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Art News Annual, 26, 1957-.
Author: Art News Annual, 1957
Author: ARTnews
Author: Alfred M. FrankfurterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 70
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ARTnews
Author: ARTnews
Author: Alfred M. FrankfurterPublisher:
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 94
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Joan Mitchell
Author: Sarah RobertsPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300247273
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 377
Book Description
A sweeping retrospective exploring the oeuvre of an incandescent artist, revealing the ways that Mitchell expanded painting beyond Abstract Expressionism as well as the transatlantic contexts that shaped her Joan Mitchell (1925–1992) was fearless in her experimentation, creating works of unparalleled beauty, strength, and emotional intensity. This gorgeous book unfolds the story of an artistic master of the highest order, revealing the ways she expanded abstract painting and illuminating the transatlantic contexts that shaped her. Lavish illustrations cover the full arc of her artistic practice, from her exceptional New York paintings of the early 1950s to the majestic multipanel compositions she made in France later in her career. Signature works are represented here along with rarely seen paintings, works on paper, artist’s sketchbooks, and photographs of Mitchell’s life, social circle, and surroundings. Featuring scholarly texts, in-depth essays, and artistic and literary responses, this book is organized in ten chronological chapters. Each chapter centers on a closely related suite of paintings, illuminating a shifting inner landscape colored by experience, sensation, memory, and a deep sense of place. Presenting groundbreaking research and a variety of perspectives on her art, life, and connections to poetry and music, this unprecedented volume is an essential reference for Mitchell’s admirers and those just discovering her work.
Monet's Years at Giverny
Author: Claude MonetPublisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 0870991744
Category : Impressionism (Art)
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
This book contains 81 paintings from the 40 years Monet spend at his country home in Giverny, accompanied by a narrative on Monet's life, loves, and influences. It recounts Monet's development from an Impressionist to an innovative abstractionist.
Corot
Author: Gary TinterowPublisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 0870997696
Category : Painting, French
Languages : en
Pages : 497
Book Description
Published to accompany a major exhibition of Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot's paintings held in Paris and Ottawa during 1996, and forthcoming to New York. From nearly 3,000 paintings by this poetic 19th-century artist, the curators chose 163 works, which are reproduced here along with full art-historical discussions of each. Three major essays chronicle Corot's life and the development of his art; additional essays elucidate the subject of forgeries and describe the collecting of his works. Much original new scholarship is included along with a review of the scholarly literature, a concordance, and a chronology. 9.5x12.5"Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Claude Monet
Author: Ann TemkinPublisher: The Museum of Modern Art
ISBN: 9780870707742
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
including the destruction of two works in a fire in 1958 - and underscores the resonance of these paintings with the art and artists of the last half-century." --Book Jacket.
Late Style and Its Discontents
Author: Gordon McMullanPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198704623
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
Late Style and its Discontents interrogates the critical cliche of "late style," questioning whether Titian, Beethoven, Goethe and others can usefully be assimilated to one another, as though their particular social and historical circumstances had been transcended by a singular existential predicament.