illustrated photographic masterpieces retrospective

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L'Amour fou : Photography and Surrealism
Rosalind Krauss, Jane Livingston, ...

Abbeville Press, 1985

Now back in stock: A collection of fabulous photographs by the foremost Surrealist artists. Much has been written about Surrealist painting and sculpture, but most of the erotic, disorienting, and exquisite Surrealist photographs of Man Ray, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Andre Breton, Brassai, Salvador Dali, Andre Kertesz, and Hans Bellmer have remained all but unknown--until now. Traditional criticism has viewed Surrealist ...

Black Folk Art in America, 1930-1980

1 review
Jane Livingston, John Beardsley, ...

University Press of Mississippi (Trd), 1989

The Catalog of An Important and Historic Exhibition
African-American folk art, and more specifically the twenty African-American folk artists of this book, were the subject of a large traveling exhibition which began at The Corcoran Gallery in Washington, and traveled across the country for the next 15 months, in 1982-3. This beautiful and in-depth book is lavishly illustrated both with plates of the actual art works, and photos of the artists. ...

Souls Grown Deep, Vol. 2: African American Vernacular Art

1 review
William S. Arnett, William Arnett, ...

Tinwood Books, 2001

Sensational - Deeper than Volume 1
Anyone that has Vol 1 needs to buy this Vol or even if you have an interest in some of the listed artists in this book and don't have Vol 1 buy this one. Vol 1 had a general history of African American Vernacular Art where as this volume has a more in depth look at particular artists and their enviroments. The essays are longer and you get many more examples of each artists work as well as many ...

The Quilts of Gee's Bend: Masterpieces from a Lost Place

24 reviews
William Arnett, Alvia Wardlaw, ...

Tinwood Books, 2002

exceptional
I remember the first time I saw photographs of the quilts of Gee's Bend in a magazine about seven years ago. I couldn't wait to learn about the amazing artists whose vision the quilts portray. This book is more outstanding than I imagined it could be. It is powerful, beautiful, sensitive, and historically accurate. I recommend The Quilts of Gee's Bend to anyone with an eye for artistic genius ...

Evidence: 1944-1994

6 reviews
Jane Livingston, David A. Ross

Random House, 1994

Absolutely terrific
This is a wonderful collection. I have found myself going back to it again and again. I'm not sure Adam Gopnik was such a good choice, although he is a lively writer; but the other New Yorker art critic, Peter Schejhal (sp?) would certainly have been better, as entertaining as Gopnik but more focused and memorable. But this is just a small complaint; overall, I love this book and hope that ...

Richard Diebenkorn
Jane Livingston, Barnaby Conrad III

Chronicle Books, 2003

Collected here for the first time are rarely seen and largely unpublished figurative drawings and paintings on paper that represent a period of exploration and innovation for Richard Diebenkorn (1922 1993). Perhaps the most renowned West Coast painter of the twentieth century, Diebenkorn alternated between the figurative and the abstract. These pieces, dating from roughly the mid-1950s to the late 1960s, not only display his facility with the ...

John Alexander: A Retrospective (Museum of Fine Arts)
Jane Livingston

Museum Fine Arts Houston, 2008

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

7 reviews
Jane Livingston

University of California Press, 2002

Must have book on an abstract expressionist master
This catalog of Joan Mitchell's Whitney exhibit is one of the great bargains among all artist monographs. Superb full color, almost full page plates of a wide range of Mitchell's work over a long period of time, numerous additional photos and snapshots, an in-depth biography of the artist and contributions by multiple authors make this a "must have" text, actually more valued than my collection ...

Gee's Bend: The Women and Their Quilts

4 reviews
John Beardsley, William Arnett, ...

Tinwood Books, 2002

A Must Have
I have seen the exhibition of the Gee's Bend quilts at the Whitney museum three times. The quilts of Gee's Bend are simple, graphic, and stunning. Although I own the smaller of the Gee's Bend quilt books and the video about the quiltmakers, I find that I want to know and see much more. I have thumbed through this book at the museum and am delighted that it is full of lush photographs of so many ...

