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Product Description: "Clay can be a metaphor for many things. I made it a metaphor for flesh and earth."--Stephen De StaeblerOver the course of a fifty-year career, Stephen De Staebler (1933-2011) created powerful, elegiac figurative sculptures in clay and bronze...read more
By Dore Ashton (contributor), Timothy Anglin Burgard (editor), Stephen De Staebler and Rick Newby (contributor)
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9780520272316, titled "Matter + Spirit: Stephen De Staebler" | Univ of California Pr, January 18, 2012, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: "Clay can be a metaphor for many things.

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Product Description: "Clay can be a metaphor for many things. I made it a metaphor for flesh and earth."--Stephen De StaeblerOver the course of a fifty-year career, Stephen De Staebler (1933-2011) created powerful, elegiac figurative sculptures in clay and bronze...read more
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9780520272309 | Univ of California Pr, January 18, 2012, cover price $65.00 | About this edition: "Clay can be a metaphor for many things.

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Product Description: A painter of rare independent vision, with an oeuvre that now stretches back a half-century, Manuel Felguerez (born 1928) is without doubt one of Mexico's most outstanding artists. His abstract paintings of the 1950s and 1960s presented expressively worked surfaces and a scratchy mark-making; later he arrived at the work for which he is best known, abstractions of a more classical bent, that evoke the cylindrical geometries of Fernand Leger and Francis Picabia...read more
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9788492480777 | Rm Verlag, July 31, 2010, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: A painter of rare independent vision, with an oeuvre that now stretches back a half-century, Manuel Felguerez (born 1928) is without doubt one of Mexico's most outstanding artists.

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9788434312067 | Poligrafa Ediciones Sa, August 31, 2010, cover price $25.00

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9788481096941 | Galaxia Gutenberg, June 30, 2008, cover price $69.95

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9788437607849 | Catedra Ediciones, June 30, 2007, cover price $24.95

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Product Description: Robert Motherwell (1915-1991), one of the leading American Abstract Expressionist painters, was also a theorist and exponent of the movement. His writing articulated the intent of the New York school --Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Adolph Gottlieb, Franz Kline, Arshile Gorky, and others--during a period when their work was often reviled for its departure from traditional representation...read more
By Dore Ashton (editor), Joan Banach (editor) and Robert Motherwell
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9780520250475 | 1 edition (Univ of California Pr, May 25, 2007), cover price $70.00 | About this edition: Robert Motherwell (1915-1991), one of the leading American Abstract Expressionist painters, was also a theorist and exponent of the movement.

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Product Description: Marcelo Bonevardi (1929-1994) was one of the most innovative artists of his generation. A native of Argentina, Bonevardi spent the greater part of his career in New York City, where he absorbed avant-garde practices and influences such as abstraction and primitivism, using them to invent a pictorial and symbolic language with which to express his deep spirituality and affinity for myth and ritual...read more
By Dore Ashton, John Bennett (editor), Gustavo Bonevardi (editor) and Ronald Christ (editor)
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9780292714366 | Univ of Texas Pr, March 1, 2007, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: Marcelo Bonevardi (1929-1994) was one of the most innovative artists of his generation.

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Product Description: This landmark exhibition catalog surveys the entire career of one of the last great painters of high modernism, Franz Kline. It features over 70 major works, including paintings, drawings, sketches, and documentary material. The works included have been selected from collections from around the world with the intent of showing all of Kline's achievements, from the early figurative oil paintings of the late 1930s and 1940s to his breakthroughs in Abstract Expressionism seen in a selection of his large-scale black-and-white works...read more
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9788884918666 | Skira, December 14, 2004, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: This landmark exhibition catalog surveys the entire career of one of the last great painters of high modernism, Franz Kline.

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Product Description: One of the most important influences in post-war Latin American art, Fernando de Szyszlo's oeuvre has drawn from the mythical legacy of pre-Columbian cultures without forsaking the abstract language of the historical avant-garde. This monograph includes an extensive essay and presents a comprehensive survey of the artist's entire career...read more
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9788434310148 | Poligrafa Ediciones Sa, March 1, 2004, cover price $65.00 | About this edition: One of the most important influences in post-war Latin American art, Fernando de Szyszlo's oeuvre has drawn from the mythical legacy of pre-Columbian cultures without forsaking the abstract language of the historical avant-garde.

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Product Description: This book serves as a biographical and critical study of David Remfry's work.
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9780936859415 | Boca Raton Museum of Art, July 1, 2003, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: This book serves as a biographical and critical study of David Remfry's work.

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Product Description: As the Washington Post says, "Dore Ashton brings the reader to the very core of Mark Rothko's art." She draws on her countless interviews with the artist--giving little credence to the false mythology surrounding his work--to take us to the heart of Rothko's painting, showing its derivation from his reading, travel, and thought...read more
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9780195033489 | Oxford Univ Pr, October 1, 1983, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Chronicles the life, work, artistic formation, and philosophical outlooks of the American painter, and includes dozens of illustrations representing the entire spectrum of the artist's work

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9780306812644 | Revised edition (Da Capo Pr, June 4, 2003), cover price $26.00 | About this edition: As the Washington Post says, "Dore Ashton brings the reader to the very core of Mark Rothko's art.
9780306807046 | Da Capo Pr, March 21, 1996, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: Mark Rothko (1903–1970) produced possibly the most lasting paintings of the New York School, monumental abstract expressionist canvasses that function as "a passport to a more luminous world.

