Anthology of surrealist texts, selected and edited by Marcel Jean. General editor for The Documents of 20th-Century Art series: Robert Rauschenberg. Includes texts by Giorgio de Chirico, Arthur Rimbaud, Guillaume Apollinaire, Alfred Jarry, Jacques Vaché, Pierre Reverdy, Lautréamont, Marcel Duchamp, André Breton, Francis Picabia, Max Ernst, and many others. ... [details]
Monograph on the work of Marcel Duchamp by Octavio Paz. Translated into English by Rachel Phillips and Donald Gardner. Includes a list of illustrations and a chronology. [details]
Monograph on Marcel Duchamp focusing on the context, significance, and meaning of his piece "The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even" written by John Golding. Includes a historical table, notes, a bibliographical note, list of illustrations, and index. ... [details]
"In the original French edition of this book, Pierre Cabanne wrote, shortly before Duchamp's death: 'These interviews with Marcel Duchamp took place in his studio at Neuilly [near Paris], where he and his wife live during the six months they spend in France each year. ... [details]
"At the age of ninety, Pablo Picasso is undoubtedly the greatest living artist of the twentieth century. Although he has had tremendous influence as a painter and sculpture, he has rarely committed himself in writing on the subject of art, and in fact the vast Picasso literature contains only three documents that he has verified himself. ... [details]
Anthology of critical texts by Calvin Tomkins. Among those mentioned in the text are Henry Gelzahler, Andy Warhol, Tatiana Grosman, Michael Heizer, Walter De Maria, Robert Smithson, Christo, Jonas Mekas, Nam June Paik, and Robert Wilson. ... [details]
"Picasso's lifelong dealer and one of the major gallery owners of the century, Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler is a key figure in the development of modern art. In 1907, when he opened his first gallery in Paris, Kahnweiler bought the works of Braque, Picasso, Derain, and Vlaminck, then completely unknown; by selling them to his friends, he helped to establish some of the finest collections of cubist paintings in the world. ... [details]
Memoir that chronicles Brassaï's relationships with artists living in Paris in the early to mid 20th century. Features his photographs and his reminiscences of artists whom he befriended, such as Pierre Bonnard, Georges Braque, Salvador Dali, Charles Despiau, Raoul Dufy, Alberto Giacometti, Oksar Kokoschka, Henri Laurens, Le Corbusier, Fernand Léger, Jacques Lipchitz, Aristide Maillol, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró, Pablo Picasso, Hans Reichel, Germaine Richier, Georges Rouault, Jacques Villon, Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, Ambroise Vollard. ... [details]
Mario Amaya documents the history of the Pop Art scene through the artists Jim Dine, Robert Indiana, Roy Lichtenstein, Claes Oldenburg, James Rosenquist, George Segal, Andy Warhol, Tom Wesselmann, Peter Blake, Patrick Caufield, David Hockney, Allen Jones, Gerald Laing, Peter Phillips, Richard Smith, and R. ... [details]
A mammoth book documenting the thrills and chills of when artists and scientists [or corporations] joined together by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art attempted to produce collaborative works. Amazingly self critical of the failures [and limited success] of the program. ... [details]