Thomas E. Crow

Thomas Crow

Discusses writings by each of Meyer Shapiro, Claude Lévi-Strauss and Michael Baxandall.

The Intelligence of Art

Written at the height of the Harlem Renaissance, this is the story of Angela Murray, a young black girl from Philadelphia who discovers she can pass for white.

Painters and Public Life in Eighteenth-century Paris

Judith Russi Kirshner

Gordon Matta-Clark

Christian Kravagna

The definitive monograph on the unique and hugely influential artist.

Hoofdstukken over kunstenaars en kunstuitingen vormen het uitgangspunt van deze Studie over de relatie tussen avant-garde kunst en de massacultuur

Modern Art in the Common Culture

"As the French Empire collapsed between 1812 and 1815, artists throughout Europe were left uncertain and adrift. The final abdication of Emperor Napoleon, clearing the way for a restored monarchy, profoundly unsettled prevailing national, religious, and social boundaries. In 'Restoration', Thomas Crow combines a sweeping view of European art centers-Rome, Paris, London, Madrid, Brussels, and Vienna-with a close-up look at pivotal and significant artists, including Antonio Canova, Jacques-Louis David, Theodore Gericault, Francisco Goya, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Thomas Lawrence, and forgotten but meteoric painters Francois-Joseph Navez and Antoine Jean-Baptiste Thomas. Whether directly or indirectly, all became linked in a new international network in which changing artistic priorities and possibilities emerged from the ruins of the old. Crow examines how artists of this period faced dramatic circumstances, from political condemnation and difficult diplomatic missions to a catastrophic episode of climate change. Navigating ever-changing pressures, they invented creative ways of incorporating critical events and significant individuals into fresh artistic works. Crow discusses, among many topics, David's art and pedagogy during exile, Ingres's drive to reconcile religious art with contemporary mentalities, the titled victors over Napoleon all sitting for portraits by Lawrence, and the campaign to restore art objects expropriated by the French from Italy, prefiguring the restitution controversies of our own time."--Provided by publisher.

The Fall of Napoleon in the Course of European Art, 1812-1820

Restoration

Eli Broad

Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Stephanie Barron

Lynn Zelevansky

Eli Broad Family Foundation

Together, these works form an invaluable record of the artistic achievements of the past forty years.".

Four Decades of Art from the Broad Collections Lacma

Jasper Johns to Jeff Koons

Linda Nochlin

Stephen F. Eisenman

Brian Lukacher

Nineteenth Century Art: A Critical History, hailed as one of the most engrossing and stimulating art history texts to come along for years by The Times Higher Education Supplement, embraces many aspects of the so-called new art history attention to issues of class and gender, reception and spectatorship, racism and Eurocentrism, popular and élite culture while at the same time recovering the remarkable vitality, salience and subversiveness of the eras best art. This new fourth edition includes four revised chapters together with a substantially expanded chapter on Photography, Modernity and Art. With 245 illustrations now in colour, including over a dozen brand new images, this rich and diverse volume will interest students, specialists and anyone fascinated by this dynamic period.

A Critical History

Nineteenth Century Art

Christopher Rothko

Jasper Sharp

Sabine Haag

A pioneering exploration of Rothko's deep and sustained engagement with the history of art While Mark Rothko (1903-1970) has long been considered a preeminent figure in 20th-century art, few publications have examined his work within the broader context of Western art, even though Rothko himself continuously sought it out as inspiration. Rothko had a profound interest in history and art history--including Greek and Roman mythology, Egyptian fables, Byzantine and early Italian gold-ground paintings, and masterworks of the Renaissance and Dutch Golden Age. He first traveled to Europe in 1950, starting in Paris and winding through Venice, Arezzo, Siena, Florence, and Rome; along the way, he admired frescoes by Fra Angelico and architecture by Michelangelo. This beautiful book examines the influence of the artist's travels on his oeuvre. It presents Rothko's engagement with important classical and Old Master works, highlighting older techniques and ideas that the artist may have sought to emulate. Works representative of Rothko's entire corpus are beautifully illustrated with full-page color plates. The book also contains writings by the artist--selected for publication by his son--that document his appreciation of art history in his own words.

