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LOG IN Forgot Login? Register General Discussion • Trading Post • Non-Film Score Discussion  Profile • Preferences • Community Rules • Help/Contact • Search Board Search Terms:  Search Within:  topics posts since 2019 2018 posts 2017 posts 2016 posts 2015 posts 2014 posts 2013 posts 2012 posts 2011 posts 2010 posts 2009 posts 2008 posts 2007 posts 2006 posts 2005 posts 2004 posts 2003 posts 2002 posts 2001 posts 2000 posts users  search tips  You must log in or register to post.   Go to page:  1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15      Non-Film Score Discussion: Confessions of an Art Book Junkie    FIRST   PRIOR   11 12 13 14 15    NEXT   LAST   Last Post   Posted:   Sep 2, 2020 - 5:52 AM     By:   chriscoyle   (Member) This is a wonderful book by the unknown woman artist Agnes Pelton (1881- 1961). I bought the book just before the Whitney Museum closed March 15th. I saw the show last Thursday the day the museum reopened. Agnes Pelton has piqued my interest for some time now. Britta Benke’s monograph on Georgia O’Keeffe (in Taschen’s Basic Art series) introduced me to Pelton’s slightly younger contemporary – a fellow symbolist (or not, depending on whether you see sexual connotations in O’Keeffe’s botanical paintings) and equally passionate lover of the desert for inspiration. “American Accents” ($1.25 from a Spring Hill thrift store) – a brilliantly-written catalogue published on the occasion of the eponymous itinerant exhibition of American art in 2002, included potted biographies of both artists as well as reproductions of O’Keeffe’s “Petunias” and Pelton’s “Challenge” (1940) – the latter painting being sufficiently eye-catching for me to want to look up Pelton’s other pieces online. I was taken away by Pelton's highly idiosyncratic vision. (That said, notwithstanding her well-documented criticism of O’Keeffe’s work, O’Keeffe’s impact on her oeuvre seems quite tangible.) I’ve been sufficiently impressed with Pelton’s paintings to consider ordering the “Desert Transcendentalist” catalogue from B&N, despite the relatively steep price. I’m happy to say that your post has finally convinced me to go ahead and splash out on what I’m sure will be a treasured addition to my collection of art books. Incidentally, I hope that any subsequent edition of Petersen and Wilson’s seminal “Women Artists”, originally published in 1978, will finally include recognition Pelton’s unfairly ignored body of work - along with a welter of underappreciated 20th-century female artists from around the world. It's a wonderful book and the photos in the book look as good as the paintings on the wall.    Posted:   Sep 2, 2020 - 8:58 AM     By:   John Smith   (Member) The photos in the book look as good as the paintings on the wall. From what I’ve seen of the book, you’re probably right! It’s a crying shame there’s no chance of my getting to NY to see the exhibition. I know of no plans to take the exhibition to Florida, where I'm ensconced for the foreseeable future.    Posted:   Sep 3, 2020 - 3:26 AM     By:   Jim Phelps   (Member) Among the few German art exhibition catalogues I've missed out on getting, Splendor and Misery in the Weimar Republic: From Otto Dix to Jeanne Mammen, remains the most ridiculously-priced. https://www.amazon.com/Splendor-Misery-Weimar-Republic-Jeanne/dp/3777429333/    Posted:   Sep 3, 2020 - 3:27 AM     By:   Jim Phelps   (Member) ChrisCoyle: Would you be so kind as to shorten the ultra-long link you posted?    Posted:   Sep 3, 2020 - 3:30 AM     By:   chriscoyle   (Member) ChrisCoyle: Would you be so kind as to shorten the ultra-long link you posted? Done.    Posted:   Sep 3, 2020 - 3:32 AM     By:   Jim Phelps   (Member) ChrisCoyle: Would you be so kind as to shorten the ultra-long link you posted? Done. You are a prince among FSMers, dear sir.    Posted:   Sep 3, 2020 - 3:33 AM     By:   chriscoyle   (Member) ChrisCoyle: Would you be so kind as to shorten the ultra-long link you posted? Done. You are a prince among FSMers, dear sir. LOL!    Posted:   Sep 6, 2020 - 6:48 AM     By:   Jim Phelps   (Member) Just learned of this book's existence. Ludwig Meidner: Encounters. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/3777426830 I'm unfamiliar with Hirmer Publishers.    Posted:   Sep 20, 2020 - 8:16 AM     By:   Jim Phelps   (Member) Edvard Munch from Taschen books. I got this one cheap thanks to an Amazon coupon, and I've also gone on at length here about my enjoyment of Taschen's budget-priced art book series. Munch's art reminds me of that of Félix Vallotton, or vice versa.    