Books & Exhibition Catalogues
* = Exhibition Catalogue
2022 Cameron, Dan / Zahn, Mike / Pazo Fine Art. * The Technological Sublime, October 2022.
2020 McCray, W. Patrick. Making Art Work: How Cold War Engineers and Artists Forged a New Creative Culture. Publisher: The MIT Press.
2020 McCall, Michael. Captain Squid & The Tentacle Room: Adventures in Life, Love & Art
2017 Hopps, Walter / Treisman, Deborah / Doran, Anne. The Dream Colony: A Life in Art.
2013 Goddard, Stephen. * Rockne Krebs: Drawings for Sculpture You Can Walk Through, August 2013 -
January 2014. Spencer Museum of Art, The University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS.
2013 Cohen, Jean Lawlor / Tebow, Elizabeth / Lawrence, Sidney / Forgey, Benjamin. Washington
Art Matters: Art Life in the Capital 1940-1990. Publisher: Washington Arts Museum.
2013 Harrison, Carol. Rockne Krebs Photographs + Interpretations ISBN: 978-1-939793-00-3
2013 Harrison, Carol. Rockne Krebs crystal + star Illuminations ISBN: 978-1-939793-01-0
2012 Best, Janet (Editor). Colour Design: Theories and Applications. Osborne, R. M. The history of colour theory in art, design and science.
2011 Copeland, John. Selections from the Collection: Miami-Dade Art in Public Places, Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs
2011 Marquis Who's Who. Who’s Who in the World 2012
2011 Nathanson, Carol A. (Editor). Tracing Vision: Modern Drawings from the Georgia Museum of Art
2010 Firmin, Sandra Q. * Artpark: 1974-1984
2009 Ran, Faye. A History of Installation Art and the Development of New Art Forms
2008 Ward, Gerald W. R. The Grove Encyclopedia of Materials and Techniques in Art
2005 Binstock, Jonathan P. Sam Gilliam: A Retrospective
2005 AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor). The Artists Bluebook
2005 Davenport, Ray. Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005 Alexander, M. Darsie (others). SlideShow
2004 McGowan, Alison C. (Editor). Who's Who in American Art 2003 - 2004 (25th Edition)
2002 Waldman, Gary. Introduction to Light: The Physics of Light, Vision, and Color
2001 Belloli, Jay. * The Universe: A Convergence of Art, Music, and Science
2001 Kostelanetz, Ric. A Dictionary of the Avant-Gardes
2001 Marquis Who’s Who. Who’s Who in the World 2001
2000 Kemp, Martin (Editor). The Oxford History of Western Art
2000 Smith, G.E. Kidder. Source Book of American Architecture: 500 Notable Buildings from the 10th Century to the Present. Princeton Architectural Press
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor). Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975, Three Volumes
1998 Chilvers, Ian (Editor). A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art
1997 Marquis Who's Who. Who's Who in American Art, 1997-1998
1997 Steiner, Wendy. The Scandal of Pleasure: Art in an Age of Fundamentalism, University of Chicago Press. Mapplethorpe Projections on the Corcoran Gallery of Art, pp. 20-21.
1996 Heyne, Pamela. Mirror by Design: Using Reflection to Transform Space
1996 Stiles,Kristine / Selz, Peter Howard. Theories and Documents of Contemporary Art
1993 Bowker, R.R. Who's Who in American Art: 1993-1994 20th Edition
1992 International Contemporary Art Fair, Japan. Public Art Proposals
1992 Seitz, William C. Art in the Age of Aquarius: 1955-1970
1992 Senie, H. F. Contemporary Public Sculpture: Tradition, Transformation, and Controversy
1991 Hoffman, Katherine. Explorations: The Visual Arts since 1945
1990 Hayward, Philip. Culture, Technology & Creativity in the Late Twentieth Century
1988 Arden, Blakeslee, and Steis. Washington Art: A Guide to Galleries, Art Consultants, and Museums.
1987 Katzive, David H. (others). * Fringe Patterns: Six Contemporary Works with Scientific Or Metaphoric Ties to the 1887 Michelson-Morley Experiment, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art
1986 Jaques Cattell Press. Who's Who in American Art-1986
1985 Weintraub, Linda. * The Maximal Implications of the Minimal Line, Edith C. Blum Art Institute
1985 Public Art Trust (Washington, D.C.). * Translucid Sculpture at Washington Square
1985 Artists Committee for the Washington Show. * The Washington Show, The Corcoran Gallery
of Art
1984 Opitz, Glenn B. (Editor). Dictionary of American Sculptors: 18th Century to the Present
1983 Belloli, Jay. * Rockne Krebs: A Retrospective of Drawings, 1965-1982
1983 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Center for Advanced Visual Studies, conference catalogue, * Sky Art Conference ’83, Rockne Krebs, Fellow, C.A.V.S., 1973-74.
