Knowing and Seeing by Douglas Cooper
In Knowing and Seeing, muralist Douglas Cooper reflects on his long career as a muralist in various cities around the world. Part memoir and part an examination of his art, Cooper looks back on his half-century career from two points of view. First, through personal anecdotes on site sketches and finished works, and secondly, on the intellectual roots of the works. Though the core ideas of his work began in Pittsburgh, Cooper has exhibited work and produced murals, up to 200 feet long, in Cologne, Rome, San Francisco, Seattle, Qatar, Frankfurt, Philadelphia, New York, and Washington DC.
Memory has been a recurring theme in his art. All of Cooper’s works are driven by a desire to combine his conception of place with his perception of it—knowing and seeing. Knowing and Seeing features personal essays and more than 240 color images, including early Christian and Renaissance paintings as well as contemporary murals and other illustrations of Cooper’s unique work.
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And the Wolf Finally Came
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Thunder In the Mountains
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Chuck Noll
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The Puzzle People
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Council Fires On the Upper Ohio
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Appalachian Autumn
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Front-Page Pittsburgh
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Pittsburgh Then And Now
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The Fallingwater Cookbook
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Flatlanders and Ridgerunners
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Palace of Culture
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Homestead (original edition)
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Pittsburgh Rising
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Race and Renaissance
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The The WPA History of the Negro in Pittsburgh
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The Pirates Reader
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Big Steel
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Triumphant Capitalism
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Iron Artisans
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Watching the River Run
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Drums In The Forest
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Appalachian Summer
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The Johnstown Girls
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Brownsville to Braddock
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Mal Goode Reporting
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Luke Swank
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Pittsburgh Surveyed
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A Wise Extravagance
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Wealth, Waste, and Alienation
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Seeing Reds
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Samuel Rosenberg
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Making Industrial Pittsburgh Modern
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Pioneer Life In Western Pennsylvania
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Bethlehem Steel
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Robert Qualters
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The River Ran Red
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The Spectator and the Topographical City
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Pathways to Our Sustainable Future
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American Dinosaur Abroad
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Buck Fever
Douglas Cooper teaches drawing in Carnegie Mellon University's architecture program. Using unusual materials for public art--charcoal on paper--he has produced large (up to 200-foot-long) panoramic murals in Frankfurt, Germany, and in New York, Philadelphia, and Pittsburgh.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780822945703 |
| ISBN 10 | 0822945703 |
| Title | Knowing and Seeing |
| Author | Douglas Cooper |
| Series | Regional |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | University of Pittsburgh Press |
| Year published | 2019-12-03 |
| Number of pages | 244 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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