Pepe Karmel

A leading authority on the subject presents a radically new approach to the understanding of abstract art, in this richly illustrated and persuasive history.

A Global History

Abstract Art

Wim Wenders

Catherine Opie

Janet Sternburg

Alexandra vin Stosch

Overspilling World

CUE Art Foundation

The New Society for Universal Harmony

Lenore Malen

Wayne Koestenbaum

Kurt Kauper

Work in Progress

Paintings

Kirk Vardenoe

Jackson Pollock (Tate Gallery)

Picasso and the Invention of Cubism

Joachim Pissarro

Conceptual Abstraction

Kirk Varnedoe

Jackson Pollock

Jackson Pollock (1912-1956) is widely considered as the most challenging and influential American artist of the 20th century. This sumptuous book offers a fresh overview of his achievement, reinterpreted for a new generation. Published to coincide with an exhibition opening at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in October of 1998. 318 illustrations, 218 in color. 9 foldouts.

Stephanie Barron

"A detailed listing of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art's Lazarof collection"--Provided by publisher.

The Janice and Henri Lazarof Collection

Envisioning Modernism

Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)

Based on a symposium held in 1999 during The Museum of Modern Art's retrospective, this volume presents nine critical essays offering dramatically different ways of understanding Pollock's art and influence. The essays reveal not just the richness of Pollock's work, but also the vitality and diversity of contemporary criticism. The essays were written by Robert Storr, Pepe Karmel, James Coddington and Carol Mancusi-Ungaro, Kirk Varnedoe, T. J. Clark, Jeremy Lewison, Rosalind Krauss, and Anne Wagner.

New Approaches

Amy Hempel

Gagosian Gallery

Elyn Zimmerman

In the fall of 2000, Elyn Zimmerman was an artist-in-residence at an artist's colony in Vermont, where she took a group of photographs recording the passage of water through a nearby shallow stream bed. The rocks and pebbles underneath the water's surface, together with the play of light and shadow overhead, broke the surface of the water into cacophonous patches of black and white. This play of rhythmic and turbulent patterns is what Zimmerman managed to capture in the drawings she made based on these photographs, drawings which continue her black-and-white vocabulary but which reveal an emotion and spontaneous gesture yet unseen in her work.

New Drawings

Wayne Thiebaud

John Wilmerding

Famous for his lush early ’60s paintings of cakes and other sweets, this retrospective of Wayne Thiebaud is the definitive book on the seminal American artist. Published on the occasion of an exhibition of the same title, Wayne Thiebaud: A Retrospective is the first major survey in twelve years of the work of one of the most original and accomplished American artists. This large-format book is a retrospective of his work from the 1960s to today, with numerous works coming from the artist’s collection. Like many artists, Thiebaud has held on to some of the best examples of his work from every period. The book also includes his most recent work up to 2012—at 91, Thiebaud is still working from his studio in Sacramento. With more than ninety color illustrations, this book and the exhibition it documents—put together by noted art historian John Wilmerding—reveal the painter to be preoccupied with a larger slice of American life.

Published to accompany an exhibition featuring works of Pablo Picasso and artists he influenced culled from American museums.

donazioni a musei americani

Picasso e la sua epoca

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