As the White Crow Flies

Japan Reading List

70 Japanese Gestures: No Language Communication, Hamiru-aqui translated by Aileen Chang
A Traveller's History of Japan, Richard Tames
Acts of Worship, Yukio Mishima
Carved Paper: The Art of the Japanese Stencil, edited by Susan Shin-Tsu Tai
Colorful Origami, Toyoaki Kawai
Culture Shock! Tokyo
Culture Smart! Japan: Customs & Etiquette
Customs and Etiquette of Japan, Helmut Morsbach
Emaki Picture Scrolls, Hideo Okudaira
Eyewitness Travel Japan
Flea Markets of Japan: A Pocket Guide for Antique Buyers, Theodore Manning
Frommer's Japanese Phrasebook & Culture Guide
Gift Wrapping: Creative Ideas from Japan, Kunio Ekiguchi
Grotesque, Natsuo Kirino
Haiku Master Buson
Haiku Poetry Ancient & Modern
Hiroshige in Tokyo: The Floating World of Edo, Julian Bicknell
Hokusai
In the Way of the Master: Chinese and Japanese Painting and Calligraphy, Kwan S. Wong & Celeste Adams
Japan Design
Japan Style
Japan: A Traveler's Literary Companion, edited by Jeffrey Angles and J. Thomas Rimer
Japanese at a Glance: Phrase Book and Dictionary for Travelers
Japanese Book Binding, Kojiro Ikegami
Japanese Death Poems: Written by Zen Monks and Haiku Poets on the Verge of Death, compiled by Yoel Hoffmann
Japanese Festivals, Hideo Haga & Dr. Gordon Warner
Japanese in 10 Minutes a Day
Japanese Ink-Painting: Lessons in Suiboku Technique, Ryukyu Saito
Japanese Prints, Gabriele Fahr-Becker
Japanland: A Year in Search of Wa, Karin Muller
Kata: The Key to Understanding & Dealing with the Japanese, Boye Lafayette De Mente
Kawase Hasui and His Contemporaries: The Shin Hanga Movement in Landscape Art
Kokei, Kodansha Library of Japanese Art
Liquid Life: Abortion and Buddhism in Japan, William LaFleur
Little Pictures of Japan, The Bookhouse for Children
Lonely Planet Japan
Lonely Planet Japanese Phrasebook with Two-Way Dictionary
Lonely Planet Tokyo Encounter
Love Poems from the Japanese, edited by Sam Hamill & translated by Kenneth Rexroth
Meeting With Japan, Fosco Maraini
Out, Natsuo Kirino
Playthings and Pastimes in Japanese Prints, Lea Baten
Polite Lies: On Being a Woman Caught Between Cultures, Kyoko Mori
Random House Japanese-English English-Japanese Dictionary, Seigo Nakao
Sumi-E Just for You, Hakuho Hirayama
The Book of Tea, Kakuzo Okakura
The Haiku Handbook, William J. Higginson & Penny Harter
The Japanese Pottery Handbook, Penny Simpson, Lucy Kitto, Kanji Sodeoka
The Japanese Way: Aspects of Behavior, Attitudes, and Customs of the Japanese, Noriko Takada and Rita L. Lampkin
The Poetry of Zen, edited and translated by Sam Hamill & J. P. Seaton
The Road Through Miyama, Leila Philip
The Sumi-E Book, Yolanda Mayhall
The Tale of Genji, Murasaki Shikibu
Wabi-Sabi for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers
Waves and Plagues: The Art of Masami Teraoka
Zen and the Art of Calligraphy: The Essence of Sho, Omori Sogen and Terayama Katsujo translated by John Stevens
Zen Poems

Folk Art Traditions and Beyond Reading List

Art Brut: The Origins of Outsider Art, Lucienne Peiry
En Calavera: The Papier-Mache Art of the Linares Family, Susan N. Masuoka
Mexican Folk Art Retablos, Gloria Fraser Giffords
Milagros: Votive Offerings from the Americas, Martha Egan
Recycled Re-seen: Folk Art from the Global Scrap Heap, edited by Charlene Cerny and Suzanne Seriff
Relicarios: Devotional Miniatures from the Americas, Martha J. Egan
The Artist Outsider: Creativity and the Boundaries of Culture, edited by Michael D. Hall and Eugene W. Metcalf, Jr.
The Days of the Dead: Los Dias de Muertos, Rosalind Rosoff Beimler and photographs by John Greenleigh
The Skeleton at the Feast: The Day of the Dead in Mexico, Elizabeth Carmichael and Chloe Sayer
The Spirit of Folk Art: The Girard Collection at the Museum of International Folk Art, Henry Glassie

