My Love Affair with Modern Art: Behind the Scenes with a Legendary Curator

297 Pages·2012·5.22 MB·English

by  Katharine Kuh

my love
affair
with
modern art
Also by Katharine Kuh Art Has Many Faces: The Nature of Art Presented
Visually Léger The Artist’s Voice: Talks with Seventeen Modern Artists Break-
Up: The Core of Modern Art The Open Eye: In Pursuit of Art Also by Avis
Berman Rebels on Eighth Street: Juliana Force and the Whitney Museum of
American Art James McNeill Whistler
Edward Hopper’s New York
my love
affair
with
modern art
BEHIND THE SCENES WITH
A LEGENDARY CURATOR
KATHARINE KUH
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For all who knew Katharine and in memory of my father
Contents
Preface
Introduction: Sorting Out and Summing Up
1 Searching and Seeing
2 Mies van der Rohe in Chicago
3 The Two Vincent van Goghs
4 Fernand Léger: Pioneering the Present
5 Stuart Davis and the Jazz Connection
6 Constantin Brancusi: Elision and Re-vision
7 Three Encounters with Bernard Berenson
8 Mark Rothko: A Portrait in Dark and Light
9 Alfred Jensen: Competing with the Sun
10 Clyfford Still: Art’s Angry Man
11 Isamu Noguchi: In Search of Home
12 Mark Tobey in Basel
13 A Day with Franz Kline
14 Jacques Lipchitz at the White House
15 Hans Hofmann in Provincetown
16 Josef Albers: The Color of Discipline
17 Edward Hopper: Foils for the Light
Notes
Photograph and Illustration Credits
Acknowledgments
Publication History
Index