Author: Donald E. SmithPublisher: Saint Johann Press
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
American Printmakers of the Twentieth Century
Author: Donald E. SmithPublisher: Saint Johann Press
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Twentieth-century American Printmakers
Author: Whitney Museum of American ArtPublisher: Whitney Museum of Art
ISBN: 9780874270037
Category : Prints
Languages : en
Pages : 59
Book Description
True Grit
Author: Stephanie SchraderPublisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 1606066277
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
An engaging look at early twentieth-century American printmaking, which frequently focused on the crowded, chaotic, and gritty modern city. In the first half of the twentieth century, a group of American artists influenced by the painter and teacher Robert Henri aimed to reject the pretenses of academic fine art and polite society. Embracing the democratic inclusiveness of the Progressive movement, these artists turned to making prints, which were relatively inexpensive to produce and easy to distribute. For their subject matter, the artists mined the bustling activity and stark realities of the urban centers in which they lived and worked. Their prints feature sublime towering skyscrapers and stifling city streets, jazzy dance halls and bleak tenement interiors—intimate and anonymous everyday scenes that addressed modern life in America. True Grit examines a rich selection of prints by well-known figures like George Bellows, Edward Hopper, Joseph Pennell, and John Sloan as well as lesser-known artists such as Ida Abelman, Peggy Bacon, Miguel Covarrubias, and Mabel Dwight. Written by three scholars of printmaking and American art, the essays present nuanced discussions of gender, class, literature, and politics, contextualizing the prints in the rapidly changing milieu of the first decades of twentieth-century America.
Four Twentieth Century American Printmakers and Their Trends Toward a Formalism
Author: Ralph Leroy HarleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Composition (Art)
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
American Printmaking
Author: James WatrousPublisher: Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
In this blend of cultural history and survey of printmaking, Watrous traces the roots and evolution of the art from American etching and wood-engraving of the late 19th century through Joseph Pennell's industrial-age prints, the urban genre of John Sloan, George Bellows, and Edward Hopper, the Federally-funded Depression-era graphic art projects, the post-World War II avante-garde trends to the innovations that flourished later in the century. His story is one of prints, people, and events, covering the printmakers, their artistic conceptions and works, curators, dealers, collectors, critics, printers, workshops and exhibitions, and the roles played by elites and the masses. Prints reproduced include those by James Whistler, Mary Cassatt, Max Weber, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, and Roy Lichtenstein and Mauricio Lasansky. ISBN 0-299-09680-7 : $40.00 (For use only in the library).
Color Woodcut International
Author: Chazen Museum of ArtPublisher: Chazen Museum of Art
ISBN: 9780932900647
Category : Color prints, American
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
Color woodcut printmaking was not new to Britain, America, or Japan in the late eighteenth century. Yet after Japan was opened to the West in 1854 and deeper cultural exchange began, Japanese prints captured the European and American imagination. The fresh colors, simplicity of materials, and departure from traditional compositions entranced western artists and the public alike. Likewise, Japanese audiences and artists were intrigued by the styles and techniques of western art, which was broadly available in Japan by the end of the nineteenth century. Artists there created images of the strange foreigners and imagined what American cities looked like. By the beginning of the twentieth century, artists were not content to merely imagine what the other side of the world looked like. As prints traveled around the globe for study so did artists, and with them spread the tricks and techniques of color woodblock printmaking as well as appreciation for the prints. Woodblock printmakers in the West started to investigate Japanese processes, and Japanese publishers began to seriously seek out the print market outside of Japan. Important themes began to emerge; scenes of nature and old-fashioned architecture outnumbered modern city views, and images of animals were nearly as popular as those of human figures. Imagery was often idyllic and beautiful, attractive to an international audience. Twentieth-century art, however, moves at a furious pace, and the ferment of the international woodcut style quickly ran its course. Artists appropriated what they needed from the color woodcut, then developed techniques, subjects, and styles in their own ways. An ever-expanding range of prints became indebted to the artists of the previous generation who had reinvigorated woodblock printmaking styles and practices around the world. This full-color catalogue includes many prints from this colorful exhibition and shows how the progression of styles became more similar as international artists learned from and competed with each other, then stylistically diverged as artists of each country took what they learned in new directions. The three essays each focus on the influences and contributions made to the international style by three countries: Japan, Britain, and America.
Paths to the Press
Author: Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of ArtPublisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
In 1910, Bertha Jaques co-founded the Chicago Society of Etchers and helped launch a revival of American fine art printmaking. In the decades following, women artists produced some of the most compelling images in U.S. printmaking history and helped advance the medium technically and stylistically. Paths to the Press examines American women artists' contributions to printmaking in the U.S. during the early to mid twentieth century. It features work by internationally and nationally recognized figures such as Isabel Bishop, Louise Nevelson, and Elizabeth Catlett; well-known regional figures such as Chicago artist Bertha Jaques, New Mexico artist Gener Kloss, and Louisiana artist Caroline Durieux; and relatively unknown printmakers such as Chicago artist Fritzi Brod, San Franciscan Pele deLappe, and Texan Mary Bonner. The contributors include David Acton, Nancy E. Green, Melanie Herzog, Helen Langa, Bill North, Mark Pascale, and Mark B. Pohlad.
30 Years of American Printmaking, Including the 20th National Print Exhibition
Author: Gene BaroPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
"An exhibition that combines a retrospective of Brooklyn's past nineteen National Print Exhibitions with works chosen for the twentieth"--Dustjacket.
Minnesota Prints and Printmakers, 1900-1945
Author: Robert CrumpPublisher: Minnesota Historical Society
ISBN: 9780873516358
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
A definitive survey of Minnesota's vibrant printmaking scene in the first half of the twentieth century that features almost two hundred artists.
North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century
Author: Jules HellerPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135638896
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1941
Book Description
First Published in 1997. North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century: A Biographical Dictionary was created to fill a gap of there being a comprehensive reference work like this available, even though the bibliography in English on various aspects of the history of women artists has grown exponentially during the past ten years. As researchers, the editors have been frustrated many times by being unable to locate basic information about many of the artists included in this volume—especially those working outside the United States. This leads directly to another reason for producing this particular kind of reference book—to try and create a better understanding between and among the artists and art audiences in these countries.
