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9780300208801 | Menil Collection, December 23, 2014, cover price $50.00
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9783716511077, titled "Paul Klee Catalogue Raisonné: 1939" | Natl Book Network, February 7, 2014, cover price $180.00
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9780300196443 | Menil Collection, November 26, 2013, cover price $50.00
Product Description: Published in conjunction with a major exhibition organized by The Museum of Modern Art, New York, in collaboration with The Menil Collection, Houston, and The Art Institute of Chicago, Magritte: The Mystery of the Ordinary, 1926â1938 focuses on the breakthrough Surrealist years of René Magritte, creator of some of the twentieth centuryâs most extraordinary images...read more
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9780870708657 | Museum of Modern Art, September 30, 2013, cover price $65.00 | About this edition: Published in conjunction with a major exhibition organized by The Museum of Modern Art, New York, in collaboration with The Menil Collection, Houston, and The Art Institute of Chicago, Magritte: The Mystery of the Ordinary, 1926â1938 focuses on the breakthrough Surrealist years of René Magritte, creator of some of the twentieth centuryâs most extraordinary images.
Product Description: American artist Walter De Maria is associated with Minimal, conceptual, installation, and land art. He is best known for The Lightning Field, 1977, a long-term installation in western New Mexico made up of four hundred pointed stainless steel poles arranged in a grid over an area measuring one mile by one kilometer...read more
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9780300175783 | Menil Collection, March 6, 2012, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: American artist Walter De Maria is associated with Minimal, conceptual, installation, and land art.
Product Description: This is the first major exploration of the works of American abstract painter and watercolorist Suzan Frecon (b. 1941), critically acclaimed for her sensitive arrangement of color, form, and texture, and for the philosophical resonance of her art...read more
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9780300125528 | Menil Collection, May 5, 2008, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: This is the first major exploration of the works of American abstract painter and watercolorist Suzan Frecon (b.
Product Description: A celebration of the internationally renowned collectors John and Dominique de Menil and their commitment to the modern museum In the early 1940s, John and Dominique de Menil began to acquire art. Collecting in an intuitive and personal manner, the de Menils gathered “things in which we believe,” as John phrased it, and proceeded to develop an inspired collection that would eventually find a permanent home at The Menil Collection in Houston...read more
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9780300123791 | Menil Collection, June 28, 2007, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: A celebration of the internationally renowned collectors John and Dominique de Menil and their commitment to the modern museum In the early 1940s, John and Dominique de Menil began to acquire art.
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9780300123784 | Menil Collection, April 28, 2007, cover price $50.00
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9781883015374 | Krannert Art Museum, July 30, 2006, cover price $30.00
Product Description: Paul Klee was a leading figure in European Modernism, and his acclaim at home was quickly matched in the United States, where both private collectors and major museums sought out his work. Klee and America explores the reasons for that enthusiastic reception, especially during the 1930s and 1940s, while the artist was being targeted in Hitler's campaign against Entartete Kunst (degenerate art)...read more
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9783775717236 | Hatje Cantz Pub, March 15, 2006, cover price $55.00 | About this edition: Paul Klee was a leading figure in European Modernism, and his acclaim at home was quickly matched in the United States, where both private collectors and major museums sought out his work.
Product Description: The lives and work of Bill Traylor and William Edmondson share fascinating parallels despite a twenty-year age gap and the fact that they never met. Major figures in American and African-American art history, both were born into poverty in the South and began creating art as older men after working for decades as physical laborers...read more
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9781883015350 | Krannert Art Museum, January 31, 2005, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: The lives and work of Bill Traylor and William Edmondson share fascinating parallels despite a twenty-year age gap and the fact that they never met.
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9780295982250 | Univ of Washington Pr, August 30, 2002, cover price $28.95
Complex and highly idiosyncratic, the work of Louise Bourgeois enthralls audiences throughout the world. Beginning in the 1940s, shortly after arriving in New York City, Bourgeois produced her first mature, highly original paintings, drawings, and sculptures. While most of her contemporaries were drawn toward pure abstraction, the work of Louise Bourgeois entered the realm of the psychological and symbolic. Themes already evident in these early works continued to resonate throughout her career. The Personages represent her first explorations in sculpture; summoning a physical presence, they suggest moments of alienation as well as evocative encounters. This comprehensive catalogue features the artist's work from the 1940s and 1950s, including 25 sculptures, 17 paintings, 30 drawings, and the series of prints inspired by New York's landscape of skyscrapers, 'He Disappeared into Complete Silence,' which presents Bourgeois' own hermetic texts juxtaposed with enigmatic pictures. An essay explicates the role of ritual and representation in the work of Louise Bourgeois and includes rare documentary photos. Josef Helfenstein is director of Krannert Art Museum at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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9780295982472 | Krannert Art Museum, June 1, 2002, cover price $60.00 | also contains Lipsmackin' Backpackin': Lightweight Trail-tested Recipes for Backcountry Trips | About this edition: Complex and highly idiosyncratic, the work of Louise Bourgeois enthralls audiences throughout the world.
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9780295982489 | Krannert Art Museum, August 1, 2002, cover price $35.00
Product Description: Utilizing works from museums across North America, "Lipchitz and the Avant-Garde" traces the path of the pioneering sculptor Jacques Lipchitz from his birthplace in Lithuania to his early work in Paris before World War I, where he was associated with the Parisian avant-garde and applied cubist principles to three-dimensional artwork...read more
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9780295981864 | Krannert Art Museum, March 1, 2002, cover price $65.00 | also contains Off the Beaten Path Michigan: A Guide to Unique Places | About this edition: Utilizing works from museums across North America, "Lipchitz and the Avant-Garde" traces the path of the pioneering sculptor Jacques Lipchitz from his birthplace in Lithuania to his early work in Paris before World War I, where he was associated with the Parisian avant-garde and applied cubist principles to three-dimensional artwork.
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9780295981871 | Krannert Art Museum, March 1, 2002, cover price $35.00
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9781858941158 | Perseus Distribution Services, October 1, 2000, cover price $65.00 | About this edition: Presents an essential collection of 130 works for the first time.
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9780300081961 | Yale Univ Pr, August 11, 1999, cover price $70.00
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9780300081633 | Yale Univ Pr, September 1, 1999, cover price $32.00
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9780300075991 | Yale Univ Pr, August 1, 1998, cover price $85.00
Product Description: This landmark volume examines the life and work of the extraordinary Swiss Surrealist Meret Oppenheim. Although she became famous at the age of 23 for her fur-covered teacup, she subsequently suffered years of critical neglect, and her subversive work has only recently begun to receive the acclaim it deserves...read more
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9780916365455 | Independent Curators, June 1, 1996, cover price $45.00
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9780916365462 | Independent Curators, June 1, 1997, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: This landmark volume examines the life and work of the extraordinary Swiss Surrealist Meret Oppenheim.
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