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Egon Schiele: Drawings and Watercolors
Jane Kallir
Thames & Hudson
Thames & Hudson
Austrian Expressionist Egon Schiele produced a prolific body of work before his early death at the age of twenty-eight in 1918. The oeuvre is comprised of a few hundred oil paintings and thousands of drawings and watercolors. Schiele's oils have...
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Paul Klee: Hand Puppets (Emanating)
Christine Hopfengart, Osamu Okuda, Paul Klee
Hatje Cantz Publishers
Hatje Cantz Publishers
Between 1916 and 1925 Paul Klee (1879-1940) made some 50 hand puppets for his son, Felix, of which 30 are still in existence. For the heads, he used materials from his own household: beef bones and electrical outlets, bristle brushes, leftover bits...
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Abstraction in Art and Nature
Nathan Cabot Hale
Dover Publications
Dover Publications
Stimulating, thought-provoking guide shows how to discover a rich new design source in the abstractions inherent in natural forms. Lines of growth and structure, water and liquid forms, weather and atmospheric patterns, luminosity, earth colors,...
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The Paintings of Joan Mitchell (Whitney Museum of American Art)
Jane Livingston
University of California Press
University of California Press
Joan Mitchell (1926-1992) was one of the few women among the first-rank Abstract Expressionist painters. She outpaced all but a handful of her male mentors and counterparts, while only Lee Krasner stands as a possible rival among her female...
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Francis Bacon: The Logic of Sensation
Gilles Deleuze
Univ Of Minnesota Press
Univ Of Minnesota Press
Translated and with an Introduction by Daniel W. Smith Afterword by Tom Conley Gilles Deleuze had several paintings by Francis Bacon hanging in his Paris apartment, and the painter’s method and style as well as his motifs of seriality,...
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Jackson Pollock: 1912-1956 (Taschen Basic Art)
Leonhard Emmerling
Taschen
Taschen
A TRAGIC ICON OF ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM, JACKSON POLLOCK (1912-1956) TOOK INFLUENCES FROM PICASSO AND MEXICAN SURREALISM AND DEVELOPED HIS OWN WAY OF SEEING, INTERPRETING, AND EXPRESSING. THOUGH HIS NAME INEVITABLY CONJURES UP IMAGES OF THE DRIP...
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