The Evolution Of The Nasher Collection

Author : Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University,Sarah Schroth
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : UOM:39015063309234

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The Evolution of the Nasher Collection by Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University,Sarah Schroth Pdf

The Evolution of the Nasher Collection is the catalog that accompanies the inaugural exhibition, on view from October 2, 2005, through May 21, 2006, at the new Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University. The exhibition draws from the collection of the museum's benefactor, Raymond D. Nasher, and his late wife, Patsy. The Nashers built one of the world's major collections of twentieth-century sculpture over the course of forty years. The exhibition includes seminal works by Auguste Rodin, Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Alberto Giacometti, Jean Dubuffet, David Smith, Henry Moore, and others. Before sculpture, the Nashers collected ancient American art, Guatemalan textiles, contemporary prints, and paintings by Jean-Michel Basquiat and Andy Warhol. Many of these works, held in the Nashers' private residence, will be on public view--and published in this full-color catalog--for the first time. The book offers a new approach to viewing and thinking about the Nasher Collection, concentrating not on the final, finished product, "the greatest collection of modern sculpture in private hands," but on the unfolding of the process of building that collection through time, its chronological development from the early 1950s to the present. In the history of any collection, there is a narrative of evolution--a beginning, which includes a motivation, followed by a process of change as the collector works out by experience and experimentation a personal approach to the gathering of objects of art. In the case of the Nasher collection, this personal approach is the result of a remarkable synergy between two individuals, Raymond D. Nasher and Patsy Nasher. The essay by curator Sarah Schroth contextualizes the Nashers as collectors within the history of collecting practices in the United States in the second half of the twentieth century. Publication of the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University

Author : Steven A. Nash
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Sculpture
ISBN : 0974122114

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A Century of Sculpture by Steven A. Nash Pdf

Author : Scott Rothkopf
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-08
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780300195873

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Jeff Koons by Scott Rothkopf Pdf

With over 200 illustrations of iconic works as well as preparatory studies and historic photographs, this book offers fresh insight into Koons’s polarizing and influential career.

Author : Elizabeth Frank
Publisher : Rizzoli International Publications
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015011966655

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A Century of Modern Sculpture by Elizabeth Frank Pdf

Author : Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Art
ISBN : 0938989405

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A Material Legacy by Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University Pdf

Comprised of more than thirty large-scale works drawn entirely from the Nancy A. Nasher and David J. Haemisegger Collection, A Material Legacy is a multi-generational exhibition that provides an almost real-time glimpse into the varied approaches and innovative techniques of art being made in the second decade of the twenty-first century.

Author : Natalie Ornish
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2011-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781603444330

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Pioneer Jewish Texans by Natalie Ornish Pdf

With more than 400 photographs, extensive interviews with the descendants of pioneer Jewish Texan families, and reproductions of rare historical documents, Natalie Ornish’s Pioneer Jewish Texans quickly became a classic following its original release in 1989. This new Texas A&M University Press edition presents Ornish’s meticulous research and her fascinating historical vignettes for a new generation of readers and historians. She chronicles Jewish buccaneers with Jean Lafitte at Galveston; she tells of Jewish patriots who fought at the Alamo and at virtually every major engagement in the war for Texan independence; she traces the careers of immigrants with names like Marcus, Sanger, and Gordon, who arrived on the Texas frontier with little more than the packs on their backs and went on to build great mercantile empires. Cattle barons, wildcatters, diplomats, physicians, financiers, artists, and humanitarians are among the other notable Jewish pioneers and pathfinders described in this carefully researched and exhaustively documented book. Filling a substantial void in Texana and Texas history, the Texas A&M University Press edition of Natalie Ornish’s Pioneer Jewish Texans brings back into circulation this treasure trove of information on a rich and often overlooked vein of the multifaceted story of the Lone Star State.

Author : Dallas Museum of Art
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Sculpture, Modern
ISBN : OCLC:634328595

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A Century of Modern Sculpture by Dallas Museum of Art Pdf

Author : Elizabeth Finch,Marshall N. Price,Graham Bader,Scott Manning Stevens
Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-08
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780847868681

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Roy Lichtenstein by Elizabeth Finch,Marshall N. Price,Graham Bader,Scott Manning Stevens Pdf

Roy before he was Lichtenstein: the path to becoming a Pop Art titan began with Lichtenstein's cycling through a provocative range of visual culture, from fairy tales and children's and folk art to mythic forms of Americana, such as cowboys and Disney. Roy Lichtenstein: History in the Making, 1948-1960 is the first major museum exhibition to investigate the early work of one of the best-known American artists of the twentieth century. Co-organized by Colby College Museum of Art and Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, the exhibition will include approximately ninety works from the artist's fruitful and formative early career, many never before seen by the public. The show and accompanying catalog will include paintings, drawings, sculptures, and prints which reveal an artist, even in the earliest stages of his career, with a keen interest in visual culture, culling--with a critical eye--from a wide range of sources. These inspirations were the essential but little-known precursors to the artist's later sourcing of comic books and advertisements. Likewise, his exploration of abstraction, just before the artist's abrupt turn to Pop Art in 1961, straddles the line between unabashed lyricism and wry critique of second-generation Abstract Expressionism. The catalog, with new scholarship by leading experts in the field, provides a new understanding of Lichtenstein's influential techniques of appropriation and offers the opportunity to more fully assess the artistic and cultural dynamism of postwar America.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 618 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2005-08
Category : Interior decoration
ISBN : UOM:39015058910889

