Lens On American Art

Author : John Wilmerding
Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-24
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780847864768

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Lens on American Art by John Wilmerding Pdf

A reflection of American art's most iconic portraits that feature eyeglasses, and their significance to the artists--from Grant Wood to Alex Katz--through the lens of renowned art historian John Wilmerding. This book celebrates and interprets eyeglasses in American art through painting, prints, folk art, sculpture, and photography from the end of the eighteenth century to the present. Accompanying an exhibition at the Shelburne Museum in Vermont, the book includes eighty works by illustrious artists such as Mary Cassatt and Alice Neel. Though we know eyeglasses are for looking through, we often overlook their role in portraits and figure images. This survey looks at their appearance and uses in American art, from 1784 when Benjamin Franklin invented the bifocal, to the present day. Spectacles in artwork served as emblems of literacy, fashion, and self-identity; old age and wisdom; inner or psychological vision; and sometimes just contemplation. Contemporary works include bespectacled self-portraits by Chuck Close, Andy Warhol, and Keith Haring; and eyeglasses as pure design by Alex Katz and Wayne Thiebaud.

Author : Thomas Denenberg,John Wilmerding,Katie Wood Kirchhoff
Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2017-06-06
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780847859580

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Painting a Nation by Thomas Denenberg,John Wilmerding,Katie Wood Kirchhoff Pdf

An in-depth look at one of the richest collections of American art, assembled by Electra Havemeyer Webb, renowned collector and founder of Shelburne Museum. Electra Havemeyer Webb assembled Shelburne Museum’s trove of American paintings in the late 1950s, creating a renowned and rich survey of American portraits, landscapes, marine paintings, sporting art, still lifes, and genre scenes from the eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries. During an era that preferred European modernism and abstraction, Webb’s visionary endeavor presented a new story of the United States: an attractive and industrious nation with its own valuable artistic traditions. This handsome book features the best of Shelburne’s American paintings, including works by colonial painters John Wollaston and John Singleton Copley, portraits by William Matthew Prior and Ammi Phillips, Hudson River School landcapes by Thomas Cole, Albert Bierstadt, and John Frederick Kensett, and scenes of American life by Eastman Johnson, Winslow Homer, Andrew Wyeth, and many more. The collection is also notable for its great depth in the works by Fitz Henry Lane, Martin Johnson Heade, Arthur Fitzwilliam Tait, Carl Rungius, Grandma Moses, and Ogden Pleissner.

Author : Wendy Grossman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Modernism (Art)
ISBN : UCSD:31822036434652

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Man Ray, African Art, and the Modernist Lens by Wendy Grossman Pdf

"Exhibition dates: The Phillips Collection, Oct. 10, 2009-Jan. 10, 2010; University of New Mexico Art Museum, Feb. 6-May 30, 2010; University of Virginia Museum of Art, Aug. 7-Oct. 10, 2010; University of British Columbia, Museum of Anthropology Oct. 29, 2010-Jan. 23, 2011." --T.p. verso.

Author : John Davis,Jennifer A. Greenhill,Jason D. LaFountain
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 680 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2015-01-30
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781118542491

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A Companion to American Art by John Davis,Jennifer A. Greenhill,Jason D. LaFountain Pdf

A Companion to American Art presents 35newly-commissioned essays by leading scholars that explore themethodology, historiography, and current state of the field ofAmerican art history. Features contributions from a balance of established andemerging scholars, art and architectural historians, and otherspecialists Includes several paired essays to emphasize dialogue and debatebetween scholars on important contemporary issues in American arthistory Examines topics such as the methodological stakes in thewriting of American art history, changing ideas about whatconstitutes “Americanness,” and the relationship of artto public culture Offers a fascinating portrait of the evolution and currentstate of the field of American art history and suggests futuredirections of scholarship

Author : Sharrell D. Luckett
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2019-12-06
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781684481521

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African American Arts by Sharrell D. Luckett Pdf

Trans Identity as Embodied Afrofuturism / Amber Johnson -- "I Luh God" : Erica Campbell, Trap Gospel and the Moral Mask of Language Discrimination / Sammantha McCalla -- The Conciliation Project as a Social Experiment : Behind the Mask of Uncle Tomism and the Performance of Blackness / Jasmine Coles & Tawnya Pettiford-Wates.

