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A unique look at America's quest to carve out an artistic identity during the Depression era Through 50 masterpieces of painting, this fascinating catalogue chronicles the turbulent economic, political, and aesthetic climate of the 1930s. This decade was a supremely creative period in the United States, as the nation's artists, novelists, and critics struggled through the Great Depression seeking to define modern American art. In the process, many painters challenged and reworked the meanings and forms of modernism, reaching no simple consensus. This period was also marked by an astounding diversity of work as artists sought styles--ranging from abstraction to Regionalism to Surrealism--that...
A detailed and extensive catalogue of 109 paintings by 55 artists, in which all the paintings in the collection are illustrated in color.
This volume is devoted to the American naive paintings in the National Gallery of Art, which has one of the most important collections of this kind in the world. Created outside the academic mainstream, these paintings show an extraordinary diversity of individual expression and serve as vivid documents of American culture. Most of the works formerly belonged to the collection of Colonel Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch, who donated more than 300 paintings and about 100 drawings to the Gallery over nearly thirty years. Most date from the nineteenth century and a substantial number are by well-known folk artists, including Erastus Salisbury Field, Ammi Phillips, and William Matthew...
The Conference on Comparative Lining Techniques held at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich was the first major conference solely concerned with the structural conservation of paintings. This volume contains the papers as originally presented, some of which have been brought up to date with the addition of commentaries.
A 2-volume survey, complete with artist biographie s and interpretive essays, of one of the most important and oldest collections of American paintings in the U.S. 160 colour & 325 b/w illustrations