Methods For Modern Sculptors

Kuh, Katharine. BREAK-UP: THE CORE OF MODERN ART. Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, [1966]
Blue cloth-covered boards, orange and white lettering on spine and front board (hardcover binding). Illustrated with eight color plates and 87 black & white illustrations. List of illustrations. From the book collection of Harry L. Dalton, Charlotte, N.C. corporate executive, art collector, book collector, and philanthropist, with his name and address written at upper right-hand corner of flyleaf. Noted ownership markings, else Very Good copy in Very Good dust jacket. "This book offers a way of seeing and understanding modern art; "for it is involved with content more than data or dates. Deliberately condensed and always accompanied by visual evidence, the text examines works of art with only two objectives - to uncover meanings and motivations." Ever since the Impressionists took color apart and re-created nature on canvas with revolutionary new color uses - literally color broken-up by the spectrum - the modern artist has continued to create new forms, new images, new space relationships, new surfaces, and new materials by breaking up the methods and materials of the past. "There is little doubt that contemporary art has taken much from contemporary life. In a period when science has made revolutionary strides, artists in their studios have not been unaware of scientists in their laboratories. But also this has rarely been a one-way street. Painters and sculptors, though admittedly influenced by modern science, have also molded and changed our world."...Mrs. Kuh has provided a text and illustrations which make BREAK-UP a work of penetrating insight and clear exposition...". Second printing. 4to (7 4/4" x 10 1/4"). 136 pages.

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Kuh, Katharine: BREAK-UP: THE CORE OF MODERN ART, [1966] Greenwich, CT New York Graphic Society
Second printing. 4to (7 4/4" x 10 1/4"). 136 pages.

Blue cloth-covered boards, orange and white lettering on spine and front board (hardcover binding). Illustrated with eight color plates and 87 black & white illustrations. List of illustrations. From the book collection of Harry L. Dalton, Charlotte, N.C. corporate executive, art collector, book collector, and philanthropist, with his name and address written at upper right-hand corner of flyleaf. Noted ownership markings, else Very Good copy in Very Good dust jacket. "This book offers a way of seeing and understanding modern art; "for it is involved with content more than data or dates. Deliberately condensed and always accompanied by visual evidence, the text examines works of art with only two objectives - to uncover meanings and motivations." Ever since the Impressionists took color apart and re-created nature on canvas with revolutionary new color uses - literally color broken-up by the spectrum - the modern artist has continued to create new forms, new images, new space relationships, new surfaces, and new materials by breaking up the methods and materials of the past. "There is little doubt that contemporary art has taken much from contemporary life. In a period when science has made revolutionary strides, artists in their studios have not been unaware of scientists in their laboratories. But also this has rarely been a one-way street. Painters and sculptors, though admittedly influenced by modern science, have also molded and changed our world."...Mrs. Kuh has provided a text and illustrations which make BREAK-UP a work of penetrating insight and clear exposition..."

[SW: KEYWORDS: *Art *Modern Art]

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