San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Overview
| Works: | 3,643 works in 4,944 publications in 3 languages and 77,995 library holdings |
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| Genres: | Exhibition catalogs History Pictorial works Illustrated works Biographies Criticism, interpretation, etc Catalogs Photobooks Interviews Periodicals |
| Roles: | Other, his, Editor, Organizer of meeting, isb, Publisher, iub, Publishing director, Adapter |
| Classifications: | TR647, 709.2 |
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Most widely held works about
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
- Photography, a facet of modernism : photographs from the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art by San Francisco Museum of Modern Art( Book )
- San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the painting and sculpture collection by San Francisco Museum of Modern Art( Book )
- Picturing modernity : highlights from the photography collection of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art by San Francisco Museum of Modern Art( Book )
- San Francisco Museum of Modern Art : 75 years of looking forward by San Francisco Museum of Modern Art( Book )
- Taking place : photographs from the Prentice & Paul Sack collection by San Francisco Museum of Modern Art( Book )
- Invitation to the gallery : an introduction to art by Richard L Phipps( Book )
- San Francisco Museum of Modern Art by Justin Henderson( Book )
- SFMOMA painting and sculpture highlights by San Francisco Museum of Modern Art( Book )
- Facets of the collection by San Francisco Museum of Modern Art( Book )
- What is a museum now? : Snøhetta and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art by Snøhetta (Firm)( Book )
- Portraits of artists : 9 December 1984-10 March 1985 : faces photographed : 9 December 1984-24 March 1985 : from the permanent collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art by San Francisco Museum of Modern Art( Book )
- Clyfford Still, 1904-1980 : the Buffalo and San Francisco collections by Clyfford Still( Book )
- San Francisco Museum of Modern Art 360° : views on the collection by San Francisco Museum of Modern Art( Book )
- 50th anniversary commemorative program 1985 by San Francisco Museum of Modern Art( Book )
- Icônes américaines : chefs-d'œuvre du SFMOMA et de la collection Fisher by France) Grand Palais (Paris( Book )
- San Francisco Museum of Modern Art : 75 years of looking forward by San Francisco Museum of Modern Art( Book )
- Rauschenberg research project by San Francisco Museum of Modern Art( )
- Annual report by San Francisco Museum of Modern Art( )
- Old master drawings by Sotheby's (Firm)( Book )
- Photographs by Manson & Woods International Inc Christie( Book )
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Most widely held works by
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Walker Evans by
Walker Evans(
Book
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3 editions published in 2000 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,046 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Shares selected images from the American photographer's life's work, and analyzes a career that spanned more than four decades
3 editions published in 2000 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,046 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Shares selected images from the American photographer's life's work, and analyzes a career that spanned more than four decades
Japanese art after 1945 : scream against the sky by
Alexandra Munroe(
Book
)
2 editions published in 1994 in English and held by 994 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The works of numerous and diverse artists, working in everything from painting and sculpture to video, film and performance art
2 editions published in 1994 in English and held by 994 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The works of numerous and diverse artists, working in everything from painting and sculpture to video, film and performance art
The artist and the camera : Degas to Picasso by
Dorothy M Kosinski(
Book
)
9 editions published in 1999 in English and Undetermined and held by 988 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"Artists continued to discover and explore the artistic and practical applications of photography at the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth centuries. This book explores the highly individual ways some of the most influential artists of the turn of the century put this "wondrous new medium" to use in their painting and sculpture and shows how they enfolded photographs into their creative processes."--Jacket
9 editions published in 1999 in English and Undetermined and held by 988 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"Artists continued to discover and explore the artistic and practical applications of photography at the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth centuries. This book explores the highly individual ways some of the most influential artists of the turn of the century put this "wondrous new medium" to use in their painting and sculpture and shows how they enfolded photographs into their creative processes."--Jacket
Julia Margaret Cameron's women by
Sylvia Wolf(
Book
)
5 editions published in 1998 in English and held by 981 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"Cameron is recognized as a pioneer of photography and one of the great portrait photographers of all time. The bulk of her work consists of portraits of women. This book is the first to concentrate on this central aspect of Cameron's work, providing new information and insights about one of photography's most visionary practitioners."--Jacket
