New York: 150 illus. in colour and black and white (World cultural guides)

Ashton, Dore

HOLT. RINEHART AND WINSTON

Picasso was one of the great artists of the 20th century. Although very active as a painter and sculptor, he rarely committed himself to writing on the subject of art. The author collects and edits his statements as culled from articles, books and in interviews by friends and associates. Here are Picasso's own ideas and thoughts about art and artists, giving an intimate sense of his insight and wit. Illustrated with his own book designs, this work affords a unique view of the artist through all of his abilities and perspectives. Softcover, 188 pages, bibliography and list of illustrations.

Picasso on Art

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

Penguin??Books

Examines the development of the New York School and its influential role in the development of abstract expressionism

The New York School

About Rothko

One of the major painters of the last century, Mark Rothko created a unique pictorial idiom for which he is celebrated througho9ut the world. Drawing on her countless conversations with the artist, Ashton deftly explores Rothko’s personal sense of commitment and mission, his love of music and literature, and his philosophical outlook, particularly his interest in Nietzsche. She examines his associations with other artists -- Max Weber, Milton Avery, Adolph Gottlieb, Philip Guston, Robert Motherwell and others -- as well as his relationships with artists and connoisseurs in other countries. The many illustrations -- 16 in color and 30 in black and white -- represent the whole spectrum of Rothko’s work and further enhance this valuable study. American art historian and critic Dore (pronounced DOR-ee) Ashton (1928-2017) wrote some of the earliest and most insightful histories of Abstract Expressionism and the leading painters of the New York School. A tireless champion of new art, Ms. Ashton ran afoul of John Canaday, a staunch anti-Modernist who became the The New York Times’s art news editor and chief critic in 1959. In a blistering memo, he accused her of writing to an artistic clique and cheerleading for it. Her retort, placed on Canaday’s desk, was a diatribe, reviling her boss with references to Zenocrates and Zola, and throwing back at him his own published words. A bitter battle ensued and Ashton left the newspaper in November 1960. Enlisting the support of fellow critics, including Harold Rosenberg, Meyer Schapiro, and Leo Steinberg, she succeeded in putting the matter before the International Association of Art Critics, which censured Canaday for “infringing basic principles of freedom of criticism.” After leaving The Times, Ashton, who lived in Manhattan, taught art history at the School of Visual Arts, Cooper Union, and the New School, while generating a stream of articles, exhibition catalogs, monographs, and biographies.

Individual Artists

Oxford University Press

A survey of American postwar painting and sculpture focuses on major artists, including Pollock, Rothko, Oldenburg, Johns, Warhol, and Motherwell

American Art Since 1945

The life and times of the New York School

Bath : Adams and Dart

Artist Bernard Maisner is one of the finest illuminators of manuscripts at work today. His remarkable ability to work in miniature, as well as in grand scale paintings, combines with his love and mastery of historical and modern painting techniques to create an unusual and visually stunning body of work, thoroughly documented here. Maisner's search for meaning takes him in the direction of the infinite, of opposites, in reverence of nature, and of things mystical and unanswerable.This book brings together 25 years of work by Maisner and reveals in depth the correlation and interrelation between his long-standing use of abstract symbols, written language, the art of illumination, and the language of painting.Art historian Dore Ashton provides an essay in which she reflects on Maisner's quest to "grasp the passage of time in living metaphors" through the craft of the illuminator.

Bernard Maisner: Entrance to the Scriptorium : Contemporary Illuminated Manuscrips and Paintings

Dempsey, Terrence

Maisner, Bernard

Other Media

Univ of Washington Pr

An anthology of Pablo Picasso's statements about art"Every page explodes with curt, outrageous aphorisms that confounded one's comfortable idees recues. Lipchitz maintains that Picasso refused to talk seriously about art--'Don't talk to the driver' was his favorite phrase when conversation got heavy; but nothing could be more penetrating than his jokes, more devastating that his pronunciamentos."--Rackstraw Downes, New York Times Book Review "Picasso is amazingly lucid and literate in what he says about himself and his colleagues, more so, in fact, than his explicators."--Douglas Davis, Newsweek "It is very good news that Dore Ashton's excellent anthology of Picasso's statements on art is once again in print. Together, the texts she has very judiciously selected and effectively translated give us a vivid picture both of the artist and of his wonderfully original, provocative thinking about art. Every student of 20-century art should read this book, and I for one intend to make sure that all of my students read it."--Theodore Reff, Professor of Art History, Columbia University

Picasso On Art: A Selection of Views

Grand Central Publishing

With affection and critical respect, a celebrated art historian has gathered an unprecedented wealth of material about the shy but immensely influential artist who lived on incongruously named Utopia Parkway in Queens, New York.

A Joseph Cornell Album

Mark Rothko (1903–1970) produced possibly the most lasting paintings of the New York School, monumental abstract expressionist canvasses that function as "a passport to a more luminous world." Drawing on Dore Ashton's countless conversations with Rothko himself, About Rothko is the best full-scale critical biography of this intellectually restless but deeply committed artist.

Da Capo Press

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New York: 150 illus. in colour and black and white (World cultural guides)

Picasso on Art

The New York School

About Rothko

American Art Since 1945

The life and times of the New York School

Bernard Maisner: Entrance to the Scriptorium : Contemporary Illuminated Manuscrips and Paintings

Picasso On Art: A Selection of Views

A Joseph Cornell Album

About Rothko