Bellows, the Boxing Pictures
Author : E. A. Carmean
Publisher :
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 11,10 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Art
ISBN :
Author : E. A. Carmean
Publisher :
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 11,10 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Art
ISBN :
Author : George Wesley Bellow
Publisher :
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 43,39 MB
Release : 1982
Category :
ISBN :
Author : George Bellows
Publisher :
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 30,72 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Boxing
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Author : George William Eggers
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 17,35 MB
Release : 1931
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Author : Frances Roberts Nugent
Publisher :
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 43,47 MB
Release : 1963
Category : Artists
ISBN :
Author : Marianne Doezema
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 35,89 MB
Release : 1992-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780300050431
George Bellows's spirited and virile paintings of New York in the early decades of the twentieth century celebrated the city's bigness and bolness. Although these works clearly challenged the conservative practices of the National Academy and linked Bellows with the anti-academic art of Robert Henri and the Eight, they were highly popular, even with arch-conservatives. In this book Marianne Doezema explores why it was that Bellows's paintings--despite being considered coarse in technique and subject matter--were acclaimed by critics and patrons, by conservatives, progressives, and radicals alike. Doezema focuses on three of Bellows's principal urban themes: the excavation for Pennsylvania Station, prizefights, and tenement life on the Lower East Side. Drawing on journals and periodicals of the period, she discusses how the prominent, often newsworthy motifs painted by Bellows evoked particular associations and meanings for his contemporaries. Arguing that the implicit message of these paintings was distinctly unrevolutionary, she shows that the excavation paintings celebrated industrialization and urbanization, the boxing pictures presented the sport as brutal and its fans as bloodthirsty, and the depictions of the Lower East Side conformed to a moralistic, middle-class view of poverty. In many of Bellows's subject pictures of this era, says Doezema, the artist approached issues of changing moral and social values in a way that not only seemed congenial to many members of his audience but also verified their attitudes and preconceptions about urban life in America.
Author : Edward Hopper
Publisher : Hirmer Verlag GmbH
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 36,75 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Art, American
ISBN : 9783777434018
This exhibition sets the art of Edward Hopper in the context of the diverse and controversial movements dominating American art during the first half of the twentieth century.
Author : Joyce Carol Oates
Publisher :
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 43,18 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Art
ISBN :
Though he was the most famous and most highly regarded American artist of his era, George Bellows, the intense, prolific painter of the early twentieth century, has remained as much of an enigma to his successors as to his contemporaries. Best known for his gritty, impressionistic depictions of underground boxing and the lower east side of New York, Bellows was also influenced by cultural movements and theories of art as diverse as transcendentalism and surrealism. In George Bellows: American Artist, Joyce Carol Oates explores his life and work from the perspective of a writer and admirer. Examining Bellows' art within his historical and cultural contexts, Oates sheds new light on his technical versatility and voracious imagination.
Author : Maurer Maurer
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 44,74 MB
Release : 1961
Category : United States
ISBN : 1428915850
Author : Robert Burleigh
Publisher : Harry N. Abrams
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 20,91 MB
Release : 2012-06-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781419701665
A brief biography on American painter George Bellows, discussing his love of sports and how he incorporated sports into his work.