A radical re-evaluation of American modernism through four generations of artists and their work – now in paperback. "That rarity of rarities, an opinionated but not eccentric scholarly history by a veteran museum curator whose every page crackles with original thinking and bears the stamp of a preternaturally sharp eye? Excellent reproductions and crisp typography complement the lucid prose." —Wall Street Journal Twentieth-century art in America has long been understood in two very separate distinct halves: pre-World War II, often considered as inferior and provincial; and the triumphant, international post-war work that made a complete break with everything that went before. Agee discovers exciting new connections between artists and artworks, which strongly suggest that 1945 was not such a dividing line in art history after all. His fresh research offers an innovative approach and a brilliant take on art history.
Essays discuss Ad Reinhardt, Jasper Johns, J.M.W. Turner, Jim Dine, minimalism, Robert Venturi, and Elia Kazan's "Wild River."
Romantic Painting in America
This new book focuses on two series of works "Torn Signs" and "Semana Santa" that Crawford developed mostly over the course of the last 20 or so years of his life.
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.
American Painting & Sculpture, 1862-1932: October 31, 1932-1933, January 31
15 Clement Greenberg, “Review of the Whitney Annual,” Nation 163, no. 26 (December 28, 1946). Reprinted in John O'Brian, ed., Clement Greenberg: The Collected Essays and Criticism (University of Chicago Press, 1986), vol. 2, pp. 117–18.
American Art to 1900 presents an astonishing variety of unknown, little-known, or undervalued documents to convey the story of American art through the many voices of its contemporary practitioners, consumers, and commentators.
The Lane Collection: 20th-century paintings in the American tradition ; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, April 13, 1983 - Aug....