[PDF] Dictionary Of Art And Artists In Southern California Before 1930 eBook

Author : Witt Library of the Courtauld Institute
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 558 pages
File Size : 29,57 MB
Release : 2014-06-03
Category : History
ISBN : 1134264135

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First Published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Susan Landauer
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 39,30 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780915977222

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The years around the turn of the century were a dynamic time in American art. Different and seemingly contradictory movements were evolving, and the dominant style that emerged during this period was Impressionism. Based in part on the broken brushwork and high-keyed palette of Claude Monet, it was a form especially suited to the dramatic landscape and shimmering light of California . . . This book celebrates forty Impressionist painters who worked in California from 1900 through the beginning of the Great Depression . . . it includes widely recognized California artists such as Maurice Braun and Guy Rose, less well known artists such as Mary DeNeale Morgan and Donna Schuster, and eastern painters who worked briefly in the region, such as Childe Hassam and William Merritt Chase . . . The contributors' essays examine the socioeconomic forces that shaped this art movement, as well as the ways in which the art reflected California's self-cultivated image as a healthful, sun-splashed arcadia.

Author : Witt Library
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 34,50 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Artists
ISBN : 9781884964374

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The Witt Library of the Courtauld Institute of Art, London, is one of the world's greatest art history libraries. It contains some 1.7 million illustrations of the work of painters, draughtsmen, and engravers of the Western tradition, all of whom have been indexed by name, dates, and nationality. This new second edition of the Checklist of Painters is a transcription of the Witt index as it currently exists. The names of 66,000 artists, their dates, and their nationality (or school) are reproduced in alphabetical order. The Checklist of Painters is probably the most exhaustive work of its kind in existence; it now lists all painters (known by art historians) to have lived and worked from the year 1200 to 1994.

Author : Daniel Hurewitz
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 39,75 MB
Release : 2008-04-30
Category : Art
ISBN : 0520256239

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Historian Hurewitz brings to life a vibrant and all-but-forgotten milieu of artists, leftists, and gay men and women whose story played out over the first half of the twentieth century and continues to shape the entire American landscape. In a hidden corner of Los Angeles, the personal first became the political, the nation's first enduring gay rights movement emerged, and the broad spectrum of what we now think of as identity politics was born. Portraying life over more than forty years in the hilly enclave of Edendale (now part of Silver Lake), Hurewitz considers the work of painters and printmakers, looks inside the Communist Party's intimate cultural scene, and examines the social world of gay men. He discovers why and how these communities, inspiring both one another and the city as a whole, transformed American notions of political identity with their ideas about self-expression, political engagement, and race relations.--From publisher description.

Author : Donald J. Hagerty
Publisher : Gibbs Smith
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 44,88 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Art
ISBN : 1423603796

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Maynard Dixon embellished themes that encompassed the timeless truth of the majestic western landscape, the humanity of its memorable people, and the religious mysticism of the Native American. In an attempt to uncover the spirit of the American West, Dixon roamed its plains, mesas, and deserts—drawing, painting, and expressing his creative personality in poems, essays, and letters. Written in a very personal style, this biography includes anecdotes from Dixon’s children, historical vignettes, and interviews with those who knew the artist.