This catalogue accompanies the latest in the Louvre Abu Dhabi's exciting series of exhibitions charting the relationship between Eastern and Western artistic traditions.
Edward Hopper is as quintessentially American as Jackson Pollock or Andy Warhol. Like them, his imagery has reached far beyond the realm of art to impact on our culture in the broadest terms, so that we see early twentieth-century America through his work, as much as within it. the painter Charles Burchfield attributed Hopper's success to his 'bold individualism', declaring that 'in him we have regained that sturdy American independence which ...
Published to accompany the first Francis Bacon retrospective in Paris for twenty years, this catalogue analyses Bacon's works from 1971 onwards in light of his relationship to literature. Bacon always vigorously opposed over-analysis of his paintings, preferring to interpret them in purely illustrative or symbolic terms, he admitted, however, that literature was a powerful stimulus to his imagination. The artist was inspired by the images conj...
Die Rückkehr von Künstlern der Pop Art wie Andy Warhol oder Roy Lichtenstein zu Archetypen aus dem Picasso-Kosmos in den 1960er-Jahren beweist den Einfluss des großen Katalanen. Auch Martin Kippenbergers Selbstporträts nach einer berühmten Fotografie Picassos von David Douglas Duncan offenbaren die enorme Wirkung von Picassos öffentlichem Bild auf die Vorstellungskraft der Künstler des 20. Jahrhunderts. Picassos stilistischer Eklektizismus und...
Catalog of an exhibition of the same title at the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, 8 December 2004-6 March 2005. The exhibition also shown at the Museu Picasso, Barcelona, 17 March-19 June 2005, and, in reduced form at the National Academy Museum, New York, 14 July-9 October 2005.
