I took five books out of the downtown library, all picture books really. Leon Golub : echoes of the real by Jon Bird, The German expressionists; a generation in revolt by Bernard Samuel Myers, Tàpies : January 27-April 23, 1995 by Carmen Giménez, David Hockney : portraits by David Hockney and Matisse: radical invention, 1913-1917 by Stephanie D’Alessandro.
I spent so much time with the German Expressionist book that I had to renew the lot twice. I finally decided to look for a used copy of “A Generation in Revolt” and found one through Amazon. That gave me some time to spend with other books but it makes clear where my heart lies at the moment. I am deep into the German Expressionists.
The library copy, a first edition from 1957 printed in Cologne, was missing a few plates (the color reproductions that are glued on the page) and I can’t wait to see what the Emil Nolde one looks like. As luck would have it davoser-tagebuch posted this beautiful Kirchner painting (above) to my tumblr site this morning.
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