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Title: Modern Art
Condition: New
Subtitle: Selected Essays
Author: Leo Steinberg
Contributor: Sheila Schwartz (Edited by), James Meyer (Introduction by)
Format: Hardback
ISBN-10: 0226824268
EAN: 9780226824260
ISBN: 9780226824260
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Genre: Arts & Photography
Release Date: 19/10/2023
Description: The fifth and final volume in the Essays by Leo Steinberg series, focusing on modern artists.
 
Leo Steinberg was one of the most original art historians of the twentieth century, known for taking interpretive risks that challenged the profession by overturning reigning orthodoxies. In essays and lectures ranging from old masters to modern art, he combined scholarly erudition with eloquent prose that illuminated his subject and a credo that privileged the visual evidence of the image over the literature written about it. His writings, sometimes provocative and controversial, remain vital and influential reading. Steinberg’s perceptions evolved from long, hard looking at his objects of study. Almost everything he wrote included passages of formal analysis that were always put into the service of interpretation.
 
Following the series publication on Pablo Picasso, this volume focuses on other modern artists, including Cézanne, Monet, Matisse, Max Ernst, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Roy Lichtenstein, Hans Haacke, and Jeff Koons. Included are seven unpublished lectures and essays, Steinberg’s landmark essay “Encounters with Rauschenberg,” a survey of twentieth-century sculpture, and an examination of the role of authorial predilections in critical writing. The final chapter presents a collection of Steinberg’s humorous pieces, witty forays penned for his own amusement. 
 
Modern Art is the fifth and final volume in a series that presents Steinberg’s writings, selected and edited by his longtime associate Sheila Schwartz.

Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Item Height: 279mm
Item Length: 216mm
Item Width: 23mm
Item Weight: 1306g
Book Series: Essays by Leo Steinberg
Release Year: 2023

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