Color reproductions of Wyeth's landscape works, along with essays. Like his contemporaries Thomas Hart Benton and Edward Hopper, Wyeth rejected the prevailing European modernist traditions to create a style that was uniquely American. This book accompanied a 1998 exhibition.
New painting and drawing is the subject of "Remote Viewing," which accompanies an exhibition at the Whitney Museum. The book brings together eight artists, some well known, others emerging, all of whom create new worlds that exist somewhere between abstraction and representation. Each of the featured artists-Franz Ackermann, Steve DiBenedetto, ...
The Whitney Museum of American Art, founded by visionary patron and artist Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney (1875-1942), is home to one of the finest collections of American art in the country. "Frames of Reference" features eminent contributors from the fields of art, literature, and contemporary culture who together provide a wide-ranging ...
In 1962, at the age of 26, Trisha Brown became one of the original members of the experimental Judson Church Dance Theatre in New York, and in 1970 she cofounded The Grand Union. The dancers of these radical groups, such as Yvonne Rainer and Steve Paxton, embraced improvization and the use of everyday movements not usually associated with ...
With a bilingual text, this book is linked to the third of three exhibitions organized by the Whitney Museum of American Art. The book highlights masterworks from the Whitney's Permanent Collection of American art, exploring the themes of allegory, symbolism and narrative.
For twenty-five years the Whitney Museum of American Art at Altria has occupied an entirely unique niche within the New York art world. Operating under the aegis of the Whitney Museum of American Art and funded by Altria Group, Inc., Whitney at Altria has enjoyed great programmatic freedom and presented exciting new work, always free to the public ...
50 duotones and 15 color photographs from the Sondra Gilman collection, including works by Paul Strand, Eugene Atget, Ansel Adams, Cindy Sherman, and Robert Misrach.
The Addison Gallery of American Art, located at Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, is recognized nationally and internationally for its outstanding collection of paintings, sculpture, prints, drawings and photography. When its founder, Thomas Cochran, opened the Addison to the public in 1931, it was only the second museum in the country, ...
New York artist Alex Katz is best known for his eye-catching, large-scale portraits, figures, and landscapes, but in the mid-1950s he painted intimate works, originating the style that would become the hallmark of his mature work. By the early 1960s, he established a procedure of making small sketches using oil paint on Masonite board, which he ...
More Americans recycle than vote. And most do so to improve their communities and the environment. But do recycling programs advance social, economic, and environmental goals? To answer this, three sociologists with expertise in urban and environmental planning have conducted the first major study of urban recycling. They compare four types of ...
With a bilingual text, this book is linked to the second of three exhibitions organized by the Whitney Museum of American Art. The exhibitions were designed to provide an examination of the complex artistic cross-currents between Europe and America, and the impact that 20th-century artists from the Netherlands, Germany, Britain and the United ...
Banks Violette (b. 1973) has been called the "Grown-Up Goth." Whitney Museum of American Art curator Chrissie Isles, at the time of the 2004 Whitney Biennial, described his work as embodying "the dark side of the heavy-metal American dream." This book, which accompanies an exhibition at the Whitney, presents a new multi-media sculptural ...
The Whitney Museum of American Art, founded by visionary patron and artist Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney (1875-1942), is home to one of the finest collections of American art in the country. "Frames of Reference" features eminent contributors from the fields of art, literature, and contemporary culture who together provide a wide-ranging ...
With a bilingual text, this book is linked to the second of three exhibitions organized by the Whitney Museum of American Art. The exhibitions were designed to provide an examination of the complex artistic cross-currents between Europe and America, and the impact that 20th-century artists from the Netherlands, Germany, Britain and the United ...
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