Santa Barbara Museum of Art

Eik Kahng

Published on the occasion of an exhibition held at the Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Tex., May 29-Aug. 21, 2011 and the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, Calif., Sept. 17, 2011-Jan. 8, 2012.

The Cubist Experiment, 1910-1912

Picasso and Braque

University of Missouri--Columbia. Museum of Art and Archaeology

In the years between 1830 and 1848, the period know as the July Monarchy, French art underwent the major transformation from romanticism to realism. Yet, because of their transitional nature, the works of this period have often been ignored by art historians. By avoiding a concentration on either a single artist or a single ism, the book illuminates this 18 year period.

France, 1830 to 1848

The Art of the July Monarchy

Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art

Richard V. West

Krannert Art Museum

Steven A. Mansbach

With the publication of this stunningly illustrated account of the Hungarian avant-garde movement, an important missing link in early modern art can now be fully recognized. To such well-known names in the west as LAizslA³ Moholy-Nagy and Andor Weininger can now be added the contributions of Lajos KassAik, SAindor Bortnyik, BAla Uitz, and a host of other painters whose significance has long been obscured. The nearly 200 illustrations, many in full color, together with essays by leading American and Hungarian scholars and a comprehensive bibliography and comparative chronology, make this a definitive sourcebook that opens a new chapter in twentieth-century art. During the early twentieth century, central and eastern Europe provided fertile ground for major artistic developments. Hungarian painters, in particular, responded imaginatively and vigorously to the political and social changes leading up to and following World War I by "standing in the tempest" of political activism and attempting to redefine the role of art in society. Only in the past few years has it been possible once again to examine original works of art and to assess properly these painters' vital contribution. Steven A. Mansbach is Dean and Director of the American Academy for the Humanitites at the Central European Institute in Berlin. The Essays: The Avant-Garde: Marching in the Van of Progress, Richard V. West. Introduction, S. A. Mansbach. Hungary: A Brief Political and Cultural History, IstvAin DeAik Revolutionary Engagements: The Hungarian Avant-Garde, S. A. Mansbach. Color, Light, Form, and Structure: New Experiments in Hungarian Painting, 1890-1930, JAlia SzabA³, Hungarian Activism and the Russian Avant-Garde, John E. Bowlt. The Avant Garde in Hungary and Eastern Europe, Krisztina Passuth. Chronology, and bibliography, Oliver A. I. Botar.

Painters of the Hungarian Avant-garde, 1908-1930

Standing in the Tempest

Armond Fields

A Montmartre Cabaret and Its Artists in Turn-of-the Century Paris

Le Chat Noir

Violet Hamilton

Annals of My Glass House highlights the work of the most famous Victorian woman photographer, Julia Margaret Cameron. Although she did not begin her career until the age of 49, after rearing six children, she produced almost 3,000 photographs from 1864 until her death in 1879. Violet Hamilton's examination of Cameron's photography begins with her first successful recorded work in 1864 and ends in 1874 with her brief autobiography, "Annals of My Glass House", included here. The major thematic categories of her work are considered, including her portraits of prominent Victorians, poetic interpretations of Madonnas and children, and illustrations for Alfred, Lord Tennyson's Idylls of the King. Among Cameron's photographs are intimate studies of her own family and powerful portraits of Victorian artists, writers, and scientists, including historian Thomas Carlyle and astronomer Sir John Herschel.

Annals of My Glass House

Piet Mondrian

Exhibition Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Washington Gallery of Modern Art

Piet Mondrian, 1872-1944

Santa Barbara Museum of Art

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