ALICE TRUMBULL MASON: PIONEER OF AMERICAN ABSTRACTION
The first comprehensive publication exploring the life and art of pioneering American abstract artist Alice Trumbull Mason is perfect for audiences...
JOAN MITCHELL: I CARRY MY LANDSCAPES AROUND WITH ME
I carry my landscapes around with me focuses on American abstract artist Joan Mitchell's large-scale multipanel works from the 1960s through the...
HILMA AF KLINT: ARTIST, RESEARCHER, MEDIUM
With new scholarship, this volume casts af Klint as a pioneering cosmonaut of inner spaceFor decades a relatively unknown artist, Hilma af Klint has...
Art Monographs
LORRAINE O'GRADY: BOTH/AND
Four decades of multimedia exploits in race, art politics and subjectivity: a long-overdue survey on conceptual performance artist Lorraine O'Grady
PAOLO VENEZIANO: THE ART OF PAINTING IN 14TH-CENTURY VENICE
Written by Llewellyn, Laura
The foremost Venetian painter of the fourteenth century, Paolo Veneziano is regarded as the founder of the Venetian school of painting. Active from 1333 to 1358, Veneziano practiced his art within a culture enriched by Venice's maritime economy, with materials and techniques coming to his native city from Byzantium, Africa, Persia, and Asia.
SOUTINE / DE KOONING: CONVERSATIONS IN PAINT
"I've always been crazy about Soutine--all of his paintings," said Willem de Kooning in 1977, speaking about Lithuanian artist Chaim Soutine (1893-1943). Of all the abstract expressionists, de Kooning was the only one who continued to praise Soutine throughout his career and to credit him with an influence on his work. But how much was de Kooning's approach impacted by Soutine?
COSMOS EMMA KUNZ: A VISIONARY IN DIALOGUE WITH CONTEMPORARY ART
Emma Kunz (1892-1963) was a Swiss healer and artist. Born to a family of weavers, she showed telepathic, prophetic, and healing abilities early in her life and began to exercise her divining pendulum as a young adult.
KIKI SMITH: HEARING YOU WITH MY EYES
The work of American artist Kiki Smith, born 1954, is a meditation on the body. Smith observes every aspect of corporal materiality and the conditions that shape our life on earth: physically, spiritually, and politically, but also with regard to emotive categories like control and disgust. Her earlier work often fragmented the body into organs, fluids, and senses.
XENIA HAUSNER: TRUE LIES
Xenia Hausner is one of the most important Austrian woman artists of our time. This lavishly illustrated volume focuses on the aspect of stagecraft that characterizes all her works. Hausner, who previously worked as a set designer, constructs three-dimensional settings for her pictures in her studio before she begins painting.
ERNST LUDWIG KIRCHNER AND THE GRANDEUR OF MOUNTAINS: WORKS FROM THE KIRCHNER MUSEUM, DAVOS
Unable to paint following a wartime mental breakdown, the German expressionist Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880-1938) spent his final years recovering in picturesque Davos, Switzerland. Life among the Alps inspired Kirchner to reinvent himself, and for the next two decades his work basked in visionary mountainous landscapes as well as the everyday lives of rural farmers.
PICASSO & LES FEMMES D'ALGER
Upon learning of Henri Matisse's death in 1954, a 73-year-old Pablo Picasso produced a series of fifteen oil paintings and one hundred drawings inspired by Eugène Delacroix's "The Women of Algiers in their Apartment." The first of many tributes to the masters, Picasso's "Les Femmes d'Alger" was widely exhibited and remains one of his last works to achieve widespread critical acclaim.
RAPHAEL AND THE MADONNA
The Virgin Mary features in more Renaissance paintings than any other subject, yet Raphael's Sistine Madonna towers over them all in artistic and theological significance. A groundbreaking accomplishment, Raphael's Madonna breaks through clouds, flanked by saints, while two famously wistful cherubim look up from an unseen altar.
FLORINE STETTHEIMER
Written by Böller, Susanne
When the Museum of Modern Art sent its first exhibition to Europe, Florine Stettheimer (1871-1944) joined Georgia O'Keeffe as the only women included. Stettheimer's sensuous paintings and eccentric poetry earned her a place at the heart of the modernist avant-garde. The guest lists for her extravagant New York garden parties read like a who's who of the 1920s art scene.
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