Graphic Design & Modern Art, Keith Haring & Hudson River

Century of Graphic Design

This comprehensive, beautifully illustrated volume surveys the works of the era's most innovative designers as it chronicles all important movements of the twentieth century. Graphic design has expanded rapidly since the century's first years - a time that marked the appearance of memorable posters by such pioneers as Alexander Rodchenko and E. McKnight Kauffer. All leading figures of twentieth-century graphic design are featured here, with separate sections devoted to each of them. You'll find full-color reproductions of classic works by A.M. Cassandre, Saul Bass, Ikko Tanaka, Neville Brody, April Greiman, and many others, all presented with a summary of each artist's career and special contributions to graphic design.
Also explored in these pages are graphic design genres and movements, starting with early retail ads and classic travel posters, and going on to include the famous record jackets of Blue Note, the underground press of the 1960s, the most innovative fashion magazines, and the web-based designs of today. Features on major design schools of the twentieth century, including the Bauhaus and the Cranbrook Academy of Art, provide a detailed historical account of graphic design evolution over the past one hundred years.
More than 400 full-color illustrations and an insightful text by design historian Jeremy Aynsley make A Century of Graphic Design an invaluable reference book for designers, students, design historians, and all art lovers.
Century of Graphic Design by Jeremy Aynsley
ISBN: 0764153242

Modern Art, 1851-1929

Richard Brettell's innovative account explores the aims and achievements - the beautiful and the bizarre - of artists such as Monet, Gauguin, Picasso, and Dali, in relation to urban capitalism and expansion, colonialism, nationalism and internationalism, and the museum. Tracing common themes of representation, imagination, perception, and sexuality across works in a wide range of different media, he presents a fresh approach to the fine art and photography of this remarkable era.
Modern Art, 1851-1929: Capitalism And Representation by Richard R. Brettell
ISBN: 019284220X

After Modern Art, 1945-2000

Contemporary art can be baffling and beautiful, provocative and disturbing. This pioneering book presents a new look at the controversial period between 1945 and 2000, when art and its traditional forms were called into question. It focuses on the relationship between American and European art, and challenges previously held views about the origins of some of the most innovative ideas in art of this time.
Major artists such as Jackson Pollock, Jasper Johns, Yves Klein, Andy Warhol, Louise Bourgeois, Cindy Sherman, and Damien Hirst are all discussed, as is the art world of the last fifty years. Important trends are also covered including Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art, Minimalism, Conceptualism, Postmodernism, and art of the nineties.
After Modern Art, 1945-2000 by David Hopkins
ISBN: 019284234X

Home Truths

The heart of Canada can be seen through the eyes of those painters who have shown us our own home life. If we seek a national identity, perhaps it can be found in the intimate glimpses of our private lives that we glimpse throughout the pages of Home Truths. Joan Murray's engaging text affords a singular insight into these paintings, providing us with a renewed appreciation of these fascinating works.
Joan Murray is the director of the Robert McLaughlin Gallery in Oshawa, Ontario. She is a frequent contributor to the Canadian art book world with eleven books to her credit, including The Best of the Group of Seven, over 100 art catalogues, and 300 articles on various aspects of art in newspapers and magazines such as The Globe & Mail and Maclean's.
Home Truths: A Celebration of Family Life by Canada's Best-Loved Painters by Joan Murray
ISBN: 1550138820

Keith Haring

By the time of his death from AIDS at the age of 31, Keith Haring (1958-1990) was already a wildly successful and popular artist. Haring's original and instantly recognizable style, full of thick black lines, bold colors, and graffiti-inspired cartoon-like figures, won him the appreciation of both the art world and the general public; his work appeared simultaneously on T-shirts, gallery walls, and public murals.
In 1986, Haring founded Pop Shop, a boutique in New York's SoHo selling Haring-designed memorabilia, to benefit charities and help bring his work closer to the public and especially street kids, with whom he never lost contact.
Alexandra Kolossa studied art history, German literature, and business administration in Trier. She took her doctorate in 2003. Since 1998 she has been a freelance author and contemporary art exhibition curator. She lives and works in Düren.
Keith Haring by Alexandra Kolossa
ISBN: 382283145X

Hudson River School Paintings

The Hudson River began to figure prominently in the artistic consciousness of the nineteenth century when painter Thomas Cole journeyed up its waters in the summer of 1825. The canvases inspired by that trip made his reputation. He settled at Catskill on the Hudson and became the model for other American landscape painters, thus launching the Hudson River School and its romantic, idealized vision of the American landscape.
The river elicited some of these painters' greatest works, and became an iconic emblem for artists and their public alike. In this volume, lavishly illustrated with more than seventy-five color plates, Driscoll surveys the ideas, events, and figures of the Hudson River School movement and explores the diversity of nineteenth-century Romantic American landscape painting. Highlighted in these pages are works by sixty artists, including such well-known figures as Thomas Cole, John F. Kensett, Sanford Gifford, Frederic Church, William Trost Richards, and Worthington Whittredge.
The work of many lesser-known artists is also brought to light, including that of women such as Eliza Greatorex, Mrs. A.T. Oakes, and Laura Woodward; forgotten masters John H. Carmiencke and Regis Gignoux; and the most illustrious African-American artist associated with the school, Robert Duncanson.
All That Is Glorious around Us: Paintings from the Hudson River School by John P. Driscoll
ISBN: 0801434890

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