Table of Contents: “…Cubism and abstract art, by A.H. Barr, Jr. -- Catalog, by Dorothy C. …”

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Table of Contents: “…Why abstract art? -- Survivals and fresh starts -- Minimalism -- After minimalism -- Satire, irony, and abstract art -- Abstract art now.…”

“…Colors and sounds of Kandinsky's abstract art…”

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Table of Contents: “…Grant Wood's Affair with Abstract Art --…”

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Table of Contents: “…Hidden meanings in abstract art /…”

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Table of Contents: “…Picasso as a criminologist: the abstract art of racial profiling /…”

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Table of Contents: “…An introduction to contenporary Spanish art -- Abstract art in Barcelona -- Abstract art in Madrid -- After informalism -- The return to the figure -- A survey of Spanish sculpture -- Tradition and innovation in Spanish art -- Art in Catalonia -- Art in Valencia -- Younger artists of Madrid -- Graphics in Spain -- New directions.…”

Table of Contents: “…. -- Arshile Gorky. -- Abstract art: The nature of abstract art. Recent abstract painting. …”

Table of Contents: “…Romantic Classicism -- Romanticism and Romantic art -- From Romantic Realism to Naturalism and Impressionism -- Postimpressionism and Symbolism -- Architecture in Europe and the United States: 1850-1910 -- Fauvism and Expressionism -- Cubism and Futurism -- Abstract art -- Dada and Surrealism -- American painting: 1900-1940 -- Twentieth-century architecture: the international style -- Painting and sculpture since 1945 -- European and American architecture since 1945.…”

Table of Contents: “….-- v.2. From cubism to abstract art, translated by A. Rosin…”

Table of Contents: “…Artists -- Music and dance -- Children playing -- Children and pets -- Portraits -- Landscapes -- Still lifes -- Abstract art -- Fantastic creatures -- Sleeping and dreaming.…”

Table of Contents: “…The house and its context -- Empty terrain : the vision of the landscape in the residences of contemporary Americans -- Portraits and family photographs : from the promotion to the submersion of self -- Abstract art -- "Primitive" art -- The truncated Madonna and other modern Catholic iconography…”

Table of Contents: “…Foreword: Science as the artist's muse / Neil deGrasse Tyson -- Introduction -- Art in pursuit of the absolute : romanticism -- Adopting a scientific worldview -- The French art of observation : a cool rejection of Darwin -- German and Russian art of the absolute : a warm embrace of Darwin -- Loving and loathing science at the fin de siècle -- Looking inward : art and the human mind -- Wordless music and abstract art -- The culmination of Newton's clockwork universe -- Einstein's space-time universe -- Abstract art with a cosmic perspective -- Surrealist science -- The atomic sublime -- The disunity of nature : postmodern art, science, and the spiritual.…”

Table of Contents: “…The Hassunah period -- The Halaf period -- The Ubaid period -- The role of abstract art in early Mesopotamia -- The Jemdet Nasr period -- The Gawra period -- The Ninevite period -- The role of amulets in Mesoptomian ritual texts -- The origin of Sumerian mythology.…”

Table of Contents: “…David and the great moderns of the past, Manet and the impressionists -- Cézanne and post-impressionism -- The school of Paris, Matisse, and the Fauves -- Cubism, surrealism, other movements -- Expressionism and abstract art in northern Europe -- Italy -- England -- Mexico -- United States -- Technical processes.…”

Table of Contents: “…The French Revolution : a break with the past -- Goya, forerunner of modern art -- Early Romanticism -- Gericault and Delacroix -- Ingres and the academicians -- The English contribution -- The Romantic landscape in France -- The realists : Millet, Courbet, Daumier -- From Manet to impressionism -- Renoir -- Linear Impressionism : Degas and Toulouse-Lautrec -- Cezanne and post-impressionism -- The neo-impressionists : Seurat and Signac -- Vincent Van Gogh -- Paul Gauguin -- Henri Rousseau -- Toward the abstract : Matisse and the Fauves -- From Picasso to abstract art -- Expressionism : revolt in Germany -- Escape into the mind : Dada, surrealism, and neo-romanticism -- America today -- The modern artist and society.…”

