Art Styles: C First World War to 1960


"Hans Hartung"

In the Beginning There Was Lightning

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Presents a reinterpretation of the work by a great abstract artist of the twentieth century. With 200 col.. Hardback, 300 pages. Size: 298 x 247 mm. Weight: 2070g.
Author:  (Hartung, Hans, ed.)
ISBN:  8874392435
Publisher:  Five Continents Editions,Italy
Date:  2007  (Italy)
Readership:  General (Us: Trade) Art Styles: C First World War to 1960

"Lee Bontecou"

A Retrospective

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Artist Lee Bontecou (b 1931) became known in the 1960s and 1970s for her welded steel sculptures and plastic and epoxy molded assemblages - constructions that evoked natural phenomena and organic biological life as well as machines and instruments of war. This book reevaluates her career and focuses upon the impact of her early work. With col. illustrations. Paperback, 240 pages. Size: 273 x 254 mm. Weight: 1502g.
Author:  (Smith, Elizabeth A.T., ed.)
ISBN:  030013746X
Publisher:  Yale University Press
Date:  2008  (United Kingdom)
Readership:  General (Us: Trade) Art Styles: C First World War to 1960

"Modigliani"

The Melancholy Angel

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This stunning volume accompanies the greatest European retrospective dedicated to a grand master of Italian art, the painter and sculptor Amedeo Modigliani. With 150 colour illus. Hardback, 428 pages. Size: 280 x 280 mm. Weight: 2778g.
Author:  (Restellini, Marc, ed.)
ISBN:  8884912601
Publisher:  Skira
Date:  2002  (Italy)
Readership:  General (Us: Trade) Art Styles: C First World War to 1960

"The Tradition of Constructivism"

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"Da Capo Paperback" series; Today is the deed. We will account for it tomorrow. The past we are leaving behind as carrion. The future we leave to the fortune-tellers. We take the present day. With 37 illustrations, bibliography. Paperback, 382 pages. Size: 210 x 150 mm. Weight: 567g.
Author:  (Bann, Stephen, ed.)
ISBN:  0306803968
Publisher:  The Perseus Books Group
Date:  1990  (United States)
Readership:  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Art Styles: C First World War to 1960

"Vienna 1900 and the Heroes of Modernism"

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Fin-de-siecle Vienna was home to some of the most extraordinary minds of modern times, and was a vigorous melting-pot of radical new ideas and concepts in every field. Comprising twenty-five essays on the key movements and figures of the era, this illustrated book offers a portrait of this astonishing cultural ferment. With 500 illustrations, 400 in colour. Hardback, 400 pages. Size: 240 x 165 mm. Weight: 788g.
Author:  (Brandstatter, Christian, ed.)
ISBN:  0500513139
Publisher:  Thames & Hudson Ltd
Date:  2006  (United Kingdom)
Readership:  Tertiary Education (Us: College) Art Styles: C First World War to 1960

"Discrepant Abstraction"

Annotating Art's Histories

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Exploring cross-cultural scenarios in 20th Century art, this collection alters the understanding of abstract art as a signifier of modernity by revealing the multiple directions it has taken in diverse international contexts. It features internationally renowned scholars and curators of contemporary research. With 27 colour, 6 b&w illustrations. Paperback, 232 pages. Size: 235 x 180 mm. Weight: 826g.
Author:  Abe, Stanley K. Cheetham, Mark Clarke, David (Mercer, Kobena, ed.)
ISBN:  1899846433
Publisher:  Institute of International Visual Arts (Iniva)
Date:  2006  (United Kingdom)
Readership:  General (Us: Trade) Art Styles: C First World War to 1960

"Kandinsky"

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Wassily Kandinsky was undoubtedly one of the most exciting artists of the twentieth century. He brought an equal passion and commitment to his work as a painter, a theoretician and a teacher of art. After conventional beginnings in Munich, he devoted his intellectual and artistic energies to pioneering new dimensions of expression in art. With illustrations. Taschen's 25th anniversary ed. Hardback, 200 pages. Size: 240 x 300 mm. Weight: 567g.
Author:  Becks-Malorny, Ulrike
ISBN:  3822835641
Publisher:  Taschen Gmbh
Date:  2007  (Germany)
Readership:  General (Us: Trade) Art Styles: C First World War to 1960

"Sam Gilliam"

A Retrospective

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A Retrospective. With illustrations (chiefly col.). Paperback, 237 pages. Size: 280 x 232 mm. Weight: 941g.
Author:  Binstock, J.P.
ISBN:  0520246454
Publisher:  University Presses of California, Columbia and Princeton
Date:  2005  (United States)
Readership:  General (Us: Trade) Art Styles: C First World War to 1960

