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Fernando Botero - A Family Picture
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Christo, George Segal, Mark Tobey, Fernando Botero and Saul Steinberg
The list includes rare and out of print art monographs which describe the lives and works of the great painters and sculptors of the past and the present. Here you can look for reference art books about the great masters' ideas and innovations which revolutionized men's way of seeing and shaped our modern sensibility. Each volume include tens of black & white and color plates reproducing not only famous works and characteristic details but many significant, unfamiliar works as well as the atmosphere and color of famous places as seen in the works of these great artists. It is an indispensible source for biographical and critical studies, complete and up to date, written by authoritative writers and covering the entire field of art. Most of the books are in excellent condition and some of them are real collectible pieces.
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Christo by Lawrence Alloway
Christo and Jeanne-Claude were born on the same date in 1935; Jeanne-Claude
died on 2009. Their works were credited to just "Christo" until 1994 when the
outdoor works and large indoor installations were retroactively credited to "Christo
and Jeanne-Claude". The purpose of their art, they contend, is simply to create
works of art or joy and beauty and to create new ways of seeing familiar
landscapes. This concise and fairly well-illustrated study includes a short
biographical chronology and a bibliography and list of exhibitions of
Christo's
early works from 1961 through 1969. The writer
Lawrence
Alloway (1926 - 1990) was an English art critic and curator who worked in
the USA where he met Christo in the 60s.
Christo by Lawrence Alloway
Hardcover: 23 pages of text, illustrated
with 71 plates, 3 in color
Publisher: Thames and Hudson, London, First edition (1969)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0500220093 / 0-500-22009-3
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George Segal by William C. Seitz
In 1961, the American artist
George Segal (1924-2000) discovered a technique usable for life-size
sculptures involving plaster and medical bandages used to set fractures. To
create his sculptures Segal would wrap his subjects in the medical bandages
dipped in plaster, allow the plaster to dry, and then cut off the hardened cast.
He used himself as the model for his first life-size plaster sculpture,
Man Sitting at a Table, but would used neighbors, family, friends and
volunteers (never professionals), as his models thereafter. His sculptures where
pure-white, frozen, lacking detail and Segal placed these blank canvases in
realistic environments using props from the modern world. Later he improved his
sculpting technique by pouring the plaster into casts, using them as molds in
order to obtain greater detail. Segal would then paint the sculpture a single,
bright hue.
William Seitz, who wrote this great monograph on the work of George Segal also wrote the earliest major text on Abstract Expressionism during his tenure as a curator at MoMA in the 1960s.
George Segal by William C. Seitz
Hardcover: 95 pages; 77 illustrations
with 16 color plates
Publisher: Thames and Hudson, London, First edition (1972)
Language: English.
ISBN-10: 0500220166 / 0-500-22016-6
ISBN-13: 9780500220160
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References:
The New York school: abstract
expressionism in the 40s and 50s
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Tobey by Wieland Schmied
The American
abstract expressionist painter
Mark Tobey
(1890 - 1976) accepted the Bahai Faith in
1918 and drew inspiration and technique from many cultures of East and West, from
cities, nature and science. Tobey created art that broke new ground and influenced
many other artists - read more on
Tobey's life and
artistic accomplishments. The art historian and art critic
Wieland
Schmied who wrote this comprehensive art work was the director of the
Kestner-Gesellschaft in Hannover and the curator of the
National Gallery in Berlin.
Tobey by Wieland Schmied
Paperback: 85 pages; Chiefly plated
Publisher: Abrams, New York (1972)
Language: English - translated from the German by Margaret L. Kaplan.
ISBN-10: 0810921006 / 0-8109-2100-6
ISBN-13: 9780810921009
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References:
Hundertwasser: Der Weg zu Dir
with afterword of Wieland Schmied
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Fernando Botero by Klaus Gallwitz
The paintings of the renowned Columbian artist
Fernando
Botero introduce inflated forms, puffing up to an exaggerated size human
figures, natural features, and objects of all kinds, celebrating the life within
them while mocking their role in the world. The symbols of power and authority:
presidents, soldiers and churchmen are Botero's targets. , or the wish - maybe
inconsistent - not to be trapped by conventional religious subjects". The
German art historian and curator
Klaus
Gallwitz, the former director of the
Stadel Art Institute in Frankfurt, has prepared a beautiful art album with tens of
plates, most of them in color.
