Philip Brookman , Marta Braun, et al.:Helios: Eadweard Muybridge in a Time of Change
- Paperback 2018, ISBN: 9783865219268
Hardcover
Milan: Skira Editore S.p.A., 2008. Softcover. VG- sparse pencil annotations.. Color illus. wraps; 366 pp. with 125 color plates and numerous bw figures. "This volume provides a complete… More...
Milan: Skira Editore S.p.A., 2008. Softcover. VG- sparse pencil annotations.. Color illus. wraps; 366 pp. with 125 color plates and numerous bw figures. "This volume provides a complete overview of the major exhibition of masterpieces by Giorgio Morandi at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the Museo d'Arte Moderna in Bologna (MAMbo). Over one hundred paintings, watercolors, drawings, and etchings illustrate the artist's entire creative and poetic course from the landscapes and still lifes of 1913-1914 to his final works of 1963-1964. Particular attention is focused on the masterpieces of the 1920s and 1930s, in which Morandi perfected his extraordinary approach to image making through in-depth investigation of the world and of human existence as filtered through the metaphor of the still life."--Jacket. Contents as follows: Giorgio Morandi today / Maria Cristina Bandera -- On some of Giorgio Morandi's visual sources / Flavio Fergonzi -- 1913-1920 -- A "light without color" : Giorgio Morandi and Piero della Francesca / Neville Rowley -- A world in black and white : the imagery and technique of Morandi's etchings / Janet Abramowicz -- 1920-1940 -- Morandi on either side of the Atlantic : critics, collectors, and dealers in Europe and the Americas / Lorenza Selleri -- 1940-1951 -- Giorgio Morandi : the times and antimonies of a legend / Maria Mimita Lamberti -- 1951-1956 -- Nothing is more abstract than reality / Renato Miracco -- 1956-1964 -- My first Morandi / Umberto Eco -- Appendix. Autobiography / Giorgio Morandi -- Italian artists : Giorgio Morandi / Piero Bargellini -- From Columbia University to Via Fondazza : Peppino Mangravite interviews Giorgio Morandi / Lorenza Selleri -- Giorgio Morandi / Edouard Roditi -- Biographical outline / Maria Cristina Bandera., Skira Editore S.p.A., 2008, 3, New York: Museum of Modern Art; Distributed by Harry N. Abrams, 1996. Cloth, 496 pages, illustrations (some colour); 31 cm. Published on the occasion of the exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, in collaboration with the Musee Picasso, Paris. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! Additional shipping charges may be requested for international & priority orders. Richly illustrated with colour plates. *** "The first 100 years of modern art witnessed the popularization of photography and an increasing emphasis on abstraction in painting, which threatened the survival of portraiture as a genre. It continued to flourish, however, because modern painters--Picasso foremost among them--sought and found new ways to portray the human face. The hundreds of works reproduced here illustrate the multiple solutions Picasso invented to solve the problem of the modernist portrait. Illustrations, 230 in color." - Publisher. *** CONTENTS: Reflections on Picasso and portraiture, by William Rubin; Picasso's self-portraits, by Kirk Varnedoe; Three portrait-manifestoes of poets: Andre Salmon, Guillaume Apollinaire, and Max Jacob, by Helene Seckel; "Heads faces and bodies: Picasso's uses of portrait photographs, by Anne Baldassari; To fall "like a fly into the trap of Picasso's stare": portraiture in the early work, by Marilyn McCully; Portraiture in Picasso's primitivism and cubism, by Pierre Daix; The modernists' dilemma: neoclassicism and the portrayal of Olga Khokhlova, by Michael C. FitzGerald; Picasso's blond muse: the reign of Marie-Therese Walter, by Robert Rosenblum; "For charming Dora": portraits of Dora Maar, by Brigitte Leal; A triangle of ambitions: art, politics, and family during the postwar years with Francoise Gilot, by Michael C. FitzGerald; The Jacqueline portraits in the pattern of Picasso's art, by William Rubin.. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. 4to., Museum of Modern Art; Distributed by Harry N. Abrams, 1996, 4.5, New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2016. Softcover. VG+/VG+: Exlibrary book in great condition. Stamp on the half-title page and on the last page. Stamp on the top text block. Sticker at the base of the spine on the mylar jacket; due date card and sticker on the inside back flap of the mylar jacket.. A gray casebound book with a color-illustrated dust jacket, with the title printed in white down a pink spine. The free and pasted end pages are color illustrated. Pages: (5), 6-368. Profusely illustrated with color images. "Among the great modern artists of the past century, Picabia is one of the most elusive, given his extreme eclecticism and persistent acts of self-contradiction. Though known as a Dadaist, Picabia's ongoing stylistic shifts, from Impressionism to radical abstraction, from mechanical imagery to pseudo-classicism, and from photo-based realism to art informel remain to be assessed in depth. Similarly, the breadth of his practice, which encompassed poetry, film and performance is under-recognized. Each makes him a figure relevant for contemporary artists, while the career as a whole challenges familiar narratives of modernism. Francis Picabia presents over 100 paintings, complemented