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iBauhaus(Illustrated)
The iPhone as the Embodiment of Bauhaus Ideals and Design
by Nicholas Fox Weber
Hardcover, 272 Pages, Published 2020 by Knopf
ISBN-13: 978-0-525-65728-6, ISBN: 0-525-65728-2

"A rich, wide-ranging meditation on the iPhone as direct descendant of the 1930s Bauhaus, one of the twentieth century's most influential schools of art and design (summed up in Mies van der Rohe's dictum, "less is more") whose principle aim was to connect art and industry. From one of the leading authorities on the Bauhaus and modernism.Nicholas Fox Weber, in this deft, entertaining, and brilliant rumination on art and technology, write ..."






Freud's Trip to Orvieto(1st Edition)
The Great Doctor's Unresolved Confrontation with Antisemitism, Death, and Homoeroticism; His Passion for Paintings; and the Writer in His Footsteps
by Nicholas Fox Weber
Hardcover, 352 Pages, Published 2017 by Bellevue Literary Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-942658-26-9, ISBN: 1-942658-26-5

""[An] unusual meditation on sex, death, art, and Jewishness. . . . Weber weaves in musings on his own sexual and religious experiences, creating a freewheeling psychoanalytic document whose approach would surely delight the doctor, even if its conclusions might surprise him." ―New Yorker"Freud's Trip to Orvieto is at once profound and wonderfully diverse, and as gripping as any detective story. Nicholas Fox Weber mixes psychoanalysis, a ..."






Balthus(Reprint)
A Biography (Dalkey Archive Scholarly)
by Nicholas Fox Weber
Paperback, 644 Pages, Published 2014 by Dalkey Archive Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-56478-992-1, ISBN: 1-56478-992-6

"This is the first full-scale biography of one of the most elusive and enigmatic painters of our time: the self-proclaimed Count Balthus Klossowski de Rola, whose brilliant, markedly sexualized portraits, especially of young girls, are among the most memorable images in contemporary art. Balthus s complexities are clarified and his genius understood in this book that derives its immediacy from Nicholas Fox Weber s long and intense conver ..."






Interaction of Color
Revised and Expanded Edition
by Josef Albers, Nicholas Fox Weber
Paperback, 208 Pages, Published 2013 by Yale University Press
Deluxe Edition
ISBN-13: 978-0-300-17935-4, ISBN: 0-300-17935-9

"The 50th anniversary edition of a classic text, featuring an expanded selection of color studies Josef Albers’s Interaction of Color is a masterwork in art education. Conceived as a handbook and teaching aid for artists, instructors, and students, this influential book presents Albers’s singular explanation of complex color theory principles.   Originally published by Yale University Press in 1963 as a limited silkscreen edition with 15 ..."






On Weaving(Updated)
New Expanded Edition
by Anni Albers, Manuel Cirauqui, Nicholas Fox Weber, T`Ai Smith, T'ai Smith
Hardcover, 272 Pages, Published 2017 by Princeton University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-691-17785-4, ISBN: 0-691-17785-6

"The classic book on the art and history of weaving--now expanded and in full color Written by one of the twentieth century's leading textile artists, this splendidly illustrated book is a luminous meditation on the art of weaving, its history, its tools and techniques, and its implications for modern design. First published in 1965, On Weaving bridges the transition between handcraft and the machine-made, highlighting the essential impo ..."






Anni Albers
by Ann Coxon, Briony Fer, Maria Müller-Schareck, Magdalena Droste, Brenda Danilowitz, Priyesh Mistry, T'ai Smith, María Minera, Nicholas Fox Weber, Jennifer Reynolds-Kaye, Marã­A Minera, Maria Mueller-Schareck
Hardcover, 192 Pages, Published 2018 by Yale University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-300-23725-2, ISBN: 0-300-23725-1

"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 ..."






The Bauhaus Group(1st Edition)
Six Masters of Modernism
by Nicholas Fox Weber
Hardcover, 544 Pages, Published 2009 by Knopf
Deckle Edge
ISBN-13: 978-0-307-26836-5, ISBN: 0-307-26836-5

"Nicholas Fox Weber, for thirty-three years head of the Albers Foundation, spent many years with Anni and Josef Albers, the only husband-and-wife artistic pair at the Bauhaus (she was a textile artist; he a professor and an artist, in glass, metal, wood, and photography). The Alberses told him their own stories and described life at the Bauhaus with their fellow artists and teachers, Walter Gropius, Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky, Ludwig M ..."






