A captivating account of the formative years of one of Canada’s best-known artists, Jackson’s Wars follows A.Y. Jackson’s education and progress as a painter before he was a well-known artist and his time on the battlefield in Europe, before he cast his lot in with a group of like-minded Toronto artists.Jackson fought many battles: he was a feisty and opinionated combatant when he crossed swords with critics, collectors, museums, galleries, and fellow painters as an emerging artist. Moving from...
Understanding Modern Art
by Frances Mordecai and Helen Selma Stone
Much of modernist architecture was inspired by the emergence of internationalism: the ethics and politics of world peace, justice and unity through global collaboration. Mark Crinson here shows how the ideals represented by the Tower of Babel - built, so the story goes, by people united by one language - were effectively adapted by internationalist architecture, its styles and practices, in the modern period. Focusing particularly on the points of convergence between modernist and internationali...
Recently the subject of a critically acclaimed exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Carol Rama has been creating highly personal paintings and collages since 1936. A contemporary of Meret Oppenheim and Man Ray, this vibrant, reckless, and often shocking 80 year old is finally getting the international recognition her joyous work deserves. Demonstrating a recklessness that underpins her art as it has from the beginning, this book traces Rama and her career from 1936 to the pre...
Art Nouveau Floral Designs (Treasury of Decorative Art S.)
by Eugene Grasset and Laura Suffield
Muede Helden: Ferdinand Hodler, Aleksandr Dejneka, Neo Rauch
by Hubertus Gassner, Markus Bertsch, and Daniel Koep
This attractive book highlights the key elements of Art Nouveau, a ground-breaking style which took Europe and America by storm by the turn of the last century.