"Fifty years after his death, Matisse the Master (the second half of the biography that began with the acclaimed The Unknown Matisse) shows us the painter as he saw himself. With unprecedented and unrestricted access to his voluminous family correspondence, and other new material in private archives, Hilary Spurling documents a lifetime of desperation and self-doubt exacerbated by Matisse's attempts to counteract the violence and disruption of the twentieth century in paintings that now seem effortlessly serene, radiant, and stable. ... [details]
Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held at the Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, November - December 1996 and at the Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, January - February 1997. Edited by Jeffrey Fraenkel and Matthew Marks. ... [details]
Anthology of critical texts by Serge Guilbaut, Jean Baudrillard, John O'Brian, Benjamin H.D. Buchloh, Timothy J. Clark, Thomas Crow, Thierry de Duve, Françoise-Marc Gagnon, John-Franklin Koenig, Lary May, Laurie J. ... [details]
Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held September 15 - December 18, 2005. Curated, and with an introduction by, Christophe Cherix. Includes contributions by Jean d'Arras, Geoffroy Tory, Francesco Colonna, Edgar Allen Poe, Guillaume Apollinaire, Marcel Duchamp, Henri Matisse, Paul Eluard, Joan Miró, Edouard Manet, and André Derain. ... [details]
Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held October 11 - December 7, 1952, Philadelphia Museum of Art. Traveled January 22 - March 8, 1953, Art Institute Chicago, Illinois; April 29 - September 7, 1953, Museum of Modern Art, New York. ... [details]
Critical theory b y Ulf Linde. Artists mentioned in the text include Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Marcel Duchamp, and Jackson Pollock. Printed in black-and-white. Text in Swedish. [details]
Anthology of the writings of art critic Hilton Kramer. "In the eight years since he became art news editor of The New York Times, Hilton Kramer has emerged as perhaps the most perceptive and influential art critic in America. ... [details]
"This book consists of pictures and essays : pictures of one hundred modern drawings, broadly defined as works on paper, in The Museum of Modern Art, New York; and essays on the subject of each of these drawings and, collectively, of the modern drawing itself and its place in modern art. ... [details]
Reference book for the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, Saint-Étienne. Essays by Jacques Beauffet, Bernard Ceysson, Martine Dancer and Maurice Fréchuret. Artists include Gilles Aillaud, Carl Andre, Arman, John Armleder, Jean Arp, Jean Atlan, Enrico Baj, Georg Baselitz, Etienne Beothy, Christian Boltanski, Roger Bissiére, Victor Brauner, Camille Bryen, Pierre Buraglio, Victor Burgin, Alexander Calder, Marcelle Cahn, Louis Cane, Auguste Chabaud, Gaston Chaissac, Tony Cragg, Joseph Csaky, Robert Delaunay, Sonia Delaunay, Maurice Denis, Daniel Dezeuze, David Diao, Jim Dine, César Domela, Marcel Duchamp, Jean Dubuffet, Raoul Dufy, Max Ernst, Etienne-Martin, Aleksandra Exter, Luciano Fabro, Jean Fautrier, Naum Gabo, Jochen Gerz, Julio González, Toni Grand, Hans Hartung, Raoul Hausmann, Jean Hélion, Jörg Immendorff, Robert Jacobsen, Alain Jacquet, Donald Judd, Lajos Kassak, On Kawara, Ellsworth Kelly, Yves Klein, Joseph Kosuth, Igor Kopystiansky, Barbara Kruger, Henri Laurens, Bertrand Lavier, Jean Le Moal, Sol LeWitt, Roy Lichtenstein, Richard Long, Markus Lupertz, Alberto Magnelli, Alfred Manessier, Louis Marcoussis, André Masson, Henri Matisse, Mario Merz, Henri Michaux, Claude Monet, Barnett Newman, Kenneth Noland and many, many more. [details]
Catalogue raisonné of The Société Anonyme and the Dreier Bequest at Yale University. The Société Anonyme, founded in 1920 by Marcel Duchamp, Katherine Dreier and Man Ray, was responsible for introducing contemporary European Art to the American public. ... [details]