This highly illustrated book is both a survey of the major European and American works in the Phillips Collection and a guide to the museum's holdings and significance. A study of the history of taste in 20th century America, it documents the evolution of modernism as well as the pivotal role played by Duncan Phillips as a critic and collector.
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This highly illustrated book is both a survey of the major European and American works in the Phillips Collection and a guide to the museum's holdings and significance. A study of the history of taste in 20th century America, it documents the evolution of modernism as well as the pivotal role played by Duncan Phillips as a critic and collector.
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VG. edgewear to bottom of cloth covers. dustjacket has foxing to interior; tear to fore-edge. Sea green cloth, blue & color illus. dust jacket. 820 pp. Hundreds of color and bw plates; weighs 9 lbs. and will require extra postage. "A study of the history of taste in twentieth-century America, it documents the evolution of modernism as well as the pivotal role played by Duncan Phillips (1886-1966) as a critic and collector." (dj) With 11 essays on a variety of collection-related topics. Featured artists include Marin, Lipton, De Kooning, Vaughan, Nash, Bernstein, O'Keeffe, Dove, Dougherty, Klee, Rothko, Bonnard, Lawson, Davies, Mondrian, Braque and many, many more. Contents as follows: Art and intimacy / Robert Hughes--The evolution of a critic: changing views in the writings of Duncan Phillips / David W. Scott--A collection in the making / George Heard Hamilton--Sources of modernism / David Rosand--France in the late nineteenth century / Charles Stuckey--The American vision: The American tradition and American impressionism / Elizabeth Tebow; Duncan Phillips and the American popular tradition / Jane Kallir--Modernism in France: Bonnard, Matisse, and the School of Paris / Elizabeth Hutton Turner; Braque, Picasso, and other Cubists / Kenneth E. Silver--The Dreier gift and other European modernists / Erika D. Passantino--The spirit of revolt and the beginning of American modernism / David W. Scott--Duncan Phillips and American modernism: the continuing legacy of the Experiment Station / William C. Agee--The American scene: realism and social concern / Richard L. Rubenfeld--Painting in Europe after the Second World War / Sarah Wilson--American art after the Second World War / Eliza E. Rathbone--The Phillips Collection and art in Washington: Washington and Baltimore artists from the 1930s through the 1950s / Ben L. Summerford; Washington art in the 1960s and beyond / Willem De Looper with Jeffrey Harrison.