The Art of Richard Diebenkorn (Ahmanson-Murphy Fine Arts Book)

13 reviews
Jane Livingston

University of California Press, 1997

Modern Master
Richard Diebenkorn has finally achieved the status of Modern Master, but his success was only secured later in his life and after his death. Although he was at first an Abstract Expressionist artist who painted as convincingly as Still, Rothko, Kline and Motherwell, he was too much identified with the Bay Area, and therefore he did not have the imprimatur of the New York critics. Then, in the ...

Andre Kertesz: His Life and Work

2 reviews
Laszlo Beke, Dominique Baque

Bulfinch, 2000

A Superb Overview of the Works of a 20th Century Master
Andre Kertesz was unsurpassed as a composer of photographic images. His focus was to create "not the epic but the lyric truth." This outstanding book gives you a full biographical and pictoral treatment of his vision for photography. If you are offended by all nudity, you should know that this volume contains both male and female nudity. These images are all very tastefully and beautifully ...

Odyssey: The Art of Photography at National Geographic

1 review
Jane Livingston, Frances Fralin, ...

Thomasson-Grant, 1988

a fantastic photo essay from the late 1800's to the 1980's
JUST ANOTHER GREAT WORK BY NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

Silver Bells
Jay Livingston, Ray Evans

HarperFestival, 2004

Lewis Baltz: Maryland 1976
Jane Livingston

Steidl, 2008

This concise, beautifully produced volume presents the body of work that the influential American photographer, Lewis Baltz, was commissioned to make in 1976 by the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. in order to commemorate the country's Bicentennial. For the project, Baltz was asked to document the nation's capital. Not surprisingly, he found Washington's monuments and official architecture uninteresting, and chose instead to capture ...

The New York School: Photographs, 1936-1963

2 reviews
Jane Livingston

Stewart, Tabori, & Chang, 1992

Great unpublished photos by some of the greats.
This is treat for anyone interested in photography, especially in the period leading up to Winogrand, Friedlander, etc. Most of the photographs in this book, I've never seen before. Included are interesting 35mm work by Diane Arbus, some untypical Avedon, great Robert Frank's that I haven't seen published anywhere else, early Winogrand. However the really nice thing about this book is in ...

Hospice: A Photographic Inquiry

3 reviews

Bulfinch Press, 1996

Fabulous
As a graduate of Jack Radcliffe's photography program and now one of his models, I have to say that Jack is one of the most remarkable people that I know. He is the most caring person this world possibly has and he shows this in his hospice work. He is truely so proud of this acomplishment and he should. I recently experianced hospice life with a relative and it was heart breaking. But these ...

Report on the Art & Technology Program of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art 1967-1971

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1971

Includes sections on Stephen Antonakos, Avigdor Arikha, Michael Asher, John Baldessari, Iain Baxter, Larry Bell, Max Bill, Ronald Bladen, George Brecht, James Lee Byars, Greg Card, Anthony Carro, John Chamberlain, Christo, Ron Cooper, François Dallegret, Channa Davis, Ron Davis, Walter de Maria, Mark di Suvero, Jean Dubuffet, Jean Dupuy, frederick Eversley, Oyvind Fahlstrom, Dan Flavin, Sam Francis, Hans Haacke, Newton Harrison, Erich Hartmann, ...

Zelda: An Illustrated Life: The Private World of Zelda Fitzgerald

2 reviews
Zelda Fitzgerald, Peter Kurth, ...

Harry N Abrams, 1996

A must for Zelda fanatics and art lovers alike
This is a relatively new yet hard to find book, but once you've got it I promise it will hold a prestigious place on your bookshelf. The book is filled with high quality photos of every known piece of Zelda's artwork and sketches, plus a mini-bio of Zelda complete with pictures and words from Eleanor Lanahan, Zelda's granddaughter. For those who are interested in art, Zelda Fitzgerald's pieces ...

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