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De Stijl, 1917-1928 by Barr, Alfred H., Jr., 1902-1981

Art and culture : critical essays by Greenberg, Clement, 1909-1994

Table of Contents: “…"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 -- Art in the United States. …”
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Optic nerve : perceptual art of the 1960s by Houston, Joe, 1962-

David Smith by Smith, David, 1906-1965

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Chronology -- Formal writings, speeches, notes -- On abstract art -- Modern sculpture and society -- Sculpture: art forms in architecture -- new techniques affect both -- Medals for dishonor -- The sculptor's relationship to the museum, dealer, and public -- Design for progress -- Cockfight -- Two poems -- Statement -- What I believe about the teaching of sculpture -- Progress report on Guggenheim Fellowship, 1950-1951, and application for renewal, February, 1951 -- Notes for David Smith makes a sculpture -- Perception and reality -- The language is image -- The new sculpture -- Atmosphere of the early thirties -- The sculptor and his problems -- Aesthetics, the artist, and the audience -- Economic support of art in America tody -- Notes while driving -- Questions to students -- The artist's image -- The artist and nature -- Drawing -- González: first master of the torch -- The artist and the architect -- Tradition and identity -- Memories to myself -- Report on Voltri -- Interviews -- Interview / David Sylvester -- The secret letter / Thomas B. …”

Asian traditions/modern expressions : Asian American artists and abstraction, 1945-1970

Table of Contents: “….] -- -- From Asian traditions to modern expressions : abstract art by Asian Americans, 1945-1970 / Jeffrey Wechsler -- Artists' biographies / Caroline Goeser and Yuko Higa -- Hybrid worlds, singular visions : Hawai'i's Asian American heritage and art / Marcia Morse -- Personalizing the abstract : Asian American artists in Seattle / Kazuko Nakane -- From enemy alien to zen master : Japanese American identity in California during the postwar period / Karin Higa -- A brief cultural history of the Chinese in California : from early beginnings to the 1970s / Lorraine Dong and Marlon K. …”
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Modern art

Table of Contents: “…/ essay by Anne Ganteführer-Trier -- Expressionism : a metaphysical German meatloaf / essay by Norbert Wolf -- Futurism : art + action + life = futurism / essay by Sylvia Martin -- Abstract art : paintings of autonomous signs ; Dadaism : before Dada was there, there was Dada / essay[s] by Dietmar Elger -- Realism : the truth of the visible / essay by Kerstin Stremmel -- Surrealism : a new declaration of the rights of man / essay by Cathrin Klingsöhr-Leroy.…”

Ad Reinhardt art comics and satires. by Reinhardt, Ad, 1913-1967

Table of Contents: “…Reinhardt's needle / Peter Schjeldahl -- Art of life of art -- Our favorites -- [Look, comics] -- How to look at a spiral: an investigation into fundamentals -- Foundingfathersfollyday -- Museum landscape: The raising of questions and the crowing of abstraction... a review from a modern point of view, and in the form of gentle criticism, of the 1950 Whitney Annual of Contemporary Painting -- A portend of the artist as a Jhung mandala -- Museum racing form -- How to look at low (Surrealist) art -- How to look at a mural -- How to look at looking -- How to look at a good idea -- Hey, look at the facts -- How to look at it -- How to look at creation -- How to look at three current shows -- How to look at a theme -- How to look at a house -- How to look at a gallery -- How to look -- How to look at art-talk -- How to look at modern art in America -- How to look at things again -- How to look at an artist -- How to look at space -- How to look out -- How to look at things through a wine-glass -- How to look at the record -- How to look at more than meets the eye -- How to look at a Cubist painting -- How to view high (abstract) art.…”

Sean Scully : landlines and other recent works

Reconstructing the subject : modernist painting in Western Germany, 1945-1950 by Heibel, Yule F., 1956-

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The eight : the realist revolt in American painting by Young, Mahonri Sharp, 1911-1996

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Cold America : geometric abstraction in Latin America (1934-1973)

Shio Kusaka & Jonas Wood by Kusaka, Shio, 1972-

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Revolutionary Horizons : Art and Polemics in 1950s Cuba by McEwen, Abigail, 1980-

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Natural reality and abstract reality : an essay in trialogue form by Mondrian, Piet, 1872-1944

Concrete Cuba : Cuban geometric abstraction from the 1950s

Dadas on art,

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. …”

Agnes Martin : her life and art by Princenthal, Nancy

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Piet Mondrian : a life : a biography by Janssen, Hans, 1954-

Native American art and the New York avant-garde : a history of cultural primitivism by Rushing, W. Jackson

Moholy-Nagy.

Table of Contents: “…Moholy-Nagy -- In defense of "abstract" art / L. Moholy-Nagy -- Photography -- On 60 fotos by Moholy-Nagy / Franz Roh -- A new instrument of vision / L. …”