Author : Jay Bochner
Publisher : MIT Press (MA)
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015062872406

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An American Lens by Jay Bochner Pdf

A close reading of photography yields a groundbreaking cultural biography; reveals photography's impresario, Alfred Stieglitz, as he has never been revealed before and looks at his photographs as they have never been looked at before.

Author : Claudia Hopkins,Iain Boyd Whyte
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 836 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2020-12-21
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781000061697

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Hot Art, Cold War – Southern and Eastern European Writing on American Art 1945-1990 by Claudia Hopkins,Iain Boyd Whyte Pdf

Hot Art, Cold War – Southern and Eastern European Writing on American Art 1945-1990 is one of two text anthologies that trace the reception of American art in Europe during the Cold War era through primary sources. Translated into English for the first time from sixteen languages and introduced by scholarly essays, the texts in this volume offer a representative selection of the diverse responses to American art in Portugal, Italy, Spain, Greece, Yugoslavia, Romania, Bulgaria, Soviet Union (including the Baltic States), Czechoslovakia, Poland, Hungary, and East Germany (GDR). There was no single European discourse, as attitudes to American art were determined by a wide range of ideological, political, social, cultural and artistic positions that varied considerably across the European nations. This volume and its companion, Hot Art, Cold War – Northern and Western European Writing on American Art 1945-1990, offer the reader a unique opportunity to compare how European art writers introduced and explained contemporary American art to their many and varied audiences. Whilst many are fluent in one or two foreign languages, few are able to read all twenty-five languages represented in the two volumes. These ground-breaking publications significantly enrich the fields of American art studies and European art criticism.

Author : Laura Kina,Jan Christian Bernabe
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2017-05-16
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780295741369

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Queering Contemporary Asian American Art by Laura Kina,Jan Christian Bernabe Pdf

Queering Contemporary Asian American Art takes Asian American differences as its point of departure, and brings together artists and scholars to challenge normative assumptions, essentialisms, and methodologies within Asian American art and visual culture. Taken together, these nine original artist interviews, cutting-edge visual artworks, and seven critical essays explore contemporary currents and experiences within Asian American art, including the multiple axes of race and identity, queer bodies and forms, kinship and affect, and digital identities and performances. Using the verb and critical lens of “queering” to capture transgressive cultural, social, and political engagement and practice, the contributors to this volume explore the connection points in Asian American experience and cultural production of surveillance states, decolonization and diaspora, transnational adoption, and transgender bodies and forms, as well as heteronormative respectability, the military, and war. The interdisciplinary and theoretically informed frameworks in the volume engage readers to understand global and historical processes through contemporary Asian American artistic production.

Author : Ryan Shin,Maria Lim,Oksun Lee,Sandrine Han
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2022-12-26
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000813692

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Counternarratives from Asian American Art Educators by Ryan Shin,Maria Lim,Oksun Lee,Sandrine Han Pdf

Counternarratives from Asian American Art Educators: Identities, Pedagogies, and Practice beyond the Western Paradigm collects and explores the professional and pedagogical narratives of Asian art educators and researchers in North America. Few studies published since the substantial immigration of Asian art educators to the United States in the 1990s have addressed their professional identities in higher education, K-12, and museum contexts. By foregrounding narratives from Asian American arts educators within these settings, this edited volume enacts a critical shift from Western, Eurocentric perspectives to the unique contributions of Asian American practitioners. Enhanced by the application of the AsianCrit framework and theories of intersectionality, positionality, decolonization, and allyship, these original contributor counternarratives focus on professional and pedagogical discourses and practices that support Asian American identity development and practice. A significant contribution to the field of art education, this book highlights the voices and experiences of Asian art educators and serves as an ideal scholarly resource for exploring their identity formation, construction, and development of a historically underrepresented minoritized group in North America.

