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Remote Viewing: Invented Worlds in Recent Painting

Whitney Museum of American Art; Elisabeth Sussman; Caroline A. Jones; Katy Siegel

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Cy Twombly: Fifty Years Of Works On Paper.

Whitney Museum of American Art; Cy Twombly; Roland Barthes; Simon Schama

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Other editions: Hardcover - 2004

Oscar Bluemner: A Passion for Color

Whitney Museum of American Art; Barbara Haskell; Oscar Bluemner; Ulrich Birkmaier

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Banks Violette

Whitney Museum of American Art; Shamim Momin; Banks Violette

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Ed Ruscha and Photography

Whitney Museum of American Art; Sylvia Wolf

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Cotton Puffs, Q-Tips, Smoke and Mirrors: The Drawings of Ed Ruscha

Whitney Museum of American Art; Margit Rowell; Cornelia H. Butler

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Ellsworth Kelly: Red Green Blue Paintings and Studies, 1958-1965

Whitney Museum of American Art; Ellsworth Kelly; Julie Dunn; Toby Kamps; Houston Museum of Fine Arts; Diego Museum of Contemporary Art

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Mies in America

Whitney Museum of American Art; Phyllis Lambert; Werner Oechslin; Centre Canadien D'Architecture; Ill.) Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago

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Other editions: Hardcover - 2001

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Elie Nadelman: Sculptor of Modern Life

Whitney Museum of American Art; Barbara Haskell; Elie Nadelman

This book is the most comprehensive publication to date on the work of Elie Nadelman (1882-1946), an important sculptor and a key member of the New York art scene in the first half of the 20th century. Accompanying the first major retrospective of Nadelman's work since 1975, it brings his achievement to a new generation of art enthusiasts.
Nadelman fused classical influences with the subject matter and imagery of popular culture. Using bronze, marble, wood, and plaster, he created stylized, curvilinear emblems of modern life whose formal motifs referenced both the antique and the modern. Here, Barbara Haskell presents a fully researched and broad-based examination of Nadelman's art by juxtaposing his elegant drawings with related sculptures, filling a gap in the literature on 20th-century American sculpture.

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The American Effect: Global Perspectives on the United States, 1990-2003

Whitney Museum of American Art; Lawrence Rinder

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American Visionaries:Selections from the Whitney Museum of American Art: Selections from the Whitney Museum of American Art

Whitney Museum of American Art; Maxwell Lincoln Anderson

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Claes Oldenburg Drawings 1959-1977 Claes Oldenburg With Coosje Van Bruggen Drawings, 1992-1998 in the Whitney Museum of American Art: Claes Oldenburg With Coosje Van Bruggen Drawings, 1992-1998 in the Whitney Museum of American Art

Whitney Museum of American Art; Janie C. Lee; Claes Oldenburg; Coosje Van Bruggen

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Mies in America

Whitney Museum of American Art; Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe; Phyllis Lambert; Werner Oechslin; Centre Canadien D'Architecture; Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago, Ill.)

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The Complete Oil Paintings of Edward Hopper

Whitney Museum of American Art; Edward Hopper; Gail Levin

The complete oils of arguably America's best and probably America's most "American" artist. This magnificent volume reproduces all of Hopper's 366 oil paintings. They were first published in the four-volume catalogue raisonne of the artist's works. Now they are offered at a price that will make them attractive to anyone seriously interested in art. Hopper was comfortable in both oil and watercolor, although his technique with each medium varied considerably. While oils were done in the studio, often from detailed sketches with notations on colors, the watercolors were painted on location and seem far more spontaneous. In the years since Hopper's death in 1967, many of his paintings have achieved iconographic status as statements about this country. His empty cityscapes and countrysides speak of our sense of loneliness and alienation, while his fascination with the light on Cape Cod and the buildings in Gloucester result in the evocation of feelings that can only be described as uniquely American. 350 color plates, with notes and annotations by Gail Levin. Published in association with the Whitney Museum of Art.

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Frames of Reference: Looking at American Art, 1900-1950, Works from the Whitney Museum of American Art

Whitney Museum of American Art; Kennedy Fraser; Adam D. Weinberg

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Other editions: Softcover - 2000, Hardcover - 1999

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Alice Neel

Whitney Museum of American Art; Ann Temkin; Alice Neel; Richard Flood; Susan Rosenberg; Susan Roseberg

Alice Neel (1900-1984) was one of this century's most powerfully original portraitists. Her psychological vision as a painter of people has been described as both tender and unforgiving. This full-scale examination of her life and work accompanies a traveling retrospective organized by the Philadelphia Museum of Art that celebrates the centennial of her birth and is the first major exhibition of her work since 1974.
From deeply personal paintings of her own family and neighbors to arresting portraits of important New York art-world figures like Andy Warhol, Robert Smithson, and Frank O'Hara, the 75 paintings and watercolors presented in this book hover disconcertingly between intimacy and monumentality and have an unforgettable impact. This centennial salute will focus renewed attention on one of the preeminent American artists of the 20th century.

