"This volume is part of a four-volume series about art and its interpretation in the 19th and 20th centuries. The books provide an introduction to modern European and American art and criticism that should be valuable both to students and to the general reader. This first volume focuses on aspects of Realism, Impressionism and Post-Impressionism in Paris between 1848 and 1900. Discussing works by Courbet, Manet, Monet, Pissarro, Cezanne, ..."
""Color Chart" addresses the impact of standardized, mass-produced color on the art of the past 60 years. Taking the commercial color chart as its central metaphor, this volume chronicles an important artistic shift that took place during the middle of the twentieth century: a frank acknowledgment of color as a matter-of-fact element rather than a vehicle of spiritual or emotional content. Collected here are more than 40 artists who expl ..."
"This is the third in a series of four books about art and its interpretation from the mid-nineteenth century to the end of the twentieth. The books seek to explain the most important issues confronting any study of modern art, without attempting exhaustive coverage. They present a range of approaches characteristic of current art-historical debates. The authors of the present book address debates in, and about, the avant-garde in the ye ..."
"A long-overdue reassessment of one of the most important and influential woman artists working at midcentury Anni Albers (1899–1994) was a German textile designer, weaver, and printmaker, and among the leading pioneers of 20th-century modernism. Although she has heavily influenced generations of artists and designers, her contribution to modernist art history has been comparatively overlooked, especially in relation to that of her husba ..."
"Well known for his radical “anarchitectural” interventions throughout the 1970s, Gordon Matta-Clark was always deeply, though less publicly, committed to drawing. His works on paper—which span three-dimensional reliefs, calligraphy, and notebook entries—capture the interdisciplinary spirit that defined the art world in the 1970s. Intricate and concise, they testify to his interest in the crossovers between visual and performance arts, a ..."
On Abstract Art(Updated) by BrionyFer, John Ashbery Paperback, 208 Pages, Published 2000 by Yale University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-300-08735-2, ISBN: 0-300-08735-7
"In Freud's terms, whilst mourning involves the loss of an actual object,
melancholia involves some kind of loss of the self, or a part of one's self, which
can result in a kind of narcissistic injury. Distinct in important ways, then, both
mourning and melancholia involve the loss of an object, and for Kristeva, in Black
Sun, loss is the founding fact of psychic life.50 Death cannot be represented in
Freud's unconscious, but imprin ..."
Louise Bourgeois Paintings (Hardback) by Clare Davies, BrionyFer Paperback, 172 Pages, Published 2022 by Metropolitan Museum Of Art, United States, New York ISBN-13: 978-1-58839-748-5, ISBN: 1-58839-748-3
"Informed by new archival research and the artist's extensive diaries, Louise Bourgeois: Paintings explores Bourgeois's relationship to the New York art world of the 1940s and her development of a unique pictorial language, adding a key ..."
"Published by The Fruitmarket Gallery to accompany the exhibition, this major book by curator Briony Fer focuses on the themes and ideas in the exhibition."
"In making light his primary medium, Dan Flavin (19331996) established himself as one of the most innovative and significant artists of the minimalist movement. A new generation encountered Flavin’s work through the critically acclaimed exhibition Dan Flavin: A Retrospective, which opened in October 2004 at the National Gallery of Art, Washington. Dan Flavin: New Light includes essays that respond to this exhibition and to the renewed i ..."
The Infinite Line Re-making Art After Modernism by BrionyFer Hardcover, 232 Pages, Published 2004 by Yale University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-300-10401-1, ISBN: 0-300-10401-4
"A fresh perspective on some important twentieth-century artThis landmark book offers a radical reinterpretation of the innovative art of the late 1950s and 1960s. Examining the work of major artists of the period—including Mark Rothko, Piero Manzoni, Agnes Martin, Dan Flavin, Eva Hesse, Blinky Palermo, and Louise Bourgeois—Briony Fer focuses on the overriding tendency toward repetition and seriality that occurred at the moment of modern ..."
"Alison Wilding RA (b.1948) is one of Britain#39;s foremost sculptors. Tracing the trajectory of her artistic evolution, this original publication provides the first critical survey of Wilding#39;s rich career. Known for her use of contrasting materials and often pairing forms in precarious juxtapositions and balancing acts, recent works combine string, steel and hair, mirrored glass, silicone rubber, alabaster, sand and painted foam. Re ..."
