Please order this book directly from the Phillips Collection website. The Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C., was the first museum of modern art in the United States and today stands as a legacy to its founder and creator, Duncan Phillips. Art Beyond Isms was published to accompany a major travelling exhibition and features just over 60 of the most important European works from the Collection. Phillips collected primarily work by French and American artists, and the collection's holdings include work by leading impressionist, post-impressionist, abstract and abstract expressionist artists, as well as works by earlier artists. The focus of the book is mainly 19th and 20th century French paintings - including Renoir's The Luncheon of the Boating Party - as well as five important paintings by Cezanne and Monet. Among the non-French artists, van Gogh, Picasso, Kokoscha, Klee and Modigliani are represented. Important proto-modern works by such artists as Constable, El Greco and Goya are also included. Works are presented either individually, or in groups accompanied by succinct narrative entries giving key art historical and biographical information.
Johanna Halford-MacLeod Introduction by Eliza Rathbone, Chief Curator, The Phillips Collection