The Whitney Museum in New York stands out as a leading institution dedicated to 20th-century American art, highlighting significant works and artists that define this transformative period. It serves as a vital cultural hub, providing insight into the evolution of American artistic expression and its impact on the broader art world. The museum's collection and exhibitions reflect diverse styles and movements, making it an essential destination for art enthusiasts and scholars alike.
Many American artists throughout the 20th century designated Pablo Picasso as the central figure of the modern movement and defined their own artistic achievements through their absorption, critique, or rejection of his example. Picasso and American Art is a groundbreaking publication juxtaposing works by Picasso with the paintings, sculptures, and drawings created in response by an extremely diverse group of his contemporaries and successors, including Max Weber, Stuart Davis, Arshile Gorky, John Graham, Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock, David Smith, Roy Lichtenstein, and Jasper Johns. Based on extensive research, Michael FitzGerald's text provides valuable new information on the fundamental role that Picasso played in the development of modern American art--both through his friendships with individual artists and through the dissemination of his evolving work. This book also documents, for the first time, the accessibility of Picasso's work in the United States between 1911 and 1957 in exhibitions, collections, and publications through a comprehensive chronology. This unique book is essential for anyone interested in either Picasso or American art of the 20th century.
This is the first complete survey of the work of Jean-Michel Basquiat, a key member of a group of New York artists that included Keith Haring and Kenny Scharf, who used the powerful images of graffiti to create a new expressive language. Essays by Dick Hebdige, Klaus Kertess and others. 200 illustrations, including 160 colorplates.
Despite only living to the age of 31, Keith Haring left behind an enormous oeuvre of drawings, paintings, murals and sculptures. This book looks at some of his most significant works, displaying his trademark line - formally reduced to its essentials - which is the hallmark of his style.