1982 Suares, J.C. (others). Washington, D.C.
1981 Michael, Hall and Slade, Roy. * Instruction Drawings: The Gilbert and Lila Silverman Collection.
Publisher: Cranbrook Academy of Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI.
1981 Redstone, Louis G., FAIA. Public Art: New Directions
1981 Osborne, Roy. Lights and Pigments: Colour Principles for Artists. John Murray Publishers Ltd., 1980, London, 1981, New York.
1980 General Services Administration. * Topeka Krebs [and] Castoro
1980 Johannessen, Joy. The Place of Art in the World of Architecture
1980 National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. * Across The Nation: Fine Art for Federal Buildings, 1972 - 1979
1980 University of Maryland, The Art Gallery, College Park, MD. * Sculpture Today: Traditional and
Non-Traditional, 11th International Sculpture Conference
1980 Burnham, Jack. Art and Technology: The Panacea That Failed from: The Myths of Information, ed. Kathleen Woodward, Coda Press. http://www.etantdonnes.com/SystemsArt/Burnham_Panacea_1980.pdf
"In retrospect one could divide the artists participating into three categories: the techno-artists such as Robert Whitman, Rockne Krebs, Newton Harrison, and Boyd Mefferd who were esthetically allied with the light and kinetic movement; New York "name" artists such as Claes Oldenburg, Roy Lichtenstein, Richard Serra, Tony Smith, Andy Warhol, and Robert Rauschenberg who were only tangentially connected with art and technology; and finally the oddballs such as James Lee Byars, Ron Kitaj, and Oyvind Falstrom who provided the show's element of serendipity."
1980 Mack Randall, Charles. * A Campus Collects: The University of South Carolina Art Gallery in the McKissick Museums.
1979 Karpel, Bernard/Spiegel, Ruth. Arts in America/A Bibliography, Volume 1 (Sculpture, the West)
1979 Brown, Milton W./Hunter, Sam/Jacobus, John/Rosenblum, Naomi/Sokol, David M. American Art:
Painting • Sculpture • Decorative Arts • Photography. Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers.
1978 United States General Services Administration. * Art-in-Architecture Program
1978 * 10th International Sculpture Conference: S/10: Sculpture Today, 1978, York University, Toronto, Canada, conference catalogue.
1978 * Arcosanti Festival 78: Art in the Environment, Kinetic Art, Sky Sculpture, Environmental
Light Show : October 5 Thru 8, Cordes Junction, Arizona, 1978, published by the Cosanti Foundation.
1976 Jaques Cattell Press. Who's Who in American Art-1976 12th Edition
1976 Edelman, Sharon (Editor). * Artpark: The Program in Visual Arts
1976 Robinette, Margaret A. Outdoor Sculpture: Object and Environment
1976 Marquis Who’s Who in America, 1976/1977
1975 National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. * Sculpture: American Directions, 1945-1975
1975 Rose, Barbara. Readings in American Art 1900-1975
1975 Spaeth, Eloise. American Art Museums: An Introduction to Looking
1974 Friedman, Martin/Felshin, Nina (others). * Projected Images: Campus, Krebs, Sharits, Snow, Victoria, Walker Art Center
1974 Kress, Jocelyn. * Art Now 74: A Celebration of the American Arts, John. F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
1974 Plagens, Peter. Sunshine muse; contemporary art on the west coast. Publisher Praeger
1973 Johnson, Charlotte Buel. Contemporary Art: Exploring Its Roots and Development
1973 R O Products, Inc. * the art of light and power. Artists, Ed McGowin, Rockne Krebs, William Christenberry, and Fred Pitts.
1973 Davis, Douglas. Art and the Future: A History/Prophecy of the Collaboration between Science, Technology and Art.
1972 Krebs, Rockne. June 8, 1972. Light is the City at Night, Latter Center, New Orleans, LA.
1971 Woods, James N. * Rockne Krebs, Albright-Knox Art Gallery
1971 Tuchman, Maurice. * Art and Technology, A Report on the Art and Technology Program of the
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1967-1971. Livingston, Jane. “Rockne Krebs, A Report on the Art and Technology Program” pp. 165-185.
