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The Book of Country Living

Weiss, Jeffrey

Osborn, Susan

Owl Books

Bookseller: biblioboy US (US) Bookseller Inventory #: 025164 Title: The Book of Country Living Author: Weiss, Jeffrey; Osborn, Susan Format/binding:Hardcover Book condition: Used - Fine Jacket condition: Near Fine Quantity available: 1 Edition: First Edition Binding: Hardcover ISBN 10:0030596149 ISBN 13:9780030596148 Publisher: Holt, Rinehart and Winston Place: NY Date published: 1981 Keywords: Architecture, design, Americana, country, decorative arts, country houses, primitives, antiques, ladder back, wood, sophisticated Bookseller catalogs: ARCHITECTURE / Decorating; Size: 9.5 x 9.5"

HOLT. RINEHART AND WINSTON

This is a fascinating exploration of the deeply ambiguous relationship between modern art and popular culture, focusing on the work of Picasso and Duchamp in France in the first two decades of this century. Analyzing art, criticism, and popular culture of the period, Jeffrey Weiss shows that the elements of parody and irony that occurred throughout the avant-garde movement greatly influenced public perception - and miscomprehension - of new art. Linking Picasso's innovations in cubist collage to the puns and topical jokes of the music-hall and theatrical revue, Weiss also links Duchamp's readymades and Large Glass to hoaxes in the daily papers. He shows that cubist and futurist styles were put to parodic use in caricature, advertising, stage design and other forms of popular visual culture, and were often interpreted in the press as examples of flagrant self-publicity. The cultural assimilation of avant-garde art, not often considered in histories of modernism, ultimately mirrors the role of the comic in Picasso and Duchamp.

The Popular Culture of Modern Art: Picasso, Duchamp, and Avant-Gardism

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

Yale University Press

This richly illustrated book reproduces in full color more than one hundred of Mark Rothko's paintings, prints, and drawings, including many of the stunningly simple yet enthralling rectangle paintings for which he is famous. The volume provides commentary on various formal aspects of Rothko's work, interviews with contemporary artists who reflect on Rothko's artistic legacy, and a chronology of the Russian-born artist's life (1903-1970).

Mark Rothko

Individual Artists

Yale Univ Pr

In their stunning simplicity, the famous colored rectangle paintings by Mark Rothko suggest, evoke, and endlessly enthrall. This richly illustrated book reproduces in full color one hundred of Rothko's paintings, prints, and drawings. The volume features four commentaries by art experts who explore various formal aspects of Rothko's work, interviews with contemporary artists who reflect on Rothko's legacy to post-New York School abstraction, and a chronology of the Russian-born artist's life from 1903 to 1970.

Jasper Johns (b. 1930) is one of the most significant figures in the history of postwar art. His work from 1955 to 1965 was pivotal, exercising an enormous impact on the subsequent development of pop, minimalism, and conceptual art in the United States and Europe. This is the first publication to approach Johns’s work of this ten-year period through a thematic framework. It examines the artist's interest in the condition of painting as a medium, a practice, and an instrument of encoded meaning through several interrelated motifs: the target, the “device,” the naming of colors, and the imprint of the body. In this handsome book, leading scholars, a conservator, and a contemporary artist consider Johns’s activity in this critical decade and discuss many of his iconic paintings, such as Target with Four Faces (1955), Diver (1962), Periscope (Hart Crane) (1963), and Arrive-Depart (1963). Their new critical and historical perspectives are grounded in an unusually close visual and material analysis of Johns's work.

Jasper Johns: An Allegory of Painting, 1955-1965

The Repeating Image: Multiples in French Painting from David to Matisse

An authoritative and elegant study of the theme of repetition in early modern painting Today serial imagery dominates all forms of visual media, from advertising to conceptual sculpture. In this innovative project, the authors show that the phenomenon of repetition appears as a radical element in early modern painting, long before its embrace by 20th-century high modernism. In works by Ingres, Delaroche, Gérôme, Corot, Millet, Monet, Cézanne, Degas, and Matisse, the reader can compare closely related versions of some of the most familiar imagery of the 19th and early 20th centuries. By making multiples of closely related subject matter in their paintings, the authors argue, these painters challenged an aesthetic based on the notion of an inimitable, unique masterpiece. Through beautiful illustrations and essays by leading scholars, this book ultimately shows how the 19th-century invention of photography and film—with their intrinsic attributes of repetition—did not diminish the traditional medium of painting but rather propelled it in new directions.

Bann, Stephen

Shiff, Richard

Kelly, Simon

Stuckey, Charles F.

Walters Art Museum

The first book to address the full body of Robert Morris's “object sculptures” Over the past half-century, American artist and critic Robert Morris (b. 1931) has been a key figure in the history of minimal, post-minimal, and conceptual art. Between 1960 and 1965, part of his artistic output included approximately 100 “object sculptures” or, as Morris called them at the time, “process type objects.” These consist of plaques, containers, and assisted or simulated readymades of wood, Sculpmetal, and lead. This book is the first study to address the object sculptures as a full and complex yet coherent body of work. Jeffrey Weiss, an authority on modernist and postwar sculpture, in close collaboration with Morris, systematically catalogues the object sculptures, and subjects them to critical and historical interpretation in the context of Morris’s early practice overall. Featuring new photography of many of the works and an interview with the artist, this book offers an important and original perspective on a crucial early period in the career of one of America’s most important artists.

Robert Morris: Object Sculpture, 1960-1965

Working places

St.Martin's Press

Tom Dune

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The Book of Country Living

The Book of Country Living

The Popular Culture of Modern Art: Picasso, Duchamp, and Avant-Gardism

Mark Rothko

Mark Rothko

Jasper Johns: An Allegory of Painting, 1955-1965

The Repeating Image: Multiples in French Painting from David to Matisse

Robert Morris: Object Sculpture, 1960-1965

Working places

Working places