Milton Avery's late paintings, created between 1947 and 1963, stand at the nexus of figurative modernism and Abstract Expressionism. Frequently viewed as the last of the great American figurative painters, Avery, as this book argues, provides a key to understanding the artists of the second half of the American century. This volume accompanies the ...
The controversial work of Andres Serrano has gained the recognition of bigots and connoisseurs. A member of Jesse Helms' 'NEA four,' Serrano shook the world with his beautiful and startling sculpture 'Piss Christ.' this exhibition catalogue is in part an attempt to tell 'the whole story.' and to prevent the controversy which surrounds Serrano from ...
This work chronicles the life and work of Lee Krasner, one of the most inventive Abstract Expressionist painters. Lee Kranser occupies a special place in Abstract Expressionism as a major female painter in a group of artists known for their macho individuality. Aproaching art-making as a forum for communicating her discoveries about the self, ...
Dale Chihuly's obsession with color--"I never saw one I didn't like"--and his insatiable desire to experiment inspired his Macchia (Italian for "spot" or "stain") series. "Chihuly alla Macchia" traces its development from the first small, oddly shaped, grotesquely colored vessels, dubbed the "uglies" by Chihuly's forthright mother when they began ...
Traces the life and career of this modern American artist, looks at a variety of his paintings, watercolors, drawings, and etchings, and discusses themes in his work.
Maud Gatewood: Re-Visions, are among the most satisfying and enjoyable projects that the Weatherspoon Art Gallery has had the pleasure to carry forward. This exhibitions was drawn from numerous private and public collections.
In the evolution of her work she has shown the influences of her early teacher Louis Lozowick and friends Wilem deKooning, Jackson Pollock, and other New York abstract painters. This book is not only a close examination of the life work of a lively and dedicated Taos artist, it is also about how Modernism developed and flourished outside of New ...
Milton Avery chronicles the work of an artist who, although did not become a serious, full-time painter until after he moved to New York at the age of forty, managed to carve out a unique position for himself in the art world over the next thirty-five years. A friend and colleague of the Abstract Expressionists who nevertheless maintained his ...
Featuring works in the collection of the Toledo Museum of Modern Art, this volume documents the artistic, historical and technological evolution of glass. Each entry is accompanied by a photograph and many have scaled profile drawings to further illustrate form, decoration and technique.
The Persians catalog offers readers a fascinating, albeit concise, look at one of Dale Chihuly's most popular series. A foreword by the late Henry Geldzahler and an essay by Robert Hobbs give readers a unique perspective into this interesting and inspired series. A chronology on Chihuly from 1941 to 1988 is also included.
This book presents works by 23 contemporary artists that examine childhood, collectively undermining a presumption of navet and demonstrating how childhood has been transformed by mass media, biotechnology, and cybernetics.
Robert Hobbs calls Beatrice Mandelman one of the most original and important of the Taos abstract painters. An artist since the 1920s, she moved to Taos in the 1940s with her husband, Louis Ribak, and became one of the leaders of the third generation of New Mexico painters. In the evolution of her work she has shown the influences of her early ...
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