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Masterworks at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery
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.
The Natalie and Irving Forman Collection
"The gift of Natalie and Irving Forman of their stellar art collection of monochrome works of art--161 paintings and sculpture and 127 works on paper--constitutes a remarkable contribution to the permanent collection of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery. It is the single largest gift to be donated at one time to the museum and is particularly noteworthy for its relevance and significance to the Gallery's collection of abstract art. This volume celebrates that magnificent gift, documents the painting and sculpture collection, and marks the exhibition that honors the Formans' generosity, on view at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery May 6-July 3, 2005"--Book jacket.
125 Masterpieces from the Collection of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery
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).
Language in the Visual Arts
This book discusses text and image relationships in the history of art from ancient times to the contemporary period across a diversity of cultures and geographic areas. Focusing on the use of words in art and words as art forms, thematic chapters include "Pictures in Words/Words in Pictures," "Word/Picture Puzzles," "Picture/Word Puzzles," "Words as Images," "The Power of the Word," and "Monumental and Moving Words." Chapter subsections further explore cross-cultural themes. Examining text and image relationships from the obvious to the elusive, the puzzling to the profound, the minor to the major, the book demonstrates the diverse ways in which images and writing have been combined through the ages, and explores the interplay between visual and written communication in a wide range of thought-provoking examples. A color insert is included. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.
Acts of Engagement
Addresses the fundamental humanity and necessity of the visual arts : what they are about, why artists are indispensible, and why art and artists matter.
The Urban Lifeworld
Urban conditions are crucial to our experience of modernity, and, as reflected by art, literature and popular culture, have influenced contemporary ideas of what urban life is about. The Urban Lifeworld contributes to our understanding of the cultural role of cities by offering new insight into the analysis of urban experience. Two exceptional cities, New York and Copenhagen, are the focus of this exploration of cultural representations of urban life, which investigates the contrasts between perceptions and formation of the urban lifeworld. Integrating sociological, aesthetic and anthropological approaches to urban questions, this collection of essays presents a new vision of the cityscape which will enrich both academic debate and public life.
Looking Askance
"Beautifully written in an engaging style, this book provides a new perspective on turn-of-the-century American culture that nuances and complicates our vision of that historical moment. I have no doubt that it will become a classic text in American studies, the history of American art, and the study of visual culture."—Kathleen Pyne, author of Art and the Higher Life: Painting and Evolutionary Thought in Late Nineteenth-Century America "Michael Leja, one of our most original and acute historians of American art, has written an indispensable and lively study of what we might call the modern anxiety of seeing. He traces our inherently skeptical view of the world back to the turn of the last...
Edwin Dickinson
This work surveys Edwin Dickinson's life and career, both of which revolved around Cape Cod, Buffalo, and New York's Finger Lakes region. It covers the artist's influential career as a teacher, and analyzes Dickinson's self-portraits and major symbolic paintings.
