Reading American Art
Title | Reading American Art PDF eBook |
Author | Professor and Department Head of Art & Art History Elizabeth Milroy |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Pages | 492 |
Release | 1998-01-01 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9780300069983 |
This anthology brings together twenty outstanding works of recent scholarship on the history of the visual arts in the United States from the colonial period to 1945. The selected essays--all written within the past two decades--reflect the interdisciplinary character of current art historiography in America and the variety of approaches that contribute to the dynamism in the field. The authors take up diverse subjects--from colonial portraits to nineteenth-century sculptures of women to photographic images of New York--and invite those with a general knowledge of the history of American art to think more deeply about art and culture. Employing many interpretive methodologies, including iconology, social history, structuralism, psychobiography, and feminist theory, the contributors to this volume combine close analysis of specific art objects or groups of objects with discussion of how these works of art operated within their cultural contexts. The authors consider the works of such artists as John Singleton Copley, Charles Willson Peale, Winslow Homer, Thomas Eakins, Georgia O'Keeffe, and Jackson Pollock as they assess how paintings, sculpture, prints, drawings, and photographs have carried meaning within American society. And they investigate how the conceptualization, production, and presentation of works of art both inform and are informed by prevailing attitudes toward the role of the arts and the artist in American culture.
American Art: History and Culture, Revised First Edition
Title | American Art: History and Culture, Revised First Edition PDF eBook |
Author | Wayne Craven |
Publisher | McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages |
Pages | 692 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN |
[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.
Twentieth-Century American Art
Title | Twentieth-Century American Art PDF eBook |
Author | Erika Doss |
Publisher | OUP Oxford |
Pages | 288 |
Release | 2002-04-26 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 0191587745 |
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.
The American Art Book
Title | The American Art Book PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | Phaidon Press Limited |
Pages | 526 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | Art |
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Covering three centuries, this vibrant, fresh overview ranges from Puritan portraits to the American Impressionists to the videos and digital works of today's most intriguing conceptual artists. 500 color illustrations.
Reading Basquiat
Title | Reading Basquiat PDF eBook |
Author | Jordana Moore Saggese |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 236 |
Release | 2014-05-30 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 0520276248 |
Before his death at the age of twenty-seven, Jean-Michel Basquiat completed nearly 2,000 works. These unique compositionsÑcollages of text and gestural painting across a variety of mediaÑquickly made Basquiat one of the most important and widely known artists of the 1980s. Reading Basquiat provides a new approach to understanding the range and impact of this artistÕs practice, as well as its complex relationship to several key artistic and ideological debates of the late twentieth century, including the instability of identity, the role of appropriation, and the boundaries of expressionism. Jordana Moore Saggese argues that Basquiat, once known as Òthe black Picasso,Ó probes not only the boundaries of blackness but also the boundaries of American art. Weaving together the artistÕs interests in painting, writing, and music, this groundbreaking book expands the parameters of aesthetic discourse to consider the parallels Basquiat found among these disciplines in his exploration of the production of meaning. Most important, Reading Basquiat traces the ways in which Basquiat constructed large parts of his identityÑas a black man, as a musician, as a painter, and as a writerÑvia the manipulation of texts in his own library.
Collecting African American Art
Title | Collecting African American Art PDF eBook |
Author | Halima Taha |
Publisher | Crown Publishing Group (NY) |
Pages | 302 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Antiques & Collectibles |
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Presents African American artists, identifies dealers, and offers practical advice on insurance, framing, and tax and estate planning.
African-American Art
Title | African-American Art PDF eBook |
Author | Sharon F. Patton |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 328 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9780192842138 |
Discusses African American folk art, decorative art, photography, and fine arts.