Screen LibraryRethinking Andrew Wyeth /
Andrew Wyeth is one of the best loved and most widely recognized artists in American history, yet for much of his career he was reviled by the art world's critical elite. This book reevaluates Wyeth and his place in American art, trying to reconcile these two opposing images of the man and his...
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University of California Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Berkeley, CA : |
| Publication Dates: | [2014] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
Andrew Wyeth is one of the best loved and most widely recognized artists in American history, yet for much of his career he was reviled by the art world's critical elite. This book reevaluates Wyeth and his place in American art, trying to reconcile these two opposing images of the man and his work. |
| Carrier Form: | xvi, 232 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780520280298 0520280296 |
| Index Number: | ND237 |
| CLC: | J231(712) |
| Call Number: | J231(712)/R438 |
| Contents: |
Introduction: rethinking Andrew Wyeth / Andrew Wyeth in critical perspective / Lifting the curse / The messages in Andrew Wyeth's medium / The glitter of Night Hauling: Andrew Wyeth in the 1940s / Andrew Wyeth's Christina's world: normalizing the "abnormal" body / Laymen, experts, and midcentury America: Jackson Pollock and Andrew Wyeth / Kindred spirits: Robert Frost and Andrew Wyeth / Andrew Wyeth, rebel / Surviving the conceptual collapse of art in the modern age of anxiety: Andrew Wyeth's place in twentieth-century art / Appendix: Andrew Wyeth visitor surveys, 1973 and 2006. |