5 editions published in 1998 in English and held by 981 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"Cameron is recognized as a pioneer of photography and one of the great portrait photographers of all time. The bulk of her work consists of portraits of women. This book is the first to concentrate on this central aspect of Cameron's work, providing new information and insights about one of photography's most visionary practitioners."--Jacket
Ansel Adams at 100 by
John Szarkowski(
Book
)
15 editions published in 2001 in 3 languages and held by 972 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Commemorates the art of the late landscape photographer and accompanies an international exhibit by showcasing 114 photographic images complemented by a critical essay on Adams' contributions to modern art
15 editions published in 2001 in 3 languages and held by 972 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Commemorates the art of the late landscape photographer and accompanies an international exhibit by showcasing 114 photographic images complemented by a critical essay on Adams' contributions to modern art
Wayne Thiebaud by
Karen Tsujimoto(
Book
)
2 editions published in 1985 in English and held by 964 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Wayne Thiebaud first captured the attention of the art world in the early sixties when he exhibited paintings of cakes, hot dogs and gumball machines. Initially identified, by the subject of these works, with American Pop artists, Thiebaud has since shifted his attention to other subjects ranging from the figure to landscape. He has established himself as a preeminent American realist exploring traditional subjects with a fresh and contemporary eye. This major monograph traces the development of several themes and styles that characterize Thiebaud's complex oeuvre. Lavish color and duotone illustrations document the major themes that have preoccupied Thiebaud for decades: still lifes, figure painting and the landscape, urban and rural. Both Thiebaud's classic paintings of modern taste delights and many recent still lifes are illustrated. A selection of paintings and drawings represent the little-known figurative work that Thiebaud has produced over the years. Finally, the book documents Thiebaud's early landscapes and his recent cityscapes. -- From publisher's description
2 editions published in 1985 in English and held by 964 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Wayne Thiebaud first captured the attention of the art world in the early sixties when he exhibited paintings of cakes, hot dogs and gumball machines. Initially identified, by the subject of these works, with American Pop artists, Thiebaud has since shifted his attention to other subjects ranging from the figure to landscape. He has established himself as a preeminent American realist exploring traditional subjects with a fresh and contemporary eye. This major monograph traces the development of several themes and styles that characterize Thiebaud's complex oeuvre. Lavish color and duotone illustrations document the major themes that have preoccupied Thiebaud for decades: still lifes, figure painting and the landscape, urban and rural. Both Thiebaud's classic paintings of modern taste delights and many recent still lifes are illustrated. A selection of paintings and drawings represent the little-known figurative work that Thiebaud has produced over the years. Finally, the book documents Thiebaud's early landscapes and his recent cityscapes. -- From publisher's description
Images of America : precisionist painting and modern photography by
Karen Tsujimoto(
Book
)
3 editions published in 1982 in English and held by 959 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
" ... documents the parallel courses followed by American painting and photography from the years just preceding World War I through the forties, a time when a new direction in American painting, identified as Precisioniwsm, was emerging."--Page 4 of cover
3 editions published in 1982 in English and held by 959 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
" ... documents the parallel courses followed by American painting and photography from the years just preceding World War I through the forties, a time when a new direction in American painting, identified as Precisioniwsm, was emerging."--Page 4 of cover
Picasso and American art by
Michael C FitzGerald(
Book
)
4 editions published in 2006 in English and held by 950 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"Picasso and American Art is a publication juxtaposing works by Picasso with the paintings, sculptures, and drawings created in response by an extremely diverse group of his contemporaries and successors, including Max Weber, Stuart Davis, Arshile Gorky, John Graham, Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock, David Smith, Roy Lichtenstein, and Jasper Johns." "Based on extensive research, Michael FitzGerald's text provides valuable new information on the fundamental role that Picasso played in the development of modern American art - both through his friendships with individual artists and through the dissemination of his evolving work. This book also documents, for the first time, the accessibility of Picasso's work in the United States between 1910 and 1957 in exhibitions, collections, and publications through a comprehensive chronology."--Jacket
