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A startling new look at the life's work of a photographer who had an enormous impact on the way we see the world.
Artwork by Louise Bourgeois. Contributions by Jennifer Bloomer. Text by Mieke Bal, Lynne Cooke, Beatriz Colomina, Jerry Gorovoy, Christiane Terrisse, Danielle Tilkin, Josef Helfenstein.
Ever wonder what it would be like to be the most recorded musician in popular music? This biography spotlights Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee and drummer extraordinaire Hal Blaine and his remarkable life experiences. From the Sinatras to the Beach Boys, Blaine drumrolled through the '50s, '60s and '70s, driving over 40 songs to the Number One slot. His works with Phil Spector and the Wrecking Crew sessions, his touring experiences and other...
Jasper Johns is one of the most poignant and sensual of postwar artists, whose works command some of the highest prices for a living artist. Johns is the creator of the famous flags, targets, ale cans, numbers and letters series. Poole traces Johns' development from the Rauschenberg era to the multi-part Season paintings of the 1980s.
This new volume presents Anish Kapoor's recent landmark installation Taratantara, a site-specific work set in a flourmill in northeastern England, on the coast of the Baltic Sea. The work consists of a red membrane inserted into the mill's open wall--a massive, sublime object that at a distance appears flat and extradimensional, but upon a closer look reveals its concavity and its organic materiality. It is a work that plays with our...
Paul Klee (1879-1940) is one of the most important artists of the twentieth century. For the nine volumes of this landmark project, the Berne-based Paul Klee Foundation has researched the artist's 9,600 drawings, prints, watercolors, and oil paintings, allowing the artist's complete works to be assembled and published for the first time. Each volume contains an introduction in German and English, an explanation of the catalogue system, a...
Walker Evans was perhaps the greatest "documentary artist" American has ever known. In a career that lasted forty-six years (1928-1974) Evans profoundly changed the way Americans looked at themselves, their social causes, and their country. Drawn from a largely unseen private collection-the largest private collection of Walker Evans photographs in the world-this lavishly produced volume publishes here for the first time scores of pictures that...
All in the Present Must Be Transformed: Matthew Barney and Joseph Beuys examines key affinities between these two seminal twentieth-century artists, who, though separated by generation and geography, share many aesthetic and conceptual concerns. Published in conjunction with the exhibition at the Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin, it focuses on the two artists' metaphoric use of materials, their interest in metamorphosis, their employment of narrative...
Shortly before Gauguin made his first Tahitian journey in 1891, he spent nearly two years in the remote Breton fishing village of Le Pouldu. Seeking creative isolation in a "primitive" setting, he pursued his art accompanied by several followers. One of them was the Dutch painter Meyer de Haan, who was able to pay the living expenses in Le Pouldu and was also knowledgeable in literary and philosophical matters that fascinated Gauguin. Their...
In 1933, Walker Evans traveled to Cuba to take photographs for The Crime of Cuba, a book by the American journalist Carleton Beals. Beals's explicit goal was to expose the corruption of Cuban dictator Gerardo Machado and the long, torturous relationship between the United States and its islandneighbor. The photographs Evans made during his visit to Cuba are fascinating for both their subject matter and the evidence they provide of the young...
The power in Nan Goldin's work is born out of her ability to document the drama in the mundane moments of life. As in her seminal book The Ballad of Sexual Dependency, the subjects of Ten Years After are Goldin's friends and she is expert at conveying the emotional charge she seems to feel around them. The photographs depict them at home in and around Naples, Italy, in 1986 and again in 1996. Cookie, Vittorio, and Daniele--to whose memory the...
Along the Juniata focuses on the dissemination of American landscape imagery in the early to mid-19th century. Through a variety of media including drawings, paintings, engravings, and decorative arts, images of the American landscape were translated and reproduced in large numbers to provide an eager audience with examples of patriotic views and scenes of natural wonders. This book investigates the art of Thomas Cole as representative of this...
Classic portraits of Jazz greats. 30 removable tritone black and white postcards. Size 6 7/8 x 4 3/4 inches.
Walker Evans (1903-1975) ranks with Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Steichen, and Paul Strand as one of America's greatest photographers. When originally published in 1994, Walker Evans: The Hungry Eye was the first book to survey every significant aspect of the artist's oeuvre. This reduced-format version, identical in content to the previous volume, includes 300 beautiful duotone photographs. Evans was largely self-educated and began photographing...
Now in his late 70s, Leon Golub is a leading exponent of history painting – painting as a narrative, symbolic expression of global, social and political relations and of the realities of power. In this book, published to accompany a major retrospective exhibition traveling to Ireland, England and the United States, Jon Bird examines the artist's work from the classically influenced early paintings through depictions of conflict and...
