Alex Potts Books
Flesh and the ideal
By Alex Potts
Winckelmann was not just an historian of considerable stature. He was also a very powerful writer who offered an unusually eloquent account of the aesthetic and imaginative charge of the Greek idea...
Read MoreThe Sculptural Imagination: Figurative, Modernist, Minimalist
By Alex Potts
"The book begins in the late eighteenth century, when a systematic formal distinction began to be made between painting and sculpture. Following changing attitudes toward sculpture through the nine...
Read MoreDubuffet drawings 1935 1962
Jean Dubuffet (1901-1985) achieved international recognition in the late 1940s for his paintings inspired by children's drawings, the art of psychiatric patients, and graffiti. Drawing played a maj...
Read MoreBauhaus 1919 1933 Workshops for Modernity
By Alex Potts, Peter Nisbet, Charles Haxthausen, Leah Dickerman, Michael Jennings, T Ai Smith, Ellen Lupton, Barry Bergdoll, Hal Foster, Frederic Schwarz, Juliet Kinchin, Brigid Doherty, Monty Paret, Detlef Mertins, Andreas Huyssen, Marco De Michelis, Benjamin Buchloh, Christine Mehring
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