4 editions published in 2006 in English and held by 950 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"Picasso and American Art is a publication juxtaposing works by Picasso with the paintings, sculptures, and drawings created in response by an extremely diverse group of his contemporaries and successors, including Max Weber, Stuart Davis, Arshile Gorky, John Graham, Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock, David Smith, Roy Lichtenstein, and Jasper Johns." "Based on extensive research, Michael FitzGerald's text provides valuable new information on the fundamental role that Picasso played in the development of modern American art - both through his friendships with individual artists and through the dissemination of his evolving work. This book also documents, for the first time, the accessibility of Picasso's work in the United States between 1910 and 1957 in exhibitions, collections, and publications through a comprehensive chronology."--Jacket
Eva Hesse by
Eva Hesse(
Book
)
11 editions published in 2002 in 3 languages and held by 919 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A critical primer on the work of artist Eva Hesse
11 editions published in 2002 in 3 languages and held by 919 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A critical primer on the work of artist Eva Hesse
Alexander Calder, 1898-1976 by
Marla Prather(
Book
)
3 editions published in 1998 in English and held by 905 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Catalogue of a centenary retrospective exhibition of 265 objects by Alexander Calder, including sculptures, paintings, drawings and jewelry. Text of the catalogue is divided into five chronological sections each of which is accompanied by a detailed chronology. The exhibition emphasizes the artist's early career into the 1940s when he created his first mobiles, stabiles and standing mobiles. His monumental public scuptures from the last two-and-a-half decades of his career is the focus of the final section. The publication also includes an essay titled Staging Movement by Arnauld Pierre and a detailed exhibition history by Alexander S.C. Rower
3 editions published in 1998 in English and held by 905 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Catalogue of a centenary retrospective exhibition of 265 objects by Alexander Calder, including sculptures, paintings, drawings and jewelry. Text of the catalogue is divided into five chronological sections each of which is accompanied by a detailed chronology. The exhibition emphasizes the artist's early career into the 1940s when he created his first mobiles, stabiles and standing mobiles. His monumental public scuptures from the last two-and-a-half decades of his career is the focus of the final section. The publication also includes an essay titled Staging Movement by Arnauld Pierre and a detailed exhibition history by Alexander S.C. Rower
An uncertain grace by
Sebastião Salgado(
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)
8 editions published in 1990 in English and held by 895 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
From a Brazilian mine where 50,000 mud-covered men haul heavy bags of dirt up and down slippery ladders in search of a stray nugget of gold, to a former lake in western Africa now swallowed by the encroaching desert, where emaciated, starving people walk over its surface of sand, photographer Sebastião Salgado explores the live of the planet's often ignored people with a critical eye and an empathetic heart
8 editions published in 1990 in English and held by 895 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
From a Brazilian mine where 50,000 mud-covered men haul heavy bags of dirt up and down slippery ladders in search of a stray nugget of gold, to a former lake in western Africa now swallowed by the encroaching desert, where emaciated, starving people walk over its surface of sand, photographer Sebastião Salgado explores the live of the planet's often ignored people with a critical eye and an empathetic heart
Tina Modotti : photographs by
Sarah M Lowe(
Book
)
3 editions published in 1995 in English and held by 888 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
This is the first serious art-historical study of the photographic achievement of Tina Modotti (1896-1942). Modotti's photographic career spanned a brief but intense seven years (1923-30) when she lived in Mexico and became committed to revolutionary Communism. The beautifully reproduced duotone images in this book include portraits, still lifes (among them, Modotti's memorable "revolutionary icons" incorporating an ear of dried corn, a bandolier, a sickle, and a guitar), Mexican workers, folk art, street photographs, architectural studies, and flowers and plants. They have been selected to represent the full range of Modotti's esthetic imagination, and nearly half have rarely or never been reproduced before. In an informative biographical and critical essay based on exhaustive research, Sarah M. Lowe, curator, art historian, author of a book about Frida Kahlo, and contributor to Abrams' The Diary of Frida Kahlo, explores the forces that shaped Modotti's early family influences in Italy; her formative experiences in the bohemian communities of San Francisco and Los Angeles in the 1910s; the relationship with legendary American photographer Edward Weston that provided her with her first photographic training; and the artistic and political circles she entered in Mexico. Lowe casts new light on Modotti's Mexican years, describing her relationships with a constellation of powerful artists, critics, activists, and journalists. Tina Modotti: Photographs is the catalogue of the first comprehensive exhibition of Modotti's work, organized on the occasion of the centennial of her birth by the Philadelphia Museum of Art and traveling to the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
