Bøger af Leah Dickerman

In 1912, in several European cities, a handful of artistsNVasily Kandinsky, Frantisek Kupka, Francis Picabia and Robert DelaunayNpresented the first abstract pictures to the public. "Inventing Abstraction, " published to accompany an exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, celebrates the centennial of this bold new type of artwork.

"In the mid-1950s Robert Rauschenberg began making what he called "Combines"--Radically experimental works that mix paint and other art materials with things found in daily life. These hybrid creations offered a dramatic counterpoint to the gestural abstraction that prevailed in contemporary American painting. Canyon (1959), one of the artist's best-known Combines, is a large canvas bearing paint, a postcard, a man's shirt, photographs, newspaper clippings, wood, a flattened metal can and paint tube, a piece of glass, and, thrusting out from its surface, a stuffed bald eagle. Leah Dickerman's essay examines the genesis of this startling and enigmatic work and positions it within a key period in Rauschenberg's groundbreaking career."--Publisher's description.

"Published in conjunction with the exhibition 'Diego Rivera: Murals for the Museum of Modern Art' ... at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, November 13, 2011-May 14, 2012"--T.p. verso.