Art Catalogue 2011:Layout 1 - Yale University Press

••• modern & contemporary art
In Giacometti’s Studio
Michael Peppiatt
This deeply engaging book introduces the reader to the
creative chaos of the tiny Parisian studio of the great
sculptor Alberto Giacometti, from the moment he and
his brother, Diego, arrived in 1927, with all their
possessions in a wheelbarrow, until Alberto’s death in
1966. Michael Peppiatt prefaces his story with a
poignant, personal narrative of how as a young man he
arrived in Paris with an introduction from Francis
Bacon to Giacometti; the encounter was forestalled by
the artist’s death, but Peppiatt instead got to know the
key people in Giacometti’s world. The book also examines how the studio, now
dismantled, seems to be both Giacometti’s most important artwork, encompassing
countless complete or unfinished works, and the archive of years of struggle.
“A breezy, readable overview of Giacometti’s career … Peppiatt is a lively author who
knows how to tell a good, pacy story, full of incident and fruitful speculation.”
—Alastair Sooke, The Daily Telegraph
“Peppiatt offers new insight into Giacometti, the man and his art.”
—Dalya Alberge, The Observer
“Giacometti, his works and his studio, are documented in numerous beautiful
photographs in this elegantly written book.”
—Martin Gayford, The Sunday Telegraph
“The book has a pleasingly personal feel to it.”—Michael Glover, The Independent
2010 224 pp. 120 colour illus. HB ISBN 978-0-300-09393-3 £35.00*
Exhibition: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
21 May – 6 September 2011; Grand Palais, Paris
3 October 2011 – 20 January 2012; Metropolitan
Museum of Art, 21 February – 3 June 2012
The Steins Collect
Matisse, Picasso, and the Parisian
Avant-Garde
Edited by Janet Bishop, Cécile Debray
and Rebecca Rabinow
This is the first in-depth exploration of
the groundbreaking art collections of
expatriate writer Gertrude Stein and her
family members; their relationships with
Matisse, Picasso and other artists; and
their impact on the art world.
Published in association with the San Francisco
Museum of Modern Art
June 2011 464 pp. 220 b/w + 400 colour illus.
HB ISBN 978-0-300-16941-6 £50.00*
Above the Battlefield
Modernism and the Peace Movement in
Britain, 1900–1918
Grace Brockington
This book explores the role of artists and
writers in the formation of a modern,
secular peace movement in Britain, and
the impact of ideas about ‘positive peace’
on their artistic practice.
Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies
in British Art
2010 272 pp. 90 b/w + 40 colour illus.
HB ISBN 978-0-300-15195-4 £35.00*
new & recent
Exhibition: Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth
29 May – 21 August 2011
Santa Barbara Museum of Art
17 September 2011 – 1 January 2012
Picasso and Braque
The Cubist Experiment, 1910–1912
Eik Kahng, Harry Cooper, Charles Palermo,
Christine Poggi, Annie Bourneuf,
Claire Barry and Bart Devolder
The first publication to focus on the last
two years of Analytic Cubism, a radical
and highly significant art movement
pioneered by artists Pablo Picasso and
Georges Braque.
Distributed for the Kimbell Art Museum
and the Santa Barbara Museum of Art
July 2011 128 pp. 90 colour illus.
Paper over Board ISBN 978-0-300-16971-3 £18.00*
Exhibition: The Jewish Museum, New York
6 May – 25 September 2011
Vancouver Art Gallery
2 June – 23 September 2012
Collecting Matisse
and Modern Masters
The Cone Sisters of Baltimore
Karen Levitov
The story of the Cone sisters, two of the
most important patrons of the Parisian
avant-garde, presented with 47 of the
most dazzling works from The Cone
Collection at The Baltimore Museum
of Art.
Distributed for The Jewish Museum, New York
June 2011 72 pp. 18 b/w + 62 colour illus.
Paper over Board ISBN 978-0-300-17021-4 £16.00*
Matisse
Radical Invention, 1913–1917
Stephanie D’Alessandro and John Elderfield
This book represents the first sustained
examination of Matisse’s output from
this important period.
“Beautiful and of exemplary
scholarship ... [an] essential,
scintillating addition to any library of
modern art.”—Jackie Wullschlager,
Financial Times
Distributed for the Art Institute of Chicago
2010 368 pp. 138 b/w + 515 colour illus.
HB ISBN 978-0-300-15527-3 £45.00*
La Prose du Transsibérien et de
la petite Jehanne de France
International Edition
Blaise Cendrars • Illustrations by Sonia Delaunay
Edited by Timothy Young
A full-colour, full-size (79 by 15 inches)
facsimile of the original 1913
collaboration between the poet Blaise
Cendrars and the artist Sonia Delaunay
that came to define the modern artist’s
book and stands as one of the most
beautiful books ever created.
2010
Boxed poster ISBN 978-0-300-16414-5 £25.00*
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