The Great American Thing

The Great American Thing
Author: Wanda M. Corn
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 447
Release: 1999
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780520231993

The author "organizes each chapter around a single work of art, probing first its peculiar poetry, and then its contingent relationships to the history, literature, art criticism, music, and popular culture of the time."--Jacket.

The Great American Hall of Wonders

The Great American Hall of Wonders
Author: Claire Perry
Publisher: Giles
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9781904832973

"This report features specific examples where the Battelle name and logo were seen throughout the duration of the show and includes metrics for credit line impressions"--Executive summary

Great American Artists for Kids

Great American Artists for Kids
Author: MaryAnn F. Kohl
Publisher: Bright Ring Publishing
Total Pages: 145
Release: 2008-07-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0935607269

75 great American masters are introduced through open-ended quality art activities allowing kids to explore great art styles from colonial times to the present. Each child-tested art activity presents a biography, full color artwork, and techniques covering painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, architecture, and more. Special art options for very young children are included. Many great artists will be familiar names, like Cassatt, Warhol, and O'Keeffe. Other names will be new to some, like Asawa, Smithson, and Magee. Each featured artist has a style that is interesting to children, with a life history that will entertain and inspire them. Sample of some of the artists and companion activities: Andy Warhol - Package Design Bev Doolittle - Camouflage Draw Dale Chihuly - Pool Spheres Maya Lin - Memorial Plaque Jasper Johns - Encaustic Flag Joseph Raffael - Shiny Diptych Roy Lichtenstein - Comic Sounds Thomas Jefferson - Clay Keystone Edward Hopper - Wash Over Grant Wood - Gothic Paste-Up Wolf Kahn - Layered Pastel Jackson Pollock - Great Action Art Mary Cassatt - Back-Draw Monoprint Louis Comfort Tiffany - Bright Windows Hans Hofmann - Energetic Color Blocks Rube Goldberg - Contraption Georgia O'Keeffe - Paint with Distance 2009 Moonbeam Children's Bronze Award 2009 Benjamin Franklin Award

The Great American Nude

The Great American Nude
Author: William H. Gerdts
Publisher: Greenwood
Total Pages: 234
Release: 1974
Genre: Art
ISBN:

The treatment of the nude in American art.

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.

Improv Nation

Improv Nation
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

Art in the White House

Art in the White House
Author: William Kloss
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2008
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9781931917018

This book presents the White House collection of paintings, drawings, and sculptures. Works by Jacob Lawrence, George Bellows, Gilbert Stuart, Norman Rockwell, and Georgia O'Keeffe are among the nearly 50 recent acquisitions are included in this edition. The art selections are accompanied by an art historical essay.

Great American Artists for Kids

Great American Artists for Kids
Author: MaryAnn F Kohl
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
Total Pages: 638
Release: 2019-07-02
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1641601736

Fun and easy art-appreciation activities abound in this resource that features 75 American artists from colonial times to the present. A brief biography for each artist tells why his or her work is important, and a kid-tested art activity tries out the artist's approach. For Georgia O'Keeffe, children will explore the concept of distance and foreground in a desert painting. To understand Frederic Remington's sculptures, they will create a face cast. Leroy Nieman will inspire a sketch of athletes. And for James Whistler, children will explore portraiture. Projects stress the creative process and encourage kids to try unusual techniques such as block printing, soak-stain, and stone carving as they learn about architecture, drawing, painting, photography, and sculpture. Great American Artists for Kids includes easy-to-follow icons to indicate the experience, preparation, and materials necessary for each project, as well as guides to the style, movement, or era of each artist. Resources include websites for further research or artworks, a glossary, and a list of artists by style.