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Book Modern   Contemporary Art at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts

Download or read book Modern Contemporary Art at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts written by John B. Ravenal and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "From Jackson Pollock's dynamic 1948 drip painting to Kehinde Wiley's colorful 2006 hip-hop portrait, 114 works--paintings, sculpture, video art, prints, drawings, photographs, and collage--offer art enthusiasts their old favorites, hidden treasures, and exciting new acquisitions."--Cover.

Book Selections

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  • Author : Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1997
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 386 pages

Download or read book Selections written by Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spanning more than five thousand years and representing a significant array of world cultures, this extensively updated, beautifully reproduced volume showcases masterworks of ancient Mediterranean and American art; Asian, African, and European paintings, as well as Byzantine and Western Medieval Sculpture and the Decorative Arts are also characterized.

Book Looking at Contemporary Art Family Guide

Download or read book Looking at Contemporary Art Family Guide written by Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Dirty South

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  • Author : Valerie Cassel Oliver
  • Publisher : Duke University Press
  • Release : 2021
  • ISBN : 9781934351192
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book The Dirty South written by Valerie Cassel Oliver and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Director's foreword / Alex Nyerges -- What you know about the Dirty South? / Valerie Cassel Oliver -- a poem for black art / Fred Moten -- Landscape : the politics and poetics of dirt. Cosmic encounter / Charlie R. Braxton ; Bevery Buchanan : forms of ruination / Andrea Barnwell Brownlee, Jennifer Burris, and Park MacArthur ; Quilted beats bound at the rut : a theorization of the Dirty South / Regina N. Bradley ; Plates -- Systems of thought : the vision of envisioning. Songs that are sacred and pure (for Toni Morrison) / Charlie R. Braxton ; Dreaming empire, conjuring freedom : Renée Stout, African American landscape representation, and the imperial South / Kirsten Pai Buick ; Bible Belt swag : Houston hip-hop and Black religion / Anthony B. Pinn ; Dreaming of the South in stereo : Black music's American journey / Guthrie P. Ramsey Jr. ; Plates -- The Black body : repository/site/agent. Bluesosophy (for Julius Thompson) / Charlie R. Braxton ; Picturing the South : how photographers have imaged the region / Rhea L. Combs ; Changing the rules, the practice of pleasure : the linguistic possibilities of dirt / Roger Reeves ; Plates -- Epilogue. Code Black : the Dirty South / Paul D. Miller ; The Dirty South playlist ; Plates -- Artist biographies -- Contributor biographies -- Exhibition checklist and image credits.

Book Virginia Museum of Fine Arts

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  • Author : Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
  • Publisher : Scala Arts Publishers Incorporated
  • Release : 2016
  • ISBN : 9781857599718
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Virginia Museum of Fine Arts written by Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and published by Scala Arts Publishers Incorporated. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: * The first pocket-sized souvenir book about the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and its collectionSince its opening in 1936 as the nation's first art museum chartered by a state, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts has grown into a world-class cultural institution, with a permanent collection that encompasses more than 33,000 works spanning 5,000 years of world history. Its collections of Art Nouveau and Art Deco, English silver, Fabergé and art from South Asia are among the finest in the nation. With acclaimed holdings in American, British sporting, Impressionist and Post-Impressionist, and Modern and Contemporary art - and additional strengths in African, Ancient, East Asian and European art - VMFA is one of the most comprehensive art museums in the United States. This beautifully illustrated book provides a glimpse into some of the museum's most treasured artworks, as well as a brief history of its buildings and grounds.

Book American Art at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts

Download or read book American Art at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts written by Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With this publication, produced in conjunction with the largest expansion in the history of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, the full scope of the museum's outstanding American art collection is represented for the first time. Following an introduction tracing the history of American art at this encyclopedic museum--a state-supported, privately endowed institution--readers will discover lively and generously illustrated essays about selected paintings, sculptures, and works on paper by many of America's leading artists: John James Audubon, Thomas Hart Benton, Mary Cassatt, Frederic Church, John Singleton Copley, Edward Hopper, Jacob Lawrence, Georgia O'Keeffe, Charles Willson Peale, Augustus Saint-Gaudens, John Singer Sargent, William Wetmore Story, Henry Ossawa Tanner, and James McNeill Whistler. Also included are decorative objects by well-known artisans and firms, such as John Henry Belter, the Goddard-Townsend group, Herter Brothers, Paul Revere, Louis Comfort Tiffany, and Frank Lloyd Wright. Organized in chronological sections ranging from the colonial era to the mid-twentieth century, this long-awaited book examines a noteworthy collection through a variety of interpretive lenses--aesthetic and cultural--for the benefit of a broad readership. Published by the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in association with the University of Virginia Press

Book Champion Animals

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  • Author : Herbert Haseltine
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1996
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 108 pages

Download or read book Champion Animals written by Herbert Haseltine and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Item is centred round the collection of the artist's sculptures in the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and the text largely consists of the artist's edited memoirs.

