American art in upstate New York;: Drawings, watercolors, and small sculpture from public collections in Albany, Buffalo, Ithaca, Rochester, Syracuse and Utica

Albright-Knox Art Gallery

Buffalo Fine Arts Academy

The definitive illustrated monograph on 20th-century Swiss artist, designer, and architect Max Bill, whose work spanned from graphic design and advertising typography to product and furniture design and from painting to sculpture.A true Renaissance man with a clear, unified aesthetic vision, the Swiss artist, designer, architect and writer Max Bill combined the virtues of homo faber and homo ludens throughout his intensely productive career, launching the Concrete art movement and establishing himself as the single most decisive influence on postwar Swiss graphic design. This gorgeously designed, hefty volume―the most thorough Bill overview ever published in English, and the only monograph in print―presents Bill’s oeuvre both chronologically and thematically, across every facet of his multifaceted oeuvre: painting, graphic art, sculpture, architecture, book and magazine design, industrial and furniture design, graphic design and advertising typography―from large-format posters to small inserts in periodicals―as well as his designs for exhibition spaces. Bill stands out for his enormous influence on Latin American geometric art (through his 1951 retrospective at the São Paulo Museum of Modern Art), as well as for his essays, his work as an educator and his political and social concerns. All these aspects of his life and work are covered in this profusely illustrated catalogue, along with essays by scholars and a selection of previously unpublished essays by Bill himself. Max Bill (1908–94) studied at the Bauhaus from 1927 to 1928 with Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee and Oskar Schlemmer, after which he moved to Zurich. He cofounded the Ulm School of Design in Germany in 1951. He had his first US exhibition at the Staempfli Gallery in New York City in 1963 and was the subject of retrospectives at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 1974, and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City in 1988.

Max Bill (Catalogue)

Bill, Max

Cleve Gray: Paintings 1966 to 1977

Hess, Thomas B.

Ben Nicholson: Fifty Years of His Art

Nash, Steven A.

Judy Pfaff: Collages and constructions, September 17-October 30, 1982, Hallwalls ; Installation : rock/paper/scissors, September 24-November 14, 1982, Albright-Knox Art Gallery

Arts & Photography

Buffalo Fine Arts Ac

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<p>Book by Auping, Michael, Palmer, Michael, Bertholf, Robert J.</p>

Jess, a Grand Collage, 1951-1993

Bertholf, Robert J.

Auping, Michæl

Palmer, Michael

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

<p>The Cold War, Sputnik, Joseph McCarthy, Fidel Castro, the Rosenbergs, Marilyn Monroe, Rosa Parks, Father Knows Best and Rebel Without a Cause are just a few of the events, people, and cultural phenomena that marked the decade of the 1950s. This stunning book, a collection of two hundred large-scale duotone photographs of the 1950s culled from the New York Times photo archives, brings this watershed period to life and examines who and what was important and why. The photographs, which include both famous and lesser-known images, are arranged thematically, under the headings 'America in the World War Hot and Cold', 'Mechanization in Command', 'Fame and Infamy', 'Growing Up American', and 'American Ways of Life'. The pictures are accompanied by two major essays that look at the role and development of news photography at the New York Times and the relevance of what pictures were taken and which were published by the paper. A third, shorter essay on "the morgue" is a lively description of the photo archive, telling where and how the photos are stored. Together the photographs and essays shed new light on a decade that is still shadowed by misconceptions and stereotypes. This book accompanies an exhibition that opens at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in January 2002 and travels to nine American cities from New York to Boulder over the next three years.</p>

The Tumultuous Fifties: A View from the New York Times Photo Archives

Trachtenberg, Alan

New York Times Company

Dreishpoon, Douglas

Weinstock, Nancy

Photography & Video

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