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My Love Affair with Modern Art: Behind the Scenes with a Legendary Curator Online C5XyF [Read ebook] My Love Affair with Modern Art: Behind the Scenes with a Legendary Curator Online [C5XyF.ebook] My Love Affair with Modern Art: Behind the Scenes with a Legendary Curator Pdf Free Katharine Kuh audiobook | *ebooks | Download PDF | ePub | DOC Download Now Free Download Here Download eBook #663598 in Books 2012-07-01Original language:EnglishPDF # 1 9.00 x 6.00 x 6.00l, .90 #File Name: 1611455065314 pages | File size: 29.Mb Katharine Kuh : My Love Affair with Modern Art: Behind the Scenes with a Legendary Curator before purchasing it in order to gage whether or not it would be worth my time, and all praised My Love Affair with Modern Art: Behind the Scenes with a Legendary Curator: 13 of 13 people found the following review helpful. An Affair to RememberBy Christian SchlectThose interested in American art of the last century will find great pleasure in reading this book. Chicago and New York are the centers from which Katharine Kuh radiated. As a museum curator, art dealer, and published critic, she was personally close to many of the modern masters. In this book, she provides short but telling stories about their work and lives. I especially liked the chapters on Rothko, Tobey and Noguchi.Disparate side characters, such as Judge Learned Hand and LBJ, pop up and add further to the value of Ms. Kuh's memoir.Avis Berman has done a great service to all those interested in the history of twentieth century American art by completing the memoirs of Katharine Kuh. The author's reflections have been preserved in a form, while still true to the author, that is likely better than had the elderly Ms. Kuh herself remained alive to complete the job. Notes to the text and a more complete description of Katharine Kuh's personal background are some of the very much-appreciated work accomplished by Ms. Berman.0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. but I loved this bookBy texanI really do not care for Modern Art, but I loved this book. Learned more about Modern art history than I could have imagined, and enjoyed it!! Would recommend this book for anyone interested in art history, art museums, art dealers, art collectors, and American Art history. VERy good read.0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. My kind of book!By Sondra ZellI loved reading this book. I enjoy reading about the lives of artists. This book was particularly interesting because it was also the story of Katherine Kuh, an art dealer and curator, during her most productive years. Although I was familiar with the work of all of the artists she highlighted it was the personal relationships Kuh had with each of them which made the book come alive. It was also about my own time and in places familiar and dear to me. It very much made me feel as though I was walking the streets and seeing the sights she did. I was THERE. One of Americarsquo;s leading curators, “a woman of resilience and vision, a writer of clarity and ardorrdquo; (Chicago Tribune), takes you on a personal tour of the world of modern art. In the Depression-era climate of the 1930s, Katharine Kuh defied the odds and opened a gallery in Chicago, where she exhibited such relatively unknown artists as Fernand Leacute;ger, Paul Klee, Joan Miroacute;, Ansel Adams, Marc Chagall, and Alexander Calder. Her extraordinary story reveals how and why America became a major force in the world of contemporary art. From Publishers Weekly[Signature] ed by James LordThis love affair provides for those who care about art and artists a piercing, passionate glimpse of creative activity in America during the first half of the 20th century. Kuh (1904ndash;1994) saw everything, knew everybody, went everywhere and in the miraculous lucidity of her old, old age still had the wit and discernment to tell the story of her vision, knowledge and travels. It is, of course, a very personal tale. The raison d'ecirc;tre of memoirs is not merely to relate experience but also to reveal the personality of the author. Thus, Kuh discloses how and why art became, as it were, the very backbone of her physical and spiritual adventure. It required exceptional courage and intellectual discipline. The revelations are aided and abetted, so to speak, by Kuh's friend, admirer and accomplice, Avis Berman, who edited and completed the manuscript after the author's death, at 89, and who disclosed vital information that Kuh's reticence would have set aside, describing, for example, details of the love affairs which contributed essential elements to the passion of art.Passionate as it indeed is, this around-the-art-world voyage invited mainly the happy few as fellow passengers. And Kuh possessed the resilient temperament enabling her to sail audaciously along when the happy few were very few. Almost all of her professional and emotional life was spent in Chicago, the pivotal center of the aesthetic doldrums then prevailing in America's cultural badlands. New York was artistically far more exciting, but Katharine was determined to create excitement within spitting distance of the stockyards.She opened her own gallery there in 1935, the nadir of the Great Depression, when even in New York it was difficult to give away a drawing by, say, Bonnard. Nonetheless, the gallery prevailed, introducing unheard of and unwelcome artists to Chicago, where a handful of prescient adventurers were prepared to pay a pittance for pictures their neighbors considered evidence of madness. Kuh's courage was rewarded when she was appointed to the prestigious post of curator at the Art Institute of Chicago, a museum which her sharp eye enriched with fine examples of avant-garde modernism.The love affair with the art of her time came fully into its own after WWII, when the enamored connoisseur developed close friendships with the artists, collectors and curators whom she had intimate cause to admire. The larger part of her autobiography is an account of her devotion to these individuals, almost all of them celebrated today: Brancusi, Mies van der Rohe, V.W. van Gogh, Rothko, Clyfford Stimiddot;ll, Tobey, Berenson, Albers, Leacute;ger, Franz Kline et al. Her reminiscences vividly draw the reader into a deep sympathy for her love affair. Succinctly written, it is a fine memorial to a memorable journey.James Lord is the author of Picasso and Dora, Six Exceptional Women and, most recently, Mythic Giacometti, all published by Farrar, Straus Giroux. Copyright copy; Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.From Booklist*Starred * Visionary gallery owners and curators were essential to bringing radical works of modern art before a recalcitrant public. Born in St. Louis in 1904, and inspired by the innovative art historian Alfred Barr, Katharine Kuh valiantly opened a gallery in Chicago to show the likes of Klee and Kandinsky. Kuh went on to become the first curator of modern art at the Art Institute of Chicago and art critic for the Saturday . So full was her life, she didn't start writing her memoirs until she was 87 and then died before completing the project. Berman has done a superb job of tying up loose ends and in his moving introduction reveals Kuh's struggles with polio and the many dimensions of her impressive life. Kuh herself is scintillating, incisive, and elegantly offhanded as she relates eye-opening anecdotes about her seminal curatorial adventures. She focuses most on the artists she knew best, astutely assessing both temperaments and aesthetics as she portrays, with rare intimacy and insight, more than a dozen brilliant artists, including Duchamp, Rothko, and Hopper. Kuh's evocative, engaging, and unique reflections enrich the stirring story of modern art and introduce readers to a refined and unstinting arts advocate who significantly enriched American culture. Donna SeamanCopyright copy; American Library Association. All rights reservedAbout the AuthorKatharine Kuh founded her own Chicago gallery in 1935. Her sixteen years at the Art Institute of Chicago coincided with that institutionrsquo;s emergence as one of the worldrsquo;s greatest museums. She chronicled two decades of contemporary art as a critic at the Saturday . Kuh died in 1994.Avis Berman is an art historian, author, and Edward Hopper expert. She was a personal friend of Katharine Kuh and lives in New York City. 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