3 editions published in 1995 in English and held by 888 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
This is the first serious art-historical study of the photographic achievement of Tina Modotti (1896-1942). Modotti's photographic career spanned a brief but intense seven years (1923-30) when she lived in Mexico and became committed to revolutionary Communism. The beautifully reproduced duotone images in this book include portraits, still lifes (among them, Modotti's memorable "revolutionary icons" incorporating an ear of dried corn, a bandolier, a sickle, and a guitar), Mexican workers, folk art, street photographs, architectural studies, and flowers and plants. They have been selected to represent the full range of Modotti's esthetic imagination, and nearly half have rarely or never been reproduced before. In an informative biographical and critical essay based on exhaustive research, Sarah M. Lowe, curator, art historian, author of a book about Frida Kahlo, and contributor to Abrams' The Diary of Frida Kahlo, explores the forces that shaped Modotti's early family influences in Italy; her formative experiences in the bohemian communities of San Francisco and Los Angeles in the 1910s; the relationship with legendary American photographer Edward Weston that provided her with her first photographic training; and the artistic and political circles she entered in Mexico. Lowe casts new light on Modotti's Mexican years, describing her relationships with a constellation of powerful artists, critics, activists, and journalists. Tina Modotti: Photographs is the catalogue of the first comprehensive exhibition of Modotti's work, organized on the occasion of the centennial of her birth by the Philadelphia Museum of Art and traveling to the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Frida Kahlo by
Frida Kahlo(
Book
)
3 editions published in 2007 in English and held by 826 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"Frida Kahlo's paintings and person illustrate the inevitable intertwining of freedom and pain, embodying the heroic reclamation of self and the repudiation of social repression through the art-making process. She is a woman both of her time and ours. Born in 1907, on the cusp of a new century, she was a radical in imagining and then asserting a peculiarly adventuresome artistic, sexual, and political identity. In her paintings she blurred the realms of saints and shamans as well as the cosmological and the technological, often permitting shockingly personal depictions of her physical and psychological pain to bleed into the iconography of Mexico's Aztec, colonial, and revolutionary history. This overturning of traditional approaches to thinking, seeing, and fantasizing is clear in the fearless self-portraits Kahlo constructed as well as in the life she lived." "This richly illustrated catalogue features more than 80 of Kahlo's works, including the hauntingly seductive and often brutal self-portraits, as well as a selection of key portraits and still-lifes that span the years of her career, up to her death in 1954, New critical essays by Elizabeth Carpenter, Hayden Herrera, and Victor Zamudio-Taylor examine Kahlo's position within art history and visual culture. Also reproduced are more than 100 photographs that belonged to Kahlo and her husband, renowned Mexican muralist Diego Rivera, some taken by eminent photographers of the period such as Lola Alvarez Bravo, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Gisele Freund, Tina Modotti, and Nickolas Muray. More personal snapshots show Kahlo with family and friends, among them luminaries Andre Breton and Leon Trotsky, and many carry graphic inscriptions and interventions by the artist. An illustrated timeline, bibliography, and exhibition history offer added context."--Jacket
3 editions published in 2007 in English and held by 826 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"Frida Kahlo's paintings and person illustrate the inevitable intertwining of freedom and pain, embodying the heroic reclamation of self and the repudiation of social repression through the art-making process. She is a woman both of her time and ours. Born in 1907, on the cusp of a new century, she was a radical in imagining and then asserting a peculiarly adventuresome artistic, sexual, and political identity. In her paintings she blurred the realms of saints and shamans as well as the cosmological and the technological, often permitting shockingly personal depictions of her physical and psychological pain to bleed into the iconography of Mexico's Aztec, colonial, and revolutionary history. This overturning of traditional approaches to thinking, seeing, and fantasizing is clear in the fearless self-portraits Kahlo constructed as well as in the life she lived." "This richly illustrated catalogue features more than 80 of Kahlo's works, including the hauntingly seductive and often brutal self-portraits, as well as a selection of key portraits and still-lifes that span the years of her career, up to her death in 1954, New critical essays by Elizabeth Carpenter, Hayden Herrera, and Victor Zamudio-Taylor examine Kahlo's position within art history and visual culture. Also reproduced are more than 100 photographs that belonged to Kahlo and her husband, renowned Mexican muralist Diego Rivera, some taken by eminent photographers of the period such as Lola Alvarez Bravo, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Gisele Freund, Tina Modotti, and Nickolas Muray. More personal snapshots show Kahlo with family and friends, among them luminaries Andre Breton and Leon Trotsky, and many carry graphic inscriptions and interventions by the artist. An illustrated timeline, bibliography, and exhibition history offer added context."--Jacket
