Books

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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Emil Nolde Emil Nolde Manfred Reuther,Emil Nolde,Jolanthe Nolde,Barnett Newman The book, its title a reference to a characterization that his artist friend Paul Klee bestowed on Nolde, is published on the occasion of the exhibition 'Emil Nolde' at Zentrum Paul Klee and includes… OL1392435W
Painting today Painting today Tony Godfrey A worldwide survey of painting from the 1970's to the present. OL15539235W
Identity Theft The Cultural Colonization Of Contemporary Art Identity Theft The Cultural Colonization Of Contemporary Art Jonathan Harris "Identity Theft asks some tough questions about the use and place of art in the early twenty-first century: How has it been appropriated as a form of advertising or corporate identity? How is it made… OL17481355W
As painting As painting Stephen W. Melville,Laura Lisbon,Philip Armstrong "As Painting, which accompanies an exhibition of the same name at the Wexner Center for the Arts, offers thought-provoking new perspective on painting in the United States and Europe since the mid-19… OL18489927W
What is painting? What is painting? Bell, Julian "Yes, but is it art? This lucid book by Julian Bell, himself a painter, confronts the uncertainty many people feel about art today and challenges generally accepted ideas.Now in a completely revised … OL19732964W
A-Z great modern artists A-Z great modern artists Andy Tuohy A fun introduction to the world of modern artists, from Albers to Zox, via Basquiat, Kahlo, Warhol and more. OL20002679W
Painting now Painting now Suzanne Perling Hudson "Painting is a continually expanding and evolving medium. The radical changes that have taken place since the 1960s and 1970s--the period that saw the shift from a modernist to a postmodernist visual… OL20005478W
Orientalist Aesthetics Orientalist Aesthetics Roger Benjamin "Roger Benjamin, drawing on a decade's research in untapped archives, introduced many paintings, posters, miniatures, and panoramas and discovers an art movement closely bound to French colonial expa… OL2182359W
Religious painting Religious painting Juan José Lahuerta Religious subject matter is not central in 20th century art. One might therefore suspect that, for the avantgarde, the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) would have eclipsed religion altogether. However, … OL22946622W
Like breath on glass Like breath on glass Marc Simpson Through an innovative manner of handling paint, a group of American artists around 1900 created deceptively simple canvases that convey images of shimmering transcience, visions suggested rather than… OL2634691W
Fay Jones Fay Jones Sheila Farr "T. S. Eliot once said that good poetry communicates before it is understood. The same can be said about Seattle artist Fay Jones's paintings. Even before we sort them out logically, the images pass … OL3533157W
Kenneth Callahan Kenneth Callahan Kenneth Callahan,Thomas Orton,Patricia Grieve Watkinson "Kenneth Callahan's life spanned most of the twentieth century, and during that time he made many contributions to the art of the Pacific Northwest and the nation. Although Callahan traveled widely, … OL471292W
Visible Deeds of Music Visible Deeds of Music Simon Shaw-Miller "This book explores the relationship between music and the visual arts in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, focusing on the modernist period. Reassessing the work of such composers and art… OL9381188W