Get There First, Decide Promptly - The Richard Brown Baker Collection of Postwar Art

Informationen zum Autor Jennifer Farrell is a former assistant curator at the Yale University Art Gallery. Klappentext Richard Brown Baker (1912-2002) began collecting works by emerging artists in the 1940s, becoming one of the first collectors to embrace both Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art. He eventually amassed a collection of more than 1,600 works from the postwar period, including works by such groundbreaking American artists as Jean-Michel Basquiat, Chuck Close, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Morris, Jackson Pollock, Robert Rauschenberg, and James Rosenquist, as well as European and Asian artists such as Alberto Burri, Jean Dubuffet, Georges Mathieu, and Kurt Schwitters. >Distributed for the Yale University Art Gallery Zusammenfassung Richard Brown Baker (1912-2002) began collecting works by emerging artists in the 1940s! becoming one of the first collectors to actively embrace both Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art and eventually amassing more than 1!600 works from the postwar period. Highlighting 130 works! this title presents the complete history of Baker's collection.

Product details

• Authors: Jennifer Farrell, Farrell Jennifer
• Publisher: Yale University Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 03.02.2012
• EAN: 9780300153026
• ISBN: 978-0-300-15302-6
• No. of pages: 372
• Dimensions: 235 mm x 279 mm x 32 mm
• Series: Yale University Art Gallery Series (YUP)
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; New York, ART / History / General, ART / American / General, ART / Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions / General, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, History of Art, History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -, Exhibition catalogues & specific collections, Exhibition catalogues and specific collections, New York (state)