books about: ahmanson-murphy     books:       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 ...             Charles Willson Peale: Art and Selfhood in the Early Republic (Ahmanson Murphy Fine Arts Imprint)1 review David C. Ward University of California Press, 2004 A masterful exercise in balance. As Peale was a wonderfully typical yet extraordinary Enlightenment man, so David C. Ward reflects these sometimes complex combinations in his multi-layered style. Written with elegant poeticism yet laiden with fact and academic detail, this book is a joy to read. A wonderful balance between autobiographical insight into Peale's character and a scholarly take on 'enlightened' American society, ...             Jay DeFeo and The Rose (Ahmanson-Murphy Fine Arts Book)1 review University of California Press, 2003 Jay DeFeo Lives Jay DeFeo spent many years of her life painting one picture, first called DEATHROSE, then just plain THE ROSE, and it grew so heavy with paint that it had to be hauled out of her studio on Fillmore Street in San Francisco on a crane. The proceedings were filmed by the artist Bruce Conner, a longtime friend of DeFeo's, and assembled by him into a film called THE WHITE ROSE: JAY DEFEO's PAINTING ...             Winslow Homer: The Nature of Observation2 reviews Elizabeth Johns University of California Press, 2002 Insightful Adjunct to the Art of Winslow Homer Considered by most art historians to be one of the more important American artists, Winslow Homer was essentially self-taught and that fact informs his prolific span of works as much from the progressive technical maturity of his paintings and drawings as from the intuitive approach to his subjects that, at time, 'over-schooling' can flatten. Elizabeth Johns has written an engrossing study of ...             Picturing the City: Urban Vision and the Ashcan School (Ahmanson-Murphy Fine Arts Books)2 reviews Rebecca Zurier University of California Press, 2006 cartoonist of the Ashcan painters Zurier makes the point that Glackens,Bellows,Shinn and Sloan were cartoonist. John Sloan is given an entire chapter to discuss his work. She cites all of the Ashcan painters as flaneurs. Flaneur has a superficial connotation to it ,see Websters dictionary for a definition.They were walkers . Some worked in sketchbooks in their journeys in the big city.Not, John Sloan,he worked from memory, an ...             The Arts of China (An Ahmanson Murphy Fine Arts Book)4 reviews Michael Sullivan University of California Press, 2000 Useful and Knowledgable The book, The Arts of China, was book I needed to purchase for a college level Asian Art History class focused on China. Each chapter was divided into dynasties and within each chapter sections were written on: background history, ceramics, paintings, sculpture, and other various topics. There are lovely color pictures with high resolution, which are an essential to any student or scholar ...             The Changing Garden: Four Centuries of European and American Art (The Ahmanson-Murphy Fine Arts Imprint)1 review Betsy G. Fryberger University of California Press, 2003 Assignation in a garden My favorite artwork in this book is an oil painting by John Singer Sargent showing a man and a woman walking off into the twilight in the Luxembourg Gardens. The painting is loose and impressionistic, but the moment is so intentse you can taste it. You wish you were there. This book captures the intensity and magic of gardens. Great!             Frank Lloyd Wright: Europe and Beyond (An Ahmanson Murphy Fine Arts Book)1 review University of California Press, 1999 The Frank Lloyd Wright you don't know about This book provides a new perspective on Wright -- who knew he designed a civic and arts complex for Baghdad, Iraq (it was never built)? Or that Fallingwater influenced the design of a wealthy suburb of Mexico City (El Pedregal)? If you think you're tired of Wright and all the Prairie Style images associated with him, read this book and get a fresh take.             Fluxus Experience (Ahmanson-Murphy Fine Arts Book)2 reviews Hannah Higgins University of California Press, 2002 Now Fluxus Makes Sense Finally, Fluxus makes sense and takes its rightful place as a tremendously important avant-garde movement with huge influence on art, artists and art history. Higgins makes a complex theoretical argument easy to grasp for the informed reader. I bounced from and moved through "Ah ha's" to "I didn't know that was Fluxus" to "I didn't know he/she was Fluxus" to "I get it now." The influence of ...             The Art of Joan Brown (Ahmanson-Murphy Fine Arts Book)1 review Karen Tsujimoto, Jacquelynn Baas University of California Press, 1998 The original Joan Brown Lots of people copy Joan Brown, maybe not intentionally, but it happens. Unfortunately she died in a freak accident installing one of her works of art so we don't get to see her next creative incarnation. Her life was exciting and interesting and she embodied what is a true artist. Driven and consumed with creative genius. Read this book, and see what it means (and takes!) to be an artist. Then ...             