| THE GIFT GUIDE New & Forthcoming Art History TitlesEdward Hopper • Vladimir Tatlin • Marc Chagall • Pierre-Auguste Renoir • Gustav Klimt • Ferdinand Hodler • Giorgio Morandi • El Greco
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| | Highlights from the Fall 2012 ListD.A.P./Réunion des Musées Nationaux - Grand Palais HopperEdited and with text by Tomàs Llorens, Didier Ottinger. Edward Hopper is as quintessentially American as Jackson Pollock or Andy Warhol. Like them, his imagery has reached far beyond the realm of art to impact on our culture in the broadest terms, so that we see early twentieth-century America through his work, as much as within it. The painter Charles Burchfield attributed Hopper’s success to his bold individualism,” declaring that in him we have regained that sturdy American independence which Thomas Eakins gave us.” Hopper’s art was profoundly of its time, both in its expression of the subtle melancholies of modern life and in its deeply cinematic qualities--perhaps Hopper’s greatest ... Hbk, 9.75 x 11.5 in. / 368 pgs / 345 color.  FREE UPS GROUND SHIPPING IN THE US
$65.00 The Museum of Modern Art, New York Inventing Abstraction, 1910-1925By Leah Dickerman. Text by Matthew Affron, Yve-Alain Bois, Masha Chlenova, Ester Coen, Christoph Cox, Hubert Damisch, Rachael DeLue, Hal Foster, Mark Franko, Matthew Gale, Peter Galison, Maria Gough, Jodi Hauptman, Gordon Hughes, David Joselit, Anton Kaes, David Lang, Susan Laxton, Philippe-Alain Michaud, Jaroslav Suchan, Lanka Tatersall, Michael Taylor. In 1912, in several European cities, a handful of artists--Vasily Kandinsky, Frantisek Kupka, Francis Picabia and Robert Delaunay--presented the first abstract pictures to the public. Inventing Abstraction, published to accompany an exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, celebrates the centennial of this bold new type of artwork. It traces the development of abstraction as it moved through a network of modern artists, from Marsden Hartley and Marcel Duchamp to Piet Mondrian and Kazimir Malevich, sweeping across nations and across media. This richly illustrated publication covers a wide range of artistic production--including paintings, drawings, books, sculptures, film, photography, sound poetry, atonal ... Hbk, 9.5 x 12 in. / 376 pgs / 446 color.  FREE UPS GROUND SHIPPING IN THE US
$75.00 Hatje Cantz Ferdinand Hodler Ferdinand Hodler’s emotionally loaded landscapes and ritualized portraits were among the earliest harbingers of Expressionist painting in Europe, and a key bridge between the idioms of late-nineteenth-century Symbolism, Realism and modernist Expressionism. Published for a major 2012 exhibition at New York’s Neue Galerie, this volume gathers a selection of Hodler’s best-loved work: his famous late paintings, in which figures are heavily stylized and landscapes are pared down to simple effects of mood and color; his outstanding works on paper; and the much-acclaimed, extremely moving series of works chronicling the illness and early death of the artist’s lover, Valentine Godé-Darel. A documentary ... Hbk, 9.25 x 11.25 in. / 240 pgs / 190 color.  FREE UPS GROUND SHIPPING IN THE US
$60.00 Hatje Cantz Tatlin: New Art for a New WorldText by Simon Baier, Gian Casper Bott, Dimitrij Dimakov, Jürgen Harten, Nathalie Leleu, Maria Lipatova, Anatolij Strigalev, Anna Szech, David Walsh, Roland Wetzel. Painter, architect, engineer, set designer, father to the Russian Constructivist movement, inventor of the counter-relief” and author of one of modernism’s greatest icons, the Monument to the Third International,” Vladimir Tatlin blazed an incredible trail of innovation through the glory years of the Soviet avant-garde. Nevertheless, Not the old, not the new, but the necessary” was his motto; having spent his early years as an icon painter, Tatlin eschewed the modernist disavowal of heritage in favor of a research-based attitude to materials and genres. His counter-relief” sculptures, made of wood, cardboard, metal and wire, were foundational works for Rodchenko and the ... Hbk, 9.5 x 11 in. / 240 pgs / 120 color / 88 b&w.  FREE UPS GROUND SHIPPING IN THE US
$60.00 Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza ChagallForeword by Meret Meyer. Text by Jean-Louis Prat, Ekaterina Selezneva, Angela Lampe, Ángeles Caso. Marc Chagall is justly famed as one of modernism’s greatest colorists, and its most articulate painter of dispossession, exile and human joy. Chagall also uniquely reconciled the motifs and concerns of Jewish culture with his strange amalgam of Symbolism, Fauvism and Cubism. His lifespan encompassed two world wars, the October Revolution of 1917 and continual uprooting, with lengthy spells in Paris, Moscow and New York; although he painted the ravages of these wars and the sufferings of the Jewish people, and although his art is steeped in the melancholia of exile, it never ceased to affirm life and to praise it.
