Art Along the Rivers

Art Along the Rivers
Author: Beth Rubin
Publisher:
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2021-09-15
Genre:
ISBN: 9783777437545

A collection of rich artifacts from one thousand years of artistic production in what is now Missouri. Art Along the Rivers marks the two-hundredth anniversary of Missouri's statehood. This exhibition catalogue presents extraordinary objects produced or collected within a 150-mile region around St. Louis, including paintings, sculptures, drawings, furniture, ceramics, metals, and textiles. As a celebration of the cultural and artistic traditions of this region, the catalog looks within--and beyond--the years of statehood to reveal how the region's geography, raw materials, and pressing social issues shaped over one thousand years of rich artistic production. Though these objects have rarely been considered in connection with one another, the catalog brings them into dialogue to establish and celebrate their shared artistic history. Art Along the Rivers serves as the first significant publication to introduce this primary artistic material to a global audience.

Navigating the West

Navigating the West
Author: Nenette Luarca-Shoaf
Publisher: Other Distribution
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780300206708

A new look at George Caleb Bingham's iconic river paintings and his creative process in making them George Caleb Bingham (1811-1879) moved to Missouri as a child and began painting the scenes of Missouri life for which he is now famous in the 1840s. Navigating the West explores how Bingham's iconic river paintings reveal the cultural and economic significance of the massive Mississippi and Missouri waterways to mid-19th-century society. Focusing on the artist's working methods and preparatory drawings, the book also explores Bingham's representations of people and places and situates these images in a dialogue with other contemporary depictions of the region. Of particular note are two landmark essays investigating Bingham's creative process through comparisons of infrared images of 17 of his paintings with both his preparatory drawings and the completed works, casting new light on his previously understudied process. Technical analysis of the artist's lauded masterpiece, Fur Traders Descending the Missouri, reveals Bingham's considerable revisions to the painting. In the concluding essay, the 20th-century revival of the artist's work is discussed within the context of American Regionalism and in light of a shifting sequence of narratives about the nation's past and future. Distributed for the Amon Carter Museum of American Art and the Saint Louis Art Museum Exhibition Schedule: Amon Carter Museum of American Art (10/04/14-01/04/15) Saint Louis Art Museum (02/22/15-05/17/15) The Metropolitan Museum of Art (06/22/15-09/20/15)

Of Texas Rivers and Texas Art

Of Texas Rivers and Texas Art
Author: Andrew Sansom
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Total Pages: 167
Release: 2017-02-13
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1623495342

In Of Texas Rivers and Texas Art, Andrew Sansom, a leading Texas conservationist, and William E. Reaves, an influential Texas art collector and historian, have teamed up to showcase some of the finest contemporary river art detailing the gorgeous traits of Texas landscapes. The featured artwork comes from Randy Bacon, Mary Baxter, David Caton, Margie Crisp, Keith Davis, Fidencio Duran, Jon Flaming, Charles Ford, Pat Gabriel, Hunter George, Billy Hassell, Lee Jamison, Robb Kendrick, Laura Lewis, William Montgomery, Noe Perez, Jeri Salter, Erik Sprohge, Debbie Stevens, and William Young. Art in service of conservation is nothing new, as Sansom and Reaves note in their introductions. And rivers have figured prominently in the artistic imagination for all of recorded history and probably before that, as evidenced by flood stories and myths preserved in almost all the religious and folk traditions of the world. The collection of work included in this book is exemplary of the strong inspiration that rivers have provided for a vast current of literature, music, and art, in turn shaping their place in life and culture and bringing about a greater appreciation of the stunning beauty of our natural world. To learn more about The Meadows Center for Water and the Environment, sponsors of this book's series, please click here.

