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The New York Times recently referred to this Buffalo, N.Y., museum as one of the nation's best collections of modern art.> This magnificent volume presents colorplates of 142 of its greatest treasures, each accompanied by a biography of the artist and an essay about the work.
"An exquisite volume devoted to a distinguished collection of masterpieces from the Albright-Knox Art Gallery Collection. This full-colour catalogue accompanies an international tour that features 70 twentieth-century paintings and sculptures from the Albright-Knox Art Gallery Collection, including masterpieces by Salvador Dal , Edgar Degas, Paul Gauguin, Vincent Van Gogh, Frida Kahlo and many others. Rich in illustrations the volume emphasizes the remarkable vitality, salience, and subversiveness of the twentieth-centurys best art. Insightful essays by leading scholars of twentieth-century art are illustrated with archival imagery and superb works from other areas of the Albright-Knox collection.
A documentation of 72 drawings and works on paper, dated from the mid-nineteenth century to 1982, which form a part of the Albright-Knox Art collection.
The Albright-Knox Art Gallery has a 150-year tradition of taking risks in collecting and exhibiting the art of its time. From its foundation as The Buffalo Fine Arts Academy in 1862, through the twentieth century and continuing today, the Gallery has implemented an energetic acquisitions strategy, giving rise to an extraordinary collection of art. This book illustrates more than 150 highlights of the Gallery's Collection, including works by Louise Bourgeois, Chuck Close, Tara Donovan, Sol LeWitt, Marisol, Henri Matisse, Bruce Nauman, Robert Rauschenberg, Ed Ruscha, Jennifer Steinkamp, and Rachel Whiteread. Curator of Education Mariann W. Smith takes a thematic approach that complements the o...
Tony Conrad (1940-2016) was a pioneering American avant-garde video artist, experimental filmmaker, musician, composer, sound artist, teacher, and writer.Throughout his six-decade career he forged a unique path through numerous artistic movements and defined a vast range of culture, including rock music and public access television.In music, Conrad was an early member of the Theatre of Eternal Music (The Dream Syndicate), which included John Cale and La Monte Young. In the early 1960s he was also influential in the origins of the iconic band, The Velvet Underground. In film, Conrad was associated with the Structuralist movement which included filmmakers such as Paul Sharits and Hollis Frampt...
The Albright-Knox Art Academy celebrated its 125th anniversary in 1862 with the publication of 125 outstanding works from its collections. The volume includes paintings and sculptures by the best-known artists of the 19th and 20th centuries, representing major schools of U.S. and European art from early American portraiture and impressionism to minimalism and neo-expressionism. Among those featured from American art history are George Bellows, Thomas Eakins, and Winslow Homer; from 19th century European art are Paul Gauguin, Henri Matisse and George Seurat; and Salvador Dali, Marc Chagall, and Pablo Picasso from the modernists. Other artists represented include William de Kooning, Jackson Pollock, Robert Rauschenberg and Andy Warhol. ISBN 0-8478-0786-X : $40.00. (For use only in the library).