Download or read book All that is Glorious Around Us written by Pennsylvania State University. Museum of Art and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Painting of Modern Life written by T.J. Clark and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2017-06-28 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From T.J. Clark comes this provocative study of the origins of modern art in the painting of Parisian life by Edouard Manet and his followers. The Paris of the 1860s and 1870s was a brand-new city, recently adorned with boulevards, cafés, parks, Great Exhibitions, and suburban pleasure grounds—the birthplace of the habits of commerce and leisure that we ourselves know as "modern life." A new kind of culture quickly developed in this remade metropolis, sights and spectacles avidly appropriated by a new kind of "consumer": clerks and shopgirls, neither working class nor bourgeois, inventing their own social position in a system profoundly altered by their very existence. Emancipated and rootless, these men and women flocked to the bars and nightclubs of Paris, went boating on the Seine at Argenteuil, strolled the island of La Grande-Jatte—enacting a charade of community that was to be captured and scrutinized by Manet, Degas, and Seurat. It is Clark's cogently argued (and profusely illustrated) thesis that modern art emerged from these painters' attempts to represent this new city and its inhabitants. Concentrating on three of Manet's greatest works and Seurat's masterpiece, Clark traces the appearance and development of the artists' favorite themes and subjects, and the technical innovations that they employed to depict a way of life which, under its liberated, pleasure-seeking surface, was often awkward and anxious. Through their paintings, Manet and the Impressionists ask us, and force us to ask ourselves: Is the freedom offered by modernity a myth? Is modern life heroic or monotonous, glittering or tawdry, spectacular or dull? The Painting of Modern Life illuminates for us the ways, both forceful and subtle, in which Manet and his followers raised these questions and doubts, which are as valid for our time as for the age they portrayed.

Download or read book Art in America written by Frank Jewett Mather and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Candace Wheeler written by Amelia Peck and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2001 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This publication, which accompanies an exhibition held at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, contains a biographical essay and a catalogue of about one hundred designs for textiles, wallpaper, and other interior furnishings by Wheeler and her associates."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Download or read book Art Digest written by and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes section "The great calendar of American exhibitions."

Download or read book A Short History of Painting in America written by E.P. Richardson and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Arts Decoration written by and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Cos Cob Art Colony written by Susan G. Larkin and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What Argenteuil in the 1870s was to French Impressionists, Cos Cob between 1890 and 1920 was to American Impressionists Childe Hassam, Theodore Robinson, John Twachtman, J. Alden Weir, and their followers. These artists and writers came together to work in the modest Cos Cob section of Greenwich, Connecticut, testing new styles and new themes in the stimulating company of colleagues. This beautiful book is the first to examine the art colony at Cos Cob and the role it played in the development of American Impressionist art. During the art-colony period, says Susan Larkin, Greenwich was changing from a farming and fishing community to a prosperous suburb of New York. The artists who gathered in Cos Cob produced work that reflects the resulting tensions between tradition and modernity, nature and technology, and country and city. The artists' preferred subjects -- colonial architecture, quiet landscapes, contemplative women -- held a complex significance for them, which Larkin explores. Drawing on maritime history, garden design, women's studies, and more, she places the art colony in its cultural and historical context and reveals unexpected depth in paintings of enormous popular appeal.

Download or read book Robert W Weir of West Point written by United States Military Academy. Library and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Place in the Sun written by Thomas Brent Smith and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2016-01-20 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of the hundreds of foreign students who attended the Munich Art Academy between 1910 and 1915, Walter Ufer (1876–1936) and E. Martin Hennings (1886–1956) returned to the United States to foster the development of a national art. They ultimately established their reputations in the American Southwest. The two German American artists shared much in common, and both would gain membership in the celebrated Taos Society of Artists. Featuring nearly 150 color plates and historical photographs, A Place in the Sun is a long-overdue tribute to the lives, achievements, and artistic legacy of these two important artists. In tracing the lifelong friendship and intersecting careers of Ufer and Hennings, the contributors to this volume explore the social and artistic implications of the artists’ German heritage and training. Following their training in Munich, both men hoped to build careers in the spirited art environment of Chicago. Both were sponsored by wealthy businessmen, many of German descent. The support of these patrons allowed Ufer and Hennings to travel to the American Southwest, where they—like so many other talented artists—fell under the spell of Taos and its picturesque scenery. They also encountered the region’s Native peoples and Hispanic culture that inspired many of their paintings. Despite their mutual interests, Ufer and Hennings were not identical by any means. Each artist had a distinct artistic style and, as the essays in this volume reveal, the two men could not have had more different personalities or career trajectories. Connoisseurs of southwestern art have long admired the masterworks of Ufer and Hennings. By offering a rich sampling of their paintings alongside informative essays by noted art historians, A Place in the Sun ensures that their significant contributions to American art will be long remembered. A Place in the Sun is published in cooperation with the Denver Art Museum.

Download or read book Arts Decoration written by and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book James McNeill Whistler written by Ronald Anderson and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2002-07-15 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines both the life and work of the nineteenth-century painter, dispelling the usual portrait of an irascible dandy at war with critics and other artists, and assesses his reputation as a pivotal figure in the arts and his influence on the work of fellow artists. Reprint.

Download or read book Albert Pinkham Ryder Painter of Dreams written by William Innes Homer and published by ABRAMS. This book was released on 1989 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the life and career of the enigmatic American artist, discusses his unusual painting technique, and looks at his literary and artistic influences.

Download or read book Arthur B Davies written by Joseph S. Czestochowski and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arthur Bowen Davies (1862-1928) was hailed by his contemporaries as one of the greatest American artists, but his work fell out of favor soon after his death, and it is only recently that the public has begun to reevaluate Davies's contribution to American art. This catalogue is structured to inform the reader about Davies's graphics and paintings. American Art Series. Illustrated.

Download or read book The Art Students League of New York written by Raymond J. Steiner and published by C S S Publications, Incorporated. This book was released on 1999 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the history since 1875 of an institution that has played an enormous role in the cultivation of American artists and art. The author, a founder and editor/art critic for "Art Times," provides a history enriched with anecdotes that portray the flavor of this unusual school as well as information about the school's social and cultural context over time. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR

Download or read book The Artistic Journey of Yasuo Kuniyoshi written by Tom M. Wolf and published by Giles. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A welcome introduction to this complex artist's entire career, featuring seventy of his best works from public and private collections.

Download or read book Dictionary of Contemporary American Artists written by Paul Cummings and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A completely revised and updated sixth edition of the most useful and detailed directory of America's leading artists. Over 900 comprehensive entries including biographical data, exhibitions, special commissions, collections, and a bibliography. With 149 newly selected illustrations.