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Books > Arts & Architecture > Art forms, treatments & subjects > Drawing & drawings > General
Bauhaus artist Friedl Dicker-Brandeis The work of Friedl
Dicker-Brandeis (1898-1944) occupies a key position in the broader
history of the Austrian avant-garde while also deepening our
understanding of modernism. Her work covers an impressive range of
media and genres in the visual and applied arts. Influenced by her
studies at Vienna's Kunstgewerbeschule (which later became the
University of Applied Arts Vienna), the Itten Private School, and
the Bauhaus in Weimar, she worked as a painter, stage designer,
architect, designer in Vienna and Berlin, in exile, and as a
deportee. This book explores the heterogeneity of Dicker's work,
reconstructs her artistic strategies and references to aesthetic
and political discourses from the 1920s to the 1940s, and documents
for the first time her works in the collection of the University of
Applied Arts Vienna. Portrait of her work and collection catalog,
dedicated to the artist, designer, and architect Friedl
Dicker-Brandeis Essays by Julie M. Johnson, Robin Rehm, Daniela
Stoeppel, and others To accompany an exhibition in Vienna and
Zurich
This book presents a major new thematic and chronological catalogue
survey of the Columbus Museum's most significant holdings of
drawings and works on paper, including examples in graphite,
charcoal, monotype and pastel. At the heart of the Columbus
Museum's collection, and of this volume, is the work of a
remarkable individual, Dr. Phillip L. Brewer, who has amassed a
truly significant collection of American works on paper - both in
terms of its depth and breadth. For the first time this volume
presents nearly 200 of these master drawings, 120 of the most
important of which are grouped into six chapters, illustrated in
full colour, and accompanied by extended catalogue entries written
by leading experts. A further 79 works are presented as colour and
mono thumbnails interspersed amongst the images of the key works.
Included are images by Copley, West and Cole that date from the
earliest years of American nationhood; works by Oscar Bluemner,
Arthur Dove and Morton Schamberg which herald the advent of
modernism; while others by Hans Hoffmann, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Blanche
Lazzell and Rico Lebrun confirm its continued presence through such
varied expressions as social realism, surrealism and abstraction.
While artists like Milton Avery, Jack Beal, Paul Cadmus, Philip
Evergood, Nancy Grossman, and Louise Nevelson explore the strength
and beauty of the human form, James Valerio and Andrew Wyeth
document the changing faces of the natural world. Together these
works, and Lines of Discovery, offer a comprehensive survey of the
history of American art.
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