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On Its Own Ground: Celebrating the Permanent Collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art

Whitney Museum of American Art; Maxwell Anderson

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Whitney Biennial: 2000 Exhibition

Whitney Museum of American Art; Hugh M. Davies; Maxwell L. Anderson; Andrea Miller-Keller; Jane Farver; Michael G. Auping; Lawrence R. Rinder; Valerie Cassel

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The American Century Art & Culture 1900-2000: Whitney Museum of American Art/2000

Whitney Museum of American Art

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Barbara Kruger

Whitney Museum of American Art; Barbara Kruger; Rosalyn Deutsche; Ann Goldstein; Calif.) Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles

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Mark Rothko

Whitney Museum of American Art; Jeffrey Weiss; Barbara Novak; Brian O'Doherty; John Gage; Mark Rosenthal; Carol Mancusi-Ungaro; National Gallery of Art (U.S.); Musee D'Art Moderne De LA Ville De Paris

In their stunning simplicity, the famous coloured rectangle paintings by Mark Rothko suggest, evoke and endlessly enthrall. This richly illustrated book reproduces in full colour one hundred of Rothko's paintings, prints and drawings. The volume features four commentaries by art experts who explore various formal aspects of Rothko's work, interviews with contemporary artists who reflect on Rothko's legacy to post-New York School abstraction, and a chronology of the Russian-born artist's life from 1903 to 1970.

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Other editions: Softcover - 1998

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Unknown Terrain: The Landscapes of Andrew Wyeth

Whitney Museum of American Art; Beth Venn; Andrew Wyeth; Adam D. Weinberg; Michael G. Kammen

Venn reveals Wyeth's love of painting as process and material, underscores his technical prowess, and examines the abstract modernist underpinnings of his landscape compositions. 160 illustrations, 125 in color.

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Other editions: Softcover - 1998

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American Art of the Twentieth Century: Treasures of the Whitney Museum of American Art

Whitney Museum of American Art; Adam D. Weinberg; Beth Venn

This survey, filled with remarkable examples from the Whitney's permanent collection, presents works by the most notable American artists in a variety of media. among the more than 200 images are paintings by Edward Hopper, Georgia O'Keefe, Frank Stella, Franz Kline, Andy Warhol, and Jasper Johns; sculpture by Alexander Calder, Claes Oldenburg, and David Smith; photographs by Lee Friedlander, Robert Frank, Man Ray, Robert Maplethorpe, and Diane Arbus; and drawings by Hopper, Philip Guston, and Jackson Pollock. The publication of this tiny Folio is timed to coincide with the opening of the Whitney's permanent collection.

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Bob Thompson

Whitney Museum of American Art; Thelma Golden; Judith Wilson

Bob Thompson (1937-1966) was a figurative expressionist painter active in literary, musical, and artistic circles in New York and Europe from the late 1950s until his death in 1966. In the first book devoted solely to Thompson, the life and work of this pivotal figure in modern American art history and African American culture receive the attention they deserve. Judith Wilson situates Bob Thompson within the context of both contemporary artistic production and cultural trends of the fifties and sixties. She uses interviews, Thompson's diary entries and letters to his family, and his work to give a thoughtful and thorough interpretation of his art and persona. She traces Thompson's development -- psychologically, socially, and artistically -- effectively portraying his first encounters with art and bohemian culture and his intensely active period in Europe shortly before his death in Rome at the age of 29. Bob Thompson's life intersects several important currents in recent American culture, and his work reveals an unfinished quest for communal identity, says Wilson. His use of postmodern techniques of appropriation and pastiche embraced both the Western tradition and cultural resources specific to the African American experience. The publication of Bob Thompson coincides with the Whitney Museum's much-anticipated exhibition and recognizes the important role of the artist in the vanguard of twentieth-century American art.

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Other editions: Softcover - 1998, Softcover - 1998

Bill Viola

Whitney Museum of American Art; Barbara London; J. Hoberman; Peter Sellars; Whitney Museum of American Art in Association With Flammarion Paris-ne

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