Thomas E. Crow

The Rise Of The Sixties: American And European Art In The Era Of Dissent

Thomas E. Crow; Thomas Crow

The 1960s are fixed in our collective memory as an era of political upheaval and cultural experimentation. In this compelling account, the critically acclaimed author Thomas Crow looks at visual artists, American and European, who expressed a variety of responses to this public turmoil and struggled in their art to have an impact on a world preoccupied with social crisis. Both synthesis and critical study, this book reopens the 1960s to fresh and penetrating analysis.

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Other editions: Softcover - 2005, Softcover - 1996

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Seeing Rothko

Thomas E. Crow; Glenn Phillips; Getty Research Institute

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Robert Smithson

Thomas E. Crow; Robert A. Sobieszek; Richard Sieburth; Mark Linder; Robert Smithson; Alexander Alberro; Cornelia H. Butler; Moira Roth; Ann Reynolds; Suzaan Boettger

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Gordon Matta-Clark

Thomas E. Crow; Corinne Diserens; Gordon Matta-Clark; Judith Russi Kirshner; Christian Kravagna

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Nineteenth Century Art: A Critical History

Thomas E. Crow; Stephen F. Eisenman

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Other editions: Hardcover - 2002

Jasper Johns to Jeff Koons: Four Decades of Art from the Broad Collections

Thomas E. Crow; Stephanie Barron; Lynn Zelevansky; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Eli Broad Family Foundation

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The Intelligence of Art

Thomas E. Crow; Thomas Crow

With this book, Thomas Crow contributes a refreshing analysis of the present state of art history, the practice of interpreting art and making it "intelligible." He aims to relocate the discussion of theory and method in art history away from models borrowed from other disciplines by presenting what he considers three of the most successful and challenging works in the literature of art history: Meyer Schapiro on the Romanesque portal sculpture of the abbey church of Sainte Marie in the French town of Souillac, Claude LÈvi-Strauss on the Native American masks of the Northwest Coast, and Michael Baxandall on the limewood sculptors of Renaissance Germany.

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Emulation: Making Artists for Revolutionary France

Thomas E. Crow

This fascinating and elegant book tells the story of five painters at the center of events in Revolutionary France: Jacques Louis-David and his extraordinarily precocious pupils Drouais, Girodet, Gerard, and Gros. Written by a major art historian, it interprets in a new and original way the relationships between these men and the paintings they created. "Crow combines excellent formal and stylistic analysis of particular paintings with close attention to the psychological complexities and political and social contexts of the artists' lives. He delves deeply into David's and his students' thematic choices, compositional strategies and personal relations in order to make his overarching political and aesthetic arguments.... He brings the reader and the viewer into the picture in new and often surprising ways". -- Lynn Hunt, The New Republic

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Other editions: Hardcover - 1995

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Modern Art in the Common Culture: Essays

Thomas E. Crow; Thomas Crow

Must avant-garde art hold itself apart from the values and beliefs widely held in the common culture? Must advanced artists always be the symbolic adversaries of the ordinary citizen? These questions have dominated, even paralyzed the modern art world, particularly in recent years when perceived elitism and imposed canons of taste have come under fire from all sides. In this stimulating book, a prominent art historian shows that the links between advanced art and modern mass culture have always been robust, indeed necessary to both. Thomas Crow focuses on the continual interdependence between the two phenomena, providing examples that range from Paris in themid-nineteenth century to the latest revivals of the Conceptual art in the 1990s. Crow's argument proceeds through a series of vividly described episodes: Jackson Pollock being enlisted into the realm of fashion by his first patron; Andy Warhol keeping one foot in a small-town sentiment through his definitive work of the 1960s; an audacious woman artist, Sturtevant, confronting incomprehension and hostility when she turned Pop art tactics against thePop painters themselves (and being vindicated twenty years later by an entirelynew generation of artists); Gerhard Richter's sophisticated painting converging with amateur production in its uses of photography; Gordon Matta-Clark raiding derelict buildings to find the raw material of his sculpture; Ross Bleckner redefining his painting of the 1980s through the decayed, funerary kitsch of Victorian America; Christopher Williams remaking a high Conceptual art with mental maps provided by the tourist industry.

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Oehlen Williams 95

Thomas E. Crow; Albert Oehlen; Christopher Williams; Catherine Gudis; Wexner Center for the Arts

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Painters and Public Life in Eighteenth-Century Paris

Thomas E. Crow

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Other editions: Hardcover - 1985