In this ambitious and imaginative study, Margaretta M. Lovell analyzes the large body of accomplished, sometimes startling, often brilliant work of American artists drawn to Venice's ragged splendor in the last century. Including major works by such...

With this widely acclaimed work, Fried revised the way in which eighteenth-century French painting and criticism were viewed and understood. Contents: Preface List of Illustrations 1. The Primacy of Absorption 2. Toward a Supreme Fiction 3. P...

Contents: Acknowledgments Editorial Note Introduction by John O'Brian 1939 1. The Beggar's Opera – After Marx: Review of A Penny for the Poor by Bertolt Brecht 2. Avant-Garde and Kitsch 1940 3. Towards a Newer Laocoon 4. An American View...

Contents: Acknowledgments Editorial Note Foreword by John O'Brian 1945 1. Trail Blazer: Review of Williatn Sidney Mount by Bartlett Cowdrey and Hermann Warner Williams Jr. 2. Obituary and Review of an Exhibition of Kandinsky 3. Review of Exhibitio...

Acknowledgments Introduction: Iconology Part One: The Idea of Imagery 1. What Is an Image? Part Two: Image versus Text Figures of the Differences 2. Pictures and Paragraphs: Nelson Goodman and the Grammar of Differences 3. Nature and Convention: Go...

This book features the life history and craft of four Alaska Native artists. As a group, the artists represent four different Native cultures and four different art forms: Nicholas Charles, Sr., a Yup'ik Eskimo known for his carved and painted wood m...

Drawing on a broad foundation in the history of nineteenth-century French art, Richard Shiff offers an innovative interpretation of Cezanne's painting. He shows how Cezanne's style met the emerging criteria of a "technique of originality" and how it...

Contents: Acknowledgments Introduction 1. New York, 1935-1941: The De-Marxization of the Intelligentsia 2. The Second World War and the Attempt to Establish an Independent American Art 3. The Creation of an American Avant-Garde, 1945-1947 4. Su...

Contents: List of Illustrations Preface Introduction 1. Constantijn Huygens and The New World 2".Ut pictura, ita visio": Kepler's Model of the Eye and the Nature of Picturing in the North 3".With a Sincere Hand and a Faithful Eye": The Craft of Rep...

Contents: List of Illustrations Foreword Creators 1. Duchamp: Private and Public 2. Miro I. Fertile Fields II. Avant-Garde Masterpieces 3. Mondrian: Meaning in Abstract Art I 4. Newman: Meaning in Abstract Art II 5. Olitski, Kelly, Hamilton...