Kirk Varnedoe, Author ABRAMS $39.95 (319p) ISBN 978-0-8109-3106-0
Taking on critics of all stripes, Varnedoe argues that modern art was not deterministically shaped by the grinding-wheel of social forces, new technologies or foreign influences. The flatness of Degas's pictorial space, he contends, owes less to...
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Kirk Varnedoe, Author Yale University Press $60 (0p) ISBN 978-0-300-04146-0
Art lovers tend to associate turn-of-the-century Scandinavian painting with Edvard Munch's black-shrouded angels of death, yet this revelatory survey shows that Nordic art is far more varied and emotionally rich than one might suppose. Through ""crea
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Kirk Varnedoe, Author Yale University Press $55 (220p) ISBN 978-0-300-03722-7
Caillebotte's wealth and youthfulness (he was 14 years younger than Degas) set him apart from the other French impressionists. A patron and publicist of the impressionist movement as well as a painter himself, he has been sorely neglected until...
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Kirk Varnedoe, Author Museum of Modern Art $55 (175p) ISBN 978-0-8109-6129-6
American painter Cy Twombly, who has lived in Rome since 1957, embraces abstraction, figuration, writing and calligraphy in a seductive art of great expressive power and depth. In his canvases, turfs, swirls, twig bundles, ideograms and ornamental...
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Kirk Varnedoe, Author, Adam Gopnik, With ABRAMS $60 (0p) ISBN 978-0-8109-6002-2
Narrower in scope than its title suggests, this sprawling, visually riveting catalogue of a traveling exhibition traces the ``dialogue'' between ``high'' art (Picasso, Miro, Seurat, etc.) and the streetwise or commercial ``low'' media of graffiti,...
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