The French Impressionist paintings collected by Janice H. Levin and her husband, Philip, graced the walls of their Fifth Avenue apartment until her death in 2001. Among them were views by Claude Monet of his garden at Argenteuil and the cliffs at Pourville; works by Edgar Degas (the pastel Portraits at the Stock Exchange and a pastel and two bronzes of ballerinas); lush landscapes by Pierre Bonnard, Eugene Boudin, Berthe Morisot, Camille Pissarro, Pierre Auguste Renoir, Alfred Sisley and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec; interiors by Morisot and Edouard Vuillard; and much more. This volume is the catalogue for an exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. It presents these magnificent works and discusses each one's history and provenance as well as its connection to the Levins.

The Janice H. Levin Collection of French Art

Arts & Photography

SHONE, Richard

History & Criticism

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Toulouse Lautrec

st.martins press

An exemplary survey that reassesses the impact of the most important books to have shaped art history through the twentieth century Written by some of today’s leading art historians and curators, this new collection provides an invaluable road map of the field by comparing and reexamining canonical works of art history. From Émile Mâle’s magisterial study of thirteenth-century French art, first published in 1898, to Hans Belting’s provocative Likeness and Presence: A History of the Image before the Era of Art, the book provides a concise and insightful overview of the history of art, told through its most enduring literature. Each of the essays looks at the impact of a single major book of art history, mapping the intellectual development of the writer under review, setting out the premises and argument of the book, considering its position within the broader field of art history, and analyzing its significance in the context of both its initial reception and its afterlife. An introduction by John-Paul Stonard explores how art history has been forged by outstanding contributions to scholarship, and by the dialogues and ruptures between them. 54 illustrations

The Books that Shaped Art History: From Gombrich and Greenberg to Alpers and Krauss

Stonard, John-Paul

Thames&Hudson

The Books That Shaped Art History provides an invaluable roadmap of the field by reassessing the impact of the most important texts of art history published during the 20th century. Each of the sixteen incisive chapters, focusing on a single book, is written by a leading art historian, curator or one of the promising scholars of today. In bringing these cross-generational contributions together, the book presents a varied and invaluable overview of the history of art, told through its most enduring literature. Each essay with writers including John Elderfield, Boris Groys, Susie Nash and Richard Verdi analyses a single major work, mapping the intellectual development of its author, setting out the premises and argument of the book, discussing its position within the field of art history, and looking at its significance in the context both of its initial reception and its legacy. Enlivening debates and questioning the very status of art history itself, this is a concise and brilliant study of the discipline and an invaluable resource for anyone interested in visual culture and its histories.Table of ContentsPreface Introduction mile Mle, Lart religieux du XIIIe sicle en France, 1898 by Alexandra Gajewski Bernard Berenson, The Drawings of the Florentine Painters, 1903 by Carmen C. Bambach Heinrich Wlfflin, Kunstgeschichtliche Grundbegriffe, 1915 by David Summers Roger Fry, Czanne: A Study of His Development, 1927 by Richard Verdi Nikolaus Pevsner, Pioneers of the Modern Movement, 1936 by Colin Amery Alfred H. Barr, Jr., Matisse: His Art and His Public, 1951 by John Elderfield Erwin Panofsky, Early Netherlandish Painting: Its Origins and Character, 1953 by Susie Nash Kenneth Clark, The Nude: A Study of Ideal Art, 1956 by John-Paul Stonard E. H. Gombrich, Art and Illusion, 1960 by Christopher S

Bridget Riley is one of the outstanding figures of modern painting. She has pursued a course of rigorous abstraction for some 40 years, from her celebrated black and white Op Art works in the 1960s to the complex colour paintings of the 1990s. On the occasion of a major exhibition of her work in 1992 at London's Hayward Gallery, BBC Radio broadcast a series of five dialogues, each one between Riley and and a well-known figure from the art world. These encounters, edited by an art historian, are contained in this book, With Neil MacGregor, Riley discusses the art of the past in relation to the art of the present; with Sir Ernest Gombrich the perception of colour in painting; with the artist Michael Craig-Martin, the theory and practice of abstraction; and with the critics Bryan Robertson and Andrew Graham-Dixon, she talks about events and travels that have influenced her as an artist. Taken as a whole, this series forms an excellent introduction to the work and ideas of one of the most creative minds of today.