Willem de Kooning : tracing the figure by
Willem De Kooning(
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)
4 editions published in 2002 in English and held by 820 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
This title explores De Kooning's drawings of the female form between 1940 and 1955. It reveals an artist who struggled to eliminate traditional barriers between drawing and painting
4 editions published in 2002 in English and held by 820 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
This title explores De Kooning's drawings of the female form between 1940 and 1955. It reveals an artist who struggled to eliminate traditional barriers between drawing and painting
Marc Chagall by
Marc Chagall(
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)
10 editions published in 2003 in English and Undetermined and held by 820 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Marc Chagall is one of the twentieth century's favorite artists, known and admired for his rich palette, his inventive approach, his accessible subjects, and the rich traditions behind his work. Combining fantasy, spirituality, and nostalgia with a distinctive modern painting style, Chagall's canvases are infused with a joyous, dreamlike simplicity. Even as styles shifted from Cubism to Suprematism to Surrealism, his work remained individual and idiosyncratic-sometimes harming his art world reputation, but never his popular appeal. Lavishly illustrated with more than one hundred and fifty color reproductions, Marc Chagall is the first full-scale survey of the artist's work in nearly twenty years. An introductory essay by exhibition curator Jean-Michel Foray contextualizes the Russian-born artist's work, while a heavily illustrated chronology of Chagall's life assembled by Meret Meyer Graber and Jakov Bruk details the many stages of his career. The work is organized into four sections, each with an introduction by Foray, to help make sense of the artist's prodigious oeuvre. This catalogue is published on the occasion of a major retrospective conceived by Reunion des Musees Nationaux, Paris, with the Musee National Message Biblique Marc Chagall, Nice, and co-organized with the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
10 editions published in 2003 in English and Undetermined and held by 820 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Marc Chagall is one of the twentieth century's favorite artists, known and admired for his rich palette, his inventive approach, his accessible subjects, and the rich traditions behind his work. Combining fantasy, spirituality, and nostalgia with a distinctive modern painting style, Chagall's canvases are infused with a joyous, dreamlike simplicity. Even as styles shifted from Cubism to Suprematism to Surrealism, his work remained individual and idiosyncratic-sometimes harming his art world reputation, but never his popular appeal. Lavishly illustrated with more than one hundred and fifty color reproductions, Marc Chagall is the first full-scale survey of the artist's work in nearly twenty years. An introductory essay by exhibition curator Jean-Michel Foray contextualizes the Russian-born artist's work, while a heavily illustrated chronology of Chagall's life assembled by Meret Meyer Graber and Jakov Bruk details the many stages of his career. The work is organized into four sections, each with an introduction by Foray, to help make sense of the artist's prodigious oeuvre. This catalogue is published on the occasion of a major retrospective conceived by Reunion des Musees Nationaux, Paris, with the Musee National Message Biblique Marc Chagall, Nice, and co-organized with the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Sol LeWitt : a retrospective by
Sol LeWitt(
Book
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12 editions published in 2000 in English and Undetermined and held by 795 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"This book, the first retrospective of LeWitt's work in more than twenty years, fosters a deeper understanding of the artist's career and its significance to American art and thought." "Including essays by a number of curators and art historians, this volume charts the evolution of LeWitt's art from his work in Conceptualism during the early 1960s through his turn toward a more lyrical and sensual form of abstraction round 1980. With over 450 images, the book provides a visual survey of LeWitt's oeuvre from 1960 to the present, including wall drawings, three-dimensional structures, works on paper and photographs."--Jacket
12 editions published in 2000 in English and Undetermined and held by 795 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"This book, the first retrospective of LeWitt's work in more than twenty years, fosters a deeper understanding of the artist's career and its significance to American art and thought." "Including essays by a number of curators and art historians, this volume charts the evolution of LeWitt's art from his work in Conceptualism during the early 1960s through his turn toward a more lyrical and sensual form of abstraction round 1980. With over 450 images, the book provides a visual survey of LeWitt's oeuvre from 1960 to the present, including wall drawings, three-dimensional structures, works on paper and photographs."--Jacket