Author : Barbara S. Groseclose,Jochen Wierich
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780271032009

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Internationalizing the History of American Art by Barbara S. Groseclose,Jochen Wierich Pdf

"A collection of essays presenting international perspectives on the narratives and the practices grounding the scholarly study of American Art"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Hélène Valance
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2018-06-12
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780300224146

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Nocturne by Hélène Valance Pdf

A beautifully illustrated look at the vogue for night landscapes amid the social, political, and technological changes of modern America The turn of the 20th century witnessed a surge in the creation and popularity of nocturnes and night landscapes in American art. In this original and thought-provoking book, Hélène Valance investigates why artists and viewers of the era were so captivated by the night. Nocturne examines works by artists such as James McNeill Whistler, Childe Hassam, Winslow Homer, Frederic Remington, Edward Steichen, and Henry Ossawa Tanner through the lens of the scientific developments and social issues that dominated the period. Valance argues that the success of the genre is connected to the resonance between the night and the many forces that affected the era, including technological advances that expanded the realm of the visible, such as electric lighting and photography; Jim Crow–era race relations; America’s closing frontier and imperialism abroad; and growing anxiety about identity and social values amid rapid urbanization. This absorbing study features 150 illustrations encompassing paintings, photographs, prints, scientific illustration, advertising, and popular media to explore the predilection for night imagery as a sign of the times.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Printing
ISBN : CHI:80447621

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The American Art Printer by Anonim Pdf

Author : Allan L. Edmunds
Publisher : Hudson Hills
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Art
ISBN : 1555952410

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Three Decades of American Printmaking by Allan L. Edmunds Pdf

This comprehensive volume features exciting and cultrually diverse serigraphs, offset lithographs, and mixed media prints from the Bradywine Workshop

Author : John Wilmerding
Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-09
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780847839674

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The Pop Object by John Wilmerding Pdf

A major survey of Pop Art from private collections. Published on the occasion of an exhibition of the same title, The Pop Object is the most comprehensive survey of Pop Art to be organized by theme and historical precedents, with such classic works as Andy Warhol’s Brillo Soap Pads, Robert Arneson’s Oreo Cookie Jar, Claes Oldenburg’s Pie à la Mode, Roy Lichtenstein’s Black Flowers, and Wayne Thiebaud’s Gumball Machine. With more than ninety color illustrations, this large-format book brings together the most important examples of works by artists Jasper Johns, Jim Dine, Marisol, Claes Oldenburg, Robert Rauschenberg, James Rosenquist, Wayne Thiebaud, Andy Warhol, Tom Wesselmann, and many others, from the 1960s to the present. The still life has often been the stepchild to landscape, history, and figurative painting. By examining themes like food and drink, household objects, flowers, and body parts, noted art historian John Wilmerding emphasizes Pop’s playfulness and brings the history of the movement right up to date.

Author : Cynthia Fowler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351559805

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Locating American Art by Cynthia Fowler Pdf

How does museum location shape the interpretation of an art object by critics, curators, art historians, and others? To what extent is the value of a work of art determined by its location? Providing a close examination of individual works of American art in relation to gallery and museum location, this anthology presents case studies of paintings, sculpture, photographs, and other media that explore these questions about the relationship between location and the prescribed meaning of art. It takes an alternate perspective in that it provides in-depth analysis of works of art that are less well known than the usual American art suspects, and in locations outside of art museums in major urban cultural centers. By doing so, the contributors to this volume reveal that such a shift in focus yields an expanded and more complex understanding of American art. Close examinations are given to works located in small and mid-sized art museums throughout the United States, museums that generally do not benefit from the resources afforded by more powerful cultural establishments such as the Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Works of art located at institutions other than art museums are also examined. Although the book primarily focuses on paintings, other media created from the Colonial Period to the present are considered, including material culture and craft. The volume takes an inclusive approach to American art by featuring works created by a diverse group of artists from canonical to lesser-known ones, and provides new insights by highlighting the regional and the local.