BOOK HUGGERS APRIL 2013 SELECTION:

ARTS YEARBOOK 1
The TURN of the CENTURY, Jonathan Marshall, Publisher/1957 First Edition



Excerpt from the Introduction:

"There has been a tendency in the publicity by which modern art has recently been promoted to the general public to diminish its variety, its contradictions, the sheer historical richness of its development and growth, into a summary and easily assimilable image. But we diminish its full importance to ourselves when we try to abstract it from its complexly human contingencies.
In turning to the art of "The Turn of the Century" the contributors to this first ARTS YEARBOOK have tried to focus on some of these contingencies.

The first essay "Modern Art at the Turn of the Century" by Hilton Kramer deals, inevitably, with the major figures of Parisian art in this period, Van Gogh, Seurat, Cezanne, Matisee, Picasso, Braque and others and, eschewing the legends which have acummulated around them, tries instead to evaluate their achievements in terms of the avant-garde values by which they themselves lived.
In the second essay "The World of the Eight" by Leslie Katz, the American scene is considered through the eyes of the group of artists who have passed into history as "The Eight".
In two essays: "New Perspectives on the Old Masters" by Alfred Werner and in "From Pre-Raphaelitism to Bloomsbury" by Vernon Young, the radical transformations in our judgements of the old masters are brought into focus and the moving, if somewhat comic, struggle of art in England in this period is elucidated against the colorful background of literary polemic and massive bad taste.
The last essay of this First Edition: "The Discovery of Primitive Art" by Douglas F. Fraser gives the full background of the so-called discovery of primitive art in copious detail." The Editors
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  • Museum of Modern Art Exhibition: "Primitivism in 20th Century Art

    This 1957 First Issue of ARTS YEARBOOK also includes:

    The TURN of the CENTURY

    1890-1913

    A Calendar of Events

    with summaries for each year. Here is the list: (summaries are not shown in this REVIEW/2013 Special ECOARTPEDIA 2012-2013 Edition)

    1890 -- AURIER'S ARTICLE ON VAN GOGH

    1891 -- THE SEURAT EXHIBITION

    1892 -- THE SYMBOLIST FLORESCENCE

    1893 -- THE CAILLEBOTTE LEGACY

    1894 -- THE YELLOW BOOK

    1895 -- GAUGUIN'S RETURN TO TAHITI

    1896 -- BONNARD'S FIRST ONE-MAN SHOW

    1897 -- THE BENIN EXPEDITION

    1898 -- THE DREYFUS CASE

    1899 -- THE NABIS' TRIBUTE TO REDON

    1900 -- L'EXPOSITION UNIVERSELLE

    1901 -- THE DEATH OF LAUTREC

    1902 -- MONET'S WATER-LILY SERIES

    1903 -- RENOIR'S RETIREMENT TO CAGNES

    "CAMERA WORK."

    1904 -- CEZANNE'S TRIUMPH

    1905 -- THE FAUVE OUTBURST

    "291"

    1906 -- MODIGLIANI'S ARRIVAL IN PARIS

    1907 -- THE BIRTH OF CUBISM

    1908 -- THE ROUSSEAU BANQUET

    "THE EIGHT" AND THE INDEPENDENTS

    1909 -- THE FUTURIST MANIFESTO

    FIRST ONE-MAN SHOWS FOR MAURER, MARIN AND HARTLEY

    THE NEWARK MUSEUM

    1910 -- MONDRIAN'S ARRIVAL IN PARIS

    THE FIRST POST-IMPRESSIONIST EXHIBITION IN LONDON

    1911 -- ORPHISM, SYNCROMISM, VORTICISM

    1912 -- "THE BLUE RIDER"

    1913 -- SUPREMATISM

  • THE 1913 ARMORY SHOW

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