Book The Fleeting Glimpse

Download or read book The Fleeting Glimpse written by Amy G. Moorefield and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Howardena Pindell

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  • Author : Naomi Beckwith
  • Publisher : National Geographic Books
  • Release : 2018-03-01
  • ISBN : 3791357379
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Howardena Pindell written by Naomi Beckwith and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2018-03-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This retrospective volume celebrates five decades of Howardena Pindell's art, including works on paper, collage, photography, film, and video. Born in middle-class Philadelphia in the 1940s, Howardena Pindell came of age during the Civil Rights movement. As an African-American woman artist, making her way in the world provided Pindell with source material to inspire her work. This book examines every facet of Pindell's impressive career to date. Since the 1960s, she has used materials such as glitter, talcum powder, and perfume to stretch the boundaries of traditional canvas painting. She has also infused her work with traces of her labor, such as obsessively affixing dots of pigment and circles made with an ordinary hole punch tool. After a car crash in 1979 left her with short-term amnesia, Pindell's work looked beyond the painting studio to explore a wide range of subjects, including the personal and diaristic as well as the social and political. This monograph also highlights Pindell's work with photography, film, and performance. Excerpts from the artist's writing, in particular her critique of the art world and her responses to feminism and racial politics, provide prescient commentary in light of conversations around equality and inclusion today. Published in association with the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago

Book Selections from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts

Download or read book Selections from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts written by Anne B. Barriault and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Selections from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts features the 100 objects and essays original to the 1997 edition plus 50 entries detailing major acquisitions added to the permanent collection since that time...This reader- and visitor-friendly edition represents objects of the finest quality. The mixture of signature pieces and those that deserve to be better known and understood illustrates the breadth of VMFA's collection and captures the flavor and character of the Museum." "Each object receives a two-page spread with full-color reproduction, a brief description and history, and sidebars with additional, at-a-glance information. Included also are a new Foreword by VMFA director Alex Nyerges and an updated Introduction highlighting the expansion and renovations of the building and grounds."--Publisher description.

Book Publications   Virginia Museum of Fine Arts  Richmond  Catalog  The main currents in the development of American painting  inaugural exhibition of the     museum     Jan  16 March 1  1936   1936   v 1  The sculpture of Paul Manship   1936   v 1  A memorial exhibition of the works of Dugald Stewart Walker   1937   v 1  A comprehensive exhibition of sculpture by Malvina Hoffman   v 1  A comprehensive exhibition of the contemporary art of Argentina   1940   v 1  An exhibition of silver French  British  American  modern   1940   v 1  The sculpture of Concetta Scaravaglione   1941

Download or read book Publications Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Richmond Catalog The main currents in the development of American painting inaugural exhibition of the museum Jan 16 March 1 1936 1936 v 1 The sculpture of Paul Manship 1936 v 1 A memorial exhibition of the works of Dugald Stewart Walker 1937 v 1 A comprehensive exhibition of sculpture by Malvina Hoffman v 1 A comprehensive exhibition of the contemporary art of Argentina 1940 v 1 An exhibition of silver French British American modern 1940 v 1 The sculpture of Concetta Scaravaglione 1941 written by Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and published by . This book was released on 1936 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Jasper Johns and Edvard Munch

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  • Author : John B. Ravenal
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 2016-06-28
  • ISBN : 0300220065
  • Pages : 142 pages

Download or read book Jasper Johns and Edvard Munch written by John B. Ravenal and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2016-06-28 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ce catalogue d'exposition exxplore la relation entre les artistes Jasper Johns et Edvard Munch.