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Interior Design and Decoration by Anonim Pdf

Author : David G. McComb
Publisher : Univ of TX + ORM
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780292793224

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Texas, A Modern History by David G. McComb Pdf

Revised and updated, this popular history by an award-winning author brings the story of Texas into the twenty-first century. Since its publication in 1989, Texas, A Modern History has established itself as one of the most readable and reliable general histories of Texas. David McComb paints the panorama of Lone Star history from the earliest Indians to the present day with a vigorous brush that uses fact, anecdote, and humor to present a concise narrative. The book is designed to offer an adult reader the savor of Texan culture, an exploration of the ethos of its people, and a sense of the rhythm of its development. Spanish settlement, the Battle of the Alamo, the Civil War, cattle trails, oil discovery, the growth of cities, changes in politics, the Great Depression, World War II, recreation, economic expansion, and recession are each a part of the picture. Photographs and fascinating sidebars punctuate the text. In this revised edition, McComb not only incorporates recent scholarship but also tracks the post–World War II rise of the Republican Party in Texas and the evolution of the state from rural to urban, with 88 percent of the people now living in cities. At the same time, he demonstrates that, despite many changes that have made Texas similar to the rest of the United States, much of its unique past remains. “Contrary to popular belief, there is more to Texas history than the Alamo and oil gushers. This book takes us from the early Indians of the area through to modern times when people began to realize the exploitation of natural resources and pollution were ruining the state’s natural beauty. The author offers many stories and an ample helping of anecdotes and folklore to paint an accurate portrait of the state and the people who have made it great.” —American West

Author : Richard Dilworth
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 777 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2011-09-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780872899117

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Cities in American Political History by Richard Dilworth Pdf

Profiling the ten most populous cities in the United States during ten critical eras of political development, Cities in American Political History presents a unique singular focus on American cities, their government and politics, industry, commerce, labor, and race and ethnicity. Cities in American Political History analyzes the role that large cities from New York to Chicago to San Jose, have played in U.S. politics and policymaking. Each entry is structured for straightforward comparison across issues and eras. The city profiles include basic data and statistics for the era and are accompanied by maps of each era and the largest cities at that time.

Author : Alessandra Wood
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2020-02-28
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780429796630

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Designed to Sell by Alessandra Wood Pdf

Designed to Sell presents an engaging account of mid-twentieth-century department store design and display in America from the 1930s to the 1960s. It traces the development of postwar philosophies of retail design that embodied aesthetics and function and new modes of merchandise display, resulting in the emergence of a new type of industrial designer. The evolution of aesthetics in department stores during this period reflected larger cultural shifts in consumer behaviour and lifestyle. Designed to Sell explores these changes using five key case studies and original archival sources to reveal the link between designers and consumption beyond the design of individual objects. It argues that design is not simply connected to retail consumption, but that it is capable of controlling how and where customers shop and what they are drawn to purchase. This book contextualises this discussion and brings it up to date for students and scholars interested in design, retail, and interior history.

Author : S. Beckerleg
Publisher : Springer
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2010-06-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230107786

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Ethnic Identity and Development by S. Beckerleg Pdf

This book presents data on Ugandan khat within the context of international debates on the drug, and the proposed ban in 2009. By telling of the story of khat, the book will serve as a vehicle for the analysis of social change, development priorities and shifting ethnic identities in Uganda over the last 80 years.

Author : Mindy N. Besaw,Candice Hopkins,Manuela Well-Off-Man
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-24
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781682260807

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Art for a New Understanding by Mindy N. Besaw,Candice Hopkins,Manuela Well-Off-Man Pdf

Art for a New Understanding, an exhibition from Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art that opened in October 2018, seeks to radically expand and reposition the narrative of American art since 1950 by charting a history of the development of contemporary Indigenous art from the United States and Canada, beginning when artists moved from more regionally-based conversations and practices to national and international contemporary art contexts. This fully illustrated volume includes essays by art historians and historians and reflections by the artists included in the collection. Also included are key contemporary writings—from the 1950s onward—by artists, scholars, and critics, investigating the themes of transculturalism and pan-Indian identity, traditional practices conducted in radically new ways, displacement, forced migration, shadow histories, the role of personal mythologies as a means to reimagine the future, and much more. As both a survey of the development of Indigenous art from the 1950s to the present and a consideration of Native artists within contemporary art more broadly, Art for a New Understanding expands the definition of American art and sets the tone for future considerations of the subject. It is an essential publication for any institution or individual with an interest in contemporary Native American art, and an invaluable resource in ongoing scholarly considerations of the American contemporary art landscape at large.

Author : Frank Jewett Mather,Frederic Fairchild Sherman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1034 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Art
ISBN : UCSD:31822036971349

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Art in America by Frank Jewett Mather,Frederic Fairchild Sherman Pdf