David Smith, sculpture and drawings by Smith, David, 1906-1965

Table of Contents: “…Hess -- Recollections of David Smith / Robert Motherwell.…”


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Joseph Cornell's theater of the mind : selected diaries, letters, and files by Cornell, Joseph

Table of Contents: “…Robert Motherwell on Joseph Cornell -- Chronology of Joseph Cornell's life -- Joseph Cornell as seen by others -- The theater of the mind -- Looking in the box, or eros contained -- Dreams, inventions, and the city -- About the diary -- Notes on the diaries and the editing procedure -- Names that frequently occur in the diaries and correspondence -- Series, boxes, and other works referred to in the diaries -- Joseph Cornell's principal films -- Selected diaries, letters, and files: miscellaneous undated entries; the material of presence; from explorations to constellations; creative arranging; something lasting.…”


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Maternal nutrition and child health by Shanklin, Douglas R.

Table of Contents: “…The influence of prenatal nutrition on maternal and infant health -- Ch. 4. The motherwell protocol -- Ch. 5. Physiological and pathophysiological effects of malnutrition -- Ch. 6. …”


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Painters painting : a candid history of the New York art scene, 1940-1970

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Abstract Expressionism and the modern experience by Polcari, Stephen

Table of Contents: “…Roots: The psychology of crisis: the historical roots of abstract expressionism -- Propaedeutics: the intellectual roots of abstract expressionism -- The artists : Clyfford Still: of plenitude and power -- Mark Rothko: "In my beginning is my end" -- Adolph Gottlieb: the allegorical epic -- Barnett Newman: new beginnings -- William Baziotes: tremors of history -- Jackson Pollock: ancient energies -- William de Kooning: a fever of matter -- Robert Motherwell: the school of Paris meets New York -- The expansiveness of abstract expressionism -- Transformations : Vernacular abstraction: the domestication of abstract expressionism.…”


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Peace is the victory by Freeman, Harrop A. (Harrop Arthur), 1907-1993

Table of Contents: “…The substance of reconstruction, by Hiram Motherwell. They cry for help! By Clarence Pickett.--Postwar II or prewar III: World co-operation--a political must, by H. …”


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Transcendental studies : a trilogy by Waldrop, Keith

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Hess Art Collection

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Inside New York's art world by Diamonstein-Spielvogel, Barbaralee

Table of Contents: “…Carter Brown -- Chuck Close -- Christo and Jeanne-Claude -- Jim Dine -- Brendan Gill -- Milton Glaser -- Thomas Hess -- Robert Indiana -- Philip Johnson -- Ivan Karp -- Lee Krasner -- Roy Lichtenstein and Leo Castelli -- Thomas M. Messer -- Robert Motherwell -- Alice Neel -- Louise Nevelson -- I.M. …”


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English romantic poets,

Table of Contents: “…William Wordsworth -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- George Gordon, Lord Byron -- Percy Bysshe Shelley -- John Keats -- Thomas Lovell Beddoes -- Thomas Campbell -- John Clare -- Hartley Coleridge -- Allan Cunningham -- Robert Stephen Hawker -- Felicia Dorothes Hemans -- Thomas Hood -- Leigh Hunt -- Charles Lamb -- Walter Savage Landor -- James (Clarence) Mangan -- Thomas Moore -- William Motherwell -- Thomas Love Peacock -- Winthrop Mackworth Praed -- Samuel Rogers -- Sir Walter Scott -- Robert Southey -- Henry Kirke White -- Charles Wolfe.…”


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English romantic poets

Table of Contents: “…William Wordsworth -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- George Gordon, Lord Byron -- Percy Bysshe Shelley -- John Keats -- Thomas Lovell Beddoes -- Thomas Campbell -- John Clare -- Hartley Coleridge -- Allen Cunningham -- Robert Stephen Hawker -- Felicia Dorothea Hemans -- Thomas Hood -- Leigh Hunt -- Charles Lamb -- Walter Savage Landor -- James (Clarence) Mangan -- Thomas Moore -- William Motherwell -- Thomas Love Peacock -- Winthrope Mackworth Praed -- Samuel Rogers -- Sir Walter Scott -- Robert Southey -- Henry Kirke White -- Charles Wolfe.…”


