STUDY GUIDES

FOR UNIVERSITY STUDENTS & MUSEUM EDUCATORS

 


 

ARTISTS, PART 1: BROCHURES & BROADSIDES

 

EARLY MODERNISM IN EUROPE

 


 

Cover of FLG's 'Matisse Studies.'

 

DREAMING IN COLOR: THE ART OF MATISSE
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MATISSE & The Luminous

KUPKA & The Formless Radiance

MARC & The Natural

KANDINSKY & The Spiritual

KLEE & The Cosmic

PICASSO & The Shamanic

BRAQUE & The Absolute

 

LATER MODERNISM IN EUROPE


 

BRANCUSI & The Endless

ARP, TAEUBER, & The Eternal

MOORE, HEPWORTH, & The Open

DUCHAMP & The Alchemical

ERNST & The Shamanic

MIRO & The Infinite

MONDRIAN & The Balanced

TIME IS FLUID: A Conversation with Salvador Dali

 

EARLY MODERNISM IN THE UNITED STATES


 

STIEGLITZ & American Modernism

WEBER, HARTLEY, & Cosmic Cubism

DOVE, O’KEEFFE, & Spiritual Naturalism

CORNELL, SOMMER, & Surrealism

PELTON, SHORE, & Transcendentalism

GRAVES, TOBEY, & Orientalism

NOGUCHI & The Nothingness

POETIC MEMORIES: Reflections on the Art of Joseph Cornell

NOTHING IS INANIMATE: A Conversation with Georgia O’Keeffe

EAST-WEST SPIRIT: Conversations with Isamu Noguchi

EAST-WEST SPIRIT OF ROBERT CAPLES
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LATER MODERNISM IN THE UNITED STATES


 

THE ART OF FREDERICK SOMMER – Part One – Elective Affinities
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THE ART OF FREDERICK SOMMER – Part Two – Master of the Combinatory Arts
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POLLOCK, DE KOONING & The Nowhere

ROTHKO, NEWMAN, & The Numinous

THE SUBLIME IS NOW: Conversations with Barnett Newman

IS ALL LIFE SACRED? Conversations with Andy Warhol

“Arthur Monroe: A Universal Spirit” in
INSIDE OF NOW: PAINTINGS & DRAWINGS BY ARTHUR MONROE
Notre Dame de Namur University, 2006

“Shamamic Vibrations: Reflections on the Visual Art of Jerry Garcia” in
ART & SOUL: THE SPIRIT OF JERRY GARCIA, Palace Press, 2006

RADIANCE: Works of Women Artists: O’Keeffe, Pelton, & Martin

IN THE LIGHT OF FRIDA KAHLO: Her Influence on Popular Art

BURNING FLOWERS: Chicana Painters of the West

MAYA LIN: Architectonic Drawings

SUN MAD RAISINS & Ester Hernandez

REVOLUTIONARY POSTERS: Russia, China, Cuba, & American Civil Rights

 


 

ARTISTS, PART 2: MONOGRAPHS

 

 Cover image for 'Mallarmé & Modern Art.'

THE PHOTOGRAPHS OF DEGAS: A Study Guide

MALLARME & MODERN ART: A Study Guide

IMAGES OF THE ENDLESS: The Sculpture of Constantin Brancusi

DISTANCE TO A DREAM: The Photographs of Frederick Sommer

SWIRLING OUT OF THE VOID: The Prints of Jackson Pollock

 

THEMES, PART 1: BROCHURES and BROADSIDES

 


 

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AUTHENTICITY: How Can You Tell?

THE TRIBAL CULTURE OF OUR ANCESTORS
From the Stone Age to the Iron Age
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EARTH ART, Ancient to Modern

EARLY MODERN SCULPTURE

SURREALISM & PHILOSOPHY

BLACK BEAUTY:
How African-American Art entered the Mainstream
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THEMES, PART 2: MONOGRAPHS

 


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THE ANDROGYNE BOOK:
An Encyclopedia of the Male-Female Ideal

ART IN THE UNITED STATES: Colonial to Modern
[eBook]

ART+TECHNOLOGY: A Study Guide

BI-SINGULARITY:
Double Images of Nonduality in World Art

THE GODDESS IN WORLD MYTHOLOGY [eBook]

THE GOLDEN PROPORTION IN VISUAL ART:
A Study Guide

IMAGES OF THE INFINITE:
Spirituality in Modern Art

LIVING MYTHS: AN INTRODUCTION TO WORLD MYTHOLOGY [eBook]

RHYTHMS & REVERBERATIONS:
Multicultural Art in the United States
& its Development from the Tribal World

SACRED VISIONS:
A Survey of World Art & Spiritual Symbolism  (two volumes)

SOLIDITY & INFINITY: The Circle & Square in World Architecture
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THE SYMBOL OF MODERN MEDICINE:
A Pictorial History of the Caduceus

ZEN & MODERN ART:
Echoes of Buddhism in Paintings & Prints

THE ART MUSEUM REVOLUTION IN AMERICA:
Reflections of the Ongoing Social Revolution

 


 

BIBLIOGRAPHY  GUIDES

 

ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM
AFRICAN AMERICAN ART
ALCHEMY
ANDROGYNY
ARP
ART NOUVEAU
ARTISTS BOOKS
ASIAN AMERICAN ART

GIOVANNI BELLINI
SANDRO BOTTICELLI
DIRK BOUTS
BLAKE BOOKS
BUDDHIST ART

ROBERT COLE CAPLES
CELTIC ART
FREDERICK CHURCH
COATLICUE
JOSEPH CORNELL

DADA
DEGAS PHOTOGRAPHS
DIGITAL ART
MARCEL DUCHAMP
ALBRECHT DURER

EARTH ART
EGYPTIAN ART
ENLIGHTENMENT
ERNST BOOKS
EUROPEAN RENAISSANCE

ROBERT FLUDD

GAUGUIN’S PRINTS
GIORGIONE
GODDESSES
GOLDEN RATIO
HECTOR GUIMARD

HIGH & LOW ART
HISPANIC AMERICAN ART
HUDSON RIVER SCHOOL

ICONOGRAPHY

FRIDA KAHLO
WILLEM DE KOONING

NICHOLAS LANIER
SIDNEY LANIER
LIVRES D’ARTISTES

MANET PRINTS
MATISSE BOOKS
DUANE MICHALS
MINIMAL ART
MIRO PRINTS & BOOKS
MODERN PRINTS
MODERNISM
CLAUDE MONET
MU CH’I
MULTICULTURAL ART

NATIVE AMERICAN ART
NONDUALITY
NOTHINGNESS

GEORGIA O’KEEFFE
OLMEC ART

PAINTER-PHOTOGRAPHERS
PAINTER-POETS
PERENNIAL PHILOSOPHY
JACKSON POLLOCK
POP ART
POSTIMPRESSIONISM
POSTMODERNISM
PRE-COLUMBIAN ART

REDON PRINTS

SACRED ARCHITECTURE
SACRED ART
SACRED EROTIC ART
THE SACRED MARRIAGE
SACRED SYMBOLS
SCIENCE OF CONSCIOUSNESS
SHAMANIC ART
FREDERICK SOMMER
SPIRITUAL PHILOSOPHY IN MODERN ART
SURREALISM

TANTRIC ART
MASAMI TEROKA

JERRY UELSMANN
UNITED STATES ART

WORLD ART
WORLD MYTHOLOGY

LEONARDO DA VINCI

ZEN


TERMINOLOGY  GUIDES

 

MODERNISM: A Glossary

ESOTERIC TERMS IN EAST-WEST PHILOSOPHY: A Glossary