Making The America Of Art

Author : Naomi Z. Sofer
Publisher : Ohio State University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780814209837

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Making the "America of Art" by Naomi Z. Sofer Pdf

"Making the "America of Art" demonstrates that beginning in the 1850s, women writers challenged the terms of the Scottish Common Sense philosophy, which had made artistic endeavors acceptable in the new Republic by subordinating aesthetic motivation to moral and educational goals. Harriet Beecher Stowe and Augusta Jane Evans drew on Ruskin to argue for the creation of a religiously based national aesthetic. In the postbellum years Louisa May Alcott, Rebecca Harding Davis, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, and Constance Fenimore Woolson continued the process in a series of writings that revolved around three central areas of concern: the place of the popular in the realm of high art; the role of the genius; and the legacy of the Civil War." "Sofer significantly revises the history of 19th-century American women's authorship by detailing the gradual process that produced women writers wholly identified with literary high culture at the century's end."--BOOK JACKET. Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Author : Terry Smith
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780226763477

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Making the Modern by Terry Smith Pdf

Smith reveals how this visual revolution played an instrumental role in the complex psychological, social, economic, and technological changes that came to be known as the second industrial revolution. From the role of visualization in the invention of the assembly line, to office and building design, to the corporate and lifestyle images that filled new magazines such as Life and Fortune, he traces the extent to which the second wave of industrialization engaged the visual arts to project a new iconology of progress.

Author : Katy Siegel
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2013-06-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781780232386

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Since '45 by Katy Siegel Pdf

Since ’45 details the collision of American history and modern art. Since World War II, New York has been the indisputable center of the art world, and as Katy Siegel shows, it has had a profound influence on the preoccupations that contemporary art would come to have. Tracing art history over the past decades, she shows how anxieties over race, mass culture, the individual, suburbia, apocalypse, and nuclear destruction have supplanted the legacy of European artistic traditions. Siegel’s study encompasses a variety of works, including Rothko’s planes of color, Warhol’s serial silkscreens, Richard Prince’s cowboys, Robert Longo’s Men in Cities, Faith Ringgold’s Black Light, and Laurie Simmons’s dollhouses, and moves fluidly from discussions of artists’ works, art museums, and galleries to cultural influences and significant historical events. Rather than arguing on nationalist grounds or viewing American culture as representative of a now-devalued nation, Siegel explores how American culture dominated not only American artists but created conditions that now, after the full globalization of the art world, affect artists around the world. Since ’45 will interest all readers engaged in post-war and contemporary art in the United States and beyond.

Author : Jacqueline Francis
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2012-01-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780295804330

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Making Race by Jacqueline Francis Pdf

Malvin Gray Johnson, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, and Max Weber were three New York City artists whose work was popularly assigned to the category of "racial art" in the interwar years of the twentieth century. The term was widely used by critics and the public at the time, and was an unexamined, unquestioned category for the work of non-whites (such as Johnson, an African American), non-Westerners (such as Kuniyoshi, a Japanese-born American), and ethnicized non-Christians (such as Weber, a Russian-born Jewish American). The discourse on racial art is a troubling chapter in the history of early American modernism that has not, until now, been sufficiently documented. Jacqueline Francis juxtaposes the work of these three artists in order to consider their understanding of the category and their stylistic responses to the expectations created by it, in the process revealing much about the nature of modernist art practices. Most American audiences in the interwar period disapproved of figural abstraction and held modernist painting in contempt, yet the critics who first expressed appreciation for Johnson, Kuniyoshi, and Weber praised their bright palettes and energetic pictures--and expected to find the residue of the minority artist's heritage in the work itself. Francis explores the flowering of racial art rhetoric in criticism and history published in the 1920s and 1930s, and analyzes its underlying presence in contemporary discussions of artists of color. Making Race is a history of a past phenomenon which has ramifications for the present.

Author : Naomi Z Sofer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0814257542

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Making the "america of Art" by Naomi Z Sofer Pdf

By the end of the 19th century it had become possible for American women to identify themselves as serious Artists. This was a relatively new phenomenon, one that became possible only after American women writers had dismantled the conceptual frameworks that had authorized their artistic production since the early days of the Republic. Making the "America of Art" demonstrates that beginning in the 1850s, women writers challenged the terms of the Scottish Common Sense philosophy, which had made artistic endeavors acceptable in the new Republic by subordinating aesthetic motivation to moral and educational goals. Harriet Beecher Stowe and Augusta Jane Evans drew on Ruskin to argue for the creation of a religiously based national aesthetic. In the postbellum years Louisa May Alcott, Rebecca Harding Davis, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, and Constance Fenimore Woolson continued the process in a series of writings that revolved around three central areas of concern: the place of the popular in the realm of high art; the role of the genius; and the legacy of the Civil War. Sofer significantly revises the history of 19th-century American women's authorship by detailing the gradual process that produced women writers wholly identified with literary high culture at the century's end. Sofer argues that, counter to conventional wisdom, American women writers produced a large body of theoretical writing on the central aesthetic questions of the day. Although the writers Sofer studies were finally unable to construct viable new models for women's artistic production, their attempts to do so are an essential piece of American literary history.

