Author: Jean CharlotPublisher: Books for Libraries
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Art from the Mayans to Disney
Author: Jean CharlotPublisher: Books for Libraries
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
The Shadow of the Avant-garde
Author: Kasper KönigPublisher: Hatje Cantz
ISBN: 9783775740593
Category : Art brut
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Catalog of an exhibition held at the Museum Folkwang, October 2, 2015-January 10, 2016.
Art and Argyrol: The Life and Career of Dr. Albert C. Barnes
Author: William SchackPublisher: Plunkett Lake Press
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
This first biography of Dr. Albert C. Barnes was serialized on the front page of thePhiladelphia Inquirer when it appeared in 1960. In it, arts journalist William Schack interviewed dozens of people who knew the famously pugnacious art collector as he assembled his world-famous collection outside Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Schack traces the life of Albert Coombs Barnes (1872-1951), from childhood to his student days in Germany where he met the chemist with whom he developed Argyrol, a medication that made Barnes rich and allowed him to become an art collector. After applying for a charter to establish his collection as a public educational institution, Barnes established a highly erratic policy of admission and battled dozens of people and institutions regarding access to it. Art and Argyrol is written in the journalistic style of a bygone era yet retains its fascination for anyone interested in the history of this astounding collection and in Barnes himself. “William Schack, research chemist, journalist and art writer, has done the first full-scale study of Dr. Barnes, NOT an ‘authorized’ biography... this is a remarkable book about a remarkable Philadelphian” — The Philadelphia Inquirer “[Dr. Albert C. Barnes] is an important, as well as a colorful, figure and [...] Art and Argyrol — the first full-length biography of Barnes — is of considerable interest.” — Max Kozloff, Commentary Magazine
For America
Author: Jeremiah William McCarthyPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300244282
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
Featuring paintings by American icons like Winslow Homer and Thomas Eakins, this book illustrates the ways American artists have viewed themselves, their peers, and their painted worlds over 200 years.
Seeing Out Loud
Author: Jerry SaltzPublisher: Geoffrey Young
ISBN: 9781930589179
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Literary Nonfiction. Art. In SEEING OUT LOUD, Saltz critically engages with notable works of art by over 100 notable artists ranging from Picasso, Matisse, and Warhol to Matthew Barney, Gerhard Richter, and Chris Ofili. These reviews appeared in the Village Voice between November 1998 and winter 2003. "Jerry Saltz is the best informed and hair-trigger liveliest of contemporary art critics, tracking pleasure and jump-starting intelligence on the fly. Jerry's fast takes usually stand up better in retrospect than other people's long views"---Peter Schjedahl. "Jerry Saltz looks at art from the perspective of the viewer, the ignorant, the lover, and the enemy. His writing is overwhelmingly passionate, yet without sentimentality. His words pierce the content and beauty of each work of art to test its endurance in time and memory"---Francesco Bonami, Curator, 2003 Venice Biennale.
Collection of the Société Anonyme
Author: Yale University. Art GalleryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
For Now
Author: Eileen MylesPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300244649
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
“[Myles] has a good time journeying through Hell, and like a hip Virgil, . . . is happy to show us the way.”—NPR In this raucous meditation, Eileen Myles offers an intimate glimpse into creativity’s immediacy. With erudition and wit, Myles recounts their early years as an awakening writer; existential struggles with landlords; storied moments with neighbors, friends, and lovers; and the textures and identities of cities and the country that reveal the nature of writing as presence in time. For Myles, time’s “optic quality” is what enables writing in the first place—as attention, as devotion, as excess. It is this chronologized vision that enables the writer to love the world as it presently is, lending love a linguistic permanence amid social and political systems that threaten to eradicate it. Irreverent, generous, and always insightful, For Now is a candid record of the creative process from one of our most beloved artists.
My Faraway One
Author: Sarah GreenoughPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300166303
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 834
Book Description
Collects the private correspondence between Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz, revealing the ups and downs of their marriage, their thoughts on their work, and their friendships with other artists.
Marcel Duchamp and the Forestay Waterfall
Author: Stefan BanzPublisher: Jrp Ringier
ISBN: 9783037641569
Category : Forestay Falls (Switzerland)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In August 1946, Marcel Duchamp spent 5 weeks in Switzerland, including 5 days at the Hotel Bellevue near Chexbres, on Lake Geneva, discovering the Forestay waterfall. A multidisciplinary event took place in May 2010 to attempt to understand why the artist chose this waterfall for his final masterpiece 'Étant Donnés'.
They Taught Themselves
Author: Sidney JanisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Painters
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description