African Art In The Barnes Foundation

Author : Christa Clarke
Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2015-06-16
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780847845217

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African Art in the Barnes Foundation by Christa Clarke Pdf

The first publication of the Barnes Foundation’s important and extensive African art collection. The Barnes Foundation is renowned for its astonishing collection of Postimpressionist and early Modern art assembled by Albert C. Barnes, a Philadelphia pharmaceutical entrepreneur. Less known is the pioneering collection of African sculpture that Barnes acquired between 1922 and 1924, mainly from Paul Guillaume, the Paris-based dealer. The Barnes Foundation was one of the first permanent installations in the United States to present objects from Africa as fine art. Indeed, the African collection is central to understanding Barnes’s socially progressive vision for his foundation.This comprehensive volume showcases all 123 objects, including reliquary figures, masks, and utensils, most of which originated in France’s African colonies—Mali, Côte d’Ivoire, Gabon, and the Congo—as well as in Sierra Leone, Republic of Benin, and Nigeria. Christa Clarke considers the significance of the collection and Barnes’s role in the Harlem Renaissance and in fostering broader appreciation of African art in the twentieth century. In-depth catalog entries by noted scholars in the field complete the volume.

Author : Judith F. Dolkart,Martha Lucy,Derek Gillman
Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2012-05-22
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780847838066

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The Barnes Foundation: Masterworks by Judith F. Dolkart,Martha Lucy,Derek Gillman Pdf

The Barnes Foundation, established by scientist, entrepreneur, and educator Dr. Albert C. Barnes in 1922, is home to a legendary art collection. Barnes assembled one of the world’s largest and finest groups of post-impressionist and early modern paintings, with holdings by such luminaries as Renoir, Cézanne, Matisse, Picasso, Rousseau, Modigliani, Soutine, Manet, Monet, Seurat, Degas, Van Gogh, and Gauguin. The Foundation’s collection also holds significant examples of American art, including works by Demuth, Glackens, and the Prendergasts; African sculpture; Native American ceramics, jewelry, and textiles; Asian paintings, prints, and sculptures; medieval manuscripts and sculptures; Old Master paintings by El Greco, Rubens, Titian, and others; ancient Egyptian, Greek, and Roman art; and American and European decorative arts and metalwork. The presentation of the collection reflects Barnes’s educational and aesthetic approach: symmetrical “ensembles,” or wall compositions, combine works of different periods, mediums, cultures, and styles for the purpose of comparison and study. Texts by Judith F. Dolkart and Martha Lucy explore the Barnes Foundation’s collection, educational mission, ensembles, and individual works. Large color plates, little-seen archival photographs, and numerous gatefolds illustrate 150 of the greatest hits of the collection and twenty gallery ensembles.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 14 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Impressionism (Art)
ISBN : OCLC:28856189

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Great French Paintings from the Barnes Foundation by Anonim Pdf

Author : Adrienne Yabouza
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09-08
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9783791374468

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The Magic Doll by Adrienne Yabouza Pdf

Families of all kinds will appreciate this simple tale of love and longing, motherhood and magic. In a small village in West Africa, a young girl explains the special way she was born. Her mother had difficulty getting pregnant, so she seeks help in the form of a doll which she treats like a human baby, carrying it on her back and covering it with kisses. Months go by and finally the woman's belly begins to grow! This beautiful story explores the Akua-Ba fertility figures of the Akan people of Ghana, while also depicting the deep love a mother has for her children. Élodie Nouhen's subtle, gorgeous illustrations combine collage and prints that are reminiscent of traditional African art, while remaining uniquely contemporary. Each spread communicates the look and feel of West Africa--the blazing yellow of the sun, the deep blue of the sky, the richly patterned textiles, and vibrant flora and fauna. Adrienne Yabouza's text echoes the rhythms of life in her homeland--the Central African Republic. The book closes with a short introduction to African art and the importance of fertility statues in African cultures.

