Leonard
Nelson
By Sam Hunter
Rizzoli, 2001
Documenting Leonard Nelson's career as a prolific artist
and influential art educator from the thirties to the nineties,
including his links with the leading artists and movements
of that time in American art history.
About the Author
Sam Hunter is Professor Emeritus of art history at Princeton
University and a leading critic and historian of modern and
contemporary art. His numerous publications include Modern
French Painting; Modern American Painting and Sculpture;
Modern Art: Painting, Sculpture Architecture (Third
Edition), with John Jacobus; and recent monographs on Arnaldo
Pomodoro, Isamu Noguchi, Marino Marini, Hans Hofmann, George
Segal, Alex Katz, Tom Wesselmann, and Robert Rauschenberg.
Before his academic appointment at Princeton, he was successively
Director of The Minneapolis Institute of Art, The Rose Art
Museum at Brandeis University, and The Jewish Museum in New
York.
ISBN: 0847824160
Hardcover, 80 pages,
.53 " x 11.34" x 8.52"
Published by Rizzoli 2001
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American
Abstract Expressionism of the 1950s: An Illustrated Survey
Edited by Marika Herskovic
New York School Press 2003
"Researchers will seek out this
well designed selection. Recommended for American art museum,
academic, art school and large public libraries."
"This excellent publication builds
on the earlier [above] publication, New York School Abstract
Expressionists: Artists Choice by Artists. It has broadened
the scope to include artists from throughout the U.S., rectified...omission
of African American artists...and concentrated on 88 artists...
Excellent layout and superb photographs. Highly recommended".
About the Editor
Marika Herskovic, Ph. D, received her MSc. and Ph. D. from
the Graduate School of Arts and Science of New York University.
She has produced 27 videos on the art and lives of the artists
of the New York School. These videos, repeatedly shown on
cable TV, were included in "Art on Screen - a joint
venture of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the J. Paul
Getty Trust." She has hosted numerous video taped
artist seminars and spent the last two decades documenting
the New York Painting and Sculpture Annuals, the participating
artists and their art.
She edited New York School Abstract Expressionists: Artists
Choice by Artists, published by New York School Press,
2000.
ISBN: 0967799414. 2003.
Hardcover, 9x12 inches,
372 pages, index,
176 full page color illustrations.
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