Georgia O'Keeffe and Her Influences Reading List

A Painter's Kitchen: Recipes from the Kitchen of Georgia O'Keeffe, Margaret Wood
A Woman on Paper: Georgia O'Keeffe, Anita Pollitzer
Arthur Wesley Dow and American Arts and Crafts, Nancy E. Green and Jessie Poesch
Artists of the Canyons and Caminos: Santa Fe: Early Twentieth Century, Edna Robertson and Sarah Nestor
Becoming O'Keeffe: The Early Years, Sarah Whitaker Peters
Blossoms & Bones: On the Life and Work of Georgia O'Keeffe, Christopher Buckley
Carr, O'Keeffe, Kahlo: Places of Their Own, Sharyn Rohlfsen Udall
Composition, Arthur Wesley Dow
Concerning the Spiritual in Art, Wassily Kandinsky
Contested Terrain: Myth and Meanings in Southwest Art, Sharyn R. Udall
From the Faraway Nearby: Georgia O'Keeffe as Icon, Christopher Merrill and Ellen Bradbury, editors
Full Bloom: The Art and Life of Georgia O'Keeffe, Hunter Drohojowska-Philp
Georgia O'Keeffe and New Mexico: A Sense of Place, Barbara Buhler Lynes, Lesley Poling-Kempes, and Frederick W. Turner
Georgia O'Keeffe at Ghost Ranch, John Loengard
Georgia O'Keeffe in New Mexico, Marsha Bellavance-Johnson
Georgia O'Keeffe in Williamsburg: A Re-Creation of the Artist's First Public Exhibition in the South, edited by Bonnie G. Kelm and Ann C. Madonia
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum Collections, Barbara Buhler Lynes
Georgia O'Keeffe, Georgia O'Keeffe
Georgia O'Keeffe, Lisa Mintz Messinger
Georgia O'Keeffe, Lisa Mintz Messinger
Georgia O'Keeffe, One Hundred Flowers, edited by Nicholas Callaway
Georgia O'Keeffe, Roxana Robinson
Georgia O'Keeffe: A Book of Postcards
Georgia O'Keeffe: A Celebration of Music and Dance, Katharine Hoffman
Georgia O'Keeffe: A Portrait by Alfred Steiglitz
Georgia O'Keeffe: American and Modern, Charles C. Eldredge
Georgia O'Keeffe: American and Modern, Charles C. Eldredge
Georgia O'Keeffe: Art and Letters, Jack Cowart and Juan Hamilton
Georgia O'Keeffe: Selected Paintings and Works on Paper, Gerald Peters Gallery
Georgia O'Keeffe: Some Memories of Drawings, edited by Doris Bry
Georgia O'Keeffe: The "Wideness and Wonder" of Her World, Beverly Gherman
Georgia O'Keeffe: The Artist in the Desert, Adventures in Art, Prestel
Georgia O'Keeffe: The Poetry of Things, Elizabeth Hutton Turner
In Focus: Alfred Stieglitz: Photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum
Lovingly, Georgia: The Complete Correspondence of Georgia O'Keeffe & Anita Pollitzer, edited by Clive Giboire
Maria Chabot - Georgia O'Keeffe: Correspondence 1941-1949, edited by Barbara Buhler Lynes and Ann Paden
Mensendieck Your Posture and Your Pains, Ellen B. Lagerwerff and Karen A. Perlroth
Miss O'Keeffe, Christine Taylor Patten and Alvaro Cardona-Hine
O'Keeffe & Stieglitz: An American Romance, Benita Eisler
O'Keeffe and Texas, Sharyn R. Udall
O'Keeffe at Abiquiu, Myron Wood and Christine Taylor Patten
O'Keeffe on Paper, Ruth E. Fine, Elizabeth Glassman, Barbara Buhler Lynes, and Judith C. Walsh
O'Keeffe's O'Keeffes: The Artist's Collection, Barbara Buhler Lynes
O'Keeffe, Britta Benke
O'Keeffe: Days in a Life, C. S. Merrill
Painting with O'Keeffe, John D. Poling
Paul Strand Southwest, Rebecca Busselle and Trudy Wilner Stack
Portrait of an Artist: A Biography of Georgia O'Keeffe, Laurie Lisle
Stieglitz: A Memoir/Biography, Sue Davidson Lowe
The Art & Life of Georgia O'Keeffe, Jan Garden Castro
The Art of Spiritual Harmony, Wassily Kandinsky
The Book of Tea: The Classic Work on the Japanese Tea Ceremony and the Value of Beauty, Kakuzo Okakura
The Book Room: Georgia O'Keeffe's Library in Abiquiu, curated by Ruth E. Fine, Elizabeth Glassman, and Juan Hamilton
The Secret of the Golden Flower: The Classic Chinese Book of Life, translated by Thomas Cleary
The Spirit Catchers: An Encounter with Georgia O'Keeffe, Kathleen Kudlinski
The Way of Life According to Lao Tzu, translated by Witter Bynner

