Product Description: More than 60 years have passed since Robert Coates, writing in the New Yorker in 1946, first used the term "Abstract Expressionism" to describe the richly colored canvases of Hans Hofmann. The name stuck, and over the years it has come to designate the paintings and sculptures of artists as different from one another as Jackson Pollock and Barnett Newman, Willem de Kooning and Mark Rothko, Lee Krasner and David Smith...read more
9780870707933 | Museum of Modern Art, November 30, 2010, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: More than 60 years have passed since Robert Coates, writing in the New Yorker in 1946, first used the term "Abstract Expressionism" to describe the richly colored canvases of Hans Hofmann.
Product Description: Gabriel Orozco emerged at the beginning of the 1990s as one of the most intriguing and original artists of his generation, one of the last to come of age during the twentieth century. His work is unique in its formal power and intellectual rigor, resisting confinement to one medium and roaming freely and fluently among drawing, photography, sculpture, installation and painting...read more
9780870707629 | Museum of Modern Art, December 31, 2009, cover price $55.00 | About this edition: Gabriel Orozco emerged at the beginning of the 1990s as one of the most intriguing and original artists of his generation, one of the last to come of age during the twentieth century.
Product Description: Claude Monet (1840-1926) devoted the last 25 years of his career to paintings of the Japanese-style pond and gardens of his house in Giverny, France. Two of these luminous panels--"Reflections of Clouds on the Water-Lily Pond," a mural-sized triptych, and "Water Lilies," a single canvas--are among the most well-known and beloved works in the collection of The Museum of Modern Art...read more
9780870707742 | Museum of Modern Art, October 31, 2009, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Claude Monet (1840-1926) devoted the last 25 years of his career to paintings of the Japanese-style pond and gardens of his house in Giverny, France.
Product Description: Works spanning the legendary and prolific artist's twenty-year career, including many of his self-portraits, paintings, sculptures, works on paper, installations, and exhibition posters.
9781933751092 | Mit Pr, October 31, 2008, cover price $44.95 | About this edition: Works spanning the legendary and prolific artist's twenty-year career, including many of his self-portraits, paintings, sculptures, works on paper, installations, and exhibition posters.
Product Description: Color Chart addresses the impact of standardized, mass-produced color on the art of the past 60 years. Taking the commercial color chart as its central metaphor, this volume chronicles an important artistic shift that took place during the middle of the twentieth century: a frank acknowledgment of color as a matter-of-fact element rather than a vehicle of spiritual or emotional content...read more
9780870707315 | Museum of Modern Art, March 1, 2008, cover price $55.00 | About this edition: Color Chart addresses the impact of standardized, mass-produced color on the art of the past 60 years.
Product Description: In the early 1940s, John and Dominique de Menil began to acquire art. Collecting in an intuitive and personal manner, the de Menils gathered “things in which we believe,” as John phrased it, and proceeded to develop an inspired collection that would eventually find a permanent home at The Menil Collection in Houston...read more
9780300123791 | Menil Collection, June 28, 2007, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: In the early 1940s, John and Dominique de Menil began to acquire art.
Product Description: This visually exciting book, which presents a selection of signature works by European and American artists of the postwar generations, is drawn from the UBS Art Collection. One of the richest and most varied holdings of international contemporary art in the United States, the Collection was begun in 1970 by Donald B...read more
9780870700897 | Museum of Modern Art, May 30, 2005, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: This visually exciting book, which presents a selection of signature works by European and American artists of the postwar generations, is drawn from the UBS Art Collection.
Product Description: This exhibition catalogue focuses on Manet's maritime paintings. Edouard Manet (1832 -1883) was passionate about the sea. Before becoming a painter, he spent six months at sea and, like many Europeans of his era, he took numerous seaside holidays...read more
9780876331743 | Philadelphia Museum of Art, December 1, 2003, cover price $65.00 | About this edition: This exhibition catalogue focuses on Manet's maritime paintings.
Product Description: Barnett Newman (1905-1970) was one of the most profound and influential artists of the twentieth century. A master of expansive spatial effects and evocative color, he pioneered painting that was both abstract and emotive, suffused with powerful philosophical and spiritual meaning...read more
9780300094299 | Yale Univ Pr, April 1, 2002, cover price $75.00 | About this edition: Barnett Newman (1905-1970) was one of the most profound and influential artists of the twentieth century.
