The Frescoes of Conrad Albrizio
The Frescoes of Conrad Albrizio

Author: Carolyn A. Bercier

Publisher: LSU Press

Published: 2019-04-10

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 0807171026

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The artist Conrad Albrizio (1894–1973), a New York City native who studied internationally, made his home in New Orleans for more than a half century. To the people of Louisiana and Alabama, he bestowed the lasting gift of large-scale public frescoes, a form he championed long after the general popularity of communal art waned. From regional realism in his New Deal–commissioned works of the 1930s to his abstract-influenced, socially conscious interpretations of the 1950s, Albrizio’s creations exemplify the midcentury period while showcasing the ancient technique of fresco. In this lavishly illustrated volume, Carolyn A. Bercier analyzes Albrizio’s frescoes against the backdrop of the artist’s life. In her introduction, Elise Grenier, who has restored several of Albrizio’s murals, acquaints readers with the demands of painting in fresco, a method also employed by Albrizio’s contemporaries the Mexican muralists. By 1936, Albrizio had completed six fresco panels in the Louisiana State Capitol and his first federally funded mural, in the DeRidder, Louisiana, post office. That same year he joined the faculty of Louisiana State University’s new department of art, where his students depicted him within their murals in Allen Hall. Albrizio continued his fresco commissions for another eighteen years, including scenes in the post office in Russellville, Alabama; the State Fair Exhibits Building in Shreveport, Louisiana; the Capitol Annex Building in Baton Rouge; and the parish courthouse in New Iberia, Louisiana. His culminating accomplishments are an epic cycle portraying shipping, the elements, and the constellations in the lobby of the Waterman Building (now Wachovia Building) in Mobile, and a monumental rendition of Louisiana’s history in the New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal. Both visually lush and richly informative, The Frescoes of Conrad Albrizio pays deserved homage and brings fresh awareness to the under-recognized public murals of a passionate and prolific artist of the twentieth century.

The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture
The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture

Author: Judith H. Bonner

Publisher: UNC Press Books

Published: 2013-01-14

Total Pages: 527

ISBN-13: 0807869945

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From the Potomac to the Gulf, artists were creating in the South even before it was recognized as a region. The South has contributed to America's cultural heritage with works as diverse as Benjamin Henry Latrobe's architectural plans for the nation's Capitol, the wares of the Newcomb Pottery, and Richard Clague's tonalist Louisiana bayou scenes. This comprehensive volume shows how, through the decades and centuries, the art of the South expanded from mimetic portraiture to sophisticated responses to national and international movements. The essays treat historic and current trends in the visual arts and architecture, major collections and institutions, and biographies of artists themselves. As leading experts on the region's artists and their work, editors Judith H. Bonner and Estill Curtis Pennington frame the volume's contributions with insightful overview essays on the visual arts and architecture in the American South.

The M.E.Sharpe Library of Franklin D.Roosevelt Studies
The M.E.Sharpe Library of Franklin D.Roosevelt Studies

Author: Nancy Beck Young

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-07-05

Total Pages: 161

ISBN-13: 1351542834

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Although Roosevelt had no single plan to alter Congress's role, the incremental changes adopted during the New Deal transformed Congress. Examining the immediate reactions of groups in Congress and beyond, and the long-term effects, this study offers insights into a key period in US politics.

Louisiana Buildings, 1720–1940
Louisiana Buildings, 1720–1940

Author: Jessie Poesch

Publisher: LSU Press

Published: 1997-08-01

Total Pages: 456

ISBN-13: 9780807120545

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The only New Deal program to continue into the 1990s, the Historic American Buildings Survey has through the years drawn attention to the historical and artistic significance of buildings that contemporary taste might otherwise have ignored. Louisiana Buildings, 1720-1940 makes easily available the fruit of HABS's important and enduring efforts to record Louisiana's architectural heritage. In the 1930s, the Louisiana HABS team concentrated on public edifices and grand plantation complexes threatened by destruction. Later records of HABS include still other habitations of the common man as well as industrial structures. The project has yielded not only graphic and written documentation of the buildings, many no longer standing, but also new insights into the history of the state's architecture. An invaluable part of Louisiana Buildings, 1720-1940 is the alphabetical listing of HABS structures in Louisiana both by familiar name and by parish. The listing by parish gives the location, the date of construction, the architect when known, and the current status of each building. It also presents drawings or photographs of many of the structures, over 300 pictures in all. There are, besides, nine chapters by leading architectural historians, who cover all aspects of Louisiana architecture: its Creole beginnings in the south of the state; the Appalachian folk style in the north; and developments on the plantation, in the seventeenth-century urban setting, and in the modern era. Those chapters form an essential frame of reference for the data in the HABS listings and call attention to many other structures that are a part of the history of building in the Pelican State. Anyone interested in the state's architecture or history will find Louisiana Buildings indispensable.

