MBR: The Artbook Shelf
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Edward Hopper's New York
Avis Berman
Pomegranate Communications, Inc.
Box 808022, Petaluma, CA 94975-8022
www.pomegranate.com
0764931547 $30.00 1-800-227-1428
With an informed and informative text by New York resident, writer and
art historian Avis Berman, Edward Hopper.s New York showcases more than
50 color and b/w paintings, etchings and drawings focusing exclusively
on famed artist's Edward Hopper's New York City inspired artwork. Many
of the artworks have a paragraph of commentary exclusive to them, but
the overall narrative tour continues from cover to cover. Realistic in
its artistic style, with a slightly softer than life texture to the
paintings that is just about the only thing that prevents one from
mistaking them for photographs, Edward Hopper's New York is a unique
tour of the city itself.
April Gornik
Donald Kuspit & Dede Young
Hudson Hills Press
PO Box 205, 74-2 Union Street, Manchester, VT 05254
1555952038 $50.00 hudsonhills.com
April Gornik: Paintings And Drawings is a collaboration between the
Neuberger Museum of Art (Purchase, New York) and the Hudson Hills
Press. Featuring an informative essay Fictional Freedom: April Gornik's
Landscapes by distinguished art critic Donald Kuspit, and a
conversation by Dede Young (curator of Modern and contemporary Art for
the Neuberger Museum of Art) with April Gornik on and about here work,
this superbly presented 167-page monograph beautifully showcases April
Gornik's stunningly impressive ethereal landscapes, flawless technical
skills, and her own unique "inner eye" as an artist revealing here
aesthetic interpretation of natural images. Additionally enhanced with
listings of exhibitions, collections, awards, bibliography, and an
index, April Gornik is an important, core addition to personal and
academic 20th Century Art History collections.
Artist's Materials
Lorraine Harrison
Firefly Books Ltd.
4 Daybreak Lane, Westport, CT 06880
www.fireflybooks.com
1552979954 $35.00 1-800-387-5085
Artists receive a comprehensive, in-depth guide to the range of
materials used today, from applicability to specific kinds of projects
to various techniques specific to different mediums, from blending and
mixing colors to layering applications on different papers. What sets
Lorraine Harrison's Artist's Materials: All The Materials You Will Ever
Need To Make Art apart from competitors is a powerful visual approach
which illustrates the results of techniques and materials applications.
The Art Of Charles Partridge Adams
Dorothy Dines, et al.
Fulcrum Publishing
350 Indiana Street, #350, Golden, CO 80401-5093
www.fulcrum-books.com
1555915434 $24.95 1-800-992-2908
Charles Partridge Adams was a major Colorado landscape painter during
the 19th and early 20th centuries, focusing on the mountains and plains
of his area and producing Colorado landscapes which earned him acclaim.
The collaborative effort of Dorothy Dines, Stephen J. Leonard, and
Stanley L. Cuba, The Art Of Charles Partridge Adams reproduces some
ninety of his works of Colorado, California, New England and Europe
alike, including some preliminary sketches and journal selections to
round out the offerings. A lively tribute to Adams and his life's work
Tim Hawkinson
Lawrence Rinder, et al.
Whitney Museum of American Art
c/o Harry N. Abrams, Inc.
100 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10011
www.abramsbooks.com
0874271444 $60.00 1-800-759-0190
Painter, sculpture, photographer, printmaker, and multi-media artist
Tim Hawkinson is primarily known for his large-scale kinetic and
sound-producing works. He has also created such eccentric art as a bird
skeleton utilizing his own fingernail parings, a latex cast of his body
inflated with air, and clocks fashioned from a Coke can, a manila
envelope, and a toothpaste tube. Now for the first time, modern art
enthusiasts can explore the art of this exceptional and versatile
American artist in Tim Hawkinson by Lawrence Rinder (Adjunct Curator,
Whitney Museum of American Art). Assisted by Howard N. Fox (Curator of
Modern and Contemporary Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art) and Doug
Harvey (art critic and writer for LA Weekly), Rinder has compiled this
accompaniment to the display of Hawkinson's art and artistry showcased
in an exhibit at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. The
250 color illustrations are enhanced with three informed and
informative essays, along with the artist's own commentary on more than
150 of his diverse, often ground-breaking work. Tim Hawkinson is an
impressive contribution to both academic and community library
Contemporary American Art History collections.
The Garden Of Art
Don Kerr
University of Calgary Press
2500 Unviersity Drive, NW, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, T2N 1N4
www.uofcpress.com
1552381226 $29.95 1-800-565-3770
Artist Vic Cicansky has been creating garden sculptures which are
whimsical and fun, for over forty years: The Garden Of Art: Vic
Cicansky, Sculptor celebrates his style with a biographical and
artistic coverage: the first book-length treatment of his work.
Undoubtedly there will be many who will not have heard of Cicansky:
don't let that stop you: pages come packed with black and white and
color examples of the man and his many works, while text fills in
biographical and artistic insights.
David Aronson
Asher D. Biemann
Pucker Art Publications
c/o Syracuse University Press (dist.)
1600 Jamesville Ave, Syracuse, NY 13210
www.SyracuseUniversityPress.syr.edu
1879985128 $90.00 1-800-365-8929
David Aronson: Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture is a truly beautiful,
full-color coffee table book displaying and showcasing the artistic
creations of David Aronson, an immigrant artist of Jewish background
and cultural heritage who has deftly incorporated Christological,
Jewish, mystical and modernist motifs. Works from 1946 to 2002 fill the
pages of this fantastic volume, surely the next best thing to viewing
Aronson's art in person. Most of the pages are devoted entirely to
pictures of art, many of which have a soft blurred color tone and fuzzy
delineations that give them a feel of transition between the borders of
existential planes. A medium-length essay by Dr. Asher Biemann,
Assistant Professor for Modern Jewish Thought at the University of
Virginia, and a transcript of a 1967 lecture by Aronson himself round
out this superb volume.
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