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Author:

Baigell, Matthew.

Title:

Artist and identity in twentieth-century America / Matthew Baigell.

Publisher:

Cambridge University Press,

Copyright Date:

2001

Description:

ix, 294 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Art, Modern--20th century.
Artists and community--United States--History--20th century.
Group identity--United States--History--20th century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-287) and index.

Contents:

Walt Whitman and early twentieth-century American art -- American landscape painting and national identity: the Stieglitz circle and Emerson -- The silent witness of Edward Hopper -- American art and national identity: the 1920s -- The beginnings of "The American wave" and the Depression -- Grant Wood revisited -- The relevancy of Curry's paintings of Black freedom -- Thomas Hart Benton and the left -- The Emersonian presence in abstract expressionism -- American art around 1960 and the loss of self -- Pearlstein's people -- Robert Morris's latest works: slouching toward Armageddon -- A ramble around early earth works -- Reflections on/of Richard Estes -- Ben Shahn's postwar Jewish paintings -- Barnett Newman's stripe paintings and Kabbalah: a Jewish take -- Postscript: another kind of canon.

Series:

Contemporary artists and their critics

ISBN:

9780521776011 (pbk.)
0521776015 (pbk.)
9780521772396
0521772397

OCLC:

(OCoLC)43561892
(OCoLC)47150833

LCCN:

00023664

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

URAX314 -- Clarke University - Nicholas J. Schrup Library (Dubuque)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

PYAX423 -- ECC - Osgood Library (Iowa Falls)

OMAX631 -- Geisler Learning Resource Cntr (Pella)

UTAX115 -- Buena Vista University Library (Storm Lake)