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Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Description
xxiii, 455 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Donna Seaman brings to life seven forgotten woman artists: Louise Nevelson, Gertrude Abercrombie, Lois Mailou Jones, Ree Morton, Joan Brown, Christina Ramberg, and Lenore Tawney. These women fought to be treated the same as males artists, to be judged by their work, not their gender or appearance. Seaman reveals what drove them, how they worked, and how they were perceived by others in a world where women were subjects -- not makers -- of art--
2) Andy Warhol
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Description
xix, 162 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Description
254 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
For fifty years following World War II, New York was the capital of art, influencing artists well beyond the USA. As Katy Siegel argues, since America lacked the European traditions underlying art, American art instead responded to extreme social conditions native to the country. Artists' preoccupations ranged across a broad spectrum that encompassed issues of race, mass culture, the individual, suburbia, apocalypse, and nuclear destruction, and Since...
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Description
201 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 32 cm
Language
English
Description
"Through 50 masterpieces of American painting, this catalogue chronicles the turbulent economic, political, and aesthetic climate of the 1930s. This decade was a supremely creative period in the United States, as the nation's artists, novelists, and critics struggled through the Great Depression in search of "Americanness." Seeking to define modern American art, many painters challenged and reworked the meanings and forms of modernism, reaching no...
10) When art worked
Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Description
368 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm
Language
English
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Description
243 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 30 cm
Language
English
Description
"A fresh look at a bold and dynamic 20th-century American art style. Characterized by highly structured, geometric compositions with smooth surfaces, linear qualities, and lucid forms, Precisionism fully emerged after World War I and flourished in the 1920s and 1930s. This insightful publication, featuring more than 100 masterworks by artists such as Charles Sheeler, Georgia O'Keeffe, and Charles Demuth, sheds new light on the Precisionistaesthetic...
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Description
x, 163 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"The late nineteenth-century Biloxi potter, George Ohr, was considered an eccentric in his time but has emerged as a major figure in American art since the discovery of thousands of examples of his work in the 1960s. Currently, Ohr is celebrated as a solitary genius who foreshadowed modern art movements. While an intriguing narrative, this view offers a narrow understanding of the man and his work that has hindered serious consideration. Ellen J....
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Description
238 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
"Beyond Grief explores high-style funerary sculptures and their functions during the turn of the twentieth century. ... Art historian Cynthia Mills traces the stories of four families who memorialized their losses through sculpture. Henry Brooks Adams commissioned perhaps the most famous American cemetery monument of all, the Adams Memorial in Washington, D.C. The bronze figure was designed by Augustus Saint-Gaudens, who became the nation's foremost...
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Description
171 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color), color maps ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"Robert Henri and artists of the Ashcan Circle and the Eight stand today as America's first modern art movement: rejecting their academic training and the centuries-old National Academy of Design's exhibition practice, they forged a new and vital art that represented shifting American values and the country's own sense of identity. The Milwaukee Art Museum holds one of the largest and most important collections of art related to the Ashcan Circle...
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Description
340 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 31 cm
Language
English
Description
In the 1960s, activist Chicano artists forged a history of printmaking that remains vital today. Many artists came of age during the civil rights, labor, anti-war, feminist and LGBTQ+ movements and channeled the period's social activism into statements that announced a new political and cultural consciousness among people of Mexican descent in the United States. ¡Printing the Revolution! explores the rise of Chicano graphics within these early social...
Author
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Description
252 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Matthew Israel recounts the major moments in the Vietnam War and the antiwar movement and describes artists' individual and collective responses to them. He discusses major artists such as Leon Golub, Edward Kienholz, Martha Rosler, Peter Saul, Nancy Spero, and Robert Morris; artists' groups including the Art Workers' Coalition (AWC) and the Artists Protest Committee (APC); and iconic works of collective protest art such as AWC's Q. And Babies? A....
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Description
207 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
Focusing on the unprecedented dissemination of art and ideas brought about by new technology and government programs, this publication examines the search for artistic identity in the United States from the stock market crash of 1929 that began the Great Depression to the closure of the Works Progress Administration in 1943. During this time of civil, economic, and social unrest, artists transmitted political ideas and propaganda through a wide range...
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