Hilton Kramer

The Age of the Avant-garde

1956-1972

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Produktbeschreibung

Hilton Kramer, well known as perhaps the most perceptive, courageous, and influential art critic in America, is also the founder and co-editor (with Roger Kimball) of The New Criterion

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 646
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 155mm x 46mm
• Gewicht: 930g
• ISBN-13: 9781412808347
• ISBN-10: 1412808340
• Artikelnr.: 23885672

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Hilton Kramer

Inhaltsangabe

I: The Age of the Avant-Garde
The Age of the Avant-Garde
II: The Nineteenth Century
1: The Turner Revival
2: The Radicalism of Courbet
3: Late Monet
4: The Conscience of Impressionism
5: Degas as Expressionist
6: Neo-Impressionism
7: Odilon Redon: "The Medium of Mind"
8: Medardo Rosso
9: Simeon Solomon: Preview of a Revival
10: The Pre-Raphaelite Revival
11: Rediscovering Puvis de Chavannes
12: Aubrey Beardsley: The Erotic and the Exquisite
13: The Erotic Style
14: Whistler: Choosing London over Paris
15: Whistler in the Seminar Room
16: Mary Cassatt: An American in Paris
17: The Stratagems of Realism
III: The Twentieth Century: Germans and Other Northerners
1: Lovis Corinth
2: Edvard Munch
3: The Rebellion of Oskar Kokoschka
4: Egon Schiele
5: Nolde: An Aggrieved Solitary
6: Kirchner and Expressionism
7: Feininger: A Visionary Cubist
8: George Grosz: A Moral Recoil
9: Poet and Pedagogue: Paul Klee
10: Max Beckmann: "The Quality of Pulsating Life"
11: Kandinsky: Theosophy and Abstraction
12: Kandinsky: The Last Decade
13: Mondrian's Freedom
14: Moholy-Nagy
15: Rodchenko: Art in the Service of Revolution
16: Thinking about Tatlin
17: "The World of Art" in Exile
18: Oskar Schlemmer's Abstract Universe
19: Walter Sickert and the Malaise of English Painting
20: Epstein in London
21: Barbara Hepworth: From the Avant-Garde to the Establishment
22: Henry Moore: A Very English Romantic
The Twentieth Century: The School of Paris
1: Matisse: The Paintings
2: Matisse: The Sculpture
3: Bourdelle: The Age of Innocence
4: Vuillard
5: Bonnard's Drawings
6: Picasso's Radical Inventions
7: Picasso's "Guitar"
8: Were These Braque's "Great Years"?
9: Juan Gris
10: The Conversion of Julio Gonzalez
11: Laurens: "The Ripening of Forms"
12: Lipchitz's Eloquence
13: Chagall
14: Soutine and the Problem of Expressionism
15: Modigliani: Reconsidering a "Little Master"
16: Miró: Enchanted Objects
17: Arp: Purity of Heart, Purity of Form
18: The Two Archipenkos
19: Late Léger
20: Duchamp: Resplendent Triviality
21: Dali
22: Picabia's Dada Holiday
23: Torres-Garcia: Scenario of Exile
24: Giacometti
The Twentieth Century: Americans
1: Reflections on Lachaise
2: Prendergast
3: Marsden Hartley: The Return of the Native
4: The Loneliness of Arthur Dove
5: The Ordeal of Alfred Maurer
6: Introducing H. Lyman Sayen
7: Man Ray's Self-Portrait
8: Arnold Friedman: "He Is Not a Pleasant Painter"
9: Charles Sheeler: American Pastoral
10: The Return of John Storrs
11: The Legendary John Graham
12: Walkowitz
13: Edward Hopper: An American Vision
14: The Sculpture of Saul Baizerman
15: Romaine Brooks
16: Arshile Gorky: Between Two Worlds
17: The Confidence of Milton Avery
IV: Contemporaries
1: The Sculpture of David Smith
2: The Jackson Pollock Myth
3: Robert Motherwell
4: Willem de Kooning
5: Ad Reinhardt
6: Jean Dubuffet: Playing the Primitive
7: Hofmann in Perspective
8: Albers
9: Louise Nevelson
10: Joseph Cornell's Baudelairean "Voyage"
11: Balthus
12: The Problem of Francis Bacon
13: The Comic Fantasies of Saul Steinberg
14: Isamu Noguchi
15: "Homage to Trajan"
16: José de Rivera
17: Hélion: Returning from the Absolute
18: Helen Frankenthaler: "The Landscape Paradigm"
19: Mark di Suvero
20: Anthony Caro
21: Frank Stella
22: Robert Morris: The Triumph of Ideas over Art
23: An Art of Boredom?
24: Claes Oldenburg
25: Matta: Style vs. Ideology
26: Prague: 1969
27: Jean Ipousteguy
28: Nicolas de Staël
29: Fairfield Porter: Against the Historical Grain
30: Expressionism plus Objects: The Art of Jim Dine
31: Lindner's Dream
32: The Futurism of Ernest Trova
33: Plebeian Figures, Banal Anecdotes: The Tableaux of George Segal
34: Philip Pearlstein
35: Ellsworth Kelly
36: Mary Frank
37: Richard Hunt
38: Leland Bell: Painting in the Shadow of the Museum
39: Dude-Ranch Dada
40: Anne Arnold's Peaceable Kingdom
41: Alex Katz
42: Comedies of Manners: Cecil Beaton and David Hockney
43: The Sculpture of William King
V: The Art of Photography
1: The Classicism of Henri Cartier-Bresson
2: Edward Weston's Privy and the Mexican Revolution
3: Paul Strand
4: Bill Brandt
5: Walker Evans and Henri Cartier-Bresson
6: From Fashion to Freaks: Diane Arbus
VI: Critics
1: A Critic on the Side of History: Notes on Clement Greenberg
2: The Contradictions of Herbert Read
3: The Strange Case of Harold Rosenberg
VII: Into the Seventies
1: "Information"
2: Art and Politics: Incursions and Conversions
3: Avant-Gardism
4: And Now . . . Pop Art: Phase II
5: William Bailey and the Artifice of Realism
6: Andy's "Mao" and Other Entertainments
7: The Return of "Handmade" Painting
8: Documenta 5: The Bayreuth of the Neo-Dadaists