of the Holocaust to explore the nature of humankind, his own humanity and the mystery of life—all on canvas. What unfolds is a visual record of one man's remarkable evolution from darkness to light. Healing himself through his art, Kalman Aron's example offers hope to all.
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POETRY TO THE EARTH:
The Arts and Crafts Movement in Deerfield
12 x 9", 240 pages, hardcover, 345 color and black and white images.
Authored by Suzanne L. Flynt with a foreword by Wendy Kaplan.
Co-published by Hard Press Editions in association with Hudson Hills Press.
ISBN: 978-1-55595-383-6

Deerfield, Massachusetts played a pivotal role in the American Arts and Crafts Movement beginning in the late 19th century. The artistic and intellectual atmosphere of Deerfield, combined with its colonial history and picturesque surroundings, created an ideal environment for Arts and Crafts--a movement that encouraged a return to hand craftsmanship, simplicity of design, and honesty of materials.
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Recommended

AMY GOLDIN
Art in A Hairshirt, Art Criticism 1964-1978

9 x 6", 220 pages, 15 color plates.
Essays by Amy Goldin, Robert Kushner and others.
ISBN: 978-1-55595-342-3

The first-ever collection of essays by influential art critic, Amy Goldin. Over thirty essays taken from the pages of Artnews, Artforum, Art Journal, New American Review, International Journal for Aesthetics and Art Criticism, Art in America and her personal journals during the 60s and 70s, have been selected by artist Robert Kushner and relayed with insightful accounts from prominent art world writers.

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LORING W. COLEMAN
Living and Painting in a Changing New England An Autobiography

11 x 12", 240 pages, Hardcover, 115 color plates.
Written by Loring W. Coleman, NA, AWS; Edited by Hugh Fortmiller with a Foreword by Henry Adams. Published by Hard Press Editions in association with Hudson Hills Press.
ISBN: 978-1-55595-341-6

Loring W. Coleman, distinguished plein air painter of New England landscapes, recounts amusing and intriguing experiences as a life-long student and teacher of painting. This autobiography, sparked by a dramatic loss of vision in his right eye due to a hemorrhage in 2009, is testament to the artist's on-going creative journey. Thirty anecdotal essays are featured, showcasing his realist paintings representative of his work from the 1950s through the early 21st century.
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MARYLYN DINTENFASS
PARALLEL PARK

11 x 11", Hardcover, 140 pages, 178 photos / illustrations (includes 11 black and white).
Authored by Aliza Edelman with contributions by Ron Bishop, Michele Cohen, John Driscoll, Barbara Anderson Hill and Jennifer McGregor.
Published by Hard Press Editions in association with Hudson Hills Press.
ISBN 978-1-55595-346-1

MARYLYN DINTENFASS PARALLEL PARK is the first book to document Marylyn Dintenfass' life-long love affair with automobiles, especially the culturally iconic high-powered, sporty, sexy muscle cars that streamed out of Detroit from the late 1950's to the mid-1970's. The book critically explores how Dintenfass' drawings, monotypes and paintings are the genesis for Parallel Park — a 30,000 square foot, site-specific installation, wrapping the four facades of The Lee County Justice Center Parking Garage in Fort Myers, Florida. It is one of the largest and most transformative art installations in the United States of the past decade.

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