Table of Contents: “…Transition -- Post-Impressionism: Its Classicists -- The Twentieth Century -- Fauvism and Expressionism -- Cubism and Abstract Art -- Reactions against Abstraction.…”

Table of Contents: “…Cubism and the Italian futurists -- Cubism and the German romantic tradition -- Cubism in England and America -- Cubism and abstract art : Malevich and Mondrian -- Cubism and fantastic art : Chagall, Klee, Miro -- Cubism and twentieth-century sculpture -- The later work of Picasso and Braque, 1925-1939 -- Chronology 1906-1925.…”

Table of Contents: “…Raynal [and others] -- [3] From Picasso to surrealism; cubism, futurism, the Blue Rider, metaphysical painting, Dada, abstract art, purism, the realist reaction, the Bauhaus, poetic painting [and] surrealism / by M. …”

Table of Contents: “…Modernist abstraction and the abstract art : Four Saints and the queer composition of America's sound -- Being musical : gender, sexuality, and musical identity in twentieth-century America -- Intermezzo. …”
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Table of Contents: “…Modernist abstraction and the abstract art : Four Saints and the queer composition of America's sound -- Being musical : gender, sexuality, and musical identity in twentieth-century America -- Intermezzo. …”
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Table of Contents: “…"Black or white"; Preface to Georges Duthuit, The Fauvist painters; "The New York school"; Preface ["The school of New York"] to Seventeen modern American painters; "What abstract art means to me"; "The rise and continuity of abstract art"; Preface to The Dada painters and poets: an anthology; A statement and an introduction to the illustrations in Modern artists in America: first series; Final page of letter to unknown party; "Symbolism"; "The painter and the audience"; "A painting must make human contact"; Letter to John; Notes in John I.H. …”

Table of Contents: “…"Notes toward a Supreme Fiction" and Abstract Art. 6. Rival Doctrines Harmonized -- pt. III. …”

Table of Contents: “…Avant-garde and kitsch -- The plight of culture -- The later Monet -- Renoir -- Cézanne -- Picasso at seventy-five -- Collage -- Georges Rouault -- Braque -- Marc Chagall -- Master Léger -- Jacques Lipchitz -- Kandinsky -- Soutine -- The school of Paris : 1946 -- Contribution to a symposium -- "Primitive" painting -- Abstract, representational, and so forth -- The new sculpture -- Partisan Review "Art chronicle" : 1952 -- The crisis of the easel picture -- Modernist sculpture, its pictorial past -- Wyndham Lewis against abstract art -- Byzantine parallels -- On the role of nature in modernist painting -- Thomas Eakins -- John Marin -- Winslow Homer -- Hans Hofmann -- Milton Avery -- David Smith -- "American-type" painting -- The late thirties in New York -- T.S. …”

Table of Contents: “…Difficulty and skill ; Modern art ; The expressiveness of abstract art ; Expressiveness and the medium ; Searching for meaning ; Technique ; Style ; Detecting and understanding style ; The expression of nonsubjective qualities ; The public meanings of the medium ; The style of Renoir -- Judgment. …”

