Whitney Museum of American Art

Mark Rothko

National Gallery of Art (U.S.)

Jeffrey S. Weiss

Musée d'art moderne de la ville de Paris

John Gage

Overzicht van het werk van de Amerikaanse schilder (1903-1970)

Piet Mondrian

Joop M. Joosten

Hans Janssen

Yve-Alain Bois

Kunstmuseum (La Haye, Pays-Bas).

Angelica Zander Rudenstine

Although Mondrian is generally recognized for his powerful influence on twentieth-century art, architecture and design, his achievement as a painter has been underestimated. This comprehensive monograph traces Mondrian's career, from his early Dutch landscapes at the turn of the century to the dazzlingly rhythmic compositions he painted in New York at the end of his life. In this volume, his identity as a modern artist is addressed in detail. While the continuity within his entire evolution is fully explored, particular attention is paid to moments of dramatic change: his discovery of modernism and later of cubism; his struggle toward abstraction; his invention of the "neoplastic" style for which he is best known; and his dynamic development of that style from the 1930s until the end of his career. An emphasis on Mondrian's pictorial development also involves an emphasis on his working process. While this volume stresses the modernity of Mondrian's work, it demonstrates, especially in its presentation of his unfinished works, that Mondrian's abstract art was far from mathematical, either in its origins or in its expression; rather, it was the product of a highly intuitive mind and hand, gradually working toward carefully modulated but far from measurable compositional solutions. In the present volume, the texture and autograph surface of each work are taken into account, and Mondrian's original framing decisions have been recorded and reproduced, often for the first time. Yve-Alain Bois's major essay on the artist's career focuses especially on the invention and development of Mondrian's neoplastic style. In examining the parallel evolution of the artist's theory and his art, Bois supports the painter's own rejection of any interpretation of his abstract work as either geometric or symbolic, and demonstrates that far from constituting a formal exercise, neoplasticism offered an entirely new articulation of painting and thought. Bois pays particular attention to the late work and to the ways in which the artist conceived it as a critique of his earlier achievements. Hans Janssen explores the relationship between theory and practice in Mondrian's neoplasticism. From the early landscapes and throughout the mature career, he sees a fundamental continuity in the role of the symbolic. The fully illustrated Chronology of the artist's life and work and the Catalogue by Joop Joosten and Angelica Z. Rudenstine contain much new documentation, as well as extensive and largely unpublished quotations from Mondrian's correspondence with his contemporaries.

Mondrian

Wolf Singer

Paul Staiti

Sybille Ebert-Schifferer

Arthur K. Wheelock, Jr.

Alberto Veca

"Trompe l'oeil, French for "fool or deceive the eye", is a genre dating back to antiquity that has fascinated both painters and viewers from the Renaissance to the present day. Both witty and serious, it describes paintings that imitate natural appearances so convincingly that viewers momentarily mistake the objects depicted for the real thing. The moment of deception, however, is brief. Uncertainty over what is real and what is illusion is soon replaced by amusement at having been tricked and admiration for the artist's ingenuity and skill." "Deceptions and Illusions explores the art of trompe l'oeil in more than 100 European and American paintings ranging in date from the fifteenth through the twentieth centuries by such practitioners as Samuel van Hoogstraten, William M. Harnett, John Haberle, Jasper Johns and Roy Lichtenstein. Organised thematically, the volume begins with works of art inspired by ancient prototypes and with paintings by early Renaissance artists whose close observation of nature was a prerequisite for eye-deceiving illusionism. It then presents the principal subjects of trompe l'oeil artists, beginning with images of letters, prints, dollar bills, and other essentially flat objects that appear to rest on the picture surface, and then moves to three-dimensional illusions in which objects appear to project or recede from the picture plane, blurring the boundary between real and fictitious space. Finally, the volume illustrates the legacy of the art of trompe l'oeil for twentieth-century artists." "Five essays by experts in European and American art and in the science of seeing examine the phenomenon and persistence of trompe l'oeil over the centuries."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Five Centuries of Trompe L'oeil Painting

Deceptions and Illusions

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Franklin Kelly

Winslow Homer

Nicolai Cikovsky

Judith Walsh

This work examines Homer's artistic accomplishments. It focuses not only on his use of various media, but also on the suites of works on the same subject that reflect the artist's modern practice of thinking and working serially and thematically.

David Alan Brown

"Illustrated ... volume of paintings, sculpture, medals, and drawings celebrates the extraordinary flowering of female portraiture, mainly in Florence, beginning in the latter half of the fifteenth century ... 97 color plates, 76 black-and-white illustrations"--Dustjacket.

Leonardo's Ginevra De' Benci and Renaissance Portraits of Women

Virtue and Beauty

Sarah Greenough

Juan Hamilton

Alfred Stieglitz

Returning to print after fifteen years, a high-quality collection of seventy-three images from the career of the pioneering photographer features portraits of artist Georgia O'Keeffe and early twentieth-century New York City. 10,000 first printing.

Photographs & Writings

Musée du Louvre

Museo nazionale del Bargello (Florence, Italy)

Sculptor of Renaissance Florence

Desiderio Da Settignano

Martha Wolff

John Oliver Hand

The volume contains entries for paintings in the National gallery that were produced in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries by artists from the Netherlands. The entries are arranged alphabetically by artist; a short biography and bibliography for each artist is followed by individual entries on the paintings, each in order of acquisition. The authors address traditional questions of attributes and iconography; in addition, they examine the social, economic, and religious context in which the individual work of art functioned. The volume is also probable the first museum catalogue to include the results of examination by infrared reflectography and dendrochronological analysis.

Early Netherlandish Painting

Doreen Bolger

Lectures in Memory of Daniel Fraad

American Art Around 1900

Report on the National Gallery of Art, Including the Freer Gallery of Art, for the Year Ending June 30 ...

Rembrandt in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Ellen S. Jacobowitz

Stephanie Loeb Stepanek

The Prints of Lucas Van Leyden & His Contemporaries

Raphael and America

E. A. Carmean

Bellows, the Boxing Pictures

Yoshinobu Tokugawa

Sadao Ōkōchi

Nō Robes and Masks

The Tokugawa Collection

John Constable

John Constable; a Selection of Paintings from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon

A classic, beautifully produced survey of a renowned collection

Master Paintings from the Collection

National Gallery of Art

Paul Hayes Tucker

Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art

In the 1870s, Argenteuil, located on the outskirts of Paris, was still unmarred by urban industrialization. This book explores the responses to Argenteuil of six influential painters in more than 50 of their works. Catalogue for an upcoming exhibition at the National Gallery in Washington, D.C. 105 illustrations, 70 in color.

The Impressionists at Argenteuil

Arthur K. Wheelock

Mari Griffith

The Art of Painting : National Gallery of Art, Washington, 24 November 1999-6 February 2000

Johannes Vermeer

Iorwerth Eiddon Stephen Edwards

This catalogue displays 55 of the most representative artifacts from the four chambers of Tutankhamu's tomb.

National Gallery of Art, Field Museum of Natural History and the University of Chicago, New Orleans Museum of Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Seattle Art Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Treasures of Tutankhamun

National Gallery of Art (U.S.)

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