John Vachon's America: Photographs and Letters from the Depression to World War II (Ahmanson-Murphy Fine Arts ...3 reviews John Vachon University of California Press, 2003 Great photos, fascinating commentary This is a terrific book. It is beautifully designed and a pleasure to look at and look through. But in addition, the editor's comments are very illuminating. They bring both Vachon the man and his photographs to life. I picked this book up in the bookstore partly because I was struck by the cover photograph and then the ones inside, and partly because I had earlier read Orvell's wonderful ...             The Not-So-Still Life: A Century of California Painting and Sculpture (The Ahmanson-Murphy Fine Arts Imprint)1 review Susan Landauer, William H. Gerdts, ... University of California Press, 2003 Still Life Extraordinaire I love this book; anyone who paints still life or likes still life should have this book in his/her library. The book presents an amazing variety of approaches to still life represented in excellent color plates. Diebenkorn painted a knife in a glass of water -- who knew? Most of the greats have painted still life at one time or another (or included it as background); this book shows why, ...             Picturing Chinatown: Art and Orientalism in San Francisco1 review Anthony W. Lee University of California Press, 2001 glimpses of a vanished Chinatown Don't be misled by the choice of the title. The book is not a coffeetable-type photomontage of San Francisco's Chinatown. It is certainly replete with many photographs and illustrations from Chinatown of the 19th century and early 20th century. No doubt to some readers, these will be the main attraction. Revealing in often hazy black and white the details of a vanished and important subculture of ...             Pleasant Places: The Rustic Landscape from Breugel to Ruisdael1 review Walter S. Gibson University of California Press, 2000 A Pleasant Book Walter Gibson's "Pleasant Places" will help you enjoy the quiet and unassuming genre of 17th Century northern European landscape art. The author accepts the works at face value: pleasant images of places the Dutch in particular liked to visit. Gibson does not read religious allegory into them as some art historians do, but he instead shows you how to appreciate the quality of light, the sense of ...             Orientalist Aesthetics: Art, Colonialism, and French North Africa, 1880-1930 (Ahmanson-Murphy Fine Arts Book)1 review Roger Benjamin University of California Press, 2003 Painting North Africa An impressive overview of French Orientalist painting and the conditions which produced it, combining a high degree of scholarship with excellent readability. The text introduced me to artists of whom I was completely unaware, and to unknown Orientalist works by well-known artists. I found the sections on Art Nouveau and 20th Century artists particularly interesting, and the coverage of the two ...             Postmodernism and the Postsocialist Condition: Politicized Art under Late Socialism (Ahmanson-Murphy Fine ...1 review University of California Press, 2003 Excellent text Both introductary as well as detailed enough for experts, this is a well-researched and astute text, covering a range of issues that resonate in today's world.             Painting on the Left: Diego Rivera, Radical Politics, and San Francisco's Public Murals (Ahmanson-Murphy Fine ...1 review Anthony W. Lee University of California Press, 1999 Excellent! (From Planeta Journal) - For visitors to Mexico City, obligatory visits include the National Palace, Bellas Artes and the Supreme Court -- all places where one can see the work of famed muralist Diego Rivera. His work is found elsewhere, and notably San Francisco, California, where the artist inspired and infuriated a generation of painters. Painting on the Left goes beyond the work of Rivera ...             Austere Luminosity of Chinese Classical Furniture (Ahmanson-Murphy Fine Arts Book)2 reviews Sarah Handler University of California Press, 2001 A Treasure of a Book Essential reading for all interested in fine design (East, West, North, or South), this work may well be the most beautiful book published this year.             Fresh Talk/Daring Gazes: Conversations on Asian American Art (Ahmanson-Murphy Fine Arts Book)1 review Elaine H. Kim, Margo Machida, ... University of California Press, 2003 You Will Love Asian American art! Fresh Talk/Daring Gazes lets us see the blossoming of Asian American art American society and foreshadows the effect of Asian American art on all people who view it.             Portrayed on the Heart: Narrative Effect in Pictorial Lives of Saints from the Tenth through the Thirteenth ...1 review Cynthia Hahn University of California Press, 2001 Excellent, Informative, Extensively Researched This book is a fascinating exploration of the intersection of visual hagiography and narrative throughout the high Middle Ages. Hahn's writing is lucid and clear, and her research and insights are impressive. Hahn's discussion of how imagery and narrative of saints' lives combine to impact the audience/viewer is scintillating, and her research is first-rate. 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