Shows Persian, Arabic, Turkish, and Indian manuscripts

A Jeweler's Eye: Islamic Arts of the Book from the Vever Collection

Arts & Photography

Lowry, Glenn D.

Nemazee, Susan

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

Univ of Washington Pr

Shows Persian, Arabic, Turkish, and Indian manuscripts

A Jeweler's Eye: Islamic Art of the Book from the Vever Collection

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Engineering

The German-born Venezuelan artist known as Gego (1912-1994) created spare and unequivocally abstract drawings, prints, three-dimensional works, hanging net pieces, and wire constructions of extraordinary quality. Although championed early in her career by Alfred Barr, founder of MoMA, Gego has remained little known outside of Latin America. This exquisitely designed and produced book-presented in both Spanish and English-features Gego's complete oeuvre, which includes over four hundred prints and drawings as well as three-dimensional works. Born Gertrud Goldschmidt in Hamburg, Germany, Gego studied architecture and engineering before emigrating to Venezuela in 1939 to escape the rise of Nazism. With firm grounding in the universal laws and language of physics, she devoted her artistic career to exploring the line. Her unique geometric understandings were expressed in configurations of various materials that allowed viewers to enter an unlimited, fascinating space of perceptual interaction. BACKCOVER:

Gego: The Complete Works, 1955 1990

Peruga, Iris

Ramos, Maria Elena

Other Distribution

The big, bold, seductive and surprising color photographs of German photographer Andreas Gursky set forth a stunning image of our contemporary world of high-tech industry, international markets, big-time sports, fast-paced tourism and slick commerce. Tracking the zeitgeist from his native Germany to such far-flung places as Hong Kong, Brasilia, Cairo, New York, Shanghai, Stockholm, Tokyo, Paris, Singapore and Los Angeles, Gursky has earned acclaim at the leading edge of contemporary art with a polished signature style that draws upon a great diversity of ideas, precedents and techniques. Created in collaboration with the artist, this oversize book surveys the fullness of his work to date with gorgeous color plates, generous two-page details, and a wealth of supporting illustrations. The first in-depth study in English of Gursky's art, this book was published in conjunction with a major retrospective at The Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Andreas Gursky

GALASSI, Peter

Individual Artists

The Museum of Modern Art, New York

Throughout the twentieth century, the evolution of mainstream Modernism in the arts has been shadowed and made complex by alternative expressions of a seemingly retrograde type, art that appears to set back the clock or to redirect the stream of progress. Modern Art Despite Modernism explores the anti-Modernist impulse in painting and sculpture through socio-cultural conflicts of the 1920s, 30s and 40s. Texts by Robert Storr advocate the strengths of this impulse in paintings and drawings by Otto Dix, Lucian Freud, Francesco Clemente and even Pablo Picasso--and note the enduring popularity of such artists as Pavel Tchelitchew, whose "Hide and Seek," along with Andrew Wyeth's "Christina's World," remain among the public's favorite pictures. Storr also discusses taste and its implications, both part and present, for institutions like The Museum of Modern Art. This book was published as the second in a series of three titles, in conjunction with the millennial exhibitions schedule of MoMA2000 at The Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Modern Art Despite Modernism

Matisse, Henri

BACON, FRANCIS

O'Keeffe, Georgia

Dalí, Salvador

Shahn, Ben

Balthus

Lowry, Glenn

RICHTER, Gerhard

Clemente, Francesco

GROSZ, George

Beckmann, Max

De Chirico, Giorgio

FREUD, Lucian

STORR, Robert

History & Criticism

What is The Museum of Modern Art? For some it is a cherished sanctuary, for others an idea concretized through the art it has collected and exhibited, and for others still an educational laboratory where challenging and difficult art is confronted, measured, and understood. Founded in 1929 in small temporary quarters at 730 Fifth Avenue and now housed in a building that occupies almost half a city block at 11 West 53rd Street,The Museum of Modern Art, New York is on the cusp of a massive renovation and expansion that will see it into the 21st century.The Museum is a repository of masterpieces of modern and contemporary art, 325 of the best of which are reproduced here, accompanied by short, incisive, and intelligent texts.

MoMA Highlights: 325 Works from The Museum of Modern Art

Celebrating its 75th anniversary, MOMA (Museum of Modern Art) issued this volume on the story of the design of this NYC landmark.

Designing the New Museum of Modern Art

Museum

Presents illuminated manuscripts, paintings, drawings, ceramics, metalwork, and jade-, stone-, and woodcarving shown in a major exhibition of Timurid art and artifacts

TIMUR AND THE PRINCELY VISION, Persian Art and Culture in the Fifteenth Century

Lentz, Thomas W.

Smithsonian Institution Press

Catalogue of an exhibition organized by The Asia Society in celebration of the Festival of India in 1985-86. Contents: Akbar and the Formation of Mughal Art; Fatehpur-Sikri: Akbar's City of Victory; The Kitabkhana: The Imperial Library; The Kitabkhana as a Center of Collection; The Karkhanas: The Imperial Workshops; Akbar and the Power of Images. Lavisly illustrated with full color plates.

Akbar's India: Art from the Mughal City of Victory

Brand, Michael

Asia Society

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