The Peggy Guggenheim Collection of Modern Art

页数:264

出版时间:2001-10

价格:CDN$ 105.00

isbn号码:9780847823796

具体描述

Peggy Guggenheim was one of the most important (and celebrated) art world figures of the twentieth century. Born into a wealthy New York family, she traveled throughout Europe during the 1920s and 1930s where she was witness to the major art movements through her association with artists such as Constantin Brancusi, Max Ernst and Marcel Duchamp, to name a few. With a keen eye and exalted social standing, she amassed one of the most significant modern art collections in private hands. This volume is the only complete book on her exceptional collection. Through several essays and extended captions, every aspect of Guggenheim's collection, which was donated to the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in 1979 after her death, is explained. The breadth of the collection is astonishing: from the earliest examples of abstraction by Piet Mondrian to the controlled abandon of Jackson Pollock's drip paintings (whose career she single-handedly launched), her intuition regarding the important trends was almost clairvoyant. The book begins with an essay devoted to the concept of structure as it relates to the cubist work of Pablo Picasso and George Braque; the lyrically expressionistic work of Wassily Kandinsky and the spare constructivist work of El Lissitzky, among many others. Guggenheim was also deeply interested in surrealist and dada work examples of which are well represented in the collection including the fantastical landscapes of Giorgio de Chirico and Max Ernst's whimsical collages. Sculpture formed an important part of Guggenheim's collection, many of which were installed to glorious effect on the well-manicured grounds of her home on the Grand Canal, Palazzo Venier dei Leoni. With exceptional care and thoughtfulness, she was able to strike a remarkable balance between more classically-inspired work, such as the soft and refined curves of Henry Moore's figures, and more avant-garde work of Alberto Giacometti whose ghostly, attenuated figures were some of the most haunting works produced this century. In the end, the book chronicles not only the development of a great collection and the life of the socialite eccentric who built it, but, more importantly, the history of modern art. "People talk about my having power but it is Peggy who will be remembered."-Alfred Barr Peggy Guggenheim was as brave and bold as the art she collected-perhaps even more so. This volume, with over 150 color plates, is the only complete book on her exceptional collection which is housed in Venice, Italy. The collection is comprised of work by the most important artists of this century, including: Jean Arp

Giacomo Balla

Umberto Boccioni

Constantin Brancusi

Georges Braque

Marc Chagall

Joseph Cornell

Salvador Dalí

Giorgio De Chirico

Willem De Kooning

Marcel Duchamp

El Lissitzky

Max Ernst

Raoul Hausmann

Wassily Kandinsky

Paul Klee

Fernand Léger

René Magritte

Kasimir Malevich

Man Ray

André Masson

Joan Miró

Piet Mondrian

Francis Picabia

Pablo Picasso

Jackson Pollock

Mark Rothko

Kurt Schwitters

Gino Severini

Clyfford Still

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这本书带给我的最大的震撼，在于它对不同媒材表现力的精准捕捉与呈现。作为一个对材料质感十分敏感的读者，我深知摄影的局限性，但这本书似乎突破了这些限制。例如，对于达利那些充满诡异细节的油画，书中的复刻版成功保留了那种近乎照片般的超写实主义的质感，阴影的处理和光线的反射都处理得相当到位。更令人称奇的是，它对雕塑作品的处理——那些青铜、大理石甚至工业材料的雕塑，不仅有清晰的主体展示，更有侧重于纹理和体积感的特写镜头。你几乎可以“触摸”到亨利·摩尔雕塑表面那种粗粝的岩石感，或是贾科梅蒂人物的瘦削与空气的张力。这种对三维艺术在二维平面上的极致还原，体现了出版方在制作上的巨大投入和专业水准，让身处异地的我，也能感受到原作的物理存在感，这在以往的艺术书籍中是很少见的体验。