Table of Contents: “…Contents -- Acknowledgments -- About the program -- Curriculum goals -- Curriculum content -- Curriculum implementation -- Tips for facilitators -- How to use this book -- Oral language -- Strategies for activities and lessons -- Getting started -- Warm-up activities -- Lessons -- Listening -- Speaking -- Vocabulary building -- Written language -- Activities -- Lessons and steps for various writing styles -- Expository writing -- Descriptive writing -- Persuasive writing -- Narrative writing -- Folklore -- Poetry -- Seasonal activities -- Abstract art activities -- Appendices -- Appendix a. additional idioms, commonly misspelled words, food words, and recipes -- Appendix b. questionnaires -- Appendix c. graphic organizers -- Appendix d. sample daily and weekly plans -- Glossary -- Resources -- About the author.…”
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Table of Contents: “…-- Civil war : artist contra critic -- Modern art's failure of critical nerve -- The necessary dialectical critic -- Utopian protest in early abstract art -- Delaunay's rationale for Peinture Pure, 1909-1915 -- Malevich's quest for unconditioned creativity -- To interpret or not to interpret Jackson Pollock -- Abstract expressionism : the social contract -- Clyfford Still : the ethics of art -- Symbolic pregnance in Mark Rothko and Clyfford Still -- Cosmetic transcendentalism : surface-light in John Torreano, Rodney Ripps, and Lynda Benglis -- Lichtenstein and the collective unconscious of style -- The unhappy consciousness of modernism -- Wittgensteinean aspects of minimal art -- Sol LeWitt the Wit -- Nineteenth-century landscape : poetry and property -- Regionalism reconsidered -- Individual and mass identity in urban art : the New York case -- Richard Serra, utopian constructivist -- Francis Bacon : the authority of flesh -- Leon Golub's murals of mercenaries : aggression, "resentiment," and the artist's will to power -- Beuys : fat, felt, and alchemy -- Uncivil war -- Betraying the feminist intention : the case against feminist decorative art -- Art in an age of mass mediation.…”

Table of Contents: “…-- Power-feeling and machine-age art -- Beginnings -- Art and patronage -- Foreword to catelogue -- Super-nature verus super-real -- The skeleton in the cupboard speaks -- Picasso -- After abstract art -- Part IV -- The forties and after -- Religions expression in contemporary art -- Towards an earth culture -- Round the galleries -- From 'the listener' -- The 1949 retrospective exhibition -- The 1956 retrospective at the Tate -- The vorticists -- L'Arlésienne.…”

Table of Contents: “…-- Social, ideological, and nativist art : the 1930s, 1940s, and after -- Surrealism, wartime, and New World imagery, 1928-1964 -- Torres-García's constructive universalism and the abstract legacy -- New museums, the São Paulo Biennial, and abstract art -- Functionalism, integration of the arts, and the postwar architectural boom -- Geometric, optical, and kinetic art from the 1950s through the 1970s -- Concrete and neoconcrete art and their offshoots in the Brazilian context -- Neofiguration, representational art, pop, and environments : the 1960s and 1970s -- Political art: graphic art, painting, and conceptualism as ideological tools -- Some trends of the 1980s.…”

Table of Contents: “…The pathology and health of art: Gauguin's self-experience -- The process of idealization of woman in Matisse's art -- Cubist hypochondria: on the case of Picasso and Braque -- Surrealism's re-vision of psychoanalysis -- Dispensable friends, indispensable ideologies: Andre Breton's surrealism -- Choosing psychosis: Max Ernst's artificial hallucinations -- Back to the future -- A Freudian note on abstract art -- The will to unintelligibility in modern art: abstraction reconsidered -- An alternative psychoanalytic interpretation of Jackson Pollock's psychoanalytic drawings -- Art and the moral imperative: analyzing activist art -- The modern fetish -- The only immortal -- Tart wit, wise humor -- Joseph Beuys: the body of the artist -- The hospital of the body: Maria Lassnig's body ego portraits -- Mourning and melancholia in German neo-expressionism: the representation of German subjectivity -- Anselm Kiefer's will to power --Gerhard Richter's doubt and hope -- All our yesterdays -- Christian Boltanski's art of gloom -- By kitsch possessed: Jiri Georg Dokoupil's satiric art -- Sincere cynicism -- The problem of art in the age of glamour -- The good enough artist: beyond the mainstream avant-garde artist -- Visual art and art criticism: the role of psychoanalysis -- The use and abuse of applied psychoanalysis -- A psychoanalytic understanding of aesthetic disinterestedness -- Collecting: a narcissistic agony -- Critical reflections.…”

