A Passion for American Art

A Passion for American Art
Title A Passion for American Art PDF eBook
Author Dean T. Lahikainen
Publisher
Pages 0
Release 2019
Genre Art
ISBN 9781625344403

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"A Passion for American Art accompanies the exhibition on view at the Peabody Essex Museum from May 11, 2019, through fall 2019."

The Passionate Collector

The Passionate Collector
Title The Passionate Collector PDF eBook
Author Roy R. Neuberger
Publisher John Wiley & Sons
Pages 194
Release 2003-05-13
Genre Business & Economics
ISBN 0471471798

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"Few living persons have served the Metropolitan Museum of Art-indeed, the entire world of art and art museums-longer, or with more distinction, than Roy Neuberger. A man of taste, passion, persistence, and generosity, he has shared much of his great private collection with the public, and for generations has supported activities that bring people to museums, and motivate them to return again and again. Now, this giant of a man has recorded eighty years of his life-and the result is entertaining, illuminating, and, like the tireless gentleman himself, inspiring." -Philippe de Montebello, Director, The Metropolitan Museum of Art Equal to his passion for investing is Roy Neuberger's love for art-which he has collected and encouraged for eight decades. In The Passionate Collector: Eighty Years in the World of Art, you'll follow this fascinating financial figure and great patron of the arts from the streets of 1920s Paris to the museums of New York as he develops the eye of a connoisseur and begins to collect great contemporary art. Vivid detail puts you in the center of the action as Neuberger collects the brilliant artists of his time-Milton Avery, Jackson Pollock, Ben Shahn, Edward Hopper; works with legendary art dealers Paul Rosenberg, Betty Parsons, Sidney Janis, and Leo Castelli; and befriends avid collectors, including the incomparable Duncan Phillips. You'll follow Neuberger as he strives to further the cause of contemporary American artists by exhibiting, lending, and donating from his growing collection, and becoming an activist for the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Whitney. You'll also see how the Neuberger Museum of Art was created at the urging of Governor Nelson Rockefeller, and how it continues to fascinate art enthusiasts today. Part personal memoir, part history of art, The Passionate Collector offers a unique view of twentieth-century American art from a man who has lived it.

Oscar Bluemner

Oscar Bluemner
Title Oscar Bluemner PDF eBook
Author Jeffrey Russell Hayes
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 246
Release 1991-05-31
Genre Art
ISBN 9780521331661

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In this first monograph on important early modern artist Oscar Bluemner (1867-1938), who was born and trained as an architect in Germany before moving to the United States and becoming a painter, the author gives a thorough account of Bluemner's background, creative development, professional relationships, major works, and intellectual framework based on his own diaries and other unpublished or previously neglected sources. Of particular interest are Bluemner's early emulation of Cézanne and especially van Gogh; his association with Alfred Stieglitz's pioneering 291 Circle; several major but little known paintings and drawings found in private collections; a unique theory of colour and landscape shaped by both Far Eastern aesthetics and Western thinkers such as Goethe and Freud; a closing critical estimate of Bluemner's role and 'place' in American early modernism.

Nature's Nation

Nature's Nation
Title Nature's Nation PDF eBook
Author Karl Kusserow
Publisher
Pages 0
Release 2018
Genre Art
ISBN 9780300237009

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This multidisciplinary book offers the first broad ecocritical review of American art and examines the environmental contexts of artistic practice from the colonial period to the present day. Tracing how visions of the environment have changed from the Native-European encounter to the emergence of modern ecological activism, more than a dozen scholars and practitioners discuss how artists have both responded to and actively instigated changes in ecological understanding.

The Incredible Joy of Collecting African American Art

The Incredible Joy of Collecting African American Art
Title The Incredible Joy of Collecting African American Art PDF eBook
Author Patrick Diamond
Publisher
Pages
Release 2020-02
Genre
ISBN 9781732048270

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A Passion for Performance

A Passion for Performance
Title A Passion for Performance PDF eBook
Author Shelley Bennett
Publisher Getty Publications
Pages 162
Release 1999-09-02
Genre Art
ISBN 0892365579

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A Passion for Performance: Sarah Siddons and Her Portraitists brings together three engaging essays – by Robyn Asleson, Shelley Bennett and Mark Leonard, and Shearer West – that recreate the eventful life, both on and off the stage, of the great eighteenth-century actress Sarah Siddons. Siddons was renowned for her bravura performances in tragic roles, and her fame was enhanced by the many portraits of her painted by the leading artists of the day. The greatest of these was Sir Joshua Reynolds’s Sarah Siddons as the Tragic Muse, a painting now in the Huntington Art Collections and recently studied at the Getty Center. A Passion for Performance places this magnificent portrait within the context of Siddons’s career as an actress and cultural icon. Includes a chronology of Siddons’s life by volume editor Robyn Asleson.

Our America

Our America
Title Our America PDF eBook
Author Smithsonian American Art Museum
Publisher Giles
Pages 374
Release 2014
Genre Art
ISBN

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Explores how one group of Latin American artists express their relationship to American art, history and culture.