America after the fall : painting in the 1930s

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Label

America after the fall : painting in the 1930s

Title remainder

painting in the 1930s

Statement of responsibility

edited by Judith A. Barter ; with essays by Judith A. Barter, Sarah L. Burns, Teresa A. Carbone, Annelise K. Madsen, and Sarah Kelly Oehler

Contributor

• Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain)
• Musée de l'Orangerie
• Art Institute of Chicago
• Barter, Judith A., 1951-

Editor

• Barter, Judith A., 1951-

Host institution

• Musée de l'Orangerie
• Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain)
• Art Institute of Chicago

Organizer

• Art Institute of Chicago

Subject

• 1900-1999
• Art and society -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Exhibitions
• Exhibition catalogs
• History
• National characteristics, American, in art
• National characteristics, American, in art -- Exhibitions
• Painting, American
• Painting, American -- 20th century -- Exhibitions
• United States
• Art and society

Genre

• Exhibitions
• Exhibition catalogs
• History

Language

eng

Summary

"Through 50 masterpieces of American painting, this catalogue chronicles the turbulent economic, political, and aesthetic climate of the 1930s. This decade was a supremely creative period in the United States, as the nation's artists, novelists, and critics struggled through the Great Depression in search of "Americanness." Seeking to define modern American art, many painters challenged and reworked the meanings and forms of modernism, reaching no simple consensus. This period was also marked by an astounding diversity of work as artists sought styles-ranging from abstraction to Regionalism to Surrealism-that allowed them to engage with issues such as populism, labor, social protest, and urban and rural iconography including machines, factories, and farms. Seminal works by Edward Hopper, Grant Wood, Thomas Hart Benton, Georgia O'Keeffe, Aaron Douglas, Charles Sheeler, Stuart Davis, and others show such attempts to capture the American character. These groundbreaking paintings, highlighting the relationship between art and national experience, demonstrate how creativity, experimentation, and revolutionary vision flourished during a time of great uncertainty"--

Assigning source

Provided by publisher

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

759.13

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

ND212

LC item number

.A4478 2016

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• bibliography
• catalogs