Mark Lawrence Rosenthal

Mark Rosenthal

This examination of installation art demystifies and deconstructs the artistic medium most likely to induce the question, But is it Art? When we think of installation art we imagine enormous, perhaps bewildering, multi-media environments. But the world's earliest known installation projects were created millenia ago on the walls of caves in Lascaux, France. Although the genre has been evolving ever since, its primary impulse - a dialogue between artist and space - remains the same. In Understanding Installation Art, Mark Rosenthal offers an historical interpretation and concise critical analyses that will help deepen readers' appreciation of this often confusing medium. Citing examples as diverse as the Sistine Chapel, Colonial Williamsburg, Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty, and Vito Acconci's Seedbed as well as works by Richard Serra, Rebecca Horn, Claes Oldenburg, Jenny Holzer and Bruce Nauman, the author defines installation art as a medium with broad possibilities for expression, universal appreciation, and democratization. He creates a new taxonomy of his subject, identifying four specific forms - enchantments, impersonations, interventions, and rapprochements - and shows how installation art is steering the concept of art spaces in new and exciting directions. Most importantly he helps readers feel more comfortable with site-specific art, a genre that dates back to man's earliest artistic expression.

From Duchamp to Holzer

Understanding Installation Art

Alec Baldwin

Copyright Collection (Library of Congress)

Lawrence Konner

Bruce Willis

Harold Becker

Universal Pictures (Firm)

Art Jeffries

Miko Hughes

Press kit includes 1 booklet, 1 sheet of loose copy, and 1 photograph.

Mercury Rising

A discussion of the development of the artistic style of Juan Gris is accompanied by a selection of his cubist paintings

Juan Gris

Colin B. Bailey

Philadelphia Museum of Art

Joseph J. Rishel

The Walter and Lee Annenberg Collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings, watercolors, and drawings at The Metropolitan Museum of Art comprises one of the most remarkable groupings of avant-garde works of art from the mid-19th to the early 20th century. A revised and updated edition of the 1989 publication "Masterpieces of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism: The Annenberg Collection," this beautiful volume presents 55 masterworks by such luminaries as Manet, Degas, Morisot, Renoir, Monet, Cezanne, Gauguin, Van Gogh, Picasso, and Matisse, accompanied by elucidating text and a wealth of comparative illustrations.

The Annenberg Collection

Masterpieces of Impressionism & Post-impressionism

Alexander Calder

A. S. C. Rower

Alexander Calder (1898-1976) is a key presence in the history of modern art, and yet he is rarely seen or remembered in the context from which he initially emerged as an artist. When Calder became "Calder" - well known for his signature mobiles and stabiles - it was due to a unique variety of presiding influences. His artistic parentage consisted of Marcel Duchamp, who provided the name of and concept for the mobi≤ Piet Mondrian, who introduced pure abstraction to him; and Joan Miró, who communicated the central theses of Surrealism. Although Calder went on to play a major role in Surrealist manifestations during the formative years of the movement, including being shown in the defining 1936 "Exposition surréaliste d'objets" in Paris, he has since been separated from those beginnings. Indeed, at this point in time, Calder is never included in exhibitions of Surrealist art, even though he was incubated by that phenomenon and contributed mightily to it. This book will put the artist back in midst of Surrealism so that his achievement is more profoundly understood within that context. Works by artists such as Miró, Max Ernst, Yves Tanguy, and René Magritte will delineate the Surrealist milieu and some of its chief aspects. The following theses are also explored: Calder's wit, caricature, and linear flights of fancy; his marvelous personages and fantastic creatures; biomorphic forms from an imaginary vision of nature; and his constellations, apparent views of celestial space.

The Surreal Calder

Carol Tauber

Edward Uhlir

Looks at the development of Chicago's Lincoln Park Zoo, from its beginning in 1868 to the present day.

The Story of Lincoln Park Zoo

The Ark in the Park

Franz Marc

This book presents an overview of the artist's career, giving particular emphasis to the symbolic and iconographic content of Marc's work. It reveals the substance underlying Marc's vision of a world populated almost solely by animals.

Mona Lisa Smile

Mark Rosenthal

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