Color reproductions of Wyeth's landscape works, along with essays. Like his contemporaries Thomas Hart Benton and Edward Hopper, Wyeth rejected the prevailing European modernist traditions to create a style that was uniquely American. This book accompanied a 1998 exhibition.
New painting and drawing is the subject of "Remote Viewing," which accompanies an exhibition at the Whitney Museum. The book brings together eight artists, some well known, others emerging, all of whom create new worlds that exist somewhere between abstraction and representation. Each of the featured artists-Franz Ackermann, Steve DiBenedetto, ...
In recent years, environmentalism in the US has increasingly emerged at the community level, focusing on local ecological problems. Correspondingly, the American environmental movement has exhorted its supporters to 'think globally' but 'act locally'. The authors examine this modern environmental mantra by analysing the opportunities and ...
A survey, with examples from the Whitney Museum's permanent collection, which presents works by the most notable American artists in a variety of media. Among the images included are paintings, sculptures, photographs and drawings from a wide range of artists.
The history of American art has been, in many respects, an emulation of, or reaction to, European art. In order to examine the artistic cross-currents between the two continents, the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, has organized a series of three exhibitions based on its permanent collection of 20th-century American Art, and curated by ...
New York artist Alex Katz is best known for his eye-catching, large-scale portraits, figures, and landscapes, but in the mid-1950s he painted intimate works, originating the style that would become the hallmark of his mature work. By the early 1960s, he established a procedure of making small sketches using oil paint on Masonite board, which he ...
50 duotones and 15 color photographs from the Sondra Gilman collection, including works by Paul Strand, Eugene Atget, Ansel Adams, Cindy Sherman, and Robert Misrach.
The Addison Gallery of American Art, located at Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, is recognized nationally and internationally for its outstanding collection of paintings, sculpture, prints, drawings and photography. When its founder, Thomas Cochran, opened the Addison to the public in 1931, it was only the second museum in the country, ...
This book offers the first comprehensive survey of the art of Richard Stankiewicz (1922-1983) and reassesses its place in the art of his time. Stankiewicz's welded sculpture of rusted iron and cast-off steel played an important role in the redefinition of art in New York during the 1950s. "Miracle in the Scrap Heap" offers a lively consideration ...
With a bilingual text, this book is linked to the second of three exhibitions organized by the Whitney Museum of American Art. The exhibitions were designed to provide an examination of the complex artistic cross-currents between Europe and America, and the impact that 20th-century artists from the Netherlands, Germany, Britain and the United ...
More Americans recycle than vote. And most do so to improve their communities and the environment. But do recycling programs advance social, economic, and environmental goals? To answer this, three sociologists with expertise in urban and environmental planning have conducted the first major study of urban recycling. They compare four types of ...
With a bilingual text, this book is linked to the second of three exhibitions organized by the Whitney Museum of American Art. The exhibitions were designed to provide an examination of the complex artistic cross-currents between Europe and America, and the impact that 20th-century artists from the Netherlands, Germany, Britain and the United ...
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