Utilizing works from museums across North America, "Lipchitz and the Avant-Garde" traces the path of the pioneering sculptor Jacques Lipchitz from his birthplace in Lithuania to his early work in Paris before World War I, where he was associated with the Parisian avant-garde and applied cubist principles to three-dimensional artwork. By breaking the volume and using different planes, Lipchitz created works that were a new force in the history of sculpture. His innovation of the transparents style in sculpture during the late 1920s was groundbreaking and was copied by many, including Picasso. At the outbreak of World War II the Jewish artist fled to New York, where he worked on increasingly monumental sculptures until his death in 1973. This substantive catalog contains new essays by internationally renowned scholars and translated articles by contemporaries Ramon Gomez de la Serna and Joaquin Torres-Garcia that have not appeared in English before. Contributors include Jonathan Fineberg, Christopher Green, Jordana Mendelson, David O'Brien, Cathy Putz, and Cecilia de Torres.

Lipchitz and the Avant Garde: From Paris to New York

Arts & Photography

Lipchitz, Jacques

Helfenstein, Josef

Fineberg, Jonathan David

Krannert Art Museum

Individual Artists

Utilizing works from museums across North America, Lipchitz and the Avant-Garde traces the path of the pioneering sculptor Jacques Lipchitz from his birthplace in Lithuania to his early work in Paris before World War I, where he was associated with the Parisian avant-garde and applied cubist principles to three-dimensional artwork. By breaking the volume and using different planes, Lipchitz created works that were a new force in the history of sculpture. His innovation of the transparents style in sculpture during the late 1920s was groundbreaking and was copied by many, including Picasso. At the outbreak of World War II the Jewish artist fled to New York, where he worked on increasingly monumental sculptures until his death in 1973. This substantive catalog contains new essays by internationally renowned scholars and translated articles by contemporaries Ramón Gómez de la Serna and Joaquin Torres-García that have not appeared in English before.

Lipchitz and the Avant-Garde: From Paris to New York

GREEN, Christopher

Putz, Cathy

De Torres, Cecilia

Mendelson, Jordana

O’Brien, David

<p>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.</p>

"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

Geist, Sidney

Gordon, Donald

Laude, Jean

Levin, Gail

Paudrat, Jean-Louis

Peltier, Philippe

Rosenstock, Laura

Wilkinson, Alan

Oldenburg, Richard

BRANCUSI, Constantin

Modigliani, Amadeo

Moore, Henri

GIACOMETTI, Alberto

KLEE, PAUL

Oldenburg, Richard E.

PICASSO, Pablo

GAUGUIN, Paul.

History & Criticism

The Museum of Modern Art, New York

Jacques Lipchitz: The Cubist period, 1913-1930 : [exhibition] October 15 - November 14, 1987, Marlborough Gallery

Marlborough Gallery

The Lipchitz gift: Models for sculpture

David Fraser Jenkins

Derek Pullen

The Tate Gallery

Jacques Lipchitz, May 1-26, 1951

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