Synnyt : Nykytaiteen Lähteitä / Sources of Contemporary Art

Timo Valjakka, Juhana Blomstedt, Juhani Pallasmaa, Tor-Björn Hägglund, Yrjänä Levanto, Lauri Anttila, Mikael Enckell, Jaakko Lintinen, Peter von Bagh, Altti Kuusamo, Keijo Rahkonen

Critical theory text discussing themes and origins of contemporary art. The title, "Synnyt," refers to the Finnish word meaning 'birth' and 'to be born,' and also to Finnish mythology, in which the word alluded to a story that "explained the cause or origin of a given creature, disease or other phenomenon and it was believed that knowledge of the true 'synty' or origin gave its possessor power over the phenomenon in question. ... [details]

The Age of the Avant-Garde : An Art Chronicle of 1956 - 1972

[First Printing]

Hilton Kramer, J.M.W. Turner, Gustave Courbet, Edgar Degas, Claude Monet, Odlon Redon, Medardo Rosso, Simeon Solomon, Puvis de Chavannes, Aubrey Beardsley, Mary Cassatt, James McNeill Whistler, Lovis Corinth, Edvard Munch, Oskar Kokoschka, Egon Schiele, Lyonel Feininger, George Grosz, Emil Nolde, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Paul Klee, Max Beckmann, Wassily Kandinsky, Piet Mondrian, László Moholy-Nagy, Alexandr Rodchenko, Vladimir Tatlin, Oskar Schlemmer, Walter Sickert, Barbara Hepworth, Henry Moore, Jacob Epstein, Henri Matisse, Antoine Bourdelle, Edouard Vuillard, Pablo Picasso, Pierre Bonnard, Georges Braques, Juan Gris, Julio Gonzalez, Henri Laurens, Marc Chagall, Jacques Lipchitz, Chaim Soutine, Hans Arp, Joan Miró, Amedeo Modigliani, Alexander Archipenko, Marcel Duchamp, Francis Picabia, Salvador Dalí, Alberto Giacometti, Joaquin Torres-Garcia, Pierre Lachaise, Maurice Prendergast, Marsden Hartley, Arthur Dove, Alfred Maurer, Man Ray, H. Lyman Saÿen, Arnold Friedman, Charles Sheeler, John Storrs, John Graham, Edward Hopper, Saul Baizerman, Romaine Brooks, Arshile Gorky, Milton Avery, Abraham Walkowitz, David Smith, Jackson Pollock, Robert Motherwell, Ad Reinhardt, Willem de Kooning, Jean Dubuffet, Hans Hofmann, Josef Albers, Louise Nevelson, Joseph Cornell, Balthus, Francis Bacon, Saul Steinberg, Isamu Noguchi, José de Rivera, Helen Frankenthaler, Jean Hélion, Mark di Suvero, Anthony Caro, Frank Stella, Robert Morris, Claes Oldenburg, Matta, Jean Ipousteguy, Nicolas de Staël, Fairfield Porter, Jim Dine, Ernest Trova, George Segal, Philip Pearlstein, Ellsworth Kelly, Mary Frank, Richard Hunt, Leland Bell, Anne Arnold, Alex Katz, William King, David Hockney, Cecil Beaton, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Edward Weston, Paul Strand, Bill Brandt, Walker Evans, Diane Arbus, Clement Greenberg, Herbert Read, Harold Rosenberg, William Bailey, Andy Warhol

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]

The Modern Drawing : 100 Works on Paper from the Museum of Modern Art

[Hardcover Edition]

