books by Richard Shiff     books:       Barnett Newman: A Catalogue Raisonne2 reviews Richard Shiff, Carol Mancusi-Ungaro, ... Other Distribution, 2004 What every catalogue raisonne should look like. The most surprising thing about Newman's output is how non-prolific he was,118 works on canvas in 25 years.Every painting is reproduced in superb color.The only detriment is that half a dozen of his large horizontal paintings are spread across the centrespread,spoiling the composition.Using fold out pages would have been more useful.It also includes his drawings,graphics and sculpture,comprising ...             Robert Mangold1 review Richard Shiff Phaidon Press, 2000 Gorgeous survey of a great artist This is a wonderful book--easily the best book on Robert Mangold available. Beautiful color images of paintings from across Mangold's career (up to 1999), along with images of Mangold's drawings and preparatory studies, make this worth the price alone. But there's also a fascinating set of essays (by Richard Schiff, Robert Storr and Arthur C. Danto), an entertaining interview between Robert ...             Cézanne's Composition: Analysis of His Form with Diagrams and Photographs of His Motifs5 reviews Erle Loran University of California Press, 2006 Brilliant explanation of space & planes. Pages 17 to 24 are a so called "Illustrated Glossary" and are worth buying the book for. The classic rules of space and depth and planes are explained in most of their complexity. Then he discusses many many examples of Cezanne's work and how they use the principles of space, planes, and depth. A masterpiece and extensive in its scope. If you really want this type of abstract picture ...             Cy Twombly: Cycles and Seasons2 reviews Nicholas Serota, Richard Shiff, ... Tate/D.A.P., 2008 Twombly's season This is the catalogue for the current Tate exhibition that focuses on Twombly's various series that have marked his long career (the Ferragosto paintings from 1961, the Blackboard paintings from the late 1960's, the Bolsena paintings from 1969, the later Four Seasons cycles, etc). Without being a retrospective, this book sheds a new light on a painter that has gained in stature over the years. It ...             Barnett Newman3 reviews Barnett Newman, Ann Temkin, ... Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2002 One of the greatest art books ever written. Armin Zweite's chronology of the life and work of Barnett Newman is absolutely fantastic. Written in a compact style hitherto unknown by art commentators the book flows from one anecdote to another. Complete and well referenced, the book is as complete as one would wish without ever being overbearing. Given the limited scope of Newman's work I would have hope that all prints were in color but ...             Terry Winters: Paintings, Drawings, Prints 1994/20041 review Richard Shiff, Terry Winters, ... Addison Gallery of American Art, 2004 Abstract with organic quality I gained a strong appreciation for Winters' work after taking a printmaking class. My instructor loved his work. Very nice reproductions, a good compendium of the work, I believe, Winters' is known for.             Peter Doig2 reviews Distributed Art Publishers (DAP), 2008 A must have for an contemporary art student Doig is really one of the best living artist, and this book really does him justice. The book includes older work as well as recent. Reproduction is excellent. I can not give a better recommendation.             Jasper Johns: Gray (Art Institute of Chicago)2 reviews Douglas W. Druick, James Rondeau Art Institute of Chicago, 2007 Frans Hals had black; Jasper Johns has gray. I hesitated before ordering this book. I already own 5 books about Jasper Johns and was thinking to myself that owning one more would not add much to my appreciation of this great artist. I was wrong. This book, the catalogue for an exhibition held at the Chicago Art Institute in 2007, is full of marvelous illustrations (of some recent works like the Catenary series) and brilliant essays on the ...             Parkett # 60: Chuck Close, Diana Thater, Luc Tuymans1 review Sara Arrhenius, Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe, ... Parkett, 2001 super good i have found these books very useful in information. i use these books to check my understatnding of good new art. As an artist i see these books as a way to keep connected with an international art world.             Willem de Kooning: Paintings3 reviews David Sylvester, Richard Shiff, ... National Gallery Washington, 1994 Rich, colorful, and insightful This is probably the best book about Willem De Kooning on the market. Along with a multitude of color plates David Sylvester offers historical, technical, and philisophical insights about Willem De Kooning and his life works. The large format makes viewing the artists works very enjoyable. The reading is not overly complicated as it paints a full portrait of the artist, his accomlishments, his ...             