
bibliography and press
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
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Campbell, Omnese. Bob Trotman/Ginny Ruffner, ARTPapers, vol.19, no.3, (April-May 1995) P.54
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Dougherty, Linda, Inverted Utopias, catalogue essay, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC
Giovannini, Joseph, “Chairs that Roar”, The New York Times, March 19, 1987, C-1
Hanzal, Carla. “Interview with Bob Trotman.” Archives of American Art. Smithsonian Institution. 2005.
Heartney, Eleanor, “Art and the Spiritual”, Thresholds, South Carolina Arts Commission, 2003.p. 23
Bob Trotman and the Religion of Capitalism, catalogue essay, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC
Herman, Lloyd E., Art that Works:The Decorative Arts of the Eighties, Crafted in America. (Seattle:University of Washington Press, 1990) p.35.
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