Eva Hesse(1st Edition) Studiowork by BrionyFer, Barcelona. Tapies Foundation Hardcover, 240 Pages, Published 2009 by The Fruitmarket Gallery ISBN-13: 978-0-300-13476-6, ISBN: 0-300-13476-2
"Throughout her career, Eva Hesse (1936--1970) produced a significant number of small, experimental works alongside her large-scale sculpture. These so-called test-pieces” were made in a wide range of materials, including latex, wire-mesh, sculp-metal, wax, and cheesecloth. Rather than considering them simply technical explorations, the art historian Briony Fer renames these small objects studiowork and argues that they put in question ..."
"Eva Hesse, a pivotal figure in the development of postwar international art, created paintings, sculpture, and works on paper that were striking in their beauty and playful sensibility. Although much has been written about Hesse's dramatic life - her childhood flight from Nazi Germany, her struggles to gain acceptance as a young female artist, her battle with cancer, and her tragic death in 1970 at the age of 34 - her art has yet to rec ..."
On Abstract Art(1st Edition) by BrionyFer Hardcover, 208 Pages, Published 1997 by Yale University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-300-06975-4, ISBN: 0-300-06975-8
"2, p. 262. 47 See Hans/Jean Arp: Le Temps des papiers dechires (exh. cat.),
Musee National d'Art Moderne, Paris, 1983. 48 Arp, 'And So the Circle Closed' (
1948), Arp on Arp, p. 248. 49 Arp, 'Looking', p. 15. 50 Ibid. 5 1 Hans Richter,
Dada: Art and Anti-Art, Thames and Hudson, London, 1965, p. 51. >:.
Huelsenbeck ... 68 Ibid., pp. 32-3. 69 See Maurice Merleau-Ponty on the look
which 'palpates' in The Visible and the Invisible, Nort ..."
Modern Art and Modernism Manet to Pollock. Block VIII [Units 17-18]. Russian Art and the Revolution (Modern Art and Modernism: Manet to Pollock.) by BrionyFer Paperback, 83 Pages, Published 1983 by The Open University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-335-11112-1, ISBN: 0-335-11112-2
"The term ?still life? signals the fundamental experience of painting for Milroy, encapsulating her fascination with the relation between stillness and movement, contemplation and action.0In 'Here & There', motifs of clothing and shoes are ..."
Richard Serra 2016 by BrionyFer Hardcover, 96 Pages, Published 2017 by Gagosian / Rizzoli ISBN-13: 978-0-8478-6119-4, ISBN: 0-8478-6119-8
"This catalogue documents Richard Serra's three concurrent exhibitions at Gagosian in 2016 and offers an in-depth look at his most recent work. This book will attract admirers of Serra, as well as contemporary art enthusiasts. This beautiful volume highlights new work by the pioneer of large-scale, site-specific sculptures, Richard Serra. With stunning black-and-white photographs and an insightful text, Serra's awe-inspiring sculptures a ..."
"The critically acclaimed, indispensible illustrated monograph on Agnes Martin, published to accompany the major retrospective exhibition organized by the Tate and on view in 2016 at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the GuggenheimThis groundbreaking survey provides an in-depth account of Martin's artistic career, from lesser-known early experimental works through her striped and gridded grey paintings and use of color in various ..."
"Canadian-born Agnes Martin was one of the pre-eminent painters of the second half of the twentieth century, whose work has had a significant influence both on artists of her own time and for subsequent generations. A contemporary of the abstract expressionists though often identified with minimalism, Martin was of the few woman artists who came to prominence in the predominately masculine art world of the late 1950s and 1960s, and becam ..."
Alison Turnbull Exercise Book by BrionyFer, Alison Turnbull Paperback, 84 Pages, Published 2013 by De La Warr Pavilion ISBN-13: 978-0-9562866-4-2, ISBN: 0-9562866-4-X
"Recent exhibitions include: Alison Turnbull, Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh; Galápagos, Gulbenkian Galapagos Artists Residency Programme, and Observatory, Matt's Gallery, London.Published to accompany the exhibition at De La Warr Pavilion, ..."