Brancusi is--with Rodin, his opposite-- the most important sculptor of the 20th century. Until the day of his death, he created out of wood, marble, and stone, a work of purse shapes, which, often found in nature, blossomed into abstraction.
Angelica Kauffman (1741-1807) was a star. A portrait painter, history painter, printmaker and designer known in her lifetime as one of the wealthiest bourgeois women of her era, she was called "perhaps the most cultivated woman in Europe," by the German philosopher J. G. Herder. History painting might have been the way to prestige, but it was Kauffmann's portraits that opened avenues to an international aristocratic and intellectual social...
In the century since the establishment of the world's first national park at Yellowstone, no individual has been a more ardent champion of the "national park idea" than Ansel Adams. Over a span of six decades, beginning in 1916, Adams photographed America's great national parks, making thousands of pictures, some of them among the most memorable images of the natural scene ever created.In this book, a selection of Adams' legendary photographs of...
A forerunner of the Surrealist movement, Italian painter Giorgio de Chirico (1888-1978) is known for his powerful, popular and important paintings, among them The Prodigal Son, The Scholar's Playthings, and The Disquieting Muses.
The early development of Willem de Kooning is explored here through a focus on his early drawings, many of which have never before been published, most of which have not been on public view in decades. An accompanying text and chronology provide insight into the thoughts of de Kooning and the exhibitions and artists that might have influenced him during the 1930s-1950s.
The Cambridge Companion to Delacroix serves as an introduction to one of the most important and most complex artists of the nineteenth century. Providing an overview of his life and career, this volume offers essays by leading authorities on the artist's pictorial practice, the stylistic range over classicism and Romanticism, his writings, both private diary notations and published articles, and his impact on modern aesthetics, among other...
This consideration of Hockney's work from 1960 to the early nineties dispels myths and opens up new lines of inquiry concerning his contributions to post-modern art. Filled with beautiful color plates of his paintings, the book draws on extensive research and the artist's personal archives. In a broad chronological format the book reveals the major phases in Hockney's oeuvre: his early years as a student at the Royal College of Art in London and...
92 plates from Book of Job, Divine Comedy, Paradise Lost, visionary heads, mythological figures, Laocoon, and more.
This cataloge has been published on the occasion of the exhibition: SECTIOM PUBLICITE, Musee d'Art Moderne, Department des Aigles. Held at the marian Goodman Gallery, New York from October 6 through November 25th, 1995
Between 1912 and 1914, Fernand Lger executed a large cycle of works known as the Contrasts of Forms. The series embraces the genres of landscape, still life, and figure, but at its core are numerous arresting compositions that sweep aside observation to focus on formal principles. The common denominator is a complex vocabulary of mingled cones, cylinders, cubes, and planes, vigorously outlined and scrubbed with color (in the paintings) or with...
The life and works of Leonardo da Vinci by Maurice W. Brockwell.
Gabo was one of the inventors of constructed sculpture which arose out of cubism to be one of the major means of sculpture in the twentieth century. Gabo's adoption of metal, glass, plexiglass, and plastic in stereometric constructions made space and light his real medium. Gabo's study of engineering, art and art history equipped him to consider the arts and sciences together. As Gabo refused to accept that art was subservient to politics,...
FRENCH-GERMAN PAINTER COUNT BALTHASAR KLOSSOWSKI DE ROLA (1908-2001), KNOWN AS BALTHUS, SHOCKED THE PARISIAN ART WORLD IN 1934 WITH HIS DREAMY, SENSUAL, NEO-CLASSICAL PORTRAITS OF NYMPHETS AT A TIME WHEN SURREALISM AND ABSTRACTION WERE DE RIGUEUR. AS A PROVOCATEUR, BALTHUS WAS OFTEN SCORNED; AS AN ARTIST, HE WAS WIDELY EMBRACED AS A PRODIGY. IN RESPONSE TO CRITICS OF HIS REALIST STYLE, BALTHUS SAID: "THE REAL ISN'T WHAT YOU THINK YOU SEE. ONE...
Stuart Davis was an American painter whose modern work made use of influences from Picasso to Miro to van Gogh, while mirroring the snappy rhythms of swinging jazz. Patricia Hills, a professor of art history at Boston University, celebrates Davis' work in this straightforward chronicle of his 50-year career. More than just an artist, Davis engaged himself in the politics of socialism and the urban aesthetic. While Hills focuses on his artistic...
Auction Catalog; Lots 22-68; 180 pgs. Contains extended text on some of the great contemporary artists whose works are being auctioned. This auction was continued the next day with a separate Part Two catalog [not offered here].
