"Georgia O'Keeffe's extraordinary still-life paintings -- of apples, leaves, flowers, shells, trees, rocks, crosses, bones, and doors -- reinvented the genre through a new language of color and form that synthesized Eastern thought and a Western style of painting. This stunning book is the first in-depth exploration of O'Keeffe's unique contribution to still-life painting.The book presents an essay by Elizabeth Hutton Turner that explore ..."
"In his last and most overarching essay on the subject, Rudolf Arnheim encourages us to see the range of individuality in children's drawings and to recognize the child's creation of 'significant form' as a way of bringing coherence to his or her experience of the world. This groundbreaking book brings together distinguished critics and scholars, including Rudolf Arnheim, to explore children's art and its profound but rarely documented h ..."
"in collaboration with William C. Agee and Elizabeth Hutton Turner The American artist Arthur Dove (1880-1946), purportedly the first artist to have produced an abstract painting, has always occupied a central place in writings on early American modernism. This book accompanies the first major exhibition on Dove since 1974. The exhibition, organized by the Addison Gallery of ..."
"This publication sets the precedent for the next generation of Lawrence scholars and studies in modern and contemporary discourse. The American Struggle explores Jacob Lawrence's radical way of transforming history into art by looking at his thirty panel series of paintings, Struggle . . . from the History of the American People (1954–56). Essays by Steven Locke, Elizabeth Hutton Turner, Austen Barron Bailly, and Lydia Gordon mark the h ..."
"The sculptor Alexander Calder (1898-1976) and the painter Joan Miró (1893-1983) first met in Paris in 1928 and became life-long friends. This original and visually stunning book places the mobile sculptures of Calder alongside the poetical paintings of Miró and provides fresh insights into the visual dialogue between these two artists. What did the painter see in the sculptor? What did the sculptor see in the painter? These questions ar ..."
"This major presentation of the work of Pierre Bonnard follows a new line of enquiry reconciling what has previously been seen as two distinct early and creative periods: the Nabis or symbolist Bonnard and the later so-called Impressionist or colorist Bonnard. By uniting representative works from all periods of Bonnard’s life, this book chart’s the artist’s singular pathway and illustrates his highly independent artistic vision. Th ..."
"This title presents a selection of the sculptural works by the renowned Spanish painter and sculptor Joan Miro and American sculptor Alexander Calder. The decision to show their work side by side is based on the artists' close working relationship, which began in the 1920s and continued right up until Calder's death in 1976.""
"This major presentation of the work of Pierre Bonnard follows a new line of enquiry reconciling what has previously been seen as two distinct early and creative periods: the Nabis or symbolist Bonnard and the later so-called Impressionist or colorist Bonnard. By uniting representative works from all periods of Bonnard’s life, this book chart’s the artist’s singular pathway and illustrates his highly independent artistic vision. The 130 ..."
"Sculptor Alexander Calder (1898-1976) and painter Joan Miró (1893-1983) became lifelong friends after their first meeting in Paris in 1928. This book and the exhibition it accompanies are about their extraordinary friendship and the early years of their careers.Calder and Miró shared many artistic interests, and the book is organized around common themes such as the circus, bestiary, universe, and constellations. The artists shared an a ..."
""Over the Line: The Art and Life of Jacob Lawrence" includes essays by eight distinguished art historians examining the ways in which Jacob Lawrence's art speaks so powerfully to different audiences. It is the first multi-author, in-depth probe of the artist's entire career: the nature of his work, his education, the critical climate in which he worked, and his use of materials and techniques. It reproduces, in full colour, more than 20 ..."
"With 142 illustrations (39 full colour plates), this book documents the work and influence of four notable avant-garde artists who traveled to Paris from America in the 1920s:- Gerald Murphy - whose billboard-sized cubist icon launched a brief but brilliant career, Stuart Davis - who explored the continuity between cubist painting, lithography and jazz, Man Ray - who began "painting with light" and Alexander Calder - whose wire circuses ..."
"This lavish book gathers work from the Stieglitz circle as acquired by Duncan Phillips: paintings by Dove, Hartley, Marin, and OKeeffe, and Stieglitzs own photographic Equivalents. These artists defied European tradition, exhibiting a bold, original style that signaled arts coming of age in America. The text includes a selection of letters between Phillips and Stieglitz."
"During the 1920s and 1930s, Alfred Stieglitz's stylish New York galleries were a mecca to artistic innovators and avant garde thinkers, those struggling to cast off the burden of American puritanical thought and the fixed idea among the intellectual elite that important art, art that was real and would last, was being made only in Europe.At the same time Duncan Phillips, a determined art collector and heir to a steel fortune, opened two ..."
"This book looks at the work of Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz, as well as the studies of 20th-century painting and photography and the very nature of artistic collaboration. It examines the stylistic and philosophical affinities of It examines the stylistic and philosophical affinities of these two artists, whose relationship stretched from the early years of this century to Stieglitz's death in 1946. Essays by Belinda Rathbone, ..."
"This volume reproduces Lawrences epic, sixty-panel series of paintings depicting the postWorld War I migration of African Americans from the rural South to the industrial North. A major contribution to African-American history, the book features essays by Henry Louis Gates Jr., Lonnie G. Bunch III, Spencer R. Crew, Deborah Willis, Diane Tepfer, and other distinguished scholars and historians."
"Reproduces sixty full-color paintings, completed in 1941 by one of the most famous black artists of the twentieth century, depicting the migration of blacks from the rural South to the urban North after World War II, with scholarly commentary."
In the American Grain Dove, Hartley, Marin, O'Keefe, and Stieglitz: the Stieglitz Circle at the Phillips Collection by ElizabethHuttonTurner Paperback, 176 Pages, Published 2004 by Giles ISBN-13: 978-1-904832-01-0, ISBN: 1-904832-01-6
Pierre Bonnard Early and Late ( Catalogue of exhibition held at the Phillips Collection, Washington, 22 Sept 2002 - 19 Jan 2003 and at Denver Art Museum, 1 March - 25 May 2003.) by ElizabethHuttonTurner Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 2003 by Palgrave Macmillan ISBN-13: 978-0-85667-553-9, ISBN: 0-85667-553-9
"This major presentation of the work of Pierre Bonnard follows a new line of enquiry reconciling what has previously been seen as two distinct early and creative periods: the Nabis or symbolist Bonnard and the later so-called Impressionist or colorist Bonnard. By uniting representative works from all periods of Bonnard’s life, this book chart’s the artist’s singular pathway and illustrates his highly independent artistic vision. The 130 ..."
Pierre Bonnard Early and Late by ElizabethHuttonTurner Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 2003 by Philip Wilson Publishers ISBN-13: 978-0-85667-574-4, ISBN: 0-85667-574-1
"This major presentation of the work of Pierre Bonnard follows a new line of enquiry reconciling what has previously been seen as two distinct early and creative periods: the Nabis or symbolist Bonnard and the later so-called Impressionist or colorist Bonnard. By uniting representative works from all periods of Bonnard’s life, this book chart’s the artist’s singular pathway and illustrates his highly independent artistic vision. The 130 ..."