Book Edward Hopper and the American Hotel

Download or read book Edward Hopper and the American Hotel written by Leo G. Mazow and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using recreated itineraries, travel along with Edward Hopper on his various road trips and encounter hotels, staff, and guests as seen through the artist's eyes The painter, draftsman, and illustrator Edward Hopper (1882-1967) is one of America's best-known and most frequently exhibited artists. Hotels, motels, and tourist homes are recurring motifs in his work, along with streets, lighthouses, and gas stations forming a visual vocabulary of transportation infrastructure. In ten essays, this fascinating volume explores Hopper's lifelong investigation of such spaces, shedding light on both his professional practice and far-reaching changes in transportation and communications, which affected not only work and leisure but also dynamics of race, class, and gender. Hopper's covers for the trade journal Hotel Management, in addition to other well-known works, invite reflection on the complicated roles of the nascent New Woman; the erasure of hotel work and workers; contemporary associations of the color white with cleanliness and purity; the watercolors Hopper made from hotel windows and rooftops in Mexico; and the broader context of transportation history. A final chapter then situates Hopper's contribution to the fascinating role that the hotel has played in the broader development of American art in the 20th century. As a unique feature, the book's backflap also holds two "TripTik"-like, removable maps that trace the journeys that Hopper and his wife, the artist Josephine "Jo" Nivison Hopper, took by car in the 1940s and 1950s; selected correspondence and quotations from Jo's own diaries join reproductions of postcards and ephemera illuminating their--and fellow Americans'--shifting travel habits. Distributed for the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Exhibition Schedule: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond (October 26, 2019-February 23, 2020) Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields (June 4, 2020-September 13, 2020)

Book Contemporary Virginia realism

Download or read book Contemporary Virginia realism written by Hearne Pardee and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Riffs and Relations

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  • Author : Adrienne L. Childs
  • Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
  • Release : 2020-03-03
  • ISBN : 0847866645
  • Pages : 210 pages

Download or read book Riffs and Relations written by Adrienne L. Childs and published by Rizzoli Publications. This book was released on 2020-03-03 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A timely consideration of African-American artists' rich engagement with the history of art from the twentieth century, this book is the winner of the James A. Porter and David C. Driskell Book Award for African American Art History. Riffs and Relations: African American Artists and the European Modernist Tradition presents works by African American artists of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries together with works by the early-twentieth-century European artists with whom they engaged. Black artists have investigated, interrogated, invaded, entangled, annihilated, or immersed themselves in the aesthetics, symbolism, and ethos of European art for more than a century. The powerful push and pull of this relationship constitutes a distinct tradition for many African American artists who source the master narratives of art history to critique, embrace, or claim their own space. This groundbreaking catalog--accompanying a major exhibition at the Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C.--explores the connections and frictions around modernism in the works of artists such as Romare Bearden, Pablo Picasso, Faith Ringgold, Renee Cox, Robert Colescott, Norman Lewis, Hank Willis Thomas, Carrie Mae Weems and Henri Matisse. The volume explores how blackness has often been conceived from the standpoint of these international and intergenerational connections and presents the divergent and complex works born of these important dialogues.

Book The Road Untravelled

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  • Author : Sherin Aminossehe
  • Publisher : Rizzoli International Publications
  • Release : 2021-11-11
  • ISBN : 1785513974
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book The Road Untravelled written by Sherin Aminossehe and published by Rizzoli International Publications. This book was released on 2021-11-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Road Untravelled is Sherin Aminossehe’s personal response to the COVID-19 lockdown, her art offering an imaginative escape for people unable to travel. The Road Untravelled began life as Sherin Aminossehe’s personal response to the geographical constraints of the COVID-19 lockdown – a drawing a day, providing relief from the daily routine of work and home-schooling. However, on a friend’s advice it became a much broader enterprise, as Sherin began to fulfil commissions in return for a charitable donation to SSAFA for people unable to travel, her art offering them an imaginative escape to the locations they longed for.This exquisite collection ranges from the United States to Nepal via London, Italy, Iran and many destinations besides. Alongside the drawings feature the personal responses of some of the people who commissioned them. Together they provide a moving record of the importance of place in our most precious memories and a testament to the consoling power of art in the most challenging times.Proceeds from the sales of The Road Untravelled will be paid in support of SSAFA, the Armed Forces charity. SSAFA, the Armed Forces charity, has been providing lifelong support to the UK’s Armed Forces and their families since 1885. Last year their teams of volunteers and employees helped more than 79,000 people in need, from Second World War veterans to those who have served in more recent conflicts or are still currently serving, and their families.

Book Paper to Paint

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  • Author : Harriet Garcia Warkel
  • Publisher : Indianapolis University Press
  • Release : 2008
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 64 pages

Download or read book Paper to Paint written by Harriet Garcia Warkel and published by Indianapolis University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: