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The many masks of modern art
- Title
- The many masks of modern art / Theodore F. Wolff.
- Author
- Wolff, Theodore F.
- Publication
- Boston, Mass. : Books from the Christian Science Monitor, ©1989.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | N6490 .W65 1989 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xiii, 205 pages : illustrations (some color); 27 cm
- Subject
- Note
- "The articles in this book originally appeared in The Christian Science Monitor from 1980 to 1988"--T.p. verso.
- Contents
- 20th century art : introducing a broader view / Andrew Wyeth and Jackson Pollock -- The full diversity of art / Andrew Wyeth -- Awakening to a deeper consciousness / Edvard Munch -- Morality and the art of Georges Rouault / Georges Rouault -- The question of identity in 20th century art / Alberto Giacometti -- The narrow thread of humanism in Modern art / Käthe Kollwitz -- Severing the umbilical cord / Laszlo Moholy-Nagy and Charles Sheeler -- Focusing on the irreducible / Piet Mondrian and Edward Hopper -- The influence of dogma in American art / John Steuart Curry -- State of the arts : confused, contradictory, healthy / Stow Wengenroth -- Translating the principles of nature / Alexander Calder -- Paul Klee : letting spirit and intuition take over / Paul Klee -- Warhol : a mirror of his times / Andy Warhol.
- Reconciling art with the primal forces of life / Theodoros Stamos -- Chagall : art as a high wire act / Marc Chagall -- Sculpture pregnant with meaning / Constantin Brancusi -- Satire : a tricky business / Grant Wood -- Private treasure troves / Joseph Cornell -- Freshness, joy, guiltlessness in art / Ida Kohlmeyer -- Art : denying chaos, defeating despair / David Ray -- Looking at art with the heart, not the head / Robert Natkin -- Charles Burchfield, American maverick / Charles Burchfield -- Giving credit where credit is due / Norman Rockwell -- Kinesthetic experiences re-attuned by Athena Tacha / Athena Tacha -- The eccentricity of Ivan Albright / Ivan Albright -- Humanity in art / Raphael Soyer -- Creative intuition in art / Roy De Forest.
- Morris Graves : art in fleeting glimpses / Morris Graves -- I like it, but is it art? / Jasper Johns -- Art in touch with the divine / Giorgio Morandi -- If it's unemotional, is it art? / Chuck Close -- Georgia O'Keeffe : appearances / Georgia O'Keeffe -- Finding art in the everyday / Joan Sloan -- What links Dürer and Milton? / Peter Milton -- How does an artist grow? / Richard Diebenkorn -- Drawing : a highly intuitive act / James Schmidt -- Art unified, consistent, and whole / Paul Cézanne -- Rothko : art as meditation / Mark Rothko -- Art as a public event / Mel Leiserowitz -- The artist as iconoclast / Jonathan Borofsky -- Art celebrating life / "Grandma" Moses -- Who says portraits for pay have to be bad? / Sarah Swenson -- Gouged, scratched, scumbled, beautiful / Enrico Donati.
- The delights of sketching / Paula Modersohn-Becker -- Small, unassuming, profound / Morris Graves -- Paintings to walk around in / Winslow Homer -- Neighbors as art / John Ahearn -- More talent than fame / Hyman Bloom -- The matter of talent / Henri Matisse -- Painters of nouns and verbs / Igor Galanin and John Marin -- Andrew Wyeth : beyond Helga / Andre Wyeth -- Face to face / Theodore F. Wolff -- Out in the sun and the wind / Jessie Benton-Evans -- The sculptor as herdsman / Leslie Bohnenkamp -- Morality plays of Jerome Witkin / Jerome Witkin -- What Rembrandt has to teach us : dignity, character, compassion / Rembrandt.
- ISBN
- 0875102026
- 9780875102023
- LCCN
- 89023860
- OCLC
- ocm20357400
- 20357400
- SCSB-1891430
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library