Le Corbusier(1st Edition)
A Life
by Nicholas Fox Weber
Hardcover, 848 Pages, Published 2008 by Knopf
Illustré, Séquence Inédite
ISBN-13: 978-0-375-41043-7, ISBN: 0-375-41043-0

"From acclaimed biographer and cultural historian, author of Balthus and Patron Saints—the first full-scale life of le Corbusier, one of the most influential, admired, and maligned architects of the twentieth century, heralded is a prophet in his lifetime, revered as a god after his death.He was a leader of the modernist movement that sought to create better living conditions and a better society through housing concepts. He predicted th ..."






The Clarks of Cooperstown(1st Edition)
Their Singer Sewing Machine Fortune, Their Great and Influential Art Collections, Their Forty-Year Feud
by Nicholas Fox Weber
Hardcover, 448 Pages, Published 2007 by Knopf
Deckle Edge
ISBN-13: 978-0-307-26347-6, ISBN: 0-307-26347-9

"Nicholas Fox Weber, author of the acclaimed Patron Saints (“Exhilarating avant-garde entertainment”—Sam Hunter, The New York Times Book Review) and Balthus (“The authoritative account of his life and work”—Michael Ravitch, Newsday), gives us now the idiosyncratic lives of Sterling and Stephen Clark—two of America’s greatest art collectors, heirs to the Singer sewing machine fortune, and for decades enemies of each other. He tells the st ..."






Balthus(1st Edition)
A Biography
by Nicholas Fox Weber, Balthasar Klossowski Balthus, Nicholas Weber Balthus
Hardcover, 656 Pages, Published 1999 by Knopf
ISBN-13: 978-0-679-40737-9, ISBN: 0-679-40737-5

"The first full-scale biography of one of the most elusive and enigmatic painters of our time -- the self-proclaimed Count Balthus Klossowski de Rola -- whose brilliantly rendered, markedly sexualized portraits, especially of young girls, are among the most memorable images in contemporary art.The story of Balthus's life has been shrouded by contradiction and hearsay, most of it his own invention; over the years he created for himself a ..."






Art of Babar(Updated)
by Nicholas Fox Weber
Paperback, 192 Pages, Published 1995 by Harry N. Abrams
ISBN-13: 978-0-8109-2624-0, ISBN: 0-8109-2624-5

"His tales translated into 17 languages, Babar the elephant fled the jungle and entered Western civilization in 1931 in a book by the de Brunhoffs. Here, for the first itme, is a fascinating look at the story behind Babar and his creators. 280 illustrations, 256 in full color."






Interaction of Color
New Complete Edition
by Josef Albers, Nicholas Fox Weber
Hardcover, 2 Pages, Published 2009 by Yale University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-300-14693-6, ISBN: 0-300-14693-0

"A luxurious new 2-volume edition of the full set of original plates, text,  and commentary One of the most influential books on color ever published, Josef Albers’s Interaction of Color is a masterwork. Originally issued in 1963 as a limited-edition set of commentary and 150 silkscreened color plates, the book introduced generations of students, artists, designers, and collectors to Albers’s unique approach to complex principles. While ..."






Josef Albers(1st Edition)
Glass, Color, and Light (Guggenheim Museum)
by Fred Licht, Nicholas Fox Weber, Josef Albers Foundation., Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Brenda Danilowitz, Philip Rylands, Et. Al
Hardcover, 152 Pages, Published 1994 by Solomon R Guggenheim Museum
ISBN-13: 978-0-8109-6864-6, ISBN: 0-8109-6864-9

"As a master at Germany's Bauhaus until 1933, and then as a professor in American schools such as Black Mountain College and Yale University, Josef Albers (1888-1976) influenced scores of young artists. His Homage to the Square series of paintings remains a touchstone of twentieth-century art. Yet Albers's first great works of art - the glass pictures that he made in Germany starting in 1921 - remain little known. First using found fragm ..."






