Marla Prather

"Unrepentant Ego: The Self-Portraits of Lucas Samaras, which accompanies the Whitney Museum of American Art exhibition of the same title, follows the development of Samaras's self-portrait leitmotif, from the late 1950s to the present. With an extended chronology by Whitney curator Marla Prather that traces the influences and artistic trajectory of Samaras's life: an essay by Donald Kuspil that provides an in-depth analysis of Samaras's self-portraiture a full-color plate section; and an extensive bibliography and index, this volume is an essential guide to the life and work of an exceptionally challenging and complex artist."--BOOK JACKET

Alexander Calder was one of the twentieth century's most prolific artists. Focusing on 267 signature works of art - selected from an oeuvre comprising some 16,000 objectsthis catalogue accompanies the first major American retrospective of his work in twenty years. This book is the catalogue of a major centenary exhibition that opens at the National Gallery of Art on 29 March 1998 and travels to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

Examines the life and work of the twentieth-century artist Alexander Calder, famous for creating the moving sculptures known as mobiles.

The first full-scale explorations of Andy Warhol's tremendous reach across several generations of artist who in key ways respond to his groundbreaking work. Includes interviews and visual archive and illustrated chronology that chart the "Warhol effect" over the past 50 years.