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Author : Leo G. Mazow,Thomas Hart Benton
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 50,9 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 : Thomas Hart Benton,Matthew Baigell
Publisher : Ardent Media
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Art
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Lavish, heavily illustrated volume on this American genre painter and muralist.
Author : Austen Barron Bailly
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2015-05-12
Category : Art
ISBN : 9783791354224
This generously illustrated book explores the connections between Thomas Hart Benton’s art and Hollywood movies from groundbreaking perspectives. Thomas Hart Benton was a thoroughly American artist. His regionally focused paintings and murals depicted everyday American life as well as the country’s history. This volume focuses on one of the most American of Benton’s associations: Hollywood. Not only did Benton create commissioned murals and portraits of film stars and movies, but he also developed a style that was highly theatrical and narrative. This volume is the first to collect all the works conceived by Benton for the film industry. It includes related ephemera, photographs, and documents of Benton at work, along with a series of thought-provoking essays that explore a diverse array of topics—from Benton’s engagement with American identity from the 1920s to the 1960s, to parallels between Benton’s use of Old Master methods and film production techniques. Fans of Thomas Hart Benton will find surprising insights into his career, while those fascinated by Hollywood history will discover how one of America’s most revered artists shaped and was in turn influenced by the film industry.
Author : Henry Adams
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2009-12-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781608191741
The drip paintings of Jackson Pollock, trailblazing Abstract Expressionist, appear to be the polar opposite of Thomas Hart Benton's highly figurative Americana. Yet the two men had a close and highly charged relationship dating from Pollock's days as a student under Benton. Pollock's first and only formal training came from Benton, and the older man soon became a surrogate father to Pollock. In true Oedipal fashion, Pollock even fell in love with Benton's wife. Pollock later broke away from his mentor artistically, rocketing to superstardom with his stunning drip compositions. But he never lost touch with Benton or his ideas-in fact, his breakthrough abstractions reveal a strong debt to Benton's teachings. I n an epic story that ranges from the cafés and salons of Gertrude Stein's Paris to the highways of the American West, Henry Adams, acclaimed author of Eakins Revealed, unfolds a poignant personal drama that provides new insights into two of the greatest artists of the twentieth century.
Author : Henry Adams
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015017905608
Author : Justin Wolff
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 43,8 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 : Polly Burroughs
Publisher : Doubleday Books
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Martha's Vineyard (Mass.)
ISBN : UCSD:31822010569150
Author : Thomas Hart Benton,Creekmore Fath
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1979-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0292746210
Author : J. Richard Gruber
Publisher : University Alabama Press
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015046483346
This lushly illustrated volume for the first time focuses specifically on the strong influence the South had on Benton's explorations of America and on his career as an artist. Thomas Hart Benton (1889-1975), a widely recognized American painter, muralist, printmaker, and illustrator, first attained prominence during the 1920s and 1930s as an artist, teacher, critic, writer, and outspoken art world personality. By 1934, when he was the first artist featured on the cover of Time magazine, he had become one of the most recognized artists in the United States. Beginning in the 1920s and continuing throughout his career, Benton traveled the breadth of the country, sketching and recording the details of the changing daily life he encountered on the backroads and in the isolated cultural pockets of America. Inspired by his early campaign travels in Missouri with his father, who had been elected to Congress as a Populist in 1897, and driven by his own conviction that the nation was sacrificing its unique culture and history in its rush to become a new, modern society, Benton set out to capture the essence of contemporary America. The American South held a special fascination for Benton, and from his travels and sketching trips throughout the region came many of his most noted images of America. Representing both the drawings Benton made during his travels to the South and the major paintings and murals that later incorporated details from these sketches and finished drawings, Thomas Hart Benton and the American South is a feast to the eye and reveals much about the artist and the South that so captivated him.
Author : Thomas Hart Benton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
ISBN : UVA:X000109391
"Thomas Hart Benton's autobiography first appeared in 1937 and met immediately with success. Thus presented, the opinions, judgments, and critical evaluations of this artist, whose works held the center of lively controversy, interested the general reader as well as the world of art. The book reappeared in 1951, bringing up to date the perspectives on life and art of a forthright participant and maker. Now, in his seventy-ninth year, Mr. Benton has added another chapter to his continuing comment on the world of art and the role of the artist in that world. His rare gift of cogent expression in letters as well as in color and line provides the reader with as vigorous and vital an experience as his paintings provide their viewers."--Dust jacket.
Author : James M. Dennis
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Art
ISBN : 0299155803
Author : Marianne Berardi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Art
ISBN : STANFORD:36105017394615
Author : William Nisbet Chambers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UVA:X000112637
Author : Erika Doss
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1995-06
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780226159430
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Author : Thomas Hart Benton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015042562218
Controversial, flamboyant, contentious, brilliant--Thomas Hart Benton (1889-1975) was certainly all of those. Few American artists have stirred so much love and hatred as he did in a career that lasted almost seventy years. Although his painting aroused much controversy, perhaps equally as much was created by his words, for his piercing wit, profane sarcasms, and insightful condemnations were fired off without restraint. In this fiery and provocative autobiography, Benton presents an intriguing records of American art and society during his lifetime. The first installment of this work was published in 1937, but Benton continued his life story in chapters added to editions published in 1951 and 1968. This new edition includes seventy-six drawings that add much to his narrative, plus a foreword discussing Benton's place in American art and an afterword covering his career after 1968, both written by art historian Matthew Baigell. Although Benton is most famous as a regionalist painter and muralist, his complex and fascinating career brought him into contact with many of the most important artists and thinkers of the century, including Jackson Pollock, Grant Wood, Julian Huxley, Felix Frankfurter, Eugene Debbs, John Reed, and Harry Truman. While living in New York and on Martha's Vineyard in the 1920s and 1930s, Benton often associated with leading intellectuals and radicals. However, when his evolving principles of art led him away from an interest in Marxism, he was bitterly attacked by many of his former friends, and his account of that time reveals strikingly the fierce critical battles he faced in trying to establish his own artistic vision. Critics on the Left were not his only opponents, however, and equally revealing are his responses to the moral condemnations heaped on his murals done for the states of Indiana and Missouri and on his realistic nudes of the late 1930s. Throughout his account, from descriptions of his boyhood in southwest Missouri, his travels, and his career to discussions of specific works of art and other artists, Benton portrays people and events as vividly in words as he does in his paintings.