Life Magazine wrote that one funhouse at the 1939 World's Fair stood out among the others: 'Dal 's Dream of Venus, the creation of famed Surrealist painter Salvador Dal, is the most recent addition to the still-growing list of amusement-area girl shows and easily the most amazing. Weird building contains a dry tank and a wet tank. In the wet tank ...
For readers who have little time to spare and are averse to art-world jargon, this series aims to provide an entertaining guide to individual artists and pop culture. Each volume presents an account of the artist's life, personal and professional anecdotes, concise definitions of cultural and social movements that shaped the artist's work, and ...
Celebrates the extraordinary 1944-45 exhibition 'The Imagery of Chess'. A virtual 'who's-who' of artists such as Man Ray and Isamu Noguchi were asked to redesign the standard chess set or otherwise explore chess imagery and its symbolism. The results are catalogued here.
Many artists have discovered collecting and saving as an artistic expression and have made the storage of objects and information the subject of their work. This ranges from digital memory to rows and stacks of materials to shelves, packaging crates, installations, and entire areas filled with diverse objects stored systematically or in states of ...
Despite his fame, Andy Warhol remains an enigmatic figure. Regarded as the prince of Pop Art, he took everyday images - Marylin Monroe, the Empire State Building and dollar bill - and transformed them into works of art via repetition. This book looks at his life and work.
Focusing on Henri Matisse, this is one of an illustrated series which provides accounts of the lives of individual artists, professional and personal anecdotes, and concise definitions of cultural and social movements that shaped their work. Matisse, the son of a grain merchant, trained as a lawyer, but while recuperating from appendicitis as a ...
Focusing on Pablo Picasso, this is one of an illustrated series which provides accounts of the lives of individual artists, professional and personal anecdotes, and concise definitions of cultural and social movements that shaped their work. The book discusses how Picasso rose to eminence - and stayed there. It depicts him as tender romantic and ...
Focusing on Man Ray, Philadelphia-born Dadaist/surrealist photographer and painter, this is one of an illustrated series which provides accounts of the lives of individual artists, professional and personal anecdotes and concise definitions of cultural and social movements that shaped their work.
Work by contemporary artists from the U.S. and the U.K. that evokes a Victorian sensibility. The essays look at parallels between the two periods: turn-of-the-century anxiety, intellectual curiosity, consumerism, a preoccupation with sex and morality, an infatuation with new technology.
Ordinary people, ordinary clothes, ordinary appearance, ordinary posture. No exceptional events, no special facial expressions, gestures, or poses... What is the particularity of Balkenhol's statues? Stephan Balkenhol, a German artist born in 1957, has been producing polychrome wooden sculptures since the 198Os - human or animal figures, sometimes ...
Polly Apfelbaum creates what she calls fallen paintings, hybrid works of rare beauty that exist in a contentious, ambivalent space between painting, sculpture, and installation. These works transform the colors of mass culture into wild oscillating spectra bordering on the organic. This volume accompanies the first large museum survey of her work, ...
Here's a series of quick, savvy, entertaining books on artists and pop culture at a popular price. It's for readers who want easy access to information and who are turned off by art-world jargon. With cutting-edge tone and text, these innovative, richly illustrated, compact books (6" x 6" gift size) are targeted at busy people who've heard of ...
Joseph Cornell (1903-1972) is considered a visionary figure in the history of American art of the twentieth century. Starting in the 1930s, he invented a personal approach to making art that consisted of assembling things that he collected and found in the streets and shops of New York City. He is famous for work like Untitled (The Hotel Eden), c. ...
Douglas Blau, who originally emerged as a critic and curator in tandem with the Pictures Generation, offers up a series of picture epics and episodes from uniformly framed collages of printed matter like postcards, film stills, images of paintings and photographs. Pictures of all kinds are cut and pasted into individual collage elements.
Julien Levy (1906-1981) was one of the most influential art dealers of the 20th century. The Julien Levy Gallery, which opened in New York in 1931 and closed in 1949, played a role in the shift of the cultural avante-garde from Paris to New York. It was the first American gallery to sponsor a show on Surrealism and to champion Neoromanticism, ...
Pop Surrealism highlights the recent explosion of pop-influenced surrealist art from an emerging generation of artists and a few key senior figures who have influenced their work. Designed in a special pocket format, this intriguing book offers a primer on the confluence of pop and surrealist iconography, and features work by over seventy artists, ...
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