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Ellsworth Kelly in San Francisco

By: Madeleine Grynsztejn,Ellsworth Kelly,Julian Myers

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Ellsworth Kelly in San Francisco

By: Madeleine Grynsztejn,Ellsworth Kelly,Julian Myers

An elegant presentation of the most significant collection of the artist's work. It secures Kelly's place as one of the most original and compelling of contemporary American artists.

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Univ of California Press

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0520237846

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9780520237841

Ellsworth Kelly

The Years in France, 1948-1954

By: Yve-Alain Bois,Jack Cowart,Ellsworth Kelly,Alfred Pacquement

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The Years in France, 1948-1954

By: Yve-Alain Bois,Jack Cowart,Ellsworth Kelly,Alfred Pacquement

In the late 1950s, Ellsworth Kelly emerged as a major figure in the vanguard of so-called "Hard Edge" New York abstraction. Noted for their articulate, sharply contoured planes, unified perspective, and shifting balances between foreground and background, Kelly's works expanded the language of both figuration and abstraction, establishing him as one of the leading postwar American artists. Earlier in his career, Kelly had spent six years in France, from 1948 to 1954, a time that proved decisive to the evolution of his art. Sponsored by the G. I. Bill, the artist closely studied contemporary and historical art, architecture and culture in Paris and various regions of France, as well as meeting with several other European and American artists. These were all critical stimuli at a time when Kelly was developing his distinct mature style. Published in connection with an exhibition co-organized by the Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume, Paris, and the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., this scintillating volume presents the first complete and accurate portrait of this pivotal stage in Kelly's career, drawing on previously unpublished work and observations by the artist. Excerpts from interviews and correspondence, and a chronicle of the artist's activities are included. The essays address the creative and interpretive issues of Kelly's work in relation to modern abstraction, his use of the "chance" and the modular grid, and the role of his photographs in recording motifs in nature. This volume reproduces for the first time all Kelly's paintings and low-relief sculpture of the period, as well as a selection of his earlier paintings done in New Jersey and Boston. A number of his photographs, drawings, sketchbooks, and collages are also featured. Comparative illustrations include portraits of his artist friends, photographs of Paris, and works by Matisse, Picasso, and others. Ironically, Kelly sold only one painting during his years in Paris although he participated in several avant-garde exhibitions. Yet the achievements of this period are recognized today as Kelly's first important works and have clearly established his international reputation.

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Prestel Pub

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3791311891

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9783791311890

Ellsworth Kelly in San Francisco

By: Madeleine Grynsztejn,Ellsworth Kelly,Julian Myers

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By: Madeleine Grynsztejn,Ellsworth Kelly,Julian Myers

An elegant presentation of the most significant collection of the artist's work. It secures Kelly's place as one of the most original and compelling of contemporary American artists.

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Ellsworth Kelly

A Retrospective

By: Ellsworth Kelly,Diane Waldman

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Ellsworth Kelly

A Retrospective

By: Ellsworth Kelly,Diane Waldman

This comprehensive monograph - published on the occasion of the first complete retrospective of Kelly's work since 1973, organized at the Guggenheim Museum by Diane Waldman, the museum's Deputy Director and Senior Curator - is a definitive investigation of Kelly's career, from his earliest works to the present. Waldman, author of numerous monographs on Modern and contemporary art, has brought together more than 399 of Kelly's most important paintings, sculptures, and works on paper (including several that have never been published): early abstract paintings and reliefs; figurative drawings; collages; photographs; paintings featuring a synthesis of biomorphic and geometric form; single-panel and multipanel paintings; shaped panels; and many of his sculptures, including the first two (from 1959) through the most recent (from 1996). her essay - an overview of Kelly's entire career - and four additional essays on various aspects of his oeuvre by Roberta Bernstein, Carter Ratcliff, Mark Rosenthal, and Clare Bell (plus a Chronology, Exhibition History, and Bibliography) explain the important relationships among his works in various mediums, and reveal why and how Kelly has produced some of the most distinctive art of our time.

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335

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089207177X

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9780892071777

Drawn from Nature

The Plant Lithographs of Ellsworth Kelly

By: Richard H. Axsom,Ellsworth Kelly

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The Plant Lithographs of Ellsworth Kelly

By: Richard H. Axsom,Ellsworth Kelly

The definitve study of Ellsworth Kelly's equisite series of plant, fruit, and flower lithographs.

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136

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Yale University Press

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0300103212

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9780300103212

Cinema of Swords

A Popular Guide to Movies about Knights, Pirates, Barbarians, and Vikings (and Samurai and Musketeers and Gladiators and Outlaw Heroes)

By: Lawrence Ellsworth

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Cinema of Swords

A Popular Guide to Movies about Knights, Pirates, Barbarians, and Vikings (and Samurai and Musketeers and Gladiators and Outlaw Heroes)

By: Lawrence Ellsworth

Cinema of Swords is a history, guide, and love letter to over four hundred movies and television shows featuring swashbucklers: knights, pirates, samurai, Vikings, gladiators, outlaw heroes like Zorro and Robin Hood, and anyone else who lives by the blade and solves their problems with the point of a sword. Though swordplay thrives as a mainstay of current pop culture—whether Game of Thrones or Lord of the Rings or Star Wars—swashbuckling was if anything even more ubiquitous during Hollywood’s classic period, from its foundations in the Silent Era up through the savage bursts of fantasy films in the ‘80s. With this huge cinematic backlist of classics now available online and on-demand, Cinema of Swords traces the roots and branches of this unruly genre, highlighting classics of the form and pointing fans toward thrilling new gems they never knew existed. With wry summaries and criticism from swordplay expert Lawrence Ellsworth, this comprehensive guidebook is perfect as a reference work or as a dazzling Hollywood history to be read end-to-end.

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383

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1493065637

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9781493065639

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