Product Description: A landmark publication focusing on both Rivera and Kahlo during a critical year in each of their careers From April 1932 through March 1933, Diego Rivera (1886–1957) and Frida Kahlo (1907–1954) spent a dramatic and pivotal sojourn in Detroit...read more

Product Description: In this handsome book, the Dallas Museum of Art celebrates three remarkable private collections of contemporary art that were donated in 2005, presenting them in context with masterworks already owned by the museum. Featuring over two hundred works, many previously unpublished, by such major artists as Matthew Barney, Joseph Beuys, Louise Bourgeois, Vija Celmins, Philip Guston, Jasper Johns, Donald Judd, Ellsworth Kelly, Franz Kline, Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock,  Sol LeWitt, Bruce Naumann, Sigmar Polke, Gerhard Richter, Mark Rothko, Robert Ryman, Richard Tuttle, and many others, this volume provides a stunning visual history of the critical art movements that have shaped––and continue to shape––contemporary art since the 1940s...read more

Product Description: Alexander Calder (1898-1976) is a key presence in the history of modern art, and yet he is rarely seen or remembered in the context from which he initially emerged as an artist.  When Calder became "Calder" – well known for his signature mobiles and stabiles – it was due to a unique variety of presiding influences...read more

Featured objects include a selection of Beuys's remarkable vitrines, cousins of standard museum presentations, featuring both hand-made and found objects blackboards on which he jused in delivering lectures and performances; room-sized environments; and many other objects that served as physical documentation of Beuys's.

Looks at the development of Chicago's Lincoln Park Zoo, from its beginning in 1868 to the present day.

Product Description: Abstraction is undoubtedly the most dramatic development in the history of twentieth-century painting and sculpture. Pioneered in the 1910s by Vasily Kandinsky, Kazimir Malevich, and Piet Mondrian, abstraction radically changed the course of art...read more

Offers a profile of the German artist, shows examples of his paintings and photographs, and discusses his approach to art

Product Description: Over-sized hardback book (no dust jacket) titled PHILADELPHIA COLLECTS ART SINCE 1940 (1986) - (LL-1) (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Shows a selection of Borofsky's drawings, paintings, murals, sculpture, and environmental art, and analyzes his major themes and techniques

Details the behavior, life cycles, and habitats of the different types of wildlife that depend on hunting for survival, examining such animals as the big cats, wolves, and other predators

A discussion of the development of the artistic style of Juan Gris is accompanied by a selection of his cubist paintings

Examines the diverse types of bears, as well as their habitat, behavior, and life cycle