Mondrian: The Transatlantic Paintings

Just before World War II, Piet Mondrian fled from Paris to London and later to New York, where he lived until his death in 1944. Upon his arrival in Manhattan, the artist began reworking seventeen of the paintings he brought with him, many of which had already been finished and exhibited. He changed lines and added blocks and bars of color to give them what he called "more boogie-woogie." By inscribing these so-called transatlantic works with a double date, for example "38/42," Mondrian emphasized the exceptional history of the series.

Arts & Photography

Cooper, Harry

Spronk, Prof. Ron

History & Criticism

Harvard Art Museums

For Frank Stella, 1958 was a crucial year. After graduating from Princeton University, he moved to Manhattan and painted a series of monumental, colorful canvases that culminated in the first of his famous black paintings.” This fascinating book focuses on the thirty works he painted that year. The paintings reflect his transformation from a student experimenting with abstract expressionism to a highly original artist whose works changed the course of postwar art.Presenting the entire series of paintings in color for the first time (except lost works known only through black-and-white photographs), this handsome book details the course of Stella’s career in 1958. The authors situate his work in relation to that of Carl Andre, with whom Stella shared studio space that year, and Jasper Johns. Their analysis draws on concepts of originality, repetition, assemblage, and opticality.Drawing on new archival findings, firsthand observations of the paintings, and interviews with Stella and members of his circle, this volume enriches our understanding of a fascinating and critical stage in the artist’s development.

Frank Stella 1958

Luke, Megan R.

Individual Artists

Yale University Press

Picasso and Braque offers an intimate look at one of the most pivotal exchanges in the history of Western art: the culminating two years (1910-12) of Analytic Cubism. While the Cubist experiment has long been a requisite chapter in the history of modernism, this is the first publication to delve deeply into these two intense years of productivity, revealing the intriguing pictorial game being played out between these two great masters. 
Essays by prominent curators and historians offer sustained readings of paintings, drawings, and prints in terms of their engagement with issues of genre, format, medium, and artistic process. In addition, the new technology of spectral imaging provides reproductions of astounding color and textural fidelity, making this an essential publication for those seeking to understand better the complexity of Picasso's and Braque's mark-making, which typically evades conventional photography.

Picasso and Braque: The Cubist Experiment, 1910-1912

Palermo, Charles

Bourneuf, Annie

Poggi, Christine

Barry, Claire M.

Kahng, Eik

Devolder, Bart

Kimbell Art Museum

Featuring thirty-five outstanding abstract paintings made between 1950 and 1975 from the collection of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, this fascinating book casts a new glance at a renowned period in the history of art, including works by Lynda Benglis, Jasper Johns, Yayoi Kusama, Jackson Pollock, and Mark Rothko. A groundbreaking essay by Harry Cooper explores Pollock’s preeminent role for these and other artists, analyzes artistic influence, and discusses what it means to be original. Focusing on Frank Stella, Helen Frankenthaler, Morris Louis, Robert Ryman, Cy Twombly, and Simon Hantaï, and viewing their relationships to Pollock through the lens of Harold Bloom’s seminal text The Anxiety of Influence, Cooper addresses the material, psychological, and thematic ties between Pollock’s work and theirs and expands the circle of artists that we might consider his artistic heirs.

Make It New: Abstract Painting from the National Gallery of Art, 1950–1975

Clark Art Institute

The complex facets of Cubism remain relevant subjects in art history today, a century after Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque developed the revolutionary style. This impressive collection of essays by international experts presents new lines of inquiry, including novel readings of individual objects or groups of works through close visual, material, and archival analysis; detailed studies of how Cubism related to intellectual and political movements of the early 20th century; and accounts of crucial moments in the reception of Cubism by curators, artists, and critics. Generous illustrations of paintings, drawings, and sculptures, some familiar but others virtually unknown, support this wide range of approaches to the pioneering works of Picasso, Braque, Fernand Léger, Juan Gris, and others.

The Cubism Seminars (Seminar Papers)

NGW-Stud Hist Art

Remedies and Reveries

Pan/Macmillan

Over the course of fifty years, Robert and Jane Meyerhoff assembled an unparalleled collection of more than three hundred postwar paintings, sculptures, and works on paper. No less impressive is the Meyerhoffs' gift of their entire holdings to the National Gallery of Art, Washington. Published on the occasion of a major exhibition at the de Young in San Francisco, Modernism from the National Gallery of Art: The Robert and Jane Meyerhoff Collection features works by more than twenty-five of the period's finest artists, including Josef Albers, Hans Hofmann, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Mark Rothko, and Frank Stella, as well as Barnett Newman's fifteen-canvas masterpiece, The Stations of the Cross: Lema Sabachthani.

Modernism From the National Gallery of Art

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco / National Gallery of Art, Washington

Stuart Davis In Full Swing

Davis,Stuart

Haskell, Barbara Davis

National Gallery of Art; Whitney Museum of American Art; DelMonico Books/Prestel

Patterns, photos and directions for woodworking projects Paperback

Popular Science : Woodworking Projects Yearbook, 1987

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

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ENGLER, NICK

Chaffin, Casey

Home Improvement & Design

Popular Science Books

A founding member of "The Club," Jack Tworkov was pivotal to the development of Abstract Expressionism in New York in the 1950s and 60s. Red, White and Blue chronicles the development of three series made between 1956-64, a time when he was represented by the Leo Castelli Gallery.

Jack Tworkov: Red, White And Blue

Tworkov, Jack

Mitchell-Innes & Nash/American Howard Yohe

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