Bridget Riley: Dialogues on Art

Kudielka, Robert

Thames and Hudson Ltd.

The word Bloomsbury most often summons the novels of Virginia Woolf and E. M. Forster or images of artists and intellectuals debating the hot parlor topics of 1910s and 1920s London: literary aesthetics, agnosticism, defining truth and goodness, and the ideas of Bertrand Russell, A. N. Whitehead, and G. E. Moore. But the Bloomsbury Group also played a prominent role in the development of modernist painting in Britain. The work of artists Vanessa Bell, Duncan Grant, Roger Fry, and their colleagues was often audacious and experimental, and proved to be one of the key influences on twentieth-century British art and design.
 This catalogue, published to accompany a major international exhibition of the Bloomsbury painters originating at the Tate Gallery in London and traveling to the Yale Center for British Art and the Huntington Art Gallery, provides a new look at the visual side of a movement that is more generally known for its literary production. It traces the artists' development over several decades and assesses their contribution to modernism. Catalogue entries on two hundred works, all illustrated in color, bring out the chief characteristics of Bloomsbury painting--domestic, contemplative, sensuous, and essentially pacific. These are seen in landscapes, portraits, and still lifes set in London, Sussex, and the South of France, as well as in the abstract painting and applied art that placed these artists at the forefront of the avant-garde before the First World War. Portraits of family and friends--from Virginia Woolf and Maynard Keynes to Aldous Huxley and Edith Sitwell--highlight the cultural and social setting of the group. Essays by leading scholars provide further insights into the works and the changing critical reaction to them, exploring friendships and relationships both within and outside of Bloomsbury, as well as the movement's wider social, economic, and political background.
 With beautiful illustrations and a highly accessible text, this catalogue represents a unique look at this fascinating artistic enclave. In addition to the editor, the contributors are James Beechey and Richard Morphet.
 Exhibition Schedule: ?
 The Tate Gallery, London
November 4, 1999-January 30, 2000
 The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens
San Marino, California
 The Yale Center for British Art
New Haven, Connecticut May 20-September 2, 2000

The Art of Bloomsbury

Travel

Princeton University Press

The Art of Bloomsbury: Roger Fry, Vanessa Bell, and Duncan Grant

The Post-impressionists

Octopus Books, Ltd.

Sm Quarto, 1976, PP.272, Vanessa Bell, Duncan Grant, And Their Circle

Bloomsbury portraits: Vanessa Bell, Duncan Grant, and their circle

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

Phaidon

Alfred Sisley (1839-99) was one of the greatest landscape painters of the nineteenth century and a leading figure in the Impressionist movement. His celebrated snow scenes of the Paris suburbs, his views of the flooded Seine at Pont-Marly and the colourful regattas on the Thames achieve a superb tonal balance and poetry of mood, while also giving a lively depiction of their subjects. Richard Shone brings a fresh eye and an intimate knowledge of the Ile de France to this, the most detailed and authoritative survey yet to appear of Sisley's life and works. With a wealth of illustrations and an absorbing text, and now reiussued as an attractively priced paperback, this book reveals Sisley as an artist of seductive power and originality.

Sisley

Phaidon Press

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The Janice H. Levin Collection of French Art

Toulouse Lautrec

The Books that Shaped Art History: From Gombrich and Greenberg to Alpers and Krauss

The Books that Shaped Art History: From Gombrich and Greenberg to Alpers and Krauss

Bridget Riley: Dialogues on Art

The Art of Bloomsbury

The Art of Bloomsbury: Roger Fry, Vanessa Bell, and Duncan Grant

The Post-impressionists

Bloomsbury portraits: Vanessa Bell, Duncan Grant, and their circle

Sisley