America's Cool Modernism O'Keefe to Hopper Ashmolean Museum 23 March to 22 July 2018
Bourguignon, Katherine M. & Krois, Lauren & Mazow, Leo G.
Language: English
Published by Ashmolean Museum University of Oxford, Oxford, 2018
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Pb, 184pp, colour illustrations. Fine clean copy, looks as new. Art catalogue accompanying the exhibition held at the Ashmolean in 2018, focusing on American artists from the 1920s and 1930s, whose detached view on the modern world led to sober depictions of urban and industrial environments, featuring orderliness, stillness, or uneasiness and also to straight-edged abstractions. Contents: Cool Modernism in America 1915-1945; Modern, Cool and Cold; Leaving the Body - the Empty Spaces of American Modernism; Works in Focus; Exhibitions in Focus; Catalogue; Select Bibliography. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.
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- Title
- America's Cool Modernism O'Keefe to Hopper Ashmolean Museum 23 March to 22 July 2018
- Author
- Bourguignon, Katherine M. & Krois, Lauren & Mazow, Leo G.
- Publisher
- Ashmolean Museum University of Oxford, Oxford
- Publication year
- 2018
- Condition
- Fine
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1910807214
- ISBN 13
- 9781910807217
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- Art - 20th Century
- Artists such as Georgia O'Keeffe, Edward Hopper, Charles Demuth, e.e. cummings and Charles Sheeler are among the highlights of this incredible selection of 20th-century American art
- Publication accompanies a major exhibition to be held at the Ashmolean Museum from March until June 2018
- Many of these works have never been exhibited in the UK
As some American artists began to eliminate people and remove extraneous details from their compositions, they often employed neat, orderly brushwork or close-up, unemotional photography. Artists as diverse as Patrick Henry Bruce, John Covert, Georgia O'Keeffe, Paul Strand and Arthur Dove navigated European and American avant-garde circles, picking and choosing new ideas and methods. Inspiration ranged from cubism and machine parts to new technologies, and they found ways to bring order to the modern world through extreme simplification. For them, abstraction involved absence and presence - the evacuation of human beings but also the desire to depict something that would not otherwise be visible or to render visible unseen natural processes like the passage of time, sound waves, or weather patterns. Their artworks provide a new context for the precisionist works in the subsequent sections and point to modern ideas about what art could be. How does a crisp painting technique relate to an aesthetic of absence?
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