Ezra Shales
Ezra Shales is a professor of art history at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design and has a PhD from the Bard Graduate Center and an MFA. from Hunter College. He has published numerous articles and essays on contemporary art, most recently on Tom Joyce, Michael Sherill, Kim Dickey, and Shari Mendelson. He is currently writing introductions for new editions of David Pye’s seminal books The Nature of Design (1964) and The Nature and Art of Workmanship (1968).
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Made in Newark
Cultivating Industrial Arts and Civic Identity in the Progressive Era
By Ezra Shales
Rutgers University Press, Rivergate Books
What does it mean to turn the public library or museum into a civic forum? Made in Newark describes a turbulent industrial city at the dawn of the twentieth century and the ways it inspired the library's outspoken director, John Cotton Dana, to collaborate with industrialists, social workers, educators, and New Women.
- Copyright year: 2010
Human
The Art of Beth Cavener
SF Design, llc / FrescoBooks
The animals in Beth Cavener's work are better described as avatars, embodiments of persons or emotions that disguise her subjects.
- Copyright year: 2019
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