Small-Great Objects

Anni and Josef Albers in the Americas

Jennifer Reynolds-Kaye (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

96 Seiten

2017
Yale University Press (Verlag)
978-0-300-22569-3 (ISBN)

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Small-Great Objects presents a remarkable look into the art-collecting practices of two of modern art’s most widely influential figures, Anni (1899–1994) and Josef (1888–1976) Albers. Their impressive collection of over 1,400 objects from Latin America, namely Mexico and Peru, represents a conscious endeavor that goes well beyond that of a casual hobby, displaying a deep appreciation for the art, textiles, and overall ingenuity of the ancient American world. This insightful book draws on primary-source materials such as the couple’s letters, personal papers, and archival photographs—many never before published—and demonstrates their conviction that these Prehispanic objects displayed a formal sophistication and bold abstraction that defy the prevalent conception of the works as “primitive.” Moreover, it shows how the Alberses spread their appreciation of the ancient world to others, through their teachings, their writings, and their own art practices.

Distributed for the Yale University Art Gallery

Exhibition Schedule:

Yale University Art Gallery
(02/03/17–06/18/17)

Jennifer Reynolds-Kaye is the Lewis B. and Dorothy Cullman–Joan Whitney Payson Senior Fellow at the Yale University Art Gallery. Michael D. Coe is the Charles J. MacCurdy Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at Yale University and Curator Emeritus at the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History.

Erscheinungsdatum	09.02.2017
Co-Autor	Michael D. Coe
Zusatzinfo	56 color + 18 b-w illus.
Sprache	englisch
Maße	229 x 279 mm
Gewicht	544 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-300-22569-5 / 0300225695
ISBN-13	978-0-300-22569-3 / 9780300225693
Zustand	Neuware