"The Frederick and Jan Mayer Center for Pre-Columbian and Spanish Colonial Art at the Denver Art Museum sponsors annual symposia in these two fields of art. This volume presents essays on Andean textiles from the 2001 symposium. Color reproductions of many of these works illustrate the essays, which include: Weaving Principles for Life: Discontinuous Warp and Weft Textiles of Ancient Peru by Jane W. Rehl, Savannah College of Art and Des ..."
"James Surls is one of America's foremost living sculptors and one of the most fascinating creative forces on the international art scene in the last several decades. His works have been shown in both national and international solo and group exhibitions and are included in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and the Whitney Museum of Art in New York; the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, ..."
"Robert Indiana's works all speak to the vital forces that have shaped American culture in the last half of the 20th century. "The American Dream" is the cornerstone of Indiana's mature work. It was the theme of his first major painting, sold to the Museum of Modern Art in 1961, as well as an ongoing series. Indiana also created one of the most widely recognized works of art in the world, "Love". Much of Indiana's important contribution ..."
Picturing Modernity(1st Edition) Highlights from the Photography Collection of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art by Douglas R. Nickel, David A. Ross, FroniaW. Simpson Paperback, 93 Pages, Published 1998 by San Francisco Museum ISBN-13: 978-0-918471-46-8, ISBN: 0-918471-46-X
"The SF MoMA was one of the first museums in the world to present photography as a fine art. More importantly, however, the museum recognized photography as one of the most vital and expressive art forms of the modern period. This superb collection of photographs features works from over 70 photographers including: Dorothea Lange, Diane Arbus, Eugene Atget, Man Ray, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Walker Evans, Robert Frank, Alfred Stieglitz and ..."
"BRAND NEW FIRST EDITION softcover, free tracking number, clean text, solid binding, NO remainders NOT ex-library, smoke free; slight gentle shelfwear / storage-wear; WE SHIP FAST. Carefully packed and quickly sent. 201609783mo "Monet: Late Paintings of Giverny from the Musee Marmottan" is about more than the work the artist did during the first part of the 20th-century. What is fascinating about this book is how it talks about Claude Mo ..."
"Promised to the Colby College Museum of Art in 2007, the Lunder Collection comprises more than 500 works of art, including paintings, sculptures, prints and photographs, and is widely recognized as one of the most important collections of American art ever assembled by private collectors. "The Lunder Collection: A Gift of Art to Colby College" is a richly illustrated volume featuring more than 270 collection highlights. Conceived as the ..."
"The core values at the heart of the Anderson Collection - one of the most important private art collections in the United States - can be described as the tension between abstraction and figuration and an interest in the artist's hand. This beautiful catalog from the San Francisco MOMA, features masterpieces by Pollock, Stella, Rauschenberg, Giacometti, Diebenkorn, Lichtenstein, Warhol, and many more. There is an informative essay on th ..."
"This book was published to go along with an exhibition of Dow's work that showcased the work of a leading figure in the development of American modernism."
"Fine. No dust jacket as issued. Text in English, Spanish. 88 p. : ill. (some col. ); 31 cm. Includes Illustrations. "Published on the occasion of the exhibition Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, and Mexican modernism from the Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection, organized by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (April 18-September 8, 1996) and the exhibition Mexican...Includes bibliographical references (p. 88)."