Author : André Dombrowski,Nancy Ireson,Sylvie Patry
Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2021-10-26
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780847864881

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Cézanne in the Barnes Foundation by André Dombrowski,Nancy Ireson,Sylvie Patry Pdf

A monumental volume devoted to one of the world’s largest and most spectacular collections of Cézannes. The Barnes Foundation’s holdings of works by the renowned Post-Impressionist Paul Cézanne (1839–1906)—sixty-one oils on canvas and eight works on paper—are among the most significant in the world. The Barnes Foundation was established in 1922 by scientist, entrepreneur, and educator Dr. Albert C. Barnes, a passionate supporter of European modernism. His virtually unrivaled collection, which can only be viewed at the Barnes Foundation, also includes exceptional paintings by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, and many others. Beginning in 1912, Barnes acquired works by Cézanne from major Paris dealers such as Paul Durand-Ruel and soon ranked among the artist’s most prominent collectors. At the time, this expressed a pioneering taste that Barnes shared with only a small group of enthusiasts, even though Cézanne had been posthumously hailed as a father of modern art at the turn of the twentieth century. The foundation’s impressive holdings of Cézannes—never before published in a single study in their entirety—span every period of the artist’s career and include his largest rendition of The Card Players and one of the three versions of The Large Bathers, one of his signal testaments. This lavishly illustrated landmark volume is both a work on Cézanne and his time, and an impetus for further study of an artist whose oeuvre is at once luminous, austere, challenging, and deeply confounding.

Author : Mary Ann Meyers
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781351323222

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Art, Education, and African-American Culture by Mary Ann Meyers Pdf

A physician who applied his knowledge of chemistry to the manufacture of a widely used antiseptic, Albert Barnes is best remembered as one of the great American art collectors. The Barnes Foundation, which houses his treasures, is a fabled repository of Impressionist, post-Impressionist, and early modern paintings. Less well known is the fact that Barnes attributed his passion for collecting art to his youthful experience of African-American culture, especially music. Art, Education, and African-American Culture is both a biography of an iconoclastic and innovative figure and a study of the often-conflicted efforts of an emergent liberalism to seek out and showcase African American contributions to the American aesthetic tradition. Mary Ann Meyers examines Barnes's background and career and the development and evolution of his enthusiasm for collecting pictures and sculpture. She shows how Barnes's commitment to breaking down invidious distinctions and his use of the uniquely arranged works in his collection as textbooks for his school, created a milieu where masterpieces of European and American late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century painting, along with rare and beautiful African art objects, became a backdrop for endless feuding. A gallery requiring renovation, a trust prohibiting the loan or sale of a single picture, and the efforts of Lincoln University, known as the "black Princeton," to balance conflicting needs and obligations all conspired to create a legacy of legal entanglement and disputes that remain in contention. This volume is neither an idealized account of a quixotic do-gooder nor is it a critique of a crank. While fully documenting Barnes's notorious eccentricities along with the clashing interests of the main personalities associated with his Foundation, Meyers eschews moral posturing in favor of a rich mosaic of peoples and institutions that illustrate many of the larger themes of American culture in general and African-American culture in particular.

Author : Elizabeth Cowling,Anne Baldassari,John Elderfield
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Art, French
ISBN : 1854373927

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Matisse Picasso by Elizabeth Cowling,Anne Baldassari,John Elderfield Pdf

This work accompanies an exhibition organised, in partnership, by Tate Modern, the Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, and the Museum of Modern Art. It examines the crucial relationship between Matisse and Picasso.

Author : Nancy Ireson,Zoé Whitley
Publisher : Companyédition Paul Holberton/The Barnes Foundation
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Art
ISBN : 1911300873

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Elijah Pierce's America by Nancy Ireson,Zoé Whitley Pdf

Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at the Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia from September 27, 2020 - January 10, 2021.

