Japanese Inspirations

Claude Monet: Water Lilies

Published by The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Text by Ann Temkin, Nora Lawrence.

Claude Monet (1840-1926) devoted the last 25 years of his career to paintings of the Japanese-style pond and gardens of his house in Giverny, France. Two of these luminous panels--"Reflections of Clouds on the Water-Lily Pond," a mural-sized triptych, and "Water Lilies," a single canvas--are among the most well-known and beloved works in the collection of The Museum of Modern Art. The aim of these paintings, according to the artist, was to supply "the illusion of an endless whole, of water without horizon or bank." These late works were for many years less appreciated than Monet's classic Impressionist works, oftentimes seen as unstructured, even unfinished. But with the emergence of Abstract Expressionism in the 1950s, Monet became an extraordinarily relevant predecessor. In 1955, The Museum of Modern Art became the first American museum to acquire one of Monet's large-scale water lily compositions. In 1958, when a fire destroyed this and another water lily painting, the public's widespread expression of loss led to the acquisition of the works currently in the collection. This lively volume recounts the history of Monet's water lilies at the Museum underscores the resonance of these paintings with the art and artists of the last half-century.

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The Museum of Modern Art, New York

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Paperback, 6 x 8 in. / 48 pgs / 35 color.

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Gauguin Tahiti

Published by MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Text by George T.M. Shackelford, Claire Frèches-Thory, et al.

Now in paperback, Gauguin Tahiti offers an in-depth study of the fabled Polynesian years that have so defined our image of the painter. Alongside essays on every aspect of Gauguin's art, from the legendary canvases to his sculptures, ceramics and innovative graphic works, are discussions of the Polynesian society, culture and religion that helped shape them; an in-depth biographical narrative, with the many epiphanies, frustrations and discoveries that make his time in the South Seas one of the most mythologically potent episodes in Western art; and a chronicle of his changing fortunes in the century since his death. At the center of it all is Gauguin's 1897 masterpiece, "Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?," the crowning glory of his mature career, presented with unprecedented depth and authority. Over 100 years later, Gauguin remains one of the most enigmatic and attractive figures of nineteenth-century art, the very pivot of modernism, and Gauguin Tahiti portrays this crucial period of his life in all its color and drama. Of the hardback edition, John Richardson wrote in Vanity Fair: "This excellent catalogue sets the record straight." And writing in the New York Observer, Hilton Kramer declared it, "the most exhaustive account of the period that has ever been attempted in a single survey... well-written, scrupulously documented, and lavishly illustrated."

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MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

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Paperback, 9.5 x 11 in. / 380 pgs / 260 color.

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Pub Date 1/31/2011
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Monet, Gauguin, Van Gogh … Japanese Inspirations

Published by Steidl.
Text by Geneviève Aitken, Christoph Dorsz, Sandra Gianfreda, Claire Guitton, Gregory Irvine, Peter Kropmanns, Michiko Mae, Ursula Perucchi-Petri, Belinda Thomson, Sabine Bradel, Ricard Bru, Ulrike Hofer, Antje Papist-Matsuo, Mario-Andreas von Lüttichau.

Japanese art is of fundamental importance for the development of modern art in Europe. Nearly all of the great nineteenth-century masters—from Edgar Degas, Édouard Manet, Claude Monet, Paul Gauguin and Vincent van Gogh to Pierre Bonnard, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and Édouard Vuillard—embraced the charm of Japanese pictorial motifs and stylistic devices, developing them in their own work. Even Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso expressed enduring interest in Japan well into the twentieth century. Monet, Gauguin, Van Gogh … Japanese Inspirations explores the most fascinating chapters of French art in the second half of the nineteenth century, in the phenomenon known as Japonisme. The catalogue and the exhibition it accompanies focus on the period between 1860 and 1910, the heyday of the craze for Japanese art in France. Alongside paintings and prints by artists active in France such as Paul Gauguin, Vincent van Gogh and Claude Monet, the volume showcases an extensive selection of Japanese color woodcut prints by Utagawa Hiroshige, Katsushika Hokusai, Kitagawa Utamaro and others. Japanese artifacts are likewise juxtaposed with works by French artists such as Félix Bracquemond, Jean Carriès and Émile Gallé, inspiring a dialogue between works rarely considered in tandem. Featuring essays by well-known authors as well as younger scholars, this comprehensively illustrated catalogue sheds light on the most important aspects of this formative epoch and the productive exploration of Japan embarked upon by artists living and working in France.

