Greed Sculpture And Modern Art
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Greed Sculpture And Modern Art
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language : en
Publisher: CUP Archive
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Rogues Gallery
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Author : Michael Gross
language : en
Publisher: Crown
Release Date : 2009-05-05
Rogues Gallery written by Michael Gross and has been published by Crown this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-05-05 with Art categories.
“Behind almost every painting is a fortune and behind that a sin or a crime.” With these words as a starting point, Michael Gross, leading chronicler of the American rich, begins the first independent, unauthorized look at the saga of the nation’s greatest museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In this endlessly entertaining follow-up to his bestselling social history 740 Park, Gross pulls back the shades of secrecy that have long shrouded the upper class’s cultural and philanthropic ambitions and maneuvers. And he paints a revealing portrait of a previously hidden face of American wealth and power. The Metropolitan, Gross writes, “is a huge alchemical experiment, turning the worst of man’s attributes—extravagance, lust, gluttony, acquisitiveness, envy, avarice, greed, egotism, and pride—into the very best, transmuting deadly sins into priceless treasure.” The book covers the entire 138-year history of the Met, focusing on the museum’s most colorful characters. Opening with the lame-duck director Philippe de Montebello, the museum’s longest-serving leader who finally stepped down in 2008, Rogues’ Gallery then goes back to the very beginning, highlighting, among many others: the first director, Luigi Palma di Cesnola, an Italian-born epic phony, whose legacy is a trove of plundered ancient relics, some of which remain on display today; John Pierpont Morgan, the greatest capitalist and art collector of his day, who turned the museum from the plaything of a handful of rich amateurs into a professional operation dedicated, sort of, to the public good; John D. Rockefeller Jr., who never served the Met in any official capacity but who, during the Great Depression, proved the only man willing and rich enough to be its benefactor, which made him its behind-the-scenes puppeteer; the controversial Thomas Hoving, whose tenure as director during the sixties and seventies revolutionized museums around the world but left the Met in chaos; and Jane Engelhard and Annette de la Renta, a mother-daughter trustee tag team whose stories will astonish you (think Casablanca rewritten by Edith Wharton). With a supporting cast that includes artists, forgers, and looters, financial geniuses and scoundrels, museum officers (like its chairman Arthur Amory Houghton, head of Corning Glass, who once ripped apart a priceless and ancient Islamic book in order to sell it off piecemeal), trustees (like Jayne Wrightsman, the Hollywood party girl turned society grand dame), curators (like the aging Dietrich von Bothmer, a refugee from Nazi Germany with a Bronze Star for heroism whose greatest acquisitions turned out to be looted), and donors (like Irwin Untermyer, whose collecting obsession drove his wife and children to suicide), and with cameo appearances by everyone from Vogue editors Anna Wintour and Diana Vreeland to Sex Pistols front man Johnny Rotten, Rogues’ Gallery is a rich, satisfying, alternately hilarious and horrifying look at America’s upper class, and what is perhaps its greatest creation.
Against The Grain
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Author : Edward R. Broida
language : en
Publisher: The Museum of Modern Art
Release Date : 2006
Against The Grain written by Edward R. Broida and has been published by The Museum of Modern Art this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Art categories.
Against the Grain ISBN 0-87070-090-1 / 978-0-87070-090-3 Hardcover, 8.5 x 9.75 in. / 128 pgs / 86 color. / U.S. $40.00 CDN $48.00 August / Art
High Low
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Author : Kirk Varnedoe
language : en
Publisher: ABRAMS
Release Date : 1990
High Low written by Kirk Varnedoe and has been published by ABRAMS this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with Architecture categories.
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Moma Masterpieces
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Author : Ann Temkin
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015
Moma Masterpieces written by Ann Temkin and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with Art categories.
Since its founding in 1929, The Museum of Modern Art in New York has brought the history of modern and contemporary art to vivid life through its extraordinary holdings. MoMA Masterpieces provides a fresh look at the Museum's exceptional collection as it stands today. Ann Temkin's introduction addresses the historical construction of the Museum's collection and explores the shifting issues that have guided its acquisitions, while the thoughtful selection of reproduced works highlights the range of artworks and ideas that constitute the evolving foundation of the Museum's collection. With 126 years spanning the distance between the works on the first and last pages of this book, MoMA Masterpieces offers an unparalleled opportunity to immerse oneself in the multitude of artistic approaches encompassed under the banner of modern art.
Rogues Gallery
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Author : Philip Hook
language : en
Publisher: Profile Books
Release Date : 2017-01-26
Rogues Gallery written by Philip Hook and has been published by Profile Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-01-26 with Art categories.
Philip Hook takes the lid off the world of art dealing to reveal the brilliance, cunning, greed and daring of its practitioners. In a richly anecdotal narrative he describes the rise and occasional fall of the extraordinary men and women who over the centuries have made it their business to sell art to kings, merchants, nobles, entrepreneurs and museums. From its beginnings in Antwerp, where paintings were sometimes sold by weight, to the rich hauteur of the contemporary gallery in London, Paris and New York, art dealing has been about identifying what is intangible but infinitely desirable, and then finding clients for whom it is irresistible. Those who have purveyed art for a living range from tailors, spies and the occasional anarchist to scholars, aristocrats, merchants and connoisseurs, each variously motivated by greed, belief in their own vision of art and its history, or simply the will to win. The cast of characters includes Paul Durand-Ruel, the Impressionists' champion; Herwath Walden, who first brought Modernism into the limelight; Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, high priest of Cubism; Leo Castelli, dealer-midwife to Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art; and Peter Wilson, the charismatic Sotheby's chairman who made the auction room theatre. Philip Hook's history is one of human folly, greed and duplicity, interspersed with ingenuity, inspiration and acts of heroism. Rogues' Gallery is learned, witty and irresistibly readable.
Contemporary Sculpture And The Critique Of Display Cultures
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Author : Dan Adler
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2018-08-14
Contemporary Sculpture And The Critique Of Display Cultures written by Dan Adler and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-08-14 with Art categories.
In this book, Dan Adler addresses recent tendencies in contemporary art toward assemblage sculpture and how these works incorporate tainted materials – often things left on the side of the road, according to the logic and progress of the capitalist machine – and combine them in ways that allow each element to retain a degree of empirical specificity. Adler develops a range of aesthetic models through which these practices can be understood to function critically. Each chapter focuses on a single exhibition: Isa Genzken’s "OIL" (German Pavilion, Venice Biennale, 2007), Geoffrey Farmer’s midcareer survey (Musée d’art contemporain, Montréal, 2008), Rachel Harrison’s "Consider the Lobster" (CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art, 2009), and Liz Magor’s "The Mouth and Other Storage Facilities" (Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, 2008).
Why A Painting Is Like A Pizza
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Author : Nancy Heller
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2002-10-13
Why A Painting Is Like A Pizza written by Nancy Heller and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-10-13 with Art categories.
Comparing modern art not only to pizzas but also to traditional and children's art, a professor of art history shows readers how people can refine analytical tools they already possess to understand and enjoy even the most unfamiliar paintings and sculptures. 49 color illustrations. 40 halftones.
The Decorative Arts Their Relation To Modern Life And Progress An Address
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Author : William Morris
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1877
The Decorative Arts Their Relation To Modern Life And Progress An Address written by William Morris and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1877 with categories.
High Low
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Author : Kirk Varnedoe
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1990
High Low written by Kirk Varnedoe and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with categories.