by works on paper, publications, and film. Featuring some 500 illustrations and 14 essays, it examines the full range of Picabia's oeuvre." Contents are as follows: Foreword /; Glenn D. Lowry and Christoph Becker --; Acknowledgments /; Anne Umland and Cathérine Hug --; Francis Picabia: an introduction /; Anne Umland --; Francis Picabia, once removed /; Gordon Hughes --; The body after cubism /; George Baker --; War, exile, and the machine /; Adrian Sudhalter --; "I'm feeling somewhat better" /; Juri Steiner --; Picabia's worldliness /; Briony Fer --; Relâche and the music hall /; Carole Boulbès --; Francis "Funny Guy" Picabia and Entr'acte /; Jean-Jacques Lebel --; Art = Sun = Destruction /; Aurélie Verdier --; The secret recesses of Picabia's transparencies /; Masha Chlenova --; More powerful, more simple, more human painting /; Bernard Marcadé --; Francis Picabia's "war" /; Michèle C. Cone --; Painting, poetry, and impudent correspondence /; Carole Boulbès --; "The sacrilege of the points": Francis Picabia's quasi-monochromes and the return of dada /; Arnauld Pierre --; Jokes and their relation to modern art: Picabia's painting /; David Joselit --; Picabia after Picabia /; Cathérine Hug --; Pharamousse, funny guy, Picabia the loser: the life of Francis Picabia /; Rachel Silveri --; Checklist of the exhibition /; Natalie Dupêcher with Talia Kwartler., The Museum of Modern Art, 2016, 2.75, Tokyo, Japan: The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 2018. Hardcover. VG+ (light rubbing to spine edges & corners. bump to lower pg corners w/ approx 40 pgs having a light crimp/crease, rubbing. tightly bound.). slim, flexible illustrated boards w/ white & blue printing. 211 pgs w/ color illustration.s. Illustrates and describes 70 pieces from the exhibition held at the The National Museum of Western Art June 19 through September 24. Text in primarily in Japanese with English translations of the pieces, essays and list of works., The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 2018, 3, Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 1999. Softcover. VG, as new. Duotone illus. wraps; 304 pp.; Profusely illustrated with duotone plates and figures. From the exhibition held 26 September 1999 - 9 January 2000; 95 works listed; Includes several essays and extensive annotations about the works. Abstract: "Widely regarded as one of the greatest draftsmen of all time, Annibale Carracci (1560-1609) is celebrated for his naturalism. Born in a time when the elegant deformations and exaggerations of Italian mannerism were still in vogue, Annibale turned instead to nature and reality as his principal inspirations. Much attuned to the everyday world around him, he took as much interest in studying a man bowling, a butcher weighing a piece of meat, or a street entertainer with his monkey as he did in the preparatory studies for his grand mythological and religious paintings." "The fruit of this intensive study is abundantly evident in his magnificent drawings of the human figure - from his early works in Bologna to those made in preparation for his greatest commission, the decoration of the Farnese Gallery in Rome." "This publication brings together the powerful and evocative drawings to provide a unique insight into the technique and skill of one of the premier artists of his time."--BOOK JACKET. Contents as follows: The inventive genius of Annibale Carracci / Diane De Grazia -- The fate of Annibale's drawings / Catherine Loisel Legrand -- Annibale Carracci's beginnings in Bologna : between nature and history / Daniele Benati -- Catalogue Nos. 1-26 -- Annibale in the Farnese Palace : a classical education / Gail Feigenbaum -- Catalogue Nos. 27-61 -- Annibale's Rome : Art and life in the Eternal City / Kate Ganz -- Catalogue Nos. 62-95., National Gallery of Art, 1999, 5, Steidl, 2010. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover, 360 pages. In 1878, the Photographic Times claimed that ten minutes provided sufficient exposure for photographing a landscape. Six years earlier, an English immigrant to the West Coast named Eadweard Muybridge, going by the commercial name of Helios, had already pushed photography far in the opposite direction: not to soak up time into pictures, but to divide time with the quickest exposures then imaginable. In 1872, the tycoon Leland Stanford had commissioned Muybridge to photograph his horse, Occident, to determine whether it ever lifted all four hooves off the ground at once. In proving that this was indeed the case, Muybridge achieved a five-hundredth-of-a-second exposure, and so began an anatomy of motion-in humans, horses, birds-that exploded the possibilities of photography and ultimately led to the development of the motion picture. Helios: Eadweard Muybridge in a Time of Change offers an opportunity to trace the life and art of the great photographer. In the wake of a wave of recent scholarship and renewed interest, it pitches his entire body of work against the backdrop of one of the most transformative periods of American and European history. Published to accompany a retrospective exhibition organized by the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Helios features essays by Philip Brookman, Marta Braun, Corey Keller and Rebecca Solnit that provide a variety of new approaches to Muybridge's art and influences. Record # 362142, Steidl, 2010, 3<