In small, stunningly rendered self–portraits, Mexican artist Frida Kahlo painted herself cracked open, hemorrhaging during a miscarriage, anesthetized on a hospital gurney, and weeping beside her own extracted heart. Her works are so incendiary in emotion and subject matter that one art critic suggested the walls of an exhibition be covered with asbestos. In this beautiful book, art historian Hayden Herrera brings together numerous...
This book explains the origins of Los Borrachos ("The Drunkards"), a celebrated but bewildering mythological painting of international fame, created by Diego de Velzquez for Philip IV of Spain around 1628-29. By studying Velzquez's early years at court (1623-29) and the role that historians of his day assigned to Bacchus, the author reaches a dramatic new interpretation of the picture. There are many monographs devoted to Velzquez's entire life,...
This colorful monograph features and surveys the 150 best-known works of Paul Klee, an artist famous for the playful complexity of his multi-media images. Klee never ceased his quest for new subjects and sources of inspiration, and he experimented with geometry, materials, and color to represent fauna and flora, music, the diurnal, and the nocturnal. As a teacher at the famous Bauhaus School in Weimar, Klee played an important role in the...
This beautifully illustrated book, originally published in 2005 in conjunction with a major traveling exhibition, is the first to examine the transformation of Jacques-Louis David’s work during the post-Revolutionary period (1800–1825). Each of the works––many of which were previously unknown or inaccessible––is reproduced in color and accompanied by detailed scholarly information. Drawing on many new...
This concise and user-friendly resource is ideal for anyone who wants quick, comprehensive access to information on musical instruments of any genre and origin. Organized alphabetically and fully cross-referenced, it includes instruments from all cultures, historical and modern, and all musical styles - from pop and rock to classical and traditional folk music from around the world. With a key to entries, world map and language chart, this is by...
Margaret Bourke-White is best known as the first staff photographer of Fortune magazine, the first female war correspondent, and the woman whose photographs made the covers of Life magazine famous. But before she began traveling throughout the world to document history in the making, Bourke-White was creating evocative abstract photographs of American industry and architecture. Margaret Bourke-White: Photography of Design, 1927-1936 examines for...
One of the most influential American artists of the post-war period, Donald Judd changed the course of modern sculpture. Beginning as an art critic and then a painter, Judd moved into three dimensions with the box-like structures he produced in the early 1960s, either arranged on the gallery floor or mounted on the wall. Initially constructed by hand, the sculptures were later industrially manufactured in galvanized iron, steel, Plexiglas, and...
In this generously illustrated account of Lotto`s life and work, Venetian Renaissance art authority Peter Humfrey offers the first comprehensive treatment of Lotto in English since Berenson`s pioneering study published one hundred years ago. Humfrey draws on the large body of Lotto`s extant work as well as on sixteenth-century documentation on the artist`s life.
One of the most widely recognized and controversial artists of the 20th century, Salvador Dal was also an avant-garde filmmaker, collaborating with such giants as Luis Buuel, Walt Disney, and Alfred Hitchcock. Influenced by the Marx Brothers, Buster Keaton, and Stanley Kubrick, Dal used the cinema to bring the "dream subjects" of his paintings to life, providing the groundwork for revolutionary forays into television, video, photography, and...
The evolution and philosophy of color field painting, as revealed by four masters of the movement. Developed at the tail end of the abstract expressionist movement, color field painting is distinguished by pure, unmodulated areas of color, flat, two-dimensional space, and large, often irregularly shaped canvases. The genre is often associated with American painting, but was actually embraced by an international group of artists. Four of...
This catalog presents an astonishing collection of paintings and pencil studies that remained hidden in a suitcase for over fifty years. Virtually all of the paintings were done between 1915 and 1920 and provide unique glimpses of the young Thomas Hart Benton, ranging across the then recent history of modern art, to landscapes, still-lifes, and figure studies, including ten "color studies" which combine landscape elements with passages of pure...
"A woman once rang me up and said, 'Mr. Escher, I am absolutely crazy about your work. In your print Reptiles you have given such a striking illustration of reincarnation.' I replied, 'Madame, if that's the way you see it, so be it, '" An engagingly sly comment by the renowned Dutch graphic artist Maurits Cornelis Escher (1898-1972)--the complex ambiguities of whose work leave hasty or single-minded interpretations far behind. Long before the...
Paul Klee's launched his artistic career in Munich, where he began to study painting in 1898. This volume picks up in 1913 after the artist shifted from line drawings and etchings to color and began moving toward the distinctive painting style for which he is so well known. It includes more than 60 reproductions of Klee's most important works.
