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originally: $30.00 The notoriously controversial statements, writings, manifesto art works and interviews of Gilbert & George, ranging in date from 1968 to 1997, have been collected here for the first time. This unique anthology includes previously unpublished texts, passages from the rare editions Side by Side (1971) and Dark Shadow (1974), as well as conversations with Gordon Burn, Shere Hite, Wolf Jahn, Dave Stewart and many others. More than twenty-five years of portraits of the artists by such photographers ac Cecil Beaton, David Bailey and Wolfgang Tillmans accompany the text. This is a delightful compendium, revealing these artists' prodigious talent for creating paradoxes which, surprisingly, bring hope and passion from the midst of this century's neon rush.
originally: $65.00 This fascinating volume demonstrates how 73 contemporary artists from around the world respond to the challenge of creating "art in public space". Numerous illustrations, most of them in color, allow the reader to accompany the artists on their journey from the initial idea through each phase of creation to the final realization of the project. Extraordinarily diverse tests; for the most part written and compiled by the artists themselves; elucidate, explain, provide background information, and entertain in a memorable and engaging way.
originally: $60.00 The golden age of persian art was the era of the Safavid dynasty. In this time of dynamic religious and political developments, painting and textiles attained new heights of brilliance and opulence, and architecture flourished with the growth of cities. This sumptuous book traces the achievements in art, architecture, and the decorative arts under each successive Safavid shah (1501-1722). The elements that dominated late Safavid art eventually coalesced into the distinctive style of the Qajars in the nineteenth century and influenced art in countries from Thailand to Morocco. |
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originally: $25.00 Sister Wendy Beckett's highly acclaimed insights into the work and psyche of Max Beckmann, one of the major Expressionist painters and graphic artists of the 20th century. The author sheds new light on the way the traumatic events in the artist's life were reflected in his painting.
originally: $24.95 "To the reader's constant delight, he treats all manner of art, with unexpected observations and keen humor throughout...Updike takes a lively interest in all matters related to the experience of art, whether biography or autobiography, the publicity surrounding an exhibition or the manner in which a painting is mounted on a wall...These are remarkably elegant little essays, dense in thought and perception, but offhandedly casual in style." Jeremy Strick, New York Newsday
originally: $40.00 Many may find the work of Richard Prince quite boring. This is because the subjects that Prince selects are always mundane objects such as common advertisements, old jokes, dated caroons, amateur snapshot pictures sent to magazines and automobile parts; things which could hardly be called subjects of art. However, when one considers that this artist has produced art with these materials for over 20 years, and that he has received numerous accolades and great acclaim form within and without the art community, it is tempting to think that perhaps, to be frank, the problem is with us, the art purveyors, who have been seduced by his provocations. |
The Words of Gilbert & George
Contemporary Sculpture
The Golden Age of Persian Art 1501-1722
Beckmann and the Self
Just Looking: Essays on Art
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originally: $24.95 Philip-Lorca diCorcia's inventively staged and exquisitely crafted color photographs occupy a special place in contemporary art. Operating in the gap between postmodern fiction and documentary fact, between slick convention and fresh perception, they deliver a powerful emotional charge. The fifty-five color plates in this book, dating form 1978 to 1994, trace the evolution of a compelling and influential body of work. Beginning with enigmatic domestic scenarios whose protagonists are the photographers family and friends, diCorcia moved on to an ambitious series in which Hollywood drifters and hustlers are pictured as emblematic figures of contemporary America.
originally: $29.95 Grass, Flower, Seaweed, Leaf; every plant is a perfect form. When pressed to paper, its perfection is dramatically captured and revealed; as a work of nature, but with a kinship to art. The Pressed Plant is the first book to demonstrate this aesthetic phenomenon through hundreds of stunning illustrations that date from the eighteenth to the twentieth century, most of which have never before been published.
originally: $55.00 This challenging exploration of the visual arts from 1880 through 1920 is an unconventional guide to the beginnings of modernism. Deliberately abandoning customary labels; such as Fauvism, Cubism, and Futurism; and accepted chronological ordering, Modern Starts offers many pathways, each independent and self sufficient, intended to suggest fresh modes of looking at and thinking about works both very familiar and quite unfamiliar.
