Mabel Dwight

Author : ROBINSON SUSAN BARNE,John Pirog
Publisher : Smithsonian Books (DC)
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015036083841

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MABEL DWIGHT by ROBINSON SUSAN BARNE,John Pirog Pdf

"Characterized as a keen observer of the comedie humaine, Mabel Dwight (1875-1955) emerged as a lithographer at the age of fifty-two and became one of the most noted American printmakers of the 1920s and 1930s. Although best known for her benignly satirical depictions of New York City life, she also produced portraits, evocative mood pieces, architectural scenes, and deeply felt responses to the urgent political and social concerns of the day: the Depression, the rise of fascism, and the imminence of war." "Assembling for the first time all 111 of Dwight's editioned lithographs, this book traces the changes in popular taste and personal vision that enabled her work to fill a growing demand for realistic art based on the experiences of ordinary Americans." "Bringing together Dwight's descriptions of the genesis of many of her works, her essays on lithography and satire, and complete documentation of each print, this comprehensive study illuminates the career of an original voice in printmaking and a humorous, technically assured interpreter of the early twentieth-century urban scene."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Author : Amon Carter Museum of Western Art,Patricia A. Junker
Publisher : Hudson Hills
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1555951988

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An American Collection by Amon Carter Museum of Western Art,Patricia A. Junker Pdf

"Amon G. Carter (1879-1955) is one of the legendary men of Texas history. Born in a log cabin, he was self-made, becoming Fort Worth's leading citizen and champion. He developed an interest in the art of Frederic Remington and Charles M. Russell through his friendship with Will Rogers. Carter's will provided for the establishment of a museum in Fort Worth devoted to the art of the American West. While the museum holds the most significant collection anywhere of works by Remington and Russell and is a pioneer in the field of western studies, it has evolved into one of the great museums of American art as a whole, focusing on artists working on successive frontiers, aesthetic as well as geographic. Its photography collection alone has grown to nearly one-quarter of a million objects." "The museum, designed by noted architect Philip Johnson, opened to the public in 1961. On the occasion of its fortieth anniversary, a substantially expanded building, also designed by Mr. Johnson, was inaugurated. This volume relates the museum's history and presents color and duotone illustrations of 125 of its masterworks dating from 1822 to 1998 (paintings, sculpture, prints, watercolors, pastels, drawings, and photographs), with an essay about each and a biography of each artist. It includes a number of landmark works recently added to the collection and unveiled here for the first time: paintings by John Singer Sargent, Stuart Davis, and Marsden Hartley; sculpture by Alexander Calder and Louise Nevelson; a daguerreotype by Southworth and Hawes; and photographs by Alfred Stieglitz, David Smith, Robert Adams, and Linda Connor."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Author : Helen Langa
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2004-03-25
Category : Art
ISBN : 0520231554

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Radical Art by Helen Langa Pdf

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Author : Best Books on
Publisher : Best Books on
Page : 820 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1939
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781623760557

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New York City by Best Books on Pdf

Author : Donald E. Smith
Publisher : Saint Johann Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Art
ISBN : STANFORD:36105114270486

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American Printmakers of the Twentieth Century by Donald E. Smith Pdf

Author : Carol Kort,Liz Sonneborn
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : Art, American
ISBN : 9781438107912

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A to Z of American Women in the Visual Arts by Carol Kort,Liz Sonneborn Pdf

Presents biographical profiles of American women of achievement in the field of visual arts, including birth and death dates, major accomplishments, and historical influence.

Author : Stephanie Schrader, James Glisson, Alexander Nemerov
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-22
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781606066270

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True Grit by Stephanie Schrader, James Glisson, Alexander Nemerov Pdf

An engaging look at early twentieth-century American printmaking, which frequently focused on the crowded, chaotic, and gritty modern city. In the first half of the twentieth century, a group of American artists influenced by the painter and teacher Robert Henri aimed to reject the pretenses of academic fine art and polite society. Embracing the democratic inclusiveness of the Progressive movement, these artists turned to making prints, which were relatively inexpensive to produce and easy to distribute. For their subject matter, the artists mined the bustling activity and stark realities of the urban centers in which they lived and worked. Their prints feature sublime towering skyscrapers and stifling city streets, jazzy dance halls and bleak tenement interiors—intimate and anonymous everyday scenes that addressed modern life in America. True Grit examines a rich selection of prints by well-known figures like George Bellows, Edward Hopper, Joseph Pennell, and John Sloan as well as lesser-known artists such as Ida Abelman, Peggy Bacon, Miguel Covarrubias, and Mabel Dwight. Written by three scholars of printmaking and American art, the essays present nuanced discussions of gender, class, literature, and politics, contextualizing the prints in the rapidly changing milieu of the first decades of twentieth-century America.

