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For years it seemed that the American abstractionist Arthur Dove was nearly forgotten. Thisbook, compiled to accompany the first major exhibition of his work since the early 1970s, is a worthytribute to his legacy. Dove's small, vibrant, enigmatic abstractions, like those of his good friend Georgia O'Keeffe, were tied to hisobservations of the world around him. There were always a few of his works on view at the Washington,D.C., Phillips Collection, which sponsored the exhibition in conjunction with the Addison Gallery ofAmerican Art. However, Dove's work rarely turned up in print--except for the witty yet uncharacteristiccollage The Critic--a monocle on roller skates. This collection, long overdue, is chock-a-block withcolor plates of paintings, collages, drawings, family photographs, and other biographical material, allwoven together by the exhibition's curators in three graceful essays.Book Description
Winner, NEMA Publications Competition sponsored by the New England Museum Association. in collaboration with William C. Agee and Elizabeth Hutton Turner


The American artist Arthur Dove (1880-1946), purportedly the first artist to have produced an abstract painting, has always occupied a central place in writings on early American modernism. This book accompanies the first major exhibition on Dove since 1974. The exhibition, organized by the Addison Gallery of American Art and the Phillips Collection, covers the period from 1908, the year after Dove took up painting, through 1946, the year of his death. It is comprised of approximately eighty paintings, collages, pastels, and charcoal drawings.

Along with Georgia O'Keeffe and John Marin, Dove was touted for more than three decades by photographer and dealer Alfred Stieglitz as an American original, one whose work was prescient in its opposition to the materialism of a newly industrialized America. Essays by Balken, Agee, and Turner discuss Dove's interactions with Stieglitz and others in his circle, including O'Keeffe, Marin, Marsden Hartley, and Paul Strand, and re-examine Dove in the context of early twentieth-century intellectual and cultural history. The book contains color plates of all the works in the exhibition; the essays are profusely illustrated with black-and-white images not included in the exhibition. Apart from an out-of-print catalogue raisonné, this book is the largest and most comprehensive publication to date on Dove's work.

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Customer Reviews (2)

Excellent history and reproductions
If you like Dove's work, and want color copies of as many of his paintings as possible, this is the book to get. It's worth every penny of the $50!

My favorite artist
This book is excellent.I bought it at the exhibit of the same name, that was put together by the Phillips Collection.It was a great show and this is the only way to see it now.Dove was the first abstract painter, at the same time as Kandinsky but having never seen Kandinsky's work until several years later. ... Read more

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The first book to focus exclusively on the luminous watercolors and pastels of Arthur Dove (1880-1946), this volume explores the contributions of these mediums to the development of Dove's distinctive images of the American landscape. Dove's landmark pastel series of 1911-12, "The Ten Commandments," represents American modernism's first breakthrough into abstraction. His subsequent pastels of the 1910s and 1920s provided him with the stylistic innovations he later adapted in his oil paintings. Watercolor became the primary medium of Dove's summer months in the early 1930s and remained so throughout his career. Bringing together watercolors and pastels from collections across the country, this book will be of deep interest to both scholars and admirers of twentieth-century American art. ... Read more

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Faux marbalized brown wraps oblong softcover. Additional essay by Anne Cohen DePietro. Color illustrations with appendix illustrating pages w/Dove's notes from some of his own books 88 pages ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from New Criterion, published by Foundation for Cultural Review on March 1, 1998. The length of the article is 1780 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the supplier: An exhibit featuring the works of Arthur Dove is described. His use of oils, watercolors and collage is examined, along with color, subject and composition. A critique of some of the works is included, focusing on both their innovative and cliched aspects. Dove's contributions to modernism are also presented.

Citation Details
Title: Levelheaded mysticism: Arthur Dove at the Whitney.(Arthur Dove, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York)
Author: Mario Naves
Publication: New Criterion (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 1, 1998
Publisher: Foundation for Cultural Review
Volume: 16Issue: 7Page: 50(1)

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