Melissa Leventon

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco

A survey of the relationship between art and fashion showcases wearable art that will appear in a 2005 exhibition at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, tracing the art form's history as it developed out of the styles of the 1960s and 1970s through some of today's most significant designs, in a volume that features the works of such contributors as Yves Saint Laurent, Gustav Klimt, and Jean-Paul Gaultier. Original.

Fashion and Anti-fashion

Artwear

Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

An Exhibition from the Museums of the USSR Presented at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco

Russian and Soviet Painting

Kathleen Berrin

Fifteen hundred years ago, Teotihuacan was one of the world's greatest cities. Some 200,000 people lived in this Mexican metropolis, with its massive public buildings, grid plan of streets and imposing murals and sculpture. Its trading empire dominated much of ancient Mexico. Then, in the 8th century, came a mysterious collapse. Even knowledge of the original name was lost: Teotihuacan, City of the Gods, was a title bestowed by the Aztecs six hundred years later.

Art from the City of the Gods

Teotihuacan

A re-creation of the glorious and seductive visual world of eighteenth-century Europe through the life of one of its most notorious figures. In 18th-century Europe, the shape-shifting libertine Giacomo Casanova seduced his way across the Continent. Although notorious for the scores of amorous conquests he recorded in his remarkably frank memoirs, Casanova was just as practised at charming his way into the most elite social circles. In his travels across Europe and through every level of society from the theatrical demimonde to royal courts, he was also seduced by the visual splendours he encountered. This volume accompanies the first major art exhibition to recreate Casanova's visual world, from his birthplace of Venice to the cultural capitals of Paris and London and the outposts of Eastern Europe. Summoning up the people he met and the cityscapes, highways, salons, theatres, masked balls, boudoirs, gambling halls, and dining rooms he frequented, it provides a survey of important works of eighteenth-century European art by masters such as Canaletto, Fragonard, Boucher, Houdon and Hogarth. Twelve essays by prominent scholars illuminate multiple facets of Casanova's world as reflected in the arts of his time, providing a fascinating grand tour of Europe conducted by a quintessential figure of the eighteenth century as well as a splendid visual display of the spirit of the age.

The Seduction of Europe

Casanova

Adam Gopnik

Wayne Thiebaud

Steven A. Nash

Wayne Thiebaud has long been recognized as one of Americas most prominent modern artists. Probably best known for his straightforward, deadpan, still-life paintings of the 1960s, Thiebaud is identified by his brilliant palette, his luscious handling of paint, and the intensity of light that lends a particularly California flavour to his images. Originally published on the occasion of the artists eightieth birthday, this definitive retrospective brings together 120 of Thiebauds most important paintings, watercolours and pastels, while thoughtful essays by Steven A. Nash and Adam Gopnik trace the course of his career from the 1950s, when he first began to emerge as a significant artist of our times.

A Paintings Retrospective

Art Institute of Chicago

Nearly three hundred illustrations and a text reveal the entire range of the Vatican's artistic holdings, replete with priceless masterworks from all periods.

The Papacy and Art

The Vatican Collections

Ruth Fine

National Gallery of Art (U.S.)

Karin Breuer

Fine Arts Museums (San Francisco, Calif.)

Crown Point Press (Oakland, Calif.)

Crown Point Press in San Francisco, founded in 1962 by Kathan Brown, is a world-renowned center of contemporary printmaking. It has published work by such major figures as Richard Diebenkorn, Helen Frankenthaler, Sol LeWitt, and Wayne Thiebaud, while bringing to attention prints by many younger artists, including April Gornik, Anish Kapoor, Eric Fischl, and Francesco Clemente. Crown Point Press is known for presenting social and political issues in a range of printmaking media, from hard- and soft-ground etching to drypoint, aquatint, and mezzotint. The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco acquired the Crown Point Press archive in 1991. This collection of nearly 800 works contains one impression of every print the Press has ever produced. Also included are over 2000 working proofs and preparatory sketches. Now, in collaboration with the National Gallery of Art, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco has organized an exhibition of these distinctive prints. Chronicling Crown Point Press's dedication to artistic quality and commitment to innovation in printmaking technique and subject matter, this book also presents Kathan Brown's notable contributions in transforming the printmaking landscape of the twentieth century. Published in association with The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco

Making Prints, Doing Art

Thirty-five Years at Crown Point Press

Timothy Anglin Burgard

Daniell Cornell

M.H. de Young Memorial Museum

"Published on the occasion of the reopening of the de Young in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, California, October 2005"--T.p. verso.

