Research Catalog

Title

Adaline Kent : the click of authenticity / edited by Apsara DiQuinzio ; contributions by Jeff Gunderson, Adaline Kent, Grace McCann Morley, Alexander Nemerov, and Elaine Y. Yau.

Author

Kent, Adaline Dutton, 1900-1957

Publication

• New York, NY : Rizzoli Electa, A Division of Rizzoli International Publishers, Inc. ; Reno, Nevada : in association with Nevada Museum of Art, 2023.
• ©2023

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Details

Additional Authors

• DiQuinzio, Apsara
• Gunderson, Jeff
• Morley, Grace, 1900-1985
• Nemerov, Alexander
• Yau, Elaine Y., 1980-
• Nevada Museum of Art, host institution

Description

223 pages : illustrations (some color); 31 cm

Summary

"The first major monograph in sixty years on the San Francisco modernist sculptor who developed a unique abstract style rooted in surrealism and inspired by nature. A member of one of the Bay Area's most productive and innovative midcentury artistic groups. Texts by a diverse range of scholars cover such subjects as infinity and movement in Kent's work; the influence of nature; and the diverse artistic milieu at the San Francisco Art Institute and beyond that surrounded Kent and her husband, artist Robert Howard. With an extensive chronology and a wide selection of sculptures, photographs, and rarely seen works on paper and paintings on Hydrocal, the book substantiates Kent's achievement as one of midcentury America's most innovative sculptors, re-excavating her work for younger generations"--publisher's description.

Alternative Title

Click of authenticity

Subject

• Kent, Adaline Dutton, 1900-1957 > Exhibitions
• Kent, Adaline Dutton, 1900-1957
• 1900-1999
• Sculpture, American > 20th century > Exhibitions
• Sculpture
• California > San Francisco

Genre/Form

Exhibition catalogs.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Exhibitions (note)

• Published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same title held at Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, January 28 - September 10, 2023.

Contents

Director's foreword / David B. Walker -- Classic romantic mystic : mind, heart, and soul / Adaline Kent -- "Infinity for everyone" : nature, abstraction, and time in the work of Adaline Kent / Apsara DiQuinzio -- The song of Adaline Kent / Alexander Nemerov -- Adaline Kent's communities and comraderies, 1920s-1950s / Jeff Gunderson -- Thematic essays / Elaine Y. Yau -- Director's foreword, 1958 / Grace McCann Morley -- On contemporary sculpture / Adaline Kent -- Chronology / Elaine Y. Yau.

Call Number

JQG 24-147

ISBN

• 9780847899005
• 0847899004

LCCN

2022943227

OCLC

1336888159

Author

Kent, Adaline Dutton, 1900-1957, artist.

Title

Adaline Kent : the click of authenticity / edited by Apsara DiQuinzio ; contributions by Jeff Gunderson, Adaline Kent, Grace McCann Morley, Alexander Nemerov, and Elaine Y. Yau.

Publisher

New York, NY : Rizzoli Electa, A Division of Rizzoli International Publishers, Inc. ; Reno, Nevada : in association with Nevada Museum of Art, 2023.

Copyright Date

©2023

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Exhibitions

Published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same title held at Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, January 28 - September 10, 2023.

Biography

Apsara DiQuinzio is senior curator of contemporary art at the Nevada Museum of Art. Jeff Gunderson is the librarian and archivist at the San Francisco Art Institute. Alexander Nemerov is professor and chair of the department of art and art history at Stanford University. Elaine Yau, PhD, is associate curator at the UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive.

Chronological Term

1900-1999

Added Author

DiQuinzio, Apsara, editor.

Container of (work): Kent, Adaline Dutton, 1900-1957. Works. Selections.

Gunderson, Jeff, contributor.

Morley, Grace, 1900-1985, contributor.

Nemerov, Alexander, contributor.

Yau, Elaine Y., 1980- contributor.

Nevada Museum of Art, host institution.

Research Call Number

JQG 24-147