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Item Number: 132174
Title: ALFRED MAURER : At the Vanguard of Modernism
Author: Epstein, Stacey B
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9780300207804
Description: New Haven: Yale University Pres, for the Addison Gallery of American Art, 2015. 29cm., hardcover, 256pp., 176 color illus. Exhibition catalogue. Summary: American painter Alfred Maurer (1868–1932) worked within an international circle of avant-garde artists, and his friendships with key figures, including the collector Albert Barnes, positioned him at the nexus of new and changing ideas about art at the turn of the century. First recognized for his elegant fin-de-siècle figure paintings, Maurer brought his painterly skills to increasingly adventurous masterworks of modernism, championing fauvism and the French avant-garde in America, and, toward the end of his life, forecasting innovations in abstraction. In this important reevaluation of his work, Stacey Epstein shows that Maurer’s trajectory is not one of disjointed periods of distinct or contradictory styles, but rather a deliberately developed, unbroken progression of integrity and skill, with each phase further engaging color, composition, and design in new, innovative directions. This impressive volume, with over 200 color and black-and-white plates, illustrates Maurer’s invaluable contributions in shaping the development of modernism in America.
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