"An exceptional copy; fine in an equally fine dw. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 259 pages; Physical desc. : 259 p. : chiefly ill. (some col. ) ; 29 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-251) and indexes. Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Whitney Museum of American Art, Jun. 24 - 26 Sept. , 2004; the Museum of Contempora ..."
Joan Miro(Reprint) Selected Writings and Interviews by MargitRowell, Joan Miro, Paul Auster Paperback, 336 Pages, Published 1992 by Da Capo Press ISBN-13: 978-0-306-80485-4, ISBN: 0-306-80485-9
"For nearly seven decades the ebullient art of Joan Miro (1893-1983), Spanish painter, sculptor, ceramist and mythmaker, has intrigued and enchanted art lovers worldwide. This collection of his writings presents a portrait of the artist in his own words. Miro's notebooks, letters, and interviews reveal the work and life of a brilliant artist revered for his uncanny expression of the subconscious. "Joan Miro" centres on Paris during the v ..."
Modern Still Life by MargitRowell, Hayward Gallery Paperback, 231 Pages, Published 1997 by Museum Of Modern Art, New York Import ISBN-13: 978-0-87070-111-5, ISBN: 0-87070-111-8
"Tracing the still life through styles and periods from the beginning of the century to its end, the book includes a lavish plate section that makes its own eloquent argument for the genre's fascination and vitality."
"A deluxe slipcased boxed set that reunites the works of Joan Miró and Alexander Calder’s Constellations series. The sculptor Alexander Calder (1898-1976) and the painter Joan Miró (1893-1983) met in Paris in 1928 and became lifelong friends. This deluxe boxed set places the mobile sculptures of Calder alongside the poetical paintings of Miró and provides fresh insights into the visual dialogue between these two artists. The slipcased bo ..."
Objects of Desire by MargitRowell Paperback, 231 Pages, Published 1998 by National Touring Exhibitions (Hayward Gallery) ISBN-13: 978-1-85332-168-9, ISBN: 1-85332-168-0
"Tracing the still life through styles and periods from the beginning of the century to its end, the book includes a lavish plate section that makes its own eloquent argument for the genre's fascination and vitality."
"Sigmar Polke: Works on Paper, 1963-1974 accompanies the Museum of Modern Art's exhibition of drawings, watercolors, and gouaches by this famous German painter. Polke's works on paper are beautiful and funny with strong tinges of emotion. Potato Heads: Nixon and Khrushchev, from 1965, is a colorful watercolor line drawing of two world leaders with bulbous heads and green polka dots. His almost-comic-book style can be both sweet, as in Yo ..."
"Russian avant-garde books made between 1910 and 1934 reflect a vivid and tumultuous period in that nation's history that had ramifications for art, society, and politics. The early books, with their variously sized pages of coarse paper, illustrations entwined with printed, hand-written, and stamped texts, and provocative covers, were intended to shock academic conventions and bourgeois sensibilities. After the 1917 Revolution, books ap ..."
"This book is the first in-depth study of the still life as interpreted and transformed by avant-garde artists of the 20th century. Published to accompany a major exhibition opening in May 1997 at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Objects of Desire traces a radical rethinking iof the genre ion terms of subject matter and formal invention.Through unprecedented juxtapositions of works by 56 artist, Objects of Desire profiled the changing ..."
Sigmar Polke(1st Edition) Works On Paper by MargitRowell, Michael Semff, Bice Curiger, Sigmar Polke Hardcover, 200 Pages, Published 2002 by The Museum Of Modern Art, New York Illustrated, International Edition ISBN-13: 978-0-87070-082-8, ISBN: 0-87070-082-0
"Sigmar Polke: Works on Paper, 1963-1974 accompanies the Museum of Modern Art's exhibition of drawings, watercolors, and gouaches by this famous German painter. Polke's works on paper are beautiful and funny with strong tinges of emotion. Potato Heads: Nixon and Khrushchev, from 1965, is a colorful watercolor line drawing of two world leaders with bulbous heads and green polka dots. His almost-comic-book style can be both sweet, as in Yo ..."
"Marked by bold innovations in graphic design combined with daring experimentation in poetry, Russian avant-garde books are at last receiving the accolades and scholarly attention they merit. This astonishing volume includes a diverse assortment of over 300 of these artist's books by Kazimir Malevich, El Lissitzky, Aleksandr Rodchenko, and Natalia Goncharova, among other well-known members of the Russian avant-garde. Often handmade ..."
"In twentieth-century sculpture, one name towers above all others: Romanian-born Constantin Brancusi (1876-1957). This book accompanies a major retrospective exhibition of Brancusi's sculpture, drawings, and photographs, organized by the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris. Profusely illustrated throughout, with photographs by the artist and images culled from a wide range of archival sources, it is the most ..."
Miro(1st Edition) by MargitRowell, Joan Miró Hardcover, 211 Pages, Published 1971 by Harry N. Abrams ISBN-13: 978-0-8109-0306-7, ISBN: 0-8109-0306-7
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Luciano Fabro Reinventing Sculpture by MargitRowell Published 2023 by Monacelli Press ISBN-13: 978-1-58093-611-8, ISBN: 1-58093-611-3
"The definitive monograph on the work of sculptor, installation artist, and Arte Povera pioneer Luciano Fabro Luciano Fabro was a founding member, and later leading critic, of Arte Povera, the materials- and experience-based art movement ..."
"His unique innovations in the medium of wood--constructed three-dimensional grids and planes known as maderas--foreshadow later artistic developments in Europe and the Americas (such as the work of Louise Nevelson)."
"Ed Ruscha's relationship to photography is complex and ambivalent. The world-class painter--and author of a 1972 New York Times article called "'I'm Not Really a Photographer'"--has been known to refer to his work in this second medium as a "hobby," despite considerable, persistent critical interest. Whether he likes it or not, the small albums of plainly-shot, snapshot-sized images he produced in the 1960s and 70s, including Twenty-Six ..."
""A great artist is never a closed subject, but this catalogue is a milestone production, as useful as it is beautiful." -- Norbert Lynton, The Art Book In twentieth-century sculpture, one name towers above all others: Romanian-born Constantin Brancusi (1876-1957). This book accompanies a major retrospective exhibition of Brancusi's sculpture, drawings, and photographs, organized by the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Centre Georges ..."