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American Paintings in the Detroit Institute of Arts: Volume II
The Detroit Institute of Arts holds
one of the finest collections of American art of the 18th through
early 20th centuries portraying a magnificent overview of the
nation's aesthetic achievement. In 1991, Hudson Hills Press
published the first of a projected three-volume catalogue of this
collection. Continuing the series, this second volume includes a
biography of each artist and a description of each painting. 96
color plates. 8 b&w. Size D. 320 pp.
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Fine Art of Wood: The Bohlen Collection
With more than 130 works created
during the past decade, The Fine Art of Wood celebrates a pivotal
artistic breakthrough: artists working in wood now claim the same
freedom of expression long enjoyed by ceramists and glass artists.
These innovative new pieces, which feature strikingly handsome shapes,
unusual finishes, and woods from every corner of the world, have been
beautifully photographed and reproduced here in conjunction with an
upcoming exhibition at the Detroit Institute of Arts.
The book's intelligent introduction also breaks new ground, tracing
the evolution of these works away from traditional crafts and putting
them in the aesthetic context of the fine arts by persuasively linking
them to such recent movements as Pop art and Minimalism. An extensive
catalog section spotlights the visual pleasures of the works
themselves, by artists ranging from David Ellsworth, Ron Kent, and
Mark Lindquist to Rude Osolnick and Bob Stocksdale. |
 
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Diego Rivera: The Detroit Industry Murals
Diego Rivera considered the Detroit
Industry Murals his finest paintings. Produced in 1932-33, they are
the largest and most complex work of the Mexican muralist movement
in America. Covering the four walls in an interior courtyard in the
museum, they portray in detail the complex interplay of raw
materials, manufacturing process, and human resources involved in
the production and assembly of that emblem of modern culture, the
automobile.. "This unusual book not only reproduces the murals in
great detail for the first time (including a folding poster of the
North and South walls) but also brings together documentary
photographs of Rivera at work, historic photographs of the Ford
Motor Company River Rouge plant made for the artist, extensive
sketches and composition drawings, and the final full-scale cartoons
made in preparing the walls for final painting.
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Italian Sculpture in the Detroit Institute of the Arts
The collection of post-antique Italian
sculpture in the Detroit Institute of Arts is considered among the
three finest and most comprehensive outside Europe; however, this
large and distinguished collection, whose formation began a century
ago, has never been published in its entirety as a museum catalogue.
Ranging from early medieval, pre-Romanesque stone carvings of the
eighth and ninth centuries to works created more than a millennium
later, the collection numbers over 350 pieces of Italian sculpture in
wood, stone, terracotta, stucco, porcelain and bronze. More than half
of the collection consists of sculpture from the fifteenth and
sixteenth centuries (or the Early, High and Late Italian Renaissance),
and approximately one-fifth dates from the thirteenth and fourteenth
centuries (roughly, Italian Gothic sculpture). Although the remainder
is more or less equally balanced in number between the eighth to the
twelfth centuries, and those pieces from the seventeenth to the early
twentieth centuries, the latter group of Italian baroque to
nineteenth-century sculpture contains some of the most important and
most recently acquired Italian works of art in the collection. |
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