1971 Friedman, Martin. * Works For New Spaces, Walker Art Center.
1971 Museum of Fine Arts (St. Petersburg, FL.) and the Jacksonville Art Museum (Jacksonville, FL.),
* Transparent and Translucent Art
1971 Stamm, Gunther, Columbia Museum of Art. * Washington Art. Artists, William Christenberry, Donald Corrigan, Sam Gilliam, Rockne Krebs, Ed McGowin, Carroll Sockwell, A. Brockie Stevenson and Eliott Thompson.
1971 Lastra, Luis / Gilliam, Sam. * D.C. , Madison Art Center, Madison, WI. Artists, William Christenberry, Gene Davis, Thomas Downing, Sam Gilliam, Rockne Krebs, Blaine Larson, Ed McGowin, Howard Mehring, Paul Reed, Elliot Thompson and Ed Zerne.
1971 Dorrance, Nesta. * 25 Washington Artists, The Art Society of The International Monetary Fund, Twelfth Floor Gallery, Washington, DC.
1970 Speyer, James A. * 69th American Exhibition, The Art Institute of Chicago
1970 Hudson, Andrew. * Ten Washington Artists, 1950-1970: Morris Louis, Kenneth Noland, Gene Davis, Thomas Downing, Howard Mehring, Sam Gilliam, Blaine Larson, Michael Clark, J. L. Knight, Rockne Krebs, Edmonton Art Gallery, Alberta, Canada
1970 U.S. Information Agency. * United States Pavilion Japan World Exposition Osaka 1970. Seven American artists in the New Arts exhibition, Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Claes Oldenburg, Tony Smith, Newton Harrison, Boyd Mefferd, Robert Whitman and Rockne Krebs.
1970 Johnson, Diana F., Baltimore Museum of Art. * Washington: Twenty Years
1969 Atkinson, Tracy (others). * A Plastic Presence
1969 Ahlander, Leslie Judd. Art in Washington 1969
1968 Whitney Museum of American Art. * Whitney Museum of American Art 1968 Annual Exhibition
Sculpture
1968 A film by Edward Kelley on Krebs’ Photon Structures (In 1977, BBC New York had copies of the film.)
1968 Richard, Paul. * Plasticos Washington D.C. 1968, The Latin American Art Foundation, San Juan, Puerto Rico. Artists, Enid Cafritz, Dignac, Juan Downey, Rockne Krebs, Ed McGowin.
1966 Whitney Museum of American Art. * Whitney Museum of American Art Annual Exhibition 1966, Sculpture and Prints
1965 Corcoran Gallery of Art. * 17th Area Exhibition, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
2020 McCray, W. Patrick. Making Art Work: How Cold War Engineers and Artists Forged a New Creative Culture. Publisher: The MIT Press.
2020 McCall, Michael. Captain Squid & The Tentacle Room: Adventures in Life, Love & Art
2017 Hopps, Walter / Treisman, Deborah / Doran, Anne. The Dream Colony: A Life in Art.
2013 Goddard, Stephen. * Rockne Krebs: Drawings for Sculpture You Can Walk Through, August 2013 -
January 2014. Spencer Museum of Art, The University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS.
2013 Cohen, Jean Lawlor / Tebow, Elizabeth / Lawrence, Sidney / Forgey, Benjamin. Washington
Art Matters: Art Life in the Capital 1940-1990. Publisher: Washington Arts Museum.
2013 Harrison, Carol. Rockne Krebs Photographs + Interpretations ISBN: 978-1-939793-00-3
2013 Harrison, Carol. Rockne Krebs crystal + star Illuminations ISBN: 978-1-939793-01-0
2012 Best, Janet (Editor). Colour Design: Theories and Applications. Osborne, R. M. The history of colour theory in art, design and science.
2011 Copeland, John. Selections from the Collection: Miami-Dade Art in Public Places, Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs
2011 Marquis Who's Who. Who’s Who in the World 2012
2011 Nathanson, Carol A. (Editor). Tracing Vision: Modern Drawings from the Georgia Museum of Art
2010 Firmin, Sandra Q. * Artpark: 1974-1984
2009 Ran, Faye. A History of Installation Art and the Development of New Art Forms
2008 Ward, Gerald W. R. The Grove Encyclopedia of Materials and Techniques in Art
2005 Binstock, Jonathan P. Sam Gilliam: A Retrospective
2005 AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor). The Artists Bluebook
2005 Davenport, Ray. Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005 Alexander, M. Darsie (others). SlideShow
2004 McGowan, Alison C. (Editor). Who's Who in American Art 2003 - 2004 (25th Edition)
2002 Waldman, Gary. Introduction to Light: The Physics of Light, Vision, and Color
2001 Belloli, Jay. * The Universe: A Convergence of Art, Music, and Science
2001 Kostelanetz, Ric. A Dictionary of the Avant-Gardes
2001 Marquis Who’s Who. Who’s Who in the World 2001
2000 Kemp, Martin (Editor). The Oxford History of Western Art
2000 Smith, G.E. Kidder. Source Book of American Architecture: 500 Notable Buildings from the 10th Century to the Present. Princeton Architectural Press
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor). Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975, Three Volumes
1998 Chilvers, Ian (Editor). A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art
1997 Marquis Who's Who. Who's Who in American Art, 1997-1998
1997 Steiner, Wendy. The Scandal of Pleasure: Art in an Age of Fundamentalism, University of Chicago Press. Mapplethorpe Projections on the Corcoran Gallery of Art, pp. 20-21.
