Martica Sawin's Books

Nell Blaine

Her Art and Life

By: Martica Sawin

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This volume presents the art and life of Nell Blaine, a member of the second generation of the New York School. Her work represents a dialogue between abstract principles and her sensory responses to the visible world. Her oils and watercolours of gardens, landscapes and flower still lifes display her commitment to the pleasure principle, her delight in vision, combined with a gift for improvisation and rhythm learned from the jazz greats of the 1940s.

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168

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Hudson Hills

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ISBN 10

1555951139

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9781555951139

Form and Sense

By: Wolfgang Paalen,Martica Sawin

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Form and Sense

By: Wolfgang Paalen,Martica Sawin

Wolfgang Paalen was a central figure in internationalist surrealist circles in the late 1930s. Artist and intellectual, he was a European whose fascination with archaic cultures led him finally to Mexico, where he founded the influential magazine DYN in 1941. In the bold texts from DYN that make up Form and Sense, we encounter a unique artistic mind and an oracular voice. Paalen’s book is an intellectual delight with essays on cubism, surrealism, the universality of forms in architecture, and the relationships that exist between art and science. He weaves together the new ideas and archaic inspirations in twentieth-century painting and sculpture. His nuanced and original considerations of some key figures—Mondrian, Kandinsky, Picasso—marked Paalen in turn as a significant thinker in the world of modern art. This painter’s book, illustrated with carefully chosen examples of the art he examines, makes us not only understand but also experience the rich interplay between idea and image that informs the art of our own time. A new introduction by the scholar Martica Sawin examines Paalen’s career, particularly his influential writing on surrealism and abstraction.

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Simon and Schuster

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1611459230

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9781611459234

Surrealism in Exile and the Beginning of the New York School

By: Martica Sawin

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Surrealism in Exile and the Beginning of the New York School

By: Martica Sawin

Sawin's rich year-by-year narrative documents the cultural transfer that took place when the greater part of the prewar Surrealist group was transplanted to the Western Hemisphere.

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