Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Kroiz, Lauren, 1980-
2. Mazow, Leo G.
3. Ashmolean Museum, host institution

Description

1. 184 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 28 cm

Summary

1. As some American artists began to eliminate people and remove extraneous details from their compositions, they often employed neat, orderly brushwork or close-up, unemotional photography. Artists as diverse as Patrick Henry Bruce, John Covert, Georgia O'Keeffe, Paul Strand and Arthur Dove navigated European and American avant-garde circles, picking and choosing new ideas and methods. Inspiration ranged from Cubism and machine parts to new technologies, and they found ways to bring order to the modern world through extreme simplification. For them, abstraction involved absence and presence - the evacuation of human beings but also the desire to depict something that would not otherwise be visible or to render visible unseen natural processes like the passage of time, sound waves, or weather patterns. Their artworks provide a new context for the precisionist works in the subsequent sections and point to modern ideas about what art could be. How does a crisp painting technique relate to an aesthetic of absence?

Subject

1. 1900-1999
2. Modernism (Art) -- United States -- Exhibitions
3. Art, Modern -- 20th century -- Exhibitions
4. Art, Modern
5. Modernism (Art)
6. United States

Genre/Form

1. Exhibition catalogs.

Contents

1. Director's foreword -- Cool modernism in America, 1915-45 / Katherine M. Bourguignon -- Modern, cool and cold / Leo G. Mazow -- Leaving the body: the empty spaces of American Modernism / Lauren Kroiz -- Works in focus -- Exhibitions in focus -- Catalogue.

Call number

1. JQF 18-1247

Note

1. Catalog published to accompany the exhibition America's cool modernism : O'Keefe to Hopper, at the Ashmolean Museum, 23 March to 22 July 2018.

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 176-179) and index.

Author

1. Bourguignon, Katherine M., writer of added commentary.

Title

1. America's cool modernism : O'Keefe to Hopper / Katherine M. Bourguignon, Lauren Kroiz and Leo G. Mazow.

Publisher

1. Oxford : Ashmolean Museum, 2018.

Copyright date

1. ©2018

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 176-179) and index.

Chronological term

1. 1900-1999

Added author

1. Kroiz, Lauren, 1980- writer of added commentary.
2. Mazow, Leo G., writer of added commentary.
3. Ashmolean Museum, host institution.

ISBN

1. 9781910807217 (softcover)
2. 1910807214 (softcover)

Research call number

1. JQF 18-1247