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Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
American art came of age with the first important modern movement by a group of New York painters who became known as abstract expressionists. In the 1940s and 50s their aggressive action painting challenged the School of Paris. Tenaciously American (though several were born abroad), these painters were not content to imitate European masters and styles. They were struggling to express their own transcendental values that emphasized freedom, impulse,...
2) The painter
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"A novel about an artist trying to outrun his past. Years ago, a well-known expressionist painter named Jim Stegner shot a man in a bar. The man lived, Jim served his time, and he has learned to live with the dark impulses that sometimes overtake him. Jim enjoys a quiet life in the valleys of Colorado. He works with a lovely model, he doesn't drink, he goes fly fishing in the evenings. His paintings fetch excellent prices at a posh gallery in Santa...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Rauschenberg's active involvement with life carries over into his painting. The combine-painting of the 1950s integrated two- and three-dimensional elements and inhabited both wall and floor space. These assemblages included discarded thrift shop-type objects such as automobile tires, stuffed birds, doors, and electric light fixtures, as well as the two-dimensional painterly surfaces reminiscent of abstract expressionism. This intense injection of...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Late in life, the artist looks back over a career that originated in social realism during the '30s, moved to the center of abstract expressionism, and culminated in a return to figuration. Filmed at his retrospective in San Francisco in 1980 and at his Woodstock studio, where Guston is seen painting, the artist speaks candidly about his philosophy of painting and the psychological motivation for his work.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Of the generation following the abstract expressionists, Don Judd was one of the key figures among American artists who pioneered new directions in the 1960s. He was born in the Midwest in 1928, eventually settled in New York and supported himself by writing for art magazines. At Columbia University, under Rudolf Wittkower and Meyer Schapiro, he earned a masters degree in art history. Judd had begun as a painter but soon was drawn to making objects...
Author
Publisher
Thames & Hudson Ltd
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
In the late 1970s, after the artist's explosive Pop Art beginnings and a period of abstraction, representational objects made their way back into Jasper Johns' work. Supported by the artist's words and previous scholarship, this is the first comprehensive study of his later paintings and works on paper. Fiona Donovan helps contextualize images that have personal significance for Johns and explain a broader humanist discourse. Readers learn of his...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
During this critical decade in American life, artists built on the styles of the 1950s. An explosion of artistic energy produced Pop art, Minimalism, color-field painting, and hard-edged abstraction. Sculptors and painters on both coasts explored new methods and new subject matter. American art in the sixties examines the key figures of that decade including Rauschenberg and Johns, two crucial transitional figures between Abstract Expressionism and...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Set amid the most turbulent social and political period of modern times, Ninth Street Women is the impassioned, wild, sometimes tragic, always exhilarating chronicle of five women who dared to enter the male-dominated world of twentieth-century abstract painting--not as muses but as artists. From their cold-water lofts, where they worked, drank, fought, and loved, these pioneers burst open the door to the art world for themselves and countless others...
9) Modern art
Series
Publisher
Taschen
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Modern matters: A blow-by-blow account of groundbreaking modernism The modern art adventure began roughly 150 years ago in Paris. A circle of painters, whom we now know as Impressionists, began painting pictures with rapid, often impasto, strokes. They turned to everyday street life for subjects, instead of overblown heroic scenes, and they escaped the power of the establishment salon by organizing their own independent exhibitions. After this first...
10) Timelines of art
Publisher
DK Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Timelines of Art provides detailed analysis of the works of key artists, showing details of their technique - such as Leonardo's use of light and shade. It tells the story of avant-garde works like Manet's Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe (Lunch on the Grass), which scandalized society, and it traces how certain artists, genres or movements informed the works of others - showing how the Impressionists were inspired by Gustave Courbet, for example, or how...
Author
Series
Publisher
Prestel
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
The story of modern art begins with a revolution--when the realists started rejecting romanticism in favor of depicting life as it really was. Since that movement began in the mid-19th century, painters have been rebelling, rethinking, deconstructing, and challenging notions of what art is. Filled with stunning reproductions of some of the world's greatest masterpieces, this reference book offers a chronological journey through artistic revolutions....
Author
Series
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons, Inc
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Fine art might seem intimidating at first. But with the right guide, anyone can learn to appreciate and understand the stimulating and beautiful work of history's greatest painters, sculptors, and architects. In Art History For Dummies, we'll take you on a journey through fine art from all eras, from Cave Art to the Colosseum, and from Michelangelo to Picasso and the modern masters. Along the way, you'll learn about how history has influenced art,...
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Explore how artists evoke motion and the passage of time, including implying motion through strong directional lines and time through narrative devices. Study approaches to implied motion in Impressionism, Abstract Expressionism, and Op art, and the use of actual motion in performance art and modern sculpture.
Publisher
Michael Blackwood Productions
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Art historians and critics talk with Philip Guston about his ideas and new work of the 1970’s as he moves away from Abstract Expressionism and shifts his focus to Figuration. With the participation of Roberta Smith, Jan Butterfield and Charles Shere, CONVERSATIONS WITH PHILIP GUSTON becomes an intimate study of the artist’s thoughts, theories, and artistic pursuits.
Publisher
Michael Blackwood Productions
Pub. Date
1979.
Language
English
Description
This film documents an intimate conversation between the art historian (Meyer Schapiro) and the artist (George Segal) as they discuss Segal’s plaster sculptures in relation to the European tradition and to contemporaries, from Giotto to Abstract Expressionism. Focusing on process, material, color and theory, Schapiro and Segal examine the artist’s work and the complex thought behind his acclaimed human casts.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
In this issue of Videofashion Collections, see some of the highlights of New York Fashion Week! For Calvin Klein Collection, designer Francisco Costa notes a book of erotic Polaroids by Carlo Mollino as a starting point. He captures the strong sensuality of today's woman while giving the collection a bit of a sixties East Village vibe. At the Whitney Museum in New York City, Proenza Schouler presents a Fall 2015 collection inspired by abstract expressionism....
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Jackson Pollock said, “he makes the rest of us look academic,” Mark Rothko acknowledged him as a “myth-maker” and Clement Greenberg called him “a highly influential maverick and an independent genius.” Clyfford Still, one of the strongest, most original contributors to abstract expressionism, walked away from the commercial art world at the height of his career. Extremely disciplined, principled, and prolific, Still left behind a treasure...
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
At 88 years-old, Audrey Flack holds a unique place in the history of contemporary art in America. Feminist, rebel, mother, painter, sculptor and teacher, Audrey’s often controversial 40-year career evolved from abstract expressionism in the 1950s to photorealism in the 1970s. One of the first women ever included in the famed Janson’s History of Art, Audrey continues to create, explore, and inspire with her unique style and indomitable spirit....
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Gillian Ayres studied at Camberwell School of Art from 1946-50, before running the AIA Gallery with painter Henry Mundy whom she married. As a young artist in the 1950's, Ayres was closely involved with leading British abstract artists including Roger Hilton. Ayres was quick to respond to European tachism and American abstract expressionism, creating a body of work that placed her in the forefront of her generation. In the sixties she was the only...
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