Selected Art Writings
Selected Art Writings

Author: James Schuyler

Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 9781574230765

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Poet James Schuyler was an associate editor of the influential Art News during the late 50s and early 60s. These writings, illustrated throughout, provide a vivid composite portrait of the New York scene at a crucial time. There are pieces on key figures of the Abstract Expressionist, Pop, and neo-figurative schools; and on numerous other persuasions and tendencies of that revolutionary era.

Art as Art
Art as Art

Author: Ad Reinhardt

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 1991-06-06

Total Pages: 262

ISBN-13: 9780520076709

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Ad Reinhardt is probably best known for his black paintings, which aroused as much controversy as admiration in the American art world when they were first exhibited in the 1950s. Although his ideas about art and life were often at odds with those of his contemporaries, they prefigured the ascendance of minimalism. Reinhardt's interest in the Orient and in religion, his strong convictions about the value of abstraction, and his disgust with the commercialism of the art world are as fresh and valid today as they were when he first expressed them.

A Mythology of Forms
A Mythology of Forms

Author: Carl Einstein

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2019-12-26

Total Pages: 423

ISBN-13: 022646427X

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The German art historian and critic Carl Einstein (1885-1940) was at the forefront of the modernist movement that defined the twentieth century. One of the most prolific and brilliant early commentators on cubism, he was also among the first authors to assess African sculpture as art. Yet his writings remain relatively little known in the Anglophone world. With A Mythology of Forms, the first representative collection of Einstein’s art theory and criticism to appear in English translation, Charles W. Haxthausen fills this gap. Spanning three decades, it assembles the most important of Einstein’s writings on the art that was central to his critical project—on cubism, surrealism, Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, and Paul Klee, and includes the full texts of his two pathbreaking books on African art, Negro Sculpture (1915) and African Sculpture (1921). With fourteen texts by Einstein, each presented with extensive commentary, A Mythology of Forms will bring a pivotal voice in the history of modern art into English.

Lawrence Gowing
Lawrence Gowing

Author: Lawrence Gowing

Publisher:

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 459

ISBN-13: 9781905464654

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As one of the leading critical voices on art of the post-war years, Lawrence Gowing (1918-1991) combined a passion for close visual involvement with formidable literary skills. Having begun his career as a painter, Gowing's monograph on Vermeer (1952) brought him early recognition as a writer who combined this experience with a meticulous historical perspective. His foremost commitment was with the pioneering painters of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, notably Paul Caezanne and Henri Matisse. The exhibitions Gowing curated at Tate, London, and the Museum of Modern Art, New York famously helped to mould and reshape public perceptions. Characterised by a desire to instruct and encourage, his writing reflects a highly successful career as a curator and teacher. Introduced by the editor Sarah Whitfield, four decades of writing are brought together for the first time in this volume.--

Henry Darger
Henry Darger

Author: Henry Darger

Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 9780847822843

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The epic vision of outsider artist Henry Darger is captured for the first time in this comprehensive survey of his art and writings. A janitor by day, he spent his nights creating a vast, imaginative world describing a cosmic battle between the forces of good and evil. 125 color illustrations.

Selected Writings
Selected Writings

Author: George Herbert Mead

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 1981-05-15

Total Pages: 488

ISBN-13: 0226516717

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The book shows ... how Mead's social psychology evolved gradually into a theory of self-consciousness and its social gestalt, an epistemology, and finally a philosophy of history and a realistic ontology of objective relativity.

William Bartram, the Search for Nature's Design
William Bartram, the Search for Nature's Design

Author: William Bartram

Publisher: Wormsloe Foundation Nature Boo

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780820328775

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This work presents new material in the form of art, letters, and unpublished manuscripts. These documents expand our knowledge of Bartram as an explorer, naturalist, artist, writer, and citizen of the early Republic.

René Magritte
René Magritte

Author: René Magritte

Publisher:

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781517901233

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Available for the first time in an English translation, this selection of Ren� Magritte's writings gives non-Francophone readers the chance to encounter the many incarnations of the renowned Belgian painter--the artist, the man, the aspiring noirist, the fire-breathing theorist--in his own words. Through whimsical personal letters, biting apologia, appreciations of fellow artists, pugnacious interviews, farcical film scripts, prose poems, manifestos, and much more, a new Magritte emerges: part Surrealist, part literalist, part celebrity, part rascal.While this book is sure to appeal to admirers of Magritte's art and those who are curious about his personal life, there is also much to delight readers interested in the history and theory of art, philosophy and politics, as well as lovers of creativity and the inner workings of a probing, inquisitive mind unrestricted by genre, medium, or fashion.

Reading Art: Art for Book Lovers
Reading Art: Art for Book Lovers

Author: David Trigg

Publisher: Phaidon Press

Published: 2018-06-08

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780714876276

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A celebration of artworks featuring books and readers from throughout history, for the delight of art lovers and bibliophiles As every book tells a story, every book in art is part of an intriguing, engaging, and relatable image. Books are depicted as indicators of intellect in portraits, as symbols of piety in religious paintings, as subjects in still lifes, and as the raw material for contemporary installations. Reading Art spotlights artworks from museums and collections around the globe, creating a gorgeous, inspiring homage to both the written word and to its pivotal role in the visual world.