gerald & maas
editions / atelier
veracruz julie maas (1969)Founded by author & artist in 1978 and ongoing. For students, writers, artists, partisans, deserters, pacifists, victims, the banned, the forgotten, teachers, caretakers, and anyone who can just get along the continuing saga of our generations on the hills, on the plains, in the streets of our cities, amid the powerful and poor and a confidence game of survival, where the people's dreams of North America are still alive under a flag of resistance to inhumanity - publishing haphazardly from here and there.
Works
in our press and atelier
Albert Schweitzer René Tavernier United Nations Texts Elizabeth Bart Gerald George Maas Julie Maas John Bart Gerald
le problème de l'éthique dans l'evolution de la pensée humaine / the difficulty of ethics in the evolution of human thought, translation by J.B. Gerald. Preface by Rhena Schweitzer Miller. French text: Revue des Travaux de l'Académie des Sciences Morales & Politiques. Bilingual edition. 1985
Poèmes 34 Poems. Ed. and translation by J.B. Gerald. Introduction by René Tavernier. Bilingual edition. 1984.
In 1987 the French Academy awarded René Tavernier "le Grand Prix de poésie de l'Académie française pour l'ensemble de son oeuvre."
The Crime of Genocide & Bill of Human Rights: U.N. Texts (ed. J.B. Gerald). 1989.
This edition was published with U.N. permission when we found their publication of the Convention on Genocide out of print.
Common Rights and Expectations: United Nations texts of primary treaties concerning rights of people, ed. & foreword, J.B. Gerald. (Canadian revised edition) 1996.
Free online
Night's Lantern genocide warnings
Elizabeth Bart Gerald
Elizabeth Bart Gerald was born in Cleveland Ohio September 8, 1905. She received a Cleveland Museum School of Art fellowship (The Gottwald Scholarship) to study in Europe in the late 1920's, with Alberto Giacometti and Andre l'Hote in Paris, with Hans Hoffman in Italy. Her early works appeared in Cleveland Museum School May exhibitions in the Thirties and the Forties after the war. She lived in Toronto then New York City. Her paintings are in the collections of the Cleveland Museum of Art, The Whitney Museum of American Art , the Brooklyn Museum, etc.. Art and painting was the consuming focus of her life yet she was never a recognized American artist. She died September 1, 1990, in Tucson Arizona.
Antimo Beneduce, aka Portrait of Uli. An artist and one of her teachers at Cleveland Museum School. c. 1928. Cleveland.
Untitled. Mexico. c. 1953. New York.
Balcony. c. 1930. Italy.
George Maas
George Maas was born in Kansas City Missouri March 17, 1910. As a young man he studied with Thomas Hart Benton. As WWII began he won the Artists for Victory / Museum of Modern Art National War Poster Competition under the "Slave World or Free World" theme which gained him assignment to the U.S. Office of War Information in London (He was about to be sent as a foot soldier in the U.S. efforts against the Japanese in China). After the War he returned to work in New York City, and was known for his designs of Mercury record covers and anti-fascism. He retired to continue painting on Cape Cod though never gained recognition as an American painter. He died of a puzzling unidentified invasive pneumonia, January 12, 1998, in Boston Massachusetts.
Untitled (Silwan), a gouache sketch c. 1990. Wellfleet.
beirut 4/20 a woodcut, c. 1982. Wellfleet.
Red tree a gouache study, c. 1980 - 90. Wellfleet.
Julie Maas, born 1944, New York City, learned her art from her parents and began an early career as an illustrator. This yielded increasingly to her etching and painting which she has continued for sixty years. In 1978 she teamed with her partner John Bart Gerald to form author & artist which became Gerald & Maas editions / atelier, publishing and displaying artwork in New York, Massachusetts, Maine, Ontario and Quebec. She currently lives and works in Montreal, and sometimes Maine.
A Alphabet. Printed, hand-stitched, bound in-house. 2007. Paper. Digital edition,This book was performed as a dance on our street in Montreal.
Works on paper
Folio 1.. Three etchings with watercolour. "Real books,""Night thoughts,""42nd street." Numbered edition of 50 (stopped at 33), 1981.
Folio 2. Two etchings with watercolour. "Disappeared" and "Green comb." Edition of 50 (stopped at 24), 1982.
Folio 3. Two etchings with watercolour. "Greetings from New England" and "Hats and Masks." Edition of 50 (stopped at 9), 1983.
Folio 4. "an alphabet" (1 & 2). 1983. Available at Fitch-Febvrel Gallery
Folio 5. 4 etchings with aquatint, gardens in Menton: "Menton night," "Dream Palm," "Foliage," "Datura." Edition of 7. 1984.
Folio 6. Ten blockprints for Plainsongs. Unnumbered, 1986.
Folio 7. The 14 original etchings which appeared in applegather .
Folio 8. Two etchings about etching. Edition of 7, 1985.
Folio 9.. Two etchings with watercolour. "Sandbar" and "Tide." Edition of 10, 1986.
Folio 10. 3 small etchings with watercolour, on two pages. "Spirit of the Squash." Edition of 13, 1986.
Folio 11. Exiles, two etchings with aquatint. "Cafe" and "Bar." Edition of 20, 1989.
Folio 12. 5 blockprints, 3 colour on cover and 4 portraits, "Earth,""Air,""Fire,""Water." Edition of 15 (incomplete), 1990.
Folio 13."Carnival world," 4 etchings w. chine coll?e & stamps. 4" x 4". Edition of 12 (incomplete), 2010.
Single etchings
"Lowertown." Color etching (3 plates). Image size 7.5" x 9" +/-. Edition of 10. 1997."Because upstairs they are crazy." Image size 7.5" x 9" +/-. Edition of 22. 2006.
