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Calder: The Conquest of Space

Author : Jed Perl
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0451494121
Total Pages : 689 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (514 download)

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Download or read book Calder: The Conquest of Space written by Jed Perl and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2020-04-14 with total page 689 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The concluding volume to the first biography of one of the most important, influential, and beloved twentieth-century sculptors, and one of the greatest artists in the cultural history of America--is a vividly written, illuminating account of his triumphant later years. The second and final volume of this magnificent biography begins during World War II, when Calder--known to all as Sandy--and his wife, Louisa, opened their home to a stream of artists and writers in exile from Europe. In the postwar decades, they divided their time between the United States and France, as Calder made his first monumental public sculptures and received blockbuster commissions that included Expo '67 in Montreal and the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City. Jed Perl makes clear how Calder's radical sculptural imagination shaped the minimalist and kinetic art movements that emerged in the 1960s. And we see, as well, that through everything--their ever-expanding friendships with artists and writers of all stripes; working to end the war in Vietnam; hosting riotous dance parties at their Connecticut home; seeing the "mobile," Calder's essential artistic invention, find its way into Webster's dictionary--Calder and Louisa remained the risk-taking, singularly bohemian couple they had been since first meeting at the end of the Roaring Twenties. The biography ends with Calder's death in 1976 at the age of seventy-eight--only weeks after an encyclopedic retrospective of his work opened at the Whitney Museum in New York--but leaves us with a new, clearer understanding of his legacy, both as an artist and a man.

Tanguy, Calder

Author : Yves Tanguy
Publisher : L&M Arts
ISBN 13 : 9780979094286
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (942 download)

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Download or read book Tanguy, Calder written by Yves Tanguy and published by L&M Arts. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Text by Susan Davidson.

Surrealists in New York: Atelier 17 and the Birth of Abstract Expressionism

Author : Charles Darwent
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
ISBN 13 : 0500778973
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Surrealists in New York: Atelier 17 and the Birth of Abstract Expressionism written by Charles Darwent and published by Thames & Hudson. This book was released on 2023-05-02 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An absorbing group biography revealing how exiles from war-torn France brought surrealism to America, sparking the movement that became abstract expressionism. In 1957 the American artist Robert Motherwell made an unexpected claim: "I have only known two painting milieus well … the Parisian Surrealists, with whom I began painting seriously in New York in 1940, and the native movement that has come to be known as 'abstract expressionism,' but which genetically would have been more properly called 'abstract surrealism.'" Motherwell’s bold assertion, that abstract expressionism was neither new nor local, but born of a brief liaison between America and France, verged on the controversial. Surrealists in New York tells the story of this "liaison" and the European exiles who bought Surrealism with them—an artistic exchange between the Old World and the New—centering on taciturn printmaker Stanley William Hayter and the legendary Atelier 17 print studio he founded. Here artists’ experiments literally pushed the boundaries of modern art. It was in Hayter’s studio that Jackson Pollock found the balance of freedom and control that would culminate in his distinctive drip paintings. The impact of Max Ernst, André Masson, Louise Bourgeois and other noted émigrés on the work of Motherwell, Pollock, Mark Rothko, and the American avant-garde has for too long been quietly written out of art history. Drawing on first-hand documents, interviews, and archive materials, Charles Darwent brings to life the events and personalities from this crucial encounter, revealing a fascinating new perspective on the history of the art of the twentieth century.

Cubism and Abstract Art

Author : Alfred H. Barr, Jr.
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429602448
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (296 download)

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Download or read book Cubism and Abstract Art written by Alfred H. Barr, Jr. and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-04-01 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1936, in this classic account of the development of abstract art Alfred Barr analyses the many diverse abstract movements which emerged with bewildering rapidity in the early years of the twentieth century, and which had an impact on every major form of art. Barr traces the history of nonrepresentational art from its antecedents in late nineteenth-century painting in France – Seurat and Neo-Impressionism, Gauguin and Synthetism, and Cézanne – through abstract tendencies in Dada and Surrealism. He distinguishes two main trends in abstract art: the geometrical, structural current as it developed in Cubism and later in Constructivism and Mondrian, and the intuitional, decorative current running from Matisse and Fauvism through Kandinskt and, later, Surrealism. He shows how individual movements influenced one another, and how many artists experimented with more than one style. Barr also discusses the involvement of a number of abstract movements in architecture and the practical arts – the Bauhaus in Germany, de Stijl in Holland, Purism in France, and Suprematism and Constructivism in Russia.

