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A Concise History Of American Painting And Sculpture

Author : Matthew Baigell

Publisher : Taylor & Francis

Page : 462 pages

File Size : 37,70 MB

Release : 2018-02-23

Category : Art

ISBN : 0429971273

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This clear, thorough, and reliable survey of American painting and sculpture from colonial times to the present day covers all the major artists and their works, outlines the social and cultural backgrounds of each period, and includes 409 illustrations integrated with the text. Although some determining factors in American art are considered, Matthew Baigell views the rich and diverse achievements of American art as the result of the efforts and talents of a pluralistic society rather than as fitting into a particular mold.This edition includes corrections and revisions to the text, an updated bibliography, and 13 new illustrations.



American Art: History and Culture, Revised First Edition

Author : Wayne Craven

Publisher : McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages

Page : 692 pages

File Size : 44,7 MB

Release : 2003

Category : Art

ISBN :

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[This book is] for American art survey courses. [It] provides a thorough ... chronology of American art, including painting, sculpture, architecture, decorative arts, photography, and folk art. [The author] presents art and artists within the context of their times, including insights into the intellectual, spiritual, and political environment. [He] charts the growth of a distinctly American art culture.-Back cover.



Color as Field

Author : Karen Wilkin

Publisher : Yale University Press

Page : 142 pages

File Size : 16,48 MB

Release : 2007-01-01

Category : Art

ISBN : 9780300120233

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Color field painting, which emerged in the United States in the 1950s, is based on radiant, uninflected hues. Exemplified by the work of Helen Frankenthaler, Morris Louis, Kenneth Noland, Jules Olitski, Larry Poons, and Frank Stella, among others, these stunningly beautiful and impressively scaled paintings constitute one of the crowning achievements of postwar American abstract art. Color as Field offers a long-overdue reevaluation of this important aspect of American abstract painting. The authors examine how color field painting rejects the gestural, layered, and hyper-emotional approach typical of Willem de Kooning and his followers, yet at the same time develops and expands ideas about all-overness and the primacy of color posited by the work of other members of the abstract expressionist generation, such as Adolph Gottlieb, Hans Hofmann, Robert Motherwell, Jackson Pollock, and Mark Rothko. From the fresh historical standpoint of the 21st century, this fascinating reassessment ranges across the artists’ individual approaches and their commonalities, concluding with insights into the ongoing legacy of post-1970s color field painting among present-day artists.



Essential History of American Art

Author : Suzanne Bailey

Publisher :

Page : 256 pages

File Size : 35,90 MB

Release : 2005-05-01

Category :

ISBN : 9780756791919

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American artists are among the most innovative & groundbreaking in the entire history of art. They have introduced new forms & styles & have helped to further push out the boundaries of artistic development. Written with a comprehensive introduction, this book looks in detail at the range of art that has been produced by American artists, with detailed commentary on 120 works -- all reproduced in full-color. Some of these are considered the most important pieces; others may be less well known, but they are all essential to the development of American art.



African-American Art

Author : Sharon F. Patton

Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA

Page : 328 pages

File Size : 43,8 MB

Release : 1998

Category : Art

ISBN : 9780192842138

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Discusses African American folk art, decorative art, photography, and fine arts.



Going Through the Storm

Author : Sterling Stuckey

Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA

Page : 314 pages

File Size : 32,38 MB

Release : 1994

Category : Art

ISBN : 019508604X

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Essays on the conjunction of art and history as demonstrated in dance, music, poetry, and novels.



American Visions

Author : Robert Hughes

Publisher : Vintage

Page : 635 pages

File Size : 10,63 MB

Release : 1997

Category : Art

ISBN : 9781860463723

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Robert Hughes begins where American art itself began, with the Native Americans and the first Spanish invaders in the Southwest; he ends with the art of today. In between, in a scholarly text that crackles with wit, intelligence and insight, he tells the story of how American art developed. Hughes investigates the changing tastes of the American public; he explores the effects on art of America's landscape of unparalleled variety and richness; he examines the impact of the melting-pot of cultures that America has always been. Most of all he concentrates on the paintings and art objects themselves and on the men and women - from Winslow Homer and Thomas Eakins to Edward Hopper and Georgia O'Keeffe, from Arthur Dove and George Bellows to Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko -awho created them. This is an uncompromising and refreshingly opinionated exploration of America, told through the lens of its art.



Twentieth-Century American Art

Author : Erika Doss

Publisher : OUP Oxford

Page : 288 pages

File Size : 34,95 MB

Release : 2002-04-26

Category : Art

ISBN : 0191587745

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Jackson Pollock, Georgia O'Keeffe, Andy Warhol, Julian Schnabel, and Laurie Anderson are just some of the major American artists of the twentieth century. From the 1893 Chicago World's Fair to the 2000 Whitney Biennial, a rapid succession of art movements and different styles reflected the extreme changes in American culture and society, as well as America's position within the international art world. This exciting new look at twentieth century American art explores the relationships between American art, museums, and audiences in the century that came to be called the 'American century'. Extending beyond New York, it covers the emergence of Feminist art in Los Angeles in the 1970s; the Black art movement; the expansion of galleries and art schools; and the highly political public controversies surrounding arts funding. All the key movements are fully discussed, including early American Modernism, the New Negro movement, Regionalism, Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art, and Neo-Expressionism.



A Concise History of the American Republic: Volume 1

Author : Samuel Eliot Morison

Publisher : OUP USA

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 15,3 MB

Release : 1983-01-13

Category : History

ISBN : 9780195031812

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A Concise History of the American Republic, Second Edition, is a compact, authoritative, gracefully written narrative of American history from the arrival of the Native Americans' Siberian forebears to the economic conflicts of the Carter and Reagan administrations. Its distinguished authors embrace a full range of the American experience: economic and social, literary and spiritual, political and military. In the engaging narrative that has made this work so well received, the second edition offers fresh and incisive analyses of the American party system, the Cold War, unemployment, environmental problems, Middle East conflicts, the energy crisis, our relations with China, the issues surrounding various elections, and much more. Major social, political, and economic policies and trends that have affected women and minority groups are recorded in detail. A Concise History is illustrated with 30 maps and over 200 paintings, cartoons, and photographs. Available in one-volume paper and cloth editions and in two separate paperback volumes.



The Art of Reading

Author : Jamie Camplin

Publisher : Getty Publications

Page : 14 pages

File Size : 45,26 MB

Release : 2018-10-02

Category : Art

ISBN : 1606065866

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“Why do artists love books?” This volume takes this tantalizingly simple question as a starting point to reveal centuries of symbiosis between the visual and literary arts. First looking at the development of printed books and the simultaneous emergence of the modern figure of the artist, The Art of Reading appraises works by the many great masters who took inspiration from the printed word. Authors Jamie Camplin and Maria Ranauro weave together an engaging cultural history that probes the ways in which books and paintings represent a key to understanding ourselves and the past. Paintings contain a world of information about religion, class, gender, and power, but they also reveal details of everyday life often lost in history texts. Such artworks show us not only how books have been valued over time but also how the practice of reading has evolved in Western society. Featuring over one hundred works by artists from across Europe and the United States and all painting genres, The Art of Reading explores the two-thousand-year story of the great painters and the preeminent information-providing, knowledge-endowing, solace-giving, belief-supporting, leisure-enriching, pleasure-delivering medium of all time: the book.