9780876331569 | Philadelphia Museum of Art, March 1, 2002, cover price $65.00 | About this edition: Barnett Newman (1905-1970) was one of the most profound and influential artists of the twentieth century.
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9780876331576 | Philadelphia Museum of Art, March 1, 2002, cover price $36.00
Product Description: Alice Neel (1900-1984) was one of this century's most powerfully original portraitists. Her psychological vision as a painter of people has been described as both tender and unforgiving. This full-scale examination of her life and work accompanies a traveling retrospective organized by the Philadelphia Museum of Art that celebrates the centennial of her birth and is the first major exhibition of her work since 1974...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
9780876331408 | Philadelphia Museum of Art, June 1, 2000, cover price $46.00 | About this edition: Alice Neel (1900-1984) was one of this century's most powerfully original portraitists.
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9780876331392 | Philadelphia Museum of Art, June 1, 2000, cover price $28.00 | About this edition: Alice Neel (January 28, 1900 - October 13, 1984) was an American artist known for her oil on canvas portraits of friends, family, lovers, poets, artists and strangers.
Three major essays discuss twentieth-century sculptor Constantin Brancusi's sources of inspiration, formal approach, the works' original presentation, as well as the artist's place in the artistic climate of Paris in the 1910s and 1920s, and his use of non-Western sources. Reprint.
9780262523103 | Reprint edition (Mit Pr, June 1, 2000), cover price $42.00 | About this edition: Three major essays discuss twentieth-century sculptor Constantin Brancusi's sources of inspiration, formal approach, the works' original presentation, as well as the artist's place in the artistic climate of Paris in the 1910s and 1920s, and his use of non-Western sources.
A centennial celebration of the work of American portraitist Alice Neel accompanies a retrospective exhibition of her remarkable works, from deeply personal paintings of family and friends to her stunning portraits of key figures in the New York art world, including Andy Warhol, Frank O'Hara, and Robert Smithson.
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9780810942158 | Harry N Abrams Inc, June 1, 2000, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: A centennial celebration of the work of American portraitist Alice Neel accompanies a retrospective exhibition of her remarkable works, from deeply personal paintings of family and friends to her stunning portraits of key figures in the New York art world, including Andy Warhol, Frank O'Hara, and Robert Smithson.
Product Description: This book chronicles the friendship and working relationship between two of the twentieth century's most innovative and influential artists--Joseph Cornell and Marcel Duchamp. The focus of this book is the box compiled by Cornell and dedicated to his friend Duchamp: the Duchamp Dossier, c...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
9783893224319 | Hatje Cantz Pub, January 1, 1999, cover price $80.00 | About this edition: This book chronicles the friendship and working relationship between two of the twentieth century's most innovative and influential artists--Joseph Cornell and Marcel Duchamp.
Product Description: In twentieth-century sculpture, the name of Romanian-born Constantin Brancusi (1876-1957) towers above all others. This catalogue was published to accompany a major retrospective exhibition of Brancusi's sculpture, drawings, and photo-graphs organized by the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris...read more
9780262023955, titled "Constantin Brancusi: 1876-1957" | Mit Pr, October 1, 1995, cover price $68.50 | About this edition: Romanian-born Constantin Brancusi (1876-1957) is one of the most important names in 20th-century sculpture.
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9780876330975 | Philadelphia Museum of Art, October 1, 1995, cover price $42.00 | About this edition: In twentieth-century sculpture, the name of Romanian-born Constantin Brancusi (1876-1957) towers above all others.
Product Description: Beuys, like Marcel Duchamp and Andy Warhol, precisely orchestrated his public image, building a personal myth that has the power to bind together his entire oeuvre. This book attempts to break through the mass of obscurantist writing about Joseph Beuys, to introduce him in a simple and clear manner through his individual drawings, used here as the basis for discussions of his life, art and ideas...read more
9780500015476 | Thames & Hudson, February 1, 1993, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: Beuys, like Marcel Duchamp and Andy Warhol, precisely orchestrated his public image, building a personal myth that has the power to bind together his entire oeuvre.
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9780876330890 | Philadelphia Museum of Art, February 1, 1993, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: Beuys, like Marcel Duchamp and Andy Warhol, precisely orchestrated his public image, building a personal myth that has the power to bind together his entire oeuvre.