Rubber Technology Handbook

Hofmann, Werner

Science & Math

Macmillan Pub. Co.

Text: English, German (translation)

Gustav Klimt;

Klimt, Gustav

Studio Vista/Dutton

COLLECTORS VERY FINE w/ very fine dustjacket, w/ fine interior. 86 pages with 174 illustrations, 9 in color. -- A collection of Georges Braque's drawings and etchings, reproduced as full-page plates, includes chronology and catalogue.[New York, NY]

Georges Braque: His Graphic Work

Arts & Photography

Individual Artists

French & European Pubns

A new and profusely illustrated appraisal of this leading Spanish painter and graphic artist. "As a draftsman and painter, Goya favors the human passions, whether uninhibited or suppressed, repressed or repressing." Thus does Werner Hofmann describe the essence of the vast oeuvre left behind by Francisco Goya y Lucientes (1746-1828), pointing to the source of its vital energy, alarming immediacy, and striking modernity. Discussions of Goya in recent decades have centered on his influence on nineteenth- and twentieth-century painters. Hofmann redresses the balance, focusing instead on the Spanish artist's profoundly disturbing imagery, and demonstrating that Goya's modernity derives from his lifelong investigation of what lies behind the world of appearances and convention. Hofmann places Goya's paintings, drawings, and prints in a biographical context, revealing the specific character of each phase of the artist's life and work. He discusses "the glory and the pain of faith" evinced by Goya's early work, the artist's parabolic representation of the threat posed by the French Revolution, his dramatic documentation of the French occupation of Spain, his variations on cruelty in the Disasters of War etchings, and the religious faith apparent in his late work. Hofmann also relates the artist and his work to contemporary intellectual developments, drawing comparisons with writers, critics, and philosophers from Goethe to William Blake to the Marquis de Sade. 220 illustrations, 185 in color.

Goya

Reference

Thames&Hudson

An intriguing, marvelously illustrated, landmark survey of this popular painter's work.
We tend to think of Degas as an Impressionist who painted lovely ballerinas and lively scenes at the racetrack. As Werner Hofmann so ably demonsrates in his magisterial new study, that viewpoint fails to do justice to the issues that Degas addressed in his art and to how innovative he truly was. Focusing on people in their social environment, on their relationships and their frequent isolation, Degas embraced many kinds of personal alientaiton in his work.
His early paintings depict members of the bourgeoisie mainly in the role of observers (as in The Bellelli Family of 1859). Degas shows them indulging in leisure pursuits, as art collectors and museum visitors, or as members of the public at the theater and the races, but they are self-involved and shrouded in silence.
This aura of self-posessed calm contrasts with that of the people who inhabit the world of entertainment. Degas depicted all the stages of public performance: behind the scenes, the performances themselves, and the post-performance collapse of illusion, Hofmann investigates this in various contexts: the self-absorbed body (women at their toilette); the trained body (ballet rehearsals and dancers on stage); musicians; and the marketed body (women in brothels).
Werener Hofmann was Director of the Kunsthalle in Hamburg from 1970 to 1990. His many books include Goya and Caspar David Friedrich.

Degas

Modern architecture in colour (Architecture of the world in colour)

Architecture

Modern Architecture (A Studio book)

KULTERMANN, Udo

Studio

Gustav Klimt.

Little,Brown & Co

Throughout his artistic career Picasso was fascinated by both caricature and the idea of the grotesque: light and dark representations of the distorted human figure. Picasso: From Caricature to Metamorphosis of Style, which accompanies a major exhibition at the Museu Picasso, Barcelona, is the first book to examine the distortion of the figure as a central creative force in Picasso's art and a springboard for his continual process of stylistic metamorphosis. The journey through Picasso's work takes us from the satirical illustration and portrait caricature of the 1890s to the radical distortion of the figure in Les Demoiselles D'Avignon and later Cubist portraits; from light-hearted vignettes of Diaghilev, Bakst and Apollinaire to the monstrous, Surrealist portraits of women of the 1920s-40s; from portraits of the artist as clown to the Verve series of meditations on the painter and his model. Finally we see Picasso as caricatured by his entourage: the tables are turned. Caricatures, monsters, puppets and grotesque figures populate the pages of this book, which is illustrated with 400 reproductions of key works by Picasso drawn from public and private collections worldwide: paintings, drawings, sculptures, ceramics and prints. More than 100 of the works reproduced are previously unpublished. With a series of interpretative essays by an international cast of distinguished Picasso scholars, the book is essential reading for all those with an interest in the life and work of a twentieth-century master.

Picasso: From Charicature to Metamorphosis of Style

Ocaña, María Teresa

Melot, Michel

Léal, Brigitte

Dupuis-Labbé, Dominique

Gervereau, Laurent

Delorme, Marie-Noëlle

Bozal, Valeriano

History & Criticism

Lund Humphries

Catalogo della mostra dalla collezione privata della famiglia Menil, Institute for the Arts, Rice University, Houston 1973. Testi di Werner Hofmann, Wieland Schmied e Werner Spies. 104 illustrazioni a colori e in bianco e nero. Profilo biografico dell'artista e bibliografia . 8vo pp. 160 Brossura (wrappers) Ottimo (Fine)

Max Ernst: Inside the Sight

Menil Collection

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