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Books for Adults

Surveys

Arnason, H. H. History of Modern Art: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, Photography. 3rd ed. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1986.

Canaday, John. Mainstreams of Modern Art. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1981.

Fineberg, Jonathan David. Art since 1940: Strategies of Being. New York: Prentice Hall and Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1999.

Haskell, Barbara. The American Century: Art and Culture, 1900-1950. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art in association with W. W. Norton, 1999.

Hughes, Robert. The Shock of the New: Art and the Century of Change. Rev. ed. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1991.

Hunter, Sam, Daniel Wheeler, and John M. Jacobus. Modern Art: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture. 3rd ed. New York: Prentice Hall, 2000.

Wheeler, Daniel. Art since Mid-Century: 1945 to the Present. New York: Vendome Press, 1991.

Movements

Anfam, David. Abstract Expressionism. New York: Thames and Hudson, 1990.

Bradley, Fiona. Surrealism. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997.

Cooper, Philip. Cubism. London: Phaidon Press Limited, 1995.

Haskell, Barbara. Blam! The Explosion of Pop, Minimalism, and Performance, 1958-1964. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art and W. W. Norton & Co., 1984.

Lucie-Smith, Edward. Latin American Art of the 20th Century. New York: Thames and Hudson, 1993.

Selz, Peter. German Expressionist Painting. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1983.

Artists

Corn, Wanda M. Grant Wood: The Regionalist Vision. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1983.

Penrose, Roland. Picasso. London: Phaidon Press Limited, 1991.

Katharina Fritsch. San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Basel: Museum für Gegenwartskunst, 1996.

Levin, Gail. Edward Hopper: An Intimate Biography. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995.

Messinger, Lisa Minz. Georgia O’Keeffe. New York: Thames and Hudson; New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1998.

Naifeh, Stephen, and Gregory White. Jackson Pollock: An American Saga. New York: C. N. Potter, 1989.

Ratcliff, Carter. Andy Warhol. New York: Abbeville Press, 1983.

Books for Children

Bohm-Duchen, Monica, and Janet Cook. Understanding Modern Art. London: Usborne Publishing Ltd., 1991.

Wolfe, Tom. The Painted Word. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1975.

Rodari, Florian. A Weekend with Picasso. New York: Rizzoli, 1991.

Walker, Lou Ann. Roy Lichtenstein: The Artist at Work. New York: Lodestar Books, 1994.

Venezia, Mike. Edward Hopper. Chicago: Children’s Press, 1990.

––. Picasso. Chicago: Children’s Press, 1988.

Winter, Jeanette. My Name is Georgia. San Diego: Silver Whistle, Harcourt Brace & Company, 1998.

––. Diego. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1991. (Spanish and English)

Yenawine, Philip. How to Look at Modern Art. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1991.

Andy Warhol. Produced and directed by Kim Evans for RM Arts. 79 min. London Weekend Television, 1987.

Georgia O’Keeffe. Produced and directed by Perry Miller Adato for WNET/Thirteen. 60 min. Educational Broadcasting Corporation, 1977.

Matisse in Nice. Produced by the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. 28 min. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1986.

Picasso: The Man and His Work, Part I, 1881-1937. Produced and directed by Edward Quinn. 45 min. V.I.E.W., Inc., New York, 1986.

Art Safari Online
http://artsafari.moma.org/
An online tour of four objects in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Young users submit answers to art questions saved in a searchable database. Users can also make their own art with an interactive design program.

National Gallery of Art–Education
http://www.nga.gov/education/teachres.htm
Online resources for teachers and the general public on the work of Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, and Jackson Pollock, with interpretive texts and classroom activities.

NGA Kids — Wassily Kandinsky
http://www.nga.gov/kids/kids.htm
An interactive site for children that includes a series of looking questions related to Kandisky’s Improvisation 31 (Sea Battle), in the collection of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C.

Online Picasso Project
http://www.tamu.edu/mocl/picasso/
Detailed chronology of the life and career of the artist with numerous reproductions of his art.

Picasso–The Early Years, 1892-1906
http://www.boston.com/mfa/picasso/
Online exhibition of works from Picasso’s early career organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, in 1997.

Jackson Pollock
http://www.moma.org/exhibitions/pollock/website100/index.html
Narrated and illustrated site featuring the 1998 exhibition organized by the Museum of Modern Art, New York, with audio clips of the artist discussing his painting process.

Orozco at Dartmouth
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~library/Orozco/
A site devoted to José Clemente Orozco’s 1932 frescoes in the library at Dartmouth College. The murals interpret the history of American civilization, from the Aztecs to the arrival of Spanish colonists.

An Edward Hopper Scrapbook
http://nmaa-ryder.si.edu/collections/exhibits/hopper/
An illustrated look at the life and art of Edward Hopper, with works from the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American Art.

Video Data Bank: Bruce Nauman
http://www.vdb.org/vdb/staticpages/nauma.html
A brief biography of the artist with descriptions and video excerpts showing examples of his performance art.

Katharina Fritsch: Rat-King, 1993
http://www.diacenter.org/exhibs/fritsch/fritsch.html
Site on the 1993 Dia Center for the Arts installation that brought the artist recognition in America, with an essay, illustrations, and a brief biography.