Synopses & Reviews
Iconoclastic, generous, inventive, impulsive, sensitive, gregarious, prodigious: these are just some of the words to describe Robert Rauschenberg and the art he has been making now for 50 years. From the age of 38, when he received the grand prize at the Venice Biennale in 1964, Rauschenberg has been a pivotal figure in the art of our time. This revised edition of the classic biography of the artist, first published in 1994, adds 36 new pages to cover the significant moments in the last ten years of his career, including his monumental career retrospective at the Guggenheim in 1997.
With 230 illustrations, 112 in full color, Rauschenberg: Art and Life is a richly impressive and highly readable portrait of the artist. Showing the astonishing dexterity and range of Rauschenberg's art even as an emerging artist; the creation of his now famous combines; his eagerness to bridge art and technology; and the establishment of ROCI (Rauschenberg Overseas Culture Interchange), this is a book, as one reviewer put it, "to grab from a burning house."
Synopsis
Piet Mondrianandrsquo;s rigorously geometric paintings in primary colors are icons of the 20th century that had a powerful impact on popular taste in art and design. This volume brings together more than 230 superb paintings with documentary images from the artistandrsquo;s life. The less-well-known work that Mondrian did in the 30 years before his breakthrough to abstractionandmdash;especially his landscape and fl ower paintingsandmdash;is remarkably beautiful, and to see it arranged chronologically is to enter the mind of an artist who is constantly looking for the next step that will take him from traditional realism to a universal vision of color and form. The book includes rare photographs of Mondrianandrsquo;s studios in Paris and New York City as well as reproductions of more than 1,000 known works of Mondrianandrsquo;s in black and white.and#160;
About the Author
Cees W. de Jong is a Dutch designer, publisher, and curator; Robert P. Welsh was co-author of the Mondrian catalogue raisonnandeacute;; Katjuscha Otte, Ingelies Vermeulen, and Marjory Degen are Dutch art historians; Marty Bax studies the relationship between art and Western Exoticism.