New Deal Art in Alabama
New Deal Art in Alabama

Author: Anita Price Davis

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2015-08-17

Total Pages: 231

ISBN-13: 0786498293

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As the United States struggled to recover from the Great Depression, 24 towns in Alabama would directly benefit from some of the $83 million allocated by the Federal Government for public art works under the New Deal. In the words of Harold Lloyd Hopkins, administrator of the Federal Emergency Relief Act, "artists had to eat, too," and these funds aided people who needed employment during this difficult period in American history. This book examines some of the New Deal art--murals, reliefs, sculptures, frescoes and paintings--of Alabama and offers biographical sketches of the artists who created them. An appendix describes federal art programs and projects of the period (1933-1943).

Southern/Modern
Southern/Modern

Author: Jonathan Stuhlman

Publisher: UNC Press Books

Published: 2023-04-19

Total Pages: 722

ISBN-13: 1469674092

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Inspired by a companion exhibition, Southern/Modern is the first book to survey progressive art created in the American South during the first half of the twentieth century. Featuring twelve essays, this lavishly illustrated volume includes all the works from the exhibition and assesses a broader body of contextual pieces to offer a fascinating, multipronged look at modernism's thriving presence in the South—until now, something largely overlooked in histories of American art. Contributors take a broad view of the region, considering artists working in the states below the Mason-Dixon Line and those bordering the Mississippi River. It examines the central roles played by women and artists of color, providing a fuller, richer, and more accurate overview of the artistic activity in the region than has been previously presented. The book is structured around key themes, including the embrace of "high" modernism, the importance of emerging university programs and artist colonies, the depiction of rural and urban modern life, and the role of artists from the South who left and artists from outside the region who came to the South seeking new subjects. Contributors are Daniel Belasco, Katelyn D. Crawford, William Underwood Eiland, William R. Ferris, Shawnya Harris, Todd A. Herman, Karen Towers Klacsmann, Leo G. Mazow, Christopher C. Oliver, Jeffrey Richmond-Moll, Martha R. Severens, Jonathan Stuhlman, Rebecca VanDiver, and Jonathan Frederick Walz.

Eric Brock's Shreveport
Eric Brock's Shreveport

Author: Brock, Eric J.

Publisher: Pelican Publishing

Published: 2001-01-31

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 9781455603862

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Today, Shreveport boasts the largest collection of important twentieth-century buildings in the state of Louisiana, and is surpassed only by New Orleans in the number of locations listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Well-known Shreveport historian Eric J. Brock details the history of the city's commerce, civic development, neighborhoods, architecture, cemeteries, peculiar events, culture, religion, and education. Based on his columns for the long-running series, "The Presence of the Past," which appeared weekly in the Shreveport JournalPage, it is the result of many years of documentation and research. One can witness the breakup of the Great Raft, relive the yellow fever epidemic of 1873, sing along at the Louisiana Hayride, and retrace the steps of Martin Luther King, Jr. Written in response to an overwhelming number of requests and suggestions for a book of its kind, Eric Brock's Shreveport should fill the void for academic books depicting the area.

The American Scene and the South
The American Scene and the South

Author: Patricia Elaine Phagan

Publisher: University of Georgia, Georgia Museum of Art

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13:

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Produced in conjunction with an exhibition originating at the Georgia Museum of Art and scheduled for several venues during 1997. Thoroughly researched essays give an overview of the 1930s; discuss the Southern scene in Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana and Mississippi, South Carolina, and North Carolina and Virginia; and address the subjects of WPA black printmakers, and views of the South by Northern artists. Illustrated with color and bandw plates. 11x9"Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR