2006
| "Klee and America explores the reasons for Paul Klee's enthusiastic reception in the United States, especially during the 1930s and 1940s. While the artist was targeted in Hitler's campaign against "degenerate art," and the European market for his work collapsed in 1933, his reputation grew among several key American collectors and museum curators, many of whom laid the groundwork for Klee's later success in the United States. This book presents a selection of Klee's finest "American" works from....[more] |
2007
| Josef Albers (1888-1976) was a highly influential painter, color theorist and teacher--a monumental figure in international post-war art and aesthetics; his wife and artistic equal, Anni Albers (1899-1994), created important textile artworks as well as spare and abstract paintings and drawings. Together, their artistic roots can be traced to the time they shared at the Bauhaus in Germany in the 1920s and early 1930s. After immigrating to the United States in 1933, the couple traveled regularly ....[more] |
2003
| One of the goals of Modernism was the presentation of the essence of art, or pure form. Encouraged by theorists, modern artists found pure form in ornament which, though promising, was sullied by connotations of materiality, domesticity, and femininity. Jenny Anger demonstrates that the decorative significantly informed Paul Klee's art. She compares his work to that of another major modernist, Henri Matisse, to confirm the critical role of the decorative in Modernism. Anger also explores the rel....[more] |
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