Consuming Surrealism in American Culture

Author : Sandra Zalman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351571095
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)

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Download or read book Consuming Surrealism in American Culture written by Sandra Zalman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Consuming Surrealism in American Culture: Dissident Modernism argues that Surrealism worked as a powerful agitator to disrupt dominant ideas of modern art in the United States. Unlike standard accounts that focus on Surrealism in the U.S. during the 1940s as a point of departure for the ascendance of the New York School, this study contends that Surrealism has been integral to the development of American visual culture over the course of the twentieth century. Through analysis of Surrealism in both the museum and the marketplace, Sandra Zalman tackles Surrealism?s multi-faceted circulation as both elite and popular. Zalman shows how the American encounter with Surrealism was shaped by Alfred Barr, William Rubin and Rosalind Krauss as these influential curators mobilized Surrealism to compose, to concretize, or to unseat narratives of modern art in the 1930s, 1960s and 1980s - alongside Surrealism?s intersection with advertising, Magic Realism, Pop, and the rise of contemporary photography. As a popular avant-garde, Surrealism openly resisted art historical classification, forcing the supposedly distinct spheres of modernism and mass culture into conversation and challenging theories of modern art in which it did not fit, in large part because of its continued relevance to contemporary American culture.

The Life of Forms in Art

Author : Brandon Taylor
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501353926
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book The Life of Forms in Art written by Brandon Taylor and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2020-10-01 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is form in modern art? How could a work of art achieve its organic life in a world increasingly dominated by mechanism, by new technology? In this new book, Brandon Taylor proposes that biology and the life sciences themselves supplied many of the analogies and metaphors by which modern artists were guided. For the creative giants of the period - Picasso, Miró, Kandinsky, Strzeminski, Dalí, Arp, Motherwell and Pollock, as well as less-known figures such as Taeuber, Erni and Kobro - questions of 'living' form loomed large in studio conversation, in the press, and in the writings of the artists themselves. In a book rich in new research and fresh thinking, a well-known art historian proposes six modalities of organic and vital life that pervade the radical experiments of modern art: the organic, the biomorphic, the ambiguous, the monstrous, the dialectical, and the liquid.

Alfred H. Barr, Jr. and the Intellectual Origins of the Museum of Modern Art

Author : Sybil Kantor
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262611961
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (119 download)

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Download or read book Alfred H. Barr, Jr. and the Intellectual Origins of the Museum of Modern Art written by Sybil Kantor and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2003-08-29 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An intellectual biography of Alfred H. Barr, Jr. founding director of the Museum of Modern Art. Growing up with the twentieth century, Alfred Barr (1902-1981), founding director of the Museum of Modern Art, harnessed the cataclysm that was modernism. In this book—part intellectual biography, part institutional history—Sybil Gordon Kantor tells the story of the rise of modern art in America and of the man responsible for its triumph. Following the trajectory of Barr's career from the 1920s through the 1940s, Kantor penetrates the myths, both positive and negative, that surround Barr and his achievements. Barr fervently believed in an aesthetic based on the intrinsic traits of a work of art and the materials and techniques involved in its creation. Kantor shows how this formalist approach was expressed in the organizational structure of the multidepartmental museum itself, whose collections, exhibitions, and publications all expressed Barr's vision. At the same time, she shows how Barr's ability to reconcile classical objectivity and mythic irrationality allowed him to perceive modernism as an open-ended phenomenon that expanded beyond purist abstract modernism to include surrealist, nationalist, realist, and expressionist art. Drawing on interviews with Barr's contemporaries as well as on Barr's extensive correspondence, Kantor also paints vivid portraits of, among others, Jere Abbott, Katherine Dreier, Henry-Russell Hitchcock, Philip Johnson, Lincoln Kirstein, Agnes Mongan, J. B. Neumann, and Paul Sachs.

The Golden Door

Author : Cynthia Jaffee McCabe
Publisher : U.S. Government Printing Office
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Golden Door written by Cynthia Jaffee McCabe and published by U.S. Government Printing Office. This book was released on 1976 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Memoirs of a Dada Drummer

Author : Richard Huelsenbeck
Publisher : Viking Adult
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Memoirs of a Dada Drummer written by Richard Huelsenbeck and published by Viking Adult. This book was released on 1974 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Huelsenbeck's memoirs bring to life the concerns--intellectual, artistic, and political--of the individuals involved in the Dada movement and document the controversies within the movement and in response to it.

Cubism and Abstract Art

Author : Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher : New York : Published for the Museum of Modern Art by Arno Press, 1966 [c1936]
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Cubism and Abstract Art written by Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) and published by New York : Published for the Museum of Modern Art by Arno Press, 1966 [c1936]. This book was released on 1966 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cubism and abstract art, by A.H. Barr, Jr.Catalog, by Dorothy C. Miller and Ernestine M. Fantl.Bibliography, by Beaumont Newhall (p. 234-249). Also contains a catalogue, compiled by Dorothy C. Miller and Ernestine M. Fantl, of an exhibition held at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and a bibliography by Beaumont Newhall.