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Steidl

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Hardcover, 11 x 8.75 in. / 376 pgs / illustrated throughout.

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Pub Date 6/23/2015
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Gauguin: Metamorphoses

Published by The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Edited by Starr Figura. Text by Elizabeth Childs, Hal Foster, Erika Mosier, Lotte Johnson.

Gauguin: Metamorphoses explores the remarkable relationship between Paul Gauguin’s rare and extraordinary prints and transfer drawings, and his better-known paintings and sculptures in wood and ceramic. Created in several discrete bursts of activity from 1889 until his death in 1903, these remarkable works on paper reflect Gauguin’s experiments with a range of media, from radically "primitive" woodcuts that extend from the sculptural gouging of his carved wood reliefs, to jewel-like watercolor monotypes and large mysterious transfer drawings. Gauguin’s creative process often involved repeating and recombining key motifs from one image to another, allowing them to metamorphose over time and across mediums. Printmaking in particular provided him with many new and fertile possibilities for transposing his imagery. Though Gauguin is best known as a pioneer of modernist painting, this publication reveals a lesser-known but arguably even more innovative aspect of his practice. Richly illustrated with more than 200 works, Gauguin: Metamorphoses explores the artist’s radically experimental approach to techniques and demonstrates how his engagement with media other than painting--including sculpture, printmaking and drawing--ignited his creativity.

Painter, printmaker, sculptor and ceramicist, Paul Gauguin (1848–1903) left his job as a stockbroker in Paris for a peripatetic life traveling to Martinique, Brittany, Arles, Tahiti and, finally, the Marquesas Islands. After exhibiting with the Impressionists in Paris and acting as a leading voice in the Pont-Aven group, Gauguin’s efforts to achieve a "primitive" expression proved highly influential for the next generation of artists.

Starr Figura is a curator with the Department of Drawings and Prints at The Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Elizabeth Childs is Department Chair of Art History and Archaeology at Washington University in St. Louis.

Hal Foster is an American art critic, historian and Guggenheim Fellow; he has taught at contemporary art and theory at Cornell University and Princeton University.

Erika Mosier is an associate conservator at The Museum of Modern Art.

Lotte Johnson is a curatorial assistant with the Department of Drawings and Prints at The Museum of Modern Art.

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The Museum of Modern Art, New York

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Hardcover, 9 x 10.5 in. / 248 pgs / 233 color.

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Vincent van Gogh: The Starry Night

Published by The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Text by Richard Thomson.

Instantly recognizable as one of the most iconic images of modern culture, Vincent van Gogh's "Starry Night" draws thousands of visitors every day at The Museum of Modern Art. Yet few are familiar with the story behind this unlikely masterpiece, envisioned and executed by Van Gogh during his stay at a mental hospital in Saint-Rémy. "The Starry Night" is no ordinary landscape painting, with its surging forces, resonant chromatics and mysterious shapes that reflect Van Gogh's unique state of mind at the time. In this informative volume--the latest in a series on favorite artists and important works in MoMA's collection--distinguished art historian Richard Thomson provides an overview of the painting within the context of its creation, bringing together Van Gogh's correspondence regarding the painting and the Parisian art scene of his time with an in-depth exploration of his technique and style. Highlighting significant details not easily visible at first glance, and illustrated with dozens of comparable works, Vincent van Gogh: The Starry Night is an indispensable guide to one of the most famous paintings of the nineteenth century.

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The Museum of Modern Art, New York

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Paperback, 6 x 8 in. / 48 pgs / 38 color.

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Pub Date 9/1/2008
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Henri Matisse: The Oasis of Matisse

Published by Koenig Books.
Foreword by Beatrix Ruf. Introduction by Bart Rutten, Geurt Imanse. Text by Patrice Deparpe, Maurice Rummens.

