Utilizing works from museums across North America, "Lipchitz and the Avant-Garde" traces the path of the pioneering sculptor Jacques Lipchitz from his birthplace in Lithuania to his early work in Paris before World War I, where he was associated with the Parisian avant-garde and applied cubist principles to three-dimensional artwork. By breaking the volume and using different planes, Lipchitz created works that were a new force in the history of sculpture. His innovation of the transparents style in sculpture during the late 1920s was groundbreaking and was copied by many, including Picasso. At the outbreak of World War II the Jewish artist fled to New York, where he worked on increasingly monumental sculptures until his death in 1973. This substantive catalog contains new essays by internationally renowned scholars and translated articles by contemporaries Ramon Gomez de la Serna and Joaquin Torres-Garcia that have not appeared in English before. Contributors include Jonathan Fineberg, Christopher Green, Jordana Mendelson, David O'Brien, Cathy Putz, and Cecilia de Torres.

Lipchitz and the Avant Garde: From Paris to New York

Arts & Photography

Lipchitz, Jacques

Helfenstein, Josef

Fineberg, Jonathan David

Krannert Art Museum

Individual Artists

Utilizing works from museums across North America, Lipchitz and the Avant-Garde traces the path of the pioneering sculptor Jacques Lipchitz from his birthplace in Lithuania to his early work in Paris before World War I, where he was associated with the Parisian avant-garde and applied cubist principles to three-dimensional artwork. By breaking the volume and using different planes, Lipchitz created works that were a new force in the history of sculpture. His innovation of the transparents style in sculpture during the late 1920s was groundbreaking and was copied by many, including Picasso. At the outbreak of World War II the Jewish artist fled to New York, where he worked on increasingly monumental sculptures until his death in 1973. This substantive catalog contains new essays by internationally renowned scholars and translated articles by contemporaries Ramón Gómez de la Serna and Joaquin Torres-García that have not appeared in English before.

Lipchitz and the Avant-Garde: From Paris to New York

GREEN, Christopher

Putz, Cathy

De Torres, Cecilia

Mendelson, Jordana

O’Brien, David

Complex and highly idiosyncratic, the work of Louise Bourgeois enthralls audiences throughout the world. Beginning in the 1940s, shortly after arriving in New York City, Bourgeois produced her first mature, highly original paintings, drawings, and sculptures. 
While most of her contemporaries were drawn toward pure abstraction, the work of Louise Bourgeois entered the realm of the psychological and symbolic. Themes already evident in these early works continued to resonate throughout her career. The Personages represent her first explorations in sculpture; summoning a physical presence, they suggest moments of alienation as well as evocative encounters. 
This comprehensive catalogue features the artistís work from the 1940s and 1950s, including 25 sculptures, 17 paintings, 30 drawings, and the series of prints inspired by New Yorkís landscape of skyscrapers, ìHe Disappeared into Complete Silence,î which presents Bourgeoisí own hermetic texts juxtaposed with enigmatic pictures. An essay explicates the role of ritual and representation in the work of Louise Bourgeois and includes rare documentary photos.

Louise Bourgeois: The Early Work

Bill Traylor has become an almost mythical figure in the history of American folk art. Born into slavery in 1854, he only began to draw at the age of 82 in 1939, when he moved from the plantation where he was born to Montgomery, Alabama. From his observations on Montgomery's Monroe Avenue and his memories of his life on the plantation, he created his own original pictorial world. This book presents not only Traylor's compellingly native drawings but also fascinating documentary photographs that reveal the daily life of southern blacks - in particular Traylor and his milieu. These photographs, taken by Charles Shannon and the Swiss journalist Annemarle Schwarzanbach, reminiscent of the works of Walker Evans, capture the atmosphere of Montgomery and rural Alabama at the same time as Traylor was beginning to draw. The contributors discuss Traylor's life and work, placing them in their social and historical background.

Deep Blues: Bill Traylor 1854-1949

History & Criticism

Yale University Press

This is the first major exploration of the works of American abstract painter and watercolorist Suzan Frecon (b. 1941), critically acclaimed for her sensitive arrangement of color, form, and texture, and for the philosophical resonance of her art. By restricting herself to nonrepresentational forms, earth-based colors, and, in the case of her watercolors, “found” pieces of paper, Frecon achieves an unequaled sense of balance and openness in her work. The book features ten oil paintings and thirty watercolors dating from the late 1990s to 2007. 
form, color, illumination celebrates the uniqueness of Frecon's painting and articulates how her work distinguishes itself within the history of abstract painting. The authors describe in-depth how her artistic process and materials are an integral part of her focus and aesthetic. Included is an essay revealing the "ethics” of her aesthetics––an argument for abstraction and an attention to truth that is not divorced from social and environmental concerns.

form, color, illumination: Suzan Frecon painting

Eckhardt, Sarah

Loock, Ulrich

Rinder, Lawrence

Frehner, Matthias

The Menil Collection

Famous at the age of 23 for her fur-covered teacup, Meret Oppenheim numbered Man Ray, Alberto Giacometti, Max Ernst and Andre Breton among her friends and admirers. In subsequent years she suffered from critical neglect, and her subversive work has only recently begun to receive the acclaim it deserves.

Meret Oppenheim: Beyond the Teacup (INDEPENDENT CUR)

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

SPECTOR, Nancy

MCEVILLEY, Thomas

Curiger, Bice

Burckhardt, Jacqueline

Oppenheim, Meret

Independent Curators Incorporated

Independent Curators

Klee and America.

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

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* An excellent highlights tour of Kunstmuseum Basel - rich with observations and insights by the museum's director, Josef Helfenstein* Featuring masterpieces from Hans Holbein the Younger, Rembrandt, Monet, Renoir, Klee and Picasso* Recent contemporary art acquisitions by William Kentridge and Lynette Yiadom-Boakye are also discussedThe Kunstmuseum Basel is the largest and most significant public art collection in Switzerland - and is also listed as a heritage site of national significance. It is also one of the oldest publicly accessible art collections in the world. Housed in three venues across Basel, the museum has artworks from the 15th century to the present day, including the largest collection of works by the Holbein family. Other artists and movements are also well represented, including Rembrandt, Impressionist artists such as Monet and Renoir, as well as modernist painters such as Klee and Picasso. Kunstmuseum Basel also has an active contemporary art program, with acquisitions by William Kentridge and Lynette Yiadom-Boakye discussed in this book.Richly illustrated with engaging commentaries and insights by the museum's director, Josef Helfenstein, Director's Choice: Kunstmuseum Basel is an excellent highlights tour of this renowned collection and an introduction to the history of western art.

Kunstmuseum Basel: Director's Choice

Scala

Artwork by Louise Bourgeois. Contributions by Jennifer Bloomer. Text by Mieke Bal, Lynne Cooke, Beatriz Colomina, Jerry Gorovoy, Christiane Terrisse, Danielle Tilkin, Josef Helfenstein.

Louise Bourgeois: Memory And Architecture

Tilkin, Danielle

Colomina, Beatriz

BAL, MIEKE

Cooke, Lynne

Gorovoy, Jerry

Terrisse, Christiane

BOURGEOIS, Louise

Editorial Palacios y Museos

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