this analysis and description of a mojor work of modern sculpture provides a new understanding of the work itself and the creative forces and techniques that brought it into existence. It is unique as a sustained examination of a sculptural theme.

Brancusi/The Kiss

Geist, Sidney

Arts & Photography

Icon Editions / Harper & Row

this analysis and description of a mojor work of modern sculpture provides a new understanding of the work itself and the creative forces and techniques that brought it into existence. It is unique as a sustained examination of a sculptural theme.

Brancusi/The kiss (Icon editions)

Harper&Row

In this remarkable book the sculptor and writer Sidney Geist presents a revolutionary interpretation of the art of Cézanne. Geist argues that Cézanne's paintings are fertile with reflections of the artist's private world and passionate concerns. Looking at more than two hundred works, all reproduced in the book, he identifies the symbolism that gives form to a hidden significance in the paintings―concealed allusions to Cézanne himself and to his relations with his wife and mother, his father, his son, and his friend Zola, as well as a circle of colleagues including Pissarro, Frederic Bazille, and Ambroise Vollard. It is a complex pattern of symbols expressed in both secondary visual images and in verbal connections, including rebuses and puns. In reading these paintings for symbolic meaning Geist opens the way to a fuller understanding of Cézanne as well as to new ways of looking at pictures. Interpretation of this kind in its turn explains formal aspects of the paintings with a richness not possible in abstract analysis.

Interpreting Cezanne

History & Criticism

Harvard University Press

In 1906 tribal sculpture was idiscoveredi by 20th century artists; these objects had suddenly become relevant because of changes in the nature of modern art itself. These two volumes comprise the first comprehensive scholarly treatment in half a century of the crucial influence of the tribal arts--particularly those of Africa and Oceania--on modern painters and sculptors. In this visually stunning and intellectually provocative work, 19 essays confront complex aesthetic, art-historical, and sociological problems posed by this dramatic chapter in the history of modern art. The main body of the book contains a series of essays on primitivism in the works of Gauguin, the Fauves, Picasso, Brancusi, the German Expressionists, Lipchitz, Modigliani, Klee, Giacometti, Moore, the Surrealists, and the Abstract Expressionists. It concludes with a discussion of primitivist contemporary artists, including those involved in earthworks, shamanism, and ritual-inspired performances.

"Primitivism" in 20th Century Art: Affinity of the Tribal and the Modern (Volumes I & II)

KRAUSS, ROSALIND

Maurer, Evan

Flam, Jack

Bassani, Ezio

Feest, Christian

Gordon, Donald

Laude, Jean

Levin, Gail

Paudrat, Jean-Louis

Peltier, Philippe

Rosenstock, Laura

Wilkinson, Alan

Oldenburg, Richard

BRANCUSI, Constantin

Lipchitz, Jacques

Modigliani, Amadeo

Moore, Henri

GIACOMETTI, Alberto

KLEE, PAUL

Oldenburg, Richard E.

PICASSO, Pablo

GAUGUIN, Paul.

The Museum of Modern Art, New York

Brancusi: A Study of the Sculpture

Hacker Art Books

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