Modigliani: Beyond the Myth
by Modigliani, Amedeo; Klein, Mason (Edited by), with Berger, Maurice, et al. (Essays by)
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New York and New Haven, CT: Jewish Museum; Yale University Press, 2004. xiii, 241 pages, illustrations (some colour); 32 cm. Catalogue of an exhibition at the Jewish Museum, New York, May 21 to September 19, 2004; the Art Gallery of Ontario, October 23, 2004 to January 23, 2005; and the Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., February 19 to May 29, 2005. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light shelfwear. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates. "Amedeo Modigliani (1884-1920) is one of the best known - and most misunderstood - artists of the twentieth century. His incisive portraits, erotically charged nudes, elegant drawings of caryatids, and primitivistic sculpture have been admired for decades. Modigliani's work, however, has typically been examined in the limited context of his so-called bohemian, anti-intellectual lifestyle. This book revises this approach toward Modigliani's art, presenting a revisionist examination of the unique historical, social, religious, and cultural significance of his oeuvre. Modigliani: Beyond the Myth looks at the artist and his art from a variety of important perspectives: his proud heritage as a Sephardic Jew, whose spirituality embraced non-Western, classical, and Christian iconography while retaining its own ethnic identity; his critical engagement and melding of tribal and ethnographic art with Judaism in his portraiture; the representation of the female nude in his works from a feminist cultural perspective; the remarkable reception of his work in Italy after his death, and the failure of traditional art history to account for or analyze these important aspects of his life and work." - Publisher.. Paperback. Very Good. Folio.
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- Title
- Modigliani: Beyond the Myth
- Author
- Modigliani, Amedeo; Klein, Mason (Edited by), with Berger, Maurice, et al. (Essays by)
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0300105738
- ISBN 13
- 9780300105735
- Publisher
- Jewish Museum; Yale University Press
- Place of Publication
- New York and New Haven, CT
- Date Published
- 2004
- Size
- Folio
- Bookseller catalogs
- European / Italian; European / 8. Modern, 1900-1945; Genre & Subject / Figure & Nudes;
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