"The book reproduces two hundred full-page duotones of Diane Arbus photographs spanning her entire career, many of them never before seen. It also includes an essay, "The Question of Belief," by Sandra S. Phillips, senior curator of photography at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and "In the Darkroom," a discussion of Arbus's printing techniques by Neil Selkirk, the only person authorized to print her photographs since her death. A 104-page...

"This catalogue revises our understanding of glamour in the fields of fashion, industrial design, and architecture. Tracing glamour's trajectory from Hollywood's golden age to its present-day connotations of affluence, this illustrated volume presents an array of postwar couture, jewelry, automobile, furniture, and built and unbuilt architecture - all of which share an affinity for richly decorative patterning, complex layering, and sumptuous materials."--Jacket....

This Brassai overview gathers outstanding prints of his finest and most popular photographs, drawing on the Estate Brassai in Paris and the collections of leading museums in France and the United States. The work is organized into 18 thematic groupings, such as Paris at Night, Portraits, Self-Portraits, Body of a Woman, Graffiti, Places and Things, Pleasures, and The Street, focusing throughout on his celebrated depictions of 1930s Paris.

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Chronicles Lange's career with over 150 photographs, from her early work documenting the Depression to her photo-essays of the 1940s and 1950s depicting a changing American society--Cover.

"The present volume publishes for the first time in Europe over eighty works from a private American collection. Representing all phases of Klee's creative development, the works provide in effect a concise overview of an oeuvre in which subtle irony, dream-like fantasy, and poetic depictions of nature commingle, and where delicate color and graphic precision, no less than abstract and figurative modes, alternate. Klee himself assigned the rating...

"As American expatriates living in Paris, the writer Gertrude Stein, her brothers Leo and Michael, and Michael's wife Sarah were absolutely pivotal in shaping the city's vibrant cultural life in the early 20th century. They hosted Saturday evening salons at which the brightest artists, writers, musicians, and collectors convened to discuss the latest developments. They aggressively promoted and collected emerging painters and sculptors, particularly...

One hundred and twenty-seven photographs from an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, organized to illustrate the development of the art since 1960.