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Author | : Carolyn Meyer |
Publisher | : Astra Publishing House |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2019-02-05 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1629799343 |
The life of artist Georgia O'Keeffe is revealed in this biographical novel — from her childhood when she decided to be an artist, through her art education in Chicago and New York, to her eventual rise to fame in the American Southwest. At the age of 12, Georgia O'Keeffe announced that she wanted to be an artist. With the support of her family, O'Keeffe attended boarding schools with strong art programs, and after graduating, went to live with an aunt and uncle in Chicago to attend the city's highly regarded Art Institute. Illness forced O'Keeffe to leave Chicago, but once she'd recovered, her family scraped together funds to send her to New York to study at the Art Students League. When her family fell on hard times, she left without the degree she needed. Discouraged, but unwilling to give up her dream, O'Keeffe found a different path. She became an art teacher in schools in Texas and South Carolina, honing her own craft as she taught her students. O'Keeffe never gave up her dream, no matter what obstacles she encountered--she knew she was meant to be an artist.
Author | : Ron Tyler |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 1983 |
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Author | : Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco |
Publisher | : Rizzoli International Publications |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Art |
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Author | : Halima Taha |
Publisher | : Crown Publishing Group (NY) |
Total Pages | : 302 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Antiques & Collectibles |
ISBN | : |
Presents African American artists, identifies dealers, and offers practical advice on insurance, framing, and tax and estate planning.
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.
Author | : Ronnie C. Tyler |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Art, American |
ISBN | : 9780500013182 |
Author | : Jessica Dunkin |
Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 310 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1487504764 |
Canoe and Canvas is a close reading of the annual meetings and encampments of the American Canoe Association between 1880 and 1910.
Author | : Laura Hapke |
Publisher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages | : 270 |
Release | : 2009-03-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1443808512 |
At an unprecedented and probably unique American moment, laboring people were indivisible from the art of the 1930s. By far the most recognizable New Deal art employed an endless frieze of white or racially ambiguous machine proletarians, from solo drillers to identical assembly line toilers. Even today such paintings, particularly those with work themes, are almost instantly recognizable. Happening on a Depression-era picture, one can see from a distance the often simplified figures, the intense or bold colors, the frozen motion or flattened perspective, and the uniformity of laboring bodies within an often naive realism or naturalism of treatment. In a kind of Social Realist dance, the FAP’s imagined drillers, haulers, construction workers, welders, miners, and steel mill workers make up a rugged industrial army. In an unusual synthesis of art and working-class history, Labor’s Canvas argues that however simplified this golden age of American worker art appears from a post-modern perspective, The New Deal’s Federal Art Project (FAP), under the aegis of the Works Progress Administration (WPA), revealed important tensions. Artists saw themselves as cultural workers who had much in common with the blue-collar workforce. Yet they struggled to reconcile social protest and aesthetic distance. Their canvases, prints, and drawings registered attitudes toward laborers as bodies without minds often shared by the wider culture. In choosing a visual language to reconnect workers to the larger society, they tried to tell the worker from the work with varying success. Drawing on a wealth of social documents and visual narratives, Labor’s Canvas engages in a bold revisionism. Hapke examines how FAP iconography both chronicles and reframes working-class history. She demonstrates how the New Deal’s artistically rendered workforce history reveals the cultural contradictions about laboring people evident even in the depths of the Great Depression, not the least in the imaginations of the FAP artists themselves.
Author | : Gary O. Larson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 194 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Arts and society |
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Author | : Clive Barker |
Publisher | : Dilettante Press |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Antiques & Collectibles |
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In the 1980s a group of entrepreneurs in Ghana created small-scale, mobile film-distribution empires, hitting the road with videocassettes, television monitors, portable gas-powered generators and rolled-up, hand-painted, artist-signed canvas posters. This new medium created the first opportunity for some of the best young painters in Ghana to express themselves on a public scale. In the frequent absence of an original image upon which to base the work they had been commissioned to produce, the artists inevitably created cinematic paintings that were largely interpretive and imagination-driven. In the book's four major essays, author Ernie Wolfe III recounts the rise and fall of the mobile cinema tradition, while noted African art scholar Roy Sieber follows two-dimensional art in Africa from rock paintings in the Sahara to contemporary manuals, wall paintings, and barber board paintings as well as the canvas movie posters themselves; Paul Hayes Tucker compares the phenomenon to 19th century European utility-based painting; and poet and art critic John Yau contributes the perspective of an American art historian. In addition, Hollywood film notables such as horror auteur Clive Barker, actor LeVar Burton, actress Anjelica Huston, and director Gus Van Sant contribute chapter introductions.