Table of Contents: “…Towards a constructive poetry / Theo van Doesburg -- The aesthetic of the machine and mechanical introspection in art / Enrico Prampolini -- Abstract art / Julius Evola -- On Cézanne. Worringer, profetor daddistikus. …”

Table of Contents: “…Definition of art -- The sense of beauty -- Definition of beauty -- Distinction between art and beauty -- Art as intuition -- The classical ideal -- Art not uniform -- Art and aesthetics -- Form and expression -- The Golden section -- Limitations of geometrical harmony -- Distortion -- Pattern -- The personal element -- Definition of pattern -- Definition of form -- What happens when we look at a picture -- Empathy -- Sentimentality -- The necessity of form -- Content -- Art without content : pottery -- Abstract art -- Humanistic art : the portrait -- Psychological values -- The elements of a work of art -- Line -- Tone -- Colour -- Form -- Unity -- Structural motives -- Primitive art -- Bushman paintings -- Significance of primitive art -- Organic and geometrical art -- Fusion of organic and geometrical principles -- Art and religion -- Art and humanism -- Peasant art -- National art : Egypt -- Coptic art -- The pyramids -- Egyptian sculpture -- Pre-Columbian art -- Origin of historical types -- Chinese art -- Persian art -- Byzantine art -- Celtic art -- The approach to Christian art -- Material and immaterial forces -- The influence of the Church -- Gothic art -- English Gothic -- Renaissance art -- Drawings of the Italian masters -- The art of drawing -- Intellectual art -- Realism -- Textual and representational realism -- Naturalism -- Rubens -- El Greco -- Baroque and rococo -- Definition of baroque -- Definition of rococo -- Landscape painting -- The English tradition -- Gainsborough -- Blake -- Turner -- Art and nature -- Constable -- Delacroix -- The impressionists -- Renoir -- Cézanne -- Van Gogh -- Gauguin -- Henri Rousseau -- Picasso -- Chagall -- The racial factor -- Lyricism and symbolism -- Expressionism and idealism -- The expressionist movement -- Kandinsky -- 'The Bridge' and the 'Blue Rider' groups -- Paul Klee -- Max Ernst -- Salvador Dali -- Tachism -- Modern sculpture -- Henry Moore -- Barbara Hepworth -- The artist's point of view -- Tolstoy's point of view -- Tolstoy and Wordsworth -- Another point of view : Matisse -- Communication : feeling and understanding -- Art and society -- The will-to-form -- The ultimate values.…”

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : mountains, rivers, people -- Experiencing art : the viewer, the art, the artist -- Bricks, seals and stone : into written history -- Stories in stone : the popular appeal of early Buddhist art -- After Alexander : Indo-Greek art and the Buddha image -- Into the mountainside : cave monasteries and cave temples -- 'Seeing' the divine : image and temple -- Sacred and 'profane' : the Nagara temple -- A riddle in stone : Pallava Mamallapuram -- Holy ground : Dravida Chola temples -- God in their midst : the temple city and festival bronzes -- Linear abstractions : art and the sultans of India -- Cosmopolitan splendour : the city of Vijayanagara -- Visions of paradise : the luxury of Mughal art -- Palaces and pavilions : Rajput Mewar -- Rome of the tropics : churches of Portuguese Goa -- Jewels in the crown : art in the British Raj -- Epilogue : art and modernity.…”

Table of Contents: “…The Cubist Revolution: Braque and Picasso --- 10. From Cubism to Abstract Art: Futurism, Suprematism, De Stijl --- 11. …”

Table of Contents: “…Machine forms -- No. 71. Abstract art -- No. 72. Satire -- No. 73. Found objects -- No. 74. …”
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Table of Contents: “…Gestures of liberation: abstract art as the new American art -- Pastiche and parody: another take on the real -- Minimal forms and art as idea -- Popular art, pop art, and consumer culture -- An art of protest: the Civil Rights movement and the Vietnam War -- The personal is political: feminist art of the 1970s -- Public art and the public interest -- Is less more? …”

