ARCHIPENKO:
SCULPTURE, DRAWINGS AND PRINTS, 1908-1963
Donald Karshan
Donald Karshan: ARCHIPENKO: SCULPTURE, DRAWINGS AND PRINTS, 1908-1963. Danville, KY and Bloomington, Indiana: Centre College in association with Indiana University Press, 1985. First edition. A near-fine hardcover book in a near-fine dustjacket: an exceptional copy. Interior unmarked and very clean. Out-of-print and very uncommon. 9 x 12 scarce hardcover book with 192 pages and 162 plates, 42 in color. Includes 54 sculptures in various media including painted plaster, terra cotta, carved stone, marble, bronze, silver gold, and chrome as well as 52 works on paper executed in pastel, colored pencil, crayon, collage, ink, drypoint, lithography, and silk screen. Aside from being an avid collector of Archipenkošs work, Mr. Karshan has written three other books on the artist.
From the publisher: "Alexander Archipenko was the first twentieth-century sculpture to recognize form as illusion and to realize in his art the esthetic value of the void. Archipenko's rich artistic achievement, as it evolved during his long and productive career in Paris, Nice, and Berlin from 1908 to 1923 and in the United States for the next four decades, is elegantly illustrated and fully documented in this superb volume. ... the majority of the sculptures represented are depicted in multiple views, providing a rare opportunity for readers to study these works 'in the round.'"
Contents
- Foreword by Richard L. Morrill
- The Archipenko Quest
- The Innovations: A Summary
- The Views and Documentation
- Paris-Nice-Paris 1908-1921
- Berlin 1921-1923
- New York-Woodstock 1923-1935
- Los Angeles 1935-1936
- New York-Woodstock-New York 1937-1964
- Biographical Chronology
- Exhibitions
- Selective Bibliography
- Index of Works
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