ANDREAS GURSKY (PAPERBACK) /ANGLAIS

GURSKY ANDREAS/GALAS

MODERN ART

Book by Peter;Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.

WALKER EVANS AND COMPANY (PAPERBACK) /ANGLAIS

GALASSI, Peter

ANTONIN ARTAUD WORKS ON PAPER

Rowell, Margit

Arts & Photography

American photography from the turn of the century through the mid-1960s offers one of the richest and most coherent traditions in the history of the medium. This book explores that tradition in depth through superb reproductions of 183 photographs from the outstanding collection of The Museum of Modern Art.Toward the end of the nineteenth century photographs became radically easier to make and to reproduce. The result was a vast new range of audiences and applications for photography. From untutored snap-shooter to specialized professional, the swelling ranks of photographers produced a sprawling diversity of new pictures, which recorded and helped to create modern America. At the same time, there arose an elite movement that withdrew from the undisciplined bustle of the modern world and claimed for photography a position among the fine arts.The first part of the introductory essay concisely outlines the evolution and interplay of photography's high-art and vernacular traditions. The second part traces the growth of the pioneering photography program at The Museum of Modern Art in which Ansel Adams, Edward Steichen, and other leading American photographers played decisive roles.Luc Sante's essay, "A Nation of Pictures," places photography at the center of a lively reconsideration of modern American culture, which touches on music, the movies, the magazines, and a great deal more.A splendid gallery of photographs follows the essays. American photography from Jacob Riis and Alfred Stieglitz to Richard Avedon and Diane Arbus is set forth through a carefully ordered sequence, in which groups of pictures conceived as works of fine art alternate with groups of pictures that served a myriad of worldly functions. Major figures, such as Paul Strand, Edward Weston, Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, Harry Callahan, and Robert Frank, are each represented by six or more photographs. Dozens of other distinguished photographers are included as well, and many remarkable but unfamiliar pictures join the landmark works.

American Photography, 1890-1965

Luc Sante

PETER GALASSI

Photography & Video

Published on the occasion of the exhibition from September 13, 1994-January 3, 1995. Preface by Riva Castleman. Acknowledgments by Deborah Wye. Blue cloth. Oblong. Includes chronology, primary references, print-related exhibition history and bibliography, with an index of titles, printers, and publishers.

PRINTS OF LOUISE BOURGEOIS

Wye, Deborah and Smith Carol

Graphic Design

Book by William Stanley Rubin, Helene Seckel, Judith Cousins

Les Demoiselles D'Avignon (Studies in Modern Art 3)

Helene Seckel

William Stanley Rubin

Judith Cousins

Reference

Essays discuss Ad Reinhardt, Jasper Johns, J.M.W. Turner, Jim Dine, minimalis Robert Venturi, and Elia Kazan's Wild River.

AMERICAN ART/1960S

Elderfield, John (Edited by)

History & Criticism

Published to accompany an exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, this book recognizes Brazilian landscape architect Robert Burle Marx's affinity for the sensibilities of such 20th-century artists as Calder, Lýger, Mirý, and Picasso, and his unique ability to apply their vocabularies in eloquent compositions of earth and plant. Painting a vivid portrait of the artist, author William Howard Adams describes the evolution of Burle Marx's art, his close collaborative relationships with such architects as Le Corbusier, Oscar Niemeyer, Lucio Costa, and Rino Levi, and his long-standing efforts to save the Brazilian rain forest. The nearly 90 illustrations include original plans for many projects as well as stunning photographs of the finished works.

UNNATURAL ART OF THE GARDEN / MARX

William Howard Adams

Ranging from photo-based pictures to gestural abstraction, Gerhard Richter's diverse body of work calls into question many widely held attitudes about the inherent importance of stylistic consistency, the inaturali evolution of individual artistic sensibility, the spontaneous component of creativity, and the relationship of technological means and mass media imagery to traditional studio methods and formats. Unlike many of his peers, he has explored these issues through the medium of painting, challenging it to meet the demands posed by new forms of conceptual art. In every level of his varied output--from his austere photo-based realism of the early 60s, to his brightly colored gestural abstractions of the early 80s, to his startling cycle of black-and-white paintings of the Baader-Meinhof group--Richter has assumed a critical distance from vanguardists and conservatives alike regarding what painting should be. The result has been among the most convincing renewal of painting's vitality to be found in late 20th- and early 21st-century art. With an extensive and insightful critical essay by curator Robert Storr, a recent interview with the artist, a chronology, an exhibition history, and nearly 300 color and duotone reproductions, Gerhard Richter: Forty Years of Painting marks a significant contribution to the understanding of contemporary art in general, and Gerhard Richter in particular.

Gerhard Richter Forty Years of Painting /anglais

STORR, Robert

Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe: Furniture and Furniture Drawings by Ludwig Glaeser.

Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe: Furniture and Furniture Drawings

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Ludwig Glaeser

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