National Gallery of Art (U.S.)
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
xiii, 153 pages : illustrations ; 30 cm
Description
In 1909 F. T. Marinetti's futurist manifesto appeared on the front page of Le Figaro, and less than four years later Pablo Picasso incorporated a fragment of real newspaper into a work of art. Shock of the News, which takes it title from Robert Hughes' popular BBC television series. The Shock of the New (1980) examines the many manifestations of the "newspaper phenomenon" from 1909 to 2009, a century during which major artists engaged in a vibrant...
Author
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
323 pages : illustrations ; 31 cm
Description
"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 catalogue examines this intriguing contradiction and seeks to reassess Moore's crucial contributions to art of the last century. Looking at Moore's early engagements with primitivism, his 1930s dialogue with abstraction and surrealism,...
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
283 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portrait ; 32 cm
Description
"More than fifty of Gustave Caillebotte's (1848-1894) strongest paintings illustrate the fertile period from 1875 to 1885 when he was most closely allied with the impressionists. Accompanying the National Gallery of Art's major new exhibition, coorganized with the Kimbell Art Museum, this volume explores the inquisitive, experimental, almost fearless vision that inspired his masterworks"--