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Flam, Jack Donald was born on April 2, 1940 in Paterson, New Jersey, United States. Son of Max and Rose Leila (Silverberg) Flam.
(Published on the 100th anniversary of Robert Motherwell’s...)
Published on the 100th anniversary of Robert Motherwell’s birth, this book presents a comprehensive view of his artistic achievement and historical importance. Each chapter focuses on an important aspect or phase of the artist’s life in relation to his art and explores the many ways in which his activities as an artist, writer, and theorist helped to shape American culture during the second half of the twentieth century. The book contains many unpublished documentary photographs and writings, as well as vivid color illustrations of many of Motherwell’s most significant works.
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(This detailed study of a single phase of Matisse's career...)
This detailed study of a single phase of Matisse's career, focuses on his work "The Dance". In 1930 he was commissioned to create a mural for the main gallery of the Barnes Foundation in Merion, Pennsylvania. In this book, Jack Flam pieces together the story behind its several versions.
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( Matisse and Picasso achieved extraordinary prominence d...)
Matisse and Picasso achieved extraordinary prominence during their lifetimes. They have become cultural icons, standing not only for different kinds of art but also for different ways of living. Matisse, known for his restraint and intense sense of privacy, for his decorum and discretion, created an art that transcended daily life and conveyed a sensuality that inhabited an abstract and ethereal realm of being. In contrast, Picasso became the exemplar of intense emotionality, of theatricality, of art as a kind of autobiographical confession that was often charged with violence and explosive eroticism. In Matisse and Picasso, Jack Flam explores the compelling, competitive, parallel lives of these two artists and their very different attitudes toward the idea of artistic greatness, toward the women they loved, and ultimately toward their confrontations with death.
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(Henri Matisse's ancestors had been weavers for generation...)
Henri Matisse's ancestors had been weavers for generations: textiles, a key to his visual imagination, were in his blood. Although he was to outgrow every other influence, textiles retained their power for him throughout his life. His studio in Nice was a treasure house of exotic Persian carpets, delicate Arab embroideries, richly hued African wall hangings, and any number of colorful cushions, curtains, costumes, patterned screens, and backcloths. This sumptuously illustrated book, which accompanies a groundbreaking exhibition at the Musée Matisse, Le Cateau-Cambrésis; the Royal Academy of Arts, London; and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, explores for the first time Matisse's relationship with the textiles that surrounded him from his earliest days. Charting how the fabrics he painted became the very fabric of his painting, the authors examine the ways in which one of the greatest pioneers in modern art history used what he called his "working library" of textiles to furnish, order, and compose his extraordinary works of art. AUTHOR BIO: Ann Dumas is an independent exhibition curator. Jack Flam is professor of art and art history at Brooklyn College and New York University's Institute of Fine Arts. Rémi Labrusse is professor of contemporary art history at the Université de Picardie, Amiens. Hilary Spurling is working on the second volume of a biography of Matisse. Dominique Szymusiak is director of the Musée Matisse, Le Cateau-Cambrésis.
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(This anthology contains the major writings of Henri Matis...)
This anthology contains the major writings of Henri Matisse, along with the transcripts of important interviews and broadcasts given at various stages of Matisse's career. There is also an introduction which addresses the development of Matisse's aesthetic values and artistic theories.
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( Robert Motherwell (1915–1991) was one of the preeminent...)
Robert Motherwell (1915–1991) was one of the preeminent Abstract Expressionists and a spokesperson for that generation of artists. During a career that lasted half a century, he created a large and varied body of work, constantly reinventing and refining his signature motifs. He produced some of the most innovative and profound imagery of the 20th century, such as the Elegy to the Spanish Republic, Iberia, Open, and Summertime in Italy series, as well as one of the largest and most inventive oeuvres in collage. This monumental catalogue raisonné documents 1,209 paintings on canvas and panel, 722 paintings on paper, and 889 collages, providing extensive information about each work. In the first volume, the authors present an overview of Motherwell's career, and discuss key topics including the tension between figuration and abstraction in his work, his role as a spokesperson for modernism, and the changing nature of the critical reception of his work. This volume also contains a richly detailed, illustrated chronology of his life. Exquisitely designed and produced, this catalogue will be the definitive reference on Robert Motherwell's paintings and collages for years to come.
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( The Cone sisters, Claribel and Etta, acquired their fir...)
The Cone sisters, Claribel and Etta, acquired their first Matisse in 1906 and, during the next four decades, went on to form one of the world's great collections of his art. The Cone Collection not only contains major works from every phase of Matisse's long career but also reflects the sisters' special interest in his Nice period, when a new complexity of form and psychology entered the ever intense surface allure of his paintings. Matisse in the Cone Collection breaks new ground by offering the first scholarly exploration of this exceptional group of works, all donated to the Baltimore Museum of Art in 1950. Doreen Bolger's Foreword traces the Cone sisters' early association with Leo and Gertrude Stein, their growing friendship with Matisse, and the building of their collection. An essay by Jack Flam guides readers through the sisters' collection of Matisse's art and, simultaneously, charts the artist's development from his Neo-Impressionist work of the 1890s to his late style of the 1940s, which is marked by the use of cut-paper and an increasingly linear language of form. The publication of this book will coincide with the reopening of the Cone Wing of the Baltimore Museum of Art after a renovation designed to make the galleries reflect the period in which the art was first made and collected.
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Flam, Jack Donald was born on April 2, 1940 in Paterson, New Jersey, United States. Son of Max and Rose Leila (Silverberg) Flam.
Bachelor, Rutgers University, 1961; Master of Arts, Columbia University, 1963; Doctor of Philosophy, New York University, 1969.
Instructor Rutgers University, Newark, 1962-1966. Assistant professor University Florida, Gainesville, 1966-1969, associate professor, 1969-1972, Brooklyn College, 1975-1980, professor graduate center, 1980-1990, distinguished professor, 1991—2010, emeritus distinguished professor, since 2010. President Dedalos Foundation, since 2002.
(The major writings of Henri Matisse (1869-1954), with the...)
( The Cone sisters, Claribel and Etta, acquired their fir...)
(This anthology contains the major writings of Henri Matis...)
(Published on the 100th anniversary of Robert Motherwell’s...)
(Robert Motherwell (1915-1991) was one of the preeminent A...)
( Robert Motherwell (1915–1991) was one of the preeminent...)
(Henri Matisse's ancestors had been weavers for generation...)
(Published on the occasion of and exhibition held at the N...)
(This detailed study of a single phase of Matisse's career...)
(This detailed study of a single phase of Matisse's career...)
( Matisse and Picasso achieved extraordinary prominence d...)
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Member International Art Critics Association, International Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association, College Art Association American.
Married Bonnie Suzanne Burnham, October 7, 1972 (divorced). 1 child, Laura Rose.