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The Art of Celebration: Twentieth-century Painting, Literature, Sculpture, Photography, and Jazz

Door Alfred Appel

Categorie	Algemeen Kunst
Boeknummer	#362355-XK15
Titel	The Art of Celebration: Twentieth-century Painting, Literature, Sculpture, Photography, and Jazz
Auteur	Appel, Alfred
Boektype	Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij	New York : Alfred A. Knopf
Jaar van uitgave	1993
ISBN10	0679400079
ISBN13	9780679400073
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Original half cloth, silver lettered spine, dust jacket, numerous (full page) illustrations (partly in colour), 8vo.
Samenvatting	In a detailed and often startlingly close-up consideration of 122 works of art, here beautifully reproduced, many in full color, Alfred Appel explains, interprets, reveals - and throws a whole new light on - the art of the twentieth century. His wide-ranging commentary accompanying each work, from Mondrian's pulsating abstractions to Brancusi's soaring sculptures and Calder's Thirteen Spines, illuminates a whole network of cultural connections, from the literary to the aesthetic to the political. Appel champions the restorative, uplifting forces found in the works of such twentieth-century artists as Matisse, Lachaise, Paul Klee, Walker Evans, Joyce, Chagall, Stravinsky, Nabokov, Russell Lee, Leger, Milhaud (some of whom came to America to escape Hitler and quickly caught the native upbeat... (Lees verder) beat) . . . Their works have often portrayed the commonplace: cars, gasoline stations, roadside diners, electric signs, movies, radios, skyscrapers . . . celebrating - even through war in Europe and depression at home - the advances in technology, the new look of the cities . . . Appel discusses how their art stimulates and quickens the pulse, and how - with its folk images of the new, willed "primitivism", in part inspired by the tribal art of Africa and Oceania - it projects optimism, humor, energy. Full of ideas and brilliant critical insights, this is a book at once idiosyncratic, authoritative, and fun to look at and to read.
Pagina's	246
Conditie	Goed — Slightly foxed.
Prijs	€ 9,00

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