originally: $45.00 Masterpiece Paintings presents 125 superb examples of Western painting in the Museum's collection, one of the finest; and among the oldest; in America. Founded in 1870, the Museum first came to the fore as a great repository of early American paintings, dominated by portraits by John Singleton Copley and Gilbert Stuart and historical works by the likes of Benjamin West and Thomas Birch. Benefiting largely from a host of private patrons, the collection soon expanded however, to include later works by nineteenth century artists such as local painters Washington Allston, John Singer Sargent, and Winslow Homer, and European paintings, especially those of French artists of the Barbizon and Impressionist schools. These fields, together with the Museum's fine collection of Old Master paintings, remain among its strengths today, augmented now by an exceptional collection of modern works.
originally: $16.95 The "virtue," or genius, of the artist and the "magnificence" of the ruler are two defining qualities of the Renaissance. Around these two concepts, Alison Cole has built a remarkable new vision of Italian Renaissance art and culture. While the story of the famous powers of the fifteenth century; Florence, Venice, and Rome; has been told countless times, that of other cities in Italy is less well known. The reader will delight in Cole's lively account; a new and fascinating perspective on Italy.
originally: $19.95 There are two main routes to the understanding of art. The first is through visual analysis, where the beauties of form and style can be studied and appreciated. Here, the clean lines, strong design, and dramatic appeal of Japanese art come to the fore. The second is through cultural history, the larger world that surrounds artists and their patrons. In this approach, the study of Japanese religion, literature, theater, and music all can help us to absorb the content of the art. This book combines the two methods, with a special focus on the visual features that are unique to Japanese art.
originally: $19.95 This book is about figural depictions that tell stories. All of the works illustrated; prints, drawings, paintings, posters, film stills, photographs, and sculpture; are in the collection of The Museum of Modern Art, New York, and most of them date from a forty-year period, 1880 to1920. Each expresses body language in one form or another. The languid pose of a sleeping woman in a photograph by Man Ray, the grimacing face of Marc Chagall in onof his prints, the stylized pose of a nude figure in a drawing by Egon Schiele, all send messages that are open to interpretation and analysis. Lacking words, these images speak to us through gesture, pose and facial expression.
originally: $60.00 Illustrated Letters features 83 letters from great European artists and writers of the 19th century in full-color spreads with text providing the story behind each letter. From the sketches of Manet and the architectural marginalia of Le Corbusier, to the doodles of Balzac, Rimbaud and Turgenev, the letters are a delight for lovers of art and literature.
originally: $18.95 In this wide-ranging book, Clark examines the relationship of art to politics using works from all part of the world. From the state propaganda of communism to the public art of democracies, from protest art of the '60s to contemporary African political artists, Clark argues that propaganda appears in many guises and that the desire to persuade need not be at odds with the creation of works of beauty. Profusely illustrated in color and black and white, this is a provocative look at the ambiguous role of art in the political realm.
originally: $135.00 At over 600 pages and with more than 550 color illustrations, this is the art bargain of the season, representing the pivotal point in European painting from the Middle Ages through the 19th century. From Botticelli's Venus and Mars, through the High Renaissance of Michelangelo and Titian, to the largest collection of Velazquez outside of Spain and one of the finest collections of Dutch painting in the world, the National Gallery in London has it all. The French painters, including Poussin, Cezanne, and Monet, are here, as well as the British painters Constable, Gainsborough and Turner - truly a magnificent collection, presented magnificantly.
originally: $49.50 This catalog from the landmark 1996 exhibition at the Whitney proposes that Dada - that profoundly European notion - was not only important to the growth of American modernism, but was critically influenced by New York as it continued to evolve. With essays by prominent contributors including Rosalind Krauss and Molly Nesbit, the book has more than 200 illustrations of paintings, sculptures, drawings, photographs, and related documentary material that record one of the most significant art movements of the last century.
originally: $19.95 This volume in the Abrams series First Impressions: Introductions to Art is a helpful look at the complex, fantastical, symbol-rich paintings of the 15th century Dutch painter. With 55 illustrations, 36 in full color, including enlarged details from a number of works and a gatefold of The Garden of Delights, this is an excellent first look at these strange and fascinating paintings.
