| Description |
xix, 315 pages : illustrations (some color), color map ; 32 cm |
| Note |
Catalog of an exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Oct. 29, 2006-Jan. 28, 2007 and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Mar. 4-June 3, 2007. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 294-307) and index. |
| Contents |
Lenders to the exhibition -- Foreword / Peter C Marzio -- Preface / Emily Ballew Neff -- Acknowledgments -- Out west / Barry Lopez -- On Modern Ground / Emily Ballew Neff -- Prologue: Landmarking the west -- End of the frontier: making the west artistic -- Many West: Modern Regions -- California -- Southwest -- Dust bowl era-plains and other places -- Epilogue: Abstract west -- Notes -- Checklist of the exhibition -- Select bibliography -- Index -- Copyright and photography credits. |
| Summary |
From the Publisher: Drawing extensively from various disciplines including ethnology, geography, geology, and environmental studies, this groundbreaking book addresses shifting concepts of time, history, and landscape in relation to the work of pioneering American artists during the first half of the 20th century. Paintings, watercolors, and photographs by renowned artists such as Frederic Remington, Georgia O'Keeffe, Ansel Adams, Thomas Hart Benton, Dorothea Lange, and Jackson Pollock are considered alongside American Indian ledger drawings, tempuras, and Dineh sandpaintings. Taken together, these works document the quest to create a specifically American art in the decades prior to World War II. The Modern West begins with a captivating meditation on the relationship between human culture and the physical landscape by Barry Lopez, who traveled the West in the artists' footsteps. Emily Ballew Neff then describes the evolving importance of the West for American artists working out a radically new aesthetic response to space and place, from artist-explorers on the turn-of-the-century frontier, to visionaries of a Californian Arcadia, to desert luminaries who found in its stark topography a natural equivalent to abstraction. Beautifully illustrated and handsomely designed, this book is essential to anyone interested in the West and the history of modernism in American art. |
| Subject |
West (U.S.) -- In art -- Exhibitions.
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Art, American -- 19th century -- Exhibitions.
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Art, American -- 20th century -- Exhibitions.
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Modernism (Art) -- United States -- Exhibitions.
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| Added Author |
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
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Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
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| ISBN |
0300114486 hardcover alkaline paper |
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9780300114485 hardcover alkaline paper |
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0890901457 paperback alkaline paper |
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9780890901458 paperback alkaline paper |
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9780300114485 |
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9780890901458 |
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