Donald Burton Kuspit

This choice collection of essays scrutinizes the aesthetic developments of the last twenty-five years, from Abstract Expressionism to the most recent permutation of Postmodernism.

Critical Reveries

Redeeming Art

Yasemin Tezgiden

Sanatın sonu

Lila Katzen

Sculpture Installation

Norman Gorbaty

QCC Art Gallery

Publication accompanying an exhibition held at the QCC Art Gallery, the City University of New York, Bayside, N.Y., Feb. 13-Apr. 14, 2009.

Works of a Modern Master

Hans Gustav Burkhardt

Catastrophe According to Hans Burkhardt

Karel Appel

Rebellious, spontaneous, childlike, avant-garde, intensely personal, passionately colorful - all these characterize the completely unique sculptures of the renowned artist Karel Appel. Karel Appel Sculpture is the first complete volume on his sculptures, from his earliest pieces of 1947, when the young founder of the CoBrA movement burst on the scene in Europe, to Appel's most recent works of this past year. In the text, Donald Kuspit delves into the intense emotion that he says is the essence of Karel Appel's art. He follows the artist's mental and artistic development, touching on threads that run throughout his works: the childlike aspects of his art, the role of insanity, the anticipation of death, his fluid, constantly changing creative expression. With one hundred rich colorplates and over 130 black-and-whites, Karel Appel Sculpture represents a catalogue raisonne of every work the artist has created. The entire range of Appel's sculptural career to date is here: from his notorious Questioning Children relief assemblages which brought him to the forefront of the avant-garde art scene in Amsterdam in 1948-49; to the totem-like structures of the late 1940s; the organic shapes of his rough, wildly painted olive-tree roots of 1960; the Standing Nudes of 1980s; to his latest works - the Pyre Series - massive, complex sculptural fantasies that combine painting, sculpture, architecture, and found objects and are based on folk legends and primitive myths.

A Catalogue Raisonné

Karel Appel Sculpture

Tom Patti

Marilyn Patti

William Warmus

This illustrated and long-awaited book will introduce you to the revolutionary work in glass by artist Tom Patti. Evocative photographs of Patti's sculptures offer tantalizing glimpses of a hidden world. They reveal interior landscapes pulsing with energy, and sensuous shapes frozen in glass. Insightful essays by noted authors and critics William Warmus and Donald Kuspit explore Patti's innovative career.

Illuminating the Invisible

Art in the 1980s

The New Subjectivism

Sohana Kādarī

Betty Seid

Qadri's origins are in rural India, and as a boy, he was initiated by a Sufi and a vajrayan Tantric guru; this led to his lifelong practice of meditation and study of Buddhist philosophy, both of which inform his work. Qadri found his first powerful patron in Dr. Mulk Raj Anand in 1961. In the course of his career, he interacted with an astonishing array of cultural figures including the surrealist artist Rene Magritte and Heinrich Boll who became an important patron. Despite the fact that he lives in Denmark, an overiding sense of Eastern ethos pervades his art.

The Art of Sohan Qadri

Seeker

Leonard Nimoy

Essay by Donald Kuspit The first monograph by famed actor and director Leonard Nimoy, this eerily beautiful photographic study of the female form reveals Nimoy's intrigue with Old Testament mythology and ancient spirituality. The Shekhina, described by the Kabbala as God's feminine counterpart, is understood by mystics to be a crucial element of both divine and human spirit, symbolising the creativity and wisdom without which no being is complete. Here, Nimoy uses 50 duotone photos as an exhaustive investigation of his own spirituality.

Shekhina

Hans van de Bovenkamp

This vivid monograph examines the often surprising and stunning sculpture of Hans Van de Bovenkamp. He is best known for his groundbreaking work in public sculpture. His art covers a myriad of sculptural objects located in accessible open places. 92 colour & 35 b/w illustrations

Hans Van de Bovenkamp

A collection of three essays and one interview on the works of mathematical muralist Bernar Venet.

Art and Mathematics : in Search of the Sublime

Bernar Venet

Brian Wood

Basha, Régine

Saidye Bronfman Centre for the Arts, May 5 Mai- June 16 Juin, 1994

Frederick Turner

Frederick Hart

Before his death in 1999, Frederick Hart was hailed as America's greatest living sculptor. His powerful and inspirational figurative creations for such venues as the National Cathedral and the Vietnam Veterans Memorial changed the face of American art. Inspired by the great classical sculptors Michelangelo and Rodin, Hart single-handedly revived the classical form in monumental pieces, the complexity, size and beauty of which are rightly compared to works of the Old Masters.This magnificent book is published as Hart's catalogue raisonne?a detailed showcase of his relatively short lifetime of extraordinary production?timed to coincide with the largest Hart retrospective and exhibit ever mounted, at the University of Louisville, from September to November 2007.Essays by Donald Kuspit and Frederick Turner accompany hundreds of impressive color plates. Also included is an extensive chronology, bibliography and index of Hart's works.Butler Books is proud to announce that Frederick Hart: The Complete Works was awarded the Silver Medal for Excellence in the national Fine Arts category of the 2008 Independent Publisher Book Awards.

The Complete Works

Steve Tobin

For more than twenty years the work of iconoclastic sculptor Steve Tobin has affected the public, curators, and critics on a profound level in its transformation of the wonders of nature into monumental sculptures in bronze, steel, glass, and ceramics. In seeking to formalize nature, Tobin, who was trained as a mathematician, has turned his technical understanding of process and materials into an exploration of form and energy, order and chaos, as inspired by the creative events in nature. His work captures in unique, memorable, and often allegorical form the wonders of nature we see, and meaning and implications we may have overlooked. In this important volume, Tobin's principal bodies of work are explored, from his early blown glass Cocoons and cast-glass Doors, through his luminous Waterglass, to the more recent Shelters and Earth Bronzes (including his highly acclaimed African Termite Hills, Bone sculptures, and signature Roots) and his provocative new Exploded Clay. Copiously illustrated, and complemented by a probing investigation of the artist by critic Donald Kuspit, Steve Tobin's Natural History offers the first comprehensive treatment of Tobin's work, and helps to place his contribution to art and sculpture in the larger context of the discourse of art in our time.

Steve Tobin's Natural History

Lynn Gamwell

State University of New York at Binghamton. Art Museum

This book presents a refreshing new approach to avant-garde art by demonstrating that a genuine core of modernism manifests a positive, life-affirming attitude. Donald Kuspit and Lynn Gamwell challenge the assumption that disintegration and negativity provide the most authentic artistic responses to this century's gloomy zeitgeist. Lavishly illustrated, their book includes colorful images of paintings, sculptures, and decorative arts, as well as photographs of spectacular gardens.

Health and Happiness in 20th-century Avant-garde Art

Albert Renger-Patzsch

"Albert Renger-Patzsch: Joy Before the Object is the first major publication in English on this influential German photographer, who is one of the founders of modern European photography. Amid the climate of intellectual, artistic, and political ferment in Germany between the wars, the idea of "beauty" was being redefined."--Publishers description.

Joy Before the Object

Adi Da Samraj

Louis Stern Fine Arts

52 Views : April 8-May 10, 2003

Quandra Loka (the Indivisible Space of Conscious Light)

George Segal

an exhibition catalog celebrating George Segal's style and legacy in 20th century American art. Curator Dr. Donald Kuspit explores the psychology of Segal's works as modernist and humanist, formally intricate, unusual, cognitively complex, insightful, aesthetically remarkable and humanly profound.

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