A fine disregard: what makes modern art modern

Arts & Photography

VARNEDOE, Kirk

History & Criticism

Thames and Hudson

Photographs of the sculptures of Duane Hanson are accompanied by discussions of his artistic development, influences, and techniques

Duane Hanson

Abrams

A Fine Disregard: What Makes Modern Art Modern

Harry N. Abrams

High and Low: Modern Art and Popular Culture

Museum of Modern Art

Vienna 1900: Art, Architecture, Design

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

Vienna 1900: Art, architecture & design

Vienna 1900: Art, Architecture & Design

Masterpieces from the David and Peggy Rockefeller collection: Manet to Picasso

Masterpieces from the David and Peggy Rockefeller Collection: Manet to Picasso

In this volume, an extended essay by Kirk Varnedoe, Chief Curator of Painting and Sculpture at The Museum of Modern Art, examines the artist's background and early education in Lexington, Virginia, and charts his study at the Boston Museum School, the Art Students League of New York, and the renowned, progressive Black Mountain College in North Carolina. Twombly's early contacts with both the modern European tradition and New York School painting are examined, and the emergence of his own distinct style in the mid-1950s is presented with a new clarity.More than fifty of the artist's most important paintings from all phases of his career are reproduced in color, including recent works never seen outside the studio and several important earlier works not previously published. A dozen sculptures, stretching from the artist's early assemblages of the 1940s through work of recent years, are also reproduced, as well as more than forty works on paper.

Cy Twombly: A Retrospective

Individual Artists

Portraiture has managed to flourish in modern painting in spite of the popularization of photography, the decline of traditional patronage, and modernism's increasing emphasis on abstraction. However problematic modern styles have been for representational art, painters have continued to discover new possibilities in the imaging of the human face. This book explores the challenge of the modernist portrait through the multiple solutions proposed by its foremost protagonist and, in so doing, becomes the first volume ever published on the subject of Picasso and portraiture. The hundreds of works reproduced here - most of them unfamiliar, some virtually unknown - demonstrate the remarkable range of Picasso's experimentation in all its stylistic and psychological diversity. The book opens with an authoritative, broad-ranging essay by William Rubin; the nine essays that follow - all by major contemporary scholars and critics - examine different periods and aspects of Picasso's career and clarify personal relationships between the artist and his subjects. It closes with an essay by Mr. Rubin on the late portraits. Numerous photographs, some never before published and many by outstanding photographers, present the portrait subjects as seen through the eye of the camera. This book, published to accompany a major exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, opening in April 1996, no doubt will long remain the definitive work on its subject.

Picasso and Portraiture: Representation and Transformation

RUBIN, William

Museum Of Modern Art (new York, N.y.)

Daix, Pierre

Baldassari, Anne

McCully, Marilyn

Seckel, Helene

Rosenblum, Robert

Léal, Brigitte

Grand Palais (Paris, France)

FitzGerald, Michæl C.

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