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Your Reply: HTML is ON UBB Code is ON Smilies Legend	[QUOTE]Originally posted by Robert Pearlman: [B]NASA release <img src="http://www.collectspace.com/review/nasa50_nasaart01.jpg" WIDTH="500" HEIGHT="179"> <BLOCKQUOTE>[b]NASA Debuts 50th Anniversary Art Book[/b] To celebrate NASA's 50th anniversary in October, the agency is releasing the book "[URL=http://www.nasa.gov/externalflash/NASAart_book/]NASA/ART - 50 Years of Exploration[/URL]," a historic collection of almost a half-century of space-inspired artwork. In 1962, four years after NASA was founded, Administrator James E. Webb recognized space exploration would make a profound cultural impact, in addition to advancing science and technology. He established the NASA Art Program to commission pieces from prominent artists that would illustrate and interpret the space agency's missions. Since that time, the art program has enjoyed the participation of such luminaries as Robert Rauschenberg, Norman Rockwell, James Wyeth, Nam June Paik, Patti LaBelle, William Wegman, Mike and Doug Starn, and Annie Leibovitz. "Through the NASA Art Program, artists have been given an inside glimpse into the missions and programs which make up the space agency," said Bert Ulrich, the program's curator at NASA headquarters in Washington. "Through their imaginations, artists have shared an entirely new interpretation of the NASA story with the public." In "<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FNASA-ART-50-Years-Exploration%2Fdp%2F0810972875&tag=collectspace&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789& creative=9325">NASA/ART - 50 Years of Exploration</a><img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=collectspace&l=ur2&o=1" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="" style="border:none !important; margin:0px !important;" />," co-authors James Dean and Ulrich present 150 full color illustrations with essays by astronaut Michael Collins, curator Tom D. Crouch and novelist Ray Bradbury. The book, published by Harry N. Abrams, Inc., New York, will be available in October. It is a companion to the [URL=http://www.collectspace.com/ubb/Forum41/HTML/000179.html]Smithsonian traveling art exhibition[/URL] drawn from the collections of NASA and the National Air and Space Museum, which features 73 works by some of America's leading artists.</BLOCKQUOTE> [i][b]Editor's note:[/b] "NASA/ART" was previously noted under [URL=http://collectspace.com/ubb/Forum9/HTML/001101.html]NASA art prints, art books[/URL][/i][/B][/QUOTE]
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<table border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 width="600"><TR><td bgcolor="#000000"><TABLE BORDER=0 cellpadding=4 border=0 cellspacing=1 WIDTH="100%"><TR bgcolor="#660000"><TD COLSPAN=2><CENTER>T O P I C     R E V I E W</CENTER></TD></TR><TR bgcolor="#494949"><TD valign=top>Robert Pearlman</TD><TD>NASA release <img src="http://www.collectspace.com/review/nasa50_nasaart01.jpg" WIDTH="500" HEIGHT="179"> <BLOCKQUOTE>NASA Debuts 50th Anniversary Art BookTo celebrate NASA's 50th anniversary in October, the agency is releasing the book "<A HREF="http://www.nasa.gov/externalflash/NASAart_book/" TARGET=_blank>NASA/ART - 50 Years of Exploration</A>," a historic collection of almost a half-century of space-inspired artwork.In 1962, four years after NASA was founded, Administrator James E. Webb recognized space exploration would make a profound cultural impact, in addition to advancing science and technology. He established the NASA Art Program to commission pieces from prominent artists that would illustrate and interpret the space agency's missions.Since that time, the art program has enjoyed the participation of such luminaries as Robert Rauschenberg, Norman Rockwell, James Wyeth, Nam June Paik, Patti LaBelle, William Wegman, Mike and Doug Starn, and Annie Leibovitz."Through the NASA Art Program, artists have been given an inside glimpse into the missions and programs which make up the space agency," said Bert Ulrich, the program's curator at NASA headquarters in Washington. "Through their imaginations, artists have shared an entirely new interpretation of the NASA story with the public."In "<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FNASA-ART-50-Years-Exploration%2Fdp%2F0810972875&tag=collectspace&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789& creative=9325">NASA/ART - 50 Years of Exploration</a><img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=collectspace&l=ur2&o=1" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="" style="border:none !important; margin:0px !important;" />," co-authors James Dean and Ulrich present 150 full color illustrations with essays by astronaut Michael Collins, curator Tom D. Crouch and novelist Ray Bradbury. The book, published by Harry N. Abrams, Inc., New York, will be available in October. It is a companion to the <A HREF="http://www.collectspace.com/ubb/Forum41/HTML/000179.html" TARGET=_blank>Smithsonian traveling art exhibition</A> drawn from the collections of NASA and the National Air and Space Museum, which features 73 works by some of America's leading artists.</BLOCKQUOTE> Editor's note: "NASA/ART" was previously noted under <A HREF="http://collectspace.com/ubb/Forum9/HTML/001101.html" TARGET=_blank>NASA art prints, art books</A></TD></TR><TR bgcolor="#333333"><TD valign=top>KSCartist</TD><TD>Since I missed out contributing to this one, maybe I can hope to be in the "NASA/ART: 75 Years of Exploration."</TD></TR><TR bgcolor="#494949"><TD valign=top>heng44</TD><TD>You and me, Tim!</TD></TR><TR bgcolor="#333333"><TD valign=top>Larry McGlynn</TD><TD>Ed and Tim, then I will buy that 75th anniversary book when it comes out too. Hopefully not posthumanously on my part. <IMG SRC="http://www.collectspace.com/ubb/smile.gif"> I am looking forward to this new NASA art book. I have Eyewitness to Space and NASA and the Exploration of Space. </TD></TR><TR bgcolor="#494949"><TD valign=top>blue_eyes</TD><TD>Yes! Yes! Yes! I too will buy that 75th anniversary book with Ed's and Tim's fine works in it!! But only if it also includes you -- Larry McGlynn -- for supporting and encouraging so many of us (sometimes struggling) artists!! <IMG SRC="http://www.collectspace.com/ubb/smile.gif">This book is gonna be way cool. Did you click on the book-title link and see some of the examples? Holy cow! They're beautiful! And the picture of Eileen Collins?? Oooooooooohhh, AWESOME. Gave me duckbumps galore. </TD></TR><TR bgcolor="#333333"><TD valign=top>cspg</TD><TD>Pity it includes photographs (not that it's a form of art) but previous books on that topic covered drawings/paintings which are far more appealing (at least to me).</TD></TR><TR bgcolor="#494949"><TD valign=top>Philip</TD><TD>Never too late to convince Ed to include some lithograph of one of his best paintings into a spaceflight related publication.</TD></TR></TABLE></td></tr></table>

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