Author: E.B. Crocker art gallery, SacramentoPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 169
Book Description
Master Drawings from Sacramento
Author: E.B. Crocker art gallery, SacramentoPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 169
Book Description
Master Drawings from Sacramento: European Master Drawings from the Collection of Edwin Bryant Crocker (1818-1875)
Author: E.B. Crocker Art GalleryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drawing
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Master Drawings from Sacramento
Author: E.B. Crocker Art GalleryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drawing
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
Central European Drawings in the Collection of the Crocker Art Museum
Author: Thomas DaCosta KaufmannPublisher: Harvey Miller
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
"Five centuries of drawing in Central Europe are surveyed in this interpretive and fully illustrated catalogue featuring one of the oldest public collections in the United States. Included are the works of well-known masters Albrecht Durer, Johan Rottenhammer, and Johan Georg von Dillis, artists whose production influenced successive generations. This catalogue also offers a unique look at rare sheets by important figures such as Karel Skreta, Wenzel Hollar, and Johann Holzer. Overall, Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann's achievement is realized in bringing this important collection of Old Master drawings from Central Europe together in a beautiful volume sure to provide an invaluable resource to scholars, connoisseurs, and art enthusiasts alike." --Book Jacket.
Martín Ramírez
Author: Víctor M. EspinosaPublisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 1477307923
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
Martín Ramírez, a Mexican migrant worker and psychiatric patient without formal artistic training, has been hailed by leading New York art critics as one of the twentieth century’s greatest artists. His work has been exhibited alongside masters such as José Clemente Orozco, Diego Rivera, Rufino Tamayo, Salvador Dalí, Marc Chagall, Paul Klee, and Joan Miró. A landmark exhibition of Ramírez’s work at the American Folk Art Museum in 2007 broke attendance records and garnered praise from major media, including the New York Times, New Yorker, and Village Voice. Martín Ramírez offers the first sustained look at the life and critical reception of this acclaimed artist. Víctor Espinosa challenges the stereotype of outsider art as an indecipherable enigma by delving into Ramírez’s biography and showing how he transformed memories of his life in Mexico, as well as his experiences of displacement and seclusion in the United States, into powerful works of art. Espinosa then traces the reception of Ramírez’s work, from its first anonymous showings in the 1950s to contemporary exhibitions and individual works that have sold for as much as a half-million dollars. This eloquently told story reveals how Ramírez’s three-decades-long incarceration in California psychiatric institutions and his classification as “chronic paranoid schizophrenic” stigmatized yet also protected what his hands produced. Stripping off the labels “psychotic artist” and “outsider master,” Martín Ramírez demonstrates that his drawings are not passive manifestations of mental illness. Although he drew while confined as a psychiatric patient, the formal elements and content of Ramírez’s artwork are shaped by his experiences of cultural and physical displacement.
Catalogue of the Library of the National Gallery of Canada: Mah
Author: National Gallery of Canada. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 798
Book Description
Catalogue of the Library of the National Gallery of Canada
Author: National Gallery of Canada. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 782
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