1996 Heyne, Pamela. Mirror by Design: Using Reflection to Transform Space
1996 Stiles,Kristine / Selz, Peter Howard. Theories and Documents of Contemporary Art
1993 Bowker, R.R. Who's Who in American Art: 1993-1994 20th Edition
1992 International Contemporary Art Fair, Japan. Public Art Proposals
1992 Seitz, William C. Art in the Age of Aquarius: 1955-1970
1992 Senie, H. F. Contemporary Public Sculpture: Tradition, Transformation, and Controversy
1991 Hoffman, Katherine. Explorations: The Visual Arts since 1945
1990 Hayward, Philip. Culture, Technology & Creativity in the Late Twentieth Century
1988 Arden, Blakeslee, and Steis. Washington Art: A Guide to Galleries, Art Consultants, and Museums.
1987 Katzive, David H. (others). * Fringe Patterns: Six Contemporary Works with Scientific Or Metaphoric Ties to the 1887 Michelson-Morley Experiment, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art
1986 Jaques Cattell Press. Who's Who in American Art-1986
1985 Weintraub, Linda. * The Maximal Implications of the Minimal Line, Edith C. Blum Art Institute
1985 Public Art Trust (Washington, D.C.). * Translucid Sculpture at Washington Square
1985 Artists Committee for the Washington Show. * The Washington Show, The Corcoran Gallery
of Art
1984 Opitz, Glenn B. (Editor). Dictionary of American Sculptors: 18th Century to the Present
1983 Belloli, Jay. * Rockne Krebs: A Retrospective of Drawings, 1965-1982
1983 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Center for Advanced Visual Studies, conference catalogue, * Sky Art Conference ’83, Rockne Krebs, Fellow, C.A.V.S., 1973-74.
1982 Suares, J.C. (others). Washington, D.C.
1981 Michael, Hall and Slade, Roy. * Instruction Drawings: The Gilbert and Lila Silverman Collection.
Publisher: Cranbrook Academy of Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI.
1981 Redstone, Louis G., FAIA. Public Art: New Directions
1981 Osborne, Roy. Lights and Pigments: Colour Principles for Artists. John Murray Publishers Ltd., 1980, London, 1981, New York.
1980 General Services Administration. * Topeka Krebs [and] Castoro
1980 Johannessen, Joy. The Place of Art in the World of Architecture
1980 National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. * Across The Nation: Fine Art for Federal Buildings, 1972 - 1979
1980 University of Maryland, The Art Gallery, College Park, MD. * Sculpture Today: Traditional and
Non-Traditional, 11th International Sculpture Conference
1980 Burnham, Jack. Art and Technology: The Panacea That Failed from: The Myths of Information, ed. Kathleen Woodward, Coda Press. http://www.etantdonnes.com/SystemsArt/Burnham_Panacea_1980.pdf
"In retrospect one could divide the artists participating into three categories: the techno-artists such as Robert Whitman, Rockne Krebs, Newton Harrison, and Boyd Mefferd who were esthetically allied with the light and kinetic movement; New York "name" artists such as Claes Oldenburg, Roy Lichtenstein, Richard Serra, Tony Smith, Andy Warhol, and Robert Rauschenberg who were only tangentially connected with art and technology; and finally the oddballs such as James Lee Byars, Ron Kitaj, and Oyvind Falstrom who provided the show's element of serendipity."
1980 Mack Randall, Charles. * A Campus Collects: The University of South Carolina Art Gallery in the McKissick Museums.
1979 Karpel, Bernard/Spiegel, Ruth. Arts in America/A Bibliography, Volume 1 (Sculpture, the West)
1979 Brown, Milton W./Hunter, Sam/Jacobus, John/Rosenblum, Naomi/Sokol, David M. American Art:
Painting • Sculpture • Decorative Arts • Photography. Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers.
