Lipchitz, Jacques 1891-1973

My life in sculpture by Jacques Lipchitz ( Book )
9 editions published in 1972 in English and held by 914 libraries worldwide

Jacques Lipchitz: sketches in bronze by Jacques Lipchitz ( Book )
10 editions published in 1969 in English and held by 750 libraries worldwide

Jacques Lipchitz by Jacques Lipchitz ( Book )
29 editions published between 1927 and 1996 in 6 languages and held by 743 libraries worldwide
Jacques Lipchitz was one of the giants of twentieth-century sculpture. He drew his themes from the mythologies of many lands, from the Bible, and from personal experiences which his fertile imagination transformed into metaphors for universal human experiences. Love, pathos, violence, death, and above all, struggle, are the subjects of Lipchit'z work from the thirties onward, reflecting his eloquent response to the great events of the time: the scourge of Nazism, the holocaust of World War II, the birth of Israel. Arriving in Paris from his native Lithuania in 1909, Lipchitz at the age of eighteen found himself in the midst of what Gertrude Stein called "the heroic age of Cubism." Within a few years he became not only an accomplished sculptor, but the first artist to succeed in translating Cubist principles into three-dimensional form. Lipchitz's innovative Cubist sculptures of 1913-15 alone entitle him to a lasting place in modern art. Yet, with indefatigable energy and invention, he went on to forge a continually evolving and intensely personal style. From the 1920s on, his oeuvre manifests a dual nature, improvisational on the one hand, and heroic on the other. Like many European artists and intellectuals, Lipchitz took refuge in the United States during World War II. The freedom and energy of the New World had a liberating effect on this veteran of the Parisian avant-garde, and it was in America, during the postwar decades, that his mature style reached its final definition. The author, Dr A M Hammacher, is former director of the Kroller-Muller Museum in the Netherlands. He re-creates the intellectual milieu which the young Lipchitz found in Paris and examines in detail the sculptor's encounters with Cubists, Futurists, Surrealists, Dadaists, the Russian avant-garde, and the circle of experimental poets whose influence on Lipchitz has hitherto been unappreciated. With discerning scholarship, he reveals Lipchitz not only as a prime exponent of modernism but as an artist whose baroque sensibilities link him with the older traditions of Western European art. His close personal friendship with the artist has enabled him to write with deep understanding of the creative procedures of this master of modern sculpture. A biographical outline, a list of major exhibitions, and a bibliography complement the text. The broad selection of illustrations includes not only all of Lipchitz's major sculptures, but also a group of representative drawings and paintings, documentary photographs, and a number of Cubist sculptures by other artists.

Jacques Lipchitz : the first cubist sculptor by Cathy Pütz ( Book )
5 editions published in 2002 in English and held by 665 libraries worldwide

Amedeo Modigliani by Amedeo Modigliani ( Book )
15 editions published between 1952 and 1970 in English and Italian and held by 524 libraries worldwide

The sculpture of Jacques Lipchitz : a catalogue raisonné by Alan G Wilkinson ( Book )
5 editions published in 2000 in English and held by 433 libraries worldwide

Lipchitz by Jacques Lipchitz ( Book )
16 editions published between 1954 and 1959 in 3 languages and held by 360 libraries worldwide

Amedeo Modigliani (1884-1920) by Amedeo Modigliani ( Book )
9 editions published between 1953 and 1966 in 4 languages and held by 298 libraries worldwide

Lipchitz and the avant-garde : from Paris to New York by Jacques Lipchitz ( Book )
6 editions published in 2001 in English and held by 214 libraries worldwide

Jacques Lipchitz, a life in sculpture by Alan G Wilkinson ( Book )
5 editions published in 1989 in English and held by 213 libraries worldwide