George Bellows, Works from the Permanent Collection of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery
Author : George Bellows
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Page : 28 pages
File Size : 30,84 MB
Release : 1981
Category : Art
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Author : George Bellows
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Page : 28 pages
File Size : 30,84 MB
Release : 1981
Category : Art
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Author : Marianne Doezema
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 41,31 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 : E. A. Carmean
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Page : 116 pages
File Size : 49,41 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Art
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Author : Albright-Knox Art Gallery
Publisher : Albright Knox Art Gallery
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 38,27 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
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Author : Lauris Mason
Publisher :
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 38,92 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Art
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Author : Albright-Knox Art Gallery
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Page : 584 pages
File Size : 29,41 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Art
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Author : Jane Myers
Publisher :
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 47,62 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Architecture
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Author : Boston, Mass. Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 27,61 MB
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780300063417
"This book takes you through the collection gallery by gallery, illuminating the art and installations in each room"--From preface.
Author : Corcoran Gallery of Art
Publisher : Lucia Marquand
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 33,32 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Painting
ISBN : 9781555953614
This authoritative catalogue of the Corcoran Gallery of Art's renowned collection of pre-1945 American paintings will greatly enhance scholarly and public understanding of one of the finest and most important collections of historic American art in the world. Composed of more than 600 objects dating from 1740 to 1945.
Author : James W. Tottis
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Page : 224 pages
File Size : 14,76 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Art
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