A Fine Regard : Essays in Honor of Kirk Varnedoe (Hardcover)

Contents: Preface: Kirk Varnedoe as teacher, MariA≪t Westermann; Introduction, Patricia G. Berman and Gertje R. Utley; Kirk Varndoe and the 19th century, Robert Rosenblum; A man of words in a house of pictures, Robert Storr; 2 pavilions, a palace, and a painter's prerogative: post-commune narrative in Vollon's A Corner of the Louvre, Carol Forman Tabler; Carving the 'ultra-sauvage': exoticism in Gauguin's sculpture, Elizabeth C. Childs; The dawning of Northern Light: an exhibition and its influence, Michelle Facos; Dionysus with tan lines: Edvard Munch's discursive skin, Patricia G. Berman; Die Aœbermarionette: Egon Schiele's private codes, Gertje R. Utley; Youthful ambition: Picasso's Barcelona portraits of 1900, Anna Swinbourne; Picasso raisonne, Jeffrey Weiss; Running with the ball: Robert Delaunay, Pierre de Coubertin and rugby football in France, Robert S. Lubar; Paul Strand's not-so-revolutionary photographs of 1916, Bonnie Yochelson; Brancusi in camouflage, Roxana Marcoci; Alberto Giacometti's moving and mute objects, Anne Umland; Harry Callahan, modernist photography, and postwar suburban domesticity, John Pultz; Combining photography: Robert Rauschenberg and the aesthetic of memory, Chad Alan Weinard; Robert Rauschenberg's Ace of 1962: an interpretation, Roni Feinstein; Tony Smith's Earthworks, Joan Pachner; Ellsworth Kelly and the large wall, Alison de Lima Greene; It's the system: some thoughts on the development of an intercontinental art world, 1950s-1960s, Lynn Zelevansky; Romance with liquids: allegorical abstraction, Pepe Karmel; Bibliography of Kirk Varnedoe's publications and exhibitions, Beth Merfish; Index.