| Description |
252 pages ; 20 cm |
| Contents |
Notes on the nature of Joseph Cornell -- American painting and pop art -- Art is love is God -- Mondrian at Santa Barbara -- Interview with Edward Ruscha -- Abstract expressionist ceramics -- Jim Turrell -- Ceźanne's watercolors -- Kurt Schwitters -- Serial imagery: definition -- Andy Warhol: the art -- Don Judd -- Interview with Jasper Johns -- Roy Lichtenstein -- Primitivism and American art -- Robert Smithson: the Amarillo ramp -- Pasadena's collapse and the Simon takeover: diary of a disaster -- Weegee the famous -- C.E. Watkins at Yosemite -- The private eye of Philip Guston -- Brancusi as photographer -- Epilogue: a letter to my son Joseph |
| Summary |
"Provocations, edited and introduced by the art critic and curator Stuart Morgan, is a selection from 1963 to 1981 of writings by John Coplans and includes essays on Classic Modernism, Photography, and Pop Art, chapters from his books Kurt Schwitters (written with Walter Hopps) and Serial Imagery, and his controversial report on the decline of the Pasadena Art Museum"-- |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Mondrian, Piet, 1872-1944.
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Cézanne, Paul, 1839-1906.
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Schwitters, Kurt, 1887-1948.
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Warhol, Andy, 1928-1987.
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Judd, Donald, 1928-1994.
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Lichtenstein, Roy, 1923-1997.
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Weegee, 1899-1968.
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Guston, Philip, 1913-1980.
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Brancusi, Constantin, 1876-1957.
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Johns, Jasper, 1930-
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Art criticism -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Art, Modern -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Photography -- History and criticism.
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Art, Modern -- 20th century.
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Art, American -- 20th century.
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| Genre/Form |
Art criticism.
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| Author |
Morgan, Stuart.
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| ISBN |
1900602008 |
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