Product Description: Spanning fifty years of Joellyn Duesberry's art career, this book offers insightful writings that delve into the defining moments of her career, from childhood tragedy, to the transforming painting sessions with Richard Diebenkorn, and her subsequent move to the West.

Product Description: This is a boxed set of "Anthony Caro: Drawing in Space", "Anthony Caro: Interior and Exterior", "Anthony Caro: Figurative and Narrative Sculpture", "Anthony Caro: Small Sculptures", and "Anthony Caro: Presence". The box has been specially designed by Anthony Caro...read more

Product Description: Frankenthaler at Eighty commemorates painter Helen Frankenthaler's eightieth birthday with a selection of masterworks from her own collection. Published concurrently with an exhibition at New York's Knoedler & Company, this handsome volume--the cover of which features Frankenthaler's great painting, "A Green Thought in a Green Shade" (1981)--pays tribute to the painter's long and distinguished career, with a fully illustrated survey of the works chosen for the exhibition, which represent quintessential paintings from each period of her career...read more

Product Description: The delightful tales and quick-witted drawings of Edward Gorey (American, 1925-2000) reflect a special kind of genius that resides in the effect of what is left unwritten and unseen. In Gorey's vaguely Victorian world of well-tended gardens and opulent estates, smoke-belching factories and fog-shrouded streets, nothing seems certain or quite as it should be...read more

Product Description: Best known for his disarmingly simple depictions of bottles, vases, bowls and jars grouped together on tabletops and painted in exquisitely muted natural colors, the beloved twentieth century Italian painter Giorgio Morandi was also an exceptional interpreter of the medium of engraving...read more

Product Description: Colour field painting, which emerged in the United States in the 1950s, is based on radiant, uninflected hues. Exemplified by the work of Helen Frankenthaler, Morris Louis, Kenneth Noland, Jules Olitski, Larry Poons and Frank Stella, among others, these stunningly beautiful and impressively scaled paintings constitute one of the crowning achievements of postwar American abstract art...read more

Product Description: Colour field painting, which emerged in the United States in the 1950s, is based on radiant, uninflected hues. Exemplified by the work of Helen Frankenthaler, Morris Louis, Kenneth Noland, Jules Olitski, Larry Poons and Frank Stella, among others, these stunningly beautiful and impressively scaled paintings constitute one of the crowning achievements of postwar American abstract art...read more

Product Description: Stuart Davis (1892-1964) made a mark on the art world early in his career, first with his Ashcan works and then with his highly personal version of Cubism, which firmly established American modernism as a force that could rival its European counterpart...read more

Product Description: Giorgio Morandi's steady pursuit of a poetic vision in still-life and landscape painting (as well as engravings and etchings) has secured him a singular and revered position in the history of Modern art. While drawing on the achievements of Giotto, Cezanne, the metaphysical painters and the Cubists, Morandi's work finally resembles no one else's and quietly defies paraphrase: everything is enigmatically clarified in the work itself, in all its apparent simplicity, on terms entirely specific to the artist's compositional gifts, in which respect he might almost be the Erik Satie of painting...read more

Product Description: A unique anthology of articles on contemporary sculptors drawn from the 25-year history of Sculpture magazine, A Sculpture Reader offers a valuable overview of three dimensional art since 1980. Focusing on individual artists rather than themes or movements, the 42 essays in A Sculpture Reader capture the wide-ranging possibilities that characterize contemporary sculpture...read more

Product Description: This catalogue covers the ABC's of Noland's pictorial vocabulary since he began painting in the 1950s--the circle, the chevron, and the stripe. With that foundation, Noland built an influential oeuvre that communicated the substance and associative power of color...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

Culled from dozens of interviews, this unique autobiography of the famous artist showcases Gorey's ideas about French symbolist poetry, soap operas, George Balanchine, ballet, and Victorian snuff photography, among other topics. 50,000 first printing.

Explores Gorey's roles as artist, illustrator, writer, and theater designer using criticism of his work and an interview with the artist.

Amazon.com Review: For four decades after he wrote his first article in 1939, Clement Greenberg was a highly influential art critic whose support was decisive in the acceptance of abstract expressionism. In the early '80s, when most critics and academics had come to believe that art was a point of departure for theoretical constructs, Greenberg aroused deep hostility by continuing to focus on the formal elements of painting and sculpture...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Thoughtful texts, juxtaposed with Fonseca's striking images, offer welcome glimpses into the mysteries of how and why an artist creates. A celebration of a brilliant young artist's tragically short career, this revealing look at Bruno Fonseca's life, unorthodox training, and startlingly diverse paintings, drawings, and sculpture not only casts light on his own impressive work but also offers unusually acute insight into the creative process...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: David Smith is universally recognized as one of America's greatest sculptors. Although his three dimensional work has been the subject of many books, this is the first study to investigate his lesser known work in bronze and clay relief, drawings and paintings...read more

Product Description: Stuart Davis in GloucesterA beautifully designed book exposing the influence of Gloucester, Massachusetts on the art of Stuart Davis, a pricipal founder of American abstraction. Printed in conjunction with a traveling exposition of Davis work spanning 3 decades...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This beautiful monograph explores the career of one of the most original sculptors now working in the modernist tradition. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This much-anticipated volume presents the work of the private, enigmatic Bolognese painter and engraver. The text traces Morandi's many influences, from Giotto to Cezanne and the Metaphysical painters to the Cubists, and discusses the manner in which his life and work have informed the critical interpretations of his art...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Two hundred and eighty of Cezanne's most important oil paintings and watercolours fill the pages of this elegant little volume.

A collection of the paintings and drawings of Helen Frankenthaler is accompanied by a discussion of her artistic techniques and style