books about: expressionism

books about: expressionism

books:

Expressionism

Express Yourself!: Activities and Adventures in Expressionism (Art Explorers)
Joyce Raimondo

Watson-Guptill, 2005

In "Express Yourself", the third book in the series, children focus on how the great artists relay their emotions on canvas via their masterpieces. Children are drawn into the compelling, dramatic world of expressionism from modern expressionists (Van Gogh, Munch) to German Expressionists (Kirchner, Kandinsky) to Abstract Expressionists (De ...

Action/Abstraction: Pollock, De Kooning, and American Art, 1940-1976 (Jewish Museum)

Jewish Museum Under Auspices of the Jewish Th, 2008

Clement Greenberg or Harold Rosenberg? Who was right?
This is a magnificent artbook enriched by breakthrough studies on the most important movement in post-war American art, namely Abstract Expressionism (and its offshoots like color-field painting). Based on the intellectual rivalry between the two most famous critics of ...

Jackson Pollock (Getting to Know the World's Greatest Artists)

Mike Venezia

Children's Press(CT), 1994

Pollock for kids.
I took last summer my two daugthers, age 6 and 9 to the Museum of Modern Art in New York. They loved it and each one choose her favorita artist. The younger one, Isabel, loved Picasso. Who doesn't?. My older daughter, Camila loved the american artist Jackson Pollock, ...

Gustav Klimt: Landscapes

Prestel Publishing, 2006

Klimt for Klimt
Klimt has always been a problematic artist. In contemporary terms, he was a sell-out, but that hardly addresses the situation of a man good with the brushes a hundred years ago trying to make a bit more than a decent living for himself. That was the Nouveau years. ...

Abstraction in Art and Nature

Nathan Cabot Hale

Dover Publications, 1993

Facinating approach to the study of form
Hale has thought deeply on the meaning of forms and has found endless relationships between them. All organic matter follows laws which are written into their structure. For the artist, understanding these laws means that each new object is no longer unique, but part ...

Kandinsky
Helmut Friedel, Annegret Hoberg

Prestel USA, 2008

This sumptuously produced volume displays Kandinsky s brilliant use of color, shape, and composition through more than 250 full-color details or full-page illustrations. Essays by the world s leading Kandinsky experts focus on the evolution of his work throughout all periods of his career: his exploration of his Russian roots and his emigration to ...

German Expressionist Woodcuts (Collections of Fine Art in Dover Books)

Dover Publications, 1994

I'm wearing these pages down
Some much to see, feel and love in this rare compliation of some of the best art to be created in this century. I'll open it for any kind of creative inspiration i need, and it has never let me down!

Egon Schiele: Drawings and Watercolors

Jane Kallir

Thames & Hudson, 2003

Shows Schiele's Progression as an Artist
There are three things that I liked about this book: (1) great art well reproduced. The colors are well saturated and vibrant. (2) Each section begins with a brief history of the artist's life and points out how his work changed (or didn't) during that period in his ...

The Paintings of Joan Mitchell (Whitney Museum of American Art)

Jane Livingston

University of California Press, 2002

The celebration of life and paint in one hand
The painting of Joan Mitchell was for me a discover of an tremendous and excellent painter, almost unknow in my country Argentina. The quality of images, photographs and texts includes on this catalogue dont dissapoint me, in fact, it gave me hope in contemporary paint ...

Alfred Kubin: Drawings, 1897-1909
Annegret Hoberg

Prestel USA, 2008

Kubin is irrefutably one of the most original talents of his generation. Whether painting directly from his hallucinatory visions or illustrating the works of such literary giants as Balzac, Poe, Dostoevsky, and Gogol, Kubin eschewed the decorative artistry of earlier Austrian art. Instead, he was drawn to life s dark undertones, represented in ...

Marlene Dumas (Contemporary Artists)

Dominic van den Boogerd, Barbara Bloom, ...

Phaidon Press, 1999

A SURPRISE PACKAGE!
I had seen a self-portrait done by Marlene Dumas in an art book and it blew me away. I did not know who she was or her main specialty. I knew I had to see more of her body of work... I quickly found this Phaedon publication, crossed my fingers and ordered it. When it ...

Abject Expressionism

Ron English

Last Gasp, 2007

Ron English Book Review
A wonderfull and colorfull book of the work of artist Ron English. Very complete. I am very satisfied with it.

Cy Twombly: Fifty Years of Works on Paper

Cy Twombly, Julie Sylvester, ...

Schirmer/Mosel, 2008

Beautiful
I was pleased with the quality of the reproductions. The introduction and details of Cy Twombly's life and work was informative and gave a clear picture of the man and his art. I would reccommend this book to anyone interested in the free thinking and essence of ...

Wolf Kahn

Justin Spring

Harry N. Abrams, 1996

Beautiful
I had never even heard of Wolf Kahn until I saw this book at a local store. I looked through it fell in love with the art and had to have it. I recieved the book as a present(ordered from amazon--saved 15 bucks or so) and loved it. It has great info on Kahns life ...

Paul Klee: Hand Puppets (Emanating)

Christine Hopfengart, Osamu Okuda, ...

Hatje Cantz Publishers, 2006

Totally amazing unseen puppet photos and info!
I just got this newly published book and it is simply wonderful. I have a huge puppet book library and having just skimmed through it, I am thrilled to see all photos/puppets are ones I've never seen anywhere else. The puppets of Klee are an absolute inspiration, and ...