BLACK REFRACTIONS: HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE STUDIO MUSEUM IN HARLEM
An authoritative guide to one of the world's most important collections of African-American art, with works by artists from Romare Bearden to Kehinde...
NINTH STREET WOMEN: LEE KRASNER, ELAINE DE KOONING, GRACE HARTIGAN, JOAN MITCHELL, AND HELEN FRANKENTHALER: FIVE PAINTERS AND THE MOVEMENT
The rich, revealing, and thrilling story of five women whose lives and painting propelled a revolution in modern art, from the National Book Award...
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HERMITAGE: 300 MASTERPIECES
The book presents the collection of the State Hermitage, one of the greatest museums in the world. The aim is to give an all-embracing picture of the museum's stocks, to show not only the world-famous gems of fthe collection, but also works that are rarely included in publications.
GARDENS OF WONDER: THE MOST BEAUTIFUL SCULPTURE GARDENS OF THE WORLD
Written by Veen, Ernst
The authors (both former museum directors in Amsterdam) of this beautifully illustrated guide take you on a personal tour of the most exceptional artworks found in six spectacular sculpture gardens around the globe. Ernst Veen has traveled extensively to look at art in the course of his career. In far-flung sculpture gardens, he was drawn to monumental works which were created for natural surroundings, marveling at the way the art resides in the landscape, and how it transforms the landscape. Along with Gijs van Tuijl (and photographer Paul Kramer) he has written an inspiring guide to these stunning works of art.The authors (both former museum directors in Amsterdam) travel the world to explore the most spectacular artworks in six sculpture gardens around the globe.
IN MONTPARNASSE: THE EMERGENCE OF SURREALISM IN PARIS, FROM DUCHAMP TO DAL?
During the 1920s, in the Parisian neighbourhood of Montparnasse, a unique flowering of avant-garde artistic creativity became the cradle of Dada and Surrealism. In this crowd biography, Sue Roe tells the story - from Duchamp to Dali, via Man Ray and Max Ernst - of the salons and cafes, alliances and feuds, love affairs and scandals, successes and suicides of one of the most important and long-lasting artistic achievements of the twentieth century.From the author of IN MONTMARTRE, a lively group biography tracing the emergence of Surrealism in Paris "I loved Roe's In Montmartre and [In Montparnasse]-- a colorful, gossipy account of the birth of Surrealism...is equally beguiling."--The Bookseller, Editor's Choice (UK) As she did for the Modernists IN MONTMARTRE, noted art historian and biographer Sue Roe now tell
NEW EXISTENTIALISM
Written by Tim Griffin
In the face of radical transitions in social organization, technology, and the living environment, numerous thinkers have moved away from semiotic and psychoanalytic critical models in order to question human agency and imagine a broader material one existing in the world. Yet the language attending such endeavors?often put forward in the spirit of ?scientific? or ?objective?
OBSERVER EFFECT: ON CONTEMPORARY PAINTING
Written by Schwabsky, Barry
Many consider Barry Schwabsky to be the critic on painting today, even if he does write copiously on other art forms,” write editors Rob Colvin and Sherman Sam in their foreword to this selection of Schwabsky's writings. Written since the turn of the millennium, the texts in The Oberver Effect include meditations on the broader context of painting today alongside reflections on such well-known American painters as Alex Katz, Kerry James Marshall, Nicole Eisenman, and Dana Schutz, as well as practitioners from Europe and beyond―Bernard Frize, Tal R, and Ha Chonghyun among them. As Colvin and Sam point out, the book “documents a dialogue between abstraction and the image” in which “images serve less to represent their described subject than to articulate the sort of painting each one desires to be.
WALID RAAD - BETTER BE WATCHING THE CLOUDS / I WANT TO BE ABLE TO WELCOME MY FATHER TO MY HOUSE
Walid Raad investigates how violence affects bodies, minds, art, and tradition. This artist's book highlights two of his thoughtful and witty artworks. Here, as elsewhere in his artworks, Raad departs from historical events linked to the protracted Lebanese wars of the past 40 years to create somewhat absurd, outlandish but plausible documents. The first part concentrates on the local, regional, and international political figures whose faces and names became fixtures in the Lebanese landscape; the second relies upon diaries that Raad's father kept during the wars.Walid Raad investigates how violence affects bodies, minds, art, and tradition. This artist?s book highlights two of his thoughtful and witty artworks. Here, as elsewhere in his artworks, Raad departs from historical events linked to the protracted Lebanese wars of the past 40 years to create somewhat absurd, outlandish but plausible documents.
MICHIEL DE CLEENE - REFERENCE GUIDE
Reference Guide' is a collection of entries, connected and fuelled by cross-references. These not only determine the characteristics of the collection and its use, but they are also the mechanism behind its expansion.
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