Author : Barnes Foundation,Martha Lucy,John House
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Painting
ISBN : 0300151004

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Renoir in the Barnes Foundation by Barnes Foundation,Martha Lucy,John House Pdf

A spectacular survey of the world's most comprehensive collection of works by the Impressionist master Renoir The Barnes Foundation is home to the world's largest collection of paintings by Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919). Dr. Albert C. Barnes, a Philadelphia scientist who made his fortune in pharmaceuticals, established the Foundation in 1922 in Merion, Pennsylvania, as an educational institution devoted to the appreciation of the fine arts. A passionate supporter of European modernism, Barnes built a collection that was virtually unrivaled, with massive holdings by Paul Cézanne, Henri Matisse, and Pablo Picasso. But it was Renoir that Barnes admired above all other artists; he thought of him as a god and collected his work tenaciously, amassing 181 works by the painter between 1912 and 1942. All of these Renoirs are included in this lavishly illustrated book. Renoir in the Barnes Foundation tells the fascinating story of Barnes's obsession with the Impressionist master's late works, while offering illuminating new scholarship on the works themselves. Authors Martha Lucy and John House look closely at the key paintings in the collection, placing them in the wider contexts of contemporary artistic, aesthetic, and theoretical debates. The first volume to publish the entirety of Barnes's astonishing Renoir collection, Renoir in the Barnes Foundation is also an engaging study of the artist's critical--and often contested--role in the development of modern art. Published in association with the Barnes Foundation

Author : Kathleen Bickford Berzock,Christa Clarke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Art museums
ISBN : 0295989610

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Representing Africa in American Art Museums by Kathleen Bickford Berzock,Christa Clarke Pdf

"The first comprehensive book to focus on the history of African art in American art museums. ... Thirteen essays present the institutional biographies of African art collections in the Cincinnati Museum of Art, the Hampton University Museum, the Brooklyn Museum, the Barnes Foundation, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Museum of Primitive Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Indiana University of Art Museum, the Fowler Museum at UCLA, the University of Iowa Art Museum, the Seattle Art Museum, the Menil Collection, and the National Museum of African Art."--back cover.

Author : John Anderson
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-03
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9780393347319

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Art Held Hostage: The Battle Over the Barnes Collection by John Anderson Pdf

“Money, pretension, horrid behavior by cultured people” (New York) —John Anderson’s tale delivers it all in fabulously juicy detail. This is the story of how a fabled art foundation—the greatest collection of impressionist and postimpressionist art in America, including 69 Cézannes, 60 Matisses, and 44 Picassos, among many priceless others—came to be, and how more than a decade of legal squabbling brought it to the brink of collapse and to a move that many believe betrayed the wishes of the founder, Dr. Albert C. Barnes (1872—1951). Art Held Hostage is now updated with a new epilogue by the author covering the current state of this international treasure and the endless battle over its fate.

Author : Rubell Family Collection
Publisher : Rubell Family Collection
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : African American art
ISBN : UCSD:31822036417145

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30 Americans by Rubell Family Collection Pdf

Text by Franklin Sirmans, Glenn Ligon, Robert Hobbs, Michele Wallace.

Author : Ernie Barnes
Publisher : Wrs Pub
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : African American football players
ISBN : 1567960642

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From Pads to Palette by Ernie Barnes Pdf

Author : Newark Museum
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Art
ISBN : 0932828175

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Arts of Global Africa by Newark Museum Pdf

"This book is published in conjunction with the centennial of the Newark Museum's African art collection and the opening of a new long-term gallery installation, Arts of Global Africa (November 2017)"--Colophon.

Author : Lucy Fowler Williams
Publisher : Barnes Foundation
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2022-03-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 0300264127

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Water, Wind, Breath by Lucy Fowler Williams Pdf

The Barnes Foundation's historic Pueblo and Navajo collections are explored alongside works by contemporary Native American artists This richly illustrated book makes the Barnes Foundation's exceptional collection of Native American art from the Southwest available to the public for the first time. Collector and educator Albert C. Barnes traveled to the U.S. Southwest in 1930 and 1931 and, deeply impressed by the generative art practices he saw there, formed a collection of Pueblo and Navajo pottery, textiles, and jewelry. Water, Wind, Breath illuminates the materials, forms, and designs of the objects as they relate to Pueblo and Navajo histories and ideas. The book blends postcolonial and Indigenous perspectives, introducing readers to living artistic traditions filled with purpose, intention, and a deeply embedded spirituality that connects places, practices, and Native identities. Works by contemporary Native American artists are juxtaposed with historic pieces, illuminating the connections between heritage traditions and modern practices.