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A chronical of one of the most controversial art movements of the 20th century. A broad range of articles trace the emergence of the movement in England and America and then focus on the major pop artists Roy Lichtenstein, Claes Oldenburg, James Rosenquist and Andy Warhol.

"Modern Sculpture: Artists in Their Own Words is the most comprehensive anthology of reflections on sculpture by artists who have been defining and redefining its identity during the past 108 years. Douglas Dreishpoon's selections of artists and texts, and thematic groupings, provide welcome access to a startling array of voices, from whose words it is clear how sculpture became the term through which the creative boldness of modern art is most eloquently revealed."--Michael Brenson, art critic and art historian "If we were to think of the notion of plasticity as being a sculptural form before it gets flattened out, as Matisse and Picasso (who were both painters and sculptors) would have pictorially and viscerally agreed, we would then argue how Paleolithic cave paintings must have started out with our ancestral hands touching the irregular surfaces of the cave walls before determining, however concave or convex they may feel, which segments would be fitting for the bodies of the animals and which may correlate to their surroundings. By ennobling the voices of artists, Douglas Dreishpoon has brilliantly concocted the history of modern and contemporary sculpture with flawless continuity while reaffirming that the sense of touch or being touched, materialized in the made object, is simply the truest testament of our existence. This is an essential reading for all artists and lovers of art indeed."--Phong H. Bui, cofounder, publisher, and artistic director of the Brooklyn Rail, Rail Editions, Rail Curatorial Projects, and the River Rail

"What a treasured compilation of essays, interviews, and thoughts about one of the most important artists of the late twentieth century! Jordana Moore Saggese, an accomplished Basquiat scholar in her own right, has selected a broad spectrum of key writings that, in their entirety, capture a comprehensive art history which will be of lasting value to artists, scholars, and admirers of Jean-Michel Basquiat's exuberant, redolent, exegetic paintings."--Richard J. Powell, author of Going There: Black Visual Satire "This indispensable volume offers a set of vital documents critical for the analysis of the work and career of Jean-Michel Basquiat, who was mythologized early on and barely understood even after he passed. This extraordinary, riveting scholarly reader is a significant contribution to the fields of contemporary art, American art, and the discipline of art history at large."--Sarah Elizabeth Lewis, Associate Professor, History of Art and Architecture and African and African American Studies, Harvard University "An artist with a rare and acute understanding of the power of language, Basquiat withheld his words, sous rature, disassembling them, scattershot and specific, to allow hidden meanings and associations. Saggese does a splendid job gathering them here through his interviews and notebooks along with the insights of contemporaneous critics and the recollections of his contemporaries. A vital compendium for future scholarship."--Carlo McCormick, critic and curator "An invaluable survey of critical writing on the praxis of art phenomenon Jean-Michel Basquiat, including his own textual obsessions--which presents a varied yet precise chronology of his short but art history-changing career."--Diego Cortez, curator

From the first Modernist exhibitions in the late 1890s to the Soviet rupture with the West in the mid-1930s, Russian artists and writers came into wide contact with modern European art and ideas. This book presents Russian and Soviet views of Western art during this critical period of cultural transformation.

German Expressionism, one of the most significant movements of early European modernism, was an element in Germany's cultural life from the end of the Wilhelmine Empire to the Third Reich. This title draws together over eighty documents crucial to the understanding of German Expressionism.

Brings together texts documenting the encounter between Western artists and writers and what has historically been called primitive art - the traditional, indigenous arts of Africa, Oceania, and North America. This book charts artistic aspirations, aesthetic theories, and cultural debates that have developed from this encounter.

This volume includes previously unpublished essays by Robert Smithson and gathers articles, interviews and photographs as well as a catalogue of the books in Smithson's library. Together they provide a picture of his wide-ranging views on art and culture.

The poems and performance art of Hugo Ball and his contemporaries were the beginnings of Dada. This work includes Ball's diaries, the original Dada manifesto and a critical introduction.

A collection of dialogues, talks, and writings by Philip Guston (1913-1980), one of the most intellectually adventurous and poetically gifted of modern painters.

Rose in the introduction suggests that Reinhardt's ultimate value is as 'a prophet of the realization that high art can only endure as spiritual art.' Well, maybe, but his copious writings are also exuberant, ironic, rancorous and parodistic and, as such, a marvelous commentary of the recent art world.

Robert Motherwell (1915-1991), one of the leading American Abstract Expressionist painters, was also a theorist and exponent of the movement. This book presents the artist's writings about art includes public lectures, essays, and interviews. It features an informative introductory essay, rigorous annotation, and illustrations.

This work gathers together texts by contemporaries of Paul Cezanne (1839-1906) - including artists, critics and writers - that illuminate the painter's philosophy of art, particularly in his later years.

"This book is utterly indispensable to an understanding of Matisse, and therefore of early modernism as well. The original edition transformed Matisse studies by making broadly accessible as never before this great artist's writings, interviews, and other statements on the purposes of his work. This new, revised edition, with its additional texts, sharpened translations, and new annotations, will prove even more essential--as both a work of reference and as an engrossing, highly accessible introduction to the depth and diversity of Matisse's thought." --John Elderfield, Chief Curator at Large, The Museum of Modern Art, New York "Flam has edited Matisse . . . with close translation (thank God), admirable editorial introductions, and detailed notes to the forty-four brief pieces from forty-seven years." --Robert Motherwell, New York Times Book Review "The publication of this anthology of forty-four of Matisse's 'writings' on art is long overdue and should prove to be an extremely useful and popular addition to the growing documentary literature of twentieth-century art." --John Hallmark Neff, Burlington Magazine