Product Description: Of all the European artists present at the birth of American Abstract Expressionism, Hans Hofmann was among the most influential. Readers will see that geneology of power in this catalogue of designs for a mural Hofmann conceived to decorate a church--never built--commissioned from the Catalan architect Josep-Lluis Sert for Chimbote, Per...read more

Product Description: The painter Hans Hofmann (1880-1966) is one of the most important figures in post-war American art. In his lifetime, he came to be admired for his exuberant, colour-filled canvases, but it was as an influential teacher, first in his native Germany, later in New York and Provincetown, that he was most renowned...read more

Product Description: As a teacher, Hans Hofmann left his mark on generations of artists in both Europe and America. He had an equally brilliant career as a painter. Hofmann operated a famous teaching studio first in Europe and then in New York at a pivotal moment when a new kind of subjective, non-figurative art was emerging as the dominant movement...read more

Product Description: Hans Hofmann (1880-1966) is one of the most important figures of post-war American art, for both his own abstract paintings and his influence as the legendary teacher of generations of artists in Germany, New York, and Provincetown. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: "The creative process lies not in imitating, but in paralleling nature ;translating the impulse received from nature into the medium of expression, thus vitalizing this medium. The picture should be alive, the statue should be alive and every work of art should be alive...read more