Product Description: Working simultaneously in abstraction and figuration, German painter Eugen Schönebeck features in his most famous works strange, mutated creatures that seem to oscillate between the worlds of the living and the dead. The first German artist to take up as a theme the horrors of World War II, Schönebeck is also well-known for his work in collaboration with Georg Baselitz and for the portraits he created in the mid-1960s of Soviet cultural heroes...read more

Product Description: The intertwined stories of Realism and modernism begin with the great innovations of Gustave Courbet (1819-1877). Realism sought to record the messiness, poverty and brute facts of everyday life in urban and rural France, against the restrictions of religion and class and the high-flown emotion of the Romantic painters...read more

Product Description: This companion volume to a major exhibitionof the work of László Moholy-Nagy highlightsthe extraordinary range of his prolific career. Throughout his career Moholy-Nagy produced brilliant works inpainting, film, photography, sculpture, set design andtypography...read more

Product Description: James Ensor's painting of 1887, "The Temptation of St. Anthony," now in The Museum of Modern Art's collection, established the artist as one of the boldest painters of all his contemporaries. Ensor (1860-1949) was a major figure in the Belgian avant-garde of the late nineteenth century and an important precursor to the development of Expressionism in the early twentieth, yet his work is underappreciated in the United States, and far too little seen...read more

Product Description: The French painter, draftsman and mystic, Odilon Redon, was already in his forties, an eminence grise, when a group of young colleagues asked him to the 1884 founding of the Societe des Independants. He was in his seventies when his work appeared in the 1913 Armory show, which woke American audiences to a new aesthetic...read more

Product Description: Forty years ago, the first time anyone thought to consider Picasso's theatrical work as a unified portfolio, Jean Cassou, then the Director of the Musee d'Arte Moderne in Paris, observed that the work occupied "a great place in his career...read more

Product Description: Presents American and German impressions of the American western frontier and the myths and images surrounding the wild west.

Product Description: Stillness, emptiness, silence, the pause, the gap, the omission--all these visual moments of silence are increasingly significant in today's society of images. They first emerged into contemporary art with avant-garde forces of the 1960s and 70s including John Baldessari and the Art & Language movement, which used these ideas to express their growing skepticism about depicting a reality that seemed increasingly complex and difficult to grasp...read more

Product Description: Focusing on one of Matisse's greatest bodies of work and his last artistic creations, this flexi edition of essays and reproductions provides scholarship on this important period.

Product Description: Between 1947 and 1964 Joseph Beuys produced a swath of works on paper that, in their style, technique, and formal vocabulary, echo those of Auguste Rodin by way of his teacher and mentor, sculptor, Wilhelm Lehmbruck. Although Beuys's work remains very different from his predecessors', it does take up themes they had pursued, including the idea of the torso as an autonomous, enclosed form and of the fragment as the simplest and most elementary embodiment of immutability...read more

Product Description: Twenty-five year old Hans Schabus represented Austria at the Venice Biennale in 2005--and stole hearts from all over the world--by building the Austrian Pavilion a Darth Vader-like mountain fa ade. His craggy black exterior was as unfriendly as its interior was charming, with labyrinthine staircases up to the summit where viewers were granted skylight views of the sea and the city...read more

Product Description: In an age of increasing mobility and dissolving social bonds, the yearning for intimacy and security grows steadily stronger in western society. Plagued by uncertainty in the face of turbulent social and political systems and a sense of vulnerability generated by endless reports of war and horrific images of terror, many people are turning away from reality in search of safe havens and newly hopeful perspectives...read more

Product Description: Yves Klein was regarded as a visionary even by his contemporaries. An enfant terrible and outstanding judo enthusiast whose spectacular performances attracted considerable attention in the art world, Klein created a following that only intensified in the wake of his premature death...read more

Product Description: In 1956, James Lee Byars rented a sod farm for a midnight, full moon exhibition of his abstract figure sculptures; guests viewed the work from sleds pulled over snow. In 1959, he abandoned durable materials for paper and fabric. In 1965, a nun performed his A 1,000-Foot Chinese Paper at the Carnegie International...read more

Product Description: The all-encompassing mass culture of today is not an invention of the late 20th century. Contrary to what might be assumed, given the capitalist under- and over-tones of contemporary mass media, our visual culture has its roots in the totalitarian regimes of the 20s and 30s...read more

Product Description: Although Henri Matisse's paintings and drawings are some of the most revered in the art world, his cut-outs are widely believed to represent the culmination of his artistic career. This volume examines all aspects of Matisse's cut-outs, from the early models for "Jazz" to the large-scale works that dominated his final creative period...read more

Product Description: Henri Matisse created some of his most exquisite works by cutting shapes out of paper. Entertaining and inventive, his "drawings with scissors" are also a superb introduction to the most basic artistic concepts: colour, line and form...read more

Product Description: Beyond the scope of the defining non-material characteristics of sound, sound becomes a formal material, a kind of audible sculpture accompanied by discourse on its constructive, societal, philosophical, and emotional aspects. At least, it does for the contemporary artists represented in Frequencies [HZ], each of whom works with sound within the context of visual art--Angela Bulloch, Farmersmanual, Ryoji Ikeda, Daniel Pflumm, Ultra-red, Mika Vainio, and others...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: In his art, composer Arnold Schonberg was always eager to embrace the new and the unfamiliar. A characteristic feature of his music around 1910 was a quest for analogous forms in other media, a search which led him to shift from music to painting...read more