A delightful primer on early-to-mid-20th-century Japan's fruitful fusion of music and design, as materialized in sheet music.
Japanese society underwent a whirlwind of change during the first half of the 20th century, a time period marked by rapid modernization. While Western influences catalyzed an increasingly rapacious appetite for consumer goods, new sounds and mass-produced images flooded the stereos and screens of Japanese citizens.
Catalogue d'une exposition au Museum of Fine Arts de Boston au printemps 2018. Avant d'être le photographe renommé qu'on connaît aujourd'hui, Edward Weston a pratiqué la photographie de façon plus expérimentale, se rapprochant notamment des pictorialistes alors très populaires aux États-Unis. Cet ouvrage présente ses premières photographies, empruntant à la peinture et à d'autres médias qui rappellent les dessins en graphite ou les gravures à l'encre. Un nouvel éclairage sur la formation et l'évolution de ce maître de la photographie.
The first monograph in over 70 years on the celebrated female protagonist of Dutch floral painting.
At the end of the 17th century and beginning of the 18th, Rachel Ruysch was celebrated across Europe for her sumptuous floral still lifes, admired both for their artistry and for their accurate depictions of flowers, fruit and insects. Often placed on stone ledges and against dark backgrounds, her sumptuous bouquets seem to spill over with all manner of colorful flowers and plants, as bees and butterflies flit to and from their petals. Ruysch's star faded after the close of the Dutch Golden Age, but late 20th- and early 21st-century interest in women artists has returned her to the forefront of the art historical canon.
Nature into Art introduces today's audiences to Ruysch's achievements while also exploring the pioneering role of women artists and scientists in the Dutch Republic in the 17th and 18th centuries. Brilliantly illustrated with detailed reproductions of Ruysch's intricate paintings, the essays touch upon Ruysch's career and her immediate legacy while also widening their scope to consider the role of botany in the early modern era and the storied tradition of botanical illustration. The catalog also includes an index of the various flora and fauna depicted within Ruysch's work, which feature both native and nonnative species.
Rachel Ruysch (1664-1750) produced hundreds of the floral still lifes for which she is best known. She was an apprentice in the studio of Willem van Aelst and the daughter of famed scientist Frederick Ruysch, meaning she had access to a wider world of Dutch flower painters and botanists. From 1708 until 1716 she served as court painter to Johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine.
Exceptional works from the Boston-based couple's collection, a tribute to the Golden Age of Flemish and Dutch culture.
A woman gazing squarely at the artist, arm akimbo; a lush tablescape with oysters and sweets; a sweeping view of Haarlem under a grand sky; and an intimate tavern scene. These are just a few of the scenes from the 36-piece painting collection of Susan and Matthew Weatherbie-which, as a whole, celebrates the flourishing of the arts in Belgium and the Netherlands during the 17th century.
Postcards of a nation embracing a new democratic technology.
The ubiquity of photography and social media today makes it hard to imagine a time when it was not possible for ordinary people to take their own pictures and send them with short messages over long distances. But it was revolutionary when the Eastman Kodak Company, in 1903, unveiled a new postcard camera that produced a postcard-size negative that could print directly onto a blank card. Suddenly almost anyone, amateurs and entrepreneurial photographers alike, could take a picture--of neighbors at home and at work, local celebrations, newsworthy disasters, sightseeing trips--and turn it into a postcard.
This book captures this moment in the history of communications--from around 1900 to 1930--through a generous selection of what came to be known as "real photo postcards" from the extensive Leonard A. Lauder Postcard Archive. As the formality of earlier photography falls away, these postcards remind us that the past was occupied by people with distinct and individual stories, dramatic, humorous, puzzling and surprising.
Bowling's transition to abstraction, seen against the backdrop of 1960s-'70s debates on abstract art and the Black Arts movement.
"Modernism belonged to me also." So resolved the British Guiana-born artist Frank Bowling in 1966, when he moved from his temporary home base of London to New York City, keen to make his mark on modern painting. This volume surveys for the first time the transformative years that Bowling spent in the US from 1966 through 1975, a chapter of extraordinary productivity and artistic growth that would greatly shape his thinking and practice.
Bowling's relocation to New York brought him into contact with an art scene in flux, with abstract painting on the rise and vigorous debates unfolding around Black cultural identity and artistic practice. Bowling participated in this scene in broad and deep ways, from his unique vantage point as an emigre twice over: exhibiting widely, writing for art magazines, engaging peers in dialogue and, in 1969, organizing 5+1, an exhibition of five leading African American abstract artists plus himself. During these years, his own work explored the tension between representational imagery and fields of color, ultimately moving toward full abstraction.
Frank Bowling's Americas assembles more than 30 paintings--many rarely seen--from this critical period, and places them in the context of both Bowling's own artistic trajectory and the New York art scene at a time of aesthetic and racial reckoning. Offering magnificent reproductions of these vibrant, multifaceted works, accompanied by curatorial essays and statements by contemporary artists, this book invites new understanding of an artist whose work has remained always in motion.
Born in British Guiana in 1934, Frank Bowling arrived in London in 1953, graduating from the Royal College of Art in 1962. By the early 1960s, he was recognized as an original force in London's art scene. After moving to New York in 1966, Bowling shifted away from figurative imagery. He returned to London in 1975 but continued to spend significant periods in New York. Bowling was awarded a knighthood in 2020. He is the subject of a BBC documentary, Frank Bowling's Abstract World.