This substantial new hardcover is published to accompany an exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam. Readers are transported through the museum's Matisse works--an array of Eastern nudes, colorful fabrics, carpets, potted plants and idyllic landscapes--plus a selection of additional paintings, sculptures and works on paper by the French master.

At the heart of the exhibition is one of the most beloved works in the Stedelijk's collection: the monumental paper cut-out "The Parakeet and the Mermaid" (1952-53), presented with other Matisse cut-outs and rarely exhibited works in fabric and stained glass inspired by them. Arranged chronologically, the volume guides readers through Matisse's days in Paris, the birth of Fauvism, his representational work made in Nice, through to his work in Polynesia and Oceania.
The Oasis of Matisse portrays the artist's output using contextualization with works by his contemporaries, offering a comprehensive overview of his influences.
One of modern art's towering figures, Henri Matisse (1869-1954) was a painter, draftsman, sculptor and printmaker before turning to paper cut-outs in the 1940s. From the clashing hues of his Fauvist works made in the South of France in 1904-5, to the harmonies of his Nice interiors from the 1920s, to this brilliant final chapter, Matisse followed a career-long path that he described as "construction by means of color."

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Koenig Books

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Hardcover, 8.5 x 10 in. / 288 pgs / 240 color.

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Pub Date 7/28/2015
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Henri Matisse: The Cut-Outs

Published by The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Edited by Karl Buchberg, Nicholas Cullinan, Jodi Hauptman. Text by Samantha Friedman, Flavia Frigeri, Markus Gross, Stephan Lohrengel, Nicholas Serota.

Matisse's iconic cut-outs, now in paperback

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The Museum of Modern Art, New York

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Paperback, 9 x 10.5 in. / 300 pgs / 314 color.

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Pub Date 10/31/2014
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Looking East

Western Artists and the Allure of Japan

Published by MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Text by Helen Burnham, Sarah E. Thompson, Jane E. Braun.

A craze for all things Japanese in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries brought a correspondingly radical shift in Western art, dubbed Japonisme. Leading artists, including Vincent van Gogh and Claude Monet, were inspired by Japanese art and culture to create works of singular beauty. This lavishly illustrated publication explores an extraordinary moment of cross-cultural exchange by presenting a selection of major paintings, prints, drawings and decorative arts from the renowned collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Masterpieces by European and American artists are shown along with rare objects, paintings and prints from the Museum’s Japanese collection, which is one of the finest in the world. Among the Western artists influenced by Japonisme, and included here, are Henry Roderick Newman, Frank Weston Benson, Alfred Stevens, John La Farge, Arthur Wesley Dow, Margaret Jordan Patterson, James McNeill Whistler, Edvard Munch, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Pierre Bonnard, Edouard Vuillard, James Ensor, Paul Gauguin, Edgar Degas, Henri Rivière and Frederick Elkington. Their works are juxtaposed with works by Japanese artists such as Utagawa Hiroshige, Katsushika Hokusai, Okumura Masanobu, Maruyama Okyo, Kubo Shunman, Isoda Koryusai and Kikugawa Eizan, among many others. With its two introductory essays, emphasizing first Western and then Eastern perspectives, and its four thematically organized chapters, Looking East imparts the sense of discovery and excitement that characterized the development of Japonisme in Europe and North America.

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MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

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Hardcover, 8.5 x 10 in. / 128 pgs / 86 color.

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Pablo Picasso: Family Album

Published by Fundación Museo Picasso Málaga/Legado Paul, Christine y Bernard Ruiz-Picasso.
Text by José Lebrero Stals, Olivier Widmaier Picasso, Jean Clair.

Throughout Pablo Picasso’s career, members of his immediate family were portrayed in a variety of works and media, becoming recurrent motifs. This publication compiles a significant group of portraits from various museums and private collections. Produced between 1906 and 1971, many of the works reproduced here were inspired by the female companions with whom Picasso shared his life, such as Fernande Olivier, Olga Khokhlova, Marie-Thérèse Walter, Dora Maar, Françoise Gilot and Jacqueline Rogne, as well as by his children, Paloma, Claude and Paul. The artworks in Pablo Picasso: Family Album, which range from oil paintings and drawings to sculptures, linocuts and engravings, suggest a special harmony in Picasso’s life between familial and artistic realms.

