The evolution and philosophy of color field painting, as revealed by four masters of the movement.Developed at the tail end of the abstract expressionist movement, color field painting is distinguished by pure, unmodulated areas of color, flat,...

Cone, Michele

Great, virually unread condtion. Clean, unmarked pages. From the shelf of a notable collector

"This important book revises our understanding of one of the key moments in American art: the beginnings of Pop art. A style celebrated for its use of mass-production, Pop art has conventionally been seen as constituting a complete break with the art...

80 pages. Hardcover. Text in English. Bound in stamped white boards and issued without a dustjacket. 40 illustrations, 22 in color. Published on the occasion of the exhibition from L & M Arts, New York NY April 12-June 2, 2012. List of Works. Selected...

This collection of more than 250 photographs provides acute portraits of nearly one hundred international artists and represents a revealing documentation of the seventies and eighties art scene

Ironically, Kazuo Shiraga’s feet were nearly his feet of clay. The breakout star of the Gutai Art Association, Shiraga became colloquially known as the “foot painter”; the Japanese postwar movement’s founder, Jiro Yoshihara, even dismissed Shiraga as a...

In 1946 the art critic Robert Coates, writing in the New Yorker, first used the term 'Abstract Expressionism'. The two words combine the emotional intensity of the German Expressionists with the anti-figurative aesthetic of the European Abstract schools...

"This catalogue documents the publication of "The Blue Guitar"' a group of etchings by David Hockney. accompanied here by the poem of Wallace Stevens "The Man with the Blue Guitar. The portfolio contains twenty etchings drawn by the artist in London in...

Text: English, Spanish (translation)

Pablo Neruda wrote the poems in `Los versos del capitán' as a celebration of his love for his third wife, Matilde Urrutia - a love affair that is itself celebrated in the acclaimed film `Il Postino'. Originally published anonymously in 1952 to spare his...

Thought by many to be Neruda's masterpiece, Canto General is the stunning epic of an entire continent and its people. Although some parts of the poem have been translated, this is the first time it has appeared in its entirety in English. "A consistent,...

Presents native accounts--some translated for the first time from native American languages--of the plunder and persecution wrought by white settlers and explorers on the one hundred million people already living in the Americas in 1492. 15,000 first...

multicultural anthology