In Taxing Visions, Leo Mazow and Kevin Murphy explore taxes,
rents, economic depression, and financial inequity as subject
matter in several visually provocative paintings and works on
paper. Although this period is often identified artistically with
leisure-laden impressionist landscapes, flowing-with-abundance
still-life paintings, and class-conscious "official" portraits,
practitioners working in a variety of stylistic idioms reckoned
with financial panics and occupational turmoil that marked the
Reconstruction, Gilded Age, and early Progressive eras. These
paintings, drawings, and prints demonstrate with sometimes
startling clarity the experience of economic downturn, ultimately
picking up where facts, figures, and the printed word leave
off.
Featured artists include William Michael Harnett, George Inness,
Eastman Johnson, and James McNeill Whistler, as well as several
lesser-known individuals, in part because their art "taxes" our
sensibilities of socioeconomic propriety. Taxing Visions shows
satire and protest playing out through a sizable body of work, with
artists confronting recession and depression with equal parts
reportage, invective, humor, and hope. This catalogue accompanies
an exhibition of the same name organized by the Palmer Museum of
Art at Penn State University and the Huntington Library and Art
Collections in San Marino, California.
General
Imprint: |
Palmer Museum of Art
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
October 2010 |
First published: |
October 2010 |
Authors: |
Leo G. Mazow
• Kevin M. Murphy
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Dimensions: |
254 x 191 x 6mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
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Pages: |
80 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-911209-68-6 |
Categories: |
Books >
Arts & Architecture >
General
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LSN: |
0-911209-68-9 |
Barcode: |
9780911209686 |
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