Walter Pach (1883-1958)

Walter Pach (1883-1958)
Author: Laurette E. McCarthy
Publisher: Penn State Press
Total Pages: 259
Release: 2011
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0271037407

"Explores the career of Walter Pach (1883-1958), an influential figure in twentieth-century art and culture. As critic, agent, liaison, and lecturer, Pach helped win the acceptance of modern European, American, and Mexican art throughout the North American continent"--Provided by publisher.

The Coral Mind

The Coral Mind
Author: Stephen Bann
Publisher: Penn State University Press
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2007
Genre: Architecture
ISBN:

Introduction / Stephen Bann -- Stokes and the architectural basis of the sculptural / Alex Potts -- "A deep and necessary commerce": Venice and the "architecture of colour-form" / Stephen Kite -- "The house of the mind": on Piero, perspective, and psychoanalysis / Peter Leech -- "We are exalted": Adrian Stokes's coming to terms with Michelangelo's massiveness / David Hulks -- Stokes's analysis / Richard Read -- Portrait of an analyst: Adrian Stokes and Melanie Klein / Lyndsey Stonebridge -- Healing art, healing Stokes / Janet Sayers -- "Showing openly the inside of action": place, ballet, psychoanalysis / Martin Golding -- The art historian as art critic: in praise of Adrian Stokes / David Carrier -- "Inferential muscle" and the work of criticism: Michael Baxandall on Adrian Stokes and art-critical language / Paul Tucker -- To bring the distant things near: distance in relation to the work of art in Stokes's thought / Etienne Jollet -- Stones of solace / Michael Ann Holly.

For and Against

For and Against
Author: Kenyon Cox
Publisher: Hol Art Books
Total Pages: 82
Release: 2009-09-13
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0982325711

On February 17, 1913, the American Association of Painters and Sculptors opened the Armory Show in New York. The ad-hoc association had started out with the modest goal of showing some of the "new" art coming out of Europe--Duchamp, Matisse, Picasso and many more of today’s acknowledged masters. What they ultimately created was a sprawling showcase of some of the most ground-breaking (many said subversive) art America had ever seen. "For and Against" is the frank and engaging account of this historic show's original reception, capturing the full range of impassioned opinion both for and against the new art. First published, remarkably, by the show's organizers and sold at its Chicago venue, "For and Against" has long been out of print, but this new, expanded edition brings the Armory story to life once again.

Power & Posterity

Power & Posterity
Author: Kimberly Orcutt
Publisher: Penn State University Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2017
Genre: Art, American
ISBN: 9780271078366

Explores the art exhibits at the 1876 Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia, along with the circumstances of their creation, the ideological positions expressed through their installation, and the responses of viewers, including critics, collectors, and the general public.

Queer Thing, Painting - Forty Years in the World of Art

Queer Thing, Painting - Forty Years in the World of Art
Author: Walter Pach
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
Total Pages: 356
Release: 2013-05-31
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1473387590

Walter Pach was an artist, critic, lecturer, art adviser, and art historian who wrote extensively about modern art and championed the cause of modern art. Through his numerous books, articles, and translations of European art texts Pach brought the emerging modernist viewpoint to the American public. Pach's fluency in French, German, and Spanish made it possible for him to understand and interpret the avant-garde ideas developing in Europe and translate them for the English-speaking audience. He was able to communicate personally with many noted artists in Europe and Mexico and mediate between gallery dealers and museum curators on their behalf. This is an interesting look at the American art scene (and a little peak at the Parisian scene) and how Americans especially appreciated art in the late nineteenth and early 20th century.

The Art Museum In America

The Art Museum In America
Author: Walter Pach
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
Total Pages: 390
Release: 2013-05-31
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1473387604

This vintage volume contains a fascinating and informative treatise on the role of the art museum in modern America. This thought-provoking text explores the role of art and art exhibitions in the modern world, analysing the history of modern art, the changes in attitude and importance throughout the years, and the future of art in modern society. The chapters of this book include: 'On Art Museums', 'Some American History', 'Our History Continues', 'The Achievement', 'Problems and Theories', 'The Problem of the American Artist', 'The Problem of Modern Art', 'Casts and Other Reproductions', etcetera. This book is being republished now in an affordable, modern edition - complete with a new biography of the author.

Corcoran Gallery of Art

Corcoran Gallery of Art
Author: Corcoran Gallery of Art
Publisher: Lucia Marquand
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011
Genre: Painting
ISBN: 9781555953614

This authoritative catalogue of the Corcoran Gallery of Art's renowned collection of pre-1945 American paintings will greatly enhance scholarly and public understanding of one of the finest and most important collections of historic American art in the world. Composed of more than 600 objects dating from 1740 to 1945.