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Author Baigell, Matthew.

Title Artist and identity in twentieth-century America / Matthew Baigell.

Publication Info. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2001.

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  709.73 B152A    Check Shelf
Description ix, 294 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Series Contemporary artists and their critics
Contemporary artists and their critics.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-287) and index.
Contents Walt Whitman and early twentieth-century American art -- American landscape painting and national identity: the Stieglitz circle and Emerson -- The silent witness of Edward Hopper -- American art and national identity: the 1920s -- The beginnings of "The American wave" and the Depression -- Grant Wood revisited -- The relevancy of Curry's paintings of Black freedom -- Thomas Hart Benton and the left -- The Emersonian presence in abstract expressionism -- American art around 1960 and the loss of self -- Pearlstein's people -- Robert Morris's latest works: slouching toward Armageddon -- A ramble around early earth works -- Reflections on/of Richard Estes -- Ben Shahn's postwar Jewish paintings -- Barnett Newman's stripe paintings and Kabbalah: a Jewish take -- Postscript: another kind of canon.
Subject Art, Modern -- 20th century.
Artists and community -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Group identity -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
ISBN 0521772397
9780521772396
0521776015 paperback
9780521776011 paperback
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