Ana Mendieta, a Cuban-born artist who lived in exile in the United States, was one of the most provocative and complex personalities of the 1970s' artworld. In Where Is Ana Mendieta? art historian Jane Blocker provides an in-depth critical analysis of Mendieta's diverse body of work. Although her untimely death in 1985 remains shrouded in ......
Jose Guadalupe Posada (1852-1913), a Mexican graphic artist, lived during one of Mexico's most chaotic times. The graphic illustrations he produced for the 'broadsheets', the tabloids of the day, distributed on the streets of Mexico City became icons of Revolutionary Mexico, portraying murder, suicides, robberies, and disasters endured by the ......
A collection of essays on the quotidian in philosophy, cinema, theater, photography, and other visual arts in postwar France, published in conjunction with an exhibition of contemporary French artists at the Grey Art Gallery of New York University in spring 1997. Includes many color photos. No inde
Kern (history, Northern Illinois U.) documents a recurring pattern in Pre-Raphaelite and Impressionist painting that arranges the sexes so that a profiled man gazes at a women while she looks away from him at the viewer and ponders on an apparent offer. He challenges feminist claims that gazing men
Armin Landeck, an American realist whose graphic career spanned more than half of the twentieth century, was trained as an architect but devoted his life to etching, creating his first print in 1927. A brief period of study under Stanley William Hayter at Atelier 17 in New York City introduced Landeck to copper engraving, establishing his ......
The Persistence of a Myth in Twentieth-Century Art
This comprehensive view of the Orpheus myth in modern art focuses on an extremely rich artistic symbol and cuts through all the cliches to explore truly significant problems of meaning. The author takes a new approach to the iconography of major modern artists by incorporating psychological and literary analysis, as well as biography. The three ......
Newspaper Columns by Frank Lloyd Wright and the Taliesin Friendship, 1934 - 1937
"At Taliesin," a series of newspaper columns written by Frank Lloyd Wright and his early Taliesin apprentices, craftsmen, and workers, was featured in several southern Wisconsin newspapers from 1934 through 1937. The newspaper column first appeared in February 1934, shortly after the Taliesin Fellowship had been formed by Wright in 1932. ......
Examines the complex intersection where art and philosophy merge. This collection includes topics such as the criticism of Robert Wolfe, the minimalist sculpture of the 1960s, the metaphysics of photography, the paintings of Jackson Pollock, and some reflections on why women have been denied entrance to the pantheon of great artists.
