Product Description: In the winter of 2007, Milwaukee's Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University, organized and hosted the first American retrospective exhibition of Cuba's favorite Surrealist, Wifredo Lam (1902-1992). Lam's paintings craft Surrealist conjunctions from Cuban religious iconography--especially from tribal masks--and retrieve a suppressed Afro-Cuban culture that ultimately sets them apart from any movement...read more

Product Description: Created by the renowned modernist artist and landscape architect Isamu Noguchi (1904–1988), the Cullen Sculpture Garden at The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, has grown into one of the most important sculpture parks in America. For the past two decades the garden has offered a perfect setting to feature sculptures from the museum's outstanding collection and for masterworks on loan...read more

Product Description: The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington D.C. and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York are co-organising a long-overdue celebration and re-evaluation of the achievements in sculpture of Isamu Noguchi (1904-1988)...read more

An artistic analysis of Picasso's 1909 portraits, published to coincide with a major exhibition, discusses his seemingly obsessive drive to resolve issues in his portraitures of companion Fernande Olivier and the impact of Cubanism's invention on his work. (Fine Arts)

Product Description: Elie Nadelman: Classical Folk is a fully illustrated catalogue that focuses on the figural sculpture of Elie Nadelman (1882-1946) reappraising the artist's distinct position within twentieth-century American sculpture. It details the artist's years in the United States (1914-1946), when he merged classical and folk art sources to create a unique fusion of past and present, traditional and modern, and high and low...read more

Product Description: The Hirshhorn Museum's sculpture garden provides a contemplative haven in the heart of Washington.More than sixty sculptures in a broad range of styles dating from the 1880s through the 1960s are displayed in it, while another dozen sculptures from the 1960s to the 1990s occupy the plaza around the museum building...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Shows examples of Giacometti's drawings, paintings, and sculpture, and discusses his major themes and stylistic approaches to art

Shows examples of Giacometti's drawings, paintings, and sculpture, and discusses his major themes and stylistic approaches to art