Modern Artists on Art: Second Enlarged Edition (Dover Fine Art, History of Art) - Softcover

Slomson, A B; Herbert, Robert L.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0486411915 ISBN 13: 9780486411910

Publisher: Dover Publications Inc, 2000

Synopsis

Sixteen of the 20th century's leading artistic innovators talk forcefully about their work ― from Albert Gleizes and Jean Metzinger's 1912 presentation of cubist theory to Henry Moore's comments, three decades later, on sculpture and primitive art. Four newly added essays by Kurt Schwitters, Max Ernst, El Lissitzky, and Fernand Léger.

About this title

About the Author:

Robert L. Herbert is Andrew W. Mellon Professor Emeritus of Humanities at Mount Holyoke College. Among his publications are "Seurat's Drawings "(1962), "Impressionism: Art, Leisure, and Parisian Society "(1988), "Monet on the Normandy Coast: Tourism and Painting "(1994), "Nature's Workshop: Renoir's Writings on the Decorative Arts "(2000), and "Seurat: Drawings and Paintings "(2001). Neil Harris is Preston and Sterling Morton Professor of History at the University of Chicago. Among his publications is "Chicago's Dream, a World's Treasure: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1893-1993 "(1993).

Synopsis:

Expanded edition of the original work of 1964 (which is cited in Books for College Libraries, 3d ed . Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

About this edition

• Publisher: Dover Publications Inc
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0486411915
• ISBN 13: 9780486411910
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 192