Fernando Botero by Klaus Gallwitz
Hardcover: 88 pages; 56 plates, many in
full color
Publisher: Thames and Hudson, London, First edition (1976)
Language: English - translated from the German by John Gabriel.
ISBN-10: 050009117X / 0-500-09117-X
ISBN-13: 9780500091173
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Saul Steinberg - The Inspector
Saul
Steinberg (1914 - 1999) did not represent what he saw; rather, he depicted
people, places, and even numbers or words in styles borrowed from other art,
high and low, past and present - this was the fundamental principle of his work:
his art is about the ways artists make art. The Inspector art album
represents Steinberg's view of "many of the worst & best aspects of the modern
universe" including parades, time & space, music-writing, rubber-stamp
architecture & society, the professional avant-garde, words & letters and
cowboys. In his pictorial imagination, the very artifice of style, of images
already processed through art, became the means to explore social and political
systems, human foibles, geography, architecture, language and, of course, art
itself.
Saul Steinberg - The Inspector
Saul Steinberg is regarded as the best cartoonist America ever had. Publishing
mainly in
The New Yorker, Steinberg has erected standards of precision and graphic
intelligence that had not existed in American illustration before him - his
playfulness and elegance are of a sublime order. The following quote was taken
from the
Time Magazine issue of April 17, 1978 which dedicated its front cover story
to "The Fantastic World of Steinberg".
Steinberg is a loner, a cosmopolitan Jewish exile, a refugee, a man of masks, languages and doctored identities, through whom the world's multiplicity is refracted as by a prism. In America, he is both outsider and insider: only he could have dreamed up the poster that summarizes the Manhattanite's provincial view of America: Ninth and Tenth avenues wide in the foreground, a strip of Hudson River, a smaller strip of New Jersey, and in the background a few scattered cities - Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Chicago - with Japan and China in the distance.
סול סטיינברג Saul Steinberg, המהגר היהודי יליד רומניה, הגיע לארצות הברית מאירופה בשנת 1940, נטמע בתרבות האמריקנית, הפך חלק ממנה והיא חלק ממנו. לפני שהגיע לארצות הברית למד באיטליה ארכיטקטורה. בראיון לשבועון "טיים" הוא סיפר:
לימוד ארכיטקטורה הוא אימון נהדר לכל דבר חוץ מארכיטקטורה. אתה לומד שם כמה דברים בסיסיים, למשל, לחדד עפרונות. המחשבה המפחידה שמה שתיכננת על הנייר עלול להפוך לבניין ממשי, ממתנת את קוויך. לחלק גדול מן התלמידים היו לימודים אלה אליבי למשהו אחר או מלכודת. למדנו שם את כל הנוסחאות של התקופה. תקופתי אז היתה שלהי התנועה האמנותית הקוביסטית דרך בית-הספר של הבאוהאוז. בתעודת הגמר שלי צויין ,שאול סטיינברג, בן הגזע היהודי. התעודה נחתמה בחותם המלך עמנואל השלישי. זו היתה איטליה של שנת 1940, עמנואל השלישי חתם כמלך איטליה, כמלך אלבניה וכקיסר אתיופיה. היופי בעניין הוא זה, שהדיפלומה הוענקה על-ידי מלך שאינו עוד מלך איטליה, שאינו עוד מלך אלבניה, ושאינו אפילו קיסר אתיופיה. ושאני לא ארכיטקט. הדבר היחיד שנשאר בתוקף הוא הגזע היהודי
סטיינברג הוא "האמן המציץ" הרואה אנשים כחתולים מודאגים, את האמן כמוצר של עצמו,
ואת חיי האדם היוצר כמודרכים ע"י השיעמום. ההומור ללא הפואנטה שלו עיצב את חשיבתם
של אמני איור ורישום רבים ברחבי העולם המערבי.
Hardcover: 184 pages; 180 illustrations
Publisher: Thames and Hudson, First edition (1973)
Language: English.
ISBN-10: 0500010986 / 0-500-01098-6
ISBN-13: 9780500010983
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References:
Saul Steinberg in XXe Siecle Nouvelle Serie - PANORAMA
Hans-Georg Rauch: Rauchzeichen
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