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Author:

Haskell, Barbara, author.

Title:

Grant Wood : American Gothic and other fables / Barbara Haskell ; with contributions by Glenn Adamson [and four others].

Publisher:

Whitney Museum of American Art,

Copyright Date:

2018

Description:

271 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 32 cm.

Subject:

Wood, Grant,--1891-1942--Exhibitions.
Painters--United States--History--Exhibitions.

Other Authors:

Adamson, Glenn, writer of supplementary textual content.
Whitney Museum of American Art, host institution. host institution.

Notes:

Catalogue published on the occasion of the exhibition Grant Wood: American Gothic and Other Fables, organized by Barbara Haskell, curator; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, March 2-June 10, 2018. Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-257) and index.

Contents:

Foreword / Adam D. Weinberg -- Grant Wood: through the past, darkly / Barbara Haskell -- Willow, weep for me / Glenn Adamson -- Moments of discovery: Grant Wood's theatrical paintings / Shirley Reece-Hughes -- Like a book: Grant Wood's literary associations / Eric Banks -- Cryptic corn: Magic realism and the art of Grant Wood / Emily Braun -- Grant Wood goes gay / Richard Meyer -- Plates -- Grant Wood: a chronicle / Barbara Haskell.

Summary:

The social and political climate in which Wood's art flourished bears certain striking similarities to America today, as national identity and the tension between urban and rural areas reemerge as polarizing issues in a country facing the consequences of globalization and the technological revolution. Wood portrayed the tension and alienation of contemporary experience. By fusing meticulously observed reality with fables of childhood, he crafted unsettling images of estrangement and apprehension that pictorially manifest the anxiety of modern life.

ISBN:

0300232845
9780300232844

LCCN:

2017038812

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