American Style
June 2007
June 2007
In Lissa Hunter: Histories Real & Imagined, Abby Johnston offers a streamlined biography of Hunter that reveals the closeness of the author's relationship with the artist. After working as Hunter's assistant for years, Johnston created this volume to be the first comprehensive examination of Hunter's fiber-based mixed media. The majority of the book examines the different periods and transformations of Hunter's work, loosely providing themes and explanations within full pages of colorplates. The easy simple style of the book brings us closer to the work, closer to the narratives within.
—Claire Patterson
Praise for "Histories"
There is a quality in Lissa Hunter's baskets that enchants me. I will call it reticence and it plays so softly to my sense of the exquisite that it lifts her work to a place held by the pottery of the Yi Dynasty. Her small baskets can be as perfect in their subtlety and grace as any object of which I know. This book, with equal grace, presents the philosophic structure of Hunter's work. It is a model of its kind.
—Philip Isaacson,
Portland Press Herald