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Andrew Wyeth: Life and Death by Andrew Wyeth (Artist); Tanya Sheehan (Editor); Jacqueline Terrassa (Foreword by); Karen Baumgartner (Text by); Rachael DeLue (Text by); Alexander Nemerov (Text by)
Category: Art and Design
Presenting recently rediscovered drawings, Life and Death explores what it means for an artist to picture their own death, in both the context of Wyeth's late career and contemporary American artThis volume presents for the first time a recently rediscovered series of pencil drawings from the early 1990 ...Show more
Fierce Poise - Helen Frankenthaler and 1950s New York by Alexander Nemerov
Category: Art and Design
A dazzling biography of one of the twentieth century's most respected painters, Helen Frankenthaler, as she came of age as an artist in postwar New York. The magic of Alexander Nemerov's portrait of Helen Frankenthaler in Fierce Poise is that it reads like one of Helen's paintings. His poetic descripti ...Show more
Fierce Poise - Helen Frankenthaler and 1950s New York by Alexander Nemerov
Category: Art and Design
At the dawn of the 1950s, a promising and dedicated young painter named Helen Frankenthaler, fresh out of college, moved back home to New York City to make her name. By the decade's end, she had succeeded in establishing herself as an important American artist of the postwar period. In the years in betw ...Show more
For America - Paintings from the National Academy of Design by Akela Reason (Contribution by); Jennifer Greenhill (Contribution by); Kimia Shahi (Contribution by); Jonathan F. Walz (Contribution by); Alexander Nemerov (Contribution by); Alona C. Wilson (Contribution by); Patricia Hills (Contribution by); Jarrett Earnest (Contribution by); Jeremiah William McCarthy (Editor); Diana Thompson (Editor); Susan Rather (Contribution by); Elizabeth Spear (Contribution by); Kenneth Haltman (Contribution by)
Category: Art and Design
A sweeping look at the ways American artists have viewed themselves, their peers, and their painted worlds over two centuries This stunning book provides an unprecedented glimpse into the past two centuries of American art, tracing artistic tradition and innovation at the National Academy of Design fro ...Show more
Mark Rothko by Christopher Rothko, Kate Rothko Prizel, Alexander Nemerov, Hiroshi Sugimoto
Category: Art and Design
A landmark monograph on an unprecedented scale that allows all aspects of Mark Rothko's career to be heard in full voice, published in close collaboration with the artist's family and featuring beloved works from major collections as well as never-before-seen canvases and paintings on paper. Deluxe and ...Show more
Summoning Pearl Harbor by Alexander Nemerov
Category: Art | Series: Ekphrasis
Summoning Pearl Harbor is a mesmerizing display of linguistic force that redefines remembering. How do words make the past appear? In what way does the historian summon bygone events? What is this kind of remembering, and for whom do we recall the dead, or the past? In this highly original meditation on ...Show more
True Grit - American Prints from 1900 to 1950 by Stephanie Schrader; James Glisson; Alexander Nemerov
Category: Art and Photography
An engaging look at early twentieth-century American printmaking, which frequently focused on the crowded, chaotic, and "gritty" modern city. In the first half of the twentieth century, a group of American artists influenced by the painter and teacher Robert Henri aimed to reject the pretenses of acade ...Show more
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