Whitney Museum of American Art
Author
Publisher
Whitney Museum of American Art
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
271 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 32 cm
Language
English
Description
"This comprehensive study of Grant Wood (1891-1942) is packed with extensive new scholarship and provides fresh insight into the career of one of the key figures of 20th-century American art. Working primarily in the traditional genres of portraiture and landscape, Wood infused his paintings with a palpable tension that is grounded in the profound epistemological and social upheavals of his time. Exploring Wood's oeuvre from a variety of perspectives,...
Author
Publisher
Whitney Museum of American Art
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
400 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 34 cm
Language
English
Description
"One of the most emulated and significant figures in modern art, Andy Warhol rose to fame in the 1960s with his iconic Pop pieces. Warhol expanded the boundaries by which art is defined and created groundbreaking work in a diverse array of media that includes paintings, sculptures, prints, photographs, films, and installations. This ambitious book is the first to examine Warhol's work in its entirety. It builds on a wealth of new research and materials...
Author
Pub. Date
2018
Edition
[US edition]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
Grass can be pink! Eggs, too. What color is a cloud? An apple? Discover the surprising answers in each color grid! Each of the eleven items is shown with at least 25 different shades in this artful swatchbook of veritable colors. They are presented alongside a grid of color ranges: the "apple" page features yellows, greens, and reds; the "egg" page a range of greens to grays. The read-along text is playful and philosophical, poetic and factual-- all...
13) A pile of leaves
Author
Publisher
Phaidon Press Limited
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : colour illustrations ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
Each clear acetate page features a single element in the leaf pile, though some are not leaves at all! As readers turn the pages, the leaf pile is deconstructed piece by piece on the right side, and reconstructed on the left. Younger readers will enjoy the seek-and-find aspect of the hidden objects, while older readers might experiment by adding their own images between the pages. A key at the back provides the names of each kind of leaf shown.