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America after the fall : painting in the 1930s
- Title
- America after the fall : painting in the 1930s / edited by Judith A. Barter ; with essays by Judith A. Barter, Sarah L. Burns, Teresa A. Carbone, Annelise K. Madsen, and Sarah Kelly Oehler.
- Publication
- Chicago, Illinois : The Art Institute of Chicago, [2016]
- New Haven, Connecticut : Yale University Press.
- ©2016
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- Description
- 201 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 32 cm
- Summary
- "Through 50 masterpieces of American painting, this catalogue chronicles the turbulent economic, political, and aesthetic climate of the 1930s. This decade was a supremely creative period in the United States, as the nation's artists, novelists, and critics struggled through the Great Depression in search of "Americanness." Seeking to define modern American art, many painters challenged and reworked the meanings and forms of modernism, reaching no simple consensus. This period was also marked by an astounding diversity of work as artists sought styles-ranging from abstraction to Regionalism to Surrealism-that allowed them to engage with issues such as populism, labor, social protest, and urban and rural iconography including machines, factories, and farms. Seminal works by Edward Hopper, Grant Wood, Thomas Hart Benton, Georgia O'Keeffe, Aaron Douglas, Charles Sheeler, Stuart Davis, and others show such attempts to capture the American character. These groundbreaking paintings, highlighting the relationship between art and national experience, demonstrate how creativity, experimentation, and revolutionary vision flourished during a time of great uncertainty"--
- Subjects
- Art and society
- Painting, American
- National characteristics, American, in art
- National characteristics, American, in art > Exhibitions
- United States
- Painting, American > 20th century > Exhibitions
- 1900-1999
- ART > American > General
- Exhibition catalogs
- ART > Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions > Group Shows
- Art and society > United States > History > 20th century > Exhibitions
- ART > History > Modern (late 19th Century to 1945)
- History
- Genre/Form
- Exhibition catalogs.
- History.
- Note
- Catalog of the exhibitions at The Art Institute of Chicago, June 5 to September 18, 2016 ; Musée de 'lOrangerie, Paris, October 15, 2016 to January 30, 2017 ; Royal Academy of Arts, London, February 25 to June 4, 2017.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 188-195) and index.
- Call Number
- JQG 16-499
- ISBN
- 9780300214857
- 0300214855
- 9780865592827
- 0865592829
- LCCN
- 2016009063
- OCLC
- 930798166
- Title
- America after the fall : painting in the 1930s / edited by Judith A. Barter ; with essays by Judith A. Barter, Sarah L. Burns, Teresa A. Carbone, Annelise K. Madsen, and Sarah Kelly Oehler.
- Publisher
- Chicago, Illinois : The Art Institute of Chicago, [2016]
- Distributor
- New Haven, Connecticut : Yale University Press.
- Copyright Date
- ©2016
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- textstill image
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 188-195) and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1900-1999
- Added Author
- Barter, Judith A., 1951- editor.Art Institute of Chicago, organizer, host institution.Musée de l'Orangerie, host institution.Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain), host institution.
- Research Call Number
- JQG 16-499