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Joan Miro: Painting and Anti-Painting 1927-1937»rank: 53979by: Jim Coddington, Robert Lubar, Jordana Mendelson, Adele Nelson, Joan Miro
: :Taking Joan Miro's notorious declaration of 1927--'I want to assassinate painting'--as its point of departure, this richly illustrated volume is the first to focus on Miro the 'anti-painter,' identifying the core practices and strategies the artist used to challenge painting between 1927 and 1937. Joan Miro: Painting and Anti-Painting 1927-1937 surveys the various material, iconographical and rhetorical forms of Miro's attacks on painting by presenting, in chronological sequence, 12 distinct series of works, beginning with a remarkable group of paintings on unprimed canvas and concluding with Miro's return to Realism in 'Still Life with Old Shoe' (1937). Acidic color, grotesque disfigurement, stylistic heterogeneity and the use of resistant, ready-made materials ... |
Josep Lluis Sert: The Architect of Urban Design, 1953-1969 (Harvard University Graduate School of Design)»rank: 329901from: Yale University Press
: :This book examines the emergence and evolution of the discipline of urban design as articulated through the work of Josep Lluís Sert (1902–1983), one of its most influential practitioners. Sert was noted for his city planning and urban development projects in Europe, South America, and the United States, and the master plans of his later career were significant for their integration of natural landscape features into the urban building scheme. With essays by leading scholars and a wide selection of archival materials, illustrations, plans, and maps, this book provides a timely look at the man who advocated the idea of “urban consciousness” and an architecture that dealt with the total environment--well before ... |
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Documenting Spain: Artists, Exhibition Culture, And The Modern Nation, 1929-1939 (Refiguring Modernism)»rank: 1697833by: Jordana Mendelson
: :The news media have demonstrated the ambiguity of ostensibly truthful representations of public events. Jordana Mendelson uses this ambiguity as a framework for the study of Spanish visual culture from 1929 to 1939. |
Lipchitz and the Avant-Garde: From Paris to New York»rank: 2608245by: Jacques Lipchitz, Jonathan David Fineberg, Christopher Green, David O'Brien, Cathy Putz, Cecilia De Torres
: :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 ... |