The Girl with the Pearl Earring: Dutch Paintings from the Mauritshuis edited by Lea van der Vinde (Prestel: $34.95). This beautiful book is edited by the Curator of the Mauritshuis, the Dutch Royal Picture Gallery in the Hague, one of the most beautiful museums in Europe. Visitors from around the […]
Day: March 6, 2013
Inventing Abstraction: 1910-1925 by Leah Dickerson and others
Inventing Abstraction: 1910-1925 by Leah Dickerson and others (Thames & Hudson/MoMA: $75). This invaluable and comprehensive new book by the Curator in the Department of Painting and Sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art accompanies the landmark exhibit currently on view there. It examines the key artists, artworks, events and […]
Painting and Photography: 1839-1914 by Dominique De Font-Réaulx
Painting and Photography: 1839-1914 by Dominique De Font-Réaulx (Fammarion: $75). This new book examines the beginnings and evolution of the art of photography, its relation to classical painting, and the many controversies the new form engendered. Many genres, including landscapes and portraits, still lifes and nudes, are compared and contrasted […]
The Essential Cecil Beaton: Photographs 1920-1970 by Philippe Garner and David Alan Mellor
The Essential Cecil Beaton: Photographs 1920-1970 by Philippe Garner and David Alan Mellor (Schirmer/Mosel: $65). The 265 images in this beautiful book trace the flamboyant photographer’s high-low vision of the world, his strange self-positioning between the upper-classes of aristocrats and celebrities, the milieu of international, British and Hollywood royalty, to […]
Ben Uri Gallery & Museum in London:‘Curates world class exhibitions and is now ready to bring them to America’, ‘from Russia to Paris: Chaïm Soutine and his contemporaries’by Sarah MacDougall
To celebrate the museum’s recent acquisition of Soutine’s stunning painting La Soubrette, c. 1933, the exhibition, From Russia to Paris: Chaïm Soutine and his Contemporaries, recently unveiled this important portrait together with a small selection of work from the Ben Uri collection by a number of Soutine’s peers: all either […]