1978 United States General Services Administration. * Art-in-Architecture Program
1978 * 10th International Sculpture Conference: S/10: Sculpture Today, 1978, York University, Toronto, Canada, conference catalogue.
1978 * Arcosanti Festival 78: Art in the Environment, Kinetic Art, Sky Sculpture, Environmental
Light Show : October 5 Thru 8, Cordes Junction, Arizona, 1978, published by the Cosanti Foundation.
1976 Jaques Cattell Press. Who's Who in American Art-1976 12th Edition
1976 Edelman, Sharon (Editor). * Artpark: The Program in Visual Arts
1976 Robinette, Margaret A. Outdoor Sculpture: Object and Environment
1976 Marquis Who’s Who in America, 1976/1977
1975 National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. * Sculpture: American Directions, 1945-1975
1975 Rose, Barbara. Readings in American Art 1900-1975
1975 Spaeth, Eloise. American Art Museums: An Introduction to Looking
1974 Friedman, Martin/Felshin, Nina (others). * Projected Images: Campus, Krebs, Sharits, Snow, Victoria, Walker Art Center
1974 Kress, Jocelyn. * Art Now 74: A Celebration of the American Arts, John. F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
1974 Plagens, Peter. Sunshine muse; contemporary art on the west coast. Publisher Praeger
1973 Johnson, Charlotte Buel. Contemporary Art: Exploring Its Roots and Development
1973 R O Products, Inc. * the art of light and power. Artists, Ed McGowin, Rockne Krebs, William Christenberry, and Fred Pitts.
1973 Davis, Douglas. Art and the Future: A History/Prophecy of the Collaboration between Science, Technology and Art.
1972 Krebs, Rockne. June 8, 1972. Light is the City at Night, Latter Center, New Orleans, LA.
1971 Woods, James N. * Rockne Krebs, Albright-Knox Art Gallery
1971 Tuchman, Maurice. * Art and Technology, A Report on the Art and Technology Program of the
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1967-1971. Livingston, Jane. “Rockne Krebs, A Report on the Art and Technology Program” pp. 165-185.
1971 Friedman, Martin. * Works For New Spaces, Walker Art Center.
1971 Museum of Fine Arts (St. Petersburg, FL.) and the Jacksonville Art Museum (Jacksonville, FL.),
* Transparent and Translucent Art
1971 Stamm, Gunther, Columbia Museum of Art. * Washington Art. Artists, William Christenberry, Donald Corrigan, Sam Gilliam, Rockne Krebs, Ed McGowin, Carroll Sockwell, A. Brockie Stevenson and Eliott Thompson.
1971 Lastra, Luis / Gilliam, Sam. * D.C. , Madison Art Center, Madison, WI. Artists, William Christenberry, Gene Davis, Thomas Downing, Sam Gilliam, Rockne Krebs, Blaine Larson, Ed McGowin, Howard Mehring, Paul Reed, Elliot Thompson and Ed Zerne.
1971 Dorrance, Nesta. * 25 Washington Artists, The Art Society of The International Monetary Fund, Twelfth Floor Gallery, Washington, DC.
1970 Speyer, James A. * 69th American Exhibition, The Art Institute of Chicago
1970 Hudson, Andrew. * Ten Washington Artists, 1950-1970: Morris Louis, Kenneth Noland, Gene Davis, Thomas Downing, Howard Mehring, Sam Gilliam, Blaine Larson, Michael Clark, J. L. Knight, Rockne Krebs, Edmonton Art Gallery, Alberta, Canada
1970 U.S. Information Agency. * United States Pavilion Japan World Exposition Osaka 1970. Seven American artists in the New Arts exhibition, Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Claes Oldenburg, Tony Smith, Newton Harrison, Boyd Mefferd, Robert Whitman and Rockne Krebs.
1970 Johnson, Diana F., Baltimore Museum of Art. * Washington: Twenty Years
1969 Atkinson, Tracy (others). * A Plastic Presence
1969 Ahlander, Leslie Judd. Art in Washington 1969
1968 Whitney Museum of American Art. * Whitney Museum of American Art 1968 Annual Exhibition
Sculpture
1968 A film by Edward Kelley on Krebs’ Photon Structures (In 1977, BBC New York had copies of the film.)
1968 Richard, Paul. * Plasticos Washington D.C. 1968, The Latin American Art Foundation, San Juan, Puerto Rico. Artists, Enid Cafritz, Dignac, Juan Downey, Rockne Krebs, Ed McGowin.
1966 Whitney Museum of American Art. * Whitney Museum of American Art Annual Exhibition 1966, Sculpture and Prints
1965 Corcoran Gallery of Art. * 17th Area Exhibition, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