The Same River Twice: Contemporary Art in Athens

The Same River Twice: Contemporary Art in Athens
Author: MARGOT NORTON
Publisher: Deste Foundation for Contemporary Art
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2019-08-20
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9786185039356

Published on the occasion of the 2019 exhibition 'The Same River Twice', organized by the DESTE Foundation and the New Museum, in collaboration with the Benaki Museum, Athens, this catalogue features the work of over thirty Athens-based artists of all ages and nationalities. It offers a portrait of a city with an artistic dynamism that continues to unfold as artists seek new models for creative output and exchange. Featuring an essay by curators Natalie Bell and Margot Norton as well as texts by Nadja Argyropoulou, Danai Giannoglou, Delia Gonzalez, and Theophilos Tramboulis, this publication aims to establish a resource on Athens's multifaceted art scene - from underground happenings and activist orientations to the rise of artist-run spaces and the critical realm of self-published art zines and journals. Exhibition: Benaki Museum, Athens, Greece (21.06. - 22.09.2019).

American Treasures

American Treasures
Author:
Publisher: Rizzoli Publications
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2017-04-25
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0847859614

The first book to celebrate the dramatic Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, setting and renowned art collection of the Brandywine River Museum of Art and its historic homes, studios, and sites relating to three generations of the Wyeth family. The Brandywine River Museum of Art is home to one of the country’s renowned collections of American art. This stunning book reveals the beauty of the museum’s remarkable holdings, housed in a renovated nineteenth-century mill building with a steel- and-glass addition overlooking the Brandywine River, and of its three historic properties—the N. C. Wyeth home and studio, the Andrew Wyeth studio, and the Kuerner Farm, which inspired over 1,000 works by Andrew Wyeth—all National Historic Landmarks. This volume features fifty of the museum’s most beloved paintings, by artists such as John Kensett, Martin Johnson Heade, William Trost Richards, Horace Pippin, and Andrew Wyeth, along with immersive photographs of the 300-acre landscape surrounding the museum and historic structures. The introduction by curator Christine Podmaniczky includes a brief history of this unique institution, its art collection, and the intimate places where the Wyeth family lived and painted. This handsome volume will appeal not only to museum visitors but also to art lovers everywhere.

The Civil War and American Art

The Civil War and American Art
Author: Eleanor Jones Harvey
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 353
Release: 2012-12-03
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0300187335

Collects the best artwork created before, during and following the Civil War, in the years between 1859 and 1876, along with extensive quotations from men and women alive during the war years and text by literary figures, including Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain and Walt Whitman. 15,000 first printing.

Time's River

Time's River
Author: Kate Farrell
Publisher: Bulfinch Press
Total Pages: 124
Release: 1999
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 9780821225073

A merging of poem and image offers poetry from such writers as Borges and Yeats, moving from portrayals of childhood to celebrations of age, juxtaposing these poems with artworks from the National Gallery, including paintings by Picasso and Chagall.

Our America

Our America
Author: Smithsonian American Art Museum
Publisher: Giles
Total Pages: 374
Release: 2014
Genre: Art
ISBN:

Explores how one group of Latin American artists express their relationship to American art, history and culture.

Fragile Earth

Fragile Earth
Author: Jennifer Stettler Parsons
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2019-11-12
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9781880897317

Contemporary artists probe the impact of human intervention on the environment Just as artists of the 19th and 20th centuries participated in forging an American natural history as explorers, cataloguers, collectors, and early environmentalists, contemporary artists continue to incorporate and comment on the natural world in their art. Motivated by the inexorable rise of urban-industrial development and the subsequent deterioration of our planet, artists confront the vulnerability of our environment and the effects of global climate change to illustrate the continued relevance of ecology and nature conservation to contemporary artistic practice. In Fragile Earth: The Naturalist Impulse in Contemporary Art, leading artists Jennifer Angus, Mark Dion, Courtney Mattison, and James Prosek make natural elements their medium conceptually and literally, from prints created with eel bodies, to ceramic sculpture mimicking coral bleaching, cabinets filled with colorful plastic collected from oceans and rivers, and walls covered with shockingly beautiful, preserved insects. Bringing an artistic perspective to natural science, these essays and written conversations showcase the persuasive role artists can play in advocating for the preservation of our earth.