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[San Antonio Light, Sunday, Nov. 30, 1986]

Texas aficionado pens an art-of-the-state book
By Steve Bennett
Staff writer

In June 1985, Annette DiMeo Carlozzi, then senior curator of the Laguna Gloria Art Museum in Austin, got a call from Laurel H. Jones, a Texas then directing the Aspen Art Museum in Colorado.  Jones had an assignment for Carlozzi:  Would she be interested in selecting and writing about 50 contemporary Texas artists for the San Francisco-based Chronicle Books' "50 Artists Series"?

To fill what it saw as a gap in arts coverage, Chronicle had already published "50 Northwest Artists" and "50 West Coast Artists," and Jones had sold Chronicle on the idea of continuing the series with a Texas artists collection. Carlozzi accepted her assignment.

"I didn't think of it as a museum catalog at all," Carlozzi said in a telephone interview.  Carlozzi now directs the Aspen Art Museum, Jones' old stomping grounds.  Jones recently moved to San Francisco, where her husband received a job offer he couldn't refuse. She is currently taking a sabbatical from museum work, though her interest in the art of her native state remains strong.

"I wanted to reach a general audience and introduce the art of Texas on a national level," Carlozzi said. I'm generally pleased with the book, with the fact that people outside the state have a chance to get to know some new artists."

Carlozzi had only six weeks to

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HUMANSCAPE 136: a piece by Mel Casas, chairman of the art department at San Antonio College, who is included in "50 Texas Artists."

50 TEXAS ARTISTS
WHAT: Book devoted to contemporary art in Texas.
PUBLISHER: Chronicle Books, $35 hardcover, $18.95 trade paperback