Before Cortés, sculpture of Middle America: a centennial exhibition at the Metropolitan Museu…
by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), Jay I. Kislak Reference Collection (Library of Congress), Hoving, Thomas, Easby, Elizabeth Kennedy, Scott, John F., (John Fredrik), Easby, Dudley T., Jr.,, (Dudley Tate)
Emphasizing the diversity of collage in the twentieth century, Rona Cran's book explores the role that it played in the work of Joseph Cornell, William Burroughs, Frank O'Hara, and Bob Dylan. Collage's catalytic effect, Cran argues, enabled each to overcome a crisis in represent…
"In this book, conceptual artist Luis Camnitzer offers a firsthand account of conceptualism in Latin American art. Placing the evolution of conceptualism within the history of Latin American culture, he explores conceptualism as a strategy, rather than a style, in Latin American…
This book explores the cultural transfers and transformations that define the transatlantic Spanish world in the Baroque era.
"Studies the influence of the plastic arts on the major writers of Latin American Modernism"--Provided by publisher.
"In a work of great wisdom and insight, art critic and philosopher Arthur Danto delivers a compact, masterful tour of Andy Warhol's personal, artistic, and philosophical transformations. Danto traces the evolution of the pop artist, including his early reception, relationships w…
This volume traces a series of linked moments in the history of the crucial transfer of cultural power from the sphere of the word to that of the image. Levy explores the New York literary and art worlds in the years that bracket O'Hara's lament through close readings of the wor…
"Language has been a primary element in visual art since the 1960s - whether in the form of printed texts, painted signs, words on the wall or recorded speech. In 'Words to Be Looked At', Liz Kotz traces this practice to its beginnings, examining works of visual art, poetry, and…
Over the last half century Henri Cartier-Bresson has photographed some of the most famous icons of the twentieth century, those few people among millions whose images pass into history. Tete a Tete is a remarkable arrangement of his most memorable portraits, including Pablo Pica…