"October." Image size 8.75" x 7.5" +/-. Edition of 10. 1999.
"New year horse." Etching with chine-coll?. image size 4" x4". 2002.
"Cold spring." Color etching (3 plates)/ aquatint, with bird stamps. Image size 9" x 7.25". 1997.
"Dog & the moon." Etching from applegather. 4" x 6". 1978
"Ferris Wheel." Etching. 4"x 4". 2008
Others
Print City, unique blockprint, approximately 33" by 47" built with the artist's linocuts and found objects on one sheet of handmade paper, completed 2005.
Gerald and Maas posters and broadsheets, artwork by J. Maas. Text by J.B. Gerald. Design by Gerald & Maas.
7 posters, Images by J. Maas, poems by J.B. Gerald. 11" x 14. Folio. 2004.
Daybreak,
a painting.
Depleted uranium,
a painting.
Gaza, a painting.
Green string, a painting.
Lost painting. Painted in Ottawa durng the 1990s. People were dying in the desert as they tried to enter the U.S. from Mexico. The painting itself was lost or painted over.
Red arabesque, a painting.
Veracruz, a painting.
John Bart Gerald, born in New York City, 1940, began writing in the 1960's, publishing novels with Viking and Farrar, Straus & Giroux and in magazines and anthologies. In 1978 he teamed with his partner the artist Julie Maas to form author & artist which became Gerald & Maas editions / atelier, publishing in paper and online, and displaying artwork, in New York, Massachusetts, Maine, Ontario and Quebec. Since the late 1990's much of his work is concerned with the prevention of genocide and appears on their website, nightslantern.ca. He lives and works in Montreal. Graphics and illustrations are by Julie Maas.
37 Poems Blockprint cover. 1998.
"a small telling treasure..." - Puckerbrush Review
Applegather, a mythical American underground, a novel with Calligraphy J. Maas and etching reproductions. 1978.
"Bravo" -Grace Paley.
"Both the typography and illustrations allow one to appreciate this book as an art work alone." - Jacob Lawrence.
"...wonderfully poetic...the etchings are a just complement..."- Romare Bearden.
Arguments with the Thought Police, essays. With drawings. 2002. Paper and digital editions.
Conscience, a novel. With scratchboard illustrations. 1984.
Amidst the turbulence of revolutionary Africa. the slums and universities of Boston, the spare and vivid story of a young latin scholar's journey to the belly of the beast...
Country Poems. With drawings as illustrations.
"Les poésies de John B.G. me semblent véritablement un regard neuf sur les êtres et sur le monde. La modernité des sujets, la justesse du style sont indéniables..." René Tavenier
Dissident Accounts. (aka Silencing of an American Writer) 1980.
Early Lessons,10 short stories. Illustrations. 1992.
"...is a good book...the art works like the stories, are simple, beautiful and worth the time to get to know." Anarchy magazine.
Geometry, or the Unwanted Man, a novel. With two original blockprints . Numbered edition of 300, signed by author & artist.
Internal Exile, 10 short stories. Illustrations.
Including stories from The Best American Short Stories of 1969 and 1970
Jonsongs, poems.
First edition. 1981..
Jonsongs, poems. Second edition. Calligraphy J. Maas. 1982.
Lectures for Nonconformists, essays. Drawings. 1983.
Manifest, essays. Graphics. 2007. Print & digital editions.
Essays discovering the genocides we're living through and where they come from...
"... powerful and enlightening in these dark times of the downfall of empire..." Daniel Berrigan
New Englanders,10 short stories. With blockprints . 1992.
"...goes to the very bone of existence..." - Maine in Print.
On Resistance. 1982. Pamphlet. ISBN 0-941917-05-3.
Plainsongs, poems. With blockprints and calligraphy J. Maas. 1985.
Poems from a River City 2000.
River with Lights, poems. With drawings as illustrations. 2005.
"Your art gives wings to our striving..." Daniel Berrigan
"It is heartening in an age of surprising apathy, to encounter poetry so committed to the union of art and life. These poems are rarely about just one thing, but are pointing to the interconnectedness of all things. They bring home the web of history, race, economics, exploitation, and stifling conformity which surrounds us. These are really songs of resistance, whose harsh truths are tempered by the nobility of action and the beauty of the natural world." - Keith Althaus
"A great little book of great little poems, some personal, some political, all heartfelt. Hauntingly illustrated. Inspirational." - Michael Mandel
"Published just before the end of 2005, this collection of poems is dedicated to the disappeared and encompasses colonial oppression, wars of liberation, prison, those who died on 9/11 and in the 'war on terror,' lies of politicians, but also love, natural beauty, and truth. This book reminds busy activists of the power of just a few words and art to touch people on a different level than articles and speeches can." - Ruth Benn, Nonviolent Activist
"It is always a pleasure to see what can be accomplished by Canadians when they passionately engage all their talents and resources to shape their dreams. Your efforts have produced a wonderful collection, as well as beautiful drawings, that can be enjoyed by Canadians across the country." - Michaëlle Jean as Governor General of Canada.
Sources of Contemporary Genocide. Graphics. (Imprint John Bart Gerald & Julie Maas, Montreal, and Tablo PTY Ltd. Melbourne, 2020. Paper & digital .
Soul Game, an American novel. 1980.
Truth and Maud, a modern allegory. 1987. .
Night's Lantern. A website concerned with the prevention of genocide, by John Bart Gerald with graphics and artwork by Julie Maas and guest contributions as credited. Canada, Gerald and Maas, 2001- ongoing [access:< https://nightslantern.ca >].
To reach Julie Maas or John Bart Gerald - gandm@nightslantern.ca