Posted:   Sep 20, 2020 - 8:57 AM     By:   OnyaBirri   (Member) Jim, are you at all into the Futurists? I believe most of the famous artists associated with this movement were Italian or Russian.    Posted:   Sep 20, 2020 - 9:03 AM     By:   Jim Phelps   (Member) Jim, are you at all into the Futurists? I believe most of the famous artists associated with this movement were Italian or Russian. Yes. The Guggenheim had a huge exhibition on them some years back, not that I got to see it by the time I got there. I did get the book, however.    Posted:   Sep 20, 2020 - 10:57 AM     By:   OnyaBirri   (Member) Jim, are you at all into the Futurists? I believe most of the famous artists associated with this movement were Italian or Russian. Yes. The Guggenheim had a huge exhibition on them some years back, not that I got to see it by the time I got there. I did get the book, however. I really liked this stuff when I first learned about it in a college 20th century humanities course.    Posted:   Sep 20, 2020 - 3:05 PM     By:   Jim Phelps   (Member) I really liked this stuff when I first learned about it in a college 20th century humanities course. I could see that. Futurism makes for a nice introduction to modern art, architecture, sculpture, music, etc.    Posted:   Oct 5, 2020 - 7:06 AM     By:   Jim Phelps   (Member) More additions from highly-affordable Taschen. They feed my German Expressionist obsession. The Blaue Reiter https://www.taschen.com/pages/en/catalogue/art/all/49288/facts.the_blaue_reiter.htm    Posted:   Oct 5, 2020 - 11:01 AM     By:   Sean Nethery   (Member) Lately, every time I open this, I feel like I'm taking a class. Very interesting artists you keep highlighting that I had not the least clue about JimP - thanks! Is The Blaue Reiter a good introduction to this period? Though I guess it's a pretty brief period, actually.    Posted:   Oct 5, 2020 - 11:09 AM     By:   Jim Phelps   (Member) Lately, every time I open this, I feel like I'm taking a class. Very interesting artists you keep highlighting that I had not the least clue about JimP - thanks! Is The Blaue Reiter a good introduction to this period? Though I guess it's a pretty brief period, actually. I foolishly passed on a Blaue Reiter book a few years back, so I compensated by picking up the Taschen volume, which is a swell introduction. I would also recommend Die Brücke, a contemporaneous Expressionist group which featured Phelps Favorite Ernst Ludwig Kirchner.    Posted:   Oct 5, 2020 - 11:32 AM     By:   Sean Nethery   (Member) Great - thanks for the recommendations! On the Christmas list they go.    Posted:   Oct 6, 2020 - 6:45 AM     By:   Jim Phelps   (Member) Very interesting artists you keep highlighting that I had not the least clue about JimP - thanks! Until about six years ago, I had only the vaguest familiarity with German Expressionist artists. Nowadays, I can't get enough of them and the era in which they worked. Such is my interest that I even passed on Taschen's edition on Giorgio de Chirico, an artist whose work had fascinated me for decades. However, I'm not as enamored with Surrealist artists-outside of Magritte--as I once was. Surrealism makes for a fine "gateway" into modern art, but I've since found other styles more to my liking; don't know why that is.    Posted:   Oct 9, 2020 - 10:29 AM     By:   Jim Phelps   (Member) Another artist who hasn't benefitted from a recent exhibit--and therefore, no recent exhibition catalogue--is Hans Grundig. Grundig and his wife, Lea, should have some sort of retrospective. Tate Modern included some of Hans' work in their "Magic Realism" exhibit some years ago, but I would like a more focused publication on their art. In the meantime, I can enjoy this fan-made video of Hans' art. I like the choice of music, which sets me off on yet another long-deferred interest: classical music.    Posted:   Oct 14, 2020 - 10:13 AM     By:   Sean Nethery   (Member) Yeah, you could just play Hindemith's Kammermusik full time when indulging in German Expressionism. A lapsed violist, I just love Hindemith's viola works - like the solo sonata featured here. Had I had the discipline, it would have been pretty fantastic to play this. But, umm, that's another subject. And me too on the Magritte vs. other Surrealists thing. Well, except Max Ernst. Oh, and Dorothea Tanning!     Non-Film Score Discussion: Confessions of an Art Book Junkie    << < 11 12 13 14 15  > >>  Go to page:  1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15   First Post    General Discussion • Trading Post • Non-Film Score Discussion  Profile • Preferences • Community Rules • Help/Contact • Search Board You must log in or register to post.   Go to page:  1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15

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