John Elderfeld, Alexander Archipenko, Jean Arp, Lawrence Atkinson, Max Beckmann, Umberto Boccioni, Constantin Brancusi, Georges Braque, Paul Cézanne, Marc Chagall, Giorgio de Chirico, Lovis Corinth, Joseph Cornell, Salvador Dali, Edgar Degas, Paul Delvaus, Robert Delaunay, Jean Delville, Charles Demuth, André Derain, Richard Diebenkorn, Otto Dix, Theo van Doesburg, Arthur G. Dove, Jean Dubuffet, Max Ernst, Alexandra Exeter, Lyonel Feininger, Helen Frankenthaler, Paul Gauguin, Vincent van Gogh, Julio González, Arshile Gorky, John Graham, Juan Gris, George Grosz, Philip Guston, Jasper Johns, Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Gustav Klimt, Franz Kline, Oskar Kokoschka, Willem de Kooning, Alfred Kubin, Frantisek Kupka, Mikhail Larionov, Fernard Léger, Jacques Lipchitz, El Lissitzky, Kasimir Malevich, Man Ray, Franz Marc, John Marin, André Masson, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró, Amedeo Modigliani, Piet Mondrian, Robert Motherwell, Emil Nolde, Georgia O'Keeffe, Claes Oldenburg, Max Pechstein, Francis Picabia, Pablo Picasso, Jackson Pollock, Robert Rauschenberg, Odilon Redon, Auguste Rodin, Christian Rohlfs, Mark Rothko, Georges Rouault, Egon Schiele, Oskar Schlemmer, Kurt Schwitters, Georges Seurat, Gino Severini, Charles Sheeler, David Smith, Vladimir Tatlin, Alexander Vesnin

"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]

The New Decade : Twenty Two European Painters and Sculptors

Andrew Carnduff Ritchie

Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with shows of modern paintings and sculpture, held May 10 - August 7, 1955. Traveled to Minneapolis Institute of Arts, September 21 - October 30, 1955; Los Angeles County Museum, November 21 - January 7, 1956 and San Francisco Museum of Fine Art, February 2 - March 15, 1956. ... [details]

The Spontaneous Gesture : Prints and Books of the Abstract Expressionist Era

Lanier Graham, Jackson Pollock, Wols, Jean Fautrier, Hans Hartung, Jacob Kainen, Richard Diebenkorn, Frank Lobdell, Henri Michaux, Karel Appel, Pierre Alechinsky, Asger Jorn, Stacha Halpern, Jean Dubuffet, K.R.H. Sonderborg, Emil Schumacher, Afro, Emilio Vedova, Antonio Tàpies, S.W. Hayter, Trevor Bell, David Smith, Bernard Childs, Franz Kline, Willem de Kooning, Edmond Casarella, Robert Conover, George Miyasaki, Seong Moy, Pierre Soulages, Zao Wou-ki, Camille Bryen, Jean Messagier, Kumi Sugai, Joan Miró, Sam Francis, Mark Tobey, Robert Motherwell, Adja Yunkers, Philip Guston, Lee Krasner, Adolph Gottlieb, Louise Nevelson, Grace Hartigan, Helen Frankenthaler, Paul Jenkins, Alan Davie, Jean-Paul Riopelle, Antonio Saura

Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held in June 6 - September 13, 1987. Essay by Lanier Graham. Artists include Jackson Pollock, Wols, Jean Fautrier, Hans Hartung, Jacob Kainen, Richard Diebenkorn, Frank Lobdell, Henri Michaux, Karel Appel, Pierre Alechinsky, Asger Jorn, Stacha Halpern, Jean Dubuffet, K. ... [details]

Trajectoire Cubaine

Chantal Cusin-Berche, José Horta, Giovanni Joppolo

Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held at Centre d'Art Contemporain Cac Corbeil-Essonnes, April 22 - May 29, 1989. Traveled to Commune d'Orvieto, June 3 - 30, 1989 and Museo Civico di Gibellina, July 2 - August 15, 1989. ... [details]

Triade '68

Frank Popper

Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with "Art Cinetique," held at Musée Municipal des Sables-D'Olonne, June 9 - September 15, 1968 ; "Art Abstrait," Palais des Congrés, Saint Jean de Monts, June 30 - September 15, 1968 ; "Art Figuratif," Hôtel de Ville, Saint Gilles Croix de Vie, July 7 - September 15, 1968. ... [details]

