English translation and reissue of Paul Klee's "Pedagogical Sketchbook," an illustrated textbook of design from a unique perspective originally published in 1925 for the Bauhaus. Introduction and translation by Sibyl Moholy-Nagy. ... [details]
Publication on the Pop Art Movement edited by John Russell and Suzi Gablik. Includes text by John Russell, Suzi Gablik, Lawrence Alloway, John McHale, Robert Rosenblum, Richard Smith, Kenneth Koch, Ovyind Fahlström, Robert Rauschenberg, Richard Smith, Larry Rivers, and Richard Hamilton. ... [details]
"This book analyzes the origins of Fauvism, illustrates the movement at its peak, and describes the personalities of the different artists identified with it." -- publisher's statement. Artists include Henri Matisse, Maurice de Vlaminck, André Derain, Albert Marquet, Charles Camoin, Henri Manguin, Maurice Marinot, Jean Puy, Louis Valtat, Raoul Dufy, Emile-Othon Friesz, Georges Braque and Kees van Dongen. ... [details]
"Companion volume to Barbara Rose's American Art Since 1900: A Critical History - provides a forum for artists and critics writing about the art of their times." - publishers statement. Includes chapters "Apostles of Ugliness"; "The Largest Small Room in the World"; "The Armory Show: Success by Scandal"; "After the Ball: Cubism in America"; "The Thirties: Reaction and Rebellion"; "Art of This Century"; "The New American Painting"; "After Abstract Expressionism"; "Toward a Sculptural Renaissance"; Toward an American Architecture. ... [details]
Critical history tracing "...the evolution of American art within the context of social, historical, and intellectual events." Includes chapters "Apostles of Ugliness"; "The Largest Small Room in the World"; "The Armory Show: Success by Scandal"; "After the Ball: Cubism in America"; "The Thirties: Reaction and Rebellion"; "Art of This Century"; "The New American Painting"; "After Abstract Expressionism"; "Toward a Sculptural Renaissance"; Toward an American Architecture. ... [details]
Compendium of "Western painting from Giotto to Cézanne" by Michael Levey. Chapters include "The Early Renaissance in Italy"; "The Renaissance in Northern Europe"; "The Later Renaissance in Italy"; "The Seventeenth Century"; "From the Rococo to Goya"; "From Romanticism to Cézanne. ... [details]
Anthology of texts by Lucy Lippard, Lawrence Alloway, Nicolas Calas, and Nancy Marmer. Artists featured in the texts include William Copley, Stuart Dais, Marcel Duchamp, Japser Johns, Wally Hedrick, Billy Apple, Peter Blake, Derek Boshier, Rudolph Burckhardt, Patrick Caulfield, Fernand Léger, Gerald Murphy, Claes Oldenburg, Robert Rauschenberg, Kurt Schwitters, John Wesley, H. ... [details]
Reference book on Latin American art from the Pre-Columbian era to the present day. Texts by Leopoldo Castedo, translated and edited by Phyllis Freeman. Comprehensive essays accompanied by numerous illustrations. ... [details]
Monograph on the life and work of Paul Klee by Gualtieri di San Lazzaro. Includes black-and-white and color illustrations, biographical notes, catalogue of principal works, bibliography, index of works reproduced, and index of persons. [details]
Monograph on Georges Seurat by John Russell. "In a richly illustrated study, John Russell, art critic of the London Sunday Times, presents an authoritative survey of Seurat's life and art. Carefully interpreting both the famous canvases and what Suerat's colleague Paul Signac called 'the most beautiful painter's drawings in existence,' Mr. ... [details]