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$85.00 Hatje Cantz Renoir: Between Bohemia and BourgeoisieText by Augustin de Butler, Peter Kropmanns, Marc Le Coeur, Stefanie Manthey, Sylvie Patry, David Pullins, Nina Zimmer, Michael F. Zimmermann. Alongside Monet, Bazille and Sisley, Pierre-Auguste Renoir laid the foundations of Impressionism in 1860s Paris. But acclaim for his painting was slow in coming, primarily because of the tribulations of the Franco-Prussian War and the Paris Commune, which put a hiatus on so much artistic activity during the 1860s–70s. As a result, the first two decades of Renoir’s career are sometimes ignored, an oversight this superb volume decisively remedies. The artist’s most important model during these years was his mistress, Lise Tréhot, with whom he was involved from 1865 to 1872. His depictions of Tréhot, in classic paintings such as Woman ... Hbk, 9.5 x 11.25 in. / 302 pgs / 107 color.  FREE UPS GROUND SHIPPING IN THE US
$75.00 Silvana Editoriale Giorgio MorandiText by Maria Cristina Bandera, Marco Franciolli, Simona Tosini Pizzetti, Siri Hustvedt, Lawrence Carroll. Giorgio Morandi’s visual lexicon consisted of the most minimal of props--bottles, vases, pitchers, boxes--but from these humble forms he extrapolated a marvelous and decidedly modern metaphysics of objecthood and space. Morandi reinvented the still life for modern times, without ever having directly incorporated modern content into his pictures: only we can know that a cup is a cup, that a tree is a tree,” he observed, concisely expressing the continued relevance of the still life in the twentieth century. Nothing could be clearer than a Morandi still life, with its mute tones of beige, grays and off-whites, and its glyphic quality ... Hbk, 9.75 x 11.25 in. / 288 pgs / 153 color / 17 b&w.  FREE UPS GROUND SHIPPING IN THE US
$60.00 Hatje Cantz Gustav Klimt: The Collection of the Wien MuseumEdited by Ursula Storch. Nowhere is the fabled sensuality of Gustav Klimt more apparent than in the tapering limpidity of his drawings. Now, in celebration of the artist’s 150th birthday, this volume draws on the world’s largest collection of Klimt drawings, at the Vienna Museum, to offer a thorough account of around 400 works by the artist. Drawings are arranged in thematic groups, such as the Secession works, sketches for the Faculty Paintings (also known as the University of Vienna Ceiling Paintings) and the nudes. The book also includes paintings from the Vienna Museum collection, such as the portrait of Emilie Flöge (1902), as well ... Hbk, 9.75 x 11 in. / 352 pgs / 525 color.  FREE UPS GROUND SHIPPING IN THE US
$75.00 Hatje Cantz El Greco and ModernismEdited by Beat Wismer, Michael Scholz-Hänsel. Text by Beat Wismer. The oeuvre of El Greco (1541–1614) was first introduced to a broad German audience in 1910, through Julius Meier-Graefe’s The Spanish Journey. Numerous artists subsequently caught Greco fever” when they first saw larger groups of his works in the exhibitions that followed in Munich in 1911 and Düsseldorf in 1912. In his disregard for the Renaissance rulebook of painting, his love of dramatic mood and emphasis on emotive color and form, El Greco provided acrucial precedent for painters such as Max Beckmann, Oskar Kokoschka, Max Oppenheimer, Ludwig Meidner and especially members of the Blaue Reiter (August Macke, Franz Marc, Albert Bloch ... Hbk, 9.5 x 11.75 in. / 380 pgs / 290 color.  FREE UPS GROUND SHIPPING IN THE US
$75.00 Hatje Cantz Dark RomanticismEdited by Felix Krämer. Text by Ingo Borges, Dorothee Gerkens, Johannes Grave, Mareike Henning, Felix Krämer, Manuela Mena Marqués, Claudia Wagner, et al. From its very inception in the late eighteenth century, Romanticism’s celebration of euphoria and sublimity has been dogged by its equally intense fascination with melancholia, insanity, crime, the grotesque and the irrational. In 1930, the famous literary theorist Mario Praz named this strain in literature Dark Romanticism,” but its equivalent in art has never been thoroughly assessed in art history. This volume is the first to examine a current that runs from Goya’s war etchings through Symbolism and up to Surrealism, presenting Romanticism as an intellectual position that was embraced throughout Europe and that endured into the twentieth century. Among the ... Hbk, 9 x 11 in. / 304 pgs / 291 color.  FREE UPS GROUND SHIPPING IN THE US
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