Meyer Schapiro

Schapiro here repackages two of his notable essays on Piet Mondrian and abstract painting. In 'On the

On the Humanity of Abstract Painting

Mondrian

Paul Cézanne

Reproductions and text present critical commentary on the artist and his work.

Cezanne

Masters of Art

Paul Cezanne

Bound catalogue lists and illustrates 101 works, many annotated; biography; bibliography.

Meyer Schapiro (1904-96), renowned for his critical essays on 19th and 20th century painting, also played a decisive role as a young scholar in defining the style of art and architecture known as Romanesque. This is a transcribed and edited version of his Charles Eliot Norton Lectures.

The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures

Romanesque Architectural Sculpture

Karel Srp

Dílo a styl

Traces the evolution from cultured artists who added literary and historical elements to their paintings to the painters who relied on sensibility alone, with a discussion of the social meaning of abstract art

Modern Art, 19th & 20th Centuries

La nature de l'art abstrait

Estudios sobre el románico

On the Literal and the Symbolic in the Illustration of a Text

Words and Pictures

Cain's Jaw-bone that Did the First Murder

Presents a revision of the late Columbia University art historian's lectures given at Indiana University in 1961

Reflections and Perceptions

Impressionism

Thomas Crow

Hubert Damisch

"Schapiro's letters to his future wife, Lillian Milgram, were written in 1926 and 1927, while he was a graduate student touring the artistic monuments of Europe and the Near East. Bearing intimate witness to this formative journey, they augment the visual and factual details he so painstakingly recorded in his notebooks with impassioned reflections on art and lively accounts of his encounters with an older generation of art historians."--Back cover.

Letters to Lillian and Travel Notebooks

Meyer Schapiro Abroad

Throughout all of his writings Schapiro provides us with a

Meyer Schapiro

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