Author : James Schuyler
Publisher : David R. Godine Publisher
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 50,3 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781574230765
Poet James Schuyler was an associate editor of the influential Art News during the late 50s and early 60s. These writings, illustrated throughout, provide a vivid composite portrait of the New York scene at a crucial time. There are pieces on key figures of the Abstract Expressionist, Pop, and neo-figurative schools; and on numerous other persuasions and tendencies of that revolutionary era.
Author : Ad Reinhardt
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 28,65 MB
Release : 1991-06-06
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780520076709
Ad Reinhardt is probably best known for his black paintings, which aroused as much controversy as admiration in the American art world when they were first exhibited in the 1950s. Although his ideas about art and life were often at odds with those of his contemporaries, they prefigured the ascendance of minimalism. Reinhardt's interest in the Orient and in religion, his strong convictions about the value of abstraction, and his disgust with the commercialism of the art world are as fresh and valid today as they were when he first expressed them.
Author : Henry Darger
Publisher : Rizzoli International Publications
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 29,95 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780847822843
The epic vision of outsider artist Henry Darger is captured for the first time in this comprehensive survey of his art and writings. A janitor by day, he spent his nights creating a vast, imaginative world describing a cosmic battle between the forces of good and evil. 125 color illustrations.
Author : Carl Einstein
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 23,17 MB
Release : 2019-12-26
Category : Art
ISBN : 022646427X
The German art historian and critic Carl Einstein (1885-1940) was at the forefront of the modernist movement that defined the twentieth century. One of the most prolific and brilliant early commentators on cubism, he was also among the first authors to assess African sculpture as art. Yet his writings remain relatively little known in the Anglophone world. With A Mythology of Forms, the first representative collection of Einstein’s art theory and criticism to appear in English translation, Charles W. Haxthausen fills this gap. Spanning three decades, it assembles the most important of Einstein’s writings on the art that was central to his critical project—on cubism, surrealism, Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, and Paul Klee, and includes the full texts of his two pathbreaking books on African art, Negro Sculpture (1915) and African Sculpture (1921). With fourteen texts by Einstein, each presented with extensive commentary, A Mythology of Forms will bring a pivotal voice in the history of modern art into English.
Author : Arthur C. Danto
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 49,49 MB
Release : 2001-04-06
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780520229068
An eclectic collection of essays centering on the intersection of art and philosophy, especially in the late 20th century.
Author : René Magritte
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 28,95 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781517901233
Available for the first time in an English translation, this selection of Ren� Magritte's writings gives non-Francophone readers the chance to encounter the many incarnations of the renowned Belgian painter--the artist, the man, the aspiring noirist, the fire-breathing theorist--in his own words. Through whimsical personal letters, biting apologia, appreciations of fellow artists, pugnacious interviews, farcical film scripts, prose poems, manifestos, and much more, a new Magritte emerges: part Surrealist, part literalist, part celebrity, part rascal.While this book is sure to appeal to admirers of Magritte's art and those who are curious about his personal life, there is also much to delight readers interested in the history and theory of art, philosophy and politics, as well as lovers of creativity and the inner workings of a probing, inquisitive mind unrestricted by genre, medium, or fashion.
Author : Lawrence Gowing
Publisher :
Page : 459 pages
File Size : 36,67 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781905464654
As one of the leading critical voices on art of the post-war years, Lawrence Gowing (1918-1991) combined a passion for close visual involvement with formidable literary skills. Having begun his career as a painter, Gowing's monograph on Vermeer (1952) brought him early recognition as a writer who combined this experience with a meticulous historical perspective. His foremost commitment was with the pioneering painters of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, notably Paul Caezanne and Henri Matisse. The exhibitions Gowing curated at Tate, London, and the Museum of Modern Art, New York famously helped to mould and reshape public perceptions. Characterised by a desire to instruct and encourage, his writing reflects a highly successful career as a curator and teacher. Introduced by the editor Sarah Whitfield, four decades of writing are brought together for the first time in this volume.--
Author : William Bartram
Publisher : Wormsloe Foundation Nature Boo
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 31,9 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780820328775
This work presents new material in the form of art, letters, and unpublished manuscripts. These documents expand our knowledge of Bartram as an explorer, naturalist, artist, writer, and citizen of the early Republic.
Author : Helen Elizabeth Haines
Publisher : New York : Columbia University Press
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 14,17 MB
Release : 1950
Category : Acquisitions (Libraries)
ISBN :
Author : Peter Schjeldahl
Publisher :
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 14,77 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Art
ISBN :
This title allows the reader access behind the scenes of the art world, with profiles of leading figures such as the gallerist Marian Goodman, and accounts of visits to artists' studios.
