How New York Stole the Idea of Modern Art - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook How New York Stole the Idea of Modern Art write by Serge Guilbaut. This book was released on 2020-09-15. How New York Stole the Idea of Modern Art available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "A provocative interpretation of the political and cultural history of the early cold war years. . . . By insisting that art, even art of the avant-garde, is part of the general culture, not autonomous or above it, he forces us to think differently not only about art and art history but about society itself."—New York Times Book Review
Chatting with Henri Matisse
Chatting with Henri Matisse - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Chatting with Henri Matisse write by Henri Matisse. This book was released on 2013-08-15. Chatting with Henri Matisse available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In 1941 the Swiss art critic Pierre Courthion interviewed Henri Matisse while the artist was in bed recovering from a serious operation. It was an extensive interview, seen at the time as a vital assessment of Matisse's career and set to be published by Albert Skira's then newly established Swiss press. After months of complicated discussions between Courthion and Matisse, and just weeks before the book was to come out--the artist even had approved the cover design--Matisse suddenly refused its publication. A typescript of the interview now resides in Courthion's papers at the Getty Research Institute. This rich conversation, conducted during the Nazi occupation of France, is published for the first time in this volume, where it appears both in English translation and in the original French version. Matisse unravels memories of his youth and his life as a bohemian student in Gustave Moreau's atelier. He recounts his experience with collectors, including Albert C. Barnes. He discusses fame, writers, musicians, politicians, and, most fascinatingly, his travels. Chatting with Henri Matisse, introduced by Serge Guilbaut, contains a preface by Claude Duthuit, Matisse's grandson, and essays by Yve-Alain Bois and Laurence Bertrand Dorleac. The book includes unpublished correspondence and other original documents related to Courthion's interview and abounds with details about avant-garde life, tactics, and artistic creativity in the first half of the twentieth century.
The Disappearance of Objects
The Disappearance of Objects - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Disappearance of Objects write by Joshua Shannon. This book was released on 2009. The Disappearance of Objects available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Claes Oldenburg, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, and Donald Juddall are iconic names in art history, and each is allowed a chapter's worth of exploration by Shannon (contemporary art history theory, Univ. of Maryland), who manages to surprise us into remembering that these people were grappling with their environment and working to understand the modern urban landscape. See, for example, the photo of Johns and Rauschenberg in Rauschenberg's home. They look like two young men camped out in a cheap flat somewhere in the present day, smoking, having a drink, and talking philosophy. Yet, they were making great strides in using their art, as Shannon argues, to understand how and why "all that was once directly lived has become mere representation," eventually revealing the "inadequacy of language itself." New York City was disappearing all around them, as faceless monoliths of modern glass and steel replaced treasured places where people had lived and died. Theirs was a time of rapid change, and these themes still persist today.Nadine Dalton, Speidel Cuyahoga Cty. P.L., Parma, OH Copyright Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
The Art of Cruelty
The Art of Cruelty - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Art of Cruelty write by Maggie Nelson. This book was released on 2012-08-14. The Art of Cruelty available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "This is criticism at its best." —Carolyn Kellogg, Los Angeles Times Writing in the tradition of Susan Sontag and Elaine Scarry, Maggie Nelson has emerged as one of our foremost cultural critics with this landmark work about representations of cruelty and violence in art. From Sylvia Plath’s poetry to Francis Bacon’s paintings, from the Saw franchise to Yoko Ono’s performance art, Nelson’s nuanced exploration across the artistic landscape ultimately offers a model of how one might balance strong ethical convictions with an equally strong appreciation for work that tests the limits of taste, taboo, and permissibility.
How New York Stole the Idea of Modern Art
How New York Stole the Idea of Modern Art - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook How New York Stole the Idea of Modern Art write by . This book was released on 1985. How New York Stole the Idea of Modern Art available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