Fifty charming pencil, ink, and watercolor drawings by a 19th-century master depict diverse but complementary aspects of Japanese art and imagination. Drawn from two rarely circulated, seldom-seen sketchbooks, these images include scenes from everyday life, rendered with expressive elegance, and episodes from classic folktales, portrayed with warm realism.
"Although there is more biographical writing on the incomparable Gian Lorenzo Bernini than on any other early modern artist, including Michelangelo, the investigation of these writings remains surprisingly incomplete. This fascinating and highly original book is therefore a welcome addition to the literature, for it both consolidates our present understanding of these biographies, which can be traced to Bernini himself, and raises important...
LEATHER BOUND book accented in 22kt gold! ! In commemoration of the 100th anniversary of his birth, Ansel Adams at 100 presents the definitive look at the life and achievements of the distinguished photographer. Over 125 breathtaking photographs by the artist are featured, each one meticulously reproduced for stunning effect.
Since 1995, Andy Goldsworthy has created a series of artworks in Northwest England in sheepfolds: stone enclosures found across the countryside that have been used for assembling, sheltering, and washing sheep for hundreds of years. After working on and off for more than a decade, he completed thirty-five folds, often rebuilding them in the process; many of them can now once again serve their intended purpose. These form the core of Enclosure:...
The 21st. Century's urban contemporary art movement is continueing to gain international attention. Marcus Antonius Jansen, the innovator of an unmistakeable art style he coins "Modern Urban Expressionism", uses unusual abstract expressionism techniques with a modern edge while he redefines the genre of expressionism. There is no city scene that is not a canvas. And in Jansens work, we recognize the delicious turmoil, the chaos, the...
From London in the 1890s to Paris in the early twentieth century, Gwen John's career spanned some of the most exciting periods and places in cultural history. Demolishing the myth of Gwen John (1876-1939) as a recluse, this new survey explores the art world at the center of these cities and reveals the alliances and differences the artist had with her contemporaries. John's representation of the female nude, her paintings of interiors, and the...
Late in his career Thomas Gainsborough became preoccupied with the theme of the cottage door, and he created a group of paintings and drawings that show rustic figures clustered around the open door of a cottage set in a deeply wooded landscape. Often seen as exemplars of the rural idyll, these works were among the first landscape paintings to reflect the eighteenth-century aesthetic of sensibility. As a way of seeing, sensibility valued nature...
Artwork by Jorge Pardo, Vanessa Beecroft, Ellsworth Kelly.
This magisterial work-the most exquisite and luxuriously produced art monograph of the season-will immediately be recognized as the seminal volume on the paintings of the great Renaissance master Leonardo da Vinci. Not only does the quality of the reproductions far surpass those in previous books, but every one of Leonardo's magnificent paintings is included, along with preparatory drawings and studies for his most famous works, and a text by...
One of art history’s most admired artists, Edgar Degas (1834–1917) challenged contemporary conventions with his intriguing working methods. This generously illustrated study is the latest title in the National Gallery’s series Art in the Making. Drawing on both technical studies and documentary evidence, it takes a fascinating look at Degas’s techniques in the context of his life and artistic milieu as well as his place...
Visitors to the Rosenbach Museum & Library in Phila. are amazed at the wealth of rare books, manuscripts, & works of art found within the walls of this small townhouse, maintained much as it was when the Rosenbach brothers lived here. Drawings by Fragonard & Gravelot, among other artists such as William Blake & Honore Daumier, decorate the wall of the second floor sitting room. This current exhibition has been organized to permit for the first...
This sampler explores three Joseph Beuys works in three media: the collection of drawings, Kolner Mappe or Cologne Portfolio; the sculptural object "Tur," or "Door;" and an environment, "Basisraum Nasse Wasche," literally "Basic Room Wet Laundry." The Cologne Portfolio is an unusually broad, privately assembled group of 64 Beuys drawings made between 1945 and 1973, put together by a Cologne collector and later brought to Vienna's Museum of...
Klimt (1862–1918) cut a controversial figure in his day, drawing criticism for the sensual and erotic nature of his paintings; today his creations rank among Austria's art masterpieces. This striking collection of temporary tattoos features details from 4 of his finest works: The Kiss, Lady with a Fan, Water Serpent, and Expectation.
Max Beckmann (1884-1950) is widely regarded as one of the most important figurative painters of the last 100 years, and On My Painting is one of the key texts essential for understanding his work. Composed in 1938, it was read by Beckmann at the opening of the 20th-Century German Art exhibition in London, a riposte to the Degenerate Art exhibition that Hitler held to pillory the work of Beckmann and other figures of the avant-garde. In his...
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