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Author
Publisher
Norman Rockwell Museum
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Illuminates both the historic context in which FDR articulated the Four Freedoms -- Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Worship, Freedom from Want, and Freedom from Fear -- and the role of Rockwell's paintings in bringing them to life for millions of people, rallying the public behind the War effort and changing the tenor of the times. In telling the story of how Rockwell's works were transformed from a series of paintings into a national movement, the...
Publisher
Tate Publishing
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
In the period of radical change that was 1963-1983, young black artists at the beginning of their careers in the USA confronted key questions and pressures. How could they make art that would stand as innovative, original, formally and materially complex, while also making work that reflected their concerns and experience as black Americans? This significant new publication, accompanying an exhibition at Tate Modern, surveys this crucial period in...
Publisher
The Baltimore Museum of Art
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"During the pivotal decades leading up to World War II and throughout the war, important Surrealist artists such as Salvador Dalí, Max Ernst, André Masson, Joan Miró, Wolfgang Paalen, and Yves Tanguy--some of whom had served as soldiers in World War I--responded through their works to the repression and violence attending the rise of Hitler and the spread of Fascism in Europe. In this engrossing volume, essays by experts in the field and more than...
Author
Publisher
Cascadia Art Museum
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Kenjiro Nomura, American Modernist: An Issei Artist's Journey features the Japanese American artist's work throughout his life from his early works focusing on Seattle's urban environment and rural Northwest landscapes, to paintings and drawings capturing his life in World War II internment camps, and post-war abstractions fully demonstrating Nomura's artistic stylistic and professional growth. Born in Japan in 1896, Kenjiro Nomura came to the United...
Publisher
The Museum of Modern Art
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Lincoln Kirstein was a polymathic writer, critic, curator and impresario: a key connector and an indefatigable catalyst whose sweeping contributions to American cultural life in the 1930s and 1940s shaped artists and institutions. Best known for cofounding the New York City Ballet, he is also a crucial figure in the Museum of Modern Art's early history. He championed photography and figurative art; established the Museum's short-lived Dance Archives...
Author
Publisher
New York University Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"On a cold and clear afternoon in January 1865, a roaring fire swept through the Smithsonian Institution. The flames at the Smithsonian, however, were merely an omen of things to come for museums in the United States. Beset by challenges ranging from pandemic and war to fire and economic uncertainty, museums have sought ways to emerge from crisis periods stronger than before, occasionally carving important new paths forward in the process. Hampered...
Publisher
Princeton University Art Museum
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
From the Great Depression to the Vietnam War, the vast majority of the photographs printed and consumed in the United States appeared on the pages of illustrated magazines. Offering an in-depth look at the photography featured in Life magazine throughout its weekly run from 1936 to 1972, this publication examines how the magazine's use of images fundamentally shaped the modern idea of photography in the United States. The work of photographers such...
Publisher
Milwaukee Art Museum
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Seeking to bring Gallic sophistication and worldly elegance into their galleries and drawing rooms, wealthy Americans of the late 19th and early 20th centuries collected the work of William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825-1905) in record numbers. This revelatory volume offers an in-depth exploration of Bouguereau's overwhelming popularity in turn-of-the-century America and the ways that his work--widely known from reviews, exhibitions, and inexpensive reproductions--resonated...
Publisher
Blanton Museum of Art in association with Yale University Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Eva Hesse and Sol LeWitt formed a close friendship between the late 1950s and Hesse's death in 1970. Converging Lines celebrates this friendship and offers an illuminating look at their close-knit New York circle. Whereas previous scholarship has examined LeWitt's impact on Hesse, this is the first publication to demonstrate that the artists influenced each other's art and lives in reciprocal and profound ways. Richly documented, this book includes...
Author
Publisher
Art Institute of Chicago
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Much of Joseph Elmer Yoakum's story comes from the artist himself--and is almost too fantastic to believe. At a young age, Yoakum (1891-1972) traveled the globe with numerous circuses; he later served in a segregated noncombat regiment during World War I before settling in Chicago. There, inspired by a dream, he began his artistic career at age seventy-one, producing some two thousand drawings over a decade. How did Yoakum gain representation in...
12) County Line
Publisher
Arlington County
Language
English
Description
Washington Forest ; Fort C. Smith ; Sears Houses ; Radio Arlington ; Post Office Addresses ; Lustron Houses 1948-1950 ; Buckinham 1937-1953 ; Alcova ; Charles Drew House ; Samuel Burdett-Carlyn Springs ; Hilary Clinton visits school ; Trolley ; Retirement Community Options ; Taste of Arlington ; Northern Virginia Folk Festival ; Argentina National Day 8/95 ; Mexico National Day 9/95 ; Multicultural Festival 11/95 ; Arlington Arts Center ; Arlington...
13) Georgia O'Keeffe
Publisher
Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Offering a complete survey of Georgia O'Keeffe's illustrious career, this magnificent new book ranges from the works produced between 1910 and 1920 that made her a pioneer of abstraction to her celebrated flower paintings and views of New York, which led to her recognition as one of the key figures in modern American art, and culminating with her paintings of New Mexico. The selection of color plates is accompanied by quotes from O'Keeffe on her art...
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