The tie-in to an exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art presents more than three hundred reproductions that chronicle the career of Lucas Samaras through a seleciton of his stunning self-portraits in a variety of media, accompanied by an illuminating biography of the artist.

Product Description: Hunt Slonem (born 1951) is a contemporary artist whose spectacular, lushly colorful paintings are imbued with a reverence for nature. His vast loft in Chelsea is filled with dozens of living birds and is frequently seen in magazines...read more

Product Description: Author Donald Kuspit calls Eddy a spiritual realist, acknowledging his work's peculiar mysteriousness, its enigmatic intensity. This beautiful monograph surveys the career of Eddy, a leading American realist painter, covering nearly four decades of his work. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Donald Kuspit offers a radical new interpretation of avant-garde art based on a psychological understanding of it. Avant-garde art, Kuspit suggests, is a response to the modern crowd, which undermines and destroys the sense of self...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

The Rebirth of Painting in the Twentieth Century examines the continued validity and variety of painting in the post-modern era. Bringing a psychological perspective to the issues, Donald Kuspit argues that painting remains the premier medium of the visual arts, in terms of its potential for innovation and influence on other modes of art making. Discussing a range of representational and abstract painting in the United States and Europe by artists such as Gregory Amenoff, Vincent Desidiero and Odd Nerdrum, Kuspit also examines works by Picasso, Mondrian, Pollock, Johns, and Soutine, among others, with an eye to reevaluating their art historical significance. This study also includes psychosocial studies of various cultural issues that affect painting, including feminism, and Jewishness. (view table of contents)

Product Description: The first edition of Chihuly was received with unanimous and overwhelming praise. This revised and expanded Second Edition, published in 1997 and now available once again, includes additional images that further illuminate the brilliance of Dale Chihuly (b...read more

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Product Description: At a time when beauty is much out of favor in the art world, Joseph Raffael has taken what some would consider the highly radical step of daring to paint beautiful pictures. Long one of contemporary art's most highly regarded painters, Raffael transforms intense observations of nature into color-drenched, deeply felt works of art...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Postmodernism has been described as a decadent and pluralistic period, where avant-garde art has been institutionalised, stereotyped and effectively neutralised; and where models of art seem to stand in ironical, nihilistic relationship to every other...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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