149 Paintings You Really Need to See in North America (eBook)

(So You Can Ignore the Others)

Julian Porter, Stephen Grant (Autoren)

eBook Download: EPUB

2017
480 Seiten
Dundurn (Verlag)
978-1-4597-3937-6 (ISBN)

Infos

A guide to the best art in North American galleries, written and expertly curated by a pair of irreverent and knowledgeable guides to inform and entertain you — and save you from aching feet!

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Tour North America's greatest museums and galleries in the company of two incomparable guides. This lively companion highlights the essential paintings, by some of the world's greatest painters, from Giotto to Picasso, on display in North American museums and galleries.Julian Porter has had a life-long passion for art. He worked for seven years as a student tour guide in Europe and since has conducted countless gallery tours in Europe and North America. His co-author, Stephen Grant, brings a wealth of expertise in twentieth-century artists, and presents them within the framework of a North American-led, sustained burst of originality and shock.Presented with wit and irreverence, here is the best that North American galleries have to offer. Focused and curated to give you everything you need to enjoy the greatest works of art in the best company and save you the sore feet and superfluous information.

Autor

Julian Porter is a litigation lawyer whose other passion in life is art. He’s had a lot of fun looking at art and wants to share his enthusiasm with others. He has lectured in galleries from Madrid to St. Petersburg. He lives in Toronto. Stephen Grant is a Toronto lawyer and life-long art lover, especially of the twentieth-century modernists. He lives in Toronto.

Inhalt

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1: Boston, Massachusetts
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
Museum of Fine Arts

Chapter 2: Buffalo, New York
Albright Knox Museum

Chapter 3: Chicago, Illinois
Art Institute of Chicago
Museum of Contemporary Art

Chapter 4: Cleveland, Ohio
Cleveland Museum of Art

Chapter 5: Dallas, Texas
Dallas Museum of Art

Chapter 6: Detroit, Michigan
Detroit Institute of Arts

Chapter 7: Hartford, Connecticut
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art

Chapter 8: Los Angeles, California
J. Paul Getty Museum
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Museum of Contemporary Art

Chapter 9: New York City, New York
Frick Collection
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Museum of Modern Art
Neue Galerie New York
Parrish Art Museum, Long Island, New York
Whitney Museum of American Art

Chapter 10: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Barnes Foundation
Philadelphia Museum of Art

Chapter 11: San Francisco, California
de Young Fine Arts Museum
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Chapter 12: Washington, D.C.
National Gallery of Art
Phillips Collection


CANADA
Chapter 13: Kleinburg, Ontario
McMichael Canadian Art Collection

Chapter 14: Montreal, Quebec
Musée D’art Contemporain de Montréal

Chapter 15: Ottawa, Ontario
National Gallery of Canada

Chapter 16: Toronto, Ontario
Art Gallery of Ontario

Chapter 17: Vancouver, British Columbia
Vancouver Art Gallery

Epilogue
Notes
Index of Artists and Their Works
Index of Paintings by Title
Checklist of the 149 Paintings

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 30.9.2017
• Zusatzinfo: notes
• Verlagsort: Toronto
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Malerei / Plastik
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Malen / Zeichnen
• Themenwelt: Reisen ► Reiseführer
• ISBN-10: 1-4597-3937-X / 145973937X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4597-3937-6 / 9781459739376