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The surreal visions of Josephine Tota
- Title
- The surreal visions of Josephine Tota / edited by Jessica Marten ; essays by Janet Catherine Berlo, Jessica Marten.
- Publication
- Rochester, New York : RIT Press : Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester, 2018.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | ND237.T597 A4 2018 | Off-site |
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- Description
- x, 108 pages : color illustrations; 26 cm
- Summary
- "Josephine Tota (1910-1996) was a seamstress and amateur artist who lived a conventional life among the Italian immigrant community in Rochester, New York. In her seventies, she spent countless hours painting in the privacy of her home, where she imbued over ninety small jewel-like paintings with the richness of her strange imagination. Tota captured and condensed anxieties accumulated over a lifetime. Her formidable paintings reference myriad art-historical and popular culture sources medieval illuminated manuscripts, early Renaissance panel paintings, the work of Surrealist icons Frida Kahlo and Salvador Dalí, fairy tales, and children s book illustrations into private images of startling immediacy and timelessness. Tota s work cannot be defined as entirely mainstream, self-taught, visionary, or surreal. It is this powerful body of work dozens of untamed paintings in egg tempera and gilding on board, completed at the end of her life that The Surreal Visions of Josephine Tota explores and advocates for inclusion into the canon of self-taught, visionary art."--from Backcover
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- exhibition catalogs.
- Exhibition catalogs.
- Catalogues d'exposition.
- Note
- "Published on the occasion of the exhibition The Surreal Visions of Josephine Tota at the Memorial Art Gallery from July 14, 2018 to September 9, 2018."
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Contents
- Foreword / Jonathan P. Binstock -- Introduction. The Surreal Visions of Josephine Tota / Jessica Marten -- Tears of Blood: Visionary Women at the Margins of Twentieth Century Art / Janet Catherine Berlo -- Catalog of Images.
- ISBN
- 9781939125507
- 1939125502
- LCCN
- 2018010334
- 40028420616
- OCLC
- on1028586448
- 1028586448
- SCSB-9171815
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library