originally: $49.50 This volume, published on the 100th anniversary of Guggenheim's birth, celebrates a life dedicated to art. Here is her life in London and Paris in the '20s and '30s, where she counted as friends the most significant avante-garde figures of the era and established a gallery devoted to contemporary art. Here, too, her amassing of one of the most important private collections of modern art and her early promotion of artists such as Motherwell, Pollock and Rothko. Ending with the establishment of the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice as part of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, this volume offers us a unique look at the life and the collection of a fascinating woman. |
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originally: $45.00 Trees have always held a great fascination for people; without trees there would be no fire, no heat, no dwellings, no oxygen. Human life would be impossible to imagine... Like Paul Klee's known allegory shows, artists have often identified with trees, with their strength, their magic, their individuality, the powerful principle of life preservation that they express. This book, The Magic of Trees, is dedicated to the tree and the way it appears in art with its physiognomy, its gestures, its beauty, its aura and its vulnerability.
originally: $60.00 This large and encompassing book chronicles the rise of the dadaist movement in New York City starting from the Armory Show in 1913 and continuing through the early years of the Jazz Age. Foreign visitors in New York at the time included the artist Marcel Duchamp, the composer Edgard Varese, the diplomat and author Henri-Pierre Roche, and the paintersAlbert Gleizes and Jean Crotti. Among the Americans were the photographer/painter Man Ray, the Precisionist painter and Fortune photographer Charles Sheeler, the Futurist Joseph Stella, and the Pennsylvania artists Charles Demuth and Morton Schamberg. New York Dada is the first comprehensive study devoted exclusively to the accomplishments of these vanguard artists in America.
originally: $49.50 Objects of Desire: The Modern Still Life is an incisive exploration of the still life genre as artists have rediscovered and reshaped it in the twentieth century. The innovative purpose of so much of the art of these years has led to a sense of the period as quite hostile to older aesthetic conventions, many of which were widely attacked and abandoned; yet from the century's first decade to the present day, from Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse throught to Cindy Sherman and Charles Ray, artists of many schools have made of the still life a vital opportunity for invention. In an astute and elegant essay, Margit Rowell, Chief Curator of Drawings at The Museum of Modern Art, explains the specific qualities that have made the genre so attractive to artists, and so enduring.
originally: $39.95 Sister Wendy Beckett analyzes more than 30 of the world's most famous paintings in depth, including Botticelli's The Birth of Venus, Rembrandt's The Jewish Bride, Monet's The Waterlily Pond, and van Gogh's Self-Portrait. Using enlarged details of the paintings, she reveals hidden meanings and symbolism, and highlights painting techniques. Images and influences that were inspirational to the artist are included, providing a clearer understanding of what helped to shape each great work.
originally: $12.95 Edouard Manet avowed that he painted only what he saw. But his innovative paintings often scandalized mid-19th-century Paris. Did he see something others did not? Some claim that Manet was the first of the truly modern painters. Others, that he was the last great artist to work in the grand academic tradition. This pocket volume traces the life of this controversial, revolutionary painter with full color illustrations and photographs.
originally: $50.00 This is the first book to address the full range of Stieglitz's activities as a photographer, gallery owner, and publisher. Through his galleries-291, the Intimate Gallery, and An American Place-Stieglitz introduced modern European art to the United States and helped create a distinctly American version of modernism. This exceptional volume includes numerous essays accompanied by 360 reproductions of paintings, sculpture, and photographs by the preeminent European and American artists associated with Stieglitz and his galleries.
originally: $39.95 Aubrey Beardsley (1872-1898) was the most notorious illustrator of his day. This book, published to commemorate the centenary of his tragically early death at the age of twenty-five, tells the story of his extraordinary life and brief, hectic career. Beardsley's distinctive body of work is considered alongside that of his contemporaries and friends, among the Oscar Wilde, James McNeill Whistler, Max Beerbohm, Edward Burne-Jones, and W.B. Yeats, and set against the vibrant and often racy artistic, literary, and social world of 1890s London. Beardsley's startling designs are reproduced here from original drawings and from rare early editions of the books and magazines he illustrated. Also included are examples of his innovative prints, posters, and bookbindings, along with a gallery of portraits and photographs.
