American Modern: Hopper to O'Keeffe

American Modern: Hopper to O'Keeffe

Author: Esther Adler

Publisher: The Museum of Modern Art

Published: 2013-08-11

Total Pages: 145

ISBN-13: 087070852X

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The Museum of Modern Art is known for its prescient focus on the avant-garde art of Europe, but in the first half of the twentieth century it was also acquiring work by Stuart Davis, Georgia O’Keeffe, Charles Sheeler, Alfred Stieglitz, and other, less well-known American artists whose work sometimes fits awkwardly under the avant garde umbrella. American Modern presents a fresh look at MoMA’s holdings of American art from that period. The still lifes, portraits, and urban, rural, and industrial landscapes vary in style, approach, and medium: melancholy images by Edward Hopper and Andrew Wyeth bump against the eccentric landscapes of Charles Burchfield and the Jazz Age sculpture of Elie Nadelman. Yet a distinct sensibility emerges, revealing a side of the Museum that may surprise a good part of its audience and throwing light on the cultural preoccupations of the rapidly changing American society of the day.


Modern Life

Modern Life

Author: Edward Hopper

Publisher: Hirmer Verlag GmbH

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9783777434018

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This exhibition sets the art of Edward Hopper in the context of the diverse and controversial movements dominating American art during the first half of the twentieth century.


Chimneys and Towers

Chimneys and Towers

Author: Betsy Fahlman

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

Published: 2007-09-05

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13: 0812220129

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Chimneys and Towers focuses on Demuth's late paintings of industrial sites in Lancaster. Depicting the warehouses and factories of the city's tobacco and linoleum industries in sharp, geometric forms, these paintings bring to the depiction of his hometown the style of the American avant-garde that he helped create.


American Visions

American Visions

Author: Robert Hughes

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 635

ISBN-13: 9781860463723

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Robert Hughes begins where American art itself began, with the Native Americans and the first Spanish invaders in the Southwest; he ends with the art of today. In between, in a scholarly text that crackles with wit, intelligence and insight, he tells the story of how American art developed. Hughes investigates the changing tastes of the American public; he explores the effects on art of America's landscape of unparalleled variety and richness; he examines the impact of the melting-pot of cultures that America has always been. Most of all he concentrates on the paintings and art objects themselves and on the men and women - from Winslow Homer and Thomas Eakins to Edward Hopper and Georgia O'Keeffe, from Arthur Dove and George Bellows to Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko -awho created them. This is an uncompromising and refreshingly opinionated exploration of America, told through the lens of its art.


Sorted Books

Sorted Books

Author: Nina Katchadourian

Publisher: Chronicle Books

Published: 2013-02-08

Total Pages: 344

ISBN-13: 1452126860

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A witty and thought-provoking collection of visual poems constructed from stacks of books. Delighting in the look and feel of books, conceptual artist Nina Katchadourian’s playful photographic series proves that books’ covers—or more specifically, their spines—can speak volumes. Over the past two decades, Katchadourian has perused libraries across the globe, selecting, stacking, and photographing groupings of two, three, four, or five books so that their titles can be read as sentences, creating whimsical narratives from the text found there. Thought-provoking, clever, and at times laugh-out-loud funny (one cluster of titles from the Akron Museum of Art’s research library consists of: Primitive Art /Just Imagine/Picasso/Raised by Wolves), Sorted Books is an enthralling collection of visual poems full of wry wit and bookish smarts. Praise for Sorted Books “Katchadourian’s project . . . takes on a weight beyond its initial novelty. It’s a love letter to books, book collecting and the act of reading.” —San Francisco Chronicle “As a longtime fan of [Katchadourian’s] long-running Sorted Books project I’m thrilled for the release of Sorted Books—a collection spanning nearly two decades of her witty and wise minimalist mediations on life by way of ingeniously arranged book spines. . . . In an era drowned in periodic death tolls for the future of the physical book, her project stands as a celebration of the spirit embedded in the magnificent materiality of the printed page.” —Brain Pickings “Katchadourian’s stacks possess an understated sophistication; they are true to the intimate nature of books and yet reveal their dramatic features and unexpected potential.” —Publishers Weekly


Georgia O'Keeffe

Georgia O'Keeffe

Author: Elizabeth Hutton Turner

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 1999-01-01

Total Pages: 184

ISBN-13: 0300079354

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Explores O'Keeffe's unmatched accomplishments in still-life painting in two essays accompanied by reproductions of her work and photographs of her studios.


My Faraway One

My Faraway One

Author: Sarah Greenough

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2011-06-21

Total Pages: 834

ISBN-13: 0300166303

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Collects the private correspondence between Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz, revealing the ups and downs of their marriage, their thoughts on their work, and their friendships with other artists.