San Antonio College Library

Examines Richard Diebenkorn's work completed between 1943 and 1980.

"Maxfield Parrish has long been considered one of the most popular American artists of the twentieth century. Brilliant blue skies, pastoral landscapes, and captivating figures are his art's signature characteristics. Yet the universal interest in Parrish's art has, in the past, hindered his work from receiving scholarly attention. Maxfield Parrish 1870-1966 offers a critical look at his life and career." "As an artist who produced images intended...

"Henry Moore (1898-1986) is arguably one of the most famous and beloved sculptors of the twentieth century, yet in recent decades his work has fallen out of favor in the world of contemporary art criticism. This handsome catalogue examines this intriguing contradiction and seeks to reassess Moore's crucial contributions to art of the last century. Looking at Moore's early engagements with primitivism, his 1930s dialogue with abstraction and surrealism,...

John Singleton Copley is well known in America as the creator of the finest portraits of the Colonial era. Less well known is the fact that he left America in 1774, when the impending armed struggle between the Colonies and England threatened to destroy his livelihood, and settled in London to pit himself ambitiously against the Old Masters and the English giants of the day. Copley's English career was long and brilliant - and represents the most...

"The Southeast Asian archipelago includes numerous islands that are strewn with stone monuments and statues. Some of these carvings date back to an ancient-past that is almost impossible to calculate. Others are but a few decades old." "A number of these sculptures reach such an impressive size that they might almost rival the well-known giant carvings of Easter Island." "For nearly a quarter of a century the Barbier-Mueller Museum has striven to...