Guide Book Reading List

Easy Field Guide to Rock Art Symbols of the Southwest, Rick Harris
Easy Field Guide to Southwestern Petroglyphs, Elizabeth Welsh
Easy Field Guide to the Southwestern Night Sky, Dan Heim
Field Guide to Archeological Sites in Texas, Parker Nunley
Field Guide to Mysterious Places of the West, Salvatore M. Trento
Field Guide to Rock Art Symbols of the Greater Southwest, Alex Patterson
From Santa Fe to O'Keeffe Country: A Journey Through the Soul of New Mexico, Rhoda Barkan and Peter Sinclaire
Guide to National Parks of the Southwest, Rose Houk
Guide to Prehistoric Ruins of the Southwest, Norman T. Oppelt
Guide to Trading Posts and Pueblos, Gian Mercurio and Maxymilian L. Peschel
Moon Handbook, Santa Fe, Taos & Albuquerque, Zora O'Neill
Moon Handbooks, Four Corners: Including Navajo and Hopi Country, Moab, and Lake Powell, Julian Smith
National Audubon Society Field Guide to the Southwestern States: Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, Peter Alden and Peter Friederici
New Mexico Handbook, Stephen Metzger
Off the Beaten Path: New Mexico: A Guide to Unique Places, Richard K. Harris
Santa Fe, Lawrence W. Cheek
Texas Curiosities: Quirky Characters, Roadside Oddities & Other Offbeat Stuff, John Kelso
Texas Handbook, Joe Cummings
Touring New Mexico Hot Springs, Matt Bischoff
West Texas and Big Bend: From Amarillo to Del Rio to El Paso (and in Between), Eric O'Keefe

Native American Reading List

Anasazi & Pueblo Painting, J. J. Brody
Ancient Peoples of the American Southwest, Stephen Plog
Canyon de Chelly: The Story Behind the Scenery, Charles Supplee and Douglas and Barbara Anderson
Chaco: A Cultural Legacy, Michael Strutin
Children of Clay: A Family of Pueblo Potters, Rina Swentzell
Clay, Copper and Turquoise, The Museum Collection of Chaco Culture National Historical Park
Hayden Survey 1874 - 1876 Mesa Verde and the Four Corners, Jackson & Holmes
Hopi Pottery Symbols, Alex Patterson
Houses Beneath the Rock: The Anasazi of Canyon de Chelly and Navajo National Monument, edited by David Grant Noble
How We Became Human, Joy Harjo
Hubbell Trading Post: National Historic Site, David M. Brugge
In Pictures, Canyon de Chelly: The Continuing Story, Wilson Hunter, Jr.
Indian Rock Art of the Southwest, Polly Schaafsma
Keeping Promises: What is Sovereignty and Other Questions About Indian Country, Betty Reid and Ben Winton
Mesa Verde National Park: Life Earth Sky, Susan Lamb
Mesa Verde: The Story Behind the Scenery, Linda Martin
Mud Woman, Nora Naranjo-Morse
Navaho Symbols and Healing, Donald Sandner
On the Trail of Spider Woman: Petroglyphs, Pictographs, and Myths of the Southwest, Carol Patterson-Rudolph
Petroglyphs in Rio Arriba County, Helen G. Blumenschein
Rock Art Along the Way, Janet Webb Farnsworth
Rock Art of the American Indian, Campbell Grant
The Enduring Navaho, Laura Gilpin
The Serpent and The Sacred Fire: Fertility Images in Southwest Rock Art, Dennis Slifer

As the White Crow Flies

Thursday, September 3, 2009

1 comment:

Thank you, Fund for Teachers!

Native American Reading List