Georges Seurat: The Drawings6 reviews Jodi Hauptman, Karl Buchberg, ... The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2007 The unknown side of a master This is a wonderful book, published to accompany the current exhibition at the MOMA in New York. High-quality illustrations with some close-ups of details (the texture of the paper even gives the reader the impression of holding an actual drawing because it resembles the grainy Michallet paper Seurat used) show how Seurat considered drawing an art form in its own right: some drawings are studies ...             Camille Pissarro: Impressions of City and Country Karen Levitov, Richard Shiff Jewish Museum, 2007 Camille Pissarro (1830?1903) was a ceaseless innovator and organizer whose ideological concerns were as profound as his aesthetic interests. Camille Pissarro: Impressions of City and Country examines how Pissarro's artistic theories and social convictions influenced his Impressionist and Neo-Impressionist work.             Pissarro espoused an anti-bourgeois, anarchist ideology and was interested in the plight of the working classes. This ...             Cezanne and the end of impressionism: A study of the theory, technique, and critical evaluation of modern art2 reviews Richard Shiff University of Chicago Press, 1984 you've never known cezanne...and you never will. The title of my review may cause you to think that I didn't like this book...on the contrary, Shiff provides such a sophisticated argument about evolution of Cézanne's painting through his development of the concepts "maker and finder". Maker is the artist that "discovers" a style and develops that style in his/her work. Finder is the artist looking for a style. (Obviously an incredibly ...             The Art Bulletin: A Quarterly Published by The College Art Association of America: December 1994, Volume ... Anna C. Chave, Anne M. Wagner, ... The College Art Association of America, 1994 Articles: "A Range of Critical Perspectives: The Subject in/of Art History"; "New Encounters with Les Demoiselles d'Avignon: Gender, Race, and the Origins of Cubsim"; "Why Monet Gave Up Figure Painting"; "The Image of Ganymede in France, 1730-1820: The Survival of a Homoerotic Myth"; "Piety and Patronage in Seicento Rome: Two Noblewomen and Their Convents"; "Folengo and Romanino: The Questione della Lingua and Its Eccentric Trends"; ...             The Aesthetics of Risk: SoCCAS Symposium Vol. III Jane Blocker, Douglas Crimp, ... JRP|Ringier, 2008 This anthology of essays, images and dialogues exploring contemporary art's engagements with risk--physical, social, political and aesthetic--brings readers into the conference from which the book takes its title, a third annual collaboration between the Getty Research Institute and the Southern California Consortium of Art Schools (SoCCAS). Some content there was so intense that it came with a warning label: "Contains graphic depictions of ...             Chuck Close Prints: Process and Collaboration4 reviews Terrie Sultan Princeton University Press, 2003 One of the greatest art books ever published The first reviewer here is nuts. This is a book that was released when Chuck Close had a retrospective on his prints. This book has info on the prints and no paintings. what is great about 'Process and Collaboration' is the fact that it delves so deeply into Closes working habbits and how he pretty much invents his process from one small series of works to the next. This book gave me a huge ...             Critical Terms for Art History4 reviews University Of Chicago Press, 1996 Learning the rules of the game Most of these essays are written by extremely prominent art historians and critics, such as WJT Mitchell, Homi Bhaba, the late Michael Camille, Jas' Elsner, and Nina Kallmyer. Each writer explores a "charged" term currently used in art criticism, such as "representation," "social art history," "ugliness," and "beauty." In each essay, the writer explores the meaning of the term by applying it to ...              search for books aesthetics, analysis, association, bulletin, camille, catalogue, collaboration, composition, country, critical, december, diagrams, drawings, evaluation, georges, impressionism, impressions, institute, kooning, mangold, paintings, photographs, pissarro, published, quarterly, raisonne, symposium, technique, tuymans, winters books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. I have used it and love it! randomly chosen pc & video games: Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare Collector's Edition (Windows) we recommend Brilliant explanation of space & planes. home  impressum - about us