The age of Picasso and Matisse
Subtitle: modern art at the Art Institute of Chicago
By: Stephanie D'Alessandro ; with contributions from Renée DeVoe Mertz
Contributors: Mertz, Renée DeVoe, author; D'Alessandro, Stephanie; Art Institute of Chicago
Edition: Revised edition.
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 144
ISBN-13: 9780300208788; 9780865592650
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Modernism (Art); Catalogs; Art Institute of Chicago; Art; Europa; Modern Art; Exhibition catalogs; Kunst
Description: The Art Institute of Chicago's opportunity to host the International Exhibition of Modern Art, better known as the Armory Show, in 1913 set a radical new course for modern and contemporary art in the United States. This monumental exhibition introduced audiences to some of the greatest avant-garde artists working in Europe, and forever changed the aesthetic landscape for artists, critics, collectors, and arts institutions. This fascinating publication brings together over 130 masterpieces from the Art Institute, which holds one of the finest collections of European modern art in North America. Following an introductory essay by Stephanie D'Alessandro on the history of collecting modern art at the Art Institute, the masterworks of the museums collection are presented in discrete sections devoted to important movements such as Expressionism, Cubism, Dada, Abstraction, and Surrealism, and to individual artists such as Brancusi, Chagall, Kandinsky, Leger, Matisse, and Picasso, as well as the remarkable American artist Joseph Cornell.
Notes: "This book is a revised and expanded edition of The Age of Picasso and Matisse: Modern Masters from the Art Institute of Chicago, published in 2013 by the Art Institute of Chicago"--Title page verso.
Table of contents: title: Modern Art at the Art Institute of Chicago; title: Color and Form in Early-Twentieth-Century Art; title: Vasily Kandinsky; title: Expressionism; title: Cubism; title: Marc Chagall; title: Pablo Picasso; title: School of Paris; title: Henri Matisse; title: Fernand Léger; title: Dada; title: Paul Klee; title: Abstraction; title: Constantin Brâncusi; title: Max Ernst; title: Surrealism; title: Joseph Cornell; title: Biomorphic Abstraction.