Ceramic sculpture : six artists by
Richard Marshall(
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7 editions published in 1981 in English and held by 786 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Includes material on the works of Peter Voulkos, John Mason, Kenneth Price, Robert Arneson, David Gilhooly, Richard Shaw
7 editions published in 1981 in English and held by 786 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Includes material on the works of Peter Voulkos, John Mason, Kenneth Price, Robert Arneson, David Gilhooly, Richard Shaw
Bay Area figurative art, 1950-1965 by
Caroline A Jones(
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2 editions published in 1990 in English and held by 762 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
During the 1950s a few painters in the San Francisco Bay Area began to stage personal, dramatic defections from the prevailing style of Abstract Expressionism, creating what would come to be known as Bay Area Figurative Art. In 1949 David Park destroyed many of his nonobjective canvases and began a new style of consciously naive figuration. Soon Elmer Bischoff and Richard Diebenkorn joined Park and other painters such as Nathan Oliveira, Theophilus Brown, James Weeks, and Paul Wonner in the move away from abstraction and toward figurative subject matter. When artists such as Bruce McGaw, Manuel Neri, and Joan Brown emerged as a second generation of figurative artists, the momentum grew for a powerful new development in American painting. The achievement of Bay Area Figurative painters and sculptors has become directly relevant to current debates regarding abstraction and representation, as well as to discourses on modernism and postmodernism. Indeed, the historical phenomenon of the movement is an important case study in the evolution of modernism in America, serving as an early example of rupture in the formalist "mainstream." Bay Area Figurative Art 1950-1965 was written to accompany an exhibition of the same name at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Based on extensive archival research and interviews, it is the first study of the movement as a whole and is the broadest and most accurate account of the careers and interactions of ten Bay Area artists who worked in this new style
2 editions published in 1990 in English and held by 762 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
During the 1950s a few painters in the San Francisco Bay Area began to stage personal, dramatic defections from the prevailing style of Abstract Expressionism, creating what would come to be known as Bay Area Figurative Art. In 1949 David Park destroyed many of his nonobjective canvases and began a new style of consciously naive figuration. Soon Elmer Bischoff and Richard Diebenkorn joined Park and other painters such as Nathan Oliveira, Theophilus Brown, James Weeks, and Paul Wonner in the move away from abstraction and toward figurative subject matter. When artists such as Bruce McGaw, Manuel Neri, and Joan Brown emerged as a second generation of figurative artists, the momentum grew for a powerful new development in American painting. The achievement of Bay Area Figurative painters and sculptors has become directly relevant to current debates regarding abstraction and representation, as well as to discourses on modernism and postmodernism. Indeed, the historical phenomenon of the movement is an important case study in the evolution of modernism in America, serving as an early example of rupture in the formalist "mainstream." Bay Area Figurative Art 1950-1965 was written to accompany an exhibition of the same name at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Based on extensive archival research and interviews, it is the first study of the movement as a whole and is the broadest and most accurate account of the careers and interactions of ten Bay Area artists who worked in this new style
Dorothea Lange : American photographs by
Therese Thau Heyman(
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5 editions published in 1994 in English and Undetermined and held by 757 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Chronicles Lange's career with over 150 photographs, from her early work documenting the Depression to her photo-essays of the 1940s and 1950s depicting a changing American society--Cover
5 editions published in 1994 in English and Undetermined and held by 757 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Chronicles Lange's career with over 150 photographs, from her early work documenting the Depression to her photo-essays of the 1940s and 1950s depicting a changing American society--Cover
The Steins collect : Matisse, Picasso, and the Parisian avant-garde by
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art(