Table of Contents: “…; Symbol, symbolism, allegory; Symbolist theorists and critics; Anywhere out of the world; Under the influence of Saturn; Music before all else; The symbolist dream-world; Arabesques; Symbolism and psychoanalysis; Salome, the myth of the femme fatale; Symbolism and Art Nouveau; From symbolism to abstract art and surrealism -- The originators of symbolism. …”

Table of Contents: “…I Artist -- Photographs 1958-1960 / Nathan Lyons -- "Comment" in Under the Sun: The Abstract Art of Camera Vision 1960 / Nathan Lyons -- Photographs from the Urban Landscape project 1957-1965 / Nathan Lyons -- Statement in Notations in Passing, 1970: Photographs by Nathan Lyons from the Collection of the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa 1971 / Nathan Lyons -- Introduction to Notations in Passing, 1970: Photographs by Nathan Lyons from the Collection of the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa 1971 / James Borcoman -- Photographs from the sequence Notations in Passing 1974 / Nathan Lyons -- From a review of Notations in Passing: Visualized by Nathan Lyons 1976 / Penny Cousineau -- From "Nathan Lyons" 1979 / Thomas Dugan -- Photographs from the sequence Riding 1st Class on the Titanic! …”

Table of Contents: “…4: Artists And Their Illustrations: -- Understanding artists and their illustrations: -- Evaluating the illustrations in children's books -- Visual elements: grammar of artists -- Line -- Color -- Shape -- Texture -- Design: organizing the visual elements -- Artistic media: -- Lines and washes -- Watercolors, acrylics, pastels, and oils -- Woodcuts -- Collage -- Artistic style: -- Representational art -- Abstract art -- Outstanding illustrators of children's books: -- Barbara Cooney -- Tomie dePaola -- Leo and Diane Dillon -- Ezra Jack Keats -- Robert McCloskey -- Alice and Martin Provensen -- Maurice Sendak -- Chris Van Allsburg -- David Wiesner -- Additional artists -- Teaching with artists and their illustrations: -- Using art education books -- Aesthetic scanning -- Studying inspirations for art -- Investigating the works of great artists -- Multicultural Literature: History of a culture as reflected in art: a multicultural approach -- Using a viewer's response approach -- Children's literature -- 5: Picture Books: -- Book is more than words: -- What a picture book is -- Literary criticism: evaluating picture books -- Mother Goose: -- Appealing characteristics -- Collections -- Books that illustrate one rhyme or tale -- Toy books -- Alphabet books: -- Animal themes -- Other alphabet books -- Counting books -- Concept books -- Wordless books -- Easy-to-read and beginning readers' books -- Picture storybooks: -- Elements in picture storybooks -- Typical characters and situations -- Picture storybooks for middle school students -- Teaching with picture books: -- Sharing Mother Goose -- Sharing wordless books: -- Stimulating cognitive and language development: -- Motivating writing and reading -- Reading to children: -- Choosing the books -- Preparing to read aloud -- Reading itself -- Motivating writing with picture storybooks -- Children's literature -- 6: Traditional Literature: -- Of castle and cottage -- Our traditional literary heritage -- Types of traditional literature: -- Folktales -- Fables -- Myths -- Legends -- Value of traditional literature for children: -- Understanding the world -- Identifying with universal human struggles -- Pleasure -- Authenticating the folklore -- Folklore for adolescents -- Folktales: -- Characteristics -- Motifs -- Multicultural Literature: Folktales from around the world -- Fables: -- Characteristics -- Contemporary editions -- Myths: -- Greek and Roman mythology -- Norse mythology -- Multicultural Literature: Native American myths -- Multicultural Literature: Myths from other cultures -- Legends -- Additional traditional literature with religious themes -- Teaching with traditional literature: -- Telling stories: -- Choosing a story -- Preparing the story for telling -- Sharing the story with an audience -- Encouraging children to be storytellers -- Multicultural Literature: Comparing folktales from different countries -- Motivating writing through traditional tales -- Children's literature.…”