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Product Description: El debate sobre el proceso creativo ha ocupado la mente de muchos artistas y estudiosos. Este libro, de la aclamada crítica de arte Dore Ashton, es una original manera de analizar este asunto y el papel que alrededor de este tema han desempeñado ilustres artistas, creadores, y críticos...read more
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9789681664466 | Fondo De Cultura Economica USA, June 28, 2002, cover price $15.99 | About this edition: El debate sobre el proceso creativo ha ocupado la mente de muchos artistas y estudiosos.

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Product Description: Crossroads of American Sculpture examines the works of six artists whose lives are linked by their place in the history of 20th-century sculpture. Painters and sculptors began to explore nontraditional subjects and to search for abstract ways of representing their ideas early in the 20th century, but it was during the period from 1945 to 2000 that sculpture radically expanded its forms, materials and subjects...read more
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9780936260723 | Indianapolis Museum of Art, September 1, 2000, cover price $55.01 | About this edition: Crossroads of American Sculpture examines the works of six artists whose lives are linked by their place in the history of 20th-century sculpture.

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Product Description: Artist Bernard Maisner is one of the finest illuminators of manuscripts at work today. His remarkable ability to work in miniature, as well as in grand scale paintings, combines with his love and mastery of historical and modern painting techniques to create an unusual and visually stunning body of work, thoroughly documented here...read more
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9780295979298 | Univ of Washington Pr, February 1, 2000, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Artist Bernard Maisner is one of the finest illuminators of manuscripts at work today.

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Product Description: An illustrated biography of the multi-talented artist, Sogetsu headmaster, and director of "Woman in the Dunes" set against the backdrop of the cultural and political confusion in post-war Japan. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9784770018267 | Kodansha Amer Inc, April 1, 1997, cover price $29.00 | About this edition: An illustrated biography of the multi-talented artist, Sogetsu headmaster, and director of "Woman in the Dunes" set against the backdrop of the cultural and political confusion in post-war Japan.

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Product Description: Artwork by David Smith. Contributions by Dore Ashton. Text by Michael Brenson, Matthew Marks.
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9780916365479 | Independent Curators, January 1, 1997, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Artwork by David Smith.

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Product Description: From one of the most original voices in contemporary American art, more than 20 years of work culminating in grand, abstract ensembles of cedar beams enriched with graphite.
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9781555951221 | Hudson Hills Pr, December 1, 1996, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: From one of the most original voices in contemporary American art, more than 20 years of work culminating in grand, abstract ensembles of cedar beams enriched with graphite.

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Product Description: The SBC Collection, formed by SBC Communications, Inc (formerly Southwestern Bell), reflects the intellectual and cultural trends that have influenced artists working in the United States during the 20th century. Works by many of the leading names in American art are illustrated in this book, which also contains 13 essays by scholars, critics and curators to offer an understanding of American art for both the general reader and the student of art history...read more
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9780810919693 | Harry N Abrams Inc, September 1, 1996, cover price $49.50 | About this edition: The SBC Collection, formed by SBC Communications, Inc (formerly Southwestern Bell), reflects the intellectual and cultural trends that have influenced artists working in the United States during the 20th century.

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9781884300028 | Hebrew Union College-Jewish Inst, June 1, 1996, cover price $25.01

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9780847818754 | Rizzoli Intl Pubns, May 1, 1995, cover price $45.00

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9780914782926 | Albright-Knox Art Gallery, November 1, 1995, cover price $29.95

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9780810968820 | Harry N Abrams Inc, September 1, 1995, cover price $39.95

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Product Description: Joseph Solman first attracted attention in the 1930s. Together with Mark Rothko, Adolph Gottlieb, Ben-Zion, and Ilya Bolotowsky, he launched "The Ten," an embattled group of modern painters opposed to the established grip on the art world by regional, domestic artists like Thomas Hart Benton and Grant Wood...read more
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9780306806391 | Da Capo Pr, September 1, 1995, cover price $29.50 | About this edition: Joseph Solman first attracted attention in the 1930s.

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Product Description: Joseph Solman first attracted attention in the 1930s. Together with Mark Rothko, Adolph Gottlieb, Ben-Zion, and Ilya Bolotowsky, he launched "The Ten," an embattled group of modern painters opposed to the established grip on the art world by regional, domestic artists like Thomas Hart Benton and Grant Wood...read more
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9780306796654 | Da Capo Pr, September 1, 1995, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: Joseph Solman first attracted attention in the 1930s.

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Product Description: The Spanish artist Antoni Tapies first received worldwide recognition in the 1950s for his "matter" paintings: relief-like works composed of dry pigments, sand, marble-dust and paint, which he scraped, incised and pierced. His early paintings have been likened to walls, their graffiti-like scrawls denoting the only means of free expression available under the Franco regime...read more
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9780810968813 | Harry N Abrams Inc, September 1, 1995, cover price $75.00 | About this edition: The Spanish artist Antoni Tapies first received worldwide recognition in the 1950s for his "matter" paintings: relief-like works composed of dry pigments, sand, marble-dust and paint, which he scraped, incised and pierced.

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