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America after the fall : painting in the 1930s

Title
  1. America after the fall : painting in the 1930s / edited by Judith A. Barter ; with essays by Judith A. Barter, Sarah L. Burns, Teresa A. Carbone, Annelise K. Madsen, and Sarah Kelly Oehler.
Published by
  1. Chicago, Illinois : The Art Institute of Chicago, [2016]
  2. New Haven, Connecticut : Yale University Press.
  3. ©2016
Format
  1. Book/text

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Additional authors
  1. Barter, Judith A., 1951-
  2. Art Institute of Chicago, organizer, host institution
  3. Musée de l'Orangerie, host institution
  4. Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain), host institution
Description
  1. 201 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 32 cm
Summary
  1. "Through 50 masterpieces of American painting, this 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 in search of "Americanness." Seeking to define modern American art, 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 allowed them to engage with issues such as populism, labor, social protest, and urban and rural iconography including machines, factories, and farms. Seminal works by Edward Hopper, Grant Wood, Thomas Hart Benton, Georgia O'Keeffe, Aaron Douglas, Charles Sheeler, Stuart Davis, and others show such attempts to capture the American character. These groundbreaking paintings, highlighting the relationship between art and national experience, demonstrate how creativity, experimentation, and revolutionary vision flourished during a time of great uncertainty"--
Subject
  1. Painting, American -- 20th century -- Exhibitions. - [Browse in index]
  2. National characteristics, American, in art -- Exhibitions. - [Browse in index]
  3. Art and society -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Exhibitions. - [Browse in index]
Genre/Form
  1. Exhibition catalogs.
  2. History.
Call number
  1. JQG 16-499
Language
  1. English
Note
  1. Catalog of the exhibitions at The Art Institute of Chicago, June 5 to September 18, 2016 ; Musée de 'lOrangerie, Paris, October 15, 2016 to January 30, 2017 ; Royal Academy of Arts, London, February 25 to June 4, 2017.
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 188-195) and index.
Edition
  1. First edition.
Type of content
  1. text
  2. still image
Type of medium
  1. unmediated
Type of carrier
  1. volume
Chronological term
  1. 1900-1999
Added author
  1. Barter, Judith A., 1951- editor.
  2. Art Institute of Chicago, organizer, host institution.
  3. Musée de l'Orangerie, host institution.
  4. Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain), host institution.
LCCN
  1. 2016009063
ISBN
  1. 9780300214857 hardcover
  2. 0300214855 hardcover
  3. 9780865592827 paperback
  4. 0865592829 paperback
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