The Originality of the Avant-Garde and Other Modernist Myths

5 best books like The Originality of the Avant-Garde and Other Modernist Myths (Rosalind E. Krauss): Ways of Seeing, Utopia Parkway: The Life and Work of Joseph Cornell, Joseph Cornell: Master of Dreams, The Americans, Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography

Ways of Seeing

Author	John Berger
ISBN	0140135154

John Berger’s Classic Text on Art
John Berger's Ways of Seeing is one of the most stimulating and the most influential books on art in any language. First published in 1972, it was based on the BBC television series about which the (London) Sunday Times critic commented: "This is an eye-opener...

Utopia Parkway: The Life and Work of Joseph Cornell

Author	Deborah Solomon
ISBN	0878466843

No artist ever led a stranger life than Joseph Cornell, the self-taught American genius prized for his disquieting shadow boxes, who stands at the intersection of Surrealism, Abstract Expressionism and Pop art. Legends about Cornell abound--as the shy hermit, the devoted family caretaker, the...

Joseph Cornell: Master of Dreams

Author	Diane Waldman
ISBN	0810912279

"Out of the fantasies that enriched a private, often reclusive life, Joseph Cornell created a "poetic theater of memory." His box constructions and collages feature such characters as a Medici princess, birds, ballerinas, and movie stars. Using the seemingly commonplace materials that he collected...

The Americans

Author	Robert Frank
ISBN	3931141802

Armed with a camera and a fresh cache of film and bankrolled by a Guggenheim Foundation grant, Robert Frank crisscrossed the United States during 1955 and 1956. The photographs he brought back form a portrait of the country at the time and hint at its future. He saw the hope of the future in the faces of a...

Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography

Author	Roland Barthes
ISBN	0374521344

A graceful, contemplative volume, Camera Lucida was first published in 1979. Commenting on artists such as Avedon, Clifford, Mapplethorpe, and Nadar, Roland Barthes presents photography as being outside the codes of language or culture, acting on the body as much as on the mind, and rendering death...