| GIFT GUIDES 2013
Gift Ideas10 beautiful art history titles, perfect for the coffee table or the library
Our selection of the most beautiful art history monographs and exhibition catalogues published this year, from premiere European publishers and major American museums |
| | THE TOP TEN ART HISTORY TITLES THIS SEASOND.A.P./RéUNION DES MUSéES NATIONAUX - GRAND PALAIS  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 [more]
Hbk, 9.75 x 11.5 in. / 368 pgs / 345 color.
ISBN 9781935202875
Publication Date: 9/30/2012 HATJE CANTZ  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 [more]
Hbk, 9.5 x 11 in. / 240 pgs / 120 color / 88 b&w.
ISBN 9783775733632
Publication Date: 10/31/2012 RM  Remedios Varo: The Mexican Years offers a definitive survey of the life and work of a singularly appealing and mysterious Surrealist painter. Born and raised in Spain, Remedios Varo received her earliest training in Madrid before fleeing the Spanish Civil War in 1937 to join Surrealist circles in Paris. The outbreak of World War II forced her to take refuge in Mexico, where she remained until her untimely death in 1963, [more]
Hbk, 9.5 x 11 in. / 120 pgs / illustrated throughout.
ISBN 9788415118220
Publication Date: 10/31/2012 SILVANA EDITORIALE  More iconic images accrue to the name of Leonardo da Vinci than to any other artist. The Mona Lisa” stands as a sort of primary visual signifier for Art” itself, just as his drawing of Vitruvian Man stands as a primary visual signifier for Man.” This new da Vinci monograph presents this ultimate Renaissance man’s complete corpus, from the most renowned oil paintings such as Lady with an Ermine,” Virgin of [more]
Hbk, 9.5 x 11 in. / 240 pgs / 80 color.
ISBN 9788836621446
Publication Date: 3/31/2012 HATJE CANTZ  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, [more]
Hbk, 9.5 x 11.75 in. / 416 pgs / 290 color.
ISBN 9783775733274
Publication Date: 10/31/2012 MUSEO THYSSEN-BORNEMISZA  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 [more]
Hbk, 9 x 11 in. / 328 pgs / 279 color / 42 b&w.
ISBN 9788415113195
Publication Date: 8/31/2012 MFA PUBLICATIONS  Modernity took many forms in 1930s Japan, but in the tumultuous years before militarism pushed the country toward global aggression, it was most visibly associated with a glittering consumer culture. Inundated with western jazz-age trends and new technologies, Japan’s big cities, especially Tokyo, offered the most enticing attractions to a newly liberated generation: bustling streets of department stores, cafés and teahouses, movie theaters and ballroom dance halls. Modern architecture, industrial design [more]
Clth, 9 x 9.5 in. / 208 pgs / 160 color.
ISBN 9780878467693
Publication Date: 7/31/2012 HATJE CANTZ  Surrealism rose from the ruins of interbellum Europe to become one of the most influential artistic and literary movements of the twentieth century. Under the leadership of André Breton, Surrealist artists undertook a passionate search for freedom in all of its forms,” delving into the imagery and language of the subconscious through the revolutionary methods of automatism, radical juxtaposition and chance. Surrealism in Paris reproduces a spectacular selection of artworks from [more]
Hbk, 9.75 x 12.25 in. / 290 pgs / 304 color.
ISBN 9783775731614
Publication Date: 1/31/2012 HATJE CANTZ  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 [more]
Hbk, 9.25 x 11.25 in. / 240 pgs / 190 color.
ISBN 9783775733809
Publication Date: 11/30/2012 HATJE CANTZ  In July 1863, the photographer Felice Beato arrived at the port city of Yokohama in Japan. He was only 31 years old, but had already established himself as a pioneering figure in the then-nascent field of photography as the first ever war correspondent, and as one of the earliest chroniclers of East Asia, having already documented the Indian Rebellion of 1857 and the Second Opium War in China. If these latter [more]
Clth, 13 x 19 in. / 136 pgs / 60 color.
ISBN 9783775734370
Publication Date: 11/30/2012 |
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