Research Catalog

Title

Art in Mississippi, 1720-1980 / Patti Carr Black.

Author

Black, Patti Carr.

Publication

Jackson : University Press of Mississippi in association with the Mississippi Historical Society and the Mississippi Dept. of Archives and History, c1998.

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Description

359 p. : ill. (some col.); 31 cm.

Summary

• In Art in Mississippi Patti Carr Black focuses on several hundred significant artists and showcases in full color the work of more than two hundred. Nationally acclaimed native Mississippians are hereGeorge Ohr, Walter Anderson, Marie Hull, Theora Hamblett, William Dunlap, Sam Gilliam, William Hollingsworth, Jr., Karl Wolfe, Mildred Nungester Wolfe, John McCrady, Ed McGowin, James Seawright, and many others. Prominent artists who lived or worked in the state for a significant period of time are included as well - John James Audubon, Louis Comfort Tiffany, George Caleb Bingham, William Aiken Walker, and more.
• Black explores how art reflects the land and how modes of living and values dictated by Mississippi's changing topography created a variety of art forms. She demonstrates the influence of Mississippi's diverse cultures upon the art and shows how it has responded in many forms - painting, architecture, sculpture, fine crafts - to the changing aesthetics of national art movements.

Series Statement

Heritage of Mississippi series ; v. 1

Uniform Title

Heritage of Mississippi series ; v. 1.

Subject

Art, American > Mississippi

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 327-340) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. Introduction: Art and the Land -- 2. Early Artists -- 3. Federalist Natchez, 1798-1840 -- 4. Portraiture, 1817-1840 -- 5. Greek Revival, 1835-1861 -- 6. Painting, Sculpture, and Popular Art, 1835-1861 -- 7. Landscape and Genre Painting, 1790-1861 -- 8. Romantic Architecture, 1836-1860 -- 9. Art in the Service of War, 1861-1865 -- 10. The Hardness of Times, 1865-1890 -- 11. Peculiarity and Insularity, 1890-1930 -- 12. Surveys of Outdoor Sculpture and Stained Glass -- 13. Photography, 1840-1980 -- 14. Art and Society, 1910-1930 -- 15. Depression and War, 1929-1945 -- 16. Folk Art and Self-taught Artists -- 17. The Closed Society, 1945-1970 -- 18. Modernism, 1945-1970 -- 19. Traditional Artists, 1945-1970.

ISBN

1578060842 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^98025119^

OCLC

39181547

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Harvard Library