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Readings in American art, 1900-1975

Table of Contents: “…Art of this century / Harold Rosenberg and Robert Motherwell ; Robert Motherwell ; Arshile Gorky ; Mark Rothko ; Barnett Newman ; Adolph Gottlieb ; Hans Hoffman -- The new American painting / Jackson Pollock ; Willem de Kooning ; Franz Kline ; Barnett Newman ; Mark Rothko ; Ad Reinhardt ; Clyfford Still ; Studio 35 -- After Abstract expressionism / Jasper Johns ; Robert Rauschenberg ; Claes Oldenburg ; Roy Lichtenstein ; Andy Warhol ; James Rosenquist ; Clement Greenberg ; Helen Frankenthaler ; Robert Rosenblum ; Alan R. …”


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Abstract art by Elger, Dietmar

Table of Contents: “…Art of Painting Autonomous Symbols -- Pablo Picasso -- Wassily Kandinski -- Robert Delaunay -- Franz Marc -- Kasimir Malevich -- Hans Arp -- El Lissitzky -- Theo Van Doesburg -- Kurt Schwitters -- Wassily Kandinsky Sophie Taeuber-Arp -- Paul Klee -- Piet Mondrian -- Jackson Pollock -- Wols -- K.O. Götz -- Robert Motherwell -- Georges Mathieu -- Ernst Wilhelm Nay -- Antoni Tàpies -- Hans Hartung -- Mark Rothko -- Pierre Soulages -- Ad Reinhardt -- Karel Appel -- Frank Stella -- Emilio Vedova -- Franz Kline -- Willem De Kooning -- Emil Schumacher -- Helen Frankenthaler -- Barnett Newman.…”


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Land's end : a walk through Provincetown by Cunningham, Michael, 1952-

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The demon and the angel : searching for the source of artistic inspiration by Hirsch, Edward

Table of Contents: “…-- Between two contending forces -- Sublime is now -- In the painting -- Paint it black -- Motherwell's black -- Deaths and entrances -- Ancient music and fresh forms -- America heard in rhythm -- Hey, I'm American, so I played it -- Fending off the duende -- Existentialist flatfoot floogie -- Poet in New York -- Where is the angel? …”


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The demon and the angel : searching for the source of artistic inspiration by Hirsch, Edward

Table of Contents: “…-- Between two contending forces -- Sublime is now -- In the painting -- Paint it black -- Motherwell's black -- Deaths and entrances -- Ancient music and fresh forms -- America heard in rhythm -- Hey, I'm American, so I played it -- Fending off the duende -- Existentialist flatfoot floogie -- Poet in New York -- Where is the angel? …”


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The spiritual in art : from The Blue Rider to abstract expressionism.

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Abstract expressionism by Hess, Barbara, 1963-

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Sonja Sekula, 1918-1963 by Schwarz, Dieter, 1953-

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A reading of modern art by Ashton, Dore

Table of Contents: “…A world without walls : Matisse and Bonnard -- The wheel of space : Matisse -- "A ceaseless upspringing of something new" Bergson and Delaunay -- Beyond the arabesque : Rothko -- "The reasoned use of the unreasonable" Fantasy from Apollinaire -- The function of unreality : Klee -- The organic imagination : Klee and Goethe -- Form as function : Miro's pots -- Stripping down to cosmos : Miro as painter and fantasist -- "A mobile life in a changing world" Metamorphosis as an artistic principle -- Transforming assumptions : surrealism into existentialism -- The physiognomy of the mind : Guston -- A fusion of modern assumptions : Motherwell and others -- "Negative capabilities" The argument between purity and heterogeneity -- Objectivity, a twentieth century chimera : purism, De Stijl, and the Bauhaus -- "Truth by optical culture" Vasarely -- Man in the world : science, politics, and the new rationalism -- Certainty and solutions : purism in the fifties and sixties -- All is in the regard : Robbe-Grillet and structuralism -- Furnishing an objective world : the role of objects in modern art -- The breakdown of categories : hybrid art -- Vital arguments : the living past and the emerging future.…”


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