Lennart Anderson A Retrospective

Martica Sawin

Jennifer Samet

Paul Resika

Susan Walp

ROBERTO MATTA: PAINTINGS AND DRAWINGS 1937-1959 (English and Spanish Edition)

Arts & Photography

Galeria Lopez Quiroga & Latin American Masters

Although highly regarded by the critics and curators of his time, the Swiss-American Surrealist, Kurt Seligmann has largely been unheeded in the canon of art history. This monograph, the first English-language book dedicated to the artist, features extensive exploration and analysis of both Seligmann's life and work. The art historians Stephan E. Hauser, Stephen Robeson Miller, and Martica Sawin contribute essays with an introduction by famed Columbia art historian, Meyer Schapiro. Kurt Seligmann was the first member of the Paris-based Surrealists to relocate to New York in the first months of World War II and was instrumental in helping to rescue many of his fellow artists and intellectuals from Occupied France, including the founder of Surrealism, Andre Breton. We follow the artist's work as he moves from his friendship with Jean Arp and involvement with the Abstraction-Création group, to his induction as an official member of Breton's Surrealist circle, to his exile in America and his influence on many of the up-and-coming New York School artists. His scholarly obsession with magic and extensive collection of occult books as well as his ethnographic interests and adventures are explored in detail. Interwoven with text are archival photos of the Surrealist artists, writers and poets, reproductions of the artist's works from the 1920s through the 1950s, and historical ephemera, in this rediscovery of an impactful artist and man in the history of modern art.

Kurt Seligmann: First Message from the Spirit World of the Object

Meyer Schapiro

Stephan E. Hauser

Stephen Robeson Miller

Weinstein Gallery

<p>This book serves as a catalogue for Gordon Onslow Ford: Paintings and Works on Paper 1939-1951, a show of Surrealist works by the English-born artist Gordon Onslow Ford (1912-2003), held at the gallery Francis M. Naumann Fine Art, New York, 2010. The paintings in this exhibition mark the beginning of a long and distinguished career as an abstract painter. The engaging and informative text-written by noted art historian Martica Sawin (author of Surrealism in Exile and the Beginning of the New York School)-begins with proto-Surrealist works made in Paris in the late 1930s and continues with important paintings made in New York in 1940, when Onslow Ford delivered a series of lectures on Surrealism at the New School for Social Research (transcripts of these lectures are published in this volume for the first time). These works are followed by more serene visions from his years in Mexico and, ultimately, conclude with reflections of an energized nature experienced in California's Muir Woods in 1950-51.</p>

Gordon Onslow Ford: Paintings and Works on Paper 1939-1951

Francis M. Naumann Fine Art

<p>Critical and biographical text summarise the artist's life and art from his early forceful abstract expressionist canvases to the luminous representational paintings of recent decades. Recollections of Depression-era farm life and vignettes of coastal Maine display Pace's radiant colour and agile capacity to distill the essence of a subject in succinct and telling strokes.</p>

Stephen Pace

History & Criticism

Hudson Hills

The artist, Oriole Farb Feshbach, provides brilliant images that capture the poet, Wallace Stevens's elegiac lines to a world that may just be on the brink of disappearing. She matches Stevens's description of the auroras (borealis) often called the northern lights that flash across the sky with her dazzling paintings and continues to reference his lines describing the weather, the seasons, and cosmic happenings with her vivid presentations in this wondrous collection of art meeting with poetry.

LUMINATIONS: Images by Oriole Farb Feshbach for the poem Auroras of Autumn by Wallace Stevens

PAUL MARIANI

Individual Artists

Midmarch Arts Press

yves tanguy

Rene Le Bihan

Renee Mabin

Editions Palantines

Leben mit Kunst : Sammlung Ulla und Heiner Pietzsch

Heiner and Ulla Pietzsch

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