A detailed survey of the development of world architecture, sculpture, and painting from the turn of the century to the 1970's

Art in Our Times: A Pictorial History, 1890-1980

Selz, Peter Howard

Arts & Photography

Harcourt College Pub.

In 1947 the young Raimonds Staprans emigrated with his family from Latvia to America, and for the past half century the artist and playwright has lived and worked in the San Francisco Bay Area. In Raimonds Staprans: Art of Tranquility and Turbulence, Paul Karlstrom investigates the realism and abstraction in Staprans’s work, focusing on the more edgy and self-revealing paintings by bringing the artist’s life experience and personal psychology prominently into the equation. Karlstrom recognizes that the meaning of Staprans’s work cannot be understood solely in terms of the painterly skill and aesthetic beauty that characterize the landscapes, marines, and still lifes. Neither can it be fully appreciated in the minimalist abstraction with which Staprans qualifies his realism. Rather, the key to understanding is hidden in the secret life and philosophical preoccupation that emerged in the author’s interviews with the artist. 
Two prominent writers provide brief essays dealing with Staprans as a "trans-Atlanticist": Latvian cultural critic Helena Demakova brings the perspective of the artist’s native country to his American émigré story. American art historian Peter Selz examines realism’s rich modernist potential in Staprans and other artists who have pushed realism to discover new conceptual and aesthetic truths. 
Staprans is also a writer, known in Latvia mainly for his work for the stage, and excerpts from his writings provide insight into his painting.

Raimonds Staprans: Art of Tranquility And Turbulence

Staprans, Raimonds

Demakova, Helena

History & Criticism

Univ of Washington Pr

Mark Rothko

Individual Artists

Ayer Co. Pub

Book by Selz, Peter Howard, Dubuffet, Jean

Work of Jean Dubuffet

DUBUFFET, Jean

Follows the evolution of art nouveau in the various artistic and design fields and illuminates the influence of the movement on twentieth-century art forms

Art nouveau: Art and design at the turn of the century

Secker and Warburg

Harry N.Abrams, Inc.

distributed by New York Graphic Society

Monet to Matisse: The Triumph of Impressionism and the Avant Garde- The Howard D. and Babette L. Sirak Collection at the Columbus Museum of Art

Brettell, Richard R.

Columbus Museum of Art

Il maestro e l'allievo =: Master and pupil : Oskar Kokoschka, Silvio Loffredo, Marco Sassone

Museo ItaloAmericano

The Work of Jean Dubuffet

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