originally: $55.00 Robert Storr traces the development of what he calls the anti-avant-garde, from its first appearance as the widespread "return to order" in European art after World War I through the reemergence of figuration in international work of the 1980s. Storr discusses the social, political, and historical forces affecting paintings, sculpture, drawings, and prints, along with the influence of such major figures as Pablo Picasso, Otto Dix and Philip Guston on the ascendancy of classicizing, narrative, and so-called traditional art at various times in the twentieth century. The fact that artists often crossed the boundary between modernism and the anti-avant-garde; and that their aesthetic choices were not necessarily aligned with their political views; may surpise readers. Among the art reproduced in this richly illustrated volume are works by Balthus, Matisse, O'Keeffe, Shahn, Beckmann, Grosz, de Chirico, Dali, Bacon and Freud.
originally: $16.95 The 1960s have become fixed in our collective memory as an era of political upheaval and cultural experiment. Visual artist working in a volatile milieu sought a variety of responses to the turmoil of the public sphere and struggled to have an impact on a world preoccupied with social crisis. In this compelling account of art from 1955 to 1969, Thomas Crow looks at the broad range of artists working in Europe and America in the stormy years of the Civil Rights movement, the Vietnam War, and the counterculture, exploring the relationship of politics to art and showing how the rhetoric of one often informed, or subverted, the other.
originally: $29.95 In Kerry James Marshall we have an artist who is a master of modern and postmodern art idioms and yet profoundly concerned with classical art traditions. His work is provocative, politically confrontational, and alive with wit and charm. At the same time, it is richly personal and extraordinarily beautiful. Marshall creates lyrical images of the African-American urban experience at the turn of the millennium. His scenes of family life in the public-housing projects and solid middle-class homes of black urbanites are layered narratives of social order and disorder, of family relationships and friendships, of memories and myths. Drawing upon a vast body of visual material from high and pop culture-films, pulp novels, fairy tales, newspaper photographs, and the full panoply of art history; he creates vivid, dreamlike scenes as strange as they are familiar.
originally: $70.00 The year 1940 marks a defining moment in twentieth-century art, when many artists of the European avant-garde moved en masse to New York. The city was instantly transformed into the art capital of the world, triggering radical changes of direction as artists, both immigrant and American-born, struggled with the reshuffled facts of their existence. For these artists, says Fineberg, making art was; as it continues to be for artists today, a strategy of being. Their speculations on the meaning of what they encounter in the world are what make their art worth experiencing, remembering, and discussing. This book helps us understand the "strategies of being" of the greatest postwar artists, and by extension other artists both well-known and little celebrated. Individual artists looked at in depth include Calder, Hofmann, Gorky, Motherwell, de Kooning, Pollock, Newman, Rothko, David Smith, Dubuffet, Giacometti, Bacon, Rauschenberg, Oldenburg, Johns, Beuys, Klein, Warhol, Bearden, Kiefer, Clemente, Basquiat and Wojnarowicz. |
Philip-Lorca diCorcia
The Pressed Plant
Modern Starts
Masterpiece Paintings: From the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Virtue and Magnificence: Art of the Italian Renaissance Courts
How To Look At Japanese Art
Body Language
Illustrated Letters: Artists and Writers Correspond
Art and Propaganda in the 20th Century
Paintings in the National Gallery, London
Making Mischief: Dada Invades New York
Heironymus Bosch
Peggy Guggenheim: A Celebration
The Magic of Trees
New York Dada, 1915-23
Objects of Desire: The Modern Still Life
The Story of Painting
Manet: The Influence of the Modern
Modern Art and America: Alfred Stieglitz and His New York Galleries
Aubrey Beardsley
Modern Art Despite Modernism
The Rise of the Sixties
Kerry James Marshall
Art Since 1940: Strategies of BeingFor questions about these titles, contact remainders@harvardsquarebookstore.com.
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