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Author : Erika Doss
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1995-06
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780226159430
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Author : Justin Wolff
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2012-03-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781429950282
Born in Missouri at the end of the nineteenth century, Thomas Hart Benton would become the most notorious and celebrated painter America had ever seen. The first artist to make the cover of Time, he was a true original: an heir to both the rollicking populism of his father's political family and the quiet life of his Appalachian grandfather. In his twenties, he would find his calling in New York, where he was drawn to memories of his small-town youth—and to visions of the American scene. By the mid-1930s, Benton's heroic murals were featured in galleries, statehouses, universities, and museums, and magazines commissioned him to report on the stories of the day. Yet even as the nation learned his name, he was often scorned by critics and political commentators, many of whom found him too nationalistic and his art too regressive. Even Jackson Pollock, his once devoted former student, would turn away from him in dramatic fashion. A boxer in his youth, Benton was quick to fight back, but the widespread backlash had an impact—and foreshadowed many of the artistic debates that would dominate the coming decades. In this definitive biography, Justin Wolff places Benton in the context of his tumultuous historical moment—as well as in the landscapes and cultural circles that inspired him. Thomas Hart Benton—with compelling insights into Benton's art, his philosophy, and his family history—rescues a great American artist from myth and hearsay, and provides an indelibly moving portrait of an influential, controversial, and often misunderstood man.
Author : S. Eckmann,L. Koepnick
Publisher : Springer
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137080325
This book explores German and European exile visual artists, designers and film practitioners in the United States such as Max Beckmann, George Grosz, Hans Richter, Peter Lorre, and Edgar Ulmer and examines how American artists including Walter Quirt, Jackson Pollock, and Robert Motherwell responded to the Europeanization of American culture.
Author : Richard Pells
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2011-03-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780300171730
America's global cultural impact is largely seen as one-sided, with critics claiming that it has undermined other countries' languages and traditions. But contrary to popular belief, the cultural relationship between the United States and the world has been reciprocal, says Richard Pells. The United States not only plays a large role in shaping international entertainment and tastes, it is also a consumer of foreign intellectual and artistic influences.Pells reveals how the American artists, novelists, composers, jazz musicians, and filmmakers who were part of the Modernist movement were greatly influenced by outside ideas and techniques. People across the globe found familiarities in American entertainment, resulting in a universal culture that has dominated the twentieth and twenty-first centuries and fulfilled the aim of the Modernist movement--to make the modern world seem more intelligible."Modernist America" brilliantly explains why George Gershwin's music, Cole Porter's lyrics, Jackson Pollock's paintings, Bob Fosse's choreography, Marlon Brando's acting, and Orson Welles's storytelling were so influential, and why these and other artists and entertainers simultaneously represent both an American and a modern global culture.
Author : Benjamin Hufbauer
Publisher : CultureAmerica
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015063656774
This book explores the visual and material cultures of presidential commemoration--memorials and monuments, libraries and archives--and the problematic ways in which presidents themselves have largely taken over their own commemoration. The author sees these various commemorative sites as playing a key role in the construction of our collective political and cultural self-images and as another sign of our preoccupation with celebrity culture. Ultimately, he contends, these presidential temples reflect not only our civil religion but also the extraordinary expansion of executive authority--and presidential self-commemoration--since FDR.
Author : Francis Frascina
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Art
ISBN : 0415228662
This revised edition features ten new articles and is fully updated to take account of new critical approaches to post-war American art.
Author : Leo G. Mazow,Thomas Hart Benton
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780271050836
"Argues that musical imagery in the art of American painter Thomas Hart Benton was part of a larger belief in the capacity of sound to register and convey meaning"--Provided by publisher.
Author : Cecelia Tichi
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0822321688
With its steel guitars, Opry stars, and honky-tonk bars, country music is an American original. Bringing together a wide range of scholars and critics from literature, communications, history, sociology, art, and music, this anthology looks at everything from the inner workings of the country music industry to the iconography of certain stars to the development of distinctive styles within the country music genre. 72 photos.
