American Abstract Art Of The 1930s And 1940s

Author : Robert Knott
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Abstract Art of the 1930's and 1940's written by Robert Knott and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After attending Wake Forest University on an athletic scholarship, J. Donald Nichols played professional baseball with the Baltimore Orioles. From there he went into the real estate development business. He has built more than 175 shopping centers throughout the country, and his company, JDN Realty, is listed on the New York Stock Exchange. Nichols first began collecting American Impressionist paintings in the 1970s, buying one painting as his personal reward for each shopping center he built. After ten years, he began looking for a new area in which to collect. The J. Donald Nichols Collection is now recognized as perhaps the finest collection of American abstract art of the 1930s and 1940s ever assembled.

Author : Susan E. Strickler
Publisher : Steve Parish
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Second Wave written by Susan E. Strickler and published by Steve Parish. This book was released on 1991 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Virginia McCord Mecklenburg
Publisher : Smithsonian Books (DC)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Patricia and Phillip Frost Collection, American Abstraction, 1930-1945 written by Virginia McCord Mecklenburg and published by Smithsonian Books (DC). This book was released on 1989 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive survey traces the development of American abstract art in the 1930s and 1940s. Distributed for the Smithsonian's National Museum of American Art.

Author : Michael Auping
Publisher : ABRAMS
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Abstraction, Geometry, Painting written by Michael Auping and published by ABRAMS. This book was released on 1989 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book to fully explore the diverse perspectives that have formed one of the most significant developments in postwar American art-geometric abstract painting. Heavily influenced by the radical geometry of Piet Mondrian, the American Abstract Artists group of the 1930s and 1940s, and the geometric side of Abstract Expressionism, geometric abstraction has had a profound and controversial effect since it first came to American in the mid-1940s. Reproduced here are 81 illustrations, including 55 in full colour, by 25 of the most important artists to work in America. Michael Auping's essay traces the evolution of the movement and places it in relation to a larger twentieth-century tradition. Iluminating statements by the artists accompany reproductions, and a comprehensive bibliography for each artist, including a list of one-person and group exhibitions,, rounds out the volume. INSIDE COVER JACKET.

Author : Worcester, Mass. Worcester Art Museum (utstilling)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Second Wave: American Abstraction of the 1930s and 1940s written by Worcester, Mass. Worcester Art Museum (utstilling) and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Guy Davenport
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Art of the Forties written by Guy Davenport and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Om 40'ernes malerkunst, skulpturer og kunsthåndværk

Author : Gail Feigenbaum
Publisher : Getty Publications
ISBN 13 : 1606066080
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Getty Research Journal, No. 11 written by Gail Feigenbaum and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2019-03-05 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Getty Research Journal features the work of art historians, museum curators, and conservators from around the world as part of the Getty’s mission to promote the presentation, conservation, and interpretation of the world’s artistic legacy. Articles present original scholarship related to the Getty’s collections, initiatives, and research. This issue features essays on the culture of display in eighteenth-century Venetian palaces, the influence of prehistoric cave paintings on American abstract artists, the life and writings of Pauline Gibling Schindler, an unrealized project by Sam Francis and Walter Hopps for a contemporary art venue in 1960s Los Angeles, Harald Szeemann’s early plans for the documenta 5 exhibition, and the notebooks and manuscripts that led to Aldo Rossi’s Scientific Autobiography. Shorter texts include notices on Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala’s illustrations accompanying a tale in Martín de Murúa’s Historia general del Piru, copperplate prints depicting the Qing army’s invasion of Nepal in 1792, the Nazi-era business records of the Gustav Cramer gallery in The Hague, Netherlands, and a proposal for the integration of provenance research into all aspects of museum activities, including a call for cross-institutional databases and international collaborations.

Author : Elke Seibert
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350185264
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Prehistoric Pictures and American Modernism written by Elke Seibert and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-09-21 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In April 1937, the Museum of Modern Art in New York hosted an exhibition that served as a catalyst for the appropriation of prehistoric rock art in postwar abstract painting. With the title "Prehistoric Rock Pictures in Europe and Africa", it displayed a range of copies from the influential collection of the German ethnologist Leo Frobenius. Largely disregarded in modern American art history up until now, this book highlights the importance of this exhibition to artists such as Josef Albers, Adolph Gottlieb, David Smith, and The American Abstract Artists group, who sought inspiration from the prehistoric images' primordial creativity. With a transnational scope, this book reveals new facts about the connections between Paris and New York, and the importance of communication and collaboration between them for these artists. In doing so, Seibert shows that this debate was about more than just legitimizing abstract art forms from the past, but about recognizing an autonomous American abstract art. Presenting unseen archival material, letters, and exhibition documentation, Prehistoric Pictures and American Modernism offers a new reading of the development of modern American abstraction, and will hold an important place in the historiography of the movement, its global traditions, and its legacy.

Author : Herbert R. Hartel, Jr.
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351778021
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Raymond Jonson and the Spiritual in Modernist and Abstract Painting written by Herbert R. Hartel, Jr. and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-02-21 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the most thorough and detailed monograph on the artwork of Raymond Jonson. He is one of many artists of the first half of the twentieth-century who demonstrate the richness and diversity of an under-appreciated period in the history of American art. Visualizing the spiritual was one of the fundamental goals of early abstract painting in the years before and during World War I. Artists turned to alternative spirituality, the occult, and mysticism, believing that the pure use of line, shape, color, light and texture could convey spiritual insight. Jonson was steadfastly dedicated to this goal for most of his career and he always believed that modernist and abstract styles were the most effective and compelling means of achieving it.

Author : Jennifer McComas
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300250673
Total Pages : 165 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Swing Landscape written by Jennifer McComas and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-04 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An insightful study of the progressive politics animating a great work of modernist mural painting In 1936 the Works Progress Administration’s Federal Art Project commissioned Stuart Davis (1892–1964) to paint a mural for the Williamsburg Houses, a New York City housing project. Though the mural, Swing Landscape, was never installed in its intended location, it survives as an impressive testament to Davis’s energetic, colorful brand of abstraction and the progressive politics that animated it. This study explores the painting, one of the greatest of twentieth-century America and arguably Davis’s most ambitious work. This book challenges the prevailing tendency to separate Davis’s leftist activism from his art and contextualizes Swing Landscape within 1930s abstract mural painting in New York, emphasizing the politics of abstraction. The book also offers the first comprehensive look at the Williamsburg mural commission, including works by Willem de Kooning, Ilya Bolotowsky, and others. The result is an indispensable resource on interwar modernism, mural painting, and urban development. Published in association with the Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University Exhibition Schedule: Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University (February 5–May 22, 2022)