Visual Arts in the Twentieth Century

Edward Lucie-Smith

Critical theory text by Edward Lucie Smith. Comprehensive essays written on twentieth century art, including architecture, painting, sculpture and photography, grouped into categories by decade. Artists include Alvar Aalto, Vito Acconci, Ansel Adams, Josef Albers, Lawrence Alloway, Benny Andrews, Guillaume Apollinaire, Karel Appel, Diane Arbus, Arman, Hans [Jean] Arp, W. ... [details]

Von Beuys Bis Stella : Internationale Graphik des Letzten Jahrzehnts im Berliner Kupferstichkabinett

Alexander Dückers, Vito Acconci, Gerhard Altenbourg, Elvira Bach, Jennifer Bartlett, Ed Baynard, Jack Beal, Joseph Beuys, Richard Bosman, Luciano Castelli, Francesco Clemente, Chuck Close, Douglas Davis, Martha Diamond, Christa Dichgans, Jim Dine, Martin Disler, Rainer Fetting, Klaus Fußmann, Wolfgang Gäfgen, Martin Gietz, Dieter Hacker, Richard Hamilton, Karl Horst Hödicke, Andrew Hudson, Jörg Immendorff, Yvonne Jacquette, Jasper Johns, Alex Katz, Anselm Kiefer, Jannis Kounellis, Thomas Lange, Heige Leiberg, Markus Lüpertz, Sylvia Plimock Mangold, Matthias Mansen, Marwan, Bruce McLean, Helmut Middendorf, Hartmut Neumann, Tetsuya Noda, Claes Oldenburg, Mimmo Paladino, Ulrich Panndorf, Philip Pearlstein, A.R. Penck, Robert Rauschenberg, Martin Rosz, Salomé, Edwin Schlossberg, Reiner Schwarz, Jan Peter Tripp, Jan Voss, Wolf Vostell, Armando, Georg Baselitz, Rafael Canogar, Gunter Damisch, Howard Hodgkin, Antonius Höckelmann, Rolf Iseli, Per Kirkeby, Markus Lüpertz, Arnulf Rainer, Dieterich Roth, Steven Sorman, Max Uhlig, Frank Badur, Andreas Brandt, Enrico Castellani, Dadamaino, Richard Diebenkorn, Ulrich Erben, Wolfram Erber, Joel Fisher, Helen Frankenthaler, Marco Gastini, Raimund Girke, Camille Graeser, Nancy Stevenson Graves, Giorgio Griffa, Michael Heizer, ter Hell, Hans Holle, Gottfried Honegger, Ida Shoishi, Donald Judd, Ellsworth Kelly, Imi Knoebel, Sol LeWitt, Richard Paul Lohse, Robert Mangold, Brice Marden, Martin Müller-Reinhart, Kenneth Noland, Palermo, James Reineking, Edda Renouf, Dorothea Rockburne, Alan Shields, Serge Spitzer, Frank Stella, Antoni Tàpies, Günther Uecker

Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held September 26 - November 23, 1986. Organized and edited by Alexander Dückers. Text also by Dückers. Artists includes Alexander Dückers, Vito Acconci, Gerhard Altenbourg, Elvira Bach, Jennifer Bartlett, Ed Baynard, Jack Beal, Joseph Beuys, Richard Bosman, Luciano Castelli, Francesco Clemente, Chuck Close, Douglas Davis, Martha Diamond, Christa Dichgans, Jim Dine, Martin Disler, Rainer Fetting, Klaus Fußmann, Wolfgang Gäfgen, Martin Gietz, Dieter Hacker, Richard Hamilton, Karl Horst Hödicke, Andrew Hudson, Jörg Immendorff, Yvonne Jacquette, Jasper Johns, Alex Katz, Anselm Kiefer, Jannis Kounellis, Thomas Lange, Heige Leiberg, Markus Lüpertz, Sylvia Plimock Mangold, Matthias Mansen, Marwan, Bruce McLean, Helmut Middendorf, Hartmut Neumann, Tetsuya Noda, Claes Oldenburg, Mimmo Paladino, Ulrich Panndorf, Philip Pearlstein, A. ... [details]