Toward Clarity

Mark Rothko

Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles, Calif.)

Cornelia H. Butler

Whitney Museum of American Art

Suzaan Boettger

Lisa Gabrielle Mark

Alexander Alberro

Robert Smithson

Mark Linder

Moira Roth

Museum of Fine Arts (Dallas, Tex.)

Eugenie Tsai

The complex and influential career of Robert Smithson is presented in a richly illustrated study that also includes essays by Smithson scholars and photographs of his works, exploring his artistic output in the context of the 1960s and in subsequent decades. Simultaneous.

"One of Thomas Crow's most influential titles, The Rise of the Sixties, provides an overview of the major themes and figures in the 1960s art world. Presenting an international array of artists against the background of world culture, Crow portrays the ways in which the American art scene - including such key figures as Leo Castelli, Eva Hesse, Jasper Johns, Robert Morris, Robert Smithson, Cy Twombly, and Andy Warhol - fit into the corresponding European and international movements of the time, among them Situationalism, Conceptualism, Feminism, Environmentalism, and Op Art." "Generously illustrated, the book encompasses all the major players in the art world of the 1960s and examines how they influenced and inspired one another, while struggling to have an impact on a world preoccupied with social crisis."--BOOK JACKET.

American and European Art in the Era of Dissent

The Rise of the Sixties

Karen Painter

Collects nine essays that discusses the creativity of influential artists, as well as the legacy of their work following their deaths, and covers Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Piet Mondrian, Frank Gehry, and others.

Reflections on Artists and Composers at Work

Late Thoughts

Andy Warhol

Declan McGonagle

Irish Museum of Modern Art (Kilmainham, Dublin, Ireland)

FINE ARTS Catalog to a current show at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, with works drawn largely from the collections of the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, this book aims to look at the artist behind the public persona. In addition to more than 50 works that span Warhol's career, this short book reproduces an essay written shortly after the artist's death on the themes of death and disaster in Warhol's early work, an interview from 1963, and a brief biography of the artist. Though the book doesn't quite manage to bring about a 'sober' reevaluation of his body of work, it does offer a fine introduction to this modern master. Libraries with a range of Warholiana (e.g., David Bourdon's comprehensive Warhol, LJ 12/89) can probably skip it, but those looking for an affordable, basic introduction would do well with this retrospective.

Andy Warhol Works, 1956-1986

After the Party

Completa visión sintética de todos los movimientos artísticos que conforman las artes figurativas del siglo XIX. El autor estudia el período desde una perspectiva en la que sitúa y explica la obra de arte como un producto de su contexto histórico-cultural.

Historia crítica del arte del siglo XIX

Amplio y magníficamente ilustrado análisis del arte de los sesenta (1955-1969) en relación a los movimientos socioculturales y políticos que lo sustentaron y la respuesta que suscitaron hasta convertirse en una influencia fundamental en el arte de nuestros días.

El esplendor de los sesenta

This fascinating and elegant book tells the story of five painters at the center of events in Revolutionary France: Jacques-Louis David and his first cohort of precocious pupils, including the meteoric Jean-Germain Drouais and the astonishingly gifted but deeply troubled Anne-Louis Girodet. Written by a major art historian, it interprets in a new and original way the relationships between these men and the paintings they created. This new edition includes a revised introduction and incorporates the fruit of recent new research. "Crow combines excellent formal and stylistic analysis of particular paintings with close attention to the psychological complexities and political and social contexts of the artists’ lives. He delves deeply into David’s and his students’ thematic choices, compositional strategies and personal relations in order to make his overarching political and aesthetic arguments.”--Lynn Hunt, New Republic "A magisterial contribution to the history of art.”--Richard Cobb, The Spectator

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