Author : Henry Adams
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015033327225

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Made in America by Henry Adams Pdf

"Five great American museums have pooled their outstanding works to create an unequaled survey of art in the United States from prehistory to the present day, a glorious treasury of American creativity. It follows many of the strands that have been woven into the pattern of American society, its cultural richness springing from the diversity of its citizenry." "Here are masterpieces of painting, sculpture, photography, crafts, and the decorative arts from The Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; The Minneapolis Institute of Arts; The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri; The Saint Louis Art Museum; and The Toledo Museum of Art." "Here is the finest of Native American pottery, basketry, and beadwork." "Here is silver by Paul Revere II, a Baltimore album quilt, glass by Tiffany Studios, and furniture by Frank Lloyd Wright." "Here are paintings by George Caleb Bingham, Winslow Homer, John Singer Sargent, Mary Cassatt, Thomas Eakins, Georgia O'Keeffe, Edward Hopper, Grant Wood, Thomas Hart Benton, Romare Bearden, Andrew Wyeth, Jackson Pollock, Ellsworth Kelly, and Andy Warhol." "Here are sculptures by Frederic Remington, Paul Manship, David Smith, and Alexander Calder." "Here are photographs by Timothy O'Sullivan, Edward Steichen, Gertrude Kasebier, Alfred Stieglitz, Lewis W. Hine, James Van Der Zee, Paul Strand, Berenice Abbott, Dorothea Lange, Walker Evans, Ansel Adams, Edward Weston, Robert Frank, and Diane Arbus." "Here, in 162 full-color plates, is the wonderful panorama of American art in a richly produced presentation certain to appeal to all lovers of art and Americana. Its eight sections are introduced by brief essays that provide a succinct view of the social and artistic context for the works of art." "Made in America: Ten Centuries of American Art was written by twenty-seven authorities from the curatorial staffs of the participating museums, each of which is hosting the two-year touring exhibition of the same works."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Author : Linda Przybyszewski
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2014-04-29
Category : Design
ISBN : 9780465080472

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The Lost Art of Dress by Linda Przybyszewski Pdf

A history of the women who taught Americans how to dress in the first half of the 20th century—and whose lessons we’d do well to remember today.

Author : Pam Meecham,Julie Sheldon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : America
ISBN : UOM:39076002791759

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Making American Art by Pam Meecham,Julie Sheldon Pdf

Educating American artists -- Art into reproduction -- Touring America -- Landscape -- Accommodating American art -- Writing about American art -- End notes

Author : Eleanor Jones Harvey,Smithsonian American Art Museum
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-03
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780300187335

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The Civil War and American Art by Eleanor Jones Harvey,Smithsonian American Art Museum Pdf

Collects the best artwork created before, during and following the Civil War, in the years between 1859 and 1876, along with extensive quotations from men and women alive during the war years and text by literary figures, including Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain and Walt Whitman. 15,000 first printing.

Author : Laura Kina,Jan Christian Bernabe
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 50,7 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 : Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2016-11
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780691172699

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World War I and American Art by Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Pdf

-World War I and American Art provides an unprecedented look at the ways in which American artists reacted to the war. Artists took a leading role in chronicling the war, crafting images that influenced public opinion, supported mobilization efforts, and helped to shape how the war's appalling human toll was memorialized. The book brings together paintings, drawings, prints, photographs, posters, and ephemera, spanning the diverse visual culture of the period to tell the story of a crucial turning point in the history of American art---

Author : John Atlee Kouwenhoven
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1948
Category : American literature
ISBN : STANFORD:36105003280521

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Made in America by John Atlee Kouwenhoven Pdf

Author : Sadakichi Hartmann
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1020953586

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A History Of American Art by Sadakichi Hartmann Pdf

This comprehensive history of American art examines the development of sculpture, graphic arts, and painting from the colonial era to the early 20th century. The author provides in-depth analysis of notable works and artists, as well as discussing the influence of European art movements on American art. Hartmann's writing is engaging and accessible, making this book an excellent resource and an enjoyable read for anyone interested in the history of American art. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Sam Wasson
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 485 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : HISTORY
ISBN : 9780544557208

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Improv Nation by Sam Wasson Pdf

A sweeping yet intimate--and often hilarious--history of a uniquely American art form that has never been more popular

Author : Nicole R. Fleetwood
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2020-04-28
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780674919228

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Marking Time by Nicole R. Fleetwood Pdf

"A powerful document of the inner lives and creative visions of men and women rendered invisible by America’s prison system. More than two million people are currently behind bars in the United States. Incarceration not only separates the imprisoned from their families and communities; it also exposes them to shocking levels of deprivation and abuse and subjects them to the arbitrary cruelties of the criminal justice system. Yet, as Nicole Fleetwood reveals, America’s prisons are filled with art. Despite the isolation and degradation they experience, the incarcerated are driven to assert their humanity in the face of a system that dehumanizes them. Based on interviews with currently and formerly incarcerated artists, prison visits, and the author’s own family experiences with the penal system, Marking Time shows how the imprisoned turn ordinary objects into elaborate works of art. Working with meager supplies and in the harshest conditions—including solitary confinement—these artists find ways to resist the brutality and depravity that prisons engender. The impact of their art, Fleetwood observes, can be felt far beyond prison walls. Their bold works, many of which are being published for the first time in this volume, have opened new possibilities in American art. As the movement to transform the country’s criminal justice system grows, art provides the imprisoned with a political voice. Their works testify to the economic and racial injustices that underpin American punishment and offer a new vision of freedom for the twenty-first century."