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University of New Mexico Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"The first critical analysis of Jaune Quick-to-See Smith's paintings, this book focuses on Smith's role as a modernist and her status as a well-known Native American artist. With close readings of Smith's work, Kastner shows how Smith contributes to and critiques American art and its history"--
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Series
Publisher
Phaidon
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
The work of Robert Rauschenberg has had a profound impact on avant-garde art from the 1950s onwards. A pioneer of multimedia are, this book explores his experimentations from his Combines (works melding painting and sculpture), prints, silkscreen paintings to his use of technology and his collaborations with choreographers such as Merce Cunningham and Trisha Brown. This book explores his work.
Author
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Examines how and why religion matters in the history of modern American art. Andy Warhol is one of the best-known American artists of the twentieth century. He was also an observant Catholic who carried a rosary, went to mass regularly, kept a Bible by his bedside, and depicted religious subjects throughout his career. Warhol was a spiritual modern: a modern artist who appropriated religious images, beliefs, and practices to create a distinctive...
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
"Katherine Hoffman presents a comprehensive and provocative study of the life and work of the photographer, Alfred Stieglitz, focusing on the period from 1915 to his death in 1946, with some introductory material related to his early years. His work as photographer, editor, writer, and gallery director are explored in relationship to his personal biography and cultural milieu, presenting the complex tapestry that was Stieglitz's life and work.This...
Author
Publisher
Prestel
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Certain to become the definitive book on Noguchi's multidisciplinary career, this publication accompanies the first major touring European exhibition on the Japanese-American artist in twenty years, which will travel from London's Barbican Art Gallery to Cologne's Museum Ludwig and the Zentrum Paul Klee in Bern. It encompasses the entirety of the artist's work in sculpture, ceramics, photography, architecture, design, as well as his playscapes, gardens...
Author
Publisher
Cascadia Art Museum
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Kenjiro Nomura, American Modernist: An Issei Artist's Journey features the Japanese American artist's work throughout his life from his early works focusing on Seattle's urban environment and rural Northwest landscapes, to paintings and drawings capturing his life in World War II internment camps, and post-war abstractions fully demonstrating Nomura's artistic stylistic and professional growth. Born in Japan in 1896, Kenjiro Nomura came to the United...
Publisher
Prestel
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
This collection of rarely seen masterpieces from The Phillips Collection traces the development of American art from Impressionism to Abstract Expressionism. During the Gilded Age, American artists like Julian Alden Weir, John Henry Twachtman, Ernest Lawson, and others developed landscape paintings which set the course for modern art in America. Revelations such as these are common within the pages of this book, which examines Duncan Phillips's interest...
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