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...
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The 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...
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Dubuffet 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...
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Bauhaus 1919-1933: Workshops For Modernity
By Juliet Kinchin, Detlef Mertins, Andreas Huyssen, Leah Dickerman, Peter Nisbet, Hal Foster, Ellen Lupton, T'Ai Smith, Alex Potts, Frederic Schwarz, Brigid Doherty, Benjamin Buchloh, Barry Bergdoll, Monty Paret, Marco De Michelis, Charles Haxthausen, Christine Mehring, Michael Jennings
The Bauhaus, The School Of Art And Design Founded In Germany In 1919 And Shut Down By The Nazis In 1933, Brought Together Artists, Architects And Designers - Among Them Anni And Josef Albers, Herbe...
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Allan Kaprow--Art As Life
By Eva Meyer-Hermann, Glenn Phillips, Paul Schimmel, Alex Potts, Annette Leddy, Stephanie Rosenthal
A self-described "un-artist," Allan Kaprow championed an artistic practice that moved art out of the museum and into the everyday. His works insistently blurred the boundaries between art and life,...
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