Patron Saints(1st Edition)
Five Rebels Who Opened America to a New Art 1928-1943
by Nicholas Fox Weber
Hardcover, 398 Pages, Published 1992 by Knopf
ISBN-13: 978-0-394-57854-5, ISBN: 0-394-57854-6

"This work of cultural history tells the stories of five young art patrons - Lincoln Kirstein, Edward M.M. Warburg, Agnes Mongan, James Thrall Soby and A. Everett (Chick) Austin, Jr - who, in the late 1920s and 1930s, were instrumental in bringing modern painting, sculpture and dance to America."






Freud's Trip to Orvieto
The Great Doctor's Unresolved Confrontation with Antisemitism, Death, and Homoeroticism; His Passion for Paintings; and the Writer in His Footsteps
by Nicholas Fox Weber
352 Pages, Published 2017 by Bellevue Literary Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-942658-27-6, ISBN: 1-942658-27-3

"know who translated the material from Freud's letters to Fliess that the Karpes quote, but Jeffrey Masson's rendition of these letters ... Throughout this book, I have used the Strachey translation. ... to see that, in 2005, they had published Sigmund Freud's Notre coeur tend vers le sud: Correspondance de voyage, 1895 –1923."






Patron Saints
Five Rebels Who Opened America to a New Art 1928-1943
by Nicholas Fox Weber
398 Pages, Published 2014 by Knopf
ISBN-13: 978-0-8041-5402-4, ISBN: 0-8041-5402-3

"Nowitbores me,”39 Balthus wrote. After holding the painting for several months, theartist returned it with the boy'shand moved upward and the extended fingers bent inward, folded intoafist locked safely overthe girl'sdress. When Soby had first brought The Street home to Farmington, it did more than startleviewers with its naughtiness.The subtle mystery of its frieze of characters rivetedahandful of cognoscenti. There was a lot toma ..."






Balthus
A Biography
by Nicholas Fox Weber
656 Pages, Published 2013 by Knopf
ISBN-13: 978-0-385-35276-5, ISBN: 0-385-35276-X

"... 3.1, 3.2 Lausanne, 3.1, 8.1, 24.1 Muzot in, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 4.1, 5.1, 6.1, 7.1 Rossiniere, 1.1, 8.1, 23.1, 23.2 Villa Diodati in, 3.1, 19.1, 19.2 Sylvester, David Taillade, Genevieve, 14.1, 14.2 Tate Gallery, London: Balthus retrospective ( 1968) in, 1.1, 2.1, 6.1, 19.1 catalog of,1.1,2.1,3.1,6.1,8.1,9.1,11.1,15.1 Taxis- Hohenlohe, Marie von Thurn und Tchelitchew, Pavel Tenniel, John Thaw, Eugene Victor, 7.1, 22.1 Theater of Cruel ..."






Patron Saints(Reprint)
Five Rebels Who Opened America to a New Art, 1928-1943
by Nicholas Fox Weber
Paperback, 416 Pages, Published 1995 by Yale University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-300-06448-3, ISBN: 0-300-06448-9

"Vicky Wilson, the editor of this book, has functioned much in the tradition of a great and perceptive teacher. She has constantly inspired me to stretch my thinking and consider new possibilities. And she has applied her rigorous intelligence with unfailing kindness. Gloria Loomis, my agent, has been my patron saint; I thank her for her warm understanding, alertness, and encouragement. Her guidance and acuity have become mainstays ..."






Josef Albers and Wassily Kandinsky
Friends in Exile: A Decade of Correspondence, 1929–1940
by Jessica Boissel, Nicholas Fox Weber
Paperback, 172 Pages, Published 2015 by Yale University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-300-21257-0, ISBN: 0-300-21257-7

"Josef Albers (1888–1976) and Wassily Kandinsky (1866–1944), artists and teachers at the Bauhaus, were exiled from Germany when the school was forced to close in the early 1930s. The 46 letters in this volume document the intimate exchange between these two friends in a period when the world was coming apart. Despite the tumult, each wrote to the other of his continuous creative evolution, while also providing rich impressions of his new ..."






The Drawings of Joseph Albers
by Nicholas Fox Weber, Josef: Albers, Nf Weber
Hardcover, 167 Pages, Published 1985 by Yale University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-300-03168-3, ISBN: 0-300-03168-8

"Slight soiling to top of book text block. Dust jacket protected in Brodart plastic covering. Pages are clean and unmarked. The binding is tight and intact. Internet,artist, o.s."



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