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James W. Tottis … [et al.] with contributions from Michael E. Crane and Kirsten OldsPublication Details
Book, Merrell, 2007Description
Offers a fresh exploration of a major American artistic movement Features works by the Ashcan artists and their circle, including George Bellows (see opposite), William Glackens, Robert Henri, Edward Hopper, Rockwell Kent, George Luks, Guy Pène du Bois, Maurice Prendergast, Everett Shinn and John Sloan, among others Complemented by lively essays on the world of leisure experienced and depicted by the Ashcan school. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Tags
Ashcan school of art · Manners and customs in art · National characteristics, American, in art · Tottis, James W · Detroit Institute of Arts · Frist Center for the Visual Arts (Nashville, Tenn.) · New-York Historical SocietyAvailability
| (UPPER LEVEL) | N6512.5.E4 L54 2007 | AVAILABLE |
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Trevor Fairbrother ; with a foreword by Dan L. MonroePublication Details
Book, Yale University Press, 2006Description
Works by such artists as Fitz Henry Lane, John Singer Sargent, Winslow Homer, Maurice Prendergast, Marsden Hartley, Edward Hopper, Hans Hofmann, Andrew Wyeth, Alex Katz, and Yvonne Jacquette depict subjects as wide ranging as the bucolic delights of farms and fields to the atmospheric light of New England?s rugged coasts to the ethnic and social diversity of urban street life. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Tags
Landscape painting, American · New England · 19th century · 20th century · Summer in art · In art · Fairbrother, Trevor JAvailability
| OVERSIZE (UPPER) | ND1351.5 .F35 2006 | DUE 12-16-09 |
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Michael Conforti … [et al.] ; with additional contributions by Daniel Cohen-McFall … [et al.]Publication Details
Book, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 2006Links
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Stephen, a businessman and museum trustee, acquired modern works by such masters as Georges Seurat, Paul C (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Tags
Clark, Robert Sterling, · 1877-1956 · Art collections · Exhibitions · Clark, Stephen Carlton, · 1882-1960 · Painting, Modern · 19th century · 20th century · Painting · Collectors and collecting · United States · Conforti, Michael · Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute · Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)Availability
| (UPPER LEVEL) | ND190 .C53 2006 | AVAILABLE |
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Katharine Kuh ; edited & completed by Avis BermanPublication Details
Book, 1st ed, Arcade Pub, 2006Description
A unique look at the evolution of modern art in America, from art historian and eminent former curator of the Chicago Art Institute Katharine Kuh, a key figure in opening Americas eyes to contemporary art. To sell contemporary art in post-Depression America was almost suicidal, but with guts and gumption Kuh survived. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Tags
Art Institute of Chicago · Art, American · 20th century · Kuh, Katharine · Berman, AvisAvailability
| (UPPER LEVEL) | N6512 .K84 2006 | AVAILABLE |
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John UpdikePublication Details
Book, 1st ed, Knopf, 2005Description
When, in 1989, a collection of John Updike?s writings on art appeared under the title Just Looking, a reviewer in the San Francisco Chronicle commented, ?He refreshes for us the sense of prose opportunity that makes art a sustaining subject to people who write about it.? In the sixteen years since Just Looking was published, he has continued to serve as an art critic, mostly for The New York Review of Books, and from fifty or so articles has selected, for this richly illustrated book, eighteen that deal with American art. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Tags
Art, American · Updike, JohnAvailability
| (UPPER LEVEL) | N6505 .U64 2005 | AVAILABLE |
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edited by Éric de Chassey ; translated by Jane McDonaldPublication Details
Book, Reunion des musees nationaux, 2002Description
Offering a fresh perspective on American art from the first half of the 20th century, this elegant book presents approximately 200 paintings, works on paper, photographs, and sculpture by such artists as Ansel Adams, Milton Avery, Walker Evans, Edward Hopper, Georgia O’Keeffe, Ben Shahn, Paul Strand, and Grant Wood, along with works by other well-known and less-familiar artists. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Tags
Art, American · Exhibitions · 20th century · Chassey, Eric de · Bordeaux (France). Musée des beaux-arts · Musée des beaux-arts de Rennes · Musée FabreAvailability
| OVERSIZE (UPPER) | N6512 .A572 2002 | AVAILABLE |
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edited by Townsend Ludington ; assistant editors, Thomas Fahy & Sarah P. ReuningPublication Details
Book, University of North Carolina Press, 2000Description
This insightful collection of original essays explores the impact of modernism on American culture and the ways in which modernism remains a key to understanding American art and society. In fresh and provocative essays they explore how the ideas of modernism helped shape such artistic expressions as the writings of the Harlem Renaissance, the paintings of Edward Hopper, New Deal public art projects, and George Antheil’s Ballet M (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Tags
Modernism (Art) · United States · Arts, American · 20th century · Popular culture · History · Ludington, Townsend, 1936-Availability
| (UPPER LEVEL) | NX504 .M584 2000 | AVAILABLE |
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Anne CarsonPublication Details
Book, 1st Vintage contemporaries ed, Vintage Books, 2001Description
Anne Carson has been acclaimed by her peers as the most imaginative poet writing today. Reinventing figures as diverse as Oedipus, Emily Dickinson, and Audubon, Carson sets up startling juxtapositions: Lazarus among video paraphernalia, Virginia Woolf and Thucydides discussing war, Edward Hopper paintings illuminated by St. Augustine. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Tags
Carson, Anne, 1950-Availability
| (UPPER LEVEL) | PS3553.A7667 M46 2001 | AVAILABLE |
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Diane WakoskiPublication Details
Book, Black Sparrow Press, 2000Description
Blood and crisp cotton as ink and paper, bread and wine as flesh and blood, the meal as art and as sacrament this is the stuff of The Butcher’s Apron, a feast for lovers of good food and good poetry, and for those who, “as some women love jewels, love the jewels of life.” (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Tags
Wakoski, DianeAvailability
| (UPPER LEVEL) | PS3573.A42 B8 2000 | AVAILABLE |
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Joyce Carol OatesPublication Details
Book, Plume, 1999Description
One of America’s foremost novelists comments on the classics of literature and art and the perennial questions of the human condition in her first essay collection in a decade. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Tags
Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938-Availability
| (UPPER LEVEL) | PS3565.A8 W45 1999 | AVAILABLE |
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