Masterworks of American Painting at the De Young

Pierre Rosenberg

Marion C. Stewart

French Paintings 1500-1825, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco

Robert Flynn Johnson

Donna Stein

"Featuring 180 volumes from the collection ... an extensive overview of important artists of the modern period and the art they created by integrating image and text"--Foreword.

The Reva and David Logan Collection of Illustrated Books

Artists Books in the Modern Era 1870-2000

An Exhibition from the State Art Collections of Dresden, German Democratic Republic : the National Gallery of Art, Washington, June 1-September 4, 1978, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Oct. 21, 1978-January 13, 1979, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, February 18-May 26, 1979

The Splendor of Dresden, Five Centuries of Art Collecting

David Cohen

Henry Moore

Harriet F. Senie

Dallas Museum of Art

Julian Andrews

Dorothy M. Kosinski

Anita Feldman Bennett

Museum of Fine Arts (Dallas, Tex.)

Gail Davitt

Elizabeth Ann Brown

Alan G. Wilkinson

Henry Moore (1898-1986) is arguably one of the most famous and beloved sculptors of the twentieth century, yet in recent decades his work has fallen out of favor in the world of contemporary art criticism. This handsome book examines this intriguing contradiction and seeks to reassess Moore's crucial contribution to art of the last century. Looking at Moore's early engagements with primitivism, his 1930s dialogue with abstraction and surrealism, and his postwar interest in large-scale public sculpture, the authors show how the sculptor helped to define some of the most significant aspects of modernism. The authors also contextualize within the polemics of early modernism Moore's emphasis on direct carving instead of modeling and the necessary balance between abstraction and what he called the "psychological human element". Moore's early sculpture -- largely unfamiliar to the general public -- is given particular attention, enabling the reader to explore the evolution of thematic and formal elements in his work and his ongoing response to different materials. Photographs, some by Moore himself, of over 120 works, including plasters, maquettes, carvings, bronzes, and drawings, are featured, many of which are previously unpublished.

Henry Moore, Sculpting the 20th Century

Anna G. Bennett

Ruth Berson

Selections from the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco

Fans in Fashion

Lynn Meisch

Published in association with the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, this book features 18th-, 19th-, and 20th-century indigenous textiles woven by the Aymara and Quechua peoples of the Andean Mountains. The elaborately patterned pieces are all drawn from the previously unpublished Jeffrey Appleby Collection and include everyday and ceremonial textiles of all types. 178 illus. 147 in color.

Life and Cloth in the Highlands : the Jeffrey Appleby Collection of Andean Textiles

Traditional Textiles of the Andes

Pia Palladino

Cleveland Museum of Art

"Treasures of a Lost Art presents 144 leaves, cuttings, and illuminated manuscript fragments from the collection of Robert Lehman (1891-1969), one of the largest and most impressive private holdings of Italian manuscripts assembled after the First World War. Discussed here - with many of them handsomely illustrated in full color - are important examples of the major schools of illumination in southern Italy, Umbria, Tuscany, Emilia, Lombardy, and the Veneto. Previously unpublished, and perhaps even unknown to scholars, are works by some of the foremost Italian painters of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, including a leaf here attributed for the first time to the Sienese master Duccio di Buoninsegna and cuttings by Stefano da Verona and Cosimo Tura. Lesser-known arists, such as Neri da Rimini, Belbello da Pavia, and Girolamo da Cremona, once renowned for their beautifully illuminated volumes, are also discussed in full."--Jacket.

Italian Manuscript Painting of the Middle Ages and Renaissance

Treasures of a Lost Art

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco

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