Art Catalogue 2011:Layout 1 - Yale University Press

••• modern & contemporary art
My Faraway One
Selected Letters of Georgia O’Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz:
Volume One, 1915–1933
Selected, annotated and edited by Sarah Greenough
There are few couples in the history of 20th-century
American art and culture more prominent than Georgia
O’Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz. Between 1915 and 1946
O’Keeffe and Stieglitz exchanged over 5,000 letters that
describe their daily lives in profoundly rich detail.
This long-awaited volume features some 650 letters,
carefully selected and annotated by leading photography
scholar Sarah Greenough.
Published in association with the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
June 2011 818 pp. 30 b/w illus. HB ISBN 978-0-300-16630-9 £28.00*
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Exhibition: Carnegie Museum of Art
5 February – 1 May 2011
Hammer Museum
22 May – 4 September 2011
Paul Thek
Diver, A Retrospective
Elisabeth Sussman and Lynn Zelevansky
With contributions by George Baker,
David Breslin, Eleonora Nagy,
Susanne Neubauer, Michael Nickel,
Scott Rothkopf and Ann Wilson
This overdue acknowledgment of Thek’s
brief, but broad-reaching career will be
the authoritative volume on the artist
for years to come.
Distributed for the Whitney Museum of American Art
2010 304 pp. 316 b/w & colour illus.
HB ISBN 978-0-300-16595-1 £45.00*
now in
paper
Andy Warhol
Arthur C. Danto
The eminent art critic and philosopher
Arthur Danto presents an elegant and
masterful portrait of Andy Warhol’s life,
character and lasting influence.
“Andy Warhol both distils the philosopher/
art critic’s best thinking on the artist
and offers searching new insights into
the artist’s body of work from the
1960’s.”— Richard Deming, Frieze
2010 192 pp. 6 b/w illus.
PB ISBN 978-0-300-16908-9 £12.99*
new & recent
To Make a World
George Ault and 1940s America
Alexander Nemerov
Exhibition: Smithsonian Museum of American Art
11 March – 5 September 2011
Other US venues
The first book in over twenty years on
the modern American painter George
Copeland Ault (1891–1948), focusing
on the hidden sentiments and
uncertainty that characterised the visual
culture of the 1940s.
Published in association with the Smithsonian
Museum of American Art
May 2011 156 pp. 35 b/w + 55 colour illus.
HB ISBN 978-0-300-17239-3 £35.00*
John Marin’s Watercolors
A Medium for Modernism
Martha Tedeschi with Kristi Dahm
With contributions by Ruth Fine, Charles
Pietraszewski and Christine Conniff-O’Shea
A lavishly illustrated exploration of
American modernist John Marin’s
artistic legacy and the first book to
present the Art Institute of Chicago’s
outstanding collection of his spectacular
watercolours.
Distributed for the Art Institute of Chicago
2011 192 pp. 37 b/w + 214 colour illus.
HB ISBN 978-0-300-16637-8 £35.00*
Exhibition: High Museum of Art, Atlanta
26 June – 11 September 2011
Exhibition: Portland Museum of Art, Maine
23 June – 9 October 2011
Plus other US venues
John Marin
Modernism at Midcentury
Debra Bricker Balken
The first publication to focus exclusively
on John Marin’s late works, resituating
them as important precursors to
Abstract Expressionist art.
Published in association with the Addison Gallery of
American Art and the Portland Museum of Art, Maine
June 2011 128 pp. 9 b/w + 74 colour illus.
HB ISBN 978-0-300-14993-7 £30.00*
Romare Bearden,
American Modernist
Edited by Ruth Fine and Jacqueline Francis
A career-spanning appreciation of the
art of American modernist Romare
Bearden, viewed in political, social,
philosophical and aesthetic contexts.
Published by the National Gallery of Art,
Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts/
Distributed by Yale University Press
2011 304 pp. 95 b/w + 105 colour illus.
HB ISBN 978-0-300-12161-2 £50.00*
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