Rural modern : American art beyond the city /
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| Author / Creator: | Burdan, Amanda C. (Amanda Cathryne), 1973- author. |
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| Imprint: | New York, NY : Skira Rizzoli ; Chadds Ford, PA : Brandywine River Museum of Art, 2016. |
| Description: | 208 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10897132 |
| Summary: | An essential look at American modernism as seen through the landscape painting of Thomas Hart Benton, Charles Demuth, Georgia O'Keeffe, Grant Wood, Andrew Wyeth, and many others. Paintings of New England coastlines, small-town Pennsylvania, Southwestern canyons, Midwestern farms, and other evocative landscapes fill the pages of Rural Modern. More than sixty modernist works, created between the wars, present an important and often overlooked history: how American painters adapted avant-garde styles like Cubism and Fauvism to reimagine familiar landscapes and develop a distinctively American modernist vernacular. Richly illustrated and with insightful essays by noted scholars, Rural Modern traces this development through a broad range of works by both lesser-known and widely celebrated artists, including Arthur Dove, Dale Nichols, Grant Wood, N. C. Wyeth, Charles Sheeler, Charles Burchfield, Marsden Hartley, and Stuart Davis. As important as the marvel of the twentieth-century city was to modernist artists such as these, many sought respite and even refuge in quieter, rural areas of the country, and soon helped to confirm modernism's enduring nature. |
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| Item Description: | "This catalogue was published in conjunction with the exhibition Rural Modern : American Art Beyond the City and is made possible by the Wyeth Foundation for American Art."--Verso of title page. The exhibition "was organized by the Brandywine River Museum of Art in collaboration with the High Museum of Art, Atlanta. Exhibition itinerary. Rural Modern : American Art Beyond the City, Brandywine River Museum of Art, Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, October 29, 2016-January 22, 2017. Cross Country : The Power of Place in American Art, 1915-1950, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia, February 12-May 7, 2017. This exhibition is generously supported by The Davenport Family Foundation."--Verso of title page. |
| Physical Description: | 208 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-200) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0847849724 9780847849727 |