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Fundación Museo Picasso Málaga/Legado Paul, Christine y Bernard Ruiz-Picasso

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Hardcover, 9.25 x 12.5 in. / 160 pgs / 55 color / 96 duotone.

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Pub Date 3/31/2014
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Picasso: The Monograph, 1881-1973

Published by Ediciones Polígrafa.
Edited by Marie-Laure Bernadac, Brigitte Léal, Christine Piot.

The definitive Picasso monograph, back in print

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Ediciones Polígrafa

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Paperback, 7.5 x 8.5 in. / 552 pgs / 1,235 color.

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Pub Date 7/31/2009
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The Paris of Toulouse-Lautrec

Prints and Posters From The Museum of Modern Art

Published by The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Text by Sarah Suzuki.

Toulouse-Lautrec’ s renowned prints and posters, contextualized within the milieu from which they arose

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The Museum of Modern Art, New York

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Hardcover, 9 x 10.5 in. / 160 pgs / 185 color.

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Degas and the Nude

Published by MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Text by Xavier Rey, Anne Roquebert, George T.M. Shackelford. Interview with Lucian Freud by Martin Gayford.

Exploring Degas’ expressive and dynamic treatment of the nude

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MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

BOOK FORMAT
Clth, 9.75 x 10.75 in. / 241 pgs / 240 color.

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Pub Date 10/31/2011
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Hokusai

Published by MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Text by Sarah E. Thompson, Joan Wright, Philip Meredith.

Hokusai’s paper lanterns, games and paper toys show him to be an ingenious master of materials

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MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

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Hardcover, 7.5 x 10 in. / 176 pgs / 135 color.

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Pub Date 5/26/2015
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Manet and the Execution of Emperor Maximillian

Published by The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Essay by John Elderfield.

The execution of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico, in 1867, was the subject of a quartet of paintings by the French Impressionist and early Modernist Edouard Manet. These works are rarely shown together, and in fact cannot be seen in their entirety, since one of them exists only in fragments, but the three intact paintings and the surviving elements of the fourth are reproduced in this publication, and will be shown at The Museum of Modern Art's exhibition in the fall of 2006. Maximilian's death was an event of great public interest in France, in part because French policies shared the responsibility for it. A European aristocrat of the Hapsburg family, Maximilian had been installed in 1864 after a trio of European powers, led by Napoleon III of France, mounted an invasion of Mexico to reclaim debts upon which the Mexican government had suspended payment. But Napoleon soon withdrew, abandoning Maximilian to his fate at the hands of a resurgent Mexican army. As news of the execution reached Paris, Manet reacted with a group of works synthesizing the information as it came to him and drawing heavily on an earlier painting inspired by violent political events, Goya's The Third of May. In addition to analyzing and documenting the creation of these works, John Elderfield, in his text, clarifies their historical importance in the context of modern art, and in so doing, offers a capsular history of the place of current events in art.

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The Museum of Modern Art, New York

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Paperback, 7.5 x 9.25 in. / 200 pgs / 112 illustrations.

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The Nude from Gauguin to Bonnard

Eve, Icon of Modernity?

Published by Silvana Editoriale.
Edited by Véronique Serrano. Contributions by Gilles Genty, Lawrence Madeline, Aline Magnien, Roberto Mangiù, Elizabeth Pacoud-Rème, Jean-Louis Schefer.

Since easel painting began, the figure of Eve has been found in the work of painters from Masaccio to Rubens, Michelangelo, Bosch and Brueghel. The Nude from Gauguin to Bonnard presents nearly 70 works from Symbolists, Nabis, Fauves, Cubists and Surrealists, including Gauguin, Bonnard, Redon, Matisse, Picasso, Rousseau, Giacometti and Chagall. The historical shifts in the depiction of Eve, and her continued relevance for art, are discussed in several essays.

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Paperback, 9.5 x 12 in. / 172 pgs / 152 color.

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Pub Date 6/30/2014
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