Books, Arts & Photography, Schools, Periods & Styles, Expressionism

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Jane Livingston
The Paintings of Joan Mitchell
by University of California Press (Paperback)

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 counterparts. Although well regarded by critics, fellow artists, and the general public, Mitchell's achievement has never received full recognition; her work has not been shown in New York for more than twenty-five years. This exquisitely illustrated volume and the exhibition that it accompanies restore the artist to her rightful place in the history of American painting. Spanning Mitchell's entire career, from early works of 1951 until the year of her death, The Paintings of Joan Mitchell includes a wealth of breathtaking paintings, both intimate and grand in scale, that reveal Mitchell's fierce dedication to her art and reflect both the struggles and the artistic triumphs she achieved with her distinctive vision of Abstract ...

Jane Kallir
Egon Schiele: Drawings and Watercolors
by Thames & Hudson (Hardcover)

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 often been reproduced and are well recognized. However, limited access to the fragile works on paper and dispersion among several collections have made for an unbalanced representation of his work as a draftsman. This book assembles drawings and watercolors from public and private collections and reproduces work from every year of the artist's career, beginning with the juvenilia and early academic studies. The focus means that work that is rarely reproduced is represented extensively, providing a unique opportunity to study the rapid artistic development of Schiele over the course of his brief twelve-year career. The book is organized chronologically and divided into year-by-year sections. Each section includes a text that ...

Annegret Hoberg
Alfred Kubin: Drawings, 1897-1909
by Prestel USA (Hardcover)

Kubin is irrefutably one of the most original talents of hisgeneration. Whether painting directly from his hallucinatoryvisions or illustrating the works of such literary giants asBalzac, Poe, Dostoevsky, and Gogol, Kubin eschewed thedecorative artistry of earlier Austrian art. Instead, he wasdrawn to life s dark undertones, represented in his workthrough his morbid subject matter and frenetic style. Filledwith horrific yet fully realized imaginings that were eerilyprescient of the era to come, this volume is certain tointroduce Kubin to a wider audience perhaps to an entiregeneration who see in art a way to contend with the upheavaland tribulation of their own time.

German Expressionist Woodcuts (Collections of Fine Art in Dover Books)
by Dover Publications (Paperback)

Over 100 works by Beckmann, Feininger, Kirchner, Kollwitz, Nolde, Marc, others. Distorted, stylized forms embody revolutionary mood of the early 20th-century. Introduction. Captions. Notes on artists.

Helmut Friedel, Annegret Hoberg
Kandinsky
by Prestel USA (Hardcover)

This sumptuously produced volume displays Kandinsky sbrilliant use of color, shape, and composition through morethan 250 full-color details or full-page illustrations. Essays bythe world s leading Kandinsky experts focus on the evolutionof his work throughout all periods of his career: his explorationof his Russian roots and his emigration to Munich; hisattraction to the Art Nouveau and fauvist movements; theformation of the Blue Rider group; the influence of music onhis painting; his years at the Bauhaus; and his late work inParis. The book s grand design and lavish packaging allow fora thorough examination of Kandinsky s most important worksin all their extraordinary detail. Among the book s specialfeatures is an added stand-alone facsimile of Kleine Welten(Small Worlds), a series of 12 prints first published byKandinsky in a limited edition in 1922. Accessible, impeccablyresearched, and wide-ranging, this important volume is certainto become an indispensable overview of the ...

Collectivism after Modernism: The Art of Social Imagination after 1945
by Univ Of Minnesota Press (Hardcover)

“Don’t start an art collective until you read this book.” —Guerrilla Girls   “Ever since Web 2.0 with its wikis, blogs and social networks the art of collaboration is back on the agenda. Collectivism after Modernism convincingly proves that art collectives did not stop after the proclaimed death of the historical avant-gardes. Like never before technology reinvents the social and artists claim the steering wheel!” —Geert Lovink, Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam   “This examination of the succession of post-war avant-gardes and collectives is new, important, and engaged.”  — Stephen F. Eisenman, author of The Abu Ghraib Effect   “Collectivism after Modernism crucially helps us understand what artists and others can do in mushy, stinky times like ours. What can the seemingly powerless do in the face of mighty forces that seem to have their act really together? Here, Stimson and Sholette put forth many good answers.” —Yes Men   Spanning the ...

Norbert Wolf
Expressionism (Taschen Basic Art)
by Taschen (Paperback)

During the first two decades of the 20th century, many artists famously experimented with nonrepresentational expression. Taking cues from ideas hinted as by artists such as El Greco, Goya, Van Gogh, and Munch, Expressionists sought to transform reality rather than depict it in any sort of literal fashion. Egon Schiele, Max Beckmann, Paul Klee, and Wassily Kandinsky are among Expressionism's most famous exponents.

Susanna Partsch
Franz Marc, 1880-1916 (Taschen Basic Art)
by Taschen (Paperback)

Reinhard Steiner
Egon Schiele 1890-1918
by Taschen (Paperback)

Egon Schiele (1890-1918) - along with Oskar Kokoschka - is the painter who had the most long-lasting influence on the Vienna art scene after the great era of Klimt came to a close. After a short flirtation with Klimt's style, Schiele soon questioned the aesthetic orientation to the beautiful surface of the Viennese Art Nouveau with his rough and not easily accessible paintings. Many contemporaries found his expressive nudes and self-portraits, with their strange movements and morbid colours, to be ugly and even morally objectionable - criticism which culminated in criminalizing the painter as "obscene" and resulted in 1912 in an indictment and short jail sentence. However, not even his harshest critics could dispute however the artist's extraordinary drawing talent.

Sam Hunter
Hans Hofmann: Revised and Expanded
by Rizzoli International Publications (Hardcover) (Release Date: 2006-02-14)

Nature's purpose in relation to the visual arts is to provide stimulus-not imitation....From its ceaseless urge to create springs all Life-all movement and rhythm-time and light, color and mood-in short, all reality in Form and Thought." -Hans Hofmann This book is the only comprehensive treatment of one of Abstract Expressionism's most important forefathers: Hans Hofmann. Hans Hofmann attends to every stage of his prolific career. Nearly 300 gorgeous color plates reveal this modern master's extraordinary sense of color: beautifully vibrant greens, rich blues and brilliant reds organized in strikingly powerful patterns. Sam Hunter, Professor Emeritus at Princeton University, writes a substantive essay on every aspect of Hofmann's distinguished body of work. Five important essays by the artist himself are included, revealing his philosophy of art which was so influential to the generations that followed him. Frank Stella, an important painter who deeply admired his work, also ...

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