The Many Masks of Modern Art

Boston: Christian Science Monitor, 1989. Cloth, xiii, 205 pages, illustrations (some colour); 27 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. The articles in this book originally appeared in The Christian Science Monitor from 1980 to 1988. 20th century art: introducing a broader view / Andrew Wyeth and Jackson Pollock; The full diversity of art / Andrew Wyeth; Awakening to a deeper consciousness / Edvard Munch; Morality and the art of Georges Rouault / Georges Rouault; The question of identity in 20th century art / Alberto Giacometti; The narrow thread of humanism in Modern art / Kathe Kollwitz; Severing the umbilical cord / Laszlo Moholy-Nagy and Charles Sheeler; Focusing on the irreducible / Piet Mondrian and Edward Hopper; The influence of dogma in American art / John Steuart Curry; State of the arts: confused, contradictory, healthy / Stow Wengenroth; Translating the principles of nature / Alexander Calder; Paul Klee: letting spirit and intuition take over / Paul Klee; Warhol: a mirror of his times / Andy Warhol. Reconciling art with the primal forces of life / Theodoros Stamos; Chagall: art as a high wire act / Marc Chagall; Sculpture pregnant with meaning / Constantin Brancusi; Satire: a tricky business / Grant Wood; Private treasure troves / Joseph Cornell; Freshness, joy, guiltlessness in art / Ida Kohlmeyer; Art: denying chaos, defeating despair / David Ray; Looking at art with the heart, not the head / Robert Natkin; Charles Burchfield, American maverick / Charles Burchfield; Giving credit where credit is due / Norman Rockwell; Kinesthetic experiences re-attuned by Athena Tacha / Athena Tacha; The eccentricity of Ivan Albright / Ivan Albright; Humanity in art / Raphael Soyer; Creative intuition in art / Roy De Forest. Morris Graves: art in fleeting glimpses / Morris Graves; I like it, but is it art? / Jasper Johns; Art in touch with the divine / Giorgio Morandi; If it's unemotional, is it art? / Chuck Close; Georgia O'Keeffe: appearances / Georgia O'Keeffe; Finding art in the everyday / Joan Sloan; What links Durer and Milton? / Peter Milton; How does an artist grow? / Richard Diebenkorn; Drawing: a highly intuitive act / James Schmidt; Art unified, consistent, and whole / Paul Cezanne; Rothko: art as meditation / Mark Rothko; Art as a public event / Mel Leiserowitz; The artist as iconoclast / Jonathan Borofsky; Art celebrating life / "Grandma" Moses; Who says portraits for pay have to be bad? / Sarah Swenson; Gouged, scratched, scumbled, beautiful / Enrico Donati. The delights of sketching / Paula Modersohn-Becker; Small, unassuming, profound / Morris Graves; Paintings to walk around in / Winslow Homer; Neighbors as art / John Ahearn; More talent than fame / Hyman Bloom; The matter of talent / Henri Matisse; Painters of nouns and verbs / Igor Galanin and John Marin; Andrew Wyeth: beyond Helga / Andre Wyeth; Face to face / Theodore F. Wolff; Out in the sun and the wind / Jessie Benton-Evans; The sculptor as herdsman / Leslie Bohnenkamp; Morality plays of Jerome Witkin / Jerome Witkin; What Rembrandt has to teach us: dignity, character, compassion / Rembrandt.. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 4to. Collectible.