This highly illustrated book is both a survey of the major European and American works in the Phillips Collection and a guide to the museum's holdings and significance. A study of the history of taste in 20th century America, it documents the evolution of modernism as well as the pivotal role played by Duncan Phillips as a critic and collector.
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This highly illustrated book is both a survey of the major European and American works in the Phillips Collection and a guide to the museum's holdings and significance. A study of the history of taste in 20th century America, it documents the evolution of modernism as well as the pivotal role played by Duncan Phillips as a critic and collector.
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Good. Good condition. Good dust jacket. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains. NOT AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT OUTSIDE OF THE UNITED STATES.
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VG. edgewear to bottom of cloth covers. dustjacket has foxing to interior; tear to fore-edge. Sea green cloth, blue & color illus. dust jacket. 820 pp. Hundreds of color and bw plates; weighs 9 lbs. and will require extra postage. "A study of the history of taste in twentieth-century America, it documents the evolution of modernism as well as the pivotal role played by Duncan Phillips (1886-1966) as a critic and collector." (dj) With 11 essays on a variety of collection-related topics. Featured artists include Marin, Lipton, De Kooning, Vaughan, Nash, Bernstein, O'Keeffe, Dove, Dougherty, Klee, Rothko, Bonnard, Lawson, Davies, Mondrian, Braque and many, many more. Contents as follows: Art and intimacy / Robert Hughes--The evolution of a critic: changing views in the writings of Duncan Phillips / David W. Scott--A collection in the making / George Heard Hamilton--Sources of modernism / David Rosand--France in the late nineteenth century / Charles Stuckey--The American vision: The American tradition and American impressionism / Elizabeth Tebow; Duncan Phillips and the American popular tradition / Jane Kallir--Modernism in France: Bonnard, Matisse, and the School of Paris / Elizabeth Hutton Turner; Braque, Picasso, and other Cubists / Kenneth E. Silver--The Dreier gift and other European modernists / Erika D. Passantino--The spirit of revolt and the beginning of American modernism / David W. Scott--Duncan Phillips and American modernism: the continuing legacy of the Experiment Station / William C. Agee--The American scene: realism and social concern / Richard L. Rubenfeld--Painting in Europe after the Second World War / Sarah Wilson--American art after the Second World War / Eliza E. Rathbone--The Phillips Collection and art in Washington: Washington and Baltimore artists from the 1930s through the 1950s / Ben L. Summerford; Washington art in the 1960s and beyond / Willem De Looper with Jeffrey Harrison.
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Fine in fine jacket. Foreword by Jay Gates. Color and black & white reproductions throughout. xvii + 812 pages. Thick tall 4to, teal cloth with gilt lettering at spine, d.w. Washington, D.C. : Phillips Collection/Yale University Press, (1999). A fine copy in a fine dust wrapper. With essays by Robert Hughes, George Heard Hamilton, David Rosand, Charles Stuckey, Elizabeth Tebow and others.
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Very Good. Washington, DC: The Phillips Collection in association with Yale University Press, 1999. 4to hardcover. Illustrations. Very Good book. Fine dust jacket. (Phillips Collection, European Art, American Art, Art Catalogs) Inquire if you need further information. NOT AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT OUTSIDE OF THE UNITED STATES.
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