Author : Benjamin Dwight
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 621 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2023-08-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783368833626

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The History of the Descendants of John Dwight by Benjamin Dwight Pdf

Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.

Author : Caroline M. Riley
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Art, American
ISBN : 9780520386914

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MoMA Goes to Paris In 1938 by Caroline M. Riley Pdf

"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 : Marilyn F. Symmes
Publisher : Princeton Architectural Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781568984926

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Impressions of New York by Marilyn F. Symmes Pdf

From its birth as a remote trading outpost on the fringes of the Dutch empire to its current status as the so-called Capital of the World, New York has always captivated visual artists. The extraordinary prints collected by the New-York Historical Society over the course of its history vividly preserve these impressions on paper. In this handsome volume more than 150 of these views of the city -- including two spectacular gatefold panoramas -- speak eloquently of the surging power of this dynamic urban center. At the same time, they present an intimate portrait of everyday life as it has been lived and savored in this great city for more than three centuries. The companion to an exhibition celebrating the New-York Historical Society's bicentennial anniversary, this beautifully printed volume presents a full range of historic images, from 1672 to the present. In the lively essay and information-filled captions, curator and historian Marilyn Symmes tells the unique stories behind the people and places, parks and buildings, streets and neighborhoods, parades and events depicted in each image -- in essence, the story of New York City itself.

Author : Patricia McDonnell,Robert Clyde Allen,Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780300092400

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On the Edge of Your Seat by Patricia McDonnell,Robert Clyde Allen,Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum Pdf

This book is published in conjunction with the exhibition, On the edge of your seat : Popular theater and film in early-twentieth century American art, organized by the Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.

Author : Katherine H. Adams,Michael L. Keene
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2015-12-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781476662978

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Women, Art and the New Deal by Katherine H. Adams,Michael L. Keene Pdf

In 1935, the United States Congress began employing large numbers of American artists through the Works Progress Administration--fiction writers, photographers, poster artists, dramatists, painters, sculptors, muralists, wood carvers, composers and choreographers, as well as journalists, historians and researchers. Secretary of Commerce and supervisor of the WPA Harry Hopkins hailed it a "renascence of the arts, if we can call it a rebirth when it has no precedent in our history." Women were eminently involved, creating a wide variety of art and craft, interweaving their own stories with those of other women whose lives might not otherwise have received attention. This book surveys the thousands of women artists who worked for the U.S. government, the historical and social worlds they described and the collaborative depiction of womanhood they created at a pivotal moment in American history.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Art, American
ISBN : UCBK:C045116220

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WPA Artwork in Non-federal Repositories by Anonim Pdf

An inventory of works of art produced under the Works Progress Administration, 1933-1943, located in non-Federal depositories, initiated by the Fine Arts Program of GSA.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 762 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1937
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015017544597

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Arts Digest by Anonim Pdf

Author : Carolina Bank Muñoz,Penny Lewis,Emily Tumpson Molina
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 579 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2022-01-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520964150

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A People's Guide to New York City by Carolina Bank Muñoz,Penny Lewis,Emily Tumpson Molina Pdf

This alternative guidebook for one of the world’s most popular tourist destinations explores all five boroughs to reveal a people’s New York City. The sites and stories of A People’s Guide to New York City shift our perception of what defines New York, placing the passion, determination, defeats, and victories of its people at the core. Delving into the histories of New York's five boroughs, you will encounter enslaved Africans in revolt, women marching for equality, workers on strike, musicians and performers claiming streets for their art, and neighbors organizing against landfills and industrial toxins and in support of affordable housing and public schools. The streetscapes that emerge from these groups' struggles bear the traces, and this book shows you where to look to find them. New York City is a preeminent global city, serving as the headquarters for hundreds of multinational firms and a world-renowned cultural hub for fashion, art, and music. It is among the most multicultural cities in the world and also one of the most segregated cities in the United States. The people that make this global city function—immigrants, people of color, and the working classes—reside largely in the so-called outer boroughs, outside the corporations, neon, and skyscrapers of Manhattan. A People’s Guide to New York City expands the scope and scale of traditional guidebooks, providing an equitable exploration of the diverse communities throughout the city. Through the stories of over 150 sites across the Bronx, Manhattan, Queens, Brooklyn and Staten Island as well as thematic tours and contemporary and archival photographs, a people’s New York emerges, one in which collective struggles for justice and freedom have shaped the very landscape of the city.