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	Unexpected Journeys The adventures that fill the strange and wonderful paintings by Remedios Varo (1908-1963) reflect the physical and psychological journeys of her own tumultuous life. Janet A. Kaplan's vivid chronicle, the first on the subject in English, interweaves Varo's life with the artist's exquisite work. Painted with a jewellike palette and old-master precision, Varo's intimate tableaux, rich with details of women's experience, tell fantasy tales of alchemy, science, mysticism, and magic. Fifty color r...
	Lino Tagliapietra in Retrospect: A Modern Renaissance in Italian Glass For Lino Tagliapietra, glass art represents his life: Venice and the lagoon, its shadow and light. "It is part of my culture, my brain, my blood," he says. Raised on the island of Murano, Tagliapietra rose from a working class family and a minimal education to become an internationally acknowledged glass artist and maestro, an honor given to the most highly recognized of Italian glassmakers. Tagliapietra worked exclusively on Murano until coming to the Pilchuck Glass School in Stanwood, Washi...
	Institutional Critique: An Anthology of Artists' Writings "Institutional critique" is an artistic practice that reflects critically on its own housing in galleries and museums and on the concept and social function of art itself. Such concerns have always been a part of modern art but took on new urgency at the end of the 1960s, when—driven by the social upheaval of the time and enabled by the tools and techniques of conceptual art—institutional critique emerged as a genre. This anthology traces the development of institutional critique as an artis...
	Alfred Kubin: Drawings, 1897-1909 Kubin is irrefutably one of the most original talents of hisgeneration. Whether painting directly from his hallucinatoryvisions or illustrating the works of such literary giants asBalzac, Poe, Dostoevsky, and Gogol, Kubin eschewed thedecorative artistry of earlier Austrian art. Instead, he wasdrawn to life s dark undertones, represented in his workthrough his morbid subject matter and frenetic style. Filledwith horrific yet fully realized imaginings that were eerilyprescient of the era to come, ...
	Singular Forms (Sometimes Repeated) Singular Forms (Sometimes Repeated) examines the impulse toward reduction, restraint, and lucidity in postwar art. Drawing on the Guggenheim's exceptional holdings of minimalist painting and singular sculpture, Singular Forms begins with Robert Rauschenberg's historic White Painting (1951), a stark, monochrome canvas. This seminal work establishes twin trajectories in the development of contemporary art: the elimination of all extraneous details to achieve an art of pure, essential form, and the...
	Vincent Van Gogh: The Drawings (Metropolitan Museum of Art Series) Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890) believed that drawing was “the root of everything.” A self-taught artist, he succeeded, between 1881 and 1890, in developing an inimitable graphic style. This book traces the artist’s successive triumphs as a draftsman, first in the Netherlands and later in France, highlighting the diversity of his technical invention and the striking continuity of his vision. Given the pivotal role drawings played in Van Gogh’s artistic conception and the rich dialectic th...
	2010 Enchanting New Mexico Calendar: Paintings of the Land of Enchantment Selections from Landscapes of New Mexico The 2010 Enchanting New Mexico Calendar showcases breathtaking images by renowned and emerging contemporary painters who capture the grandeur and eloquence of the state's landscapes. With styles ranging from impressionistic to realistic, these elegant works of art were first featured in Landscapes of New Mexico: Paintings of the Land of Enchantment. The popular book was published by Fresco Fine Art Publications, available through University of New Mexico Press....
	The Rose Art Museum at Brandeis The Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University possesses one of the most extraordinary collections of any academic institution, spanning the last century in Western art, from the early European and American Modernists up to the 21st century. This catalogue of its holdings demonstrates the breadth of the collection.Early purchases from the 1960s dominate the core of the collection, including works by Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Willem De Kooning, and Andy Warhol. Contemporary works by artists ...
	Masterpieces of Japanese Prints: Ukiyo-e from the Victoria and Albert Museum Ever since Japan opened its doors to the West in the latter half of the nineteenth century, Westerners have been fascinated by the exquisite art forms that flourished during the previous two hundred years of self-imposed isolation. Among the most intriguing were the bold yet refined paintings and prints known as ukiyo-e, which portrayed the popular pursuits of the time with extraordinary power. Such was the appeal of this unique art in the West that tens of thousands of superb prints eventually ...