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Author | : Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University |
Publisher | : Duke University Press |
Total Pages | : 100 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Antiques & Collectibles |
ISBN | : |
The Evolution of the Nasher Collection is the catalog that accompanies the inaugural exhibition, on view from October 2, 2005, through May 21, 2006, at the new Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University. The exhibition draws from the collection of the museum's benefactor, Raymond D. Nasher, and his late wife, Patsy. The Nashers built one of the world's major collections of twentieth-century sculpture over the course of forty years. The exhibition includes seminal works by Auguste Rodin, Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Alberto Giacometti, Jean Dubuffet, David Smith, Henry Moore, and others. Before sculpture, the Nashers collected ancient American art, Guatemalan textiles, contemporary prints, and paintings by Jean-Michel Basquiat and Andy Warhol. Many of these works, held in the Nashers' private residence, will be on public view--and published in this full-color catalog--for the first time. The book offers a new approach to viewing and thinking about the Nasher Collection, concentrating not on the final, finished product, "the greatest collection of modern sculpture in private hands," but on the unfolding of the process of building that collection through time, its chronological development from the early 1950s to the present. In the history of any collection, there is a narrative of evolution--a beginning, which includes a motivation, followed by a process of change as the collector works out by experience and experimentation a personal approach to the gathering of objects of art. In the case of the Nasher collection, this personal approach is the result of a remarkable synergy between two individuals, Raymond D. Nasher and Patsy Nasher. The essay by curator Sarah Schroth contextualizes the Nashers as collectors within the history of collecting practices in the United States in the second half of the twentieth century. Publication of the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University
Author | : Elizabeth Finch |
Publisher | : Rizzoli Publications |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 2020-09-08 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0847868680 |
Roy before he was Lichtenstein: the path to becoming a Pop Art titan began with Lichtenstein's cycling through a provocative range of visual culture, from fairy tales and children's and folk art to mythic forms of Americana, such as cowboys and Disney. Roy Lichtenstein: History in the Making, 1948-1960 is the first major museum exhibition to investigate the early work of one of the best-known American artists of the twentieth century. Co-organized by Colby College Museum of Art and Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, the exhibition will include approximately ninety works from the artist's fruitful and formative early career, many never before seen by the public. The show and accompanying catalog will include paintings, drawings, sculptures, and prints which reveal an artist, even in the earliest stages of his career, with a keen interest in visual culture, culling--with a critical eye--from a wide range of sources. These inspirations were the essential but little-known precursors to the artist's later sourcing of comic books and advertisements. Likewise, his exploration of abstraction, just before the artist's abrupt turn to Pop Art in 1961, straddles the line between unabashed lyricism and wry critique of second-generation Abstract Expressionism. The catalog, with new scholarship by leading experts in the field, provides a new understanding of Lichtenstein's influential techniques of appropriation and offers the opportunity to more fully assess the artistic and cultural dynamism of postwar America.
Author | : Richard J. Powell |
Publisher | : Duke University Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : African American painting |
ISBN | : 9780938989370 |
Featuring 140 color illustrations, the catalogue Archibald Motley: Jazz Age Modernist accompanies the first full-scale survey of the work of the American painter and master colorist Archibald Motley (1891-1981).
Author | : Natalie Y. Moore |
Publisher | : Duke University Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : African American painters |
ISBN | : 9780938989417 |
This fully illustrated catalogue accompanies the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University's exhibition Nina Chanel Abney: Royal Flush.
Author | : Margaret Sartor |
Publisher | : UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | : 185 |
Release | : 2018-11-08 |
Genre | : Photography |
ISBN | : 1469648326 |
Self-taught photographer Hugh Mangum was born in 1877 in Durham, North Carolina, as its burgeoning tobacco economy put the frontier-like boomtown on the map. As an itinerant portraitist working primarily in North Carolina and Virginia during the rise of Jim Crow, Mangum welcomed into his temporary studios a clientele that was both racially and economically diverse. After his death in 1922, his glass plate negatives remained stored in his darkroom, a tobacco barn, for fifty years. Slated for demolition in the 1970s, the barn was saved at the last moment--and with it, this surprising and unparalleled document of life at the turn of the twentieth century, a turbulent time in the history of the American South. Hugh Mangum's multiple-image, glass plate negatives reveal the open-door policy of his studio to show us lives marked both by notable affluence and hard work, all imbued with a strong sense of individuality, self-creation, and often joy. Seen and experienced in the present, the portraits hint at unexpected relationships and histories and also confirm how historical photographs have the power to subvert familiar narratives. Mangum's photographs are not only images; they are objects that have survived a history of their own and exist within the larger political and cultural history of the American South, demonstrating the unpredictable alchemy that often characterizes the best art--its ability over time to evolve with and absorb life and meaning beyond the intentions or expectations of the artist.
Author | : Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University |
Publisher | : Duke University Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780938989400 |
Comprised of more than thirty large-scale works drawn entirely from the Nancy A. Nasher and David J. Haemisegger Collection, A Material Legacy is a multi-generational exhibition that provides an almost real-time glimpse into the varied approaches and innovative techniques of art being made in the second decade of the twenty-first century.
Author | : Mindy N. Besaw |
Publisher | : University of Arkansas Press |
Total Pages | : 225 |
Release | : 2018-10-24 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1682260801 |
Art for a New Understanding, an exhibition from Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art that opened in October 2018, seeks to radically expand and reposition the narrative of American art since 1950 by charting a history of the development of contemporary Indigenous art from the United States and Canada, beginning when artists moved from more regionally-based conversations and practices to national and international contemporary art contexts. This fully illustrated volume includes essays by art historians and historians and reflections by the artists included in the collection. Also included are key contemporary writings—from the 1950s onward—by artists, scholars, and critics, investigating the themes of transculturalism and pan-Indian identity, traditional practices conducted in radically new ways, displacement, forced migration, shadow histories, the role of personal mythologies as a means to reimagine the future, and much more. As both a survey of the development of Indigenous art from the 1950s to the present and a consideration of Native artists within contemporary art more broadly, Art for a New Understanding expands the definition of American art and sets the tone for future considerations of the subject. It is an essential publication for any institution or individual with an interest in contemporary Native American art, and an invaluable resource in ongoing scholarly considerations of the American contemporary art landscape at large.
Author | : Catherine Craft |
Publisher | : David Zwirner Books |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 2022-02-08 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9781644230671 |
Author | : Steven A. Nash |
Publisher | : Rizzoli International Publications |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2018-04-04 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 178551105X |
The first book on the Meadows Museum's outstanding collection of Modernist sculptures, bringing them to life in colour photography and with an elegant design. The world's most renowned sculptors are featured. Featuring works by many of the leading twentieth-century Modernists, the sculpture collection of the Meadows Museum in Dallas, Texas, is an American gem. Large- and small-scale works by renowned artists such as Jacques Lipchitz, Henry Moore, Isamu Noguchi and Claes Oldenburg can be seen on the Museum's welcoming outdoor plaza, while important figural sculptures by Auguste Rodin, Aristide Maillol and Alberto Giacometti are on display within the Museum. This elegantly designed book is the first publication on this outstanding collection, offering photography by Laura Wilson and new scholarship by Steven A. Nash on works by some of the most accomplished artists to work in three dimensions. Follow @MeadowsMuseum on Twitter (1630 followers).
Author | : Tony Berlant |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2018-01-28 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780991233878 |