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"I believe the human form is always contemporary and just as significant today as the moment of its creation."--Jefferson D. Rubin

Jefferson D. Rubin was a brilliant young artist whose devotion to humanistic art embraces the poetry of sculpture that descends from ancient and Renaissance antecedents. A Colorado native, he studied in the United States and Italy, and was founder, director, and principal maestro of La Scuola Classical Sculpture School in Denver. Rubin exhibited in galleries and museums across the country and abroad, and his rare pieces are prized in many private...

This in-depth study of the paintings of Willem de Kooning (1904 1997) from the 1940s through the 1970s breaks new ground in its analysis of the artist s working methods and yields new information about previously unreported materials. De Kooning s idiosyncratic working methods have long engendered intense speculation and debate among conservators and art historians, primarily on the basis of visual inspection and anecdotal accounts rather than rigorous technical analysis. This is the first systematic study of de Kooning s creative process to use comprehensive scientific examinations of the...

This study looks at the contemporary British artist, Andy Goldsworthy, and his work in the United States of America. Goldsworthy's presence in America grew steadily with a series of exhibitions beginning in the late Nineties with the Storm King Wall and show. This was followed by: Cornell University in 2000; the Three Cairns show and installations in 2002-03; Austin Museum in 2003; the Garden of Stone and Stone Houses in New York City in 2003-04; and Roof in Washington in 2005.

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Ford Madox Brown (1821-1893) is known predominantly for his close association with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and for his masterpiece, The Last of England (1852-55), with its poignant imagery of a young emigrant couple aboard ship taking their last sight of home. Admired by the young Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Brown was introduced by Rossetti to the artists of the PRB, an association that confirmed Brown's interests in outdoor light effects and led to the glowing palette of his great paintings of the 1850s. His interests embraced decorative design, and in the 1860s he was a...

Edward Koren is best known for his cartoons and covers for The New Yorker magazine. This book explores the full range of the art he has produced during the past five decades: original drawings for cartoons and illustrated books as well as prints and posters. A variety of finished drawings are included--figures that emerged from the commedia dell'arte, fanciful beasts that might occupy a diorama in the American Museum of Natural History, cyclists pedaling through cities and countryside--all documenting the inventive play of the artist's imagination through the motion of his pen or...

Cette ouvrage richement illustree analyse les relations artistiques que Maurice Denis (1870-1943), peintre et theoricien francais, noue avec la Belgique a la fin du 19e siecle et au cours des premieres decennies du 20e siecle. La Belgique permet a Maurice Denis d'exprimer harmonieusement les deux valeurs centrales de son art, a savoir le gout moderne pour le formalisme allie a une reflexion spirituelle d'inspiration chretienne. A lui seul, Denis illustre l'evolution historique de l'Eglise belge sur la maniere dont la religion catholique envisage et apprehende la creation artistique au sein...