Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Cambridge, MA, March 4 - July 16, 2007, organized by Cornelia H. Butler and Lisa Gabrielle Mark. "There had never been art like the art produced by women artists in the 1970s--and there has never been a book with the ambition and scope of this one about that groundbreaking era. ... [details]
Exhibition catalogue and series of letters to young women artists published in conjunction with the Feminist Art Festival at the California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, 1974. Edited by Miriam Schapiro, Sherry Brody, Molly Rhodes, and Lelia Amalfitano. ... [details]
Prospectus for a portfolio of twelve prints by twelve artists published as a fundraising effort by the Committee to Endow a Chair in Honor of Meyer Schapiro at Columbia University. Artists include Stanley William Hayter, Jasper Johns, Ellsworth Kelly, Alexander Liberman, Roy Lichtenstein, André Masson, Robert Motherwell, Claes Oldenburg, Robert Rauschenberg, Saul Steinberg, Frank Stella and Andy Warhol. [details]
Heresies issue on women and violence. Essays "Pink Victory," by Sharon Thompson; "The Vicki Tapes," by Martine Barrat; "August 2nd," by Lou McDonald; "With No Immediate Cause," by Ntozake Shange; "The Evolution of a Violent Act," by Paula Grey; "Politics of Rape in Primitive Society," by Paula Webster; "Dialogue with a Rapist," by Batya Weinbaum; "Dialogue with the Author," by Claire Pajaczkowska and Batya Weinbaum; "Codex Artaud XVII," by Nancy Spero; "Happy New Year: An Album of Violence (Excerpt)," by Stephanie Oursler; "The Pleasure Outing," by Anita Page; "The Violence of Power: The Genital Mutilation of Females," by Fran P. ... [details]
Critical theory, contributions by Thomas B. Hess, John Ashbery, Linda Nochlin, Michel Butor, Meyer Schapiro, Françoise Cachin, William C. Lipke, Harold Rosenberg, Joshua Taylor, Kenneth Frampton, William Agee, Louis Finklestein, and Libby Tannenbaum. ... [details]
Revised version of the exhibition catalogue originally published in conjunction with show held at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, July - August 1965. Foreword by Maurice Tuchman. Excerpted text by Lawrence Alloway, Robert Goldwater, Clement Greenberg, Harold Rosenberg, William Rubin, and Meyer Schapiro. ... [details]
A concise re-edition of a 1962 monograph on the artist Paul Cézanne by Meyer Schapiro. "From his early life in Aix and the continuing conflict with his father, to his evolution as a painter in Paris and, finally, his return home - where the emotionality of his early pictures is transfigured in a resurgence of intense feeling that characterize the work of his last years - the growth of Cézanne, the painter, is traced through a comprehensive consideration of oeuvre and then through a comparison of individual Cézanne paintings to those of other powerful artists. ... [details]
"In this long-awaited volume, Meyer Schapiro, hailed by the New York Times as 'the most important art historian America has produce,' offers a fresh and exciting new look at 'the Impressionist family' by exploring broad themes of Impressionist painting and Parisian culture in the late nineteenth century. ... [details]
October 11, 1948 issue of Life Magazine featuring "A Life Round Table on Modern Art : Fifteen Distinguished Critics and Connoisseurs Undertake to Clarify the Strange Art of Today." The meeting took place in the penthouse of the Museum of Modern Art in New York. ... [details]
Compendium of critical theory texts on beauty, edited by Bill Beckley with David Shapiro. Texts by John Ashbery, Louise Bourgeois, Hubert Damisch, Arthur C. Danto, Max Fierst, David Freedberg, Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe, John Hejduk, Dave Hickey, James Hillman, Kenneth Koch, Julia Kristeva, Donald Kuspit, Jacqueline Lichtenstein, Ariane Lopez-Huici, Agnes Martin, Thomas McEvilley, Robert C. ... [details]