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Author | : National Maritime Museum (Great Britain) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 148 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : |
Published to coincide with an exhibition in the Queen's House in November 2006, 'Art for the Nation' is a celebration of key oil paintings in the National Maritime Museum collection.
Author | : National Gallery of Art (U.S.) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Art |
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Exhibition includes approximately 2% of the acquisitions made during the 1990s.
Author | : Peter G. Meyer |
Publisher | : Nation Books |
Total Pages | : 531 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9781560253297 |
The Nation magazine, since its founding in 1865, began what has become, for better or worse, art criticism as a cultural institution in the United States. This eclectic collection features contributors like Christopher Hitchens on “degenerate art,” Heywood Broun on the Artists Congress of 1936, Katherine Anne Porter on children’s art, Marianne Moore on the death of Nation art critic Paul Rosenfeld, and Langston Hughes on “Negro Art.” The volume also includes contributions from many well-known artists: Stuart Davis, Marsden Harley, Alfred Stieglitz, John Marin, Kenyon Cox, Guy Pene Du Bois, Louis Lozowick, and Frank Lloyd Wright. Celebrated writers on art such as Bernard Berenson, Clement Greenberg, Lawrence Alloway, Hilton Kramer, Max Kozloff, John Berger, and Arthur Danto give readers first-hand accounts of the debuts of artists ranging from John Singer Sargent to Jackson Pollock and Willem deKooning as well as the famous lawsuit between John Ruskin and James McNeill Whistler (reported by a youthful Henry James), the destruction of Diego Rivera’s Rockefeller Center murals and Richard Nixon’s views on art. More recently writers like E.L. Doctorow and Katha Pollitt have weighed in on the recent culture wars over arts funding and free expression.
Author | : Mark Benjamin Godfrey |
Publisher | : Thames & Hudson |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9781942884170 |
Published on the occasion of an exhibition of the same name held at Tate Modern, London, July 12-October 22, 2017; Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas, February 3-April 23, 2018; and Brooklyn Museum, New York, September 7, 2018-February 3, 2019.
Author | : Philip Kopper |
Publisher | : ABRAMS |
Total Pages | : 354 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Art museums |
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This handsome tribute to the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. traces the history of the museum from conception to construction on the occasion of its fiftieth anniversary. Opened with great fanfare, the National Gallery was "the richest single gift from any individual to any nation ever." That individual was financier Andrew Mellon. Kopper's succinct biography covers Mellon's personal and political life as well as his passion for collecting the paintings of old masters. Mellon's bequest stipulated the museum's name, location, and details of governance, ensuring continued high standards and a vital future. Kopper includes profiles of the architect and various museum directors, including Mellon's son Paul, as well as illustrations that document some of the collection's highlights. ISBN 0-8109-3658-5: $60.00 (For use only in the library)
Author | : Brandon Taylor |
Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | : 346 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780719054532 |
Art first became public in Britain through a series of interlocking relationships between national galleries, patrons, collections of art, and sections or classes of the population as a whole. This study concentrates on London, and analyzes the formation of the major national art institutions at its geographical and managerial centre.
Author | : Thomas Denenberg |
Publisher | : Rizzoli Publications |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2017-06-06 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0847859584 |
An in-depth look at one of the richest collections of American art, assembled by Electra Havemeyer Webb, renowned collector and founder of Shelburne Museum. Electra Havemeyer Webb assembled Shelburne Museum’s trove of American paintings in the late 1950s, creating a renowned and rich survey of American portraits, landscapes, marine paintings, sporting art, still lifes, and genre scenes from the eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries. During an era that preferred European modernism and abstraction, Webb’s visionary endeavor presented a new story of the United States: an attractive and industrious nation with its own valuable artistic traditions. This handsome book features the best of Shelburne’s American paintings, including works by colonial painters John Wollaston and John Singleton Copley, portraits by William Matthew Prior and Ammi Phillips, Hudson River School landcapes by Thomas Cole, Albert Bierstadt, and John Frederick Kensett, and scenes of American life by Eastman Johnson, Winslow Homer, Andrew Wyeth, and many more. The collection is also notable for its great depth in the works by Fitz Henry Lane, Martin Johnson Heade, Arthur Fitzwilliam Tait, Carl Rungius, Grandma Moses, and Ogden Pleissner.
Author | : Sam Wasson |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 485 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0544557204 |
A sweeping yet intimate--and often hilarious--history of a uniquely American art form that has never been more popular
Author | : Margaret Rose Olin |
Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2001-01-01 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780803235649 |
"Case studies explore the Bezalel School of Arts and Crafts in Jerusalem, whose efforts to use art to create a Jewish nationality in Palestine raise important issues of national identity, and the discovery in 1932 of the third-century Synagogue of Dura Europos, a symbol for scholars struggling against the Third Reich. Among those who supported or challenged concepts of Jewish art, Margaret Olin considers the nineteenth-century rabbinical scholar David Kaufmann, the philosopher Martin Buber, the critic Clement Greenberg, and the filmmaker Chantal Akerman.
Author | : National Gallery of Art (U.S.) |
Publisher | : Mitchell Beazley |
Total Pages | : 548 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : |
Art for the Nation celebrates the 50th anniversary of the opening of the National Gallery of Art on March 17, 1941. That event was the culmination of many years' effort by Andrew W. Mellon to establish an art museum of the highest possible quality in the nation's capital. The gift of his superlative collection of paintings and sculptures, as well as the original Gallery building and endowments, were quickly followed by major donations from other collectors. This catalog examines the new donations of works of art made in celebration of the Gallery's 50th anniversary to enhance the permanent collection. More than 150 benefactors are represented here by more than 300 works of art.