Nicholas Fox Weber, Author Yale University Press $40 (416p) ISBN 978-0-300-06448-3
A look at five wealthy and influential young art patrons who helped introduce avant-garde painting, sculpture and dance to America. (Jan.)
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Nicholas Fox Weber, Author Alfred A. Knopf $30 (398p) ISBN 978-0-394-57854-5
In an arresting, gossipy, lavishly illustrated group portrait of visionaries who changed the cultural landscape of America, Weber depicts re-creates in previous review the interwoven activities of five arts patrons blessed with connections, money...
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Nicholas Fox Weber, Author Alfred A. Knopf $40 (656p) ISBN 978-0-679-40737-9
A highly regarded art historian (Patron Saints), Weber ingeniously structures his biography of 91-year-old Balthazar Klossowska, or Balthus, by draping his voluminous investigations over facts that emerged during his visit with the famously...
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Nicholas Fox Weber, Author, Josef Albers, Author ABRAMS $75 (304p) ISBN 978-0-8109-1876-4
For most museum-goers, the name of Josef Albers (1888-1976) is synonymous with his famous Homage to the Square series, or perhaps his Bauhaus armchairs. This catalogue of a revelatory retrospective at New York's Guggenheim Museum gives us an artist...
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Nicholas Fox Weber, Author . Knopf $35 (420p) ISBN 978-0-307-26347-6
Curator and writer Weber (Balthus
) tells the fascinating story of an art-obsessed family—especially Sterling and Stephen Clark, whose affinity with artists, says Weber, went beyond the usual collector's. The family fortune was founded by...
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Nicholas Fox Weber, Author Hudson Hills Press $50 (118p) ISBN 978-0-933920-98-9
After two haphazard decades as an abstract expressionist, Brandt, a friend of Franz Kline and Willem de Kooning, veered off to forge his own representational style rooted in the imagery of his idols Matisse and Cezanne. Whether he's doing languid...
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Nicholas Fox Weber, Author Hudson Hills Press $35 (104p) ISBN 978-0-933920-34-7
Bell's paintings of interlocking human forms evoke a world of psychological dissonances and seething undercurrents of energies repressed or let loose. Applying Juan Gris's ""architecture of planes'' to the here and now, Bell draws an analytical map...
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Nicholas Fox Weber. Knopf, $40 (656p) ISBN 978-0-307-96159-4
Art historian Weber (Anni & Josef Albers) presents a scrupulously detailed biography of pioneering Dutch abstract painter Piet Mondrian (1872–1944). Raised by austere, religious parents, Mondrian developed an interest in art thanks to an uncle who...
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