PUBLICATIONS
Field work in the South, the Midwest, and beyond has resulted in three scholarly books authored by Art as well as over 14 annotated LPs and CDs. The boxed set Art of Field Recording Vol. I: Fifty Years of American Traditional Music, on Dust-to-Digital, won a Grammy for Best Documentary Recording in 2008. He has also written three instruction books on old-time banjo. Over the years four LPs and CDs featuring Art's own playing and singing have been released.
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Retrospective Exhibition Catalog
Weaving His Art on Golden Looms: Paintings and Drawings by Art Rosenbaum
This catalog accompanied Art Rosenbaum's first major retrospective exhibition in 2006 at the Georgia Museum of Art, curated by Dennis Harper, with essays by Harper and Paul Manoguerra, Curator of American Art. There are also entries by Willilam Underwood Eiland, Director of the Museum, and Len Jenkin, playwright and novelist. The catalog is illustrated with 51 full-color images of the entire checklist of paintings, drawings and prints from 1953 through 2005. The title comes from a poem by self-taught artist, Reverend Howard Finster:
"Art Rosenbaum has a lot of fun
Playing his banjow [sic] in different tunes
weaving his art on golden looms."
Margo's Coffee Table Book
Drawing with Light: Photographs by Margo Newmark Rosenbaum
Margo Newmark Rosenbaum is a photographer and painter. Drawing with Light is an essential sampler of her vision as a photographic artist—a sort of one-person exhibition of an artist who has spent a lifetime exploring the visible world in her own distinctive way. Includes a perceptive introduction by photographer, folklorist, and curator Fred Fussell.