Double Solitaire

Author : Jonathan Stuhlman
Publisher : Katonah Museum of Art/The Mint Museum
ISBN 13 : 9780983194217
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (942 download)

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Download or read book Double Solitaire written by Jonathan Stuhlman and published by Katonah Museum of Art/The Mint Museum. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published to accompany the exhibition of the same name; explores their art and relationship

Calder and Abstraction

Author : Stephanie Barron
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book Calder and Abstraction written by Stephanie Barron and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2013-11-22 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Published in conjunction with the exhibition Calder and Abstraction: From Avant-Garde to Iconic at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California (November 24, 2013-July 6, 2014). This exhibition was organized by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, in cooperation with the Calder Foundation, New York"--Colophon.

Peggy Guggenheim

Author : Francine Prose
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300203489
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Peggy Guggenheim written by Francine Prose and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Portret van de Amerikaanse kunstverzamelaarster (1898-1979).

Rick Steves Venice

Author : Rick Steves
Publisher : Rick Steves
ISBN 13 : 1641711833
Total Pages : 626 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (417 download)

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Download or read book Rick Steves Venice written by Rick Steves and published by Rick Steves. This book was released on 2019-11-12 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Glide along the canals and meander down the cobblestone alleys as you soak up the art, history, and culture of Venice with Rick Steves by your side. Inside Rick Steves Venice you'll find: Comprehensive coverage for spending a week or more exploring Venice Rick's strategic advice on how to get the most out of your time and money, with rankings of his must-see favorites Top sights and hidden gems, from St. Mark's Basilica and the Rialto Bridge to the charming city of Padua How to connect with local culture: Say "buongiorno" to the fish mongers at the morning market, snack on chicchetti at a local wine bar, and people-watch on a sunny piazza Beat the crowds, skip the lines, and avoid tourist traps with Rick's candid, humorous insight The best places to eat, sleep, and relax with a scoop of gelato Self-guided walking tours of lively neighborhoods and museums, plus a Grand Canal Cruise tour Detailed neighborhood maps and a fold-out city map for exploring on the go Useful resources including a packing list, an Italian phrase book, a historical overview, and recommended reading Over 400 bible-thin pages include everything worth seeing without weighing you down Complete, up-to-date information on the San Marco District, Santa Croce, Cannaregio, and more, with side trips to Padua, Vicenza, Verona, and Ravenna Make the most of every day and every dollar with Rick Steves Venice. Spending less than a week in the city? Check out Rick Steves Pocket Venice!

France and the Americas

Author : Bill Marshall
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book France and the Americas written by Bill Marshall and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 17th-century fur traders in Canada to 21st-century peacekeepers in Haiti, from France's decisive role in the Revolutionary War leading to the creation of the United States to recent disagreements over Iraq, France and the Americas, Marshall charts the history of the inextricable links between France and the nations of the Americas. This comprehensive survey features an incisive introduction and a chronology of key events, spanning 400 years of France's transatlantic relations.

Cue

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book Cue written by and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Chance and Circumstance

Author : Carolyn Brown
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0307575608
Total Pages : 997 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book Chance and Circumstance written by Carolyn Brown and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2009-12-23 with total page 997 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The long-awaited memoir from one of the most celebrated modern dancers of the past fifty years: the story of her own remarkable career, of the formative years of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, and of the two brilliant, iconoclastic, and forward-thinking artists at its center—Merce Cunningham and John Cage. From its inception in the l950s until her departure in the l970s, Carolyn Brown was a major dancer in the Cunningham company and part of the vibrant artistic community of downtown New York City out of which it grew. She writes about embarking on her career with Cunningham at a time when he was a celebrated performer but a virtually unknown choreographer. She describes the heady exhilaration—and dire financial straits—of the company’s early days, when composer Cage was musical director and Robert Rauschenberg designed lighting, sets and costumes; and of the struggle for acceptance of their controversial, avant-garde dance. With unique insight, she explores Cunningham’s technique, choreography, and experimentation with compositional procedures influenced by Cage. And she probes the personalities of these two men: the reticent, moody, often secretive Cunningham, and the effusive, fun-loving, enthusiastic Cage. Chance and Circumstance is an intimate chronicle of a crucial era in modern dance, and a revelation of the intersection of the worlds of art, music, dance, and theater that is Merce Cunningham’s extraordinary hallmark.