In 1955, Jenny Van Horne was a 21-year-old, naive Bennington College graduate on her own for the first time in New York City. She meets 46-year-old Clement Greenberg who, she is told, is ?the most fam
"This comprehensive monograph explores the conceptual complexity and diversity of Claes Oldenburg's early work to reveal this influential artist's extraordinary inventiveness. Accompanying an exhibiti
This remarkable book is the first of two volumes in what will be the definitive modern biography of Michelangelo. An illuminating study of Michelangelo's extraordinary career, it follows the artist fr
This publication accompanies an exhibition by the same name, held at the Aspen Art Museum from December 2011 to February 2012. A collaboration between artist Slater Bradley and Academy Award-nominated
Venezuela's primary exponent of Kinetic and Op art, Jesus Soto (1923-2005) is one of the most important Latin American artists of the twentieth century. Here, in conversations with Ariel Jimenez, Soto
In a career that spanned five decades, most of them spent in San Francisco, BruceConner (1933--2008) produced a unique body of work that refused to be contained by medium or style.Whether making found
An inspiration to anyone who's ever felt judged!"One day the world is a peaceful, lovely landscape painting... The next day - BLAM! - Pablo bursts through the canvas, paintbrush in hand, ready to pain
Phoebe Anna Traquair was one of the most remarkable figures in the Arts and Crafts Movement and the Scottish cultural renaissance of the early twentieth century. Born in Dublin, she moved to Edinburgh
Painter, sculptor, architect, musician, scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist, and writer, Leonardo da Vinci was a genius who was well ahead of his
Issued in connection with an exhibition held June 6, 2009-May 2, 2010, Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York.
Giorgio Vasari, a 16th-century Italian painter, made his name in history for writing Lives of the artists, promoting the lives and careers of painters who are now world famous, including Giotto, Miche
Jean Paul Riopelle (1923–2002) was one of the most important Canadian artists of the twentieth century, yet he is relatively unknown in the U.S.. He began his career in Montreal in the 1940s, where he
In a few short years, Isaac Layman (b. 1977) has established himself as an exceptional talent. In Paradise, Layman expands his practice of constructing large-scale, psychologically charged photographi
Presents the life of the late Italian artist, scientist, engineer, and inventor, and features reproductions with analyses of over three hundred pieces of his artwork.
In Jeff Koons's One Ball Total Equilibrium Tank (1985), a Spalding basketball floatsin the center of a glass tank that stands on a four-legged black metal structure. It has been calledone of the defin
In Jeff Koons's One Ball Total Equilibrium Tank (1985), a Spalding basketball floatsin the center of a glass tank that stands on a four-legged black metal structure. It has been calledone of the defin
In 2007 Iris Haussler was invited to create a work for the inauguration of the newly transformed Art Gallery of Ontario. She proposed an elaborate in situ piece entitled He Named her Amber to be locat
A master photographer, Alfred Stieglitz was also a visionary promoter and an avid collector of modern American and European art from the first half of the twentieth century. Operating a succession of
"Howard Singerman's new volume is truly groundbreaking for reasons that might at first seem counter-intuitive in their common sense: he smartly sets artistic production of the 1980s in context, lookin
