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03287aam a2200385 i 4500 001 5D5FD6848E3311E3B5D817AEDAD10320 003 SILO 005 20140205010036 008 130411s2013 msuaf b 001 0deng 010 $a 2013014727 020 $a 1617039012 (hardback) 020 $a 9781617039010 (hardback) 035 $a (OCoLC)837957646 040 $a DLC $e rda $b eng $c DLC $d YDX $d YDXCP $d BTCTA $d BDX $d OCLCO $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a NK4210.O42 $b L57 2013 082 00 $a B $a B $2 23 084 $a BIO001000 $a TRV025080 $a BIO001000 $2 bisacsh 100 1 $a Lippert, Ellen J., $e author. 245 10 $a George Ohr : $b sophisticate and rube / $c Ellen J. Lippert. 264 1 $a Jackson, [Mississippi] : $b University Press of Mississippi, $c [2013] 300 $a x, 163 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 $a "The late nineteenth-century Biloxi potter, George Ohr, was considered an eccentric in his time but has emerged as a major figure in American art since the discovery of thousands of examples of his work in the 1960s. Currently, Ohr is celebrated as a solitary genius who foreshadowed modern art movements. While an intriguing narrative, this view offers a narrow understanding of the man and his work that has hindered serious consideration. Ellen J. Lippert, in her expansive study of Ohr and his Gilded Age context, counters this fable. The tumultuous historical moment that Ohr inhabited was a formative force in his life and work. Using primary documentation, Lippert identifies specific cultural changes that had the most impact on Ohr. Developments in visual display and the altered role of artists, the southerner redefined in the wake of the Civil War, interest in handicraft as an alternative to rampant mass production, emerging tenets of social thought seeking to remedy worker exploitation, and new assessments of morals and beauty as a result of collapsed ideals all played into the positioning Ohr purposefully designed for himself. The second part of Lippert's study applies these observations to Ohr's body of work, interpreting his stylistic originality to be expressions of the contradictions and oppositions particular to late nineteenth-century America. Ohr threw his inspiration into being both the sophisticate and the "rube," the commercial huckster and the selfless artist, the socialist and the individualist, the "old-fashioned" craftsman and the "artist-genius.""-- $c Provided by publisher. 600 10 $a Ohr, George E., $d 1857-1918 $x Criticism and interpretation. 650 0 $a Art and society $z United States $x History $y 19th century. 650 0 $a Art and society $z United States $x History $y 20th century. 650 7 $a ART $x Ceramics. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a TRAVEL $z United States $x East South Central (AL, KY, MS, TN) $x East South Central (AL, KY, MS, TN) $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY $x Artists, Architects, Photographers. $2 bisacsh 776 08 $i Online version: $a Lippert, Ellen J. $t George Ohr. $d Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2013 $z 9781617039027 $w (DLC) 2013015930 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20191211025252.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=5D5FD6848E3311E3B5D817AEDAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search