Author : Eloise E. Johnson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : African American arts
ISBN : 081532278X
This collection of essays and reviews represents the most significant and comprehensive writing on Shakespeare's A Comedy of Errors. Miola's edited work also features a comprehensive critical history, coupled with a full bibliography and photographs of major productions of the play from around the world. In the collection, there are five previously unpublished essays. The topics covered in these new essays are women in the play, the play's debt to contemporary theater, its critical and performance histories in Germany and Japan, the metrical variety of the play, and the distinctly modern perspective on the play as containing dark and disturbing elements. To compliment these new essays, the collection features significant scholarship and commentary on The Comedy of Errors that is published in obscure and difficulty accessible journals, newspapers, and other sources. This collection brings together these essays for the first time.
Author : Erika Doss
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2002-04-26
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780191587740
Jackson Pollock, Georgia O'Keeffe, Andy Warhol, Julian Schnabel, and Laurie Anderson are just some of the major American artists of the twentieth century. From the 1893 Chicago World's Fair to the 2000 Whitney Biennial, a rapid succession of art movements and different styles reflected the extreme changes in American culture and society, as well as America's position within the international art world. This exciting new look at twentieth century American art explores the relationships between American art, museums, and audiences in the century that came to be called the 'American century'. Extending beyond New York, it covers the emergence of Feminist art in Los Angeles in the 1970s; the Black art movement; the expansion of galleries and art schools; and the highly political public controversies surrounding arts funding. All the key movements are fully discussed, including early American Modernism, the New Negro movement, Regionalism, Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art, and Neo-Expressionism.
Author : Mark Byers
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : LITERARY COLLECTIONS
ISBN : 9780198813255
This volume situates the work of American poet Charles Olson (1910-1970) at the centre of the early post-war American avant-garde. It shows Olson to have been one of the major advocates and theorists of American modernism in the late 1940s and early 1950s; a poet who responded fully and variously to the political, ethical, and aesthetic urgencies driving innovation across contemporary American art. Reading Olson's work alongside that of contemporaries associated with the New York Schools of painting and music (as well as the exiled Frankfurt School), the book draws on Olson's published and unpublished writings to establish an original account of early post-war American modernism. The development of Olson's work is seen to illustrate two primary drivers of formal innovation in the period: the evolution of a new model of political action pivoting around the radical individual and, relatedly, a powerful new critique of instrumental reason and the Enlightenment tradition. Drawing on extensive archival research and featuring readings of a wide range of artists including, prominently, Barnett Newman, Mark Rothko, David Smith, Wolfgang Paalen, and John Cage, Charles Olson and American Modernism offers a new reading of a major American poet and an original account of the emergence of post-war American modernism.
Author : A. Joan Saab
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2009-04-24
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780812220698
An intriguing look at the changing roles of artists in modern America.
Author : Caroline M. Riley
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Art, American
ISBN : 9780520386914
"The book considers MoMA's first international exhibition, Three Centuries of American Art, on view in Paris in 1938. With over 750 artworks across media dating from 1609 to 1938, the exhibition displayed the politicization of American art and a museum's impact on the formation of American art history. It was the US government's first interaction with MoMA to use art to advance foreign policy. The book answers a fundamental question: How did Three Centuries locate and offer the heterogeneous mix that was American culture in the 1930s to an international audience grappling with its own political instabilities?"--
Author : James M. Dennis
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Art
ISBN : 0299155803
Author : David Hopkins
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2018-06-21
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780191084492
Contemporary art can be baffling and beautiful, provocative and disturbing. This pioneering book presents a new look at the controversial period between 1945 and 2015, when art and its traditional forms were called into question. It focuses on the relationship between American and European art, and challenges previously held views about the origins of some of the most innovative ideas in art of this time. Major artists such as Jackson Pollock, Robert Rauschenberg, Andy Warhol, Joseph Beuys, Gerhard Richter, Louise Bourgeois, Cindy Sherman, Jeff Koons, and Shiran Neshat are all discussed, as is the art world of the last fifty years. Important trends are also covered including Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art, Minimalism, Conceptualism, Postmodernism, and Performance Art. This revised and updated second edition includes a new chapter exploring art since 2000 and how globalization has caused shifts in the art world, an updated Bibliography, and 16 new, colour illustrations.