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The delightful tales and theatrical drawings of Edward Gorey
(American, 19252000) reflect a special kind of genius for what is
left unwritten and unseen. In Elegant Enigmas: The Art of Edward
Gorey, more than 175 reproductions include samples from Goreys
books, illustrations produced for other writers, theatrical sets
and costume designs, and a wealth of individual pieces, many never
before published. Sketches, typewritten manuscripts, doodles, and
musings join the generous selection of finished works.
This is a boxed set of Anthony Caro: Drawing in Space, Anthony
Caro: Interior and Exterior, Anthony Caro: Figurative and Narrative
Sculpture, Anthony Caro: Small Sculptures and Anthony Caro:
Presence. The box has been specially designed by Anthony Caro.
Anthony Caro restlessly explored an unpredictable range of
sculptural possibilities, testing limits and positing new ideas
about the nature of eloquent three-dimensional objects. Through his
expansion and transformation of the legacy of construction in metal
pioneered by Julio Gonzalez and Pablo Picasso, and further
developed by David Smith in the USA, Caro created a new,
multivalent language of three-dimensional abstraction. The Caro
pendulum swung between extremes of linearity and robustness,
abstractness and allusion. He countered his mastery of line and
transparency with investigations of our responses to mass and
perceptions of interior and exterior, even experimenting with
literally enterable sculptures. He made rigorously abstract
constructions that resemble nothing but themselves, intimate
table-based pieces, monumental constructions like metaphorical
architecture, and complex multi-part cycles of narrative works that
pulse in and out of explicit illusionism. And more. The range and
variety of Caro's sculpture notwithstanding, there are also common
threads that run through all of his work. The five volumes in this
set, each by a different critic, examine the various aspects of
Caro's evolution individually, tracing the permutations of
different themes - narrative, volume and mass, line and openness -
throughout his work, over time. Each volume is independent and
explores different territory, but cumulatively, by tracing these
dominant themes, they provide new insight into the achievement of
one of the undisputed giants of Modernist art.
This is the sixth volume in Lund Humphries' series of monographs on
British sculptor Anthony Caro and the first publication to focus on
his use of stainless steel as a distinct body of work. Caro
employed stainless steel extensively, from intimately scaled Table
Sculptures to extremely large works, over many decades, and in his
mature works, Caro's exploration and interrogation of this material
became increasingly important. Karen Wilkin analyses Caro's use of
stainless steel in the context of the development of modernist
constructed sculpture, pioneered in the UK by Caro and in the US by
David Smith, a friend and admired predecessor, from whom Caro
inherited most of the stainless steel he first employed, following
Smith's untimely death in 1965. Karen Wilkin's text represents a
much-needed overview of Caro's late career and a vital expansion of
our understanding of 20th-century and early 21st-century modernist
sculpture.
Hans Hofmann (1880-1966) was an acclaimed Abstract Expressionist
and one of the most influential art teachers of the 20th century.
While his paintings have been the subject of many exhibitions and
publications, his works on paper are comparatively little known,
despite how central they were to his artistic practice and to the
evolution of his style and technique. This is the first full-length
book devoted to Hofmann's works on paper, presenting a valuable new
perspective from which to appreciate the achievements of this giant
of postwar art. More than fifty examples from across his long
career and from many genres-including self-portraits, figural
studies, interiors, landscapes, and abstractions-are all
attractively illustrated in color. In addition, works in different
stages of finish, from rough sketches to polished pieces, offer an
intimate glimpse into Hofmann's methods and creative process.
Distributed for MOCA Jacksonville Exhibition Schedule: Museum of
Contemporary Art, Jacksonville, FL (01/28/17-05/14/17) Portland
Museum of Art, Portland, ME (06/16/17-09/10/17)
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Fairfield Porter (Hardcover)
John Wilmerding, Karen Wilkin; Contributions by J.D. McClatchy
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R1,166
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A figurative realist in the heyday of abstract expres- sionism,
Fairfield Porter (1907-1975) painted himself, his family, and
friends in New York City, in Southampton, Long Island, and on an
island off the Maine coast, all depicting a relaxed and comfortable
world that seemed to mirror his own affluent, well- connected
existence. With virtually all of the artist's previous publications
now out of print, this much- anticipated volume is an important
addition to the literature on this great American master. Porter
graduated from Harvard in 1928 and then studied at the Art Students
League in New York with Thomas Hart Benton. Along with months in
Maine, Porter lived in New York and from 1948 on, in Southampton
where he purchased a large, late Federal-style house for his own
expanding family. Porter painted several artist friends, including
Elaine de Kooning, Larry Rivers, and Jane Freilicher. He was also
close to the modern poets John Ashbery, Frank O'Hara, and James
Schuyler. With a carefully curated selection of the artist's best
works, John Wilmerding, a specialist in American art, gives full
consideration to Porter's expressive compositions and a color
palette influenced by his coastal surroundings. Karen Wilkin
discusses Porter's influences and pictorial creativity.
Distinguished poet J. D. McClatchy writes a reflection on one of
Porter's paintings.
The highly anticipated, definitive reference on Stuart Davis's
paintings, watercolors, drawings, and published illustrations
Stuart Davis (1892-1964) made a mark on the art world early in his
career, first with his Ashcan works and then with his highly
personal version of Cubism, which firmly established American
modernism as a force that could rival its European counterpart.
Over the course of six decades, Davis produced artworks that drew
inspiration from the European modernists but were deeply rooted in
the popular culture of the United States. Jazz music and hipster
talk, vaudeville stages, city streetscapes, New England fishing
villages, gasoline stations, store fronts, and commercial packaging
and advertising images were among the sources that infused his art
with energy, bringing crisp edges, radiant color, and syncopated
rhythms to a vast body of paintings, watercolors, and drawings.
Documenting the life's work of this prolific and highly influential
artist-who affected almost every development in American art from
second-generation Ashcan realism around 1912 to color field and
geometric painting in the 1960s-is a monumental achievement. In
these three volumes, the editors have catalogued 1,749 artworks by
the artist-including more than 600 works never previously
illustrated-providing extensive documentation and information about
each one. A detailed chronology of Davis's life, as well as an
enlightening discussion of the compositional relationship between
certain works spanning his oeuvre, rounds out this study.
Exquisitely designed and produced, Stuart Davis: A Catalogue
Raisonne will be the definitive reference on the artist's work for
many years to come. Published in association with the Yale
University Art Gallery
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