9780300080902
The Eye of Duncan Phillips: A Collection in the Making
Duncan Phillips; David W. Scott; Erika D. Passantino
ISBN 13: 9780300080902
Publisher: Yale Univ Pr
Publication Date: 1999
Binding: Hardcover
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This lavishly illustrated book is both a survey of the major European and American works in The Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C., and a guide to the museum's holdings and significance. A study of the history of taste in twentieth-century America, it documents the evolution of modernism as well as the pivotal role played by Duncan Phillips (1886-1966) as a critic and collector. Written by leading scholars in the field, the book begins with three essays on Phillips the writer, collector, and museum director. The contributors note that Phillips viewed modernism as evolutionary, reaching back to sources in the Renaissance and forward to the modern sensibilities of such artists as Bonnard, Dove, Klee, and Rothko. He installed his collection to explore visual tensions and harmonies -- between past and present, between classical form and romantic expression. The book continues with eleven chapters, each devoted to a different area of the collection and each accompanied by an introductory essay. More than hundred works of art are presented and examined, chosen from the museums holdings for their significance as milestones in the history of the collection and in Phillips's aesthetic development.
Review:
"Prodigiously researched and illustrated, this book is an invaluable resource for scholars and anyone who delights in the Phillips Collection. Unquestionably the art book of the year."
Eric Gibson, Wall Street Journal, 12/3/1999
Review:"This strapping book traces the roots of Phillips's sensibility to such iconoclasts as Giogione and El Greco...."
Washington Post Book World, 12/5-11/1999
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Book Description: Yale University Press, Cumberland, Rhode Island, U.S.A., 1999. Hardcover. Book Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Large very thick quarto, 840pp. Full blue-green cloth with illustrated endpapers. As brand new but for a miniscule closed tear at the head of the spine strip which can no longer even been seen with the illustrated dustwrapper in a fresh mylar sleeve. "More than simply a catalog to the holdings of the Phillips Collection in Washington, DC, this massive book offers a virtual tour of Modernism as observed by the museum's founder, Duncan Phillips (1886-1966). Introductory essays give an overview of the man behind the insitution. Phillips was an astute and opinionated critic as well as collector, and the analysis of his changing opinions on the art of his day are of considerably more significance than the sort of hagiographic stuff one usually finds in collectors' catalogs. At the end of the book are several appendixes offering a wealth of data for researchers on Phillips's writings and shows at the collection as well as copious notes. But the vast center of the book--nearly 600 pages--is filled with an inventively organized catalog of the collection, or at least several hundred important pieces from it. Eleven chapters open with topical essays (from "Sources of Modernism" to "Washington and Baltimore Artists"), which are followed by subchapters offering biographical history, pictorial analysis, and plates of works by artists relevant to the period and place in question. The writing throughout is scholarly but completely lucid. A model work, this is highly recommended." -Eric Bryant, Library Journal.". Bookseller Inventory # 201446 Bookseller & Payment Information | More Books from this Seller | Ask Bookseller a Question |
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