Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 834
Book Description
American Art Annual
Author: F.H. Varley
Author: Katerina AtanassovaPublisher: Dundurn
ISBN: 1459720423
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
Frederick Horsman Varley was unique among the members of the Group of Seven. One of the greatest Canadian portraitists of the twentieth century, he is an intriguing example of an artist who, despite his fame as a portrait painter, remains better known for his landscapes. This is due mainly to his position as one of the founding members of the Group of Seven and their deliberate attempt to raise awareness of our national identity by depicting the Canadian landscape. Even though many public collections across the country, including the National Gallery of Canada, the Art Gallery of Ontario, and the Vancouver Art Gallery, display some of Varley's best-known portraits, these works do not easily fit into the conventional mould of the Group of Seven. Nearly four decades after his death, Varley's portraits are still not fully acknowledged. The release of this beautifully illustrated bilingual volume coincides with the opening of an unprecedented exhibition of his portraiture.
American Paradise
Author: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 0870994972
Category : Hudson River school of landscape painting
Languages : en
Pages : 367
Book Description
Traces the history of the Hudson River School of American painters, shows works by Church, Cole, and Inness, and describes the background of each painting.
The Academy Blue Book
Author: Buffalo Fine Arts AcademyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Horace Pippin, American Modern
Author: Anne MonahanPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300243308
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
This nuanced reassessment transforms our understanding of Horace Pippin, casting the artist and his celebrated paintings as more complex than has previously been recognized
The American Magazine of Art
Author: The Athenaeum
Author: Bay Area Figurative Art, 1950-1965
Author: Caroline A. JonesPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520068421
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
"Should be the classic, central, definitive work on the emergence of Bay Area Figurative painting."--Paul Mills, author of The New Figurative Painting of David Park
Report of the Commissioner of Education Made to the Secretary of the Interior for the Year ... with Accompanying Papers
Author: United States. Bureau of EducationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 1122
Book Description
Homer, Eakins, and Anshutz: The Search for American Identity in the Gilded Age
Author: Randall C. GriffinPublisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 9780271047942
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Randall Griffin's book examines the ways in which artists and critics sought to construct a new identity for America during the era dubbed the Gilded Age because of its leaders' taste for opulence. Artists such as Winslow Homer, Thomas Eakins, and Thomas Anshutz explored alternative "American" themes and styles, but widespread belief in the superiority of European art led them and their audiences to look to the Old World for legitimacy. This rich, never-resolved contradiction between the native and autonomous, on the one hand, and, on the other, the European and borrowed serves as the armature of Griffin's innovative look at how and why the world of art became a key site in the American struggle for identity. Not only does Griffin trace the interplay of issues of nationalism, class, and gender in American culture, but he also offers insightful readings of key paintings by Eakins and other canonical artists. Further, Griffin shows that by 1900 the nationalist project in art and criticism had helped open the way for the formulation of American modernism. Homer, Eakins, and Anshutz will be of importance to all those interested in American culture as well as to specialists in art history and art criticism.