N.Y.) Jewish Museum (New York
Author
Publisher
The Jewish Museum
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
288 pages : illustrations (some color), plans, portraits ; 30 cm
Language
English
Description
The designer and architect Pierre Chareau (1883-1950) was a pivotal figure in modernism. His extraordinary Art Deco furniture is avidly collected and his visionary glass house, the Maison de Verre, is celebrated, but the breadth of his design genius has been little explored. Chareau linked architecture, fine arts, and style; designed furniture for avant-garde films and chic homes; collected artists such as Picasso and Mondrian; and was a radical innovator...
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
©2012
Physical Desc
xiii, 129 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In many of Edouard Vuillard's (1868-1940) most famous paintings, figures are nestled in intimate settings among bold patterns and colors. As the viewer's eye adjusts to the complexity of the scene, the artist's world opens up. At a young age, Vuillard was one of a group of avant-garde painters in Paris who favored rich palettes and dreamlike imagery. He was equally a member of the literary and theatrical circles that included writers like Marcel...
Author
Publisher
The Jewish Museum
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
168 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits, photographs ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
A new look at the art of one of the most charming and idiosyncratic personalities of early 20th-century New York Florine Stettheimer (1871-1944). Stettheimer was a New York original: a society lady who hosted an avant-garde salon in her Manhattan home, a bohemian and a flapper, a poet, a theater designer, and above all an influential painter with a sharp satirical wit. Stettheimer collaborated with Gertrude Stein and Virgil Thomson, befriended (and...
Author
Publisher
Jewish Museum
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
155 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
From 1952 to 1985, Louise Bourgeois (1911-2010) underwent extensive Freudian analysis that probed her family history, marriage, motherhood, and artistic ambition-and generated inspiration for her artwork. Examining the impact of psychoanalysis on Bourgeois's work, this volume offers insight into her creative process. Philip Larratt-Smith, Bourgeois's literary archivist, provides an overview of the artist's life and work and the ways in which the psychoanalytic...