"Matisse at Villa Le Reve"

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Matisse, hat on head, draws his Haitian model wearing a frilled blouse that Lydia has provided for the sitting. Marie-France Boyer's text evokes the particular atmosphere of La Reve, where Matisse produced Yellow and Blue Interior of 1946, Large Red Interior of 1948 and many other important works. With 65 colour illustrations. Hardback, 120 pages. Size: 218 x 175 mm. Weight: 579g.
Author:  Boter, Marie-France Adant, Helene
ISBN:  0500511756
Publisher:  Thames & Hudson Ltd
Date:  2004  (United Kingdom)
Readership:  General (Us: Trade) Art Styles: C First World War to 1960

"Matisse"

From Color to Architecture

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Traces the development of Matisse's art throughout the course of his sixty-year career, bringing together in a single volume both famous works and lesser-known pieces from the archives of his estate, in a study complemented by firsthand accounts by numerous participants in his Chapel of the Rosary and Le Cateau-Cambr sis projects. With illustrations. Hardback, 384 pages. Size: 325 x 252 mm. Weight: 3016g.
Author:  Brouder, Christian Percheron, R.
ISBN:  0810955822
Publisher:  Harry N. Abrams, Inc.
Date:  2004  (United States)
Readership:  General (Us: Trade) Art Styles: C First World War to 1960

"Picasso Rewriting Picasso"

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Looks at the period from 1935 to the late 50s when Picasso produced over 340 texts and plays in both Spanish and French. Only a quarter of these were published in his lifetime and there has been little consideration of how this prolific output of literature affected Picasso as an artist and modernist. With 60 colour illustrations. Paperback, 224 pages. Size: 310 x 200 mm. Weight: 946g.
Author:  Brunner, Kathleen
ISBN:  1901033090
Publisher:  Black Dog Publishing Ltd
Date:  2004  (United Kingdom)
Readership:  General (Us: Trade) Art Styles: C First World War to 1960

"Sculpture Today"

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Explores the various subjects, materials, techniques and styles utilized by contemporary sculptors. This book provides an illustrated overview of contemporary sculpture. With 475 colour, 10 b&w illus.. Hardback, 464 pages. Size: 290 x 250 mm. Weight: 3217g.
Author:  Collins, Judith
ISBN:  0714843148
Publisher:  Phaidon Press Ltd
Date:  2007  (United Kingdom)
Readership:  General (Us: Trade) Art Styles: C First World War to 1960

"The American Scene"

Prints From Hopper to Pollock

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Presents an overview of American printmaking in the first half of the twentieth century, beginning in 1905 with John Sloans etchings of everyday urban experience, dubbed the Ashcan School, and concluding with Jackson Pollock and abstract expressionist prints. It also includes biographies of many artists. With 160 illustrations, of which 30 in colour. Paperback, 272 pages. Size: 270 x 240 mm. Weight: 1201g.
Author:  Coppel, Stephen Kierkuc-Bielinski, Jerzy
ISBN:  0714126578
Publisher:  British Museum Press
Date:  2008  (United Kingdom)
Readership:  General (Us: Trade) Art Styles: C First World War to 1960

"Phoebe Anna Traquair"

1852-1936

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An insight into the artistic and literary world in Edinburgh at the beginning of the twentieth century, this is a monograph of Phoebe Anna Traquair, one of the most remarkable figures in the Arts and Crafts Movement and the Scottish cultural renaissance of the early twentieth century. With 60 colour illustrations. Paperback, 112 pages. Size: 245 x 195 mm. Weight: 313g.
Author:  Cumming, Elizabeth
ISBN:  1903278651
Publisher:  Antique Collectors' Club Ltd
Date:  2005  (United Kingdom)
Readership:  General (Us: Trade) Art Styles: C First World War to 1960

"Pleasuring Painting"

Matisse's Feminine Representations

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"Walter Neurath Memorial Lectures" series; This text traces the development of Matisse's feminine representations, from the Carmelina of 1903-1904 through the odalisques of the Nice period in the 1920s, offering a reinterpretation of some of the artist's best-known and most controversial works. With 46 illustrations. Hardback, 64 pages. Size: 222 x 159 mm. Weight: 295g.
Author:  Elderfield, John
ISBN:  050055028X
Publisher:  Thames & Hudson Ltd
Date:  1996  (United Kingdom)
Readership:  General (Us: Trade) Art Styles: C First World War to 1960

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