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World War I and American Art (Hardcover)
Robert Cozzolino, Anne Classen Knutson, David M. Lubin; Contributions by Pearl James, Amy Helene Kirschke, …
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World War I had a profound impact on American art and culture.
Nearly every major artist responded to events, whether as official
war artists, impassioned observers, or participants on the
battlefields. It was the moment when American artists, designers,
and illustrators began to consider the importance of their
contributions to the wider world and to visually represent the
United States' emergent role in modern global politics. World War I
and American Art provides an unprecedented consideration of the
impact of the conflict on American artists and the myriad ways they
reacted to it. Artists took a leading role in chronicling the war,
crafting images that influenced public opinion, supported
mobilization efforts, and helped to shape how the appalling human
toll was mourned and memorialized. World War I and American Art
features some eighty artists--including Ivan Albright, George
Bellows, Marsden Hartley, Childe Hassam, Violet Oakley, Georgia
O'Keeffe, Man Ray, John Singer Sargent, and Claggett Wilson--whose
paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints, photographs, posters, and
ephemera span the diverse visual culture of the period to tell the
story of a crucial turning point in the history of American art.
Taking readers from the home front to the battlefront, this
landmark book will remain the definitive reference on a pivotal
moment in American modern art for years to come. Exhibition
schedule: * Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts November 4,
2016-April 9, 2017* New-York Historical Society May 26-September 3,
2017* Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville October 6,
2017-January 21, 2018
To Midwesterners tucked into small towns or farms early in the
twentieth century, the landscape of the American heartland reached
the horizon-and then imagination had to provide what lay beyond.
But when aviation took off and scenes of the Midwest were no longer
earthbound, the Midwestern landscape was transformed and with it,
Jason Weems suggests in this book, the very idea of the Midwest
itself. Barnstorming the Prairies offers a panoramic vista of the
transformative nature and power of the aerial vision that remade
the Midwest in the wake of the airplane. This new perspective from
above enabled Americans to conceptualize the region as something
other than isolated and unchanging, and to see it instead as a
dynamic space where people worked to harmonize the core traditions
of America's agrarian character with the more abstract forms of
twentieth-century modernity. In the maps and aerial survey
photography of the Midwest, as well as the painting, cinema,
animation, and suburban landscapes that arose through flight, Weems
also finds a different and provocative view of modernity in the
making. In representations of the Midwest, from Grant Wood's iconic
images to the Prairie style of Frank Lloyd Wright to the design of
greenbelt suburbs, Weems reveals aerial vision's fundamental
contribution to regional identity-to Midwesternness as we
understand it. Reading comparatively across these images, Weems
explores how the cognitive and perceptual practices of aerial
vision helped to resymbolize the Midwestern landscape amid the
technological change and social uncertainty of the early twentieth
century.
Surveys the representations and constructions of the human being in
American art. Humans are organisms, but "the human being" is a term
referring to a complicated, self-contradictory, and historically
evolving set of concepts and practices. Humans explores competing
versions, constructs, and ideas of the human being that have
figured prominently in the arts of the United States. These essays
consider a range of artworks from the colonial period to the
present, examining how they have reflected, shaped, and modeled
ideas of the human in American culture and politics. The book
addresses to what extent artworks have conferred more humanity on
some human beings than others, how art has shaped ideas about the
relationships between humans and other beings and things, and in
what ways different artistic constructions of the human being
evolved, clashed, and intermingled over the course of American
history. Humans both tells the history of a concept foundational to
US civilization and proposes new means for its urgently needed
rethinking.
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