La grosse Bertha souhaitant ses meilleurs voeux depuis Berlin, un travailleur socialiste agitant un drapeau rouge, Oncle Sam ordonnant aux Américains de s'enrôler... Dans la première partie du XXe siècle, ces images ont circulé sous forme de millions de cartes postales. Elles parvenaient à transmettre leur message grâce à leur graphisme étonnant et leur slogan percutant. Plus de 350 cartes postales sont reproduites dans cet ouvrage, défendant les causes politiques qui ont mené aux plus grands conflits de notre époque.
Au cours du XXe siècle, la photographie a évolué en tant qu'art et en tant que témoin oculaire des changements sociaux, culturels et politiques. Ce livre présente plus de quatre-vingts images significatives, dont beaucoup proviennent de tirages vintage uniques, qui ont défini leur époque, et nous invitent à jeter un regard neuf sur les photographies célèbres de maîtres du médium tels que Bérénice Abbott, Margaret Bourke-White, Robert Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Walker Evans, Robert Frank, Consuelo Kanaga, Dorothea Lange, Gordon Parks et Edward Steichen. S'appuyant sur la collection inégalée Howard Greenberg - 446 photographies récemment acquises par le Museum of Fine Arts de Boston - Viewpoints donne vie au pouvoir transformateur de la photographie et invite le lecteur à découvrir une collection assemblée à l'oeil du connaisseur par un ancien photographe également galeriste et ardent défenseur des artistes.
Eugène Atget est surtout connu pour sa manière de documenter un Paris en voie de disparition, notamment par l'évolution de ces bâtiments. Ce petit livre présente un aspect moins connu de son travail : une série de cartes postales faites par Atget dépeignant les petits métiers parisiens. Cet ensemble réalisé par le photographe pour subvenir à ses besoins financiers, constitue le seul travail d'Atget publié de son vivant. On y découvre les cireurs de chaussures, rémouleurs, travailleurs du marché et marchands de journaux parisisiens. Existe en français aux éditions 5 CONTINENTS.
Cette publication richement illustrée reproduit une sélection de plus de 50 des peintures, dessins et sculptures peu connus de l'artiste aux côtés d'oeuvres de l'Antiquité classique, dont un certain nombre provenant de sa collection personnelle. Des essais éclairants rédigés par des universitaires et écrivains, dont Anne Carson, Jennifer R. Gross, Brooke Holmes et Mary Jacobus, explorent l'engagement souvent énigmatique de l'art de Twombly avec le monde du passé.
Through paintings, sculptures, drawings and more, John Wilson's work foregrounds the human experience and refuses invisibility
American artist John Wilson was not only a master draftsman, printmaker, painter and sculptor active for over seven decades, but he was also a keen observer and social activist. In his representations of Black Americans in particular, he sought to pay homage to the beauty and truths of ordinary Black people in such a way that all viewers, across race and culture, might see themselves reflected. His multidisciplinary works include unflinching representations of racial violence and war, tender family portraits, monumental bronze heads and landmark commissions such as the bust of Martin Luther King, Jr., which stands in the United States Capitol.
The first major retrospective of the artist's work, Witnessing Humanity sheds light on Wilson's life and artistic evolution. Reproductions of artworks and photographs accompany critical essays and personal reflections, including analyses by art historians, interviews with Wilson's peers, remembrances from fellow Black creatives and a full chronology by the late artist's gallerist. The varied voices which resonate through this catalog illustrate that it is long past time to recognize Wilson's art--to celebrate his lifelong dedication to depicting what he described as the "reality of being Black in this impossible world."
John Woodrow Wilson (1922-2015) was born in Roxbury, Massachusetts, and studied at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and Tufts University. He lived in Mexico for five years and became a friend and colleague of artist Elizabeth Catlett. Wilson taught fine art at Boston University from 1964 until 1986.
Examining the history of photography and the medium's uses beyond fine art.
Since photography's beginnings in the 19th century, the medium has constantly evolved-in its purpose, its audiences, its collectors and its technology. Reframing Photography: Multiple Histories surveys photography's past, present and future transformations through thematic groupings pulled from the preeminent collection at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. The diverse selection of objects explores images made not just for a fine art context but also for documentation, the printed page, science, architecture, surveys, publicity and more.
Photographers revealing these multiple narratives include Southworth and Hawes, Julia Margaret Cameron, Lewis Hine, James Van Der Zee, Richard Avedon, Irving Penn, Margaret Bourke-White, Robert Capa, Catherine Opie, Gohar Dashti, Martine Gutierriez and Alejandro Cartagena.
This publication celebrates the centennial anniversary of Alfred Steiglitz's founding gift to the museum's photography collection.
Cette réédition en broché (la première étant parue en 2009) se concentre sur un tableau de John Singer Sargent, The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit, peint à Paris en 1882. Il constitue l'une des pièces maîtresses du MFA, peinte un an après le scandale du tanlea Madame X.
This volume selects more than 100 examples from more than six centuries of European and American drawings and prints in the distinguished collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Presenting works by artists ranging from early masters such as Albrecht Dürer to contemporary printmakers such as Tara Donovan, arranged by theme and accompanied by illuminating texts, it invites readers to explore the creative range of prints and drawings, and of their makers.
