A landmark retrospective that examines William Merritt Chase and his lasting contribution to the history of modern art The history of modern art owes a great debt to William Merritt Chase (1849–1916), one of America’s influential artists and educators. Chase was a leading member of the international artistic avant-garde and was best known for his mastery of a wide range of subjects in oil and pastel, including figures, landscapes, urban park scenes, interiors, and portraits. As a teacher and founder of the Shinnecock Summer School of Art and the New York School of Art, Chase mentored a new generation of modernists, including Edward Hopper, Georgia O’Keeffe, and Joseph Stella. A century after his death, the breadth and richness of Chase’s career are celebrated in this beautifully illustrated publication. Five essays by prominent scholars of American art offer new insights into Chase’s multi-faceted artistic practice and his position in the international cultural climate at the turn of the 20th century.

William Merritt Chase: A Modern Master

Arts & Photography

Davis, John

Hirshler, Erica E.

Bourguignon, Katherine M.

Smithgall, Elsa

Ginex, Giovanna

History & Criticism

Yale University Press

Umberto Boccioni was perhaps the most versatile and impassioned of the Futurists--the literary, political and artistic movement that flourished in Italy during the first half of the twentieth century, proclaiming a revolutionary, spectacular style of life. His masterwork, "Materia," a huge canvas painted during July and August of 1912, depicts the artist's mother seated on the balcony of her apartment at Via Adige, 23, in Milan. Her monumental, sculpted hands sit at the center of the painting, and behind and above her are the rooftops and factory buildings of the Piazza Trento and beyond. The Cubist energy of the composition is enhanced by an open window that reflects rays of light over her, illustrating simultaneous visual impressions of indoors and outdoors. Boccioni's Materia: A Futurist Masterpiece and the European Avant-Garde is organized around a series of themes including the artist's evolution from Divisionism to Futurism, the exchanges between Cubism and Futurism, and the relationship between Boccioni's painting and sculpture. Through an exploration of related paintings by Boccioni, as well as works by his counterparts within the greater European sphere, from Picasso to Duchamp, this exhibition and catalogue demonstrate the pivotal role Boccioni played within the history of Modernism, broadening the current perspective on the artist and, by extension, the Italian Futurism movement. This publication will include drawings, sculptures, period photographs and archival documentation, providing an unprecedented understanding of Boccioni's working process, and the interconnected relationships between the works he executed in diverse media, underlining, for example, his exploration of the fusion of interiors and exteriors, an approach integral to the Futurist conceptualization of spatial relationships and motion. A series of scholarly essays completes the volume.

Boccioni's Materia: A Futurist Masterpiece and the Avant-garde in Milan and Paris

Braun, Emily

Fergonzi, Flavio

Guggenheim Museum

RADICAL LIGHT Italy's Divisionist Painters 1891 - 1910

Greene, Vivien

Fraquelli, Simonetta

Tosini, Auora Scotti

Italian Divisionism was arguably the most significant art movement in Italy during the last decades of the 19th century. Often misinterpreted as a simple derivative of French Neo-Impressionism, Divisionism actually diverged from the French school in both aims and results. Italian Divisionists were motivated by a basic dissatisfaction with modern civilization and a desire both to endow art with a scientific approach and make it an instrument of social change. At the same time, their work was often deeply Symbolist in character.
This book features many first-generation Divisionists, including Vittore Grubicy de Dragon, Giovanni Segantini, and Gaetano Previati, together with Giacomo Balla, Umberto Boccioni, and others who later launched the Futurist movement, yet were profoundly influenced by Divisionism.

Radical Light: Italy's Divisionist Painters, 1891-1910 (National Gallery Publications)

Tosini, Aurora Scotti

National Gallery London

The guide is translated into French and German at the opening of the permanent exhibition at the facilities of the Monumental Cemetery in Milan. Questa mostra è stata ideata allo scopo di evidenziare la dimensione storica, oltre a quella artistica, del Cimitero, con una documentazione per lo più inedita sul progetto, la costruzione, la genesi della sculture funerarie e il significato che il cimitero ha assunto nei vari periodi della storia cittadina. Inizio Pagina This exhibition has been conceived in order to highlight the historical dimension, in addition to the artistic, the Cemetery, with a record for the most unusual on the design, construction, funerary sculptures of the genesis and meaning that the cemetery has taken in different periods the city's history.

Il Cimitero monumentale di Milano: Guida storico-artistica (Italian Edition)

SILVANA

Sono Fernanda Wittgens. Una vita per Brera

Skira

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