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8 editions published in 2011 in English and held by 757 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"As American expatriates living in Paris, the writer Gertrude Stein, her brothers Leo and Michael, and Michael's wife Sarah were absolutely pivotal in shaping the city's vibrant cultural life in the early 20th century. They hosted Saturday evening salons at which the brightest artists, writers, musicians, and collectors convened to discuss the latest developments. They aggressively promoted and collected emerging painters and sculptors, particularly their close friends Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso. And along the way they developed unparalleled holdings in modernist work by such figures as Paul Cézanne, Juan Gris, Francis Picabia, and Pierre-Auguste Renoir. Lavishly produced and featuring more than 600 images, The Steins Collect is the first comprehensive exploration of the Steins' extraordinary collections and their enduring cultural influence. The book explores the Steins' impact on art-making and collecting practices in Europe and the United States; the intense sibling rivalries that developed around key artists and ideas; the roots of Leo's aesthetic theories in the thought of William James and Bernard Berenson; Sarah and Michael's role in founding the Académie Matisse; Gertrude's complex relationship with Picasso and their artistic influence on each other; Le Corbusier's radical villa design for the family; and much more. The Steins Collect not only reveals the artistic prescience of this innovative family and their important patronage, but also traces how they created a new international standard of taste for modern art."--Publisher description
8 editions published in 2011 in English and held by 757 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"As American expatriates living in Paris, the writer Gertrude Stein, her brothers Leo and Michael, and Michael's wife Sarah were absolutely pivotal in shaping the city's vibrant cultural life in the early 20th century. They hosted Saturday evening salons at which the brightest artists, writers, musicians, and collectors convened to discuss the latest developments. They aggressively promoted and collected emerging painters and sculptors, particularly their close friends Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso. And along the way they developed unparalleled holdings in modernist work by such figures as Paul Cézanne, Juan Gris, Francis Picabia, and Pierre-Auguste Renoir. Lavishly produced and featuring more than 600 images, The Steins Collect is the first comprehensive exploration of the Steins' extraordinary collections and their enduring cultural influence. The book explores the Steins' impact on art-making and collecting practices in Europe and the United States; the intense sibling rivalries that developed around key artists and ideas; the roots of Leo's aesthetic theories in the thought of William James and Bernard Berenson; Sarah and Michael's role in founding the Académie Matisse; Gertrude's complex relationship with Picasso and their artistic influence on each other; Le Corbusier's radical villa design for the family; and much more. The Steins Collect not only reveals the artistic prescience of this innovative family and their important patronage, but also traces how they created a new international standard of taste for modern art."--Publisher description
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- Walker Art Center Other
- Whitney Museum of American Art Other
- Phillips, Sandra S. 1945- Other Editor Author Contributor
- Garrels, Gary Other Organizer of meeting Author Editor
- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) Other Editor
- Art Institute of Chicago Other
- Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Other Organizer of meeting
- Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)
- Bishop, Janet C. Contributor Author Editor
- National Gallery of Art (U.S.)
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Adams, Ansel, Art Art, American Art, French Art, Japanese Art and photography Artists Art museums Art--Private collections Avant-garde (Aesthetics) Calder, Alexander, California California--San Francisco California--San Francisco Bay Area Cameron, Julia Margaret, Ceramic sculpture, American Chagall, Marc, De Kooning, Willem, Documentary photography Europe Evans, Walker, Figurative art France France--Paris Hesse, Eva, Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) Japan Kahlo, Frida Lange, Dorothea LeWitt, Sol, Mexico Minimal art Mobiles (Sculpture) Modotti, Tina, Painting, American Photograph collections Photography Photography, Artistic Photography of women Picasso, Pablo, Precisionism Salgado, Sebastião, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Sculptors Social conditions Stein family Still, Clyfford, Thiebaud, Wayne United States Women in art
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Alternative Names
Musée d'art moderne de San Francisco
musée d'Art moderne de San Francisco musée à San Francisco, Californie
Museo de Arte Moderno de San Francisco
Museu d'Art Modern de San Francisco
Museum of Art (San Francisco)
Museum of modern art
Museum of Modern Art San Francisco
Museum of modern art San Francisco, Calif.
Muzeum Sztuki Współczesnej w San Francisco
San Francisco (Calif.)
San Francisco (Calif.) Museum of Modern Art
San Franciscó-i Modern Művészetek Múzeuma
San Francisco (Kalifornie) Museum of Modern Art
San Francisco Modern Sanat Müzesi
San Francisco museum of art
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Kunstmuseum in den Vereinigten Staaten
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art museum in San Francisco
San-Franciska Muzeo de Moderna Arto
SF MOMA
SFMOMA
SFMOMA (San Francisco Museum of Modern Art)
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سانفرانسیسکو معاصر هنرون موزه
متحف سان فرانسيسكو للفن الحديث
موزه هنرهای معاصر سانفرانسیسکو
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三藩市現代藝術博物館
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