Klein Mason Edited (3 results)

Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. xiii, 241 pages, illustrations (some colour); 32 cm. Catalogue of an exhibition at the Jewish Museum, New York, May 21 to September 19, 2004; and other venues. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light shelfwear. OVERSIZE! Additional shipping charges may be requested for international & priority orders. Richly illustrated with colour plates. *** "Amedeo Modigliani (1884-1920) is one of the best known - and most misunderstood - artists of the twentieth century. His incisive portraits, erotically charged nudes, elegant drawings of caryatids, and primitivistic sculpture have been admired for decades. Modigliani's work, however, has typically been examined in the limited context of his so-called bohemian, anti-intellectual lifestyle. This book revises this approach toward Modigliani's art, presenting a revisionist examination of the unique historical, social, religious, and cultural significance of his oeuvre. Modigliani: Beyond the Myth looks at the artist and his art from a variety of important perspectives: his proud heritage as a Sephardic Jew, whose spirituality embraced non-Western, classical, and Christian iconography while retaining its own ethnic identity; his critical engagement and melding of tribal and ethnographic art with Judaism in his portraiture; the representation of the female nude in his works from a feminist cultural perspective; the remarkable reception of his work in Italy after his death, and the failure of traditional art history to account for or analyze these important aspects of his life and work." - Publisher. *** CONTENTS: Modigliani against the grain, by Mason Klein; The faces of Modigliani: identity politics under fascism, by Emily Braun; Making and masking: Modigliani and the problematic of portraiture, by Tamar Garb; Modigliani and the bodies of art: carnality, attentiveness, and the modernist struggle, by Griselda Pollock; Epilogue: The Modigliani myth, by Maurice Berger. Size: Folio.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. Catalogue of an exhibition at The Jewish Museum in New York from May to September 2004, the Art Gallery of Ontario, October 2004 to January 2005, and The Philllips Collection, Washington, D.C. from February to May 2005; very well illustrated with black and white photographs and reproductions of Modigliani's drawings as well as color reproductions of his paintings and sculptural works; 242 pages; Art Gallery of Ontario exhibition leaflet loosely inserted. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First edition. Quarto. 241pp. Illustrated from black and white and color photographs. Pages slightly rippled, near fine in a near fine dust jacket with light edgewear. Published on the occasion of